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The Wallace Stevens Society is now accepting paper proposals for a panel on Stevens' work and "the South," broadly defined. How can the notion of the South help us read Stevens, and how can Stevens help us read the South? Inquiries welcome and creativity encouraged. 250-500 words by June 30.
Call for Papers [Deadline: June 30, 2012]
Terror and the Inhuman Conference
Brown University
Department of Modern Culture and Media
Providence, Rhode Island
October 25 - 27, 2012
Keynote Lectures to be delivered by:
Adriana Cavarero (University of Verona)
Jared Sexton (University of California, Irvine)
Multimodal Composition in Writing-in-the-Disciplines Courses
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
Call for Papers
Performativity and Secondary Cinematic Authorship
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
The aim of this conference is to explore the role of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the present time. Papers dealing with visual or textual representations of performing animals, typologies of animals in the theatre, the hybridisation of the drama with the circus, the zoo and the cinema, as well as the semiotic transfer of animal roles from the text to the stage are particularly welcome. Corollary topics may also include, but are not limited to:
Abstracts now due June 15th.
Examining Past and Defining Present
The Black Literary Aesthetic in the USA, Canada, and Caribbean
April 11 – 13, 2013
Abstracts/Proposals Due: October 26, 2012
Paine College - School of Arts and Sciences
Contact email: ewilliams@paine.edu or akilahw@msn.com
Dr. Emily Allen-Williams, Dean/School of Arts and Sciences
Keynote Speaker
Amiri Baraka
Founder of the Black Arts Movement
This panel will address the narrative and socio-political relationships between contemporary memoir and self-help. Topics may include, but are not limited to: narrative analyses of popular self-help texts; the co-evolution of memoir and self-help; how the narrative of self-help embeds itself in memoir; revisiting trauma in a public forum.
Abstracts that suggest a theoretical connection to gender/sexuality/queer studies are encouraged.
Please submit 250-500 word abstracts (preferably .pdf attachments) to Kate Birdsall (birdsal5@msu.edu) before September 30, 2012.
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First Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Devices in Signal Processing 2012 (IW-ETDSP'12)
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October 3-5, 2012, St. Petersburg, Russia
Call for Papers for an edited volume on
Visualizing Violence in Francophone Cultures
August 10, 2012 – Deadline for 300-400-word proposal submissions
December 30, 2012 – Deadline for 7000-8000-word contribution
Edited by Robert St. Clair and Magali Compan
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
Panel: Sex and Spirit in the Works of William Blake
Call for Proposals
Political Women: Language and Leadership
Michele Lockhart and Kathleen Mollick seek contributors for a collection of essays considering women and leadership.
Our book is (tentatively) entitled, Political Women: Language and Leadership. The collection of essays will demonstrate the ways in which women have used political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership, or assert their right to leadership, at the national level.
Miranda famously declares at the conclusion of The Tempest that she now exists in a "Brave new world." This oft-quoted line is frequently misremembered as referring to the enchanted island itself, when in actuality she only utters it upon first encountering all of the Europeans who've been shipwrecked on the island. As Prospero makes clear to his daughter, in fact Miranda's new world is an old world. This scene in Shakespeare's most colonial of plays subverts our expectations of what "encounter" means in a New World context. In this panel we will look at narratives that upend the standard representations of encounter in the early modern age of exploration, that convert new world into old, and old into new.
In Book V of Paradise Lost, Raphael aptly summarizes the difficulties of communicating sacred truths to the human consciousness: "how shall I relate / To human sense th' invisible exploits / …; how last unfould / The secrets of another World, perhaps / Not lawful to reveal?" His intriguing suggestion that earth may be "but the shaddow of Heav'n" invokes a rich complex of early modern traditions that view "the shadow" as an image of the divide between the worldly and the otherworldly, and a figure that can potentially bridge that divide. This panel examines ways early modern English literature exploits and explores "the shadow" in its attempts to mend the gap between material and spiritual worlds felt to be intimately connected, yet inextricably divided.
44th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
Panel: Poetry and the Body