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.

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.

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

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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Dear Colleagues,

"Free Verse Rhythms" Collection in Style

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.

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).