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UPDATE Victorian Saints and Sinners (NeMLA 2014)

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Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 11:23am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

DEADLINE EXTENSION- September 30th

Victorian Saints and Sinners

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Body and Culture area of Popular Culture Association

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Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 10:39am
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association

The Body and Culture area of the Popular Culture Association is issuing a call for papers for the national meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association to be held in Chicago, April 16-19, 2014. Papers in this intentionally interdisciplinary and diverse area look at the multitude of meanings culture writes onto bodies, the mechanisms used to write and disseminate those meanings, as well as the impact those meanings have on the bodies so inscribed. Deadlines for submissions is November 1, 2013. Specifics on the conference are available at http://pcaaca.org.

CFP -- "Relocating Andrea Lee" (Abstract due Sept. 30, 2013)

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Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 9:35am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 3-6, 2014 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Host: Susquehanna University

Over a span of 35 years, the international settings of Andrea Lee's fiction and non-fiction have helped situate her as a black cosmopolitan writer. From her first publication, a 1981 New Yorker essay about a B. B. King concert in Leningrad, to her most recent novel, Lost Hearts in Italy (2006), about an interracial love triangle in Rome, Lee has redefined the bounds of black female subjectivity by crossing racial and geographical boundaries. While critics have placed Lee, a native of Philadelphia, squarely outside an African American literary protest tradition, Lee's novels, story collections, travel memoir, and essays do not fail to engage the ostensibly "domestic" concerns of U.S. civil rights history and racial integration.

Colonialism, Post Colonialism and Beyond (a 2 days' UGC sponsored National Seminar)

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Saturday, August 24, 2013 - 3:16pm
Ramananda College, Bishnupur, Bankura 722122

Immediate abstracts not exceeding 350 words are solicited for participants at our UGC sponsored seminar to be held on the 27th and 28th of September , 2013 at Bishnupur, Bankura's Ramananda College. There are four main thrust areas: colonialism; postcolonialism and feminism and psychoanalysis and literature of the Raj. Accepted full papers will have to be with the organisers within 16th September, 2013. No TA will be paid to the participants and accommodation has to be arranged by the participants themselves. The organisers can send the list of hotels etc. in the sub-divisional town. The conference is being held in collaboration with the Bengali and Sanskrit departments of this college and "Bhara" college. The venue is Bishnupur, though.

Call for Panelists on interactive mystery and detective fiction - ACA/PCA Mystery and Detective Fiction April 16-19th

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Saturday, August 24, 2013 - 2:02pm
Andrew Carlos

I am working on putting together a panel on interactive mystery and detective fiction for the PCA/ACA conference in Chicago (April 16-29, 2014). To broaden the proposal, I am looking for video games, alternate reality games, televisions series, etc.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Myst
Professor Layton series
Heavy Rain
Alternate Reality Games
Whodunnit
Twitter/Social Media games
L.A. Noire
Night of the Sickle Weasel
9-9-9
Phoenix Wright series
Push, Nevada

Exploring Implicit Cognition: Learning, Memory, and Social-Cognitive Processes 30 Sep 2013

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Saturday, August 24, 2013 - 12:07pm
Z.Jin, Zhengzhou Normal University & University of California, Davis

1.Theories, definitions, models, applications, relevant to Implicit Learning, Implicit Memory, and Implicit Social Cognition.
2.The methodologies used to explore implicit cognitive processes, such as IAT, Priming task, fMRI etc.
3.Implicit cognition study on Children, Disabled Persons, Elder Person etc.
4.Implicit–Explicit Relations.
5.Automatic processes and controlled processes of cognitive process.
6.Revisiting the debates on implicit cognition and measurements, such as replication issue in social priming study,IAT's psychometric validity and reliability, Quad Models, etc.

September 30, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline
October 15, 2013: Notification of Acceptance

CFP: Eighteenth-Century Genre Theory and Eighteenth-Century Genre (ASECS 2014)

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Saturday, August 24, 2013 - 12:44am
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

The idea for this panel picks up on the various panels on form at ASECS 2013. Ralph Cohen suggested that "no literary work in the period can be understood without recognizing that it is a combination of parts or forms" and points out that "Readers...were addressed, challenged, guided and goaded to discover the proper distinctions, not because earlier theories had not made them, but because mixtures had become so prevalent." How does eighteenth-century self-consciousness about form, formal mixture, or formal change relate to our understanding or misunderstanding of eighteenth-century genre?

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CFP: Minecraft Essay Collection (10/01/13; edited collection)

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Friday, August 23, 2013 - 3:44pm
Nate Garrelts

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 1, 2013

Since being officially released in 2011, Minecraft has sold over 11 million copies on the PC and more than 20 million copies across all platforms (PC, Mac, Android, iOS, Xbox360). It has over 7 million likes on Facebook and is the subject of millions of YouTube videos, including a Gangnam style parody. There is a Minecraft convention, Minecon, and an organization dedicated to using Minecraft in the classroom, MinecraftEdu. Considering that the game relies heavily on word of mouth marketing and looks as if it were produced three decades ago, its popularity is nothing short of amazing.

[Update] Representing the Contemporary Youth in Teen Television Drama

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Friday, August 23, 2013 - 12:03pm
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) , Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

From Beverley Hills 90210 to Gossip Girl and Glee, the genre of the teen drama series has added a unique and multi-faceted dynamic to the American television landscape. The popularity of this genre stems from the way in which it challenges and dramatizes the realities of its young viewers, presenting them with a fantastical reality which is defined by melodrama, materialism and excess. This quality of the genre often causes adult viewers to dismiss the teen drama series as a product of guilty pleasure television.

Adorno: Impact and Influences 13th November 2013

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Friday, August 23, 2013 - 6:25am
Royal Holloway, University of London

Call for Papers

ADORNO: IMPACT AND INFLUENCES

Wednesday 13th November 2013 at Royal Holloway, University of London

'The cuts between special disciplines such as sociology, economics, and history make the cognitive interest vanish in pedantically drawn, inflatedly defended trenches'
Negative Dialectics

Theodor Adorno is a seminal figure in sociology, aesthetics, philosophy and musicology. This one-day conference will explore the broad spectrum of thought that influenced Adorno and, in turn, the impact his work has had on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The 21st METU British Novelists Conference: The Bronte Sisters and Their Work 12-13 December 2013 [UPDATE]

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Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 7:01pm
Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

"The Bronte Sisters and Their Work" is the theme for this year's METU British Novelists Conference organized by the Department of Foreign Language Education in Middle East Technical University. The organizers invite proposals for 20-minute presentations on any aspect of the work of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches placing the work of the Bronte Sisters within contexts such as media, performance and adaptation studies are also welcome. Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

The Future of Black Studies: Past and Present NeMLA 2014

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Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 4:40pm
Northeast Modern Language Association 2014 Conference Harrisburg, PA

Black Studies, as a phrase and area of study, has reentered the lexicon of academics in the recent years more prominently. Sylvia Wynter, for instance, argues that Black Studies programs, and their artistic analogs found in the Blacks Arts and Black Power Movements, "where to find their original transgressive intentions defused" upon entering the academy (109).

Adolescence in Film and Television (Proposals due November 1, 2013)

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Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 2:04pm
Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association

Seeking proposals pertaining to any aspect(s) of the topic Adolescence in Film and Television for presentation at the annual joint meeting of the national Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, to be held April 16-19, 2014 in Chicago.

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