Shook Foil Books, a team of experienced pastors, writers, and scholars committed to publishing thoughtful ebooks for the church and academy, seeks submissions of works that engage matters of Christian faith from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We are especially interested in new and emerging scholars who envision their writing as kingdom work and want to start conversations that challenge and edify church communities and those who lead them. Submissions of monographs, collections of sermons, works of fiction and poetry are all welcome.

We are seeking contributions that investigate the interdisciplinary implications of identity formation in fields such as literature, anthropology, cultural studies, philosophy, art history, political science, and sociology. Negotiation of identity takes place in a network of vast and turbulent discourses. Political, sexual, ethnic and economical constructions interplay with the present idealization of individuality and choice. How one defines oneself is vital to how one interacts with the world, the choices that we make, the ideas that we support: what is identity or what does identity consist of? Is it a myth, a construction that we choose, or something thrust upon us?

ASTR 2012: Theatrical Histories
Deadline: 31 January 2012

Conference Chairs:

Patrick Anderson, University of California, San Diego
Patricia Ybarra, Brown University

Theatre is historical; history is theatrical.

8TH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH COGNITIVE LIGUISTICS ASSOCIATION (AELCO 2012)/ VIII CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL BIANUAL DE LA ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE LINGÜÍSTICA COGNITIVA (AELCO 2012)

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Construals in language, thought and brain: What shapes what?
University of Almeria (Spain), 17-19 October, 2012

We cordially invite researchers, working within the field of Cognitive Linguistics – though not restricted to it –, to submit paper proposals on theoretical and applied studies on language and cognition. We also encourage workshop proposals.

Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Peter Boxall, University of Sussex

Following the success of the 2010 conference What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English – the first decade there will be a theme for the second conference, which will form the focus of a special issue of the new journal devoted to 21st century literature, C21 Literatures: A Journal of 21st-century Writings. The theme is the title of Paul Gauguin's painting, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Avant-garde and modernist artists often sought critical alternatives to modernity in folk cultural forms. In their attempts to reconcile "high" and "low" culture, these artists located their work within purportedly authentic traditions beyond the pale of cosmopolitan modernity, offering antidotes to the social, cultural, and economic problems of their present through recourse to cultural materials distant in space and time. At the same time, the emergence of an ethnographic turn within the social sciences offered to catalogue and archive materials from rapidly disappearing vernacular cultures.

"Principles of Uncertainty"
Keynote Speaker: Martin Hägglund

The students of the Department of Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center present the first annual interdisciplinary conference on literary theory to be held Friday, May 4, 2012. This conference is being given as part of the CUNY Graduate Center's new Center for Critical Theory, which is dedicated to the study of literary and critical theory.