The Communication Review is now accepting manuscripts for late 2014 and early 2015. As an interdisciplinary journal bridging the fields of communications and media studies, we particularly encourage historical and feminist scholarship and invite submissions from those employing critical theoretical and empirical approaches to those seeking to create new knowledge across conventional disciplinary boundaries:

• Communication and Culture -- probing the questions of producing meaning and interpretation by way of analyzing culture through the visual and dramatic arts, literature, sociology, anthropology, and in the interdisciplinary tradition of cultural studies.
• Communication as a Social Force -- focusing on the historical development and contemporary transformation of media and communication, telecommunications, and information systems, emphasizing their political-economic, technological, and institutional dynamics.
• Communication and Mind -- examining the individual socially constituted through language and other media in their cultural, social, and economic contexts.

  The Communication Review also functions as a review of current work and the editors are always open to proposals for special issues that interrogate and examine current controversies in the field. We also welcome non-traditionally constructed articles which critically examine and review current sub-fields of and controversies within communication and media studies. In addition, we welcome book reviews and extended review essays.

  Please direct your papers, suggestions for special issues and queries to Michael L. Wayne, Managing Editor, at mikewayne@virginia.edu. For more information about the journal and submission guidelines, please see the journal's website: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gcrv20#.UsrmdvRDuao

  Andrea Press and Bruce Williams
  Editors, The Communication Review

  54751ALA 2014: Late Whitman American Literature Association vanderzeeal@cofc.edu1389030116americanpoetryfull name / name of organization: American Literature Association contact email: vanderzeeal@cofc.edu

  American Literature Association 25th Annual Conference
  May 22 – 25, 2014
  Washington DC

  WALT WHITMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

  Late Whitman, Whitman's Lateness (Sponsored by the Walt Whitman Studies Association)

  Though Whitman's late work has received periodic attention, it has largely been neglected in the contexts of both criticism and biography. This panel seeks papers addressing any aspect of Whitman's post-Reconstruction work. We are particularly interested in papers that: (1) address the work appearing in the "Annexes" to Leaves of Grass ; (2) situate Whitman's late work more fully in relation to cultural histories of age and aging; (3) view Whitman's late work in relation to theoretical conceptions of authorial late style, past or present; (4) trace the continued presence of a distinctly late Whitman in subsequent literary culture; or (5) consider reasons for the relative neglect of Whitman's late work.

  Please send one-page abstracts electronically no later than January 15, 2014 to Anton Vander
  Zee ( vanderzeeal@cofc.edu ).

  cfp categories: americanpoetry 54752Sylvia Townsend Warner Society: Mary Jacobs Memorial Essay Competition 1 May 2014Sylvia Townsend Warner SocietyHelen.Sutherland@glasgow.ac.uk1389032490gender_studies_and_sexualitytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Sylvia Townsend Warner Societycontact email: Helen.Sutherland@glasgow.ac.uk

  The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society is holding an annual essay competition to increase awareness of Warner's writing and to honour the contribution made by Mary Jacobs to Warner studies.
  The prize offered is £200, publication of the winning entry in the Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society, and one year's free membership of the Society.
  Essays are invited on any aspect of the life and work of Sylvia Townsend Warner and should be not more than 4000 words in length. They should be submitted in Word format to the Editor of the Journal at Helen.Sutherland@glasgow.ac.uk. Two documents should be submitted: the first document should consist of the essay alone and the second should give the essay title and the name and email address of the entrant.
  Essays should be submitted by 1 May 2014 and the winner will be announced in August 2014.

  cfp categories: gender_studies_and_sexualitytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54753RMMLA 2014 Subjectivity in Motion: Chinese Literature before 1900Li Guo/ Rocky Mountain MLAli.guo@usu.edu1389033996bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_cultureprofessional_topicstheatretheorytravel_writingfull name / name of organization: Li Guo/ Rocky Mountain MLAcontact email: li.guo@usu.edu

  CFP RMMLA 2014 Subjectivity in Motion: Chinese Literature before 1900 (Abstract due March 1, 2014)

  This panel at the 2014 Rocky Mountain MLA Annual Convention invite presentations on the topic of "Subject in Motion: Chinese Literature before 1900". In the context of pre-twentieth century Chinese literature, subjectivity as a theoretical imperative draws wide critical attention to the process in which political, ideological and literary discourses profoundly formulated authors' personal and collective experiences, and yielded long-lasting impact on the social and cultural trends of the ensuing centuries.

  To situate current explorations of subjectivity in the historical and cultural milieu of dynastic China, this panel aims to include scholarly works which explore the construction, change and reconfiguration of personal, national, ethnic, cultural identities. We hope to address a diverse range of literary genres, and explore the process in which textual, social and political subjects negotiate with discursive boundaries and move along and across different axes of power. Please email abstracts to li.guo@usu.edu by March 1, 2014.

  Contributing topics include but are not restricted to the following themes:

  selfhood in writings about war, exile and diaspora

  mobile selfhood, travel narratives and transculturalism,

  shifting sexual and gender identities in literature

  literary clubs, writing exchanges and collective identity

  representations of foreignness and ethnic identities

  performance of authenticity and/or anxiety about inauthenticity

  relationship between canonical narratives and subjective agency

  subjectivity and the fantastic narrative in myth and fairy tales

  capital, culture and commodification of identity

  religious identity and the construction of the state

  editorship, media and the politics of subjectivity

  audiences and their social and cultural identities

  trauma, memory and loss of subjectivity

  intellectual identity of sinologists and the study of pre-1900 Chinese literature

  subjectivity and transnational adaptations of classical literature

  subjectivity and modern translation of dynastic literature

  identity of dynastic literary texts and their impact in modern/ contemporary periods.

  cfp categories: bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_cultureprofessional_topicstheatretheorytravel_writing 54754Mirrored Subjectivities: Technology and Visual Representation in Film and other Media [April 18-19, 2014]Department of Foreign Languages, University of New Mexico, Albuquerquecsconference.unm@gmail.com1389045559african-americanamericanclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Department of Foreign Languages, University of New Mexico, Albuquerquecontact email: csconference.unm@gmail.com

  Call for Papers

  Sixth Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

  April 18-19, 2014

  Mirrored Subjectivities: Technology and Visual Representation in Film and other Media

  Keynote lecture to be delivered by: TBA

  Technology and film profoundly shape the ways in which we form our identities and create new possibilities for self-representation. This conference will explore the ways in which film and other media allow us to identify ourselves and our relationships to society, as well as how these technologies become ritual cultural apparatuses. Film and media also present new Althusserian imaginary relationships to our real conditions of existence, and become a reflection of the imaginary, recreating the mirror stage as a formative function of the I, as experienced through psychoanalysis. "Mirrored Subjectivities" will also address how representations allow for subject formation through recognition and reproduction, and present new mediated and unmediated subjectivities.

  Possible session topics include but are not limited to:
  • Self and Identity in Video Games
  • Film Theories (Including Postcolonial and Feminist)
  • Creating and Transcending Borders
  • Concepts of Self / Other
  • Trauma and Technology
  • Journeys Through Liminal Spaces
  • Mirrored Images: Lacan and Psychoanalysis • National Identity and Nationalism in Film
  • Transculturality and Hybridity
  • Creating and Transcending Borders
  • Social Media / Privacy
  • Digital Societies: Second Life, Facebook, Dating Sites
  • Media as an Apparatus
  • Queer Subjectivities

  Conference Structure: This conference/workshop will be comprised of the keynote address and panels on Friday, followed by additional panels on Saturday. Central to the conference is a graduate seminar style workshop on Saturday. This workshop is led by the keynote speaker and designed to explore the issues presented and discussed in more detail and depth. Presenters are requested to arrange their travel so that they can participate in the entire event, including the workshop. There will also be a closing reception Saturday evening, which is open to all participants and audience members.

  Please send a 500 word abstract along with a brief biographical statement, in a separate document, to csconference.unm@gmail.com by Thursday, February 20. Selected participants will be notified by Monday, February 24.

  You can also visit our webpage (coming soon) for additional information about the conference: http://www.unm.edu/~fll/grad-conference.htm (check for updates).

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54755[UPDATE] **DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARY 24** "Remix the Conference" University of Calgary Free-Exchange Graduate ConferenceFree-Exchange Conference, University of Calgary Department of Englishfreeex@ucalgary.ca1389048891african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Free-Exchange Conference, University of Calgary Department of Englishcontact email: freeex@ucalgary.ca

  "Remix the Conference" University of Calgary Free-Exchange Graduate Conference March 7-9, 2014

  "It's the remix to ignition, hot and fresh out the kitchen..." – R. Kelly, "Ignition"

  "It's taking little pieces from here, adding it to little pieces from there—as many different disparate elements as you can find—and make something totally new out of it." – DJ Shadow

  The Free-Exchange Conference Committee is hosting its annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference March 7-9, 2014 at the University of Calgary. We welcome both critical and creative presentations that explore the theme of "Remix" as manifested in history, political science, economics, philosophy, psychology, art and literature, music, pop culture, and other disciplines. Presentations of 15-20 minutes may range from traditional seminar papers to works of short fiction, poetry, film, etc. In the spirit of the theme of this year's conference, we encourage unconventional presentations that rethink the traditional notions of academic scholarship.

  We also welcome contributions by musicians, artists, and dramatists for inclusion in both the conference and social events associated with the conference. This could include, but is not limited to, presentations of new or remixed music, artwork, or performance pieces inspired by, or drawing on the theme of, remix. Performative or creative presenters are expected to address during their presentation how their work speaks to the theme of the Remix.

  Topics for possible presentations might include, but are not limited to:
  - Remix: What does it mean? Who does it? Can remix be a return to the original after a permutation?
  - Ownership/Access: What are the ramifications of remix in a culture that has such easy access to technology and resources? When does remix become plagiarism?
  - Culture, Countercultures, and Cultural (Re)Appropriations: Is counterculture a remix or a rejection? Does remix necessarily entail the undermining of the original?
  - Literature: What are the ramifications of fan fiction, unauthorized sequels, and/or reappropriations of classic works? How are authors remixing the borders between high and low culture?
  - Adaptation: What is lost and/or gained in the adaptation of a work from one medium to another?
  - Drama: What can other art forms learn from the immediacy of a dramatic audience? How have new technologies impacted the way dramatic works are staged?
  - The Academy: What is the academy's role in defining boundaries and canon and should this be problematized? How do we redefine the importance of the arts? Does anyone care about the academy anymore? Should we?
  - Visual Art: How much can you borrow from another artist's work? Is it possible to create a completely original work? How does visuality remix linguistic representation? How do comics remix the boundaries between visual art and literature?
  - Music and Dance: Do new musical compositions or choreographies constitute a scholarly interrogation? How do we remix the body? How much remixing is required before you can claim something as a new work?
  - Pedagogy: How might we remix the classroom and/or traditional assignments in order to facilitate learning?

  For academic papers please submit a 250-300 word abstract, and for creative projects, a 100-200 word artist's statement as well as a sample of your proposed project and a list of publications/performances/exhibitions, if applicable. For performance pieces, please include space and multimedia requirements in your proposal. Please note: for panel submissions of three presentations, each panel member must present a proposal that adheres to the above guidelines, and the Free-Exchange Committee retains the right to accept any given panel in full or in part.

  All submissions are to be sent in an electronic e-mail attachment (MS Word or .pdf files) to freeex@ucalgary.ca and are due no later than January 24th, 2014.

  Jaclyn Carter
  Free-Exchange Co-Chair
  MA Student, Department of English
  University of Calgary
  jaclyn.carter@ucalgary.ca

  Tom Miller
  Free-Exchange Co-Chair
  PhD Student, Department of English
  University of Calgary
  millerte@ucalgary.ca

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54756Forms of Life, Forms of Death Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studiesconcentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw1389057138african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studiescontact email: concentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw

  Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
  Vol. 41 No. 1 | March 2015
  "Forms of Life, Forms of Death"
  In collaboration with Outis! Journal of (Post)European Philosophy
  Deadline for Submission: June 30, 2014

  Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, is a peer-reviewed journal published two times per year by the Department of English of National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. The journal is devoted to offering innovative perspectives on literary and cultural issues and advancing the transcultural exchange of ideas. For the March 2015 issue, Concentric will co-publish a special issue on the theme "Forms of Life, Forms of Death" with Outis! Revue de philosophie (post)europénne, a European journal of political philosophy which publishes primarily in French and Italian and occasionally in English and Spanish . In this collaboration project, the two journals will each make its call for papers in accordance with its own editorial agenda, and will exchange articles (in translation in some cases) following the review process. The purpose is to tap into and share resources of each editorial team, and to open up dialogue between communities whose geopolitical, linguistic, and disciplinary differences may prove to be more superficial than substantial. Concentric invites submissions that address issues raised in this call for papers. Articles accepted by Concentric will appear in Concentric and may be selected to be published in Outis! upon the author's consent.

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  The inquiry into "life" that has dominated academic debates in recent years is to be sure a wide-ranging conversation. Neurobiologists and cognitive scientists propose to understand living systems in terms of autopoiesis; experts in biomedicine elucidate how genomic medicine, facilitated by visualization technologies, has come to configure life at the molecular level. Cultural anthropologists call for new methodological and ethical framings in response to emergent formations of life in the age of technoculture, whereas scholars writing on cybernetics and biomedia broach our cognitive, affective experiences in light of their relations with "ecologies" broadly defined. Studies of animals and inanimate matter have contributed to our rethinking of life in general and human life in particular beyond the bounds of epistemology. In political philosophy, theories of biopolitics examine shifts of modes of governance in terms ranging from the right to live, the right to die, to immunization, and to the Muselmann. Whatever the focus is, these engagements have taken life as anything but a given.

  While we are sympathetic to this multidisciplinary scope, for this special issue we are particularly interested in foregrounding form as a humanistic proposition. Ludwig Wittgenstein quite early on has used the term "form of life," notwithstanding loosely, to describe our way of living and believing at play in our use of language. Giorgio Agamben, more recently, has put forth the hyphenated "form-of-life" to refute statist mechanisms' isolation of naked life as an area of political maneuvering: an ideal political life, according to him, is one where life is inseparable from its form. And thinkers like Gilles Deleuze have advanced pathbreaking formulations of life starkly distinct from the representational logic.

  Amid the intensified interest in the question of life in theory, we would like to ponder how developments in sciences and technology bear on our conceptualization of form in literary and cultural studies today. How are we to reconsider, for instance, conceptual categories of form, medium, mediality, and structure? To what extent can embodiment and expression assume new meanings as they have been transcoded into technoscientific discourse? Some critics have invoked phenomenological models of perception and consciousness for the generation of media culture, and others seek to reinvent aesthetics to integrate the experience of virtuality. How can current interventions into these humanistic traditions reshape studies of literature and culture? Does representation still play a role in our forming of emotions and intellectuality, and in our political and ethical choices? More basically, how should we understand figure now, seeing the busy intersecting and even contagion of critical terms of different fields of knowledge?

  Furthermore, how do we approach death in a time of threatened lives, of wars, catastrophes, new viruses and epidemic diseases? Is life a relative term vis-à-vis death? Are forms of life and forms of death mutually informing, or antinomic? Or are they to be considered in separate terms?

  We invite critical reflections on form pertaining to life and/or death as a problematic that can help to recast terms of debate in the humanities today. We also welcome papers that work on forms of life and/or forms of death as thematics in literature, film, and art works.

  For submissions or general inquiries, please contact us as follows:
  Editor, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
  Department of English
  National Taiwan Normal University
  162 Heping East Road, Section 1
  Taipei 106, Taiwan

  Phone: +886 (0)2 77341803
  Fax: +886 (0)2 23634793
  E-mail: concentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw
  Website: http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54757Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 "Media: Theory and Practice" 4-6 September 2014 Skopje, MacedoniaCentre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS, Skopje)mpavlovski@iml.ukim.edu.mk1389063951african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS, Skopje)contact email: mpavlovski@iml.ukim.edu.mk

  The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) invites proposals for papers, thematic panels and original media productions for Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 'Media: Theory and Practice'
  The aim of this conference revolves around a foundational impetus to shed greater light on all relevant aspects of media studies, including mass communication, media technology, the visual and the performing arts, TV, radio, WEB and print media, as well as other key components of media studies and mass communication.
  We invite proposals based on media theory (particularly critical media studies and cultural studies), and proposals that consider the relationship between media and (popular) culture, politics, arts, new media, as pertinent fields of study.
  We welcome submissions that offer original media productions: documentary films, fictionalized or non-narrative creative expressions. The submitted proposal needs to contain a creative or theoretical explanation of the submitted work. We invite projects by PhD students or submissions by teams of students and instructors (lecturers).
  Hence, the Second Annual International CCCS Conference 2014 'Media: Theory and Practice' strives to offer a dialogic space for media theorists and practitioners. Along those lines, we invite media studies' theorists as well as practitioners to offer proposals through engaging and current ideas, paper topics, workshop presentations and round table discussions.
  Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
  Media Analyses
  Content analysis
  Media literacy
  Media discourses
  Critical Theory and Media Criticism
  Media and hegemony
  Media and globalization
  Media and Political Communication
  Media activism
  Media and ideology
  Media and democracy
  Media and Law
  (De)Regulation of media
  Media and privacy
  Media and copyright
  Art and Media
  Art-science interface
  Media and aesthetics
  Film
  Theatre
  The visual arts
  The performing arts
  Media and Culture
  Media and gender
  Diaspora, migrants and media
  Media and ethnicity
  Media and audience
  Cultural populism
  Cultural capital
  Media and remembrance/forgetting
  Media and heritage
  Media and identity
  Media representation
  New Media
  Media and games
  Social media
  Digital activism
  Media ecosystem
  Multimedia
  Journalism studies
  Journalism and social and cultural representations
  The role and status of journalism in the era of digital technology
  Alternative and community media
  Paper proposals
  For individual paper proposals, please fill out the following form PAPER PROPOSALS
  Submissions for individual paper proposals should number to 250 words.
  Panel proposals
  Panel proposals are also welcomed, particularly those organized by internationally recognized experts aiming to bring together researchers on key topics for an interactive discussion among the panel members and the participants. Panels are an important component of CCCS's 2014 Conference.
  For panel proposals, please fill out the following form PANEL PROPOSALS
  Submissions for panel proposals should include a 300-word abstract, for entire panel.
  Important Dates and Fees
  Deadline for abstracts submission: 1 March 2014
  Notifications of acceptance: 1 April 2014
  Deadline for full paper submission: 1 December 2014
  Early registration (till 1 May 2014): €40
  Late registration (till 15 August 2014): €60
  On-site registration (or after 15 August 2014): €80
  The registration fee includes: the welcome party, conference materials, an online publication of the abstracts, refreshment breaks. Full papers that have received a positive review will be published in the journals "Култура/Culture" and/or "Investigating Culture".
  Official languages of Conference are English, Russian and Macedonian.
  The Conference will be held on 4-6 September, 2014 in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia.
  For any further information please contact Dr. Mishel Pavlovski

  Registration form (papers):
  http://cultcenter.net/?wpgform_qv=registration-form-papers

  Registration form (panels):
  http://cultcenter.net/?wpgform_qv=registration-form-panels

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54758Scripting Dance in Contemporary India: Call for PapersLiberal Arts Loreeditorsliberalartslore@gmail.com1389068554cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypopular_culturepostcolonialreligiontheatrefull name / name of organization: Liberal Arts Lorecontact email: editorsliberalartslore@gmail.com

  Papers of approx 8000 words are invited for a peer-reviewed book, Scripting Dance in Contemporary India'. The current venture of Liberal Arts Lore presents a unique opportunity for scholars involved in serious academic/ practice-based research to publish their work.
  Deadline: 10th Feb, 2014
  Theme:
  Dance in Contemporary India varies from the traditionalist, the classical, the cinematic, the folk and ritualistic, the modern / contemporary and even the post-modern, with the recognition that the categories often flow into one another A variety of imperatives impel performers to create, re-create, to interpret and re-interpret, to experiment and sometimes, to rebel against established conventions. The performance texts of dance range from the solo concert format to theme-based group productions, or single/ multiple performer texts which integrate the technologies of lighting, sound and motion picture into its semiosis. Several 'texts' often become the point of beginning for a new performance text: mythology, literature, spiritual discourse, social issues. Performers in their choice of form often negotiate between tenuous tradition and endemic global influences. The present book aims to bring together scholarly work addressing dance in Contemporary India in the light of the following sub-themes:
  a. Dance as a continuation and/or contesting of tradition.
  b. Dance as art /Aesthetics of Dance; dance as performance-text.
  c. Dance as a practice, a mind-body discipline; pedagogy; practitioners' perspectives
  d. Discourse on Dance: texts adapted into dance/ inspiring dance, popular and critical discourse on dance.
  e. Dance as a practice determined by social/ cultural/ political/ economic imperatives.
  f. The negotiations between the local, national and global in dance.
  g. Dancers and their dances; courtesans in the past and present; the image of the courtesan as a presence in classical dance
  h. Dance in Film/ Literature/ Painting/ Other Arts.
  i. Dance in Religion.
  Papers should be written according to HARVARD Style Guide and may be sent along with the full name of the contributors, designation, qualifications, institutional affiliation, e-mail and telephone/ mobile number to editorsliberalartslore@gmail.com

  cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypopular_culturepostcolonialreligiontheatre 54759UPDATE: Stony Brook University 2014 Graduate Conference: "Bonds"Stony Brook University / English Department sbuenglishgradcon@gmail.com1389072465african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Stony Brook University / English Department contact email: sbuenglishgradcon@gmail.com

  We invite paper proposals for our 26th-annual graduate conference, organized by Stony Brook University's Graduate English Society. The conference will be held at Stony Brook Manhattan on 1 March 2014.

  This year's theme, "bonds," speaks to a number of important issues in our lives as both students and citizens. Bonds may refer to issues of togetherness, or the forging of bonds (marriage, nationalism, and community); separation, or the breaking of bonds (racism, sexism, hierarchies, economies of violence); economics (bonds in the financial sense, as well as larger concerns of economic critique, investment, and debt in literature and other media); adaptation (the bonds connecting literary, screen, and stage works); as well as our sense of responsibility and community within the profession as aspiring scholars and educators. We invite abstracts for papers exploring what holds us together, what breaks us apart, and/or the relative cost of such bonds.

  Inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches are welcome. Individual proposals should be around 250-300 words and sent to sbuenglishgradcon@gmail.com by 10 January 2014. The submission of entire 3-paper panels is also encouraged; these proposals should include an abstract for each paper and a 250-300-word description of the panel's objective. All proposals should include full name, institutional affiliation, and contact information. Acceptances will be sent out around 15 January.

  This year's keynote address will be given by Dr. Eleanor Courtemanche, Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Courtemanche's research concerns Victorian literature and culture; histories of economics, technology, and design; narrative theory; popular culture; urbanism and steampunk. Her first book, The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860: Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism, was published by Palgrave in 2011.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54760[UPDATE] CSUF Acacia Conference 2014: Spaces and Places, March 14 – 15, 2014The Acacia Grouptheacaciagroup.csuf@gmail.com1389073952african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturereligionrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: The Acacia Groupcontact email: theacaciagroup.csuf@gmail.com

  The Acacia Group at Cal State University, Fullerton is currently accepting proposals for its 2014 Conference, Spaces and Places. The Acacia Group is an organization of English students and faculty members committed to developing student scholastic advancement while fostering a strong sense of academic community.
California State University, Fullerton's Acacia Group and Creative Writing Club are looking for thoughtful interdisciplinary undergraduate, graduate, and professional-level presentations of no longer than 20 minutes that interacts with the concepts of space and place in literature, critical theory, or culture.

  This year's theme will address issues of space and place in literature and culture. Beyond "the final frontier," space can be any kind of distance between people, places, and things. Topics such as liminal space in the classroom, staging choices in plays, television shows, comics, and community spaces are all be welcome explications of this topic. Similar to "space," place is not limited to being a point on a map. It can be examined through the lenses of regionalistic literature, studies on urban sprawl, or even how society has gendered and defined certain areas of geography, culture, and literature, and other myriad ways. This conference is a space and place to grow and develop ideas from any discipline. We welcome submissions that engage the aforementioned topics through different scholarly approaches either directly or tangentially related to this conference theme.

  Additionally, we are accepting creative submissions: short emphatic works of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, or hybrid text which pertain to space and place. The participation of undergraduates is greatly encouraged.
  For both critical and creative papers, please submit a 250-300 word abstract to: theacaciagroup.csuf@gmail.com by February 15, 2014.
Please denote either "Criticism" or "Creative" in the headline. Presenters are encouraged to submit both critical and creative pieces.

  Potential Schools of Theory/Topics:

  Popular Culture
  Queer Studies

  Gender Studies

  Ethnic/Cultural Studies

  Pedagogy

  Regionalism

  Geography

  Historical Analysis

  Post-Colonial Studies

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturereligionrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54761CORRECT EMAIL UPDATE: Stony Brook University 2014 Graduate Conference: "Bonds"Stony Brook University / English Department stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com1389074412african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Stony Brook University / English Department contact email: stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com

  We invite paper proposals for our 26th-annual graduate conference, organized by Stony Brook University's Graduate English Society. The conference will be held at Stony Brook Manhattan on 1 March 2014.

  This year's theme, "bonds," speaks to a number of important issues in our lives as both students and citizens. Bonds may refer to issues of togetherness, or the forging of bonds (marriage, nationalism, and community); separation, or the breaking of bonds (racism, sexism, hierarchies, economies of violence); economics (bonds in the financial sense, as well as larger concerns of economic critique, investment, and debt in literature and other media); adaptation (the bonds connecting literary, screen, and stage works); as well as our sense of responsibility and community within the profession as aspiring scholars and educators. We invite abstracts for papers exploring what holds us together, what breaks us apart, and/or the relative cost of such bonds.

  Inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches are welcome. Individual proposals should be around 250-300 words and sent to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by 10 January 2014. The submission of entire 3-paper panels is also encouraged; these proposals should include an abstract for each paper and a 250-300-word description of the panel's objective. All proposals should include full name, institutional affiliation, and contact information. Acceptances will be sent out around 15 January.

  This year's keynote address will be given by Dr. Eleanor Courtemanche, Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Courtemanche's research concerns Victorian literature and culture; histories of economics, technology, and design; narrative theory; popular culture; urbanism and steampunk. Her first book, The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860: Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism, was published by Palgrave in 2011.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54762Call for Paper- International Journal of Health and EducationFoundation for a Drug Free World, USAdrugfreeworldinternee@gmail.com1389074540general_announcementsfull name / name of organization: Foundation for a Drug Free World, USAcontact email: drugfreeworldinternee@gmail.com

  Journal of Health and Education invites you all to submit original paper/article in English or French for Volume 3, Issue 1; July 2014. Our editorial board is globally renowned. Paper/article published or under consideration elsewhere shall not be considered. E-mail us your contribution along with letter of request alatest by April 1, 2014 at drugfreeworldinternee@gmail.com or ijhe@in.com.

  cfp categories: general_announcements 54763EXTENDED DEADLINE 6 February 2014 - Captivating Criminality: Crime Writing, Darkness and DesireBath Spa University and Crime Studies Networkr.stewart@bathspa.ac.uk1389085427african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Bath Spa University and Crime Studies Networkcontact email: r.stewart@bathspa.ac.uk

  EXTENDED DEADLINE – February 6, 2014
  We have received such a diverse range of proposals that all really embrace the themes of our conference and this is shaping up to be truly international. We have therefore decided to extend the deadline for proposals until 6 February to allow others the chance to participate.

  Full details available at http://captivatingcriminality.bathspa.ac.uk/

  At Corsham Court (http://www.corsham-court.co.uk/)
  24-26 April 2014

  How can crime writing be defined? Although crime fiction is traditionally regarded as a distinguishable literary form, what can be considered part of this genre? The various sub-genres that are encompassed under the title of crime writing, including the 'whodunnit', the Hard Boiled thriller, Golden Age narratives, and the 'whydunnit' psychological thriller are all so variable that a defining process becomes nearly impossible. Can Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment be classed as a crime novel? After all, there are murders, crimes, mystery, punishment and redemption – key themes of the genre. How do we go about contrasting pre-conceived ideas of the genre crime writing with a larger literary discussion?

  This conference aims to consider the darker side of crime writing with particular reference to the process of captivation, fascination and desire, in relation to the texts themselves and also to us as readers: why does crime writing captivate? Crime fiction regularly outsells literary fiction and this demonstrates that we hunger for what this genre has to offer. This conference will bring together a number of disciplines to investigate these key themes. The conference will provide a platform for creative writers, historians, theorists and literary scholars to examine crime writing, from Gothic fiction of the eighteenth century to the current popularity of Nordic noir.

  We are delighted to announce that the Award-winning crime author Val McDermid will be joining us to discuss the world of crime. Translated into more than 30 languages, with over two million copies sold in the UK and over 10 million worldwide, she has written 25 bestselling novels; The Vanishing Point – her latest novel – is her 26th.

  Our second keynote speaker is S.J. (Sharon) Bolton whose books have been shortlisted for several international awards including the CWA Gold Dagger, the Theakston's Old Peculiar prize for crime novel of the year, the International Thriller Writers' Best First Novel and (four years running) the Mary Higgins Clark award for best thriller (Awakening won this). Her latest book, Dead Scared was published in April 2012.

  Both Val and Sharon deal with the darker side of humanity in their writing. Indeed, Sharon speaks of the fact that she writes in order to 'face her own demons'.

  We are also pleased that Professor Mary Evans will be joining us as a keynote speaker. She has been an emeritus professor at the University of Kent's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research since 2007 and at present is a centennial professor at the London School of Economics. Her monograph The Imagination of Evil: Detective Fiction and the Modern World, published in 2009, examines detective fiction and its complex relationship to the modern and modernity. She questions who and what the detective stands for and suggests that the answer challenges many of our assumptions about the relationship between various moralities in the modern world.

  Bath Spa University and the Crime Studies Network invite scholars, practitioners and fans of crime writing to attend this international, interdisciplinary conference about the dark nature of crime fiction. Panels may include, but are not restricted to:

  • Reimagining the criminal mind
  • The Gothic
  • True Crime
  • Foreign Bodies
  • Ancient Bodies
  • Crime and Modernism/Modernity
  • Dostoevsky and Beyond: The Genealogy of crime writing
  • Fatal Femininity
  • Seduction and Sexuality
  • The Criminal Analyst
  • Others and Otherness
  • Landscape and Identity
  • Justice versus Punishment
  • Lack of Order and Resolution

  Please send 400 word proposals to Dr Fiona Peters (f.peters@bathspa.ac.uk) and Dr Rebecca Gordon Stewart (r.stewart@bathspa.ac.uk) by 6 February 2014. The abstract should include a title, name and affiliation of the speaker, and a contact email address. Feel free to submit abstracts presenting work in progress as well as completed projects. Postgraduate students are welcome. Papers will be a maximum of 20 minutes in length. Proposals for suggested panels are also welcome.

  Cost of registration has been confirmed:
  Full price: £140
  Student/Unemployed: £80

  The Crime Studies Network website is accessible at: www.crimestudies.net.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54764Dada Lives: Writing the Self and Dada History (EAM Helsinki, 29-31 August 2014)EAM 2014/Marius HenteaMarius.Hentea@UGent.be1389088191modernist studiestwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: EAM 2014/Marius Henteacontact email: Marius.Hentea@UGent.be

  This panel examines how autobiography and memoirs have contributed to – and stifled – the historiography of Dada. Louis Aragon, Hugo Ball, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Janco, Man Ray, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Hans Richter, and Tristan Tzara all penned memoirs (in different forms and with varying purposes) to buttress their views of Dada; they also contributed to the shaping of Dada history either by controlling access to personal collections of Dada material or by advising museums on Dada exhibitions. This panel is interested in charting the legacy of these autobiographical interventions onto Dada history: can a history of Dada be written without the subjective intervention of its lead participants? Is there a genre called the Dada memoir, and, if so, of what does it consist? What happens to key figures in Dada who did not stake out a subjective history of the movement?

  Please submit 200-word abstracts to Marius Hentea (Marius.Hentea@UGent.be) by 31 January; also submit the proposal on the EAM conference site [www.eam2014.com].

  cfp categories: modernist studiestwentieth_century_and_beyond 54766CFP "'The dyer's hand': Colours in Early Modern England" (deadline for submission of abstracts: April 15, 2014)Sophie Chiarichiarisophie@hotmail.com1389092361renaissancefull name / name of organization: Sophie Chiaricontact email: chiarisophie@hotmail.com

  Special Issue of E-rea (13.1, Autumn 2015).
  Guest Editor: Sophie Chiari (LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université).

  Scientific Committee:

  Sophie Chiari, Aix-Marseille Université (France)
  Line Cottegnies, Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle (France)
  Tobias Döring, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität (Munich, Germany)
  Roy Eriksen, University of Agder (Norway)
  Stuart Sillars, University of Bergen (Norway)

  As Michel Pastoureau has shown, the Middle Ages were a time when heraldry changed the names and the meanings of colours and when both stained glass and manuscript illuminations testified to the rich symbolism of the vivid medieval palette. In recent years, much attention has also been paid to the new approaches to colour which emerged in 18th-century England, in the wake of Isaac Newton's innovative ideas on the colour spectrum. Nowadays, a full range of highly saturated hues characterizes our daily environment, so much so that black and white convey both elegance and sophistication.
  Yet, the function and the symbolism related to the use of colours in 15th-, 16th- and 17th-century England remain surprisingly unexplored, partly because the Aristotelian theories of vision and colours have long been regarded as relatively limited ones, and partly because, until the 17th century, most skills related to the art and uses of colour were protected by a number of trade secrets and only circulated by word of mouth. Moreover, as a new black and white print culture was gradually taking precedence over the lavish colours of medieval manuscripts, the advent of Protestantism was at the origin of several violent reactions against the use of bright colours. Nevertheless, for all the exhortations of a handful of "chromophobic" Puritans zealots like Philip Stubbes against what they regarded as "artifice", the iconoclastic fever which swept across early modern England never really stopped the use of polychromy.
  Indeed, in spite of the corruptibility of early modern pigments and of the limited range of available hues, cloth manufactures flourished and English artists continued to use many different hues in their works. The court miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard relied for example on vibrant blue, yellow, crimson, black, white, pink, orange and green shades in his paintings. In the meantime, Shakespeare's "dyer's hand" (Sonnet CXI) exploited a whole range of colours in his plays and poems, from the Dark Lady of the sonnets and the black Moor of Venice to the white and red roses of the three parts of Henry VI, the yellow stockings of Malvolio in Twelfth Night or Autolycus's "ribbons of all the colours i' th' rainbow" in The Winter's Tale (4.4.206). Generally speaking, the circulation of clothes, cosmetics, gemstones, recipes, heraldic devices, botanical drawings, and university textbooks then partly depended on the colours which characterized them. Strikingly enough, an increasing number of dyes were marketed and, as a result, many early modern Englishmen wore red beards and dyed their hair. During the Civil War, the differentiated use of colours proved to be an important means of recognition of troops while, in the 1650s, philosophers eager to understand how their contemporaries perceived the world attempted to reconsider colour to question the reliability of senses and common sense. In his Leviathan (1651), Hobbes suggested that, like tastes and odours, colours were actually subjective (or "sensible") qualities that one could "discern" only "by Feeling".
  Now, if early modern men and women enjoyed and promoted a variety of tinges, tones and tinctures, they were also disturbed by the uncanny power of colouring and dyeing. Theories about the significance of skin colour proliferated and contributed to the emerging construction of race which led to the creation of a series of binary oppositions between black and white. Researchers now acknowledge that colours may have served to crystallize the sexual, religious and political anxieties of an era when vivid tints were often seen as a transgression of sorts. More often than not, colours were indeed associated with poison, illness and pollution, and were therefore seen as potentially dangerous. Under Elizabeth I, the London Parliament tried in vain to colour-code the citizens in order to facilitate the identification of subversive individuals. In the early 17th century, the Puritan Thomas Tuke won a lasting fame with his Treatise against Painting and Tincturing of Men and Women (1616) in which he warned his readers against cosmetic literature and attacked the "superfluous" painted faces of his time.
  These examples tend to show that, in the early modern period, colour still codified gender as well as religious, political and social distinctions. In other words, colour was a symbolical and literary construct worth exploring for scholars interested in the multiple facets of identity construction in early modern England.

  This special issue of the electronic journal E-rea (http://erea.revues.org/3363) aims at tracing the changing meanings of colour(s) in England from the Tudor era until the Restoration period (1485-1660). It will welcome papers dealing with the material, literary, aesthetic and sociological dimensions of colour in early modern England. Colours should thus be seen as part and parcel of the cultural codes followed or questioned by the early modern society.

  Contributions might relate to but are not limited to the following questions:

  -How were colours made and used in England at the time?
  -Did their names actually refer to the same colours as those of today?
  -What did the use of warm or cold colours aim at symbolizing in the artistic and literary works of the period?
  -Did the circulation of prints and popular black and white engravings of the period change the perception of colours?
  -To what extent did the English see and use colours differently from continental countries?
  -What role did the Puritans play in the perception of glowing colours in early modern England?
  -Which tones happened to be culturally and socially unacceptable, and why?
  -Could the restrictions imposed on colours actually have raised the interest of early modern contemporaries in the use of a wide variety of tints?
  -What were the main scientific theories developed on colour at the time?
  -Which writers were then interested in the topic and to which ends?
  -What was the function of colour in early modern literature and how was it used on stage?
  -Was colour gendered and, if so, what were there specific masculine and feminine hues?

  Please send your paper proposal (of no more than 300 words) with a brief CV to Sophie Chiari (chiarisophie@hotmail.com / sophie.chiari@univ-amu.fr) by April 15, 2014.
  Contributors selected by the scientific committee will be notified by mid-May 2014.
  Final papers will be due on November 30, 2014.

  cfp categories: renaissance 54767Romantic OrganizationsNorth American Society for the Study of Romanticismrcsha@american.edu1389103863cultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryromanticscience_and_culturefull name / name of organization: North American Society for the Study of Romanticismcontact email: rcsha@american.edu

  We invite submissions for NASSR 2014 in Washington DC from 10-13 July 2014. Submissions are due 17 January. The theme of the conference is Romantic Organizations, broadly construed to include:

  1. Societies (erotic, political, scientific, artistic, radical)
  2. Bodily (organs, anatomy, physiology, affect, emotion, gender)
  3. Mental (phrenology, psychology, imagination, brain)
  4. Knowledge (taxonomy, discourse, categories, philosophical, historical, literary, sexual)
  5. Encyclopedia (forms of knowledge)

  Proposals for papers on those and related topics (as well as those that consider these rubrics as terms under consideration or as focuses of critique) are particularly welcome, but we look forward to considering session and paper proposals that represent the best current work on any aspect of Romantic-era literature and culture.
  For further information, and for a list of 27 special sessions on topics ranging from women writers through science and colonialism to queer sexuality, see the conference website:
  https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/nassr2014/cfp/

  Confirmed speakers include: Jerome McGann, Marjorie Levinson, Peter Dear, Alan Bewell, Tim Morton, Mark Lussier, Marshall Brown, Tilottama Rajan

  cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryromanticscience_and_culture 547683rd Global Conference: Sport (September 2014: Oxford, United Kingdom)Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Netsport3@inter-disciplinary.net1389105410african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Netcontact email: sport3@inter-disciplinary.net

  3rd Global Conference: Sport

  Saturday 30th August – Monday 1st September 2014
  Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

  Sport and Place: Sport, Identity and Community

  Call for Presentations
  What is the place of sport in our lives? As we watch sport events on television, as we shout as fans or strain as participants, we can see the importance of engaging with and understanding sport's place in society. The question in the modern world is complex, and demands inter-disciplinary approaches to its solution. Sport in modernity is an everyday part of leisure lives, an aspirational physical activity or something that gives people a sense of belonging. Sport can be a vehicle for social and economic development, yet the economic and political formations of globalisation and modernity bring the spectre of contracts, deals, profits and the pursuit of glory at the expense of everything good about sport.

  This conference, the third global conference on Sport held by IDN, aims to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines – sociology, sport development, cultural studies, philosophy, history, political studies, urban studies, management and marketing, geography, and psychology and sport science – who are interested in exploring sport's social, political and economic places and spaces. We are interested in sport's histories, sport in the here and now and sport's futures. The project is for cheerleaders of sport, critics of sport, and all those in-between who would like to make a contribution to this inter-disciplinary approach to understanding sport.

  We are interested in receiving all forms of research and presentations of theory on the following themes:

  • Sport and social identity
  • Ontology of sport
  • Ethics and sport
  • Sport for development
  • Commercialisation and sport
  • Sport and place
  • Sports management and sports marketing
  • History of modern sport
  • Sport and communities
  • Sport and popular culture
  • Sport and celebrities
  • The politics of sport
  • Sports fandom

  Presentations, performances and papers will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes. The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.

  In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups – and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Sport and Bodily Transformations.

  What to Send
  300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

  a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
  E-mails should be entitled: SPORT3 Abstract Submission.

  Joint Organising Chairs:
  Karl Spracklen: K.Spracklen@leedsmet.ac.uk
  Rob Fisher: sport3@inter-disciplinary.net

  The conference is part of the making Sense Of: programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.

  Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation.

  For further details of the conference, please visit:
  http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/sport/c...

  Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54769UPDATE: Extended Deadline for The International Conference on Welsh StudiesNorth American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and Historyosborne@rmc.ca1389110589americanethnicity_and_national_identityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiesrenaissancetwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and Historycontact email: osborne@rmc.ca

  THE DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 24 JANUARY 2014.

  North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History
  (NAASWCH)

  International Conference on Welsh Studies
  Royal Military College of Canada
  Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  23-25 July, 2014
  Call for Papers

  The NAASWCH Program Committee seeks diverse perspectives on all aspects of Wales and Welsh culture – as well as proposals focused on the Welsh in North America – from many disciplines, including history, literature, languages, art, social sciences, political science, philosophy, music, and religion. NAASWCH invites participation from academics, postgraduate/graduate students and independent scholars from North America, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere.

  Those wishing to present a paper suitable for a 20-minute reading may submit an abstract (maximum one-page). Proposals for thematic sessions, panel presentations, or other formats are also welcome. Please include a brief (one-page) c.v. with your abstract submission. The abstract-proposal deadline is 24 January 2014 but early proposals are encouraged. Participants will be notified by mid-March. Email submissions are preferred and will be acknowledged promptly. If you have not received confirmation of your electronic submission within one week, please resend the document.

  In 2014, our keynote presentations open dialogue on two centenary topics, the Great War and Dylan Thomas:

  Thomas Dilworth (Windsor): David Jones and the Great War

  Kurt Heinzelman (Texas): The Disappearance of Dylan Thomas

  Chris Williams (Cardiff): Cartooning the First World War in Wales

  Visit the NAASWCH website for additional information: www.naaswch.org

  Submit abstracts or session proposals by no later than 24 January 2014 (electronically if possible) to Huw Osborne, Department of English, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston (osborne@rmc.ca).

  A small number of bursaries will be available for students currently enrolled in a graduate degree program. Interested applicants should provide, together with a paper proposal, a 250-word explanation of how attendance at this conference will make a difference in the advancement of their work and career.

  NAASWCH works to promote scholarship on all aspects of Welsh culture and history; to develop connections between teachers and scholars in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom who are committed to the study of Welsh culture and society, history, language, and literature; to provide an intellectual forum in which scholars and teachers of Welsh culture may share their research and teaching experience; and to provide support for the study of Welsh-North American history and culture.

  cfp categories: americanethnicity_and_national_identityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiesrenaissancetwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54770Kate Millett Conference - CFP Deadline 28 February 2014Sam McBean, Birkbeck, University of Londons.mcbean@bbk.ac.uk1389110671americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Sam McBean, Birkbeck, University of Londoncontact email: s.mcbean@bbk.ac.uk

  Flying: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Kate Millett

  30 May 2014
  School of Arts
  Birkbeck, University of London
  Supported by the Feminist Review Trust

  Keynote: Victoria Hesford (SUNY Stony Brook University), author of Feeling Women's Liberation (Duke UP, 2013)

  Papers are invited for an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the work of Kate Millett. Millett became an iconic figure of second wave feminism after the publication of Sexual Politics in 1970. As one of the first pieces of academic feminism to come out of the American academy, Sexual Politics was a handbook of the Women's Liberation Movement. Moreover, after appearing on the cover of Time Magazine in the same year as Sexual Politics was published, Millett became one of the Movement's most recognizable faces. However, arguably, Millett has since largely disappeared from both the public eye and contemporary feminism, despite the fact that she has continued to publish (Flying [1974], The Prostitution Papers [1975], The Loony-Bin Trip [1990], Sita [2000], and Mother Millet [2001]), make films (Three Lives [1971], Not a Love Story [1981], The Real Yoko Ono [2001]), and sculpt.

  In aiming to reflect on/account for/address/redress some of this silence, this conference is compelled on the one hand, by recent calls in feminism to re-engage with the second wave (see Hemmings' Why Stories Matter, Duke, 2011) and to re-visit foundational feminist texts (see Merck and Sanford's Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex, Palgrave, 2010). Moreover, it is also influenced by Victoria Hesford's recent Feeling Women's Liberation (Duke, 2013), which places Millett as a central figure in the production and remembrance of the Women's Liberation Movement. Hesford's publication signals that now is perhaps a timely moment to create a larger dialogue about Millett; to ask questions about Millett's role in feminist history; and to discuss how her work is situated in and amongst more contemporary feminist concerns. The conference thus aims to: consider new frameworks for approaching Millett's past or ongoing work; interrogate the politics and possibilities of the second wave; explore the politics of memory, forgetting, and citation in feminism; critically reflect on the potential difficulties of some of Millett's past work travelling into the present; and to consider whether and how (despite her ongoing feminist work) Millett might be produced as 'untimely' in the feminist present. Topics might include, but are not limited to:

  Affect and the second wave
  Feminism and autobiographical writing
  Feminism and forgetting
  Feminist film-making
  Generational politics or the politics of mother/daughter relationships
  Lesbian politics and the Women's Liberation Movement
  Narrating mental illness
  Non-monogamy as feminist politics
  Race and feminism
  Sexuality and the second wave
  Sexual Politics and feminist literary criticism
  The media and the second wave
  The Women's Liberation Movement

  The conference invites proposals for individual papers, panels, or artistic responses from any discipline and theoretical perspective. Submissions are welcome from students, activists, artists, academics, and unaffiliated researchers. Please send a title and 300 word abstract for a 20 minute paper along with your name, affiliation (if applicable), and 100 word bibliography to s.mcbean@bbk.ac.uk by 28 February 2013.

  The conference is organized by Dr Sam McBean (Birkbeck, University of London) and is being supported by the Feminist Review Trust.

  Select papers will be sought for publication as part of an edited collection. For further information please email Sam at s.mcbean@bbk.ac.uk

  Conference website: flyingkatemillettconference.wordpress.com

  cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54771Roundtable CFP: "The Machine in the Garden 50 Years Later" (ASA 2014)American Studies Associationj.lieberman@unf.edu1389112333americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesinterdisciplinaryscience_and_culturefull name / name of organization: American Studies Associationcontact email: j.lieberman@unf.edu

  Call for Papers/Participants for an ASA 2014 Roundtable, "The Machine in the Garden 50 Years Later"

  American Studies Association Conference
  November 6-9, 2014
  Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles, CA

  In 1964, Leo Marx published his field changing study, The Machine in the Garden, raising new questions about the allure of the machine and of the pastoral in American literary and cultural history. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, this roundtable seeks participants who will offer new insights into the study of technology, literature, and culture in the twenty-first century. Scholars who have celebrated or elaborated upon Marx's work are invited to apply, whether they directly reflect on the legacy of Marx's monograph or emphasize divergent approaches to the study of technology and pastoralism in the American cultural imaginary.

  This roundtable will be one of the sessions sponsored by the Science & Technology caucus, increasing the likelihood of acceptance.*

  *I originally wanted to propose this panel for ALA this May, but I had a conflict. Considering Marx's relationship to American Studies, the ASA will be a perfect venue. I urge applicants who contacted me about ALA to re-apply!

  Please send 250 word proposals and CVs to j.lieberman@unf.edu by January 15, 2014.

  cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesinterdisciplinaryscience_and_culture 54772 INVESTIGATING INEQUALITIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ACADEMIC CONFERENCEFordham University Graduate Student Associationgsa@fordham.edu1389116298african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Fordham University Graduate Student Associationcontact email: gsa@fordham.edu

  Inequality has marked human existence and its effects have been felt worldwide. Academics and public intellectuals have pursued the causes and effects of inequalities through academia and the public sphere. The concepts and realities of inequality have been much examined through the lenses of literature, philosophy, theology, sociology, political science, economics, and psychology. From the ancient to modern analyses of the subject, the interpretation of equality and inequality has evolved, but inequality has always been a central theme of academic discourse. This conference will explore inequality as it impels us forward in our pursuit of an end that may ultimately be unattainable.
  We invite papers and panel/session proposals from all disciplines focusing on works from any period that explore inequality as it is discussed in literature, philosophy, theory, art, film, science, or society and its effects on the study of the same. Possible topics falling under this heading include, but are not limited to: Pedagogy; Gender; Race; Education; Representation; Love; Death; Science; and Society.

  To submit to the conference please go to our website (http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/graduate__professi... ) and follow the directions.
  Panel/Session Proposals due by: January 19th*
  Individual Paper Abstracts due by: February 16th

  please email gsa@fordham.edu with any questions.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54773Academic Alterity: Stories of Race, Gender, Disability, SexualityHybrid Pedagogyseanmichaelmorris@me.com1389116685african-americanethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysprofessional_topicsfull name / name of organization: Hybrid Pedagogycontact email: seanmichaelmorris@me.com

  Paulo Freire claims in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, that "the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed [is] to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well." It's a conundrum, but an important one. For without this mandate, those waging their way out of oppression may suffer themselves to become oppressors in their own right, and then their efforts may be waged against those seeking liberation.

  Hybrid Pedagogy's editorial board is made up of three gay men, two straight women, and two additional straight men. We are all white. We are all educated. We, of course, are more than these identity categories imply, yet to one extent or another, our lives are lived with whatever modicum of privilege these things, born and earned, give us. As critical pedagogues, we are aware that our rights and privileges are not valid unless we fight for the same rights for others. And so our journal has always illuminated the struggles of the outcasts, the orphans, the contingent -- those voices that go otherwise unheard by the staid and layered pages of the everyday academic journal.

  But the story of identity in a learning space can't be told by one person, or even seven people, but only by a cacophony of voices, a gathering together -- of sounds, of ideas, of pedagogical intentions. In "Toward a Pedagogy of Relation," Alexander M. Sidorkin writes, "polyphonic truth is a much more workable concept than any other form of knowledge. Relations thus are not describable by one person. Instead, a group of people can describe relations, and then one person can describe their description." Some of this work is loud, a rage against the dying of the light, and some of it is quieter like the space between this paragraph and the next.

  This CFP intends to allow our readers and writers to narrate their experiences -- not only of oppression, but of difference. The goal is to make space for a broader perspective, to bring otherwise marginalized voices (or bits of voices no matter how small) to the fore. We're seeking reflections upon the lived (and often distinctly physical) experiences we have in classrooms and a consideration of how we build a pedagogy from those experiences.

  Paraphrasing Peter McLaren, Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade and Ernest Morrell outline the goals of critical pedagogical practice (The Art of Critical Pedagogy): "Critical pedagogies can provide teachers and researchers with a better means of understanding the role that schools play within a race-, class-, and gender-divided society. This promotes the questioning of student experiences, texts, teacher ideologies, and aspects of school policy that conservative and liberal analyses too often leave unexplored. Further, critical pedagogues aim to pry theories away from the academics and incorporate them into educational practice" (23). In this CFP, then, we seek to make story pedagogical -- to turn narrative into an exploration of how the experience of difference can be marshaled for pedagogical aims.

  Danielle Paradis writes in "The Pleasures, the Perils, and the Pursuit of Pedagogical Intimacy," "Learning is uncomfortable, and the trouble with letting someone teach you is that it leaves a mark -- an impression." We are not looking for narratives that will warm our hearts, or paint a rainbow of attractive variation. These will be essays and articles that teach, preach, and edify, the stories that make academe color-rich and complicated.

  In Teaching Community: a Pedagogy of Hope, bell hooks writes, "Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community."

  Ordinarily, we would outline here a series of questions -- points of departure -- but we recognize our own inability to adequately map the terrain of this topic. Instead, we hope that you will do that mapping. HASTAC has adopted as its mission statement, "Difference is our operating system," and we nod to this with our CFP here, fully aware that the best responses to our call -- the ones from the bravest of outliers -- are the ones we couldn't possibly anticipate in advance.

  Importantly, this CFP is as much a call for writing as it is a call for listening.

  We will begin accepting submissions immediately. Articles should be 1,000-2,500 words and work in some way toward the purpose of this call. We also encourage multimedia experimentation. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2014. To submit an article or multimodal response, visit our submissions page at www.hybridpedagogy.com/submissions. Please direct questions to Sean Michael Morris, Managing Editor, at seanmichaelmorris@me.com or @slamteacher (on Twitter).

  You can also view this CFP on Hybrid Pedagogy at: http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/cfp-pedagogical-alterity-stories-...

  cfp categories: african-americanethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysprofessional_topics 54774(Dis)Embodied Disciplines: Blurring Boundaries in the AcademyNew Directions Graduate Student Conference at the University of Arizonaarizonanewdirections@gmail.com1389118470african-americanamericanclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: New Directions Graduate Student Conference at the University of Arizonacontact email: arizonanewdirections@gmail.com

  New Directions Graduate Student Conference
  "[Dis]Embodied Disciplines: Blurring Boundaries in the Academy"
  Conference Dates: April 11-12, 2014, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 20, 2014

  The body is a site where regimes of discourse and power inscribe themselves, a nodal point or nexus for relations of juridical and productive power. And, yet, to speak in this way invariably suggests that there is a body that is in some sense there, pregiven, existentially available to become the site of its own ostensible construction.
  – Judith Butler

  Traditional academic disciplines tend to compartmentalize and fragment knowledge. They develop models, paradigms, or core assumptions that are rarely questioned internally. Indeed, they may even have become articles of faith rather than accurate pictures of how the world works. An academic discipline either builds on or discovers variables within a theory particular to itself and develops a jargon, or set of definitions, all its own.
  – Tom Holm, J. Diane Pearson, and Ben Chavis

  We are pleased to invite you to participate in our 2014 New Directions Conference: "[Dis]Embodied Disciplines: Blurring Boundaries in the Academy." This interdisciplinary conference solicits all papers/performances centered around "the body" in order to join students and faculty in dialogues that further create connections across departments.

  The keynote address, delivered by Dr. Brenda Jo Brueggemann of the Nisonger Center at The Ohio State University, will be on Friday, April 11. There will also be a plenary address delivered by creative writer TC Tolbert, whose work integrates bodies and bodily discourse, on Saturday, April 12.

  Our goal is to blur the boundaries between disciplines and discuss the body, in its myriad forms and conceptions, across all possible understandings and interpretations. We invite you to participate in this truly interdisciplinary conference with the hope that you will find new bodies to interpret and perform.

  If we consider the body as a site wherein discourse and power are inscribed, we must also consider how the body inscribes itself onto other discourses in academia. How do we define the body? How does the body represent a people and not just the individual person? How do we blur the divide between the interior/exterior, the personal/global, the text/meaning? How does the body render itself in relation to medicine, anthropology, physics, race studies, geography, gender studies, etc.?

  Submission Information:
  All proposals are due by January 20, 2014. Please submit to arizonanewdirections@gmail.com.

  For individual paper proposals, please submit the following in a Word or PDF format with your name in the title:
  1) Name and contact information (including email address)
  2) An abstract (250-300 words)
  3) How your proposal fits among other disciplines (1-2 sentences)

  For performance proposals, please submit the following in a Word or PDF format with your name in the title:
  1) Name and contact information (including email address)
  2) Description of performance (~300 words)
  3) How your proposal fits among other disciplines (1-2 sentences)

  For panel proposals (3-4 papers), please submit the following in a Word or PDF format with your name in the title:
  1) Name and contact information for panel organizer (including email address)
  2) Short description of the panel (~100 words)
  3) An abstract for each individual paper (~250 words), with accompanying name and contact information for individual presenters

  We will notify participants by mid-February, 2014.

  This conference is generously supported by the English Department at the University of Arizona and Bedford St. Martin Publishers. There is no registration fee for presenters or attendees.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54775Edited Collection 1/25/14 - "Like One of the Family: Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in Kathryn Stockett's The Help"Fiona Mills, St. Anselm Collegefionacmills@gmail.com1389122722african-americanamericanethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysfull name / name of organization: Fiona Mills, St. Anselm Collegecontact email: fionacmills@gmail.com

  Call for Papers for edited collection

  Like One of the Family: Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in The Help

  Kathryn Stockett's 2009 best-selling novel The Help, and its subsequent 2011 film, centers on the experiences of African-American domestic workers living in Jackson, Mississippi. Stockett's sanitized portrayal of life in the Deep South where black women were charged with rearing white children while concurrently barred from sharing toilets and common eating areas with their employers simultaneously enthralled and disturbed readers and viewers alike. Notably, it is not the domestics themselves who render their tales but rather Eugenia Phelan, a white twenty-something Mississippian with whom they hesitantly collaborate, who ultimately "voices" their stories of life during the harrowing early days of the Civil Rights movement in the Deep South. Essentially, these stories are articulated through the voice of a white woman; a fact that becomes even more complex when one acknowledges that this fictional tale of the inner life of black maids working in Jackson, Mississippi, one of the most notorious states in regards to racial atrocities suffered during the mid-twentieth century, is rendered through the words of a white southern writer, Kathryn Stockett; albeit someone who grew up with domestic help. While the 2009 novel of the same name spent over one hundred weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and the film adaptation won numerous prizes during the 2012 awards season, its sentimental portrait of the lives of African-American domestic workers is troubling due to its heavy-handed use of dialect and "feel good" message about the admirable interventions of a white protagonist intent on alleviating some suffering while glossing over the vicious attacks on African-Americans during the Civil Rights era all the while reinforcing the stereotype of the long-suffering but ultimately forgiving non-threatening mammy figure. This panel will consider why such sterilized versions of America's complex racial history resonate so deeply in our contemporary time frame.

  This collection seeks papers that examine relationships between blacks and whites against the backdrop of the burgeoning Civil Rights movement as depicted in Kathryn Stockett's The Help and its subsequent 2011 film version. Comparisons between Stockett's novel and other works written either during or after the Civil Rights movement are encouraged as are examinations of the specific relationships between African-American domestic workers and white families in the U.S. South as well as comparisons between U.S. domestic workers and those in other countries. Please send 300-500 word abstracts to fionacmills@gmail.com

  Deadline: January 25, 2014
  Please include with your abstract:
  A current C.V. AND a brief bio
  Name and Affiliation
  Email address
  Postal address

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essays 54776[UPDATE] Reminder: Deadline for Rebecca Harding Davis panels at ALA 1/17/2013Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her Worldmischa.renfroe@mtsu.edu1389124229americanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryreligionromanticscience_and_culturevictorianfull name / name of organization: Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her Worldcontact email: mischa.renfroe@mtsu.edu

  The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World welcomes proposals for a session on "Davis and the Political" at the American Literature Association's 25th Annual Conference.

  The conference will be held on May 22-25, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. For further information about the conference, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org.

  Session Topic: "Rebecca Harding Davis and the Political"
  In keeping with the conference location in Washington, DC, we will organize a session on Davis and the political, broadly defined. Though best known for her attention to labor questions in "Life in the Iron-Mills," Davis also wrote about the Civil War, political corruption, race relations, women's rights, civil commitment laws, and a host of other issues of her day. We welcome proposals that engage any aspect of her political interests and are especially interested in new readings of neglected texts.

  Presentations will be limited to 15-20 minutes to accommodate 3 or 4 presenters.

  Presenters must be members of the Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World. For information about joining the society, please visit our website at http://scotus.francis.edu/rebeccahardingdavis/

  Deadline: January 17, 2014

  Please send a 200-250 word abstract and a brief biographical sketch to:
  Mischa Renfroe
  Middle Tennessee State University
  mischa.renfroe@mtsu.edu
  and
  Sharon Harris
  University of Connecticut, Storrs
  sharon.harris@uconn.edu

  cfp categories: americanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryreligionromanticscience_and_culturevictorian 54777Following Non-Human Kinds April 16-18Caroline Picardnonhumankinds@gmail.com1389128477cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencestwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Caroline Picardcontact email: nonhumankinds@gmail.com

  Following Non-Human Kinds; call for papers in French and English

  From April 16-18 2014 La Box — a contemporary art gallery affiliated with the Ecole Nationale d'Art de France de Bourges (ENSA) — will host a multidisciplinary symposium with artists, philosophers and literary scholars working in or outside academia. This symposium explores the linguistic representations of non-human organisms (animals, planets, robots, viruses, etc), and how non-human encounters define or defy categorical cultural definitions of what is and what is n is not "natural." Following Non-Human Kinds is organized in response to two exhibitions in 2014 at La Box, thus promoting an ephemeral participatory discourse within the bounds of a static art exhibition.

  - The first exhibit, "Animal Projections" (January-February 2014), focuses on the prevalent anthopocentrism that emerges in representations of the animal world. Artists Marcus Coates, Jenny Kendler, AOo, Tessa Siddle, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Xaviera Simmons, Stephen Lapthisophon, Institute of Critical Zoology, upturn a longstanding trend to project human expectations on the animal body.
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  - The second exhibition, "Ghost Nature" (March-April 2014), reflects on the strangeness of the natural world. In line with the philosopher Timothy Morton, "Nature" as an ideal landscape without human presence does not exist (The Ecological Thought, Harvard University Press, 2010). Nevertheless the Romantic desire to commune with such a place remains unfulfilled and haunting, like the tickle of a phantom limb. Artists in this exhibition explore and critique that desire. Featuring the work of Sebastian Alvarez, Irina Botea (video: The Picturesque), Jeremy Bolen, Carrie Gundersdorf, Every house has a door, Heidi Norton, Rebecca Mir, Robert Burnier, Devin King, Akosua Adoma Owusu et Assaf Evron.

  Diverse proposals are expected and encouraged from academic documents to less traditional presentations, such as performance, creative writing or reading, spectator participation, collaboration, scéances, field recordings, embezzlement, etc. Preference will be given to projects that address the work of one or more of artists in the exhibition, so as to further a theoretical collaboration between visual and discursive proposals. Interested participants are invited to contact one or more of the guest artists.
  Among the areas that may be considered:
  - The meeting point between art, language and ecology;
  - Critical responses to Object Oriented Ontology, ecopoetics, and nature as an historically Romantic utopia;
  - The interaction between the natural world and its representations;
  - The criteria for definition of natural, human identity in its differentiation from animals and their hybridization in art, thought, and literature;
  - Perceptions and criticism of the Anthropocene, or the current geological era characterized by the influence of humanity on the biosphere;

  Communications will be in English or French.
  Proposals to participate must be sent before January 22nd 2014 to the following address : nonhumankinds@gmail.com

  Affiliated institution :
  École nationale supérieure d'art de Bourges
  7, rue Édouard-Branly
  18000 Bourges
  France

  Français:

  Du 16 au 18 avril 2014, La Box, galerie d'art contemporain affiliée à l'École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Bourges (ENSA), accueillera un symposium multidisciplinaire regroupant des artistes, des philosophes et des chercheurs en littérature, qu'ils soient ou non issus du monde universitaire. Ce colloque aura pour objectif d'explorer les représentations linguistiques des organismes non humains (animaux, planètes, robots, virus, etc.), et de penser la manière dont les rencontres avec le non humain définissent ou défient les définitions culturelles catégoriques quant à ce qui est et ce qui est n'est pas « naturel ». Sous le titre « Following Non-Human Kinds », ce symposium est conçu en réponse à deux expositions qui se tiendront en 2014 à La Box, favorisant ainsi un discours participatif éphémère dans les limites d'une exposition statique d'œuvres d'art.

  - La première exposition, Projections animales (janvier-février 2014), met l'accent sur l'anthropocentrisme qui caractérise nos représentations du monde animal. Des artistes tels que Marcus Coates, Jenny Kendler, AOo, Tessa Siddle, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Xaviera Simmons, Stephen Lapthisophon, et l'Institut de Zoologie Critique, jouent avec une tendance établie de longue date : celle qui consiste à projeter des attentes humaines sur l'animal.

  - La seconde exposition, Ghost Nature : Le fantôme de la nature (mars-avril 2014), est une réflexion sur l'étrangeté du monde naturel. Dans la lignée du philosophe Timothy Morton, elle repose sur l'idée selon laquelle la « Nature », entendue comme paysage idéal dépourvu de présence humaine, n'existe pas (The Ecological Thought, Harvard University Press, 2010). Néanmoins, le désir romantique de communier avec un tel endroit reste latent et obsédant, comme le chatouillement d'un membre fantôme. Les artistes de cette exposition s'attacheront à explorer et à critiquer ce désir, à partir des œuvres de Sebastian Alvarez, Irina Botea (video : The Picturesque), Jeremy Bolen, Carrie Gundersdorf, Every house has a door, Heidi Norton, Rebecca Mir, Robert Burnier, Devin King, Akosua Adoma Owusu et Assaf Evron
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  Diverses propositions sont attendues et encouragées, qu'il s'agisse de communications au sens académique ou de présentations moins traditionnelles, telles que la performance, l'écriture créative ou la lecture, la participation de spectateurs, la collaboration, l'enregistrement de terrain, le détournement de fonds, etc. Une attention particulière sera portée aux projets qui répondront au travail d'un ou de plusieurs artistes exposés, de façon à favoriser une collaboration entre les propositions théoriques, visuelles et discursives. Les participants intéressés sont invités, s'ils le souhaitent à entrer en communication avec un ou plusieurs des artistes invités.

  Parmi les domaines qui peuvent être considérés :
  - Les points de rencontre entre art, langue et écologie ;
  - Les réponses fournies par différentes théories : celle de l'ontologie orientée vers l'objet, des enquêtes critiques sur la nature comme des utopies romantiques ;
  - L'interaction entre le monde naturel et ses représentations ;
  - Les critères de définition des ressources naturelles, l'identité humaine dans sa différenciation d'avec les animaux et de leur hybridation dans l'art, la pensée et la littérature ;
  - Perceptions et critique de l'Anthropocène, soit l'ère géologique actuelle, caractérisée par l'influence de l'humanité sur la biosphère ;

  Les communications se feront en anglais ou en français.

  Les propositions de participation doivent être envoyées pour le 22 janvier 2014 à l'adresse suivante : nonhumankinds@gmail.com

  Institution affiliée :
  École nationale supérieure d'art de Bourges
  7, rue Édouard-Branly
  18000 Bourges

  cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencestwentieth_century_and_beyond 54778Theory/Post-Theory: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of California, Berkeley, April 18th 2014Graduate Student Association of the Department of Rhetoricpost.theory2014@gmail.com1389128652cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetryrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Graduate Student Association of the Department of Rhetoriccontact email: post.theory2014@gmail.com

  Theory/Post-Theory: An Interdisciplinary Conference
  Organized by the Graduate Student Association of the Department of Rhetoric
  University of California, Berkeley
  April 18th, 2014
  Keynote Address: Professor David N. Rodowick (Chicago)

  The Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley is pleased to invite papers that investigate the role, value, and efficacy of theory in the contemporary humanities and social sciences.

  Theory, along with its periodical, concomitant "Post-Theory" moments, has provided the staging ground for debates over the methodological structure and interpretive purchase of disciplines such as literature and film, while also acting as the site of interventions into the epistemological and ethical assumptions which undergird the humanistic disciplines and the sciences. By its very nature, theory both contests and is contested, and as such, is subject to constant self-criticism and revision. As a method for examining not just the content but the very nature of a text qua text, theory has provided the necessary space for critical interventions into the ways in which the humanistic disciplines are produced and reproduced; as a body of texts with its own rhetorical, discursive, and historical traditions, it is itself a product constantly subject to critique and, ultimately, the site of new interventions. "Theory," as both a method and a particular body of texts, thus seems to exist always in a state of critique, and as critique, to be concerned always with what comes after.

  Terry Eagleton dates theory's "golden age"—the days of Althusser, Lacan, and Lévi-Strauss, among many others—between 1965 and 1980. This conference aims to investigate whether theory has indeed come to an end, and if so, to ask: not just why did it end, but how could such an end be possible? If it is the case that we live in a 'Post-Theory' age, what comes after theory? What is left of theory as a disciplinary and interdisciplinary method after a particular set of texts has seen its influence wane? In this light, perhaps it is better to speak not of a monolithic "Theory," but of theories. We might ask: what are the prevailing theories of today? What purposes do they serve, both intentional and unintentional? What is the relationship between theory and interdisciplinarity? What role, if any, can theory play in the future of humanistic inquiry?

  The keynote address will be delivered by Professor David N. Rodowick (Chicago) followed by a faculty roundtable with Professors Catherine Malabou (Kingston), Mary Ann Doane (Berkeley), and Martin Jay (Berkeley).

  With these broad issues in mind, we invite papers on the following themes and topics:

  -Reflections on the configuration of academic disciplines and the future of interdisciplinarity
  -Interventions in theoretical discourses
  -The methodological and disciplinary form of theory in the 21st century
  -Critical genealogies of theory in the humanities
  -The relationship between theoretical discourses and new media, digital technology, discourse networks and systems theory
  -The role of the sciences and/or Science and Technology Studies in contemporary theory -Reconsiderations of the Frankfurt School, and/or critical theory writ large
  -The epistemological (or non-epistemological) grounding of theory
  -What theory produces in terms of knowledge and discourses
  -Theoretical readings of cultural objects

  Abstracts of 300 words or less can be sent to post.theory2014@gmail.com on or prior to February 14th, 2014. Please include name, title, institutional affiliation, and a brief academic biography. If possible, please also indicate whether your presentation has A/V requirements. Presentations should last between 15 and 20 minutes.

  This event is co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

  cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetryrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54779DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 17 JANUARY: 'Created Equal?' The Irish Association of American Studies Annual Conference, April 2014Irish Association of American Studies Conference in NUI GalwayIAASConference@gmail.com1389138328african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesreligiontheatretheoryfull name / name of organization: Irish Association of American Studies Conference in NUI Galwaycontact email: IAASConference@gmail.com

  Call For Papers: Created Equal?
  The Irish Association of American Studies Annual Conference

  When: 25 - 26th April, 2014
  Where: National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  Keynote Speaker: Professor Robert Strong of Washington and Lee University, Fulbright Scholar

  On the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the IAAS 2014 Annual Conference will investigate the notion of 'equality' in the American context.

  The belief that "all men are created equal" was proclaimed self-evident in the Declaration of Independence. The phrase has been repeated and critiqued in the theatre of United States politics from Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King Jr. in his "I have a Dream" speech and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the 1848 Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. The historic struggle for equal rights in various forms belies the motto, and highlights America's complicated relationship with 'equality'.

  Enacted on July 2nd, 1964, the Civil Rights Act "prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin." The reality of a non-discriminatory society on these and other issues continues to be sought and fought on several fronts, as successive movements have challenged inequality in American society. Most recently, in June 2013, two key Supreme Court decisions highlighted the evolution of such movements: the defeat of the 1996 Defence of Marriage

  Act sparked widespread celebration among equal-rights groups, yet just one day earlier the same court voted to overturn Section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, thereby removing restrictions on nine southern states with a history of discriminatory practice in voting procedure. A Texas State Attorney immediately responded by declaring that Voter ID laws—laws which have historically been used to limit voters of colour—would "take effect immediately."

  At the IAAS Conference, 2014, we invite participants to explore America's strained relationship with the concept of equality and its impact on citizens of different race, religion, gender or origin.

  Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

  Historic struggles for equality
  The Civil War
  The Civil Rights Movement
  Media representations: film and television
  Musical expressions of marginalised peoples
  American borders: North and South
  The concept of 'melting pot' America
  Literature, poetry, novels, film and theatre exploring issues of equality
  International relations
  The architecture of equality

  Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words via http://goo.gl/W8fro2 (case sensitive)

  The deadline for submissions is 10th January, 2014.
  EXTENDED TO: 17 January, 2014

  Contact IAASConference@gmail.com for more information, or visit http://iaas.ie/events/2014-iaas-annual-conference/

  cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesreligiontheatretheory 54780Beyond Authorship (24-27 June 2014)University of Newcastle, Australiabrett.hirsch@uwa.edu.au1389138649humanities_computing_and_the_internetrenaissancefull name / name of organization: University of Newcastle, Australiacontact email: brett.hirsch@uwa.edu.au

  
  BEYOND AUTHORSHIP
  24-27 June 2014
  University of Newcastle Australia

  This symposium seeks to move beyond authorship as the primary focus of corpus-based studies in early modern literature, to consider broader questions of language and style, genre and form, influence and adaptation; to interrogate the new literary histories enabled by electronic text corpora, and the new methods of analysis they make possible.

  Confirmed speakers include Douglas Bruster, Gabriel Egan, Jonathan Hope, MacDonald P. Jackson, Lynne Magnusson, and Michael Witmore.

  The convenors, Hugh Craig and Brett D. Hirsch, invite proposals for long and short papers (20/40 min) and quick-fire poster presentations (5 min). For consideration, abstracts should be received by email to hugh.craig@newcastle.edu.au and brett.hirsch@uwa.edu.au before 1 February 2014.

  To download a poster/flyer and for more details, visit http://notwithoutmustard.net/beyond-authorship/

  cfp categories: humanities_computing_and_the_internetrenaissance 54781"English Renaissance Literature," 2014 RMMLA Convention, Boise, Idaho, October 9-11, 2014Kirsten Mendoza/ Rocky Mountain Modern Language Associationkirsten.n.mendoza@vanderbilt.edu1389161913ethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypostcolonialreligionrenaissancefull name / name of organization: Kirsten Mendoza/ Rocky Mountain Modern Language Associationcontact email: kirsten.n.mendoza@vanderbilt.edu

  This session invites papers that address any aspect of English Renaissance literature to be delivered at the sixty-eighth annual Rocky Mountain MLA conference in Boise, Idaho, Oct. 9-11, 2014. Topics of interest include cross-cultural interactions, race, religion, gender, and sexuality.

  Please send 300-500 word abstracts to Kirsten Mendoza (kirsten.n.mendoza@vanderbilt.edu).

  The deadline for submission is March 1, 2014. All submissions will be acknowledged and notifications sent by March 15, 2014.

  For more information on the conference, visit the RMMLA website: http://rmmla.innoved.org/default.asp

  cfp categories: ethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypostcolonialreligionrenaissance 54782Muppets and Metatextuality UCR (dis)junctionsdisjunctions2014@gmail.com1389163836childrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencestheoryfull name / name of organization: UCR (dis)junctionscontact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  Nobody practices irreverent intertextually like the Muppets. From it's inception, The Muppet Show combined parody and variety show performance in ways that reflect on and challenge traditional media forms and genres. We welcome paper submissions on any Jim Henson Company production, Muppet ephemera and products, Muppet participation in social media outlets, or unofficial parody works that utilize the Muppet image. Possible paper topics could include but are not limited to the presentation of criticism as portrayed through the characters Statler and Waldorf, Muppet film interpretations of canonical texts, Miss Piggy's role as an atypical and subversive pop culture icon, the Muppet's metatextual use of music and performance.

  The theme of 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, hosted by UC Riverside, is "irreverent readings," featuring keynote speakers Virginia Jackson (UC Irvine) and Constance Pendley (UC Santa Barbara). Abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted via the form at www.disjunctions2014.org by February 10th, 2014.

  cfp categories: childrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencestheory 54783Early Modern Censorship and LibelUCR (dis)junctionsdisjunctions2014@gmail.com1389163942bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryrenaissancefull name / name of organization: UCR (dis)junctionscontact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  The relationship between censorship and slander, libel, obscenity and copyright - particularly as these legal doctrines existed in the early modern period, along with the institutions that enforce them - is a concept that has received critical attention in the academy; however little attention has been paid to how these relationships have evolved from the early modern to the post-modern period. The central question of this project is how these methods of censorship have changed and how those changes can be defined and explained. This paper will consist of an examination of the interaction of libel, slander and obscenity as forms of censorship in the 16th, 17th and 18th century in relationship to the Stationers' Guild and its licensing schemes. This includes an analysis of the pivotal role that John Milton played in this debate with the publication of Areopagitica and Eikonoklastes. To illustrate the role of censorship during this period with concrete examples, the project will undertake a case study of two critical figures of the 17th century: Edward Tylney (Master of the Revels) and Robert L'Estrange (Surveyor of State Censorship). It will then investigate the controversies surrounding Edmund Curll, an 18th century bookseller known for establishing obscene libel as a misdemeanor under common law. I expect to find that even as these legal doctrines have evolved, their impact on artistic production remained relatively stable. The implications of this examination are enormous. If the effects of censorship are relatively stable even as doctrines such as slander and libel have changed radically then the assumption that the doctrine of freedom of expression has developed radically over that three hundred year period needs to be reexamined.

  The theme of 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, hosted by UC Riverside, is "irreverent readings," featuring keynote speakers Virginia Jackson (UC Irvine) and Constance Pendley (UC Santa Barbara). Abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted via the form at www.disjunctions2014.org by February 10th, 2014.

  cfp categories: bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryrenaissance 54784Gender Roles in Media NarrativesUCR (dis)junctionsdisjunctions2014@gmail.com1389164025film_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryfull name / name of organization: UCR (dis)junctionscontact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  n Defense of Reality TV Criticism: Cinderella Mythic Narratives and Alternative Gender Roles in The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.

  Since Big Brother hit Pacific shores in 2000, America has been in the grips of a socio-cultural phenomenon, and there's no sign of it slowing down. Two of the most popular reality shows to date draw more viewers than presidential elections, consistently season after season, setting unprecedented records in television history. Yet widespread opinion hails The Bachelor and The Bachelorette as escapist, trashy 'train-wreck' TV that perpetuates outdated, traditional ideas about gender roles in love and marriage. If this were true, how do these reality TV texts, to cite two of many (like Survivor, American Idol and Dancing with the Stars) garner viewing popularity the likes of which America has never seen before?
  Most critics focus purely on the negative attributes of reality TV and overlook its positive attributes. Shockingly, their invectives fly without cognizance of opposing or diverse opinions, perhaps underlain by a dangerous assumption there is only one way to interpret reality, their way. With such myopic, uninformed arrogance, naysayers continue to attack this popular cultural artifact with their one-dimensional rages, dismissing it as 'lowbrow' culture and therefore an unworthy object of study. What a big mistake!
  In answer to these questions my paper will defend The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, as illustrative texts of reality TV in its exploration of this culturally ambivalent attitude. Contrary to mainstream criticism, I will argue that these shows harness the Cinderella myth, one is even a feminist revision of this myth, and through their narratives portrayals of alternative (non-traditional) gender roles also emerge, which serve to question, challenge or subvert outdated traditional ideas of love and marriage. I also assert that these alternative gender role portrayals rupture the mythic narratives at times, further challenging viewers' ideas of the American cultural myth of love and marriage.
  Thus, these representative texts, and by extension (if one can generalize) all reality TV texts should be considered not one but multi-dimensional: an interesting blend of both negative and positive attributes. In addition, I urge that an acknowledgement be made about the facts of polysemy: in their engagement with a text, viewers draw a wide range of multiple and sometimes conflicting meanings from reality TV texts, including the opportunity to reevaluate or modify the Cinderella myth or whatever cultural myth the reality show is based upon. Only then can we move towards a more comprehensive, balanced debate on reality TV, and a deeper, truer understanding of this socio-cultural phenomenon and our place in it.

  The theme of 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, hosted by UC Riverside, is "irreverent readings," featuring keynote speakers Virginia Jackson (UC Irvine) and Constance Pendley (UC Santa Barbara). Abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted via the form at www.disjunctions2014.org by February 10th, 2014.

  cfp categories: film_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinary 54785Oral Poetics and Oral TraditionsUCR (dis)junctionsdisjunctions2014@gmail.com1389164124classical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymedievalpoetrytheoryfull name / name of organization: UCR (dis)junctionscontact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  Since the development of Oral-Formulaic Theory by Milman Parry and Albert Lord, the field of Oral Poetics and Oral Traditions has continued to grow and to have its ideas applied to an increasingly wide set of literatures, cultures, and traditions. This special session seeks to encourage further work in the area of Oral Traditions and Oral poetics of all kinds, especially with an eye to creative, innovative and under- or un-explored readings. Papers may look at a wide range of time periods and cultures, including, but not limited to, Classical, Old and Middle English, Eastern European and other historic Oral Traditional literatures, living/contemporary Oral Traditions, and the concept of Secondary Orality. They may also engage with the ideas of Oral Poetics and Oral Traditions to work on overlooked, surprising, controversial, or otherwise non-canonical poetry and literature, any tradition which, as John Miles Foley wrote, "works like language, only more so."

  The theme of 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, hosted by UC Riverside, is "irreverent readings," featuring keynote speakers Virginia Jackson (UC Irvine) and Constance Pendley (UC Santa Barbara). Abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted via the form at www.disjunctions2014.org by February 10th, 2014.

  cfp categories: classical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymedievalpoetrytheory 54786Theorizing School ViolenceUCR (dis)junctionsdisjunctions2014@gmail.com1389164190cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_culturescience_and_culturetheoryfull name / name of organization: UCR (dis)junctionscontact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  Cultural consciousness has, in the last decade and a half, becomes more and more aware of cultures of violence as they circulate within spaces of education. School violence in the form of school shootings, bullying, and other ways of imagining violence has become central to cultural production. From films about real events (such as 2003's Elephant, a loose adaptation of Columbine), to Glee's therapeutic evaluation of bullying, the inclusion of a school shooting as a minor plot point in the first season of American Horror Story, and the recent remake of Carrie, such violence has infiltrated many different genres and types of media (television, film, music, video games, media accounts, etc.). This panel invites papers that analyze the ways that school violence appears in texts and in cultural discourse as a way of imagining subjectivity, sociality, and forms of politics. Papers that look at school violence through different lenses (queer theory, theories of race and ethnicity, disability studies, animal studies, etc.) and in different historical periods are welcomed and encouraged.

  The theme of 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, hosted by UC Riverside, is "irreverent readings," featuring keynote speakers Virginia Jackson (UC Irvine) and Constance Pendley (UC Santa Barbara). Abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted via the form at www.disjunctions2014.org by February 10th, 2014.

  cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_culturescience_and_culturetheory 54788(dis)junctions - April 11+12 - Empathy and Modernism UCR (dis)junctionsdisjunctions2014@gmail.com1389164362graduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiestheoryfull name / name of organization: UCR (dis)junctionscontact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  From Mirror Neurons to Modernist Estrangement: Refamiliarizing Empathy

  One of the most fascinating aspects of empathy is its ambiguous nature – how neuroscientists, psychologists and literary theorists have hotly contested its potentially beneficial or – alternatively, harmful – effects upon society. This is not surprising, given the relatively recent discovery of mirror neurons which are thought to be responsible for our automatic imitation (to varying degrees) of the actions of a present other. If this is true, then we are constantly empathizing with quite a wide variety of feelings, actions, and situations. That which we imitate, however, need not actually be present before us – simply having an absent other's actions described to us is enough for our mirror neurons to fire. Thus words – and therefore literature – play a significant role in our ability to empathize and understand others, and the complex nature of literature suggests that it has a great potential to broaden our range of empathy.
  Narratologist Suzanne Keen argues that empathy suffered particular disfavor among such modernist giants as T.S. Eliot and Bertolt Brecht (a trend that, she argues, was sustained by New Criticism, later reinforced by such literary theorists as Edward Said, and has remained strong until recently) in favor of the modernist technique of defamiliarization. Nevertheless, she points out, the task of the modernist novel, in contrast to the poetry and drama of that period, was not so much to reject empathy as to "recast the representation of consciousness and feelings as one of the primary tasks of novels rejecting conventional representation."1 In other words, rather than continuing the Victorian novelist's tendency to encourage within the reader sympathy and fellow feeling in an attempt to promote social change, the modernist novel sought new literary techniques that would hopefully render interiority more accurately, regardless of whether the reader would respond empathically.
  This does not mean, however, that modernist novels do not inspire empathy in the reader. Following Woolf's assertion that Joyce was "concerned at all costs to reveal the flickerings of that innermost flame that flashes its messages through the brain, and in order to preserve it he disregards with complete courage whatever seems to him adventitious [ . . . ]," I find in James Joyce's Ulysses as well as a work that it largely inspired, Agustín Yáñez's Al filo del agua, fertile ground for such a study of empathy. Combining a consideration of modernist aesthetics with Keen's theory of narrative empathy, I argue that the techniques used in these works, such as the particular characterization of Bloom (in Ulysses) and Don Timoteo (in Al filo del agua), overdetermination, and, yes, even defamiliarization, have the potential to extend readers' range of empathy in a powerful way.

  1 Keen, Suzanne. Empathy and the Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, 58.

  The theme of 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, hosted by UC Riverside, is "irreverent readings," featuring keynote speakers Virginia Jackson (UC Irvine) and Constance Pendley (UC Santa Barbara). Abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted via the form at www.disjunctions2014.org by February 10th, 2014.

  cfp categories: graduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiestheory 54789(dis)junctions - April 11+12 - Embodying the QuixoticUCR (dis)junctionsdisjunctions2014@gmail.com1389164410graduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarytheoryfull name / name of organization: UCR (dis)junctionscontact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  Searching for papers on the topic of embodying the Quixotic. Novels like Toole's Confederacy of Dunces, Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, and Cervantes' Don Quixote have much to say about the inner workings of both the mind and society. In what ways do we read and misread these (or other) epic fictions? How do we borrow attributes and learn life-lessons from characters in Quixotic novels? Or, consider the concept of a Quixotic misreading-- a picking and choosing ideals and themes from already Quixotic writings. Is that type of reader missing a concrete understanding of the text by failing to pursue a well-rounded analysis? Or is the complete comprehension of Quixotic text even possible? If not, what does this say about our everyday lives, and of how we are supposed to make sense of our own Quixotic-like journeys?

  The theme of 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, hosted by UC Riverside, is "irreverent readings," featuring keynote speakers Virginia Jackson (UC Irvine) and Constance Pendley (UC Santa Barbara). Abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted via the form at www.disjunctions2014.org by February 10th, 2014.

  cfp categories: graduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarytheory 54790(dis)junctions - April 11+12 - The Role of the Literary in Critical Environmental StudiesUCR (dis)junctionsdisjunctions2014@gmail.com1389164467ecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarytheoryfull name / name of organization: UCR (dis)junctionscontact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  Although the broad scope of its arguments are not new, Timothy Morton's 2007 theoretical work _Ecology without Nature_ helped to inaugurate new interest in what he calls a "properly critical" approach to studies of literature and environment. The impact of Morton's call to arms cannot be overstated but very soon after _Ecology without Nature_, Morton began with his interest in Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) to address one of the central problems with his first major book: the difficulty of relating the study and criticism of cultural objects to the study of ostensibly non-cultural objects of the so-called natural world. The turn to OOO is meant to answer the following questions left by _Ecology_: Hasn't that book simply redefined ecocriticism and ecology to mean cultural critique? Rather than making a convincing argument for bridging scholarly work in the humanities with intellectual disciplines concerned with non-cultural objects of study, doesn't _Ecology without Nature_ simply claim that there is only cultural critique?

  This panel takes as its starting point the conceit that these questions are far from resolved. As such, it seeks contributions that will look specifically how and why we might find a place for literary study in relation to ecological and/or environmental issues. Contributors are welcome to discuss OOO, but alternate approaches to the question of "Why literature in environmental studies?" are also highly encouraged. Let us take the title of the conference, Irreverent Readings, and its paradigmatic use of literary study seriously--if such a thing can be said. How might we irreverently and ecocritically read? What is the relation of reading to the literary?

  Other questions that may be of interest to this panel have to do with what "the literary" might be at all and how and whether or not "the literary" or literature might serve as a particularly trenchant object for the interrogation of environmental issues.

  The theme of 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, hosted by UC Riverside, is "irreverent readings," featuring keynote speakers Virginia Jackson (UC Irvine) and Constance Pendley (UC Santa Barbara). Abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted via the form at www.disjunctions2014.org by February 10th, 2014.

  cfp categories: ecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarytheory 54791Call for Papers - (dis)junctions 2014- April 11+12 UCR (dis)junctionsdisjunctions2014@gmail.com1389164712african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: UCR (dis)junctionscontact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  We are happy to begin accepting proposals for special sessions at this year's 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, on April 11-12, 2014. (dis)junctions is the interdisciplinary conference hosted by the English graduate students at UC Riverside, and is designed as a friendly forum for graduate students of all levels to introduce their latest work. Annually, we bring together graduate student scholars from across disciplines, schools, states, and countries---last year we had 29 panels, with 97 presenters from 3 countries and 20 different stats. The theme of this year's conference, "Irreverent Readings," is geared specifically toward innovative projects working with materials, methodologies, and ideas which are not necessarily canonical, mainstream, popular, or even all that respected. We invite your radical ideas, subversive arguments, contrary views, renegade theories, and irreverent readings. This year, the (dis)junctions will host 2 keynote speakers: Virginia Jackson, UCI Chair of Rhetoric, from the Univeristy of California, Irvine; and Constance Penley, Professor of Film and Media Studies and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

  (dis)junctions 2014 will be a place to try out the new, to resist the powerful, to generate the future of scholarship. Students working in underrepresented areas or with non-canonical texts are especially encouraged to apply. Don't stand on the shoulders of giants; tip those giants over and see what they were standing on. Eat your (theoretical) parents! While a broad array of time periods, approaches and subjects are represented at our conference, we have a particular strength in book history, archive, manuscript, and material culture studies, as well as science fiction and technoculture studies.

  We welcome special sessions from a wide array of fields, approaches, and disciplines, but encourage CFPs to engage with the conference theme in some way. To allow scholars engagement in their field of interest, panel proposers are not restricted to moderate their panel, if they would instead like to participate (though, moderating is also an option). More information is available at at www.disjunctions2014.org. To submit a call for papers, please send a 250-300 page proposal via the submission form at www.disjunctions2014.org/submit no later than February 10th, 2013.

  We welcome submissions in all areas, including but not limited to:
  African American Literature, Diaspora, and Black Studies
  American Literature and Culture after 1900
  American Literature and Culture before 1900
  Autobiographical Literature
  Book, Archive, Manuscript, and Material Culture Studies
  British Literature and Culture after 1900
  Celebrity Studies
  Chicana/o and Latina/o Literature and Culture
  Children's Literature
  Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, and Globalization
  Digital Humanities
  Early Modern Literature and Culture
  Eighteenth-century Literature and Culture
  Embodiment
  Film and Visual Studies
  Gender and Sexuality Studies
  History
  Literature and Medicine
  Medieval Literature and Culture
  Native American Literature and Culture
  Poetry and Poetics
  Queer and LGBTI Studies
  Religious Studies
  Rhetoric and Composition
  Romantic Literature and Culture
  Science Fiction Studies
  Victorian Literature and Culture

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 547923rd Global Conference: The Graphic Novel (September 2014: Oxford, United Kingdom)Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Netgn3@inter-disciplinary.net1389168117african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Netcontact email: gn3@inter-disciplinary.net

  3rd Global Conference: The Graphic Novel

  Wednesday 3rd September – Friday 5th September 2014
  Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

  Call for Presentations

  "Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof."
  (Alan Moore, V for Vendetta)

  This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues in and around the production, creation and reading of all forms of comics and graphic novels. Taken as a form of pictographic narrative it has been with us since the first cave paintings and even in the 21st century remains a hugely popular, vibrant and culturally relevant means of communication whether expressed as sequential art, graphic literature, bandes dessinees, tebeos, fumetti, manga, manhwa, komiks, strips, historietas, quadrinhos, beeldverhalen, or just plain old comics. (as noted by Paul Gravett)

  Whilst the form itself became established in the 19th Century it is perhaps not until the 20th century that comic book heroes like Superman (who has been around since 1938) became, not just beloved characters, but national icons. With the globalisation of publishing brands such as Marvel and DC it is no accident that there has been an increase in graphic novel adaptations and their associated merchandising. Movies such as X-men, Iron man, Watchmen and the recent Thor have grossed millions of dollars across the world and many television series have been continued off-screen in the graphic form, Buffy, Firefly and Farscape to name a few.

  Of course America and Europe is not the only base of this art form and the Far East and Japan have their own traditions as well as a huge influence on graphic representations across the globe. In particular Japanese manga has influenced comics in Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, France and the United States, and have created an amazing array of reflexive appropriations and re-appropriations, in not just in comics but in anime as well.

  Of equal importance in this growth and relevance of the graphic novel are the smaller and independent publishers that have produced influential works such as Maus by Art Spiegleman, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Palestine by Joe Sacco, Epileptic by David B and even Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware that explore, often on a personal level, contemporary concerns such as gender, diaspora, post-colonialism, sexuality, globalisation and approaches to health, terror and identity. Further to this the techniques and styles of the graphic novel have taken further form online creating entirely web-comics and hypertexts, as in John Cei Douglas' Lost and Found and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, as well as forming part of larger trans-media narratives and submersive worlds, as in the True Blood franchise that invites fans to enter and participate in constructing a narrative in many varied formats and locations.

  This projects invites papers that consider the place of the comic or graphic novel in both history and location and the ways that it appropriates and is appropriated by other media in the enactment of individual, social and cultural identity.

  Presentations, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to (but not limited to) the following themes:

  1)Just what makes a Graphic Novel so Graphic and so Novel?:
  ~Sources, early representations and historical contexts of the form.
  ~Landmarks in development, format and narratology.
  ~Cartoons, comics, graphic novels and artists books.
  ~Words, images, texture and colour and what makes a GN
  ~Format, layout, speech bubbles and "where the *@#% do we go from here?"

  2)The Inner and Outer Worlds of the Graphic Novel:
  ~Outer and Inner spaces; Thoughts, cities, and galaxies and other representations of graphic place and space.
  ~Differing temporalities, Chronotopes and "time flies": Intertextuality, editing and the nature of Graphic and/or Deleuzian time.
  ~Graphic Superstars and Words versus Pictures: Alan Moore v Dave Gibbons (Watchmen) Neil Gaiman v Jack Kirby (Sandman).
  ~Performance and performativity of, in and around graphic representations.
  ~Transcriptions and translations: literature into pictures, films into novels and high/low graphic arts.

  3)Identity, Meanings and Otherness:
  ~GN as autobiography, witnessing, diary and narrative
  ~Representations of disability, illness, coping and normality
  ~Cultural appropriations, east to west and globalisation
  ~National identity, cultural icons and stereo-typical villains
  ~Immigration, postcolonial and stories of exile
  ~Representing gender, sexualities and non-normative identities.
  ~Politics, prejudices and polemics: banned, censored and comix that are just plain wrong"
  ~Other cultures, other voices, other words

  4)To Infinity and Beyond: The Graphic Novel in the 21st Century:
  ~Fanzines and Slash-mags: individual identity through appropriation.
  ~Creator and Created: Interactions and interpolations between authors and audience.
  ~Hypertext, Multiple formats and inter-active narratives.
  ~Cross media appropriation, GN into film, gaming and merchandisng and vice versa
  ~Graphic Myths and visions of the future: Sandman, Hellboy, Ghost in the Shell.
  ~Restarting the Canon: what are the implication of the restart in universes such as Marcel and DC and do they represent the opportunity to reopen ongoing conversations?

  Presentations will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes.

  In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups – and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between The Graphic Novel and Augmentation.

  What to Send:
  300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

  a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
  E-mails should be entitled: GN3 Abstract Submission

  Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

  Organising Chairs
  Nadine Farghaly: Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net
  Rob Fisher:gn3@inter-disciplinary.net

  The conference is part of the Education Hub series of research projects, which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and challenging. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.

  Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation.

  For further details of the conference, please visit:
  http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/the-graphic...

  Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54793International Conference ICT for Language LearningPixelconference@pixel-online.net1389168940bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureinterdisciplinarypoetryrhetoric_and_compositiontheoryfull name / name of organization: Pixelcontact email: conference@pixel-online.net

  The 7th edition of the "ICT for Language Learning" Conference will take place in Florence, (Italy), on 13 – 14 November 2014.
  The objective of the ICT for Language Learning conference is to promote the sharing of good practice and transnational cooperation in the field of the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to Language Learning and Teaching. The ICT for Language Learning conference will also be an excellent opportunity for the presentation of previous and current language learning projects and innovative initiatives.

  The ICT for Language Learning conference focuses on the following topics:
  • ICT based language teaching and learning approaches
  • E-learning solutions for language teaching and learning
  • Quality and innovation in language teaching and learning
  • Monitoring and evaluation of language teaching and learning
  • Recognition and validation of language skills
  • Language teacher training
  • Language learning to support international Mobility
  • Multilingualism
  • Language learning for specific purposes
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • CLIL, Content and Language Integrated Learning
  • The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)
  • The European Language Label for the promotion of quality in language learning

  The Call for Papers, within the ICT for Language Learning Conference, is addressed to language teachers and experts as well as to coordinators of language projects and initiatives.
  Experts in the field of language teaching and learning are invited to submit an abstract of a paper to be presented during the ICT for Language Learning conference. The abstract should be written in English (max 3000 characters space included) and sent via the Conference website (http://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL) no later than 14 July 2014.

  Important dates
  • 14 July 2014: Deadline for submitting abstracts
  • 28 July 2014: Notification of Acceptance / Rejection
  • 08 September 2014: Deadline for final submission of papers
  • 08 September 2014: Deadline for speakers registration
  • 13 – 14 November 2014: Dates of the conference

  There will be three presentation modalities: Oral and poster presentations (in-person) and virtual (for those who cannot attend in person)

  All the papers presented during the conference will be published on an ISBN publication.

  For further information, please contact us at the following address: conference@pixel-online.net or visit the ICT for Language Learning conference website: http://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL.

  cfp categories: bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureinterdisciplinarypoetryrhetoric_and_compositiontheory 547943rd Global Conference: Food (September 2014: Oxford, United Kingdom)Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Netfood3@inter-disciplinary.net1389175402african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Netcontact email: food3@inter-disciplinary.net

  3rd Global Conference: Food

  Monday 15th September – Wednesday 17th September 2014
  Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

  Call for Presentations
  'You are what you eat' is a saying that usually signifies the influence of diet on health and well-being. When we turn this adage around – 'What you eat is what you are' – we see more clearly the broader implications of our ways with food. Our history and culture as well as our economic and social circumstances determine, and in turn are reflected in, the nature of our food consumption. The same applies to our personal beliefs and predispositions. Eating is an everyday necessity – and yet there is an immense variety in the manner in which we nourish ourselves. Furthermore, mostly due to circumstances beyond our control, not all of us humans have access to adequate nutrition. It follows that eating requires our attention, one way or another, throughout our lives, pleasantly for some, and desperately for others. Indeed, it has been observed that in rich societies people obsess about food because they have too much, and in poor societies they think about it all the time because they have too little.

  The vicissitudes of consumption do not constitute the whole story about food. What ends up on the plate has usually arrived there after a long and complex journey – one which involves not only time and distance, but also a multitude of processes. The extent to which these are understood is by no means equal in all societies and cultures; some people live much closer to their food supply than others, and/or are more personally active in its production and preparation. Food is central to the economy of social systems at all levels; on global scale, food is deeply implicated in the overall economic and political circumstances of the contemporary world.

  The inter-disciplinary project seeks to open up a multi-faceted enquiry into the ways in which food and its consumption are enmeshed in all aspects of human existence. In particular, the project seeks to foster discussion about the way in which meaning is constructed via food practices. Certainly to-day there is no shortage of commentaries on this subject, both in the public arena and within academia, and there is broad recognition of the place of food in the globalised economy – as well as of its role in discourses about international inequalities, climate change and public health issues. A focus on the perceived problems of the day, however, often results in specific 'fields' of study where the high level of activity, productive though it is, may create barriers to an understanding of different perspectives. This project will provide a framework for a broadly based dialogue concerning food and eating, and the ways in which food practices both construct and are constructed by larger issues such as identity, community, culture, taste, etc. It is our hope that this will put forth a variety of matters to be considered at a number of levels and from many different points of view.

  Presentations, papers, performances, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on any issues related to the following themes:

  1) Representations of food and eating:
  - The histories of food; repasts of the past
  - Reflections of food and eating in literature
  - Food and the performing arts
  - Portrayals of consumption in visual culture
  - Food and the modern media
  - Food as metaphor

  2) Food and society:
  - Food at the interface with class and culture
  - The politics of food production and consumption
  - Food security: issues of quantity and quality
  - The industrialisation of food production and its counter-movements
  - 'Foodism': conspicuous consumption, or identity management?

  3) Food and existential matters:
  - Eating and evolution
  - Food and group identity: food as manifestation of cultural origins and influences
  - Food as transmigration, diaspora and de-colonialism
  - Food and ritual
  - Eating as a need and as a want: what is appetite?
  - Food and philosophy

  4) Eating and well-being:
  - Fearing food – fears and facts
  - Beliefs and controversies about food and wellness
  - Health, illness and food in medical discourses
  - The magic of food – ancient and modern; food as fetish
  - The role of 'expert' advice in eating practices
  - 'Diets' – disturbed eating patterns or rational action?

  5) Working with food:
  - Food production and provision; pleasures and problems
  - The restaurant: guests' perspective
  - Cooking and serving for customers
  - Being a chef: the reality and the mystique
  - Behind the counter of the gourmet store
  - The daily bread; making and baking

  The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.

  In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups – and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Fashion and Food.

  What to Send:
  300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

  a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
  E-mails should be entitled: FOOD3 Abstract Submission.

  Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

  Organising Chairs
  Nina Namaste: nnamaste@elon.edu
  Rob Fisher: food3@inter-disciplinary.net

  The conference is part of the Making Sense of: programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.

  Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation.

  For further details of the conference, please visit:
  http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of...

  Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54796Call for Papers: International Conference ICT for Language Learning, 7th edition Pixelconference@pixel-online.net1389177314childrens_literatureinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essayspoetrytheoryfull name / name of organization: Pixelcontact email: conference@pixel-online.net

  CALL FOR PAPERS - International Conference on New Technologies for Language Learning

  Experts, teachers, trainers and researchers in the field of language learning are invited to submit papers for the 6th edition of the ICT for Language Learning international conference which will take place in Florence (Italy) on 13 -14 November 2014.

  Deadline for submitting abstracts: 8 September 2014

  A ISBN publication with all accepted papers will be produced.

  Oral, poster and virtual presentations will be available.

  For further information, please visit the ICT for Language Learning conference website at: http://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL/

  cfp categories: childrens_literatureinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essayspoetrytheory 54797New Narratives of the Cold WarAgnieszka Soltysik Monnet, University of Lausanneagnieszka.soltysikmonnet@unil.ch1389184113americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, University of Lausannecontact email: agnieszka.soltysikmonnet@unil.ch

  In the year of the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall, this conference aims to bring together scholars of the Cold War to assess the state of the field and discuss new directions and recent developments. With the post-cold war availability of new archival sources and growing interest in cold war espionage, surveillance and counter-intelligence, the field is rife with opportunities for rethinking some of its stock narratives about Communism and anti-Communism in the twentieth century. To foster an interdisciplinary discussion of Cold War narratives broadly defined–stories, myths, histories, memoirs, interpretations, representations, fictions, state records, visual images--this conference welcomes scholars from a range of fields--history, politics, literature, cinema, media, gender studies and other areas of cultural inquiry. After two decades of hot wars in the Middle East, tensions between Russia and the US, and acute concerns about the power and reach of the post 9/11 national security state, participants may also explore how the Cold War and its legacy may continue to influence the contemporary world.

  Possible topics to be addressed include:

  •New perspectives emerging from recently opened archives
  •The Eastern European Cold War experience
  •Popular and middle-brow cultural responses to the Cold War
  •Changing narratives and views of the Cold War and/or its end
  •Gender and/or sexual politics of the Cold War
  •The Korean War
  •Third World contexts for Cold War dynamics
  •Transnational perspectives
  •The role played by racialism and/or Orientalism in Cold War cultural politics
  •New narratives about spies, agents of influence, double agents, etc.
  •The Cold War in film, then and now
  •The role of writers and artists in the Cold War
  •Cold War history from a post-9/11 perspective

  Venue: University of Lausanne, Switzerland

  Please send abstracts of 250 words and a C.V. to Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet by March 15, 2014: agnieszka.soltysikmonnet@unil.ch

  cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 54798International Gothic in the New-Liberal Age--edited volume Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, University of Lausanneagnieszka.soltysikmonnet@unil.ch & Linnie Blake <L.Blake@mmu.ac.uk>1389184690americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturefull name / name of organization: Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, University of Lausannecontact email: agnieszka.soltysikmonnet@unil.ch & Linnie Blake <L.Blake@mmu.ac.uk>

  The explosion of interest in the gothic in recent years has coincided with a number of seismic political changes that have reshaped the world as we know it: the fall of the communist bloc, the revolution in information and communication technologies, the emergence of biotechnologies, the proliferation of transnational corporations and, since 2001, the US-led 'War on Terror.' Each is itself underscored by the rise to global predominance of economic neo-liberalism.

  The proposed edited volume seeks to trace the ways in which Gothic texts have both represented and interrogated the global changes wrought by neo-liberal economics since the 1980s. We welcome papers that address themselves to:

  • Literature
  • Film & Television
  • Visual Cultures
  • Gaming
  • Music
  • Fan Cultures.

  Topics may include:
  • The monster and neo-liberal subjectivity: the zombie, ghost, vampire, werewolf, serial killer, etc .
  • The human: the neo-liberal body, the impact of biomedical science, the ethics of healthcare
  • The natural: our impact on the planet and the planet's response; fears of eco-apocalypse
  • Neo-liberal selfhood: gender, sexuality, ethnicity, age, class
  • Histories: of the gothic, gothic historiographies of the present and the future
  • The socius: population and migration, nationhood, the mass v the elite
  • The city: the new gothic metropolis, Green Zone/Red Zone, the refugee camp, the shanty town
  • War: the military-industrial complex, cyber-war, bio-war, the terrorist, the terrorist state
  • The internet & neo-liberal gothic culture; trans-national communications; fan cultures; online gothic gaming
  • The gothic dimensions of the shock doctrine

  Proposals of no more than 300 words and a short CV should be sent to L.blake@mmu.ac.uk and agnieszka.soltysikmonnet@unil.ch by 30 January 2014.

  cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culture 54799The Poetics of Space in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Culture.Centre for Studies in Literature, University of Portsmouthcslpgconf@port.ac.uk1389185835film_and_televisioninterdisciplinaryscience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Centre for Studies in Literature, University of Portsmouthcontact email: cslpgconf@port.ac.uk

  Thursday 29th May 2014

  The Poetics of Space in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Culture.

  Keynote Speaker: Professor Ben Highmore (Sussex)

  In The Poetics of Space (1958), Gaston Bachelard asserts that 'setting' is more than 'scene' in works of art; that it is often the armature around which the work revolves. At this conference we will examine what happens within the cultural space and assess its relationship with place. We aim to investigate the physical and conceptual boundaries of the artistic form and determine where art and literature takes place. This conference seeks postgraduate researchers who are exploring the significant and dynamic relationships between the co-ordinates of space, place, movement and thought in twentieth and twenty-first century culture. In addition to work questioning aesthetic and fictional constructions of space in literature and literature in space, we also welcome papers that discuss how visual media challenge conventional uses of space and manipulate our conceptions of inclusion and exclusion. This conference encourages papers that approach the text from inside and outside challenging traditional disciplinary boundaries.
  We invite submissions of 250 word abstracts for original academic papers of twenty minutes on the conference theme. We encourage participation from graduate students of any discipline, including but not limited to literature, film studies, visual culture, gender studies, and cultural studies. Topics might address but are not limited to:

  - Heterotopia and the Third Space
  - National boundaries & the formulation of national identities
  - Fantastic or otherworldly spaces
  - Gendered spaces: domestic space and female interiority
  - Designed spaces: architecture; the landscape of the city; maps and cartography
  - Imperialism, exploration, navigation, and colonization
  - Transgressive spaces and liminality
  - Materiality of the text
  - Sacred and religious spaces
  - Historical conceptions of space
  - Psychogeography
  - The aesthetics /theory of space: the 'spatial turn' in literature and cinema.

  Please send submissions and a brief bio to cslpgconf@port.ac.uk by 1st March 2014

  cfp categories: film_and_televisioninterdisciplinaryscience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 54800 8th Global Conference: Fear4, Horror & Terror: Rituals, Myths and Symbolism (September 2014: Oxford, United Kingdom)Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Netfht8@inter-disciplinary.net1389187702african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Netcontact email: fht8@inter-disciplinary.net

  8th Global Conference: Fear4, Horror & Terror: Rituals, Myths and Symbolism

  Thursday 11th September – Saturday 13th September 2014
  Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

  Call for Presentations
  Concepts of fear, horror and terror (FHT) increasingly pervade public discourse and popular culture. Countless urban myths and 'morality tales' told to us by friends, relatives and the mass media provide the foundations for how we understand and react to concepts of FHT. Central to these foundations are the myths, rituals, and symbols we use to communicate, activate, constrain and help overcome the effects and consequences of experiencing fear, horror and/or terror. Accordingly this year's inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary FHT conference seeks to examine and explore the role and consequences of feelings, attitudes and emotions related to FHT. We aim to draw out understandings and sense making in terms of our various myths, rituals and symbols in diverse cultural, organizational and behavioural forms.

  We invite proposals on any area related to the conference purpose. We encourage creative and challenging presentations. That is, in addition to academic analysis, we welcome practitioner case studies or other approaches, such as people in religious environments, therapists, and victims/survivors of events that have been provoked by FHT. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary research that crosses divides such as law enforcement, medical, teaching, artistic environments and/or fiction writers whose work aims to evoke these reactions.

  Presentations, papers, performances, reports, work-in-progress, panels and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes and related areas:

  1) Myths, Ritual, Symbolism and Fear, Horror and Terror:
  - the relationship between myth, culture and literature
  - mythologies/ideologies
  - myth and ritual paradigms (e.g creation, fertility, deliverance, hero or chaos)
  - sacred v profane, or individual v. collective or inclusion v. exclusion or stabilizing v. innovative rituals
  - practice and the transformative role of rituals
  - symbols, motifs and semiotics
  - organisational, behavioural and cultural symbolism

  2) About Fear, Horror and Terror:
  - narratives, definitions, interdisciplinary studies, cross cultural comparisons
  - comparison with other emotions/experiences
  - institutions, constructions, and deconstructions
  - academic theories

  3) Contexts of Fear, Horror and Terror:
  - case studies
  - professionals and the public dealing with the fear, horror and/terror, e.g. therapists, clergy, lawyers, law enforcement, policy makers, government policy, accounting , human resources, technology, etc.
  - the properties, language, meaning or significance
  - crime, and punishment

  4) At the Interface of Fear, Horror and Terror:
  - the role of fear, horror and terror
  - emotional releases (pleasant or negative) achieved by fear, horror and terror
  - techniques, marketing, consumption and management
  - recreational or aesthetic
  - the temperature, sound, smell, sight or feel of fear, horror and terror
  - silence as a strategic subversion
  - fear, horror and terror and the visible/invisible

  5) Representations of Fear, Horror and Terror:
  - the imagination, the gothic and science fiction
  - images, cinema, television, theatre, the fourth estate and the creative arts
  - survival horror video games
  - literature (including children's stories, and graphic novels)
  - the other and purity
  - hope and despair
  - trauma, anxiety, disgust, dread, loathing, danger
  - hope and the future
  - awe, terror and the sublime or uncanny

  6) Relationships with Fear, Horror and Terror:
  - use of space, place, architecture and tools in outer space or rural/urban settings
  - ceremonies, performances in everyday life, fiction, art
  - war, militarisation, weapons, engineering and technology

  Proposals will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes.

  In order to support and encourage inter-disciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups – and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Fear, Horror and Terror and Multiculturalism.

  What to Send:
  300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

  a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
  E-mails should be entitled: FHT8 Abstract Submission

  Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

  Organising Chairs
  Shona Hill & Shilinka Smith: shs@inter-disciplinary.net
  Rob Fisher: fht8@inter-disciplinary.net

  The conference is part of the 'At the Interface' series of research projects. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.

  Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation.

  For further details of the conference, please visit:
  http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/fear-horror-terr...

  Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54801Symposium on David Mitchell - 9 May 2014, LondonNew York University in London and Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writingch126@nyu.edu and wendy.knepper@brunel.ac.uk1389188611international_conferencespostcolonialscience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: New York University in London and Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writingcontact email: ch126@nyu.edu and wendy.knepper@brunel.ac.uk

  Deadline for Abstracts: 14 February 2014

  Hosted by New York University in London and Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing

  With the publication of Ghostwritten (1999), winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize David Mitchell quickly established himself as a leading British and world author. Having achieved both popular and critical success, Mitchell's oeuvre is often celebrated for its distinctive vision of cosmopolitanism, remediation of genre(s), and relationship to postmodern, posthuman, and postcolonial discourses. This one-day symposium seeks to expand our understanding of Mitchell's work by considering all aspects of Mitchell's literary and cultural output, including fiction, cinematic adaptation, opera, and the relation between text and image.

  This event welcomes papers on topics such as the following: empire, globalization and the global imaginary, high and low genres, biopolitics, gender and sexuality, (dis)ability, translation and/or cross-cultural dynamics, world literary circulations and mappings, embodiment; popular culture, (non-)citizenship and/or biopolitics, international security concerns, terror, experimental poetics, literature and science, transgender and queer readings, literary genealogies and influences, world building, adaptation, multimodal writing, ageing, and world-systems approaches. Plans for the publication of revised and expanded papers will be circulated at the event.

  Location: The Symposium will take place on 9 May, 2014 at New York University's London campus, located in Bedford Square, Bloomsbury.

  Abstracts: Please email 250-word abstracts and short biographical statements by 14 February to Courtney Hopf at ch126@nyu.edu and Wendy Knepper at wendy.knepper@brunel.ac.uk.

  cfp categories: international_conferencespostcolonialscience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 54802Writing the Future: Science Fiction and Fantasy Narratives in the Twenty-First Century. 16 July 2014: Brunel University, LondonJoseph Norman/ Brunel University, Londonjoseph.norman@brunel.ac.uk1389191517film_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinternational_conferencespopular_culturescience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Joseph Norman/ Brunel University, Londoncontact email: joseph.norman@brunel.ac.uk

  When:16th July 2014
  Where: Artaud Building, Brunel University, London, United Kingdom.
  Who: Organised by the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing (BCCW) and the Faeries & Flying Saucers Research Cluster

  SF and fantasy have existed as modern genres since the late nineteenth century but have generally been grouped in with the categories of low or popular culture until recently. During that period, a sharp distinction developed in SF criticism (Suvin,
  Jameson) between SF as progressive and fantasy as reactionary.
  However, many of the postwar writers who are now considered canonical such as Brian Aldiss, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Philip K Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, M. John Harrisson, Robert Holdstock, Michael Moorcock, Christopher Priest, Keith Roberts, Joanna Russ and Gene Wolfe have either written works in both genres or works that may be considered a blend of both. Since the millennium, both the general status of SF&F has risen and the tendency of authors to combine elements of the genres in single works. One such author,China Miéville, has vigorously challenged the old Suvinian critical orthodoxy in his afterword to Red Planets(2009).

  In the process of questioning the over-privileging of utopian fiction in academic criticism, Miéville argues that utopias are 'specific articulations of alterity and that it is of that that SF/fantasy is the literature'. The fact that he uses this formulation rather than the more prosaic 'SF and fantasy' suggests the idea that placing the two genres side by side in a kind of Žižekian parallax gap is a viable model for charting a radical alterity that can't otherwise be easily represented. This would certainly seem to account for Miéville's own practice
  in texts such as Perdido Street Station(2000), The City and the City (2009) and Kraken(2010). A similar blend of SF/fantasy is present in other British writers who have come to prominence since the millennium such as, for example, Justina Robson,Steph Swainston and Richard Morgan. Moreover, versions of this parallax are also present in the recent work of more established authors such as Iain M. Banks's Matter (2008) and Gwyneth Jones's Bold as Love sequence (2001-2006), and there are comparable US examples, making it a distinctive and significant contemporary phenomenon worthy of critical attention and investigation. SF/fantasy is also present in other media–particularly film/tv from Buffy to Dr Who but also in comic books and graphic novels following in the tradition of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Neil Gaiman's The Sandman.

  This Conference is interested in exploring what has changed in recent years to both dramatically increase the status of SF&F in general (with the former gaining critical respect and
  the latter increased sales and imprints) and promote the combination of the two in Miéville-style SF/F.

  It has become a truism that,in the wake of 9/11 and the global economic crash of 2007/8, we now live in an age of uncertainty. Whatever conservative impulses this might impart to society at large, there is an increasingly significant strand of contemporary literature and culture–ranging from the work of
  writers more associated with genre fiction such as Charles Stross, through those with feet in both mainstream and speculative camps such as Margaret Atwood, to mainstream literary figures such as Zadie Smith (currently writing a speculative fiction novel) – that seeks to embrace the alternative futures opened up by such uncertainty. Is it the case that where once we feared change, now we fear not changing and evolving to meet the challenge of 'interesting times'?
  While in the past, much SF&F might be seen to have pandered to fear of the future by substituting 'licensed fantasies' for deeper explorations of radical and disturbing possibilities submerged in the unconscious, what was lost in that process was the radical freedom that Źiźek has argued resides in the gap between what we consciously think we fantasise about and what we really fantasise about.

  Is the reason for the increased popularity and status of SF/F, and even its actual existence, due to its capacity to extrapolate ambiguous but strangely attractive futures from the radical indeterminacy attendant to the fantasy gap?

  This conference calls for proposal for 20 minute papers, or themed panels of 3 papers, that address some of the questions, or the general context, mapped out above, or,indeed, papers or panels with a different take on the current status and significance of contemporary SF&F.

  Papers or panels addressing the convergence of Fantasy and SF
  are particularly welcome.

  300 word abstracts, along with a 4-line bio and institutional affiliation (if any),should be submitted to Nick Hubble (Nick.Hubble@brunel.ac.uk) by midnight Sunday 2nd March 2014.

  Panel proposals should include an additional 2-300 word introduction. Discussions are on-going with a leading academic publisher concerning an edited collection.

  For more information about Faeries and Flying Saucers, and for updates on the Event, please visit our Facebook page:
  https://www.facebook.com/faeriesandflyingsaucers

  Conference Organisers: Emma Filtness, Nick Hubble, Joseph Norman, Philip Tew

  cfp categories: film_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinternational_conferencespopular_culturescience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54803[UPDATE] Reminder: Updike and the Short Story at ALA 2014John Updike Society Panel at ALA 2014sdill@email.unc.edu1389192722americangender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementspopular_culturereligiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: John Updike Society Panel at ALA 2014contact email: sdill@email.unc.edu

  In the wake of the Library of America's publication of John Updike's Collected Stories, the John Updike Society invites paper proposals considering his work as a short story writer. Many of his stories contain protagonists that could be stand-ins for their author. What kinds of insights do they provide concerning Updike's unique relation to his milieu? To the natural world or other works of art? What about other short story writers? Has his work as a short story writer impacted the genre—or did the short story's generic conventions leave its mark on his writing in other genres? Is there a structural, thematic, or theoretical consistency that emerges in the art of his short story writing? The panel welcomes papers that address these and any other aspects of Updike's short stories.

  Please send your 250 word proposal and a brief CV to Scott Dill at sdill@email.unc.edu by January 15th, 2014.

  cfp categories: americangender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementspopular_culturereligiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54804SPACES OF DIALOGUE: I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TRANSATLANTIC LITERATURE April 24th – 25th 2013Real Colegio Complutense at Harvardtransatlanticlit2014@gmail.com1389193530african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesfull name / name of organization: Real Colegio Complutense at Harvardcontact email: transatlanticlit2014@gmail.com

  SPACES OF DIALOGUE:
  I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TRANSATLANTIC LITERATURE
  April 24th – 25th 2013
  Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard (Cambridge, MA)

  Space and how the human experience revolves around it has been one of the common tropes of literature. No matter the nature of the written or oral text, the common frame has been the interaction between men and women locked up within a frame – be that domestic, work, or even natural – in which and/or against which the self is defined. These surroundings have greatly influenced the literary work, erecting boundaries or liberating it through the creation of new fantastic spaces. However, with the discovery of the New World, these boundaries got broader, as the literary minds of the Old World were able to see what was before deemed impossible. Nevertheless, these two spheres, new and old, grew distant as their experiences diverged one from the other. Even though related, they were different. Today, in a world in which both sides of the Atlantic can be reached with the click of a mouse, we must ponder on what our interactions within our space mean to the other. It is no longer a separate world but one in which both sides of the ocean need to acknowledge and assimilate each other's experience.

  The aim of this conference is to revise, revisit and question the meaning and cultural impact of such spaces and the physical, psychological and aesthetic distance between them. Through the lens of comparative literature, this conference attempts to bring together scholars (post-docs, PhD candidates, graduate and undergraduate students, independent scholars) working on American, Latin American, South American and/or European (Spanish, British, etc.) literary studies so as to delve into the complexities of spatial constructions and depictions within the written piece. Such mapping of the cultural spectrum will slowly build bridges between the two sides of the Atlantic experience by focusing on those characteristics that bring us together and learning from those that brought us apart.

  Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

  - The public space from a transatlantic literary perspective
  - The domestic sphere in transatlantic literatures and the cultural gendering of spaces
  - Natural and wilderness spaces in transatlantic literature. Preservation and cultural identity and the domestication of the wilderness
  - Comparative approaches to the theater stage and/or spaces for entertainment and/or interaction with an audience
  - The work space and/or the educational space in transatlantic literature and the cross-cultural labor experience
  - Racialized spaces in transatlantic literature. Marginal and demographic boundaries between races and ethnicities and the possibility of miscegenation
  - Spaces of encounter with of the 'other' (the racial 'other', the animal 'other', the sexual 'other,' etc.).
  - Mirroring battles: spaces of war and/or violence in transatlantic literature
  - Cyber and online spaces in contemporary transatlantic literature
  - The communal and/or familial space versus the individualistic space in transatlantic literature
  - Transatlantic utopias and dystopias
  - Adaptations and visions of Eurocentric spaces, topographic tropes and symbols, and institutions at the other side of the Atlantic.
  - The transatlantic literary imaginarium: spaces shaped through memory, fantastic spaces and spaces of magical realism
  - Topographies of realism and naturalism in transatlantic literatures
  - Sites of terror in transatlantic literature
  - Spaces of production and consumption in transatlantic literature
  - Wastelands across the Atlantic
  - The body as space in transatlantic literatures
  - Postmodern spaces in transatlantic literatures: defying continental and national boundaries through the blurring of aesthetic and literary genres
  - Visualizing representations: comparative analyses of illustrations, photos and/or engravings of spaces in transatlantic texts (newspapers, magazines, children's and young adults' literature, etc.)
  - The sensuous space: discourse analysis and formalistic analysis of metaphors, tropes and motifs used in transatlantic literature to sensuously enliven or deaden spaces

  The conference will be held on April 24th and 25th at the Real Colegio Completense at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts thanks to this institution and the Franklin Institute at the University of Alcalá (UAH). The official conference language will be English.

  KEYWORDS: Literature, Spanish literature, Latino literature, Anglo-American literature, American studies, Latino studies, Spanish studies, Space

  ABSTRACT INSTRUCTIONS

  Please fill out the ABSTRACT form and send to transatlanticlit2014@gmail.com.You can download the Abstract Form here: http://rcc.harvard.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/ABSTRACT_FORMS.pdf

  Abstracts must be submitted before February 28th at midnight – United States EST.
  Abstracts must be between 300 and 350 words. A brief bio note of approximately 150-200 words must be included.

  Formats for sessions: a) 20-minute individual paper; b) Chaired panels with three participants; c) Round tables

  The Scientific Committee will notify applicants about the selection of submissions no later than March 15, 2014.

  REGISTRATION

  Speakers and attendants must pay a registration fee:

  Speakers:
  - Before April 1st, 2014: $80
  - After April 1st, 2014: $100

  Attendants: $15

  Payment Details for "Spaces of Dialogue" can be done through direct deposit to the following account or check:

  Real Colegio Complutense, Inc
  Account Number: 004614155363
  Bank of America
  100 Federal Street, Boston, MA 02110
  SWIFT: BOFAUS3N, ABA: 011000138, WIRE: 026009593

  To complete the registration, send a copy of the bank statement to: transatlanticlit2014@gmail.com. The email must be titled REGISTRATION + NAME + LAST NAME of the speaker/participant.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferences 54806Abortion: The Unfinished RevolutionShannon Stettner, Tracy Penny Light, Colleen MacQuarrieabortionpei@gmail.com1389198957cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Shannon Stettner, Tracy Penny Light, Colleen MacQuarriecontact email: abortionpei@gmail.com

  Call for Papers: Abortion: The Unfinished Revolution

  Conference: August 7-8, 2014 at the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada

  In recent years, there have been numerous attempts worldwide to limit women's access to safe abortion. In 2012, an anti-abortion bill in the Canadian parliament that purportedly aimed to open a discussion on "when life begins" was interpreted as an attack on abortion rights and was defeated by Members of Parliament in a vote of 203 to 91. In Ireland that same year, Savita Halappanavar was denied an abortion, even though she was miscarrying the fetus. Her subsequent death sparked international outrage and renewed calls to relax abortion restrictions in that country. In Texas in 2013, despite an inspiring eleven-hour filibuster by Senator Wendy Davis, Democrats ultimately failed to block stringent new restrictions on abortion availability in that state. Meanwhile, the Mexico City Policy continues to affect the abortion experiences of women throughout the world. Thus, in spite of the many gains that have been made in women's rights since the mid-twentieth century, reproductive autonomy continues to elude women in many countries around the world. Even in Canada, where there is no federal abortion law and abortion is regulated like any other medical procedure, there is tremendous disparity in access to abortion services across the country. For example, Prince Edward Island is touted by the Canadian anti-abortion movement as being a "life sanctuary" since it eliminated access to safe surgical abortions in 1986, a point that was a focus of that movement's national conference in 2013. Attendees are invited to PEI to reflect on the status of abortion internationally.

  This interdisciplinary conference invites proposals on all aspects of abortion. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  -Abortion rights activism and reproductive justice
  -Barriers to abortion access
  -Lived experiences of abortion
  -Shifting (historical/political) meanings of abortion
  -The place of women in abortion politics/history
  -Historical constructions of the fetus
  -The role of the state in abortion politics
  - The role of the medical profession in abortion politics
  -The influence of medical advancements on abortion politics/history
  -Abortion and sexuality
  -Abortion in the classroom: pedagogy and politics

  Those interested in presenting should submit a 250-word abstract, along with a one-page CV, to the conference organizers at: abortionpei@gmail.com. Panel presentations will also be accepted. Proposals are due by January 31, 2014. Attendees invited to present will be notified no later than February 15, 2014.

  Conference organizers:

  Dr. Colleen MacQuarrie
  University of Prince Edward Island

  Dr. Tracy Penny Light
  University of Waterloo

  Dr. Shannon Stettner
  York University

  cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 5480717th Annual C.S. Lewis and the Inklings Conference, April 3-5, 2014CSLIS Conference: "A Culture of Death? Inklings and Modernity"mmuth@wesleyancollege.edu1389202931graduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespopular_culturereligiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: CSLIS Conference: "A Culture of Death? Inklings and Modernity"contact email: mmuth@wesleyancollege.edu

  Conference Theme: A Culture of Death? Inklings and Modernity

  Keynote speaker: David Bentley Hart, Winner of the Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing, 2011

  April 3-5, 2014
  Wesleyan College
  Macon, GA

  The Inklings were situated squarely in the modern world, but were deeply disturbed by many aspects of it. This year's conference seeks to explore issues that arise from the ambiguities and ambivalences of their temporal placement. Topics include:

  • The Inklings' relation to the modern (modern styles in literature, literary criticism, politics, ethics, theology, philosophy, etc.)
  • The Inklings' critiques of modernity (what are these critiques? How successful are they?)
  • The Inklings' relation to the pre-modern (the classical world, the middle ages, etc.)
  • The Inklings' relation to postmodern or "post-secular" thought (Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair MacIntyre, John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, David Bentley Hart, etc.)
  • Issues in their writings concerning life and death (either physical or spiritual)
  • Issues concerning peace and violence

  Papers on the above theme related to the works of C.S. Lewis, the Inklings, George MacDonald, and Dorothy L. Sayers are invited. However, papers on other subjects related to the above authors will also be considered.

  All presenters must be members of the C.S. Lewis and the Inklings Society (CSLIS). Membership forms can be downloaded at http://www.oru.edu/academics/resources/cs_lewis/. There will be a competition with monetary awards for the best undergraduate, graduate, and faculty/scholar papers.

  Conference registration forms and information will be available on the Events page of Wesleyan's website (http://www.wesleyancollege.edu/community/artsandintertainment.cfm).

  Please submit a one-page abstract or a full paper by January 30th, 2014. Papers should be 8-10 pages (double-spaced, 12 point font). To insure prompt notification, please include your e-mail on your submission. If you are willing to chair a section, please note this at the top of your abstract/paper. Participants will be held to a twenty-minute presentation limit.

  Please send all abstracts/papers to: Dr. Michael P. Muth. Email: mmuth@wesleyancollege.edu
  Address: Wesleyan College, 4760 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA 31210

  If you would like your paper to be considered for the competition, please send the full paper by January 30th, 2014, to Dr. Salwa Khoddam, skhoddam@cox.net, as well as to Dr. Muth. Papers for the competition should be written according to the MLA Style Manual with in-text citations and a Works Cited page. They should be well-researched and have original theses. The names of the authors, their email addresses, and their affiliations should be on a separate sheet for blind review.

  cfp categories: graduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespopular_culturereligiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54808April 5, 2014 - Digital Utopias: Literary Space(s) in the Digital Age University of Texas at Arlington Graduate English Conferencedigtialutopia2014@gmail.com 1389210093graduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: University of Texas at Arlington Graduate English Conferencecontact email: digtialutopia2014@gmail.com

  Digital Utopias: Literary Space(s) in the Digital Age

  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Brian Greenspan, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada)
  - Brian Greenspan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University. He is the founding Director of the Hyperlab, a Digital Humanities research centre, and inventor of the StoryTrek locative media authorware for games, interactive stories, and historical simulations. His research interests include utopian narratives, digital cultures, and the intersections between them.

  Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Roemer (UT Arlington), author of four books on utopia including Utopian Audiences and The Obsolete Necessity, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in American History. Dr. Roemer's topic: "The Absolute Truth about Utopia."
  Call for Papers

  Perhaps no recent "field" of English studies has gained more steam and momentum than digital humanities. Concurrent with our ever-increasing digital paradigm, the humanities have been enveloped into the mix. Texts are being created, published, and encountered in strictly digital formats. English courses are being taught—and taken—in completely online formats. And traditional critical approaches are shifting to cohere to our technology-saturated culture.

  While this shift towards digital humanities is seemingly necessary, we seek to ask certain questions about the nature of this shift and the ways in which more traditional approaches to literature, composition, and pedagogy can coexist with and survive among these new trends. Specific questions include: What effects does the shift toward digital humanities have on the texts being produced and on a reader's experience with said texts? Are digital texts a pathway to a "utopian" reading experience, in which readers are able to have all tools and resources available as they read? Or do digital texts and classrooms somehow hinder individual experiences with the humanities? How exactly do the humanities exist in the digital age?

  Along with answers to these questions, possible topics and approaches include:
  - Digital text production and/or reading texts in digital formats
  - Authorship in the digital age
  - Digital humanities in the context of gaming
  - The literary space of social media
  - Digital humanities and pedagogy

  Along with these topics, we also welcome papers in all other traditional areas of study in literature, composition and rhetoric, and pedagogy. All genres, time periods, and areas of literary study are encouraged. We welcome traditional abstracts of 200-400 words, along with panel proposals—please include an abstract for the entire panel, along with brief explanations of the intended presentations. Please send abstracts (with the subject line "UTAEGC 2013"), along will all other inquiries, to the following email address:

  digitalutopia2014@gmail.com

  cfp categories: graduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54809CFP: Translation and Transcendence (due 15 February)Modern Horizons Journaleditors@modernhorizonsjournal.ca1389212044americanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespoetryreligionromantictheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Modern Horizons Journalcontact email: editors@modernhorizonsjournal.ca

  Modern Horizons CFP – Translation and Transcendence

  For the June 2014 issue of Modern Horizons we invite essays, in English or French, on the theme of 'Translation and Transcendence / La traduction et la transcendance'.

  Translation is prevalent in many aspects of life, whether one works between languages or across cultural divides. While recognizing that translation is often thought of as communication between languages, we wish to expand on this concept with the aim of addressing issues of identity, tradition, relationships, responsibility, and forms of culture. If translation happens each time something different, new, or unexpected is confronted or experienced, then it is basic to almost any register of human life. This issue will examine these ideas by considering translation alongside transcendence.

  Thinking translation and transcendence together is a neat idea. Since translation is literally a carrying across of meaning, transcendence is what makes this possible as it allows translation to be distinguished from mere imitation, formal repetition, or reproduction in other media. Thought of in this way, translation involves continuity and change, difference and sameness, because transcendence allows for the rejuvenation of ideas and experiences across change of context. Difference and sameness — continuity and change — are essentially related: we can only recognize either one through the presence of its counterpart. Translation therefore points to the importance of now, but is also a negation of the predominance of the present. Contextually present, translation denies narrow-minded and fundamentalist overemphasis of one's own time (and place), for it necessarily conjugates past with present, and in doing so prepares for a translated future.

  One may think of translation in terms of appropriation and completion. Translation as appropriation occurs when the Other is drawn into and becomes a part of our own ethos (our being, sensibility, or ethical disposition) and yet does not lose its own proper essence, its essential difference. In this sense appropriation is a form of relation, not dissolution. Translation as appropriation is the bringing into one's own of something that is strange, the bringing close of something distant, and the bringing into one's horizon of meaning something that is foreign. Translation as completion occurs when we recognize that the Other (text or person) must be read or heard in order for its meaning to be complete. This is not to say that meaning is finalized, but rather that nothing stands in a vacuum, and encounter and affirmation are essential to meaning.

  Possible essay topics may include, but are not limited to:

  - translation and justice
  - translation within tradition
  - translation and scripture/the sacred
  - translation as appropriation
  - translation as completion
  - translation and threats to integrity
  - translation and fragments/the fragmentary
  - translation, immanence, and transcendence
  - translation and hermeneutics
  - translation as response
  - translation as mimesis
  - translation and the question of origin
  - translation and authenticity
  - translation as dialogue
  - translation and the question of form
  - translation and fundamentalism
  - the question of untranslatability
  - the role of the translator today
  - the limits of literal translation
  - translation, metaphor, symbolism

  Accepted essays will be published in the journal Modern Horizons. Modern Horizons seeks to address, through examining a variety of ideas and artistic works, the endlessly open question of what is meaningful in what we are living.

  The name 'Modern Horizons' comes with two emphases in mind. We include the word 'modern' because we begin with the arts, thoughts, and experiences of our own time. There is an essentially ahistorical sense to our idea of 'modern,' as we seek to avoid questions of periodisation or ideas of historical necessity. Our second emphasis is on 'horizons,' in the hermeneutic sense of the meeting of disparate interpretations and vantage points through conversation. The notion of horizons is essential to our way of thinking because, from the perspective of our own time and place, we seek to examine and interrogate those inherited, negotiated, and created forms of art and thought which matter directly or indirectly for us, here and now. This thought will involve the ongoing effort to raise, engage with, rehabilitate, and think about ideas that have impact today as they shape and are shaped by us; to this end, we solicit contributions with an emphasis on engagement and insight—contributions whose aims reach beyond their pages.

  The essays published in Modern Horizons take the form of thinking in public; that is, we wish to serve as an outlet for thinking that bridges academic and non-academic subject-matter—not as essays tied finally to a particular text, but in the form of exploratory endeavours which may participate in an ongoing conversation about what it means to be human in this world. This aim will be echoed in papers that embody a deliberately essayistic form, whether personal, essential, critical, hermeneutic, or public.

  Each issue in Modern Horizons is theme based; these themes may be explored through essays on literature, philosophy, painting, music, architecture, or other forms of art. The freedom afforded by our non-affiliation with a specific academic institution is deliberate, as we desire to link public and academic worlds. This position allows us to explore ideas that are often neglected by academia or the public voice.
  Modern Horizons is a peer-reviewed journal and welcomes a variety of submissions: essays, dialogues, interviews, and critical-reviews, in either French or English.

  Submissions of approximately 1000-5000 words will be considered for publication. Please direct submissions to editors@modernhorizonsjournal.ca as an attachment in .doc format, following MLA style guidelines.

  Deadline for submissions is February 15, 2014.

  Modern Horizons
  modernhorizonsjournal.ca
  editors@modernhorizonsjournal.ca

  cfp categories: americanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespoetryreligionromantictheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54810[UPDATE] DUE 1/15 - 13th Annual North America Institute for Critical Animal Studies CFPInstitute for Critical Animal Studiesicasnorthamerica@gmail.com1389220710african-americanamericanecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheatretwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Institute for Critical Animal Studiescontact email: icasnorthamerica@gmail.com

  Information about the conference can be found at
  http://icasnorthamerica.wordpress.com/current-conference-2014/

  The 2014 North American Critical Animal Studies Conference invites papers, presentations, and workshops from scholars, activists, and artists working on ethical and political issues concerning nonhuman animals. This year's venue in Houston, Texas offers a unique opportunity to investigate the intersections of oppression in a locale where many of the pressing concerns about bioengineering, pollution, and animal experimentation are centered and present.

  Critical Animal Studies as a field has become a powerful canopy for many convergent arenas of thought, politics, scholarship, and activism. In partnership with the Rice Center for Critical and Cultural Theory, the conference will be housed in the BioScience Research Collaborative located in the Houston Medical Center adjacent to Rice University. The close proximity to the events and practices around which our academic fields of study center, will emphasize the immediacy and scope of the issues to be addressed.

  Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes in length. We are receptive to different and innovative formats including but not limited to panels and workshops. You may propose individual or group panel presentations, but please specify the structure of your proposal. Submit ~300-word proposals including your name(s), title, organizational affiliation, field of study or activism, and A/V needs to icasnorthamerica@gmail.com by January 15th.

  We welcome presentations from a variety of academic and non-academic fields, including but not limited to:

  Activism and advocacy
  Animal liberation
  Biopolitical thought
  Bioscience and biotechnology
  Critical legal studies
  Cultural studies
  Disability studies
  Ecology
  Ethics (applied / philosophical)
  Feminist theory
  Critical Race theory
  Film studies
  Political economy
  Postcolonial studies
  Queer theory

  For any questions concerning submission relevance, conference details, or in general feel free to e-mail us at icasnorthamerica@gmail.com. We are also interested in soliciting people who are interested in tabling during the conference. If interested please contact us. More information concerning tabling will be forthcoming.

  There is also a call for annual awards and scholars of the year. More information on that can be found at http://icasnorthamerica.wordpress.com/call-for-nominations-2014-internat...

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheatretwentieth_century_and_beyond 54811World War I: Dissent, Activism, & Transformation Georgian Court University / Peace History Societybennetts@georgian.edu1389227481african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetryreligionscience_and_culturetheatretwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Georgian Court University / Peace History Societycontact email: bennetts@georgian.edu

  Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, USA
  Friday / Saturday, October 17-18, 2014
  Co-Sponsored by Peace History Society

  The program committee invites paper proposals that focus on Dissent, Activism, & Transformation in the World War I Era. The First World War was a watershed event in modern world history and among the most significant events in the 20th century. The war triggered dissent and activism; and it had an impact on political activism, social reform, and cultural expression. In turn, these developments transformed society, politics, and culture. This conference will explore the themes of dissent, activism, and transformation during the war and the immediate postwar era.

  Keynote Speakers:
  • ADAM HOCHSCHILD, author of To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918.
  • HARRIET HYMAN ALONSO, author of Peace As a Women's Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement
  for World Peace and Women's Rights.

  For this interdisciplinary conference, we welcome paper and panel proposals from all scholarly disciplines. We also welcome panels dealing with teaching and pedagogy related to the conference theme. Proposals should be limited to one page and should explain the scholarly significance of the topic. With your proposal, submit a short CV (3 pp.). Please forward proposals for individual papers or panels by March 1, 2014 to Scott H. Bennett at:

  Paper topics might include:
  • Local, national, transnational, & global topics
  • Peace activism, antiwar dissent, & modern peace movements
  • Individuals, groups, governments, & institutions
  • Conscientious objection & conscription
  • Civil liberties in wartime
  • Cultural & intellectual movements (literature, poetry, art, music, philosophy, theology)
  • Social & political movements (social justice, reform, resistance, & revolution)
  • Dissent (social, political, cultural, intellectual, economic)
  • Opposition to dissent, peace activism, & social reform
  • Repression, loyalty & conformity
  • Impact of WWI on immediate postwar developments
  • Labor, race, & African American activism
  • Anti-colonial movements
  • Women's movement & activism
  • International law & treaties, postwar peace treaties, & economic consequences
  • New social, political, cultural, & intellectual trends & developments
  • How WWI transformed politics, society, & culture

  For more information, please visit the conference website at: http://www.georgian.edu/WWIconference.htm

  cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetryreligionscience_and_culturetheatretwentieth_century_and_beyond 54812"Reactions," Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal. Papers due Feb. 14, 2014Georgetown University English Graduate Student Associationmev37@georgetown.edu1389230375african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromantictheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Georgetown University English Graduate Student Associationcontact email: mev37@georgetown.edu

  Predicate
  Issue 4: Reactions
  Georgetown University
  Deadline for Papers: February 14, 2014

  predicate
  (n.) the part of a sentence or clause containing what is said about a subject
  (v.) to make an assertion; to postulate, suppose, assume

  Produced by the Georgetown University English Graduate Student Association, Predicate aims to establish a forum for graduate students to share their research and writing: a place to work with other developing scholars.

  For this year's issue, we invite submissions that investigate the act of reacting. What forms can a reaction take? How do time or historical context shape reactions to literature or events? How can a reaction impact the issue or event to which it responds? What motivates a reaction? Is reacting always a political act?

  We encourage papers from all humanities disciplines including, but not limited to,philosophy, history, art history, theology, literature, women's and gender studies, ethnic studies, and LGBTQ studies.

  Submissions should be sent as Word document email attachments to Maria Vrcek(mev37@georgetown.edu) no later than 11:59 p.m. on February 14, 2014. All submissions should utilize Chicago style citation. Please do not include your name in the text of the paper. In the body of your email, include your name, your program affiliation, the title of your paper, and the subject of your paper. Papers should not exceed 6,000 words. Authors will be notified of acceptance and, if appropriate, suggestions for revision by the middle of March.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromantictheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54813[UPDATE] Great Excursions: Travel and the Antebellum Literary ImaginationThe Catharine Maria Sedgwick SocietyJenifer_Elmore@pba.edu1389240191americanethnicity_and_national_identitytravel_writingfull name / name of organization: The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Societycontact email: Jenifer_Elmore@pba.edu

  Great Excursions:
  Travel and the Antebellum Literary Imagination
  A symposium sponsored by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society
  June 5-8, 2014
  Hilton St. Louis Downtown, St. Louis, MO
  Much of Catharine Sedgwick's writing features an excursion of some kind, but none as fantastic in both scale and scope as her "Great Excursion to the Falls of St. Anthony" in June 1854. In the span of 20 days, Sedgwick and approximately 1,000 other excursionists traveled 3,600 miles by rail and steamboat as guests of the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, the first railroad to reach the Mississippi River from the east coast. Participants traveled individually by train to convene in Chicago, continued west together by rail to Rock Island, Illinois, then north by steamboat toward the headwaters of the Mississippi—beyond St. Paul/Minneapolis to the "Falls of St. Anthony"—then headed downriver to St. Louis before returning to their (mostly) New England homes. The celebrity tour—comprised almost exclusively of northern men (with some women but very few southerners)—included notable politicians, historians, clergymen, scientists, doctors, bankers, publishers, and authors, including Caroline Kirkland and Elizabeth Oakes Smith.
  In her letter-cum-sketch "The Great Excursion to the Falls of St. Anthony," Sedgwick claimed that her 1854 adventure was "an illustration and proof of the advancement of true civilization." "Proof" to whom? What kind(s) of "advancement"? And what does she mean by "true civilization?" These questions prompt others: What about a journey is "worth" paying attention to and/or commemorating? How does travel change Sedgwick? What are her various purposes in writing about her travel or a particular destination? How does an excursion "transport" or "transform" her/her characters/her readers?
  In honor of Sedgwick's 225th birthday and her 1854 Midwestern trip (the farthest west she ever traveled), the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society will convene its 7th symposium in St. Louis, MO, June 5-8, 2014. The Society invites proposals that consider the work of Sedgwick (or one of her contemporaries with a direct link to Sedgwick) through the lens of the "excursion" broadly construed—literal or imaginary or stylistic "travel" away from, toward, or through any of topics addressed in her "Great Excursion" sketch or other works, such as:
  • the cultural significance of "great excursions"
  • travel literature/literal excursions and the picturesque
  • material culture, transportation, foodways, hospitality
  • fictional excursions
  • immigration, cultural and religious conversions
  • literary representations of the Midwest in Sedgwick's works
  • transatlantic travels and literary networks
  • reading/representing the landscape
  • the state of the union as reflected in narratives of travel
  • the role of historic sites, cemeteries, place names in commemoration and national identity
  • changing perspectives of slavery, gender roles, education, and the economy
  • pedagogical approaches/teaching "adventures" with Sedgwick or others

  Please e-mail proposals of no more than 250 words by Feb. 1, 2014, to Jenifer Elmore, CMSS Second Vice-President for Programs: Jenifer_Elmore@pba.edu

  cfp categories: americanethnicity_and_national_identitytravel_writing 54814Catharine Sedgwick in/and Washington, D.C.: A Roundtable Conversation (ALA conference)Catharine Maria Sedgwick SocietyJenifer_Elmore@pba.edu1389240445americanfull name / name of organization: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Societycontact email: Jenifer_Elmore@pba.edu

  At least once in her lifetime, Catharine Maria Sedgwick traveled to Washington D.C. During her first known trip to the capital in January 1831, she visited the Supreme Court and the legislature, and through family friend Vice Pres. Martin Van Buren met President Jackson. She spoke with Justice Joseph Story; Chief Justice John Marshall called on her; and she was appalled by the vehemence of the Southerners' debate in the legislature as the nullification crisis emerged. In later years she wrote to various politicians about current issues (including Cassius Clay regarding his anti-slavery scheme). Despite her ongoing interest in politics and legal issues—as early as age fourteen she joked with her father that she had "become quite a politician"—little has been said to date about her specific connections to the nation's capital. This roundtable seeks to launch a new conversation about Sedgwick's lifelong interest in government/legal issues, politics/political action, and writings (personal letters and/or publications), grounding our comments in primary sources and opening up new avenues for research.
  Please contact Jenifer Elmore (jenifer_elmore@pba.edu) and/or Lucinda Damon-Bach (ldamonbach@salemstate.edu) if you are interested in participating in this roundtable session, briefly describing your possible contribution, by January 25, 2014. (If 5 participants come forward, each would speak for approximately 7-8 minutes, in order to preserve a full 30 minutes of the session for whole-group discussion.) Any new work on Sedgwick's life or writing will be considered.

  cfp categories: american 54815The Poetry of D.A. Powell (MLA 2015, Vancouver)Tana Jean Welch, Florida State Universitytana.welch@med.fsu.edu1389241357americanecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualitypoetrytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Tana Jean Welch, Florida State Universitycontact email: tana.welch@med.fsu.edu

  Seeking papers on any aspect relating to the poet D.A. Powell for a Special Session at MLA 2015 in Vancouver.

  Topic suggestions include, but are not limited to:
  *Powell's place in the American poetic tradition
  *Powell's formal modes
  *ecocriticism/pastoral mode
  *poetry of illness
  *a critical study of a single collection
  *sexuality
  *Powell as a political poet

  Please submit an abstract and CV to Tana Jean Welch at tana.welch@med.fsu.edu by March 14, 2014.

  cfp categories: americanecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualitypoetrytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54816Referentiality and Intermediality in Woody Allen's Movies / Edited VolumeKlara Stephanie Szlezák, University of Regensburg; Dianah E. Wynter, California State University, Northridge woodyallen2015@gmail.com1389259543americanfilm_and_televisionpopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Klara Stephanie Szlezák, University of Regensburg; Dianah E. Wynter, California State University, Northridge contact email: woodyallen2015@gmail.com

  Without a doubt, Woody Allen counts among the most prolific filmmakers of the past few decades. The recent Woody Allen: A Documentary (2012) offered a broad retrospective on and paid homage to his biography and his multifaceted work, both of which have been subject to academic research. This essay collection aims to add to the existing scholarship on Woody Allen's movies, seeking contributions that explore the multiple instances of referentiality and intermediality in his films after 1980. The density of his films in terms of references, allusions, and quotations to other artists' works as well as to his own previous oeuvre has so far been neglected and deserves closer attention.

  The volume is scheduled to be published in 2015, the year of Allen's eightieth birthday.

  Please submit your abstract (max. 350 words) and a short bio by April 01, 2014 to: woodyallen2015@gmail.com

  cfp categories: americanfilm_and_televisionpopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 5482150 years of Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God: A panel/ symposium of the Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association UK 20Terri Ochiagha/African Studies Association UK/University of SussexT.Ochiagha@sussex.ac.uk1389270222international_conferencespostcolonialfull name / name of organization: Terri Ochiagha/African Studies Association UK/University of Sussexcontact email: T.Ochiagha@sussex.ac.uk

  Chinua Achebe's third novel, Arrow of God (1964)—of all his novels, the one he admitted he was most likely to be caught sitting down to read again—has been hailed by many as his most accomplished work. However, despite its pre-eminence in Achebe's canon, it has been generally overshadowed by the searing power of the canonicity, foundational status, and enduring influence of Things Fall Apart. To mark the novel's fiftieth anniversary, this panel seeks to reexamine the complexity and significance of Arrow of God. The convenor invites papers on any topic related to the novel. Possible topics include, but are in no way limited to:
  Arrow of God in dialogue with other texts.
  Humour, parody and irony in Arrow of God.
  Arrow of God and questions of gender.
  Comparative readings of Arrow of God with other African novels on the colonial theme.
  Colonial whiteness and counternarrativity in Arrow of God
  Teaching Arrow of God
  Translating Arrow of God
  Contemporary reader responses to Arrow of God.
  Arrow of God and pre-colonial Igbo artforms.
  Arrow of God and its dramatic adaptations.

  Presentations will last around twenty minutes, followed by discussion. Please send informal queries and abstracts of no more than 250 words and a brief bio, including contact information to T.Ochiagha@sussex.ac.uk . For further information, please visit http://www.asauk.net/conferences/asauk14.shtml. The call for papers for this panel closes on 1 April 2014.

  cfp categories: international_conferencespostcolonial 54822'I take thee at thy word': Trust in Renaissance LiteratureJoseph Sterrett / Aarhus Universityengjs@dac.au.dk1389290763interdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysreligionrenaissancescience_and_culturetheatrefull name / name of organization: Joseph Sterrett / Aarhus Universitycontact email: engjs@dac.au.dk

  What qualities compose trust and confidence in the Renaissance? What signs call it into question? This seminar seeks to identify points of congruence and contention in sixteenth and seventeenth century notions of trust and how they might be betrayed. From the stage Machiavel who discloses his plans to the audience to the kinsman who pledges his fealty, or the lover who exchanges his faithful vow, how did trust differ across such different domains as religious and political life or familial relations? It is hoped that papers will cross a range of genres including early modern poetry, prose, and drama, as well as major and minor authors. The intended outcome will be to publish suitable papers in a special issue of Textual Practice.

  This seminar will be part of the interdisciplinary MatchPoints Conference 2014 at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 22-24 May 2014 (www.matchpoints.au.dk). Plenary speakers include Robert Putnam (Harvard University), Eric Uslaner (University of Maryland), Gerd Achenbach (Lessing-Hochschule zu Berlin, Philosophische Praxis), Mikael Rostila (Stockholm University), Alison Findlay (Lancaster University), Svend Andersen (Aarhus University),Cheryl Mattingly (University of Southern California), Sverre Raffnsøe (Copenhagen Business School).

  Organised by Joseph Sterrett

  Please send 150 word proposals to engjs [at] hum.au.dk by 15 January 2014.

  cfp categories: interdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysreligionrenaissancescience_and_culturetheatre 54823[REPOST] 2014 International Conference on Virginia Woolf (June 5-8, 2014)International Conference on Virginia WoolfWoolf2014@niu.edu1389292769cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: International Conference on Virginia Woolfcontact email: Woolf2014@niu.edu

  The 24th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, co-sponsored by Loyola University Chicago and Northern Illinois University, will take place in Chicago, 5 – 8 June 2014. "Virginia Woolf: Writing the World" aims to address such themes as the creation of worlds through literary writing, Woolf's reception as a world writer, world wars and the centenary of the First World War, and myriad other topics.

  We invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops on any aspect of the conference theme from literary and interdisciplinary scholars, creative and performing artists, common readers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and teachers of Woolf at all levels. Possible themes include but are not limited to:

  Woolf as a world writer, including reception and/or influence of her work
  writing as world creation
  the globalization of Woolf studies
  feminist re-envisionings of the world
  lesbian, gay, and/or queer worlds
  living worlds
  natural worlds
  cosmology, physics, different kinds of worlds
  geography(y)(ies) and/or mapping the world
  "First" and "Third" worlds
  postcolonialism
  the centenary of World War I
  the World Wars
  peace, justice, war, and violence
  feminist writers of 1914 and/or suffragettes and WWI
  pacifist and conscientious objector movements
  class and/in Woolf's world(s)
  writing the working class
  socialists "righting" the world
  expatriate worlds
  artistic worlds
  inter-arts influences, including painting, cinema, music, and journalism
  the publishing world transnational modernisms and postmodernisms
  Woolf and/on international relations
  imperialism and anti-imperialism
  teaching Woolf in global contexts
  teaching Woolf outside of the traditional 4-year college classroom
  Woolf and the new global media
  Woolf and Chicago connections/reception

  For individual papers, send a 250-word proposal. For panels (three or four papers, please), send a proposed title for the panel and 250-word proposals for EACH paper. For roundtables and workshops, send a 250- to 500-word proposal and a brief biographical description of each participant. Because we will be using a blind submission process, please do not include your name(s) on your proposal. Instead, in your covering e-mail, please include your name(s), institutional affiliation (if any), paper and/or session title(s), and contact information. If you would like to chair a panel instead of proposing a paper or panel, please let us know.

  Email proposals by attachment in Word to Woolf2014@niu.edu.
  Deadline for proposals: 25 January 2014

  For more information about the conference, including the keynote speakers, go to www.niu.edu/woolfwritingtheworld/home/.

  cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 54824Call for papers and creative writing 15/02/14the quint: an interdisciplinary journal from the northjbutler@ucn.ca1389301434african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: the quint: an interdisciplinary journal from the northcontact email: jbutler@ucn.ca

  The quint's twenty first issue is issuing a call for theoretically informed and historically grounded submissions of scholarly interest—as well as creative writing, original art, interviews, and reviews of books.  The deadline for this call is 15th February 2014—but please note that we accept manu/digi-scripts at any time.

  quint guidelines

  All contributions accompanied by a short biography will be forwarded to a member of the editorial board. Manuscripts must not be previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere while being reviewed by the quint's editors or outside readers.

  Hard copies of manuscripts should be sent to Dr. John Butler or Dr. Sue Matheson at the quint, University College of the North, P.O. Box 3000, The Pas, Manitoba, Canada, R9A 1M7. We are happy to receive your artwork in digital format, PDF preferred. Email copies of manuscripts, Word or RTF preferred, should be sent to either jbutler@ucn.ca or smatheson@ucn.ca.

  Essays should range between 15 and 25 pages of double-spaced text, including all images and source citations. Longer and shorter submissions also will be considered. Bibliographic citation should be the standard disciplinary format.Copyright is retained by the individual authors of manuscripts and artists of works accepted for publication in the quint.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54825Deadline Extended: UNA "Poison and Love Conference"University of North Alabama Department of Englishcprice7@una.edu1389312869african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: University of North Alabama Department of Englishcontact email: cprice7@una.edu

  Call for Papers:
  February 14-15, 2014
  Poison and Love
  "Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same." --George R. R. Martin

  Come join us Valentine's Day weekend as we explore the themes of love, poison, and (especially) the textual spaces where the two converge. The University of North Alabama's Department of English invites proposals for scholarly papers which investigate any aspect of love or poison in language, literature, or other media. For example, topics might include readings of toxic relationships between spouses (Othello and Desdemona), lovers ("Rapaccini's Daughter" or Fatal Attraction), family members (Plath's "Daddy), or even aspects of oneself (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). Following Jacques Derrida's work on the pharmakon in "Plato's Pharmacy" papers might consider the characterization of language itself as a type of seductive poison. Presenters could explore the canon as pharmakon (Do lists of "great books" poison the curriculum or keep it healthy?), texts as poison (The Name of the Rose), or adaptation as poison (Are the effects of adaptation toxic, or do they breathe new life into old works?). Participants may also present topics which focus on the theme of love, such as love and drugs, disease, or addiction.

  We welcome proposals from current students and recent graduates (within the last five years) of MA or PhD programs. Papers should be twenty-minutes in length and may explore a range of topics addressing our theme in relation to literature, film, or other media. Proposals for audiovisual presentations are encouraged.

  Proposals:

  Please send proposals of 250-300 words as soon as possible or by January 17, 2014 to the Program Committee at englishgradcon@una.edu. Suggestions for panels are welcomed; however, each proposal will be individually evaluated on its own merits, and we cannot guarantee that a panel will be accepted in its entirety. All proposals will receive a decision on acceptance within a week.

  Travel Scholarships:

  Requests for travel scholarships for out-of-town presenters must be made at time of submission. Presenters will be notified of travel scholarship award when they are notified of acceptance. Please visit the conference website for more information.

  Prize for Best Paper:

  At the closing session of the conference, presenters will be asked to vote on the three best papers presented at the conference. Following the conference, a panel of judges will award first, second, and third place standing to these three papers with a cash prize awarded to the top paper.

  http://www.una.edu/englishgradcon/

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54827[UPDATE] [April 4-5, 2014] CFP Deadline Extended to Feb 1 / Columbia University: "The Study of Eighteenth-Century European CuColumbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Cultureacoppola@jjay.cuny.edu, njh2115@columbia.edu1389328979african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypostcolonialscience_and_culturetheatretravel_writingfull name / name of organization: Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culturecontact email: acoppola@jjay.cuny.edu, njh2115@columbia.edu

  CFP: Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture
  50th Anniversary Conference
  Columbia University
  April 4-5, 2014

  "The Study of Eighteenth-Century European Culture: Past, Present and Future"

  Conference Chairs:
  Al Coppola, Department of English, John Jay College, CUNY
  Nicole Horejsi, Department of English, Columbia University

  The 2013-2014 academic year marks the 51st year that the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture has been in existence. To mark this achievement, our seminar will host a one-and a-half day conference at Columbia to assess the scholarship that has been produced by the seminar in the past, and to explore new directions in the study of eighteenth-century culture.

  This seminar was founded in 1962 by a group of scholars from a range of fields that produced a number of seminal works in the history of ideas, notably Peter Gay's The Enlightenment. To a significant degree, the interdisciplinary study of culture was an innovation of this seminar. While new methodologies have risen to prominence in recent years—and tend to shape the kind of scholarship our group how hosts—the institutional memory of our seminar recalls a form of interdisciplinarity before it became a buzzword, and a style of studying culture that predates cultural studies. Thus, our group's semicentenial provides us with a unique opportunity to take stock of where we, as students of the long eighteenth century, have come from, and where the field is going.

  This conference, then, will have one foot in the past and one in the future, representing the work and insight of all our constituents, from graduate students, to long-time emeritus participants, to senior scholars who are leaders in their field, to the active cohort of junior scholars that increasingly makes up the ranks of our seminar. As customary, we will seek participation from scholars hailing from a diverse range of disciplines and institutions in the service of three goals:

  1) To foster a meaningful dialogue about the state of eighteenth-century studies past, present and future;

  2) To showcase innovative scholarship in the field from emergent scholars; and

  3) To strengthen the bonds of community and intellectual collaboration that our seminar seeks to forge across disciplines, institutions and generations.

  It is our very great honor to announce that the Keynote Address will be presented by John Richetti, A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English (Emeritus), University of Pennsylvania, among whose many distinctions is the fact that he began attending this seminar in 1968. Professor Richetti will deliver an address that reflects on the history of the seminar, and on the value of the intellectual exchange that it has, and continues, to foster.

  CALL FOR PAPERS

  At this time, we would like invite proposals for conference-length papers to be delivered on a set of panels that approach the study of European culture within four distinct rubrics:

  "People," "Places," "Things" and "Ideas"

  Specifically, we are calling for papers that offer innovative approaches to and/or fresh scholarly insights into the culture of the long eighteenth-century as approached from one of these vantage points. We seek to showcase original scholarship that also offers a methodological or theoretical intervention in the way in which we think about the people, places, things and ideas of the long eighteenth century.

  We welcome proposals from any and all scholars who are interested in these questions. Current and former seminar members, invited lecturers, and past and present attendees, are all particularly invited to propose papers.

  Proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent to both the conference chairs, Al Coppola, acoppola@jjay.cuny.edu, and Nicole Horejsi, njh2115@columbia.edu, by January 15, 2014.

  GRADUATE STUDENT FORUM

  The conference will also feature a forum for graduate student research (tentatively scheduled for Friday afternoon, April 4.) We seek proposals from advanced graduate students at local and regional institutions, who are asked to present a snapshot of their dissertation projects and to reflect on how they construe and/or engage with the "study of eighteenth-century European culture" in their own work. Senior scholars affiliated with the seminar will serve as formal respondents to each paper. The model for this session is the ASECS Graduate Student Caucus panel format.

  Proposals for 15-minute papers should be sent to both the conference chairs, Al Coppola, acoppola@jjay.cuny.edu, and Nicole Horejsi, njh2115@columbia.edu, by January 15, 2014.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypostcolonialscience_and_culturetheatretravel_writing 54828[UPDATE] "Life, in Theory"European Society for the Study of Literature, Science, and the Artsinfo[at]litsciarts.eu; cristina.iuli@lett.unipmn.it1389346915americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: European Society for the Study of Literature, Science, and the Artscontact email: info[at]litsciarts.eu; cristina.iuli@lett.unipmn.it

  "Life, in Theory" refers to the ways in which the principle of life is assumed and articulated by highly specialized disciplinary knowledge, is entangled with media technologies, and is constantly resignified in relation to specific forms of power. Because the concept of life today does no longer provide sufficient ontological ground to distinguish among different forms of life and to guide ethical, political, legal, medical just actions, the conference aims at generating the context for a fruitful discussion on the ecological stakes of theorizing the bios across science, technology, literature, and the arts.

  Plenary speakers at the conference are leading scholars in political philosophy, critical theory, epidemiology, stem cell genetics, media theory, literary and culture studies: Claire Colebrook, Roberto Esposito, Giuseppe Testa, Paolo Vineis, Cary Wolfe.

  Please visit our website http://litsciarts.eu for full description and submission policy

  Deadline for abstracts: January 31, 2014
  Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2014

  cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54829[UPDATE] Women on the EdgeInternational Women's Day Postgraduate and Early-Careers Researcher Conferenceiwd2014@qub.ac.uk1389352900african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissanceromantictheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: International Women's Day Postgraduate and Early-Careers Researcher Conferencecontact email: iwd2014@qub.ac.uk

  Women on the Edge: International Women's Day Postgraduate and Early-Careers Research Conference 7-8 March 2014
  full name / name of organization:
  Queen's University Belfast
  contact email:
  iwd2014@qub.ac.uk
  As homemakers, academics, politicians, and entrepreneurs, women's experience throughout history has been characterized by a contradictory tension between marginalisation and pioneering leadership. This conference is a history of being on the edge, exploring the ways in which women have been at times marginalized and liminal figures whilst also being vanguards of change and revolution. The 2014 International Women's Day Conference at Queen's University Belfast will explore what it means for a woman to be on the edge in different socio-historical contexts. From history, literature, theatre and fine arts, to sociology, politics, economics, and law, we invite abstracts from postgraduate and early career researchers that interrogate these fragmentations in women's contemporary and historical experiences. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, exploring how women are on the edge of:

  - War, Violence and Extremism
  - Bodies and Politics
  - Medicine and Health
  - Queer Culture
  - Media and Popular Culture
  - Literature, language and writers
  - Race, Civil Rights, and Activism
  - Class, Labour, and Capitalism
  - Colonialism
  - Enlightenment and Education
  - Criminal Activity
  - Business
  - Religion, Philanthropy
  - Girlhood and Adolescence

  We invite abstracts of 300 words for 20-minute presentations.
  The deadline for abstracts is 5pm on Friday 17 January 2014.

  Please email abstracts to iwd2014@qub.ac.uk.
  Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @QUBWomenOnEdge
  Visit our website for more information www.iwd2014.wordpress.com

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissanceromantictheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54830Between Places and Spaces: Landscapes of Liminality, 5-6 June 2014School of English, Trinity College Dublinspacesbetweenplaces@gmail.com1389363244cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencestheoryfull name / name of organization: School of English, Trinity College Dublincontact email: spacesbetweenplaces@gmail.com

  Between Places and Spaces: Landscapes of Liminality
  A Cross-Disciplinary Conference
  5-6 June 2014
  Trinity College Dublin

  'Place is security, space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other.'
  - Yi Fu Tuan, Space and Place, 1977.

  Within the context of Human Geography, seminal thinkers such as Yi-Fu Tuan have provocatively interrogated the age-old and intricately tangled question of man's relationship to his environment, Far from static, it is infinitely complex and wrought with contradiction. In an increasingly urbanised world, we grow ever more wary of any space outside of man's domain. Such space seems chaotic, threatening, and unpredictable - and yet at the same time, darkly seductive. Similarly, our so-called 'places' refuse to sit comfortably in a modern world, 'united' by global capitalism and communication technology, but also fractured by political and cultural conflicts.
  The recent 'spatial turn' in literary and cultural studies marks an attempt to comprehend the ways in which we conceive of and construct the places and spaces we occupy. It illustrates a complex picture of the changes and consistencies of our experience of space over time, and the relationship between individuals and society at large.
  This two-day cross-disciplinary conference aims to bring together a wide variety of perspectives from within the humanities, in order to explore man's composite and mutating relationship to spaces and places. We are interested in the literal and the metaphoric, the real and imaginary facets of space and place. The conference will probe what it means to be 'liminal', examining those areas and moments in which one is caught between the intimate and the exposed, the familiar and the frightening - between place and space.

  Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Theories/differences of place/space
  • Theories of liminality (What does it mean to be 'liminal'?)
  • Real and/or imaginary places/spaces
  • The relationship between place/space and literary form
  • Writing space and gender
  • The politics of space
  • Phenomenological, Marxist, post-colonial and/or feminist theorisations of the spatial
  • Spatial form (in literature/film, etc.)
  • Human geography
  • Haunted spaces
  • Psychological spaces
  • Virtual spaces
  • Spatial memory
  • Class/race/sexuality as defined/mediated through space/place
  • Jungles/islands/forests/cities/the wilderness
  • Outer space
  • Internal/external controversies
  • Insular/exposed spaces
  • Space and subjectivity
  • Boundaries
  • Public/private spaces
  • Self/other spatial relations
  • Individual/social spaces
  We are also eager to put together a panel on Dublin City as a space/place, and so we welcome any proposals that are specifically catered to this.

  If you are interested in presenting a 20-minute paper, please forward your abstracts of no more than 300 words, along with a brief biography, to spacesbetweenplaces@gmail.com.
  The deadline for submissions is 31st January 2014.

  Please do also visit our blog (http://spacesbetweenplaces.wordpress.com/cfp/) and our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/spacesbetweenplaces) for more details and updates.

  cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencestheory 54831 8th Global Conference: Mulitculturalism, Conflict & Belonging (September 2014: Oxford, United Kingdom)Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Netmcb8@inter-disciplinary.net1389364101african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Netcontact email: mcb8@inter-disciplinary.net

  8th Global Conference: Mulitculturalism, Conflict & Belonging

  Thursday 11th September – Saturday 13th September 2014
  Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

  Call for Presentations
  This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new and prominent place that the idea of culture has for the construction of identity and the implications of this for social membership in contemporary societies. In particular, the project will assess the context of major world transformations, for example, new forms of migration and the massive movements of people across the globe, as well as the impact of globalisation on tensions, conflicts and on the sense of rootedness and belonging. Looking to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand what it means for people, the world over, to forge identities in rapidly changing national, social and cultural contexts.

  Proposals, workshops and presentations are invited on any of the following themes:

  1. State borders and mobility
  - State's obligation in admitting migrants
  - State security and border control
  - Immigration policy and political ideology of nation-state
  - Permeability of state boundaries under globalization
  - Redefining borders under globalized world

  2. Irregular migration
  - Illegal migration or irregular migration?
  - Irregular migration: whose account?
  - Irregular migration and transnational mobility
  - Irregular migration, exploitation and human rights violation
  - Rights and protection of irregular migrants

  3. Religion and gender
  - Gender differences in migration
  - Religious practices and gender equality under migration
  - Migrants and freedom of religion
  - Religious and ethnic minorities under multiculturalism
  - Religious extremism and the challenge on pluralism

  4. Human rights and citizenship
  - Universality of human rights
  - Citizenship and rights entitlement
  - Caste system in the contemporary world
  - Human rights protection for non-citizens
  - Conflicting rights

  5. Identity formation and belongingness
  - Identity formation and transnational migration
  - Integration and preservation of minority cultures
  - Intergenerational differences on identity formation of migrants
  - Value conflict and belongingness
  - Recognition or redistribution under contemporary economic development

  6. Redefining multiculturalism
  - Changing concepts in the study of ethnicity and multiculturalism
  - Researching multiculturalism
  - Multiculturalism: the East-West discourse
  - States commitment towards multicultural practices
  - Multiculturalism versus nationalism
  - Historical construction of multiculturalism and its application in the contemporary world

  Proposals will be considered on any related theme.

  In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups – and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Fear, Horror and Terror and Multiculturalism.

  What to Send
  300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

  a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
  E-mails should be entitled: Multiculturalism 8 Abstract Submission

  Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

  Organising Chairs
  Raees Baig: raees.baig@gmail.com
  Rob Fisher and Ram Vemuri: mcb8@inter-disciplinary.net

  The conference is part of the Diversity and Recognition research projects, which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and challenging. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.

  Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation.

  For further details of the conference, please visit:
  http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition...

  Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54832Body: Between Materiality and Power. Deadline: 20 January 2014Nasheli Jimenez del Val / Universitat de Barcelonaartglobalage@gmail.com1389366084cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypopular_culturepostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Nasheli Jimenez del Val / Universitat de Barcelonacontact email: artglobalage@gmail.com

  Interdisciplinary Seminar
  Body: Between Materiality and Power

  Departament d'Història de l'Art, Universitat de Barcelona
  26 February 2014, Barcelona, Spain

  Organized by:
  Art, Globalization, Interculturality (AGI), Universitat de Barcelona
  www.artglobalizationinterculturality.com
  within the Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Fellowship programme (2010 BP_B 00021),
  with support from l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, France

  Keynote Speaker: Marina Gržinić, philosopher, artist and theoretician. Research director at the Institute of Philosophy at the Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia (ZRC-SAZU), and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Institute of Fine Arts, Conceptual Art, in Austria.

  Historically, the body has been at the core of religious and philosophical discourses on what it means "to be human". From its allegorization as the mystical body of Christ (Saint Paul, Saint Augustine) to the Cartesian dualism of body-mind (1647, 1649), the body has been a trope through which the relationships between internal/external, subject/object, nature/culture, and inclusion/exclusion become crystalized. Correspondingly, the body has been a recurrent metaphor for political organization and social integration in texts such as Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651). Thinkers such as Michel Foucault (1963, 1975, 1976-84) have unbuilt the binary construction of body/soul-mind through concepts such as biopower, the disciplinary society and the docile body by focusing on the relationships established between the body and power. More recently, several authors have elaborated on Foucault's work in order to develop a wider theory of biopolitics (Hardt & Negri 2005) and necropolitics (Mbembe 2003). Other authors have focused on the link between body and coloniality in order to reveal the complicities between the Occidental imaginary and the labour relations in the colonies (Quijano 2000).

  The interdisciplinary seminar Body: Between Materiality and Power aims to localize and problematize the points of tension implicated in these diverse conceptualizations of the body. By proposing materiality and power as two polarities through which the body is mobilized, this seminar seeks to highlight the interstitial function of the body as a mediator between materiality and politics beyond the body/soul-mind dichotomy. Specifically, the seminar aims to bring together complex and problematized analytical approaches to representations of the body in diverse media, such as (but not limited to): visual arts, television, film, literature, architecture, dance, and theatre. As a result, and seeking to highlight the interdisciplinary dimension of the seminar, we invite researchers, postgraduate students and cultural workers in the areas of: art history, media studies, sociology, philosophy, architecture and urbanism studies to send a presentation proposal according to the following details:

  Abstracts

  We welcome papers that consider the body through theoretical, interdisciplinary, and/or case study analyses.
  Please send: 1) a 300 word abstract, 2) a brief biography, and 3) contact details; to Nasheli Jiménez del Val at artglobalage@gmail.com [Subject: Body] by 20 January, 2014.
  We will notify authors of the status of their proposal by 30 January 2014.

  cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypopular_culturepostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54833Special Issue on LGBT Studies and/or Queer StudiesRupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanitieseditor@rupkatha.com1389371700classical_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanitiescontact email: editor@rupkatha.com

  Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (www.rupkatha.com)
  Special Issue on LGBT Studies and/or Queer Studies
  (Volume VI, Number 1, 2014)
  Submissions pertaining to any aspect of LGBT studies and/or Queer Studies are solicited from postgraduate students, academics and activists. We are particularly interested in contributions that explore the representation and social construction of queer/LGBT people through interdisciplinary focus (literary, visual, media, sociological and so on).
  Topics of interest include
  1. Analysing LGBT: medical, philosophical, psychological perspectives
  2. LGBT representation in media/literature/art
  2. Political and Social narratives exploring queer identities
  3. Regional Case studies
  4. AIDS/HIV Narratives
  5. New Media and queer identity
  6. Activism
  We are also interested in short case studies, research notes and book reviews of recent books which explore queer issues or use queer approaches of analysis.
  Word-limit:
  Papers should be between 3000-5000 words.
  Case studies and notes can be between 1500-2500 words.
  Book reviews should be between 1000-1200 words for single and/or double book reviews.
  Style Sheet: APA
  Please send your papers by: February 28, 2014 to editor@rupkatha.com and chiefeditor@rupkatha.com.

  cfp categories: classical_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54834IV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture - June 2014The Lisbon Consortiumlxconsortium@fch.lisboa.ucp.pt1389374911cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: The Lisbon Consortiumcontact email: lxconsortium@fch.lisboa.ucp.pt

  Latencies: Europe 1914-2014

  Lisbon, June 30 – July 5 2014

  Deadline for abstracts: January 30, 2014

  Over the past century, Europe has been a site of contradiction. Marked, on the one hand, by the utmost explosions of violence, it has also given rise to the most peaceful post-national political project in modern times. It has been a haven of peace and a locus of disorder and violence, giving vent to experimentation, transgression and creation, while preserving tradition and enforcing normativity.

  Developed within the larger context of the European Project Culture@Work, the 2014 Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture addresses artistic latency in Europe. Latency periods are defined as states of transition pre-dating structured change and characterized by indefinition as well as what Freud considered a repression of desire and a return to normativity. These periods of cultural and artistic latency are often accompanied by social and political crisis or violence (Spanish Civil War, WWI and II, Cold War, Yugoslav Wars, austerity crisis, etc.) and despite the limitations of the context, they harbour the seeds of cultural change and revolution. In the contradictory relation of repression and creativity, it is particularly relevant to ask how does latency affect the partition of the sensible? How does a repressive context impact on artistic agency? How does art created as a reaction to the disruption of war and the destruction of life affect communal life?

  The Lisbon Consortium and the Project Culture@Work together with the PhDNet in Literary and Cultural Studies (University of Giessen, Catholic University of Portugal, University of Stockholm, University of Bergamo, University of Helsinki and University of Graz) are the 2014 organizers of the Lisbon Summer School and invite work from doctoral students and post-docs working in every field of the humanities and social sciences.

  Suggested topics are, amongst others:

  - Latency as a cultural concept;

  - War and artistic latency;

  - Art, repression and change;

  - European crisis and cultural policies;

  - Propaganda, censorship, and cultural production;

  - Latency, transition, translation;

  - Affect and crisis;

  - Europe as latency.

  Confirmed keynote speakers

  - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University)

  - Samuel Weber (Northwestern University)

  - Xavier Antich (Tapiés Foundation, Barcelona)

  - Antonio Monegal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

  - Knut Ove Eliassen (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)

  - José Miguel Sardica (Catholic University of Portugal)

  Master classes

  - Isabel Capeloa Gil (Catholic University of Portugal) & Frederik Tygstrup (University of Copenhagen)

  - Alexandra Lopes (Catholic University of Portugal)

  - Pirjo Lyytikäinen (University of Helsinki)

  Abstract and paper submissions
  Proposals for 15-minute papers should be sent to lxconsortium@fch.lisboa.ucp.pt. Submissions should include paper title, abstract in English (200 words), name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation and a brief bio (max. 100 words) mentioning main research interests and ongoing projects.

  Full papers must be submitted three weeks before the beginning of the Summer School (date to be announced).

  The Organizing Committee will return its decision by March 1st 2014.

  Registration fees

  Non-Consortium participants – 250€ for the entire week;
  Students from the School of Human Sciences – 150€ for the entire week;
  Participants without paper – €50 per session/day | 150€ for the entire week

  For The Lisbon Consortium students and for the students from Universities affiliated with ESSCS (European Summer School in Cultural Studies) there is no registration fee.

  Organizing Committee

  Isabel Capeloa Gil
  Peter Hanenberg
  Alexandra Lopes
  Paulo de Campos Pinto
  Daniela Agostinho

  The IV Lisbon Summer School is co-funded by the Culture programme of the European Union.

  cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54835[UPDATE] The Text and Time: Past, Present, FutureAnnual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University--Saturday, April 26, 2014--9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.Dr Vara Neverow neverowv1@southernct.edu1389396602african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University--Saturday, April 26, 2014--9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.contact email: Dr Vara Neverow neverowv1@southernct.edu

  The Text and Time: Past, Present, Future
  Saturday, April 26, 2014
  9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

  http://www.southernct.edu/academics/schools/arts/departments/english/gra...

  Call for Papers:
  We are soliciting papers and panel proposals from graduate students in English studies as well as other fields of research and are seeking a range of perspectives and topics for the 2014 Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University.

  About the Conference:
  The theme of this year's conference highlights the text in relation to the passage of time as well as the evolution of the text in all its forms, but the theme is intentionally very broad in scope and open to multiple approaches. Further, the definition of the text is not narrowly defined as literary nor is the sole focal point English studies. Thus, papers that focus on studies of the text in other disciplines are also welcome. The text may be visual, aural, or tactile. Literary texts, graphic novels, diaries, cinema, maps, hypertexts, websites, music, and graffiti are all relevant areas of research.

  The History and Purpose of the Conference:
  The Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University was launched in 1999. It has always been intended as a welcoming venue for graduate students to share their research with their peers and experience the rewarding intellectual experience of attending and participating in a professional gathering.

  Possibility of Publication:
  Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in the section on selected papers in Text in Context: A Graduate Student Journal:http://www.southernct.edu/academics/schools/arts/departments/english/gra...

  We welcome approaches from a range of areas including, but not limited to:
  African American Studies
  Cartography
  Children's Literature
  Classical Studies
  Comparative Literature
  Composition and Rhetoric Studies
  Creative Writing
  Critical Theory
  Cultural Studies
  Disability Studies
  Diaspora Studies
  Drama
  Ecocriticism
  Film Studies
  Gay/Lesbian/Transgender/Intersex/Queer Studies
  History
  Keywords
  Latino/a Studies
  Linguistics
  Media Studies
  Pedagogy
  Philosophy
  Popular Culture
  Professional Writing
  Psychoanalysis
  Religious Studies
  Secondary Education
  Teaching Technologies
  TESOL/TESL/TEFL
  Textual Studies
  Women's Studies
  World Literature
  Young Adult Literature

  Guidelines for Proposals for the 2014 Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University:

  Individual papers:
  Submissions for individual papers must include the paper title and the name, email address, phone number and institutional affiliation.

  A proposal should consist of a 250-350 word abstract with the title and contact information noted above.

  Panels:
  Submissions for panels must include the panel title and the titles of the panelists' papers, the panelists' names, email addresses), phone numbers and institutional affiliations.

  A proposal for a panel should consist of an overall description of the panel (approximately 250 words) and a 250-350 word abstract for each paper or presentation with titles and contact information as noted above.

  Panels will be one and a half hours long.

  Presentations will be 15-20 minutes long (papers should be 6-8 pages in length maximum) depending on whether there are three or four presenters on a panel.

  Submission of proposal(s):

  All proposals must be submitted electronically.
  The submission(s) should be included in the body of the email message AND as an email attachment (in Word .doc, .docx, or RTF format).

  The submission should have "Annual Graduate English Conference" in the subject line and be sent by email to
  Dr. Vara Neverow at neverowv1@southernct.edu.

  Additional information:
  Please also indicate in your email whether you might be willing to chair or moderate a session.

  Please indicate if you will need AV support.

  You may submit more than one proposal for consideration.

  Deadline for receipt of submissions:
  5:00 p.m., 1 March 2014.

  Notification of Acceptance:
  Presenters will be notified of the conference committee's decision by email on or about 17 March 2014

  About Registration:
  Payment may be made online via credit card at https://southernct.ejoinme.org/MyPages/TheTextandTimePastPresentFuture/t... or by check.

  Payment by check:
  Checks must be made payable to SCSUF (Southern CT State University Foundation) and must include "Graduate English Conference" in the memo. For pre-registration rates, the envelope must post-marked by 3 April 2014.

  Pre-registration:
  The conference pre-registration fee online or by check is $30 ($15 for Southern CT students and faculty); the payment is due by 7 April 2014.

  Registration fees will increase after 7 April 2014. Additional information about these fees will be available later.

  Checks must be mailed to:
  Dr. Vara Neverow, Graduate English Conference Organizer, English Department, Southern CT State University, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515.

  Registration fees include all food service
  (continental breakfast, beverage breaks, luncheon and closing reception).
  ________________________________________
  For more information, contact Dr. Vara Neverow
  neverowv1@southernct.edu
  Dr. Vara Neverow
  Graduate Conference Organizer
  English Department
  Southern CT State University
  501 Crescent Street
  New Haven, CT 06515.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 54836CFP: The Subversive in Sentimental Novels (ALA: Washington, D.C.; May 22-25, 2014. Deadline: January 27, 2014.Christine Danelski/ Southern California Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SCSSAWW)Christine.Danelski4@calstatela.edu1389405497americancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualityfull name / name of organization: Christine Danelski/ Southern California Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SCSSAWW)contact email: Christine.Danelski4@calstatela.edu

  SCSSAWW seeks recent work on subversive elements in sentimental novels written by 18th and 19th women authors to explore how these novels queried and contested conventional social and cultural expectations for American women of their times.

  Proposals of 300-400 words should be submitted to Christine.Danelski4@calstatela.edu by January 30, 2014. Please include your email and a one-paragraph bio with the proposal. (Apologies for the short notice.)

  The 2014 American Literature Association Conference will take place at Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Please see the ALA website for specific details regarding the rest of the conference program.

  cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexuality 54837Submissions for Journal 'Dante e l'arte'Journal Dante e l'arte - Universitat Autonoma de BarcelonaRossend.Arques@uab.cat1389439087interdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalrenaissancetheatrefull name / name of organization: Journal Dante e l'arte - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelonacontact email: Rossend.Arques@uab.cat

  The Journal "Dante e l'arte" invites submissions for several sections of its first issue. The 2014 'Dossier' is devoted to "Dante and Theatre" and it will include papers about drama in the "Commedia" and Dante's reception in the theatre throughout the centuries. The second part of the journal, entitled 'Articoli', will include essays and contributions from several topics about the relationship between Dante and the arts. The deadline for reception of articles in this first issue of 'Dante e l'arte' is 30 April 2014.

  The articles should follow the style sheet available in the website of the journal, and should include an abstract (maximum 700 characters with space) and 5 key words. Please send your articles following the instructions available in the journal's website: http://revistes.uab.cat/dea/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions.

  Prof. Rossend Arqués
  Rossend.Arques@uab.cat
  Dept. Filologia Romànica
  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  tel. 0034 93581 1190
  Dante e l'arte. Network di studi sulla ricezione artistica di Dante.

  cfp categories: interdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalrenaissancetheatre 54838"A Perfect World?" (Third Salzburg Institute Symposium, University of Salzburg, Austria, July 31, 2014)Gregor Thuswaldner, The Salzburg Institute of Religion, Culture and the Artssymposium@salzburg-institute.org1389440097african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Gregor Thuswaldner, The Salzburg Institute of Religion, Culture and the Artscontact email: symposium@salzburg-institute.org

  The conditions for perfect worlds, of utopias and dystopias, and the possible dangers of such concepts have preoccupied not only religious and philosophical thinkers, but also writers, composers, visual artists, stage and film directors, and other artists. Such visions have often stood at the center of political ideologies, including communism and fascism. Their adherents are promised a perfect world, the attainment of which sanctions censorship, terrorism, the confinement of internal enemies, genocide, and war. But visions of perfect worlds are not restricted to the political, religious, and philosophical realms. The peddlers of today's Western pop-culture still advertise a perfect future to the disillusioned. Religious cults, televangelists, pop-psychologists, designers of virtual worlds, quality managers, and advertisers seem to offer a perfect world just out of reach.

  What does this desire for a perfect world indicate about our understanding of ourselves and others, our present and our future? Is disgust with the present and the yearning for a better future, as religious thinkers have often suggested, proof of our inherent religiosity or even the existence of God? Or is this longing for a perfect world, as secularists at least since Nietzsche have maintained, a mythological remnant of our infancy as a species, a weakness that renders us vulnerable to exploitation and keeps us from attending to the pressing issues of this present world?

  The Third Salzburg Institute Symposium aims to critically analyze past and present visions of a perfect world.

  The interdisciplinary and international symposium appeals to scholars of various disciplines (the humanities, sociology, philosophy, literature, history, political science, religious studies, Jewish studies, and theology among others).

  Possible topics include:
  • Religions as advocates for, or critics of promises for a perfect world
  • Philosophical pessimism or optimism concerning a perfect world. The world as best possible world or a world that requires aesthetic relief?
  • The perfect world problem in literature
  • Musical or pictorial portrayals of the perfect or imperfect world
  • The role and function of utopias and dystopias
  • Political ideologies and those who want to (mis)guide into a perfect future
  • Yearning for a perfect world in movies
  • Current prophets of a perfect world
  • Communication and computer technologies promising perfect virtual worlds
  • Transhumanism and the promise of a perfect humanity

  Please send abstracts for papers in German or English and a brief bio by May 1, 2014 to symposium@salzburg-institute.org Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes in length. The organizers cannot offer contributors compensation for conference- or travel expenses.

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54839[UPDATE] ICSMSC 2014 - 1st International Communication Science and Media Studies CongressKocaeli University, Communication Facultyinfo@icsmsc.org1389444203cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_culturefull name / name of organization: Kocaeli University, Communication Facultycontact email: info@icsmsc.org

  1st International Communication Science and Media Studies Congress

  Call for Papers
  12 – 14 MAY 2014
  http://www.icsmsc.org/

  Dear Colleagues,

  The Faculty of Communication, Kocaeli University, is honored to organize and host the first International Communication Science and Media Studies Congress (ICSMSC) in cooperation with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Florida International University, and pleased to invite the researchers and scholars of communication and media studies to Izmit, Kocaeli, Turkey.
  The main goal of ICSMSC is to discuss and share information on new approaches in the field of communication and media studies and exchange observations and new ideas in an international conference platform.
  The congress welcomes both paper and poster contributions on a wide range of topics using various scholarly approaches. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to, the following: Communication Science Studies, Journalism Studies, Radio and Television Studies, New Media Studies, Media Organizations and Economics, Political Communication and Media, Public Relation Studies, Advertising Studies, Intercultural Communication and Media, Media Pedagogy.

  Chair
  Prof. Dr. Füsun ALVER

  Important Dates
  30 January 2014 (Extended): Deadline for submission of abstracts
  15 February 2014 (Extended): Notification of acceptance of abstracts
  28 March 2014: Deadline for full paper submission

  Registration Fee: 150 US Dollars.
  Submission and registration guidelines will be announced at http://www.icsmsc.org/

  54840CFP: New Normals, Old Normals, Future NormalsBodies of Knowledge / University of South Carolina Upstatemjohnson@uscupstate.edu1389448665cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarytheoryfull name / name of organization: Bodies of Knowledge / University of South Carolina Upstatecontact email: mjohnson@uscupstate.edu

  CFP: New Normals, Old Normals, Future Normals
  Bodies of Knowledge Symposium, Spring 2014

  The 6th Bodies of Knowledge Symposium is scheduled to take place at University of South Carolina Upstate on April 10-11, 2014. This LGBTQ symposium brings cutting edge theory about gender and sexuality into the region through a dynamic array of keynote speakers, as well as a conference to showcase presentations from undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and community members throughout the U.S. southeast on topics related to LGBTQ lives and culture. The event will kick off on Thursday afternoon with a performance by Leigh Hendrix of "How to a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less" and a talk by Thomas McBee on being "Trans, but Not Like You Think." Friday will include plenary lectures by Dr. David Halperin (author of How to Be Gay and co-founder of GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies), Dr. Mignon Moore (author of "Lipstick or Timberlands?: Meanings of Gender Presentation in Black Lesbian Communities"), and Dr. Bernadette Barton (author of Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays).

  This year, as many of our speakers and performers are focusing on various ways of being LGBTQ, we are taking up the broad topic of LGBTQ cultural morés. In a historical moment that defines "gay," "lesbian," and "trans" according to highly assimilative models, we hope to document, analyze, and disrupt this too-easy cultural knowingness about what it means to be, become, advocate for, recognize, or represent any element of "the" LGBTQ community (as if there is one unified community), as well as the various identities included in, compelled by, or excluded from that community. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
  • Campaigns or policies that advance the integration of gays, lesbian, and trans folk into mainstream culture; or, campaigns/policies that resist assimilation – local, national, and transnational scopes are welcome
  • Media culture: Television representations of LGBTQ normalcy (e.g., The New Normal, The Fosters, Modern Family, Glee); Music and LGBTQ normalcy (e.g., "born that way" rhetoric of lyrics by Lady Gaga and Macklemore; the afrofuture (ab)normalcy of Janelle Monae; does the queer parody video of "Bound 2" by Seth Rogen and James Franco speak in some way to the queerness of Kimye, or, like, what was that, exactly?)
  • Social processes of normalization; resistances to normalization; fantasies of normalization; the (ongoing) trouble with normal; tracking the appearance of the abnormal; politics of the abnormal; abnormal ethics
  • What's the "Q" for? – Queer futurity; queer horizons; queer places; queer regions; queer politics; the paradox (borrowing from Jane Ward) of respectable queerness; poly, asexual, and intersexed (ab)normalcies; and while we're at it, where did the "B" go?
  • Feeling normal; feeling abnormal – affect theory and LGBTQ normalization or resistance to normalization
  • Online (ab)normalcy: LGBTQ uses of social media (the queerness of instagram, the transness of tumblr, displays of compulsory heterosexuality on Facebook); the lesbigay selfie?; other cyber- or cyborgian instances of LGBTQ online dimensions?
  • Papers are also encouraged on topics related to the keynote lectures, as well as direct responses to the scholarly works by these speakers

  Please send 200-word abstracts to Dr. Lisa Johnson (mjohnson@uscupstate.edu) by Jan. 20, 2014. Notification of acceptance will be made by Feb. 1, 2014. For information about past symposia, visit us at http://www.uscupstate.edu/bodiesofknowledge (information about the upcoming symposium will be posted there in January).

  cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarytheory 54841[UPDATE] (dis)junctions 2014 (4/11+4/12) - General CFP(dis)junctions 2014disjunctions2014@gmail.com1389480798african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: (dis)junctions 2014contact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  We are happy to begin accepting paper submissions at this year's 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, on April 11-12, 2014. (dis)junctions is the interdisciplinary conference hosted by the English graduate students at UC Riverside, and is designed as a friendly forum for graduate students of all levels to introduce their latest work. Annually, we bring together graduate student scholars from across disciplines, schools, states, and countries---last year we had 29 panels, with 97 presenters from 3 countries and 20 different stats. The theme of this year's conference, "Irreverent Readings," is geared specifically toward innovative projects working with materials, methodologies, and ideas which are not necessarily canonical, mainstream, popular, or even all that respected. We invite your radical ideas, subversive arguments, contrary views, renegade theories, and irreverent readings. This year, the (dis)junctions will host 2 keynote speakers: Virginia Jackson, UCI Chair of Rhetoric, from the Univeristy of California, Irvine; and Constance Penley, Professor of Film and Media Studies and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

  (dis)junctions 2014 will be a place to try out the new, to resist the powerful, to generate the future of scholarship. Students working in underrepresented areas or with non-canonical texts are especially encouraged to apply. Don't stand on the shoulders of giants; tip those giants over and see what they were standing on. Eat your (theoretical) parents! While a broad array of time periods, approaches and subjects are represented at our conference, we have a particular strength in book history, archive, manuscript, and material culture studies, as well as science fiction and technoculture studies.

  Paper abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted via the form at www.disjunctions2014.org by February 10th, 2014.

  We welcome submissions in all areas, including but not limited to:
  African American Literature, Diaspora, and Black Studies
  American Literature and Culture after 1900
  American Literature and Culture before 1900
  Autobiographical Literature
  Book, Archive, Manuscript, and Material Culture Studies
  British Literature and Culture after 1900
  Celebrity Studies
  Chicana/o and Latina/o Literature and Culture
  Children's Literature
  Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, and Globalization
  Digital Humanities
  Early Modern Literature and Culture
  Eighteenth-century Literature and Culture
  Embodiment
  Film and Visual Studies
  Gender and Sexuality Studies
  History
  Literature and Medicine
  Medieval Literature and Culture
  Native American Literature and Culture
  Poetry and Poetics
  Queer and LGBTI Studies
  Religious Studies
  Rhetoric and Composition
  Romantic Literature and Culture
  Science Fiction Studies
  Victorian Literature and Culture

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54842The Prosaic Imaginary: novels and the everyday, 1750-2000 (July 1-4, 2014)University of Sydneyvanessa.smith@sydney.edu.au1389521684african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: University of Sydneycontact email: vanessa.smith@sydney.edu.au

  The conference will open up the nuances of the term 'prosaic' by exploring the privileged relationship between the novel genre and multiple and complex categories of the 'everyday'. Building on John Plotz's notion of the novel as exemplary 'portable property', the conference will address the relationship between novel-reading as everyday activity and the novel's prosaic subject matter, whether this is conceived as material object, cultural practice, or speech act.

  Suggested topics:
  The novel and things
  The novel and film/and TV
  Readerships of the novel
  The novel and gender
  The novel and childhood
  Queer novels
  Psychologies of the novel
  Novel genres
  The odd or uncategorisable
  The secular imagination
  Book history and the novel
  The novel and the digital everyday
  Characters as quasi-persons
  Novel worlds
  The novel and the institutionalisation of affect
  The novel as political action
  Temporalities of the novel
  The novel and the forms of property
  The scale of the novel

  Proposals for 20 minute papers or for 3 paper panels sessions should be sent to Professor Vanessa Smith (vanessa.smith@sydney.edu.au) by March 31 2014

  cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 54843SF/F Now conference, University of Warwick (UK) 21-23 August 2014Mark Bouldmark.bould@uwe.ac.uk1389526748african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Mark Bouldcontact email: mark.bould@uwe.ac.uk

  SF/F Now and Irradiating the Object: M. John Harrison conferences
  Warwick University (UK)
  21-23 August 2014

  SF/F Now (22-23 August) is a 2-day international, interdisciplinary conference exploring the current research into the fantastic (in any medium) and the ways in which sf, fantasy, and the weird grapple with and illuminate the crucial political and social issues of the moment.

  It will consist of conventional panels and a series of innovative workshops led by pairs of international specialists exploring the relation of fantastic fiction to contemporary issues: Animal Studies; Crisis & Protest; Energy & Petrofiction; Environmental Studies; Humanity 2.0; Utopia & the City; Science Studies; World Systems & World Sf. The workshops are designed to allow all participants the opportunity to benefit directly from discussion with all our attending experts.

  Workshop leaders include Gerry Canavan (Marquette), Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck), Carl Freedman (Louisiana State) Steve Fuller (Warwick), Joan Haran (Cardiff), Veronica Hollinger (Trent), Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck), Graeme MacDonald (Warwick), David McNally (York), Charles Sheppard (Warwick), Stephen Shapiro (Warwick), Imre Szeman (Alberta), and Sherryl Vint (UC Riverside).

  We invite proposals (300-500 words) for 20-minute papers or pre-constituted panels (3x20 minute papers on a related theme) on topics relating to the current state of the fantastic, contemporary research into the fantastic, or the relation of the fantastic to social and political issues, including but not restricted to those covered by the workshop titles. Please include detail of institutional affiliation and any AV requirements.

  Deadline for proposals 31 March 2014. For further information, join our FB event page SF/F Now (http://on.fb.me/1ce1dfn)

  SF/F Now will be preceded by a one-day conference, Irradiating the Object: M. John Harrison (21 August 2014), on one of Britain's leading sf and fantasy writers and critics. Deadline for proposals 31 March 2014. Selected papers will appear in a collection co-edited by Mark Bould and Rhys Williams. For further information, join our FB event page Irradiating the Object (http://on.fb.me/1dSlKmV).

  A small number of travel and accommodations bursaries will be available for students attending all three days of the conference(s). For those wishing to apply, please include a CV with you proposal.

  Please address any queries and submit proposals to Rhys Williams (A.Rhys.Williams@warwick.ac.uk) and/or Mark Bould (mark.bould@gmail.com).

  cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 54844Irradiating the Object: M John Harrison conference, University of Warwick (UK), 21 August 2014Mark Bouldmark.bould@uwe.ac.uk1389526974general_announcementsinternational_conferencestwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Mark Bouldcontact email: mark.bould@uwe.ac.uk

  Irradiating the Object: M. John Harrison and SF/F Now conferences
  Warwick University (UK)
  21-23 August 2014

  Irradiating the Object: M. John Harrison (21 August 2014) is a one-day international conference, in collaboration with Gylphi, on one of Britain's leading sf and fantasy writers and critics.
  M. John Harrison persistently upsets distinctions between genres and between literary and popular fiction, and challenges our desire for the fantastic. His fiction – whether space opera (The Centauri Device, the Kefahuchi Tract trilogy), near-future thriller (Signs of Life), ironic post-apocalypticism (The Committed Men), weird horror (The Course of the Heart), magic realism (Climbers) or sword'n'sorcery and baroque fantasy (the Viriconium stories) – unerringly charts transformations of British social, political and physical landscapes. The agenda-setting literary editor of Michael Moorcock's New Worlds who thirty years later unearthed the New Weird, he is the most demanding of genre critics.

  Keynote speakers: Sara Wasson (Edinburgh-Napier University), other TBC

  M. John Harrison will give a reading and participate in a Q&A session.

  We invite proposals (300-500 words) for 20-minute papers or pre-constituted panels (3x20 minute papers on a related theme) on any aspect of Harrison's fiction and career. Please include detail of institutional affiliation and any AV requirements. Selected papers will appear in a collection co-edited by Mark Bould and Rhys Williams.

  Deadline for proposals 31 March 2014. For further information, join our FB event page Irradiating the Object (http://on.fb.me/1dSlKmV).

  Irradiating the Object will be followed by SF/F Now (22-23 August), an international, interdisciplinary conference exploring the current research into the fantastic (in any medium) and the ways in which sf, fantasy, and the weird grapple with and illuminate the crucial political and social issues of the moment.
  Deadline for proposals 31 March 2014.
  For further information, see the separate CFP, or join our FB event page SF/F Now (http://on.fb.me/1ce1dfn).

  A small number of travel and accommodation bursaries will be available for students attending all three days of the conference(s). For those wishing to apply, please include a brief cover note and CV with you proposal.

  Please address any queries and submit proposals to Rhys Williams (A.Rhys.Williams@warwick.ac.uk) and/or Mark Bould (mark.bould@gmail.com).

  cfp categories: general_announcementsinternational_conferencestwentieth_century_and_beyond 54845Specters of Influence, 2nd International Seminar on Literature, Cracow, May 17, 2014Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Polandspectersofinfluence@gmail.com1389538518cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiestheoryfull name / name of organization: Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Polandcontact email: spectersofinfluence@gmail.com

  Specters of Influence
  2nd International Seminar on Literature
  Cracow, May 17, 2014

  In the twentieth century, multifarious theories of reciprocal relationship between literary texts have made a considerable impact on the manner of reading and theorizing literature. As one that stands out against other concepts, the theory of influence reclaimed the status of the author and emphasized the peculiar bond between literary precursors and their successors. Influence, considered by deconstructionists in terms of heritage and legacy, gained its meaning of spectral affinity that transgresses temporal and textual limitations. Drawing on Harold Bloom's claim that influence is just another word for literature, we would like not only to propose a discussion on influence itself and specific cases of its presence in literary and theoretical texts, but also to invite critical responses to this concept.

  We invite papers to one of the following panels:

  1. Theory of influence

  2. Manifestations of influence in literature

  Papers might focus on (but are not limited to) the following topics

  Theory of influence

  - contemporary theories of influence

  - anxiety of influence?

  - resistance to influence- critical approach to the theory of influence

  - pre-modern and early modern theories of influence

  - influence and affinity

  - influence and deconstruction

  Manifestations of influence in literature

  - pastiche and parody

  - hidden influence

  - writing within/outside a tradition

  - conscious/unconscious influence

  - influence vs. intertextuality

  - survivance (Didi-Huberman)

  - transmedial influence

  The seminar will consist of several roundtable sessions. The full papers will be shared on our website before the seminar and discussed during the sessions by their authors. There will be no possibility of otherwise presenting the papers.

  Submissions should include the paper title; the delegate's name, address and email; a summary of the proposed paper (300 words); and a short bio (100 words). Also, please indicate in which panel you would like to participate. Please send submissions by March 15, 2014 to spectersofinfluence@gmail.com. The conference fee is 200 PLN (50 EUR) and includes conference materials, coffee breaks, lunch, and costs of publication.

  Following Specters of the Author, the event is the second edition in the series of international seminars Specters of Theory. By bringing together researchers in literary studies, we would like to create an open space for reconsidering twentieth-century theoretical concepts and their spectral representations in literature. Papers presented during our seminars will be published in the series Specters of Theory.

  For further information please visit our website:
  http://spectersofinfluence.wordpress.com/

  cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiestheory 54846IJPDS - Call for papers, Vol. 3. Paper submission due April 30, 2014.Dulce Maria Scott / Anderson Universitydmscott@anderson.edu1389549463americanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialreligionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Dulce Maria Scott / Anderson Universitycontact email: dmscott@anderson.edu

  The InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies (IJPDS) welcomes original contributions for the third issue of the journal to be published in the fall 2014. Researchers in the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to submit papers in final form by April 30th, 2014.

  IJPDS represents original interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with key issues in Portuguese diaspora studies. We are particularly interested in proposals from a wide array of scholarly proveniences, approaches, and perspectives that embrace a construct of Portuguese diaspora identity whose discourses and ideas travel across time and space. Under this rubric, we also encourage papers that engage in the exploration of the Portuguese diaspora in a comparative global context.

  Manuscripts in English, Portuguese, Spanish, or French are accepted for review and must be accompanied by an abstract in English, as well as in the original language in which the paper is written.

  Papers submitted are to be sent for peer reviewing. IJPDS will not consider submissions that have already been published or are under consideration elsewhere.

  For submission guidelines, please follow instructions here: http://portuguese-diaspora-studies.com/index.php/ijpds/about/submissions...

  cfp categories: americanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialreligionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 54847(dis)junctions - April 11+12 - Adventure Time!: Bakhtin's Chronotope in Fantasy and AdventureUCR (dis)junctionsdisjunctions2014@gmail.com1389552351childrens_literaturefilm_and_televisiongraduate_conferencesmedievaltheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: UCR (dis)junctionscontact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  Adventure Time!: Bakhtin's Chronotope in Fantasy and Adventure

  "In the literary artistic chronotope, spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one carefully thought-out, concrete whole. Time, as it were, thickens, takes on flesh, becomes artistically visible; likewise, space becomes charged and responsive to the movements of time, plot and history. . . . The image of man is always chronotopic." (Mikhail Bakhtin, "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel")

  In establishing his notion of the chronotope Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical model allows critics in all periods to confront the aesthetic configuration of complicated systems of interaction between subjectivity, embodiment, history, and space. In this panel we seek to explore the narrative utility of Bakhtin's chronotope and its ability to facilitate the navigation between spaces of normal-time and adventure-time as well as to contextualize the liminal space between in works of fantasy and adventure. We encourage submissions dealing with fantasy and adventure in literature as well as in television, video games, and film.

  The theme of 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, hosted by UC Riverside, is "irreverent readings," featuring keynote speakers Virginia Jackson (UC Irvine) and Constance Penley (UC Santa Barbara). Abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted via the form at www.disjunctions2014.org by February 10th, 2014.

  cfp categories: childrens_literaturefilm_and_televisiongraduate_conferencesmedievaltheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 54848(dis)junctions - April 11+12 - The Wright StuffUCR (dis)junctionsdisjunctions2014@gmail.com1389552632americanfilm_and_televisiongraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypopular_culturefull name / name of organization: UCR (dis)junctionscontact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  The Wright Stuff: Deconstructing the Blood & Ice Cream Trilogy

  With a not inconsiderable degree of commercial success and a robust transatlantic cult following, Edgar Wright's Blood & Ice Cream Trilogy—now commonly known and marketed as The Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy—is rife with opportunities for critical interpretation. Taken collectively or as individual texts, the three films (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End) serve as a barometer of the cultural climate, albeit by focusing on seemingly disparate generic tropes. Why does this quintessentially British product translate so well to a particular American sensibility and aesthetic? What, if anything, do the films reveal about the limitations of genre? And what can we learn from such a powerful, lasting, and productive creative partnership, particularly as it relates to participatory culture?

  This special session seeks a variety of papers, taking individual films from the trilogy and/or the trilogy as a whole as their point of departure. Possible topics include, but are certainly not limited to:

  • The (d)evolving relationship between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's characters throughout the trilogy
  • Commercial and critical implications of the trilogy's name change
  • Tracing the trajectory of various thematic and episodic elements from Spaced through the trilogy
  • Interrogating the zombie, fanatical cult, and alien as parallel cultural figures
  • Reciprocity, fandom, and the power of pastiche
  • Tearing down the wall of sound: Sound effects as soundtracks and vice versa
  • Romancing Romero, or Kiss Me Keanu: Reading the films as generic love letters

  The theme of 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, hosted by UC Riverside, is "irreverent readings," featuring keynote speakers Virginia Jackson (UC Irvine) and Constance Penley (UC Santa Barbara). Abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted via the form at www.disjunctions2014.org by February 10th, 2014.

  cfp categories: americanfilm_and_televisiongraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypopular_culture 54849(dis)junctions - April 11+12 - Video Game StudiesUCR (dis)junctionsdisjunctions2014@gmail.com1389554057ecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: UCR (dis)junctionscontact email: disjunctions2014@gmail.com

  Video Game Studies

  Video games have had a fraught relationship with the academy and the broader world, often signifying as irreverent texts. This panel invites papers that wish to look at video games as texts or cultural metaphors that offer lenses through which to analyze topics including, but not limited to, environmentalism, queer politics, racial identity, gender identifications, and formations of identity within historical contexts. The panel invites papers analyzing specific video games as texts or texts that use video games as objects or structuring metaphors in order to theorize the function of virtual worlds and their relevance to other fields of research. The goal, then, is to offer new ways of viewing video games and of analyzing the narrative and ludic potentialities of video game play. Papers that wish to look at pedagogical uses of video games are also welcome.

  The theme of 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, hosted by UC Riverside, is "irreverent readings," featuring keynote speakers Virginia Jackson (UC Irvine) and Constance Penley (UC Santa Barbara). Abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be submitted via the form at www.disjunctions2014.org by February 10th, 2014.

  cfp categories: ecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarytwentieth_century_and_beyond