The Multigenerational Latino Novel: Structure and Nuance in the Latino Experience
When we explore and critique Latin@ novels, it is a common practice to do so from the perspective of race, class, gender, and colonial identities. While we recognize that these thematic concerns are pressing, we sometimes gloss over the space where thematic and structural forms come together. Interestingly, some of the most important Latin@ writers utilize very similar structural forms, specifically the multi-generational novel—as a way to tackle these issues. Indeed, texts such as The House on the Lagoon, Monkey Hunting, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Song of the Water Saints, Soledad, Geographies of Home, The House on Mango Street, Caramelo, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, all utilize this form to varying degrees to highlight the nuances of the Latin@ experience in the United States. This panel invites proposals that focus on the multigenerational novel from a wide variety of theoretical paradigms, including (but not limited to) transnationalism, border studies, feminism, queer theory, critical race theory, diasporic studies, etc.
Please note, that all abstracts must be submitted through the NeMLA website by 9/30. The website for submission may be accessed here: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/submit.html
64076"World Literature Assignment Exchange" /NeMLA roundtable / March 17-20 Hartford, CTMonika Giacoppe and Alla Ivanchikova ivanchikova@hws.edu, mgiacopp@ramapo.edu1442339110cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypostcolonialtheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Monika Giacoppe and Alla Ivanchikova contact email: ivanchikova@hws.edu, mgiacopp@ramapo.edu
NB: NeMLA guidelines allow participants to present both at a roundtable AND at a regular panel/ seminar. You can therefore apply to present at the roundtable even if you are already accepted into a NeMLA panel.
"World Literature Assignment Exchange" -- a NeMLA roundtable by the NeMLA World Literature Working Group
March 17-20 Hartford, CT
Monika Giacoppe (mgiacopp@ramapo.edu) and Alla Ivanchikova (ivanchikova@hws.edu)
For this roundtable, we invite faculty teaching World Literature to take stock of their assignments and select one to share. We hope to foster a friendly conversation about handling the challenges and maximizing the potential in World Literature assignments. We seek assignments of any kind that have proved successful with your students: papers, presentations, journals, videos, and prompts for in-class group tasks. We are especially interested in assignments that engage student research and creativity beyond traditional research papers (although research paper topics are welcome).
Full description:
Good assignments are essential teaching capital – a form of capital that, fortunately, can be shared without being diminished. For this roundtable, we invite faculty teaching World Literature to take stock of their assignments and select one to share. Because the geographic and temporal territory covered in World Literature courses is often extensive, they pose particular challenges and offer valuable opportunities. Specifically, World Literature courses can show how literature reflects and refracts international relations from the ancient world to today, while also helping students understand literature as developing across national borders (via author influence studies, periods, and movements). We hope to foster a friendly conversation about handling the challenges and maximizing the potential in World Literature assignments. We seek assignments of any kind: papers, presentations, journals, videos, prompts for in-class group tasks, which have proved successful with your students. We are especially interested in assignments that engage student research and creativity beyond traditional research papers (although research paper topics are welcome).
Assignments might offer ways to address some of the following issues (or others!):
Combining literary analysis with historical and cultural context
Helping students understand literature as extending beyond national borders
Seeing how World Literature reflects and refracts international relations
Using interdisciplinary approaches to enrich students' understanding of literary texts
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypostcolonialtheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64077"Hauntings" / NeMLA panel, March 17-20, Hartford, CTAlla Ivanchikova (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) Monika Giacoppe (Ramapo College)ivanchikova@.hws.edu, mgiacopp@ramapo.edu1442339437african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialreligionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Alla Ivanchikova (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) Monika Giacoppe (Ramapo College)contact email: ivanchikova@.hws.edu, mgiacopp@ramapo.edu
Description: In recent years, haunting has been theorized as a temporal aberration, as a form of memory (involuntary memory), as spectrality, as an absence, and as a structure of feeling (affect). Haunting brings us in touch with a history that remains invisible, creating a channel of communication with an entity that remains foreclosed and inaccessible. The The structure of haunting thus is always paradoxical, and is similar to what Mckenzie Wark calls dark media—the "mediation of that which can't be mediated." Haunting can have different levels of intensity; and most texts, just like most places, can be seen as haunted in one way or another. The papers in this seminar will engage with the idea of haunting in its theoretical, literary, political, practical, and didactic multiplicity: participants are encouraged to examine haunted spaces, as well as haunted texts or media, bring into visibility dark histories, toxic legacies, absences and presences, engage with haunting as a positive force or as a force of rupture, negativity, and disjunction. We are especially interested in papers that bring into conversation the question of haunting and ecocritical approaches, haunting and media studies, engage with contemporary political developments, such as the emergence of phantom states (e.g. the Islamic State) that haunt established national borders, or examine phantom internationalisms that haunt the global geopolitical distribution of power. We are interested in approaches that view haunting as mediatic, enabling a particular form of communication with non-communicable. We are also interested in work that puts haunting into dialogue with questions that emerge in the current age of precarity and the new global order. Potential topics include:
· Haunting and the global novel
· Haunting in the era of the anthropocene
· Phantom rights and precarity
· Haunting and dark media
· Dark ecologies and sacrifice zones
· Dark histories
· Phantom states
Abstract submission:
All abstracts will have to be submitted through the official NeMLA system, at https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html.
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_internetinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialreligionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64078 Harriet Beecher Stowe's Iconic Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Revisit, March 17-20, 2016Northeast Modern Language AssociationMolefi Kete Asante (Masante@temple.edu)1442344302african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: Molefi Kete Asante (Masante@temple.edu)
For NemLA's 2016 Conference in Hartford, Conn. March 17-20
Submit an Abstract (15690)
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Iconic Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Revisit
The aim of this roundtable is to engage the audience in a renewal of Stowe's place in the Abolition Movement by re-investigating the power of Uncle Tom's Cabin as a corrosive against slavery. Three roundtable participants will share cultural, literary, and value orientations about the importance of Stowe's best-selling novel and its iconic role in teaching its own generation and the following generations about the brutality of enslaving Africans in the United States.
cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approaches 64079Discourse on Protest and Reform in 19th-century Women's Writing, March 17-20, 2016Nilgun Anadolu-Okur Northeast Modern Language Associationnilgun.okur@gmail.com1442346341african-americanamericangender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryfull name / name of organization: Nilgun Anadolu-Okur Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: nilgun.okur@gmail.com
15592.
Discourse on Protest and Reform in 19th-century Women's Writing
(Roundtable)
Women's and Gender Studies / Cultural Studies and Media Studies
Chair: Nilgun Anadolu-Okur (Temple University)
As stones and shattered glass landed on the platform in Pennsylvania Hall on May 17, 1838, a newly-wed Angelina Grimké Weld bravely exclaimed, "Women of Philadelphia! Allow me as a Southern woman, with much attachment to the land of my birth, to entreat you to come up to this work…let me urge you to petition." This roundtable contributes to our understanding of women's leadership
Papers on the following authors are also invited: Frances Ellen Watkins-Harper, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe and other authors.
cfp categories: african-americanamericangender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinary 64080Crossroads of Otherness: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth Century France - 2016 NeMLA Convention, March 17-20, 2016New England Modern Language Associationsmgilson@bu.edu1442347547bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarymedievalpoetrypopular_cultureromantictravel_writingfull name / name of organization: New England Modern Language Associationcontact email: smgilson@bu.edu
Call for Papers for the 2016 NeMLA Convention, March 17-20 in Hartford, CT
In the preface to his 1829 poetry collection Les Orientales, Victor Hugo described the Orient as a place where "tout est grand, riche et fécond, comme dans le moyen-âge, cette autre mer de poésie." During the long nineteenth century, the growing fascination for the Orient—as poetic subject, scholarly discipline, and tourist destination—coincided with a cultural infatuation with the Middle Ages. As historical and geographical others, the Middle Ages and the Orient became ideal spaces from which to encourage nationalism, manage anxieties about otherness, or condemn modern-day society—all from the perceived safety of artistic escapism. Yet representations of the Orient and the Middle Ages are often positioned as parallel and competing, which downplays points of intersection and stymies a broader discussion about constructions of alterity in nineteenth-century France.
This panel seeks papers that explore the interplay between representations of the Middle Ages and the Orient in French literature during the long nineteenth century. How do writers and artists use their historical and geographical other to negotiate the boundaries of the self? How have these twin movements influenced our approach to the past and to our own modernity?
Topics may include literary examples in fiction, poetry, or travel journals; historical perspectives in Romance philology; the rise of Medieval Studies and Oriental Studies as academic disciplines; or stagings of the Middle Ages or the Orient at world fairs. Submissions may also connect these questions to contemporary views on issues like nationalism, immigration, and the legacies of colonialism.
Abstracts of 300 words or less must be submitted by September 30, 2015 through the NeMLA website: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/cfp
cfp categories: bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarymedievalpoetrypopular_cultureromantictravel_writing 64081NeMLA 2016 : The Learned Ignoramus: Education Reform and Resistance to InterdisciplinarityProfessor Kim Ballerini/NeMLA https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/cfp1442354318interdisciplinaryfull name / name of organization: Professor Kim Ballerini/NeMLAcontact email: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/cfp
NeMLA 2016 Conference/ Hartford, CT March 17-20, 2016
Abstract Submission Deadline : September 30, 2015
This roundtable seeks presentations focusing on the relevance, value, autonomy, and vision of interdisciplinary humanities study and research vs. traditional departmentalized structures. Is an acceptance of interdisciplinary humanities study an admission that knowledge is considered utilitarian rather than valuable for the sake of its specific discipline? How can interdisciplinary humanities place students in positions to show their research at work in the real world and how can we create heterogeneous projects that highlight how multiple disciplinary perspectives in the humanities gain strength by their diversity and still resonate with one another? How do interdisciplinary humanities contribute to the accumulation of societal knowledge in a credible way?
Please feel free to contact me with any inquiries at Kim.Ballerini@NCC.Edu
Abstracts may be submitted to: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/cfp
cfp categories: interdisciplinary 64082ALA Conference (April 6-9, Atlanta) Panel: Folklore in African Literature as a Tool in the Defense of Human Dignity and JusticeAllison Pine/ African Literature Association Conference 2016apine2@gsu.edu1442355181cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Allison Pine/ African Literature Association Conference 2016contact email: apine2@gsu.edu
This panel seeks to explore the ways that folklore interacts with the theme of justice and human dignity through the exploration of African literature. This definition of folklore includes all folk culture and orality, including folk song, proverbs, folk tales, folk art, etc. Folklore embodies human dignity and justice in its exploration of traditional ways and its insistence on the preservation or reclaiming of culture. One example is the exploration of traditional ways in contemporary literature and art as a way of preserving or reclaiming culture. Many African authors have utilized the folklore of their culture as a way of showing the depth and richness of their society. This is particularly significant in regards to African folklore, which is often stereotyped and misrepresented. Additionally, folklore is inherently related to justice in that its aesthetics and techniques are employed to create and maintain justice in the society in which it exists.
The purpose of this panel is to examine the ways that literature uses folklore to promote these themes of justice and dignity. Connections between folklore and other specific themes suggested by the conference's special focus are also encouraged. Both a reexamination of canonical texts and an introduction to new texts are welcome.
Please submit an abstract of up to 250 words to apine2@gsu.edu by October 30th, including name and institutional affiliation.
Related areas of interest: African folklore (folk art, folk music, folk poetry, proverbs, etc) in literature, African literature, African proverbs, African folktales, African myths, African legends, African orality
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 64083CFP -- Victorians Faking It: Fraud in Form and Fiction, deadline 1 November 20152016 VSAO/ACCUTE Panel, University of Calgary, 28-31 May 2016VSAOatACCUTE@gmail.com1442356797victorianfull name / name of organization: 2016 VSAO/ACCUTE Panel, University of Calgary, 28-31 May 2016contact email: VSAOatACCUTE@gmail.com
Is "faking it" an essential Victorian characteristic? Despite the popular perception of the nineteenth century as a period dominated by the Protestant work ethic and preoccupied with moral conscientiousness and "realism," Victorian culture bursts with deception and trickery – both in form and content. From misleading plots and authorial pseudonyms to the illusory reality of emerging technologies like photography, identifying the (in)authentic and enacting (in)authenticity is an ongoing concern of nineteenth-century characters, spectators, and readers. For consumers of texts, a certain enjoyment may arise from discovering and tacitly participating in violations of generic and social norms. Alternately, reveling in ruses or quietly "passing" as another class, gender, race, or religion may be crucial for success or even survival, whether as a character or author, or within society at large. Deception may be the hidden impulse that sets Victorian propriety in motion, from the practice of "Bunburying," to the scandal of the Tichborne claimant, to cases of quackery, to the fascination with discovering the figures behind George Eliot or Currer, Acton and Ellis Bell, or the tangled identities in sensation novels like Lady Audley's Secret. This panel invites papers that explore questions of fraud and trickery in Victorian form and fiction.
Papers might address:
- Economic fraud, forgery, and counterfeiting
- Identity theft
- The bigamy plot
- Doubling and replications with a difference
- Shared identities
- Pseudonyms, authorship scandals, and impersonation of authors
- Collaboration and attributions of credit
- Anonymous reviewers and unsigned pieces
- "Passing" and impostor syndrome
- Secretive genres such as the silver fork novels, the roman à clef, sensation fiction
- Generic mimicry
- Unreliable narrators
- Optical illusions
- Photographic trickery and artistic forgeries and fakes
Questions and submissions should be sent to VSAOatACCUTE@gmail.com. Please submit the following as separate documents by 1 November 2015:
- a proposal of 300-500 words that has NO identifying marks for the author
- an abstract of 100 words and a bio of 50 words
- a 2016 Proposal Information Sheet, available at: http://accute.ca/general-sessions/
Please note that speakers must be members of VSAO and ACCUTE at the time of the conference. The second oldest Victorian studies association in the world, the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario welcomes new members from universities, libraries, museums – all those who share an interest in Victorian culture. For more information about VSAO, please visit http://vsao.apps01.yorku.ca/
cfp categories: victorian 64084CFP: Brontë Women: Conventional, Radical, and Exceptional (Panel) | NeMLA 2016 | Deadline 9/30/15Kristin A. Le VenessKristin.LeVeness@ncc.edu1442363256victorianfull name / name of organization: Kristin A. Le Venesscontact email: Kristin.LeVeness@ncc.edu
Please consider submitting an abstract for the NeMLA 2016 panel "Brontë Women: Conventional, Radical, and Exceptional". This panel invites abstracts exploring the Brontës' ability to create striking female characters. Do these authors create conventional women characters or do they deviate from contemporary societal expectations? What might be the motivation or the outcome of creating either type? Papers are invited to examine the traditional, non-traditional, expected and unexpected constructions of womanhood found in the Brontë sisters' works.
Submit a 250-300 word abstract by September 30, 2015 to https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16012.
cfp categories: victorian 64085The BBC's Sherlock: The Agency of Popular Culture NEMLAbarnetts@ccsu.edu1442363262cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisioninternational_conferencespopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: NEMLAcontact email: barnetts@ccsu.edu
Submissions sought for an accepted panel on the BBC's Sherlock at the upcoming NEMLA conference in Hartford, CT, March 17-20 2016.
The sheer scale of the public reception of the BBC's Sherlock has made it understandable that much of the critical reception of the show has taken place in the emerging fields of fan and transmedia studies. However, this circumstance has over-emphasized the cultural work performed by the reception of the show at the expense of the cultural work the show itself has undertaken. Sherlock has interrogated, adapted and reconfigured the Holmes canon. In addition, i
Many of the key critical concepts and strategies of cultural studies were articulated well before the advent of the media and information environment that we have quickly come to take for granted. One of central notions of cultural studies—which was posited against the Neo-Marxist tendency to ascribe near-omnipotence to ideology and the culture industry that served as its conduit—was the power of consumers to appropriate, reconfigure and re-work mass culture. In the context now of Twitter, viral memes, online fan forums and fiction, this notion would seem to have come to full realization. Accordingly, this is what much of the critical commentary on Sherlock has focused on.
However, as a counter-weight to such approaches to Sherlock, this panel seeks to investigate the appropriation, reconfiguration and re-working that Sherlock itself enacts. For Sherlock is intimately aware of not only the Holmes canon but also the fan culture that the Holmes stories inspired.
How has Sherlock appropriated and re-worked the Holmes canon? How have these adaptations differed from preceding adaptations? To what extent is Sherlock not merely a retelling but an interpretation of the Holmes canon? How has Sherlock participated with (if not manipulated) fan reception? Does Sherlock complicate the frequent over-ascription of agency to consumers on the part of cultural studies? To what extent does Sherlock inaugurate "the game"—as articulated by Knox already in 1911—as transmedia phenomenon?
- Deadline for abstracts of 200-300 words is September 30.
- For information on the conference, see: https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisioninternational_conferencespopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64087IMGC 2016 Annual Conference: Exploring the Premodern World [DEADLINE: November 15]Indiana Medieval Graduate ConsortiumIMGC2016@gmail.com1442374465medievalfull name / name of organization: Indiana Medieval Graduate Consortiumcontact email: IMGC2016@gmail.com
The Indiana Medieval Graduate Consortium (IMGC) welcomes submissions for its annual symposium to be held at Purdue University March 4-5, 2016. The goal of the symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation of the classical, medieval, and early modern worlds. We encourage proposals approaching the premodern world from a diverse set of methodologies and disciplines; presentations might engage literature, history, philosophy, religious studies, linguistics, manuscript studies, art history, music studies, and so on.
The committee encourages scholarship that challenges periodization and hopes to promote cross-curricular conversation among participants; however, all submissions should be geared toward scholarly investigation of the thinking, cultures, and works of the classical, medieval, and/or early modern worlds.
Proposals for 20 minute individual papers should be approximately 250 words long and should include the presenter's contact information and A/V requirements. Please submit your abstracts and any questions you may have about the symposium to IMGC2016@gmail.com.
Keynote: Richard Firth Green, Title TBA
Conference Workshops: ($10, max. 20 participants)*
-Scholarly Publishing, led by Dorsey Armstrong
-Paleography, led by Michael Johnston
* Conference Workshop registration details to follow acceptance
Facebook: IMGC 2016 Annual Conference
Twitter: @IMGC_2016
cfp categories: medieval 64088ACLA 2016 Seminar: Technologies of Sexuality and Gender (DUE Sept 23)ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Commiteejmgreenblatt@gmail.com1442385719cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Commiteecontact email: jmgreenblatt@gmail.com
CALL FOR PAPERS
Technologies of Sexuality and Gender
A seminar proposal for ACLA 2016, March 17-20, at Harvard University
Sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association's Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Abstracts by September 23 and further details at http://www.acla.org/seminar/technologies-sexuality-and-gender-sponsored-...
Intersections of technology and sex, gender, and sexuality evoke myriad occasions for sexual/gender expression, rebellion, and regulation, as Donna Haraway elucidates in "The Cyborg Manifesto." Feminist techno-utopianism appears in theory, science fiction, and practice, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to Shulamith Firestone, to contemporary feminist DIY, bio-, and digital hacking. Yet, in Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Sedgwick is "chilled by the breezes of … technological confidence," given technologism's frequent aim of biological and social control—often by eliminating "undesirables," as histories of eugenics and intersections of scientific racism, gender, and sexuality attest. Technology's ability to open or close off possibilities of gender and sexual subjectivity or expression produce tensions between technology as a "degendering" ideal and historical genderings of technologies. Haraway successors, such as Karen Barad, reconcile these poles by addressing the "material-discursive practices" that configure the scientific and the social as discrete. Instead, such reflections propose that neither meaning nor matter is passive.
Both queer and regulatory possibilities arise in historical and contemporary development & use of sex toys and prostheses, and in fraught intersections of sexuality and gender with the internet and digital culture. Reproductive technologies participate in forms of neoimperialism through the use of Western money to restrict reproductive options in postcolonial nations and to hire marginalized women as reproductive surrogates. Meanwhile, access to sexual and reproductive healthcare and technologies remains contested in the West, as efforts to mobilize fears surrounding fetal stem cell research to defund Planned Parenthood attest. Access to medical treatments and biomedical regulatory mechanisms inform technologies of masculinity and femininity more broadly, notably in relation to passing and gatekeeping for trans* people. While global disparities in medical access to HIV testing and treatment are pronounced, the advent of anti-retrovirals and viral load testing has fundamentally shifted the position of the HIV-positive body in affluent nations. Nevertheless, recent controversies over PrEP suggest that the liberatory possibilities of biomedicine are always already subject to new regulatory discourses and fears.
We welcome comparative explorations of technology's relationship with sex, sexuality, and gender in its manifold material and imaginative iterations from a range of geographic and historical locations. Drawing from theoretical traditions such as feminist, gender, queer, trans, critical race, postcolonial, disability, etc., proposed papers might approach these issues comparatively from disciplines including, but not limited to, literary, media, digital, legal, (bio)medical, and sociocultural studies.
Submit an abstract at: http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper?seminar=5214
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64089The University's Reception of LacanUniversité de Bourgogne benedicte.coste@u-bourgogne.fr jmurray@univ-fcomte.fr1442389856interdisciplinarytheoryfull name / name of organization: Université de Bourgogne contact email: benedicte.coste@u-bourgogne.fr jmurray@univ-fcomte.fr
The University's Reception of Lacan
One-day Conference
Thursday, May 12, 2016, University of Bourgogne, Dijon
Conference organizers: Bénédicte Coste and Jennifer Murray
Lacan's position in relation to the institution of the university was "rather peculiar," as he commented in 1969 before an assembly of post-graduate students from the prestigious Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes where his seminar was being hosted. Lacan was never 'of' the university, and he stood by his ex-centric status even as he gave his seminars within university walls. And yet, in the last few decades, numerous academics in various fields have asserted the importance of his ideas and theoretical reflection in their own teaching and research. How, then, is Lacan considered within the university institution today? More than thirty years after his death, what place does his heterodox theory occupy, not only in departments of psychology and psychoanalysis, but more generally within the arts and social sciences? In view of the developments in the scientific, social and political fields and given the changes taking place within university structures and curriculums, the moment seems propitious to examine the question of the pertinence and durability of Lacanian theory within teaching and research.
The objective of this one-day conference is to analyse the changes in the university's reception of Lacanian theory. Some of the questions implicit in this endeavour include: Who writes about or with Lacan? Which fields of study affirm this connection most fully and to what end? What types of curriculum make a place for the teaching of Lacan, and which aspects of his theory are privileged? What is the situation with regard to university research and publication?
Moreover, in view of the availability of a number of English translations of Lacan's publications and seminars we would like to consider the reception of Lacan both in France and in countries where English is spoken. The relationship between Lacan and the USA was marked by the conferences he gave at Yale and Columbia University in 1975 to students outside of the field of psychoanalysis. As a now prominent figure of French Theory, Lacan is the subject of books, articles, and websites written or produced by teachers of the arts and humanities in Anglophone countries: examples of this mode of working with Lacan include the establishment of a Masters in psychoanalysis focused on the teachings of Freud and Lacan at the University of Kingston in Great Britain, and the activities carried out at the Centre for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture at the University of Buffalo where teaching and publishing projects are supported.
Do these approaches differ fundamentally from those of analysts and academics in France? Looking at Anglophone countries and at France, we will reflect on the current-day presence or absence of Lacanian teaching, thinking and research within the scope of the university, so as to be able to see more clearly what the potential force of Lacan's thinking is today, at the beginning of the XXIst century.
Please send your proposals for papers along with a short resume of your publications to benedicte.coste@u-bourgogne.fr and jmurray@univ-fcomte.fr by November 30, 2015.
La Réception de Lacan à l'Université
Journée d'étude
organisée le 12 mai 2016 à l'Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
par Bénédicte Coste et Jennifer Murray
« Mais moi, je ne suis pas de l'Université » : ainsi Lacan revendiquait-il sa place en regard de l'institution universitaire en 1969 … devant les étudiants à l'Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes qui accueillait son séminaire. Atopique ou extra-territorial, l'analyste le fut constamment, le rechercha souvent à partir des années 1960, et il ne fit jamais partie des universitaires. Pourtant, depuis quelques décennies, nombre d'enseignants-chercheurs d'horizons divers revendiquent son enseignement et sa pensée dans leur enseignement comme dans leurs travaux. Quelle est la réception universitaire de Lacan ? Plus de trente ans après sa disparition, peut-on faire un état des lieux de l'enseignement universitaire de Lacan non seulement au sein des départements de psychanalyse et de psychopathologie, mais plus généralement en lettres et SHS ? Devant les évolutions scientifiques, sociales et politiques actuelles et devant la refonte de l'enseignement universitaire, un bilan, certes provisoire, s'impose.
Cette journée d'étude se propose d'analyser l'évolution de la réception de Lacan au sein de l'université. Quels sont les chercheurs – psychanalystes, psychologues, sociologues, critiques, philosophes – se revendiquant de ses écrits, de son enseignement oral ? Quelles disciplines revendiquent le dialogue avec Lacan ? Avec quelle visée ? Dans quels cursus ou domaines l'enseignement des concepts lacaniens intervient-il ? Quels travaux universitaires s'appuient sur l'analyste ? Dans quelles monographies, quels journaux et quelles revues, Lacan est-il un interlocuteur, un penseur ou une source ?
Enfin, avec la traduction en anglais des Ecrits et des séminaires[1], on réfléchira sur la réception de l'œuvre lacanienne en France et dans les pays de langue anglaise. Sa réception aux USA est marquée par le malentendu inauguré par son exclusion de l'IPA et poursuivi par les conférences qu'il donne à Yale et Columbia University en 1975 auprès d'étudiants qui ne suivent pas de cursus psychanalytique. Pourtant, Lacan est non seulement devenu une figure tutélaire de la French Theory, mais se voit consacrer des ouvrages et des articles par des universitaires enseignant les humanités, que ce soit en Irlande[2], en Grande-Bretagne où l'Université de Kingston propose un master en psychanalyse portant sur Freud et Lacan, ou encore aux États-Unis où The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture à l'université de Buffalo réunit des projets d'édition et d'enseignement autour de la critique d'orientation analytique. Quelle est l'approche et l'usage des textes lacaniens en pays de langue anglaise ? Diffère-t-elle fondamentalement de l'approche de l'analyste en France ? Ou bien des points de recoupements existent-ils ?
Dans les pays de langue anglaise, comme en France, l'on réfléchira sur les raisons des conditions de la présence ou de l'absence actuelle de ce penseur dans l'enseignement universitaire afin d'établir un bilan au début du XXIe siècle.
Merci d'envoyer vos propositions de communication ainsi qu'un bref CV mentionnant vos publications à benedicte.coste@u-bourgogne.fr et jennifer.murray@univ-fcomte.fr pour le 30 novembre au plus tard.
cfp categories: interdisciplinarytheory 64091Asian and African Encounters - March 17-20, 2016Tina Steiner & Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessiokoffi-tessio@hws.edu & tsteiner@sun.ac.za1442412783cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinarypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Tina Steiner & Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessiocontact email: koffi-tessio@hws.edu & tsteiner@sun.ac.za
American Comparative Literature Association's Annual Meeting
March 17-20, 2016, Cambridge Massachusetts
Asian and African Encounters
Organizers: Tina Steiner & Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
This seminar seeks to explore how relations between Africa and Asia have been – and continue to be – represented in literary and cultural texts. These representations offer an important vantage point from which to think through emergent directions and re-orientations in global power with a view to situating Africa as a participant in these re-orientations. The presence of Indian and Chinese economic actors in Africa, both historically but also in the present, attests to a rich history of encounters and Asia-to-Africa migrations. Similarly, there are manifestations of old and new African migrations to Asia, as evidenced, for example, by the neighborhoods of Yiwu and Guangzhou (China) and the presence of East Africans and descendants of Africans on the West coast of the Indian peninsula.
We invite papers that explore literary, cinematic and cultural representations of Asian and African interactions. Some of the questions to be raised are: What cosmopolitan structures do African-Asian encounters provide? How can we think beyond the conceptual and intellectual constraints of area and nation-state studies? What is the role of Indian Ocean studies in a nuanced or complicated understanding of African and Asian relations? What are the overlapping, unfinished, unexplored histories or uncharted territories that define African and Asian encounters?
Topics may include but are not limited to:
• Cultural and literary translations
• African literatures in Asia and Asian literatures in Africa
• Images of Africa in Asia, images of Asia in Africa and each's representations of the other in films, exhibitions, performances and the media
• Cultural and linguistic cooperation and exchanges
• African and Asian identity politics
• Africa-to-Asia and Asia-to-Africa migrations
• Indentured labor/slavery
• Sites of contestation
Please submit a 250-word paper proposal and a short bio to the American Comparative Literature Association website by September 23rd, 2016:
http://www.acla.org/seminar/asian-and-african-encounters
For technical questions, contact info@acla.org
For all other inquiries contact Tina Steiner and Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
tsteiner@sun.ac.za and koffi-tessio@hws.edu
http://www.acla.org/annual-meeting
The American Comparative Literature Association's 2016 Annual Meeting will take place at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts March 17-20, 2016.
The ACLA's annual conferences have a distinctive structure in which most papers are grouped into twelve-person seminars that meet two hours per day for three days of the conference to foster extended discussion. Some eight-person (or smaller) seminars meet just the first two days of the conference. This structure allows each participant to be a full member of one seminar, and to sample other seminars during the remaining time blocks.
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinarypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 64092[UPDATE] DEADLINE to submit abstracts: SEPTEMBER 30, Reading Terror: Representations and Resistance. Dates: November 5-6, 2015. Department of Comparative Literature and the Italian Specialization at The Graduate Center, CUNYgcfallconference2015@gmail.com1442414526african-americanamericanclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Department of Comparative Literature and the Italian Specialization at The Graduate Center, CUNYcontact email: gcfallconference2015@gmail.com
The students of the Department of Comparative Literature and the Italian Specialization at The Graduate Center, CUNY, present the annual interdisciplinary conference, this year titled Reading Terror: Representations and Resistance. The conference will be held on Thursday, November 5 and Friday, November 6 2015.
The human experience of terror spans centuries of thought and debate, with many writers and thinkers working to investigate its form and nature. Aristotle includes pity and terror in his definition of tragedy; Burke defines terror (along with pain) as the strongest of emotions, tying it intrinsically to experiences of the sublime; the figures of Death and Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost serve as suitable instances of Burke's sublime in literature. The aesthetic and philosophical weight of terror also holds a particular relationship to experience and ethics that Burke remarked was present during the French Revolution: the Reign of Terror underscored the uncontrollable and visceral aspect of this side to human nature. In a modern context, terror can be tied to class and race struggles, military imperialism, neoliberalism, eco¬catastrophe, and police brutality, among other issues. Following the events of 9/11 our perception of terror has taken on a new nature; is it possible to disassociate terror from what we now recognize a terrorism and terrorists; the 'other' who is recognized as an enemy; the mentality of fighting in a 'war against terrorism'? These new, provocative connotations have morphed the significance and effect of the word terror, as well as altered the forms of resistance to such activity. Our inquiry into the mutable character of terror seeks to understand how and why its definitions have changed over time in an attempt to clarify this elusive concept.
This conference asks: What is the nature of terror? How have representations, definitions and our understanding of terror changed over time? How is terror used aesthetically, politically and socially? How is terror translated textually and visually? What are some of the modes of resistance to terror, through literature, art, and the media? How can we address the global and radicalizing nature of the conception of terror in a political theater, in the aftermath of movements such as Je Suis Charlie or Black Lives Matter?
We invite papers from all disciplines and fields focusing on works from any period, including literature, theory, philosophy, gender; intellectual history; art history; film and media studies; economic studies; psychology and psychoanalysis. In addition to whatever topics you might imagine, you might wish to consider the following:
● The relationship of terror to the sublime
● Literary and cinematic representations of terror (differences in effect)
● The relationship of terror to horror
● Writing as a resistance to/recording of terror
● Terror and beauty
● Terror and race
● The role of the media in shaping perceptions of terror
● Images of terror (the use of terror in propaganda)
● International perspectives and experiences of terror
● Terror in the age of the 'trigger warning'
● Terror and censorship
● Terror and colonialism and postcolonialism
● Micro¬terrors and micro¬aggressions
● Terror and affect theory
● Terror and intentionality
● Terror and the necessity of the 'other'
● Terror and the self (personal trauma, nostalgia, collective historical memory)
Please submit a 300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper by September 30, 2015 to gcfallconference2015@gmail.com. Proposals should include the title of the paper, presenter's name, institutional and departmental affiliation, and any technology requests. We also welcome panel proposals of three to four papers.
cfp categories:
cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches
eighteenth_century
film_and_television
graduate_conferences
interdisciplinary
popular_culture
postcolonial
romantic
theory
twentieth_century_and_beyond
victorian
cfp categories: african-americanamericanclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64093The Melancholy Islands?C21 Literature Special Issuemelancholyislands@gmail.com1442418555cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: C21 Literature Special Issuecontact email: melancholyislands@gmail.com
'The earth is evil. We don't need to grieve for it.' (Justine in Lars Von Trier's Melancholia)
This special issue of C21 Literature seeks to establish the extent to which 'melancholia' continues to be a useful critical concept in the analysis of British and Irish literature. The concept has provided an important framework for studies of a wide variety of writing from around the world over the course of the last decade. However, its coherence and usefulness are open to question, and it may be the case that earlier theorisations require adjustment, renovation or even dismissal. In what ways do literatures from the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom remain melancholy? How are new forms of optimism being expressed, and in what ways are they contained or undermined?
Papers might consider, although are not limited to:
- Finance, austerity 'Britain' and the Irish debt crisis
- Sovereignty, independence and the world system
- Poverty and precarity
- Melancholy multiculturalism and the difficulties of diversity
- Negation, exile and expulsion
- Uneven constitutions and broken borders
- Haunted regionalisms
- Shadows of devolution and problematic incorporation in Scotland and Wales
- Northern Irish literature and the recurrence of the past
- England alone: nationalism, exceptionalism and isolation
- Institutional silences in Irish writing
- Canon formation and the shadows of others
- Hope and optimism / pessimism and ressentiment
Please send 250-word abstracts to special issue coeditors Caroline Magennis and Alexander Beaumont at melancholyislands@gmail.com by 15th November 2015.
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 64094[UPDATE] "«Le carte» ... «Quali carte»". La Lett. Ita. Cont. tra Filologia e Critica. Hartford, Connecticut. March 17-20, 2016NeMLA 47th Annual Conventioncaterinamarras@hotmail.com1442421232humanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetrytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: NeMLA 47th Annual Conventioncontact email: caterinamarras@hotmail.com
La tavola rotonda si propone di discutere il processo che dalla Filologia può portare alla Critica letteraria, con particolare attenzione alla metodologia e ai "nuovi" strumenti di lavoro (internet, archivi digitali, ecc.). Ci si interrogherà sulla relazione tra questi due campi di studio: il filologo può o deve essere anche un critico e viceversa? Si sollecitano contributi su studi e lavori conclusi o in corso di svolgimento concernenti il diciannovesimo, ventesimo e ventunesimo secolo. Si prega di inviare una proposta di 250 parole entro il 30 Settembre 2015 a https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15888 o a https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/cfp scegliendo la sessione 15888.
This roundtable is aimed at discussing the process that could bring from Philology to Literary Criticism, drawing attention to methodologies and "new" working tools (internet, digital archives, etc). We will question the relationship between these two fields of study. Can or should the philologist also be a critic, and vice versa? Contributions on studies and on works - completed or in progress - concerning Italian literature from XIX to XXI centuries are welcome. Please submit a 250-word abstract at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15888 or https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/cfp by choosing the session 15888. Deadline Sept. 30, 2015.
cfp categories: humanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetrytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64095Culture-Society-Education Special Issue: "Education And Movies. Contemporary Youths in the Cinema"Faculty of Educational Studies Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznanmonika.popow@amu.edu.pl1442423003film_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturescience_and_culturetheoryfull name / name of organization: Faculty of Educational Studies Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznancontact email: monika.popow@amu.edu.pl
Culture-Society-Education is a peer-reviewed journal published at the Faculty of Educational Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. The journal welcomes contributions to a special issue "Education and Movies. Contemporary Youths in the Cinema".
The relations between education and cinema are multidimensional. Movies are often used as an element of curriculum, a starting point for discussion, as an element of professional training or a therapy. However movies may also be perceived as part of educational discourse, related to crucial issues in educational practice and theory, as well as reflecting social reality and representations of social and political identities. As such movies may become an object of critical analysis. This special issue aims to bring together studies done by researchers and practitioners in respect to an extensive range of topics about representations of contemporary youths in the cinema.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
representations of youths in the cinema;
representations of school in the cinema;
movies in educational practice.
We welcome submissions in English and Polish.
If you are interested in submitting your paper to the Culture-Society-Education Journal, please send an abstract (ca 5400 characters), a full paper (ca 40 000 characters), short biographical note, and 4-5 key words to Eva Zamojska zameva@amu.edu.pl and Jarema Drozdowicz - drozd23@wp.pl
For details regarding style, please visit the following page: cultsocedu.amu.edu.pl/info_en.html
Images must be sent in a separate paper sheet. An author must obtain permission to use a copyrighted work.
Deadline for submissions: December, 31, 2015.
Culture-Society-Education
Faculty of Educational Studies of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Editorial Board:
Editor-in-chief: Agnieszka Cybal-Michalska
Assistant editor: Jarema Drozdowicz
Members of the editorial board: Małgorzata Grzywacz, Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska, Witold Jakubowski, Barbara Jankowiak, Ewa Karmolińska-Jagodzik, Karolina Kuryś-Szyncel, Jerzy Luty, Zbyszko Melosik, Pavel Mühlpachr, Janice Mych--Wayne, Joanna Ostrouch-Kamińska, Magdalena Piorunek, Winfried Schubarth, Andreas Seidel, Dorota Smetanová, Kristin K. Stang, Lidia Suchanek, Cristina Maria Coimbra Vieira, Eva Zamojska
Website:
cultsocedu.amu.edu.pl
cfp categories: film_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturescience_and_culturetheory 64096Call for Papers: Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender - Deadline, December 1st, 2015Ali Chetwynd, Joanna Freer, Georgios Maragospynchonessaycollection@gmail.com1442426504americangender_studies_and_sexualitytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Ali Chetwynd, Joanna Freer, Georgios Maragoscontact email: pynchonessaycollection@gmail.com
Call for Papers: Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender
A collection of essays to be edited by Ali Chetwynd (University of Michigan), Joanna Freer (University of Exeter), Georgios Maragos (Independent Scholar).
Masculinist, misogynist, phallo‐centric, pornographic – critics have long debated whether the formal experimentation, irony and ambiguity of canonical male postmodernists complicates such criticisms of their subject matter, and here as so often Thomas Pynchon has been an exemplary figure. From some of the earliest anthologised Pynchon criticism until the present day, deep critical divisions have persisted as to whether his representations of women are sexist, feminist, or reflective of a more general misanthropy, whether his writing of sex is boorishly pornographic or transgressively liberating, whether queer identities are celebrated or mocked, whether his experimental forms are innately masculinist or democratically all-encompassing.
Yet for all their longevity, these questions have remained on the margins of Pynchon criticism, and after a spike in articles and essays about his sexual and gender politics in the few years either side of the millennium, engagement with them has slowed to a trickle. Does this mean that everything there is to be said about Thomas Pynchon, sex, and gender has now been said? We don't think so: we propose instead the first book‐length investigation of Pynchon's work to put these topics at its core. Following a 2015 International Pynchon Week at which gender and sexual politics were the dominant thread from first day to last, we seek contributions to a collection of essays that will open up fresh avenues in the study of such matters, furthering or moving beyond the debates mentioned above, both in Pynchon's work and in the whole field of postmodern fiction. We've already heard from a number of university and commercial presses interested in reading the full proposal once we've considered all abstracts, and we look forward to your submissions.
Abstracts on any topic that conceivably falls under the rubric of the collection's title are welcome. Potential topics for papers might include but are not limited to:
-Gendering/Femininity/Masculinity/QueerIdentities
-Queer sexualities
-The politics of sexual (non-)transgression/ Gender, sex and activism
-Writing sex/Sex and the postmodern/Gender and experimental literary forms
-Feminism/Anti‐feminism/Neo‐Feminism/Post‐feminism
-Economic/Labour contexts to gender and sex
-Visuality/Pornography/Media
-Comparative treatments of gender in Pynchon and other innovative fiction
Given the proposals already received, we're especially interested in papers that address any of the following: Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Vineland, the short fiction, queer sexuality, contemporary theory in sexuality studies, the gender politics of non‐realist fictive form, Pynchon's defences and rewritings of the family unit, sex work, literature's relation to activism, the limits and potential of transgression, and gender's significance in the paratextual contexts of Pynchon's career.
Please submit a 500‐word chapter proposal that clearly explains how it will contribute to, revise, or depart from existing debates around sex and gender in Pynchon and his generation by 1st December 2015. See the bibliography of work on the topic at https://www.academia.edu/15616240/Pynchon_Sex_and_Gender_Bibliography for a sense of those debates. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by January. For those accepted, we anticipate a deadline for full chapter submission around June 2016. Proposals should be sent to pynchonessaycollection@gmail.com as Word documents or pdfs. Enquiries can be directed to the same email address.
cfp categories: americangender_studies_and_sexualitytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64097Control: The 10th SLSAeu conference. Stockholm June 2016Frida Beckman, Department of English, Stockholm University, Swedeninfo@control2016.com1442426991americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Frida Beckman, Department of English, Stockholm University, Swedencontact email: info@control2016.com
The 10th SLSAeu conference, Stockholm, June 14-17, 2016
Theme: Control
Website: control2016.com
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam), Lauren Berlant (University of Chicago), Michael Dillon (Lancaster University), Alexander Galloway (New York University), Steven Hinchliffe (University of Exeter)
While the birth of biopolitics at the "threshold of modernity" made politics itself a matter of controlling and modifying life processes, it seems evident that a whole string of developments over the last few decades have given birth to new modes of control. For example, ways of influencing, shaping, directing, and restricting human and nonhuman animals, organisms, processes, systems, motions, and behaviors change alongside developments in technology and science, in modes of production, in the globalization of neoliberal capitalism, and in geopolitical and postcolonial processes. Since contemporary modes of control make it possible to influence all levels and forms of life, the spectrum under discussion reaches from laboratories experimenting with stem cells and live tissue, to media representations of war and climate change, to enactments and discourses of security, to the policing of borders and migration, to mention a very few. The representations, experimentations, and expressions of literature, science, and the arts provide examples of as well as challenges to the various mechanisms of control. We hereby invite individual or panel proposals engaging with the notion of control in relation to topics such as:
* security, including biopolitical-, climate-, food-, and human security, surveillance, digitalization and debt as a mode of governance.
* borders, including the history of borders; migration, diaspora and borders; the precariat in and outside the nation; borders between the human and non-human.
* war, including the political, cultural, juridical and philosophical stakes of the role of techno-science, visual culture and hyper-communication.
* climate, including the affective, technological and political gymnastics of climate control as well as the fascination with that which escapes prediction and preparation.
* life, on the verge of extinction and in the shadow of the Anthropocene, including life as the limit of control, as uncontainable, excessive, recalcitrant, and insistent.
* animals, including animal agency; intersectional approaches to species, gender, race and more; animal spaces and place-making; animal representations.
* bacteria, including theoretical, literary, and artistic engagements with the relationship between humans and the microbial world.
* desire, including the link between control-desire and: the media; gender; sexuality; pleasure; private/public; agency/passivity; and the beauty industry.
Artists are invited to present theoretical work in any of the streams but are also particularly invited to send proposals (for installations, exhibitions…) to the Control-Experiment exhibition. Descriptions of streams can be found on the conference homepage.
Submission:
Deadline for individual abstracts or panel proposals is December 14th. Individual abstracts should be 250 words. Panel proposals must include three individual abstracts as well as an additional paragraph describing the focus of the panel, including a title. Submissions and inquiries should be made to info@control2016.com
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64098UNApocalypse: Exploring Dystopianism in TextsEnglish Graduate Student Organization at the University of North Alabama cprice7@una.edu1442427517americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: English Graduate Student Organization at the University of North Alabama contact email: cprice7@una.edu
Call for Papers:
The University of North Alabama English Department
Announces the 7th Annual Alabama Regional Graduate Conference in English
February 26-27, 2016
UNApocalypse: Exploring Dystopianism in Texts
Recently, there has been a resurgence of critical interest in dystopianism, which is mirrored by dystopic themes in contemporary literature and pop culture like The Walking Dead, The Hunger Games series, and dystopian graphic novels. The University of North Alabama's Department of English invites proposals for scholarly papers which investigate any aspect of dystopianism or its converse, utopianism, in language, literature, or other media. For example, topics might include readings of works within the genre of utopic or dystopic literature, but we also welcome examinations of these themes in texts. We are interested in receiving examinations of texts from any time period or country of origin, but we are particularly interested in contemporary and nontraditional texts or media.
Possible topics and representative texts may include (but are not limited to):
Film and film adaptations
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
YA literature and novels
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Television shows
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Comics and graphic novels
Divergent series (novels and film adaptations)
Studies of fan fiction
V for Vendetta (graphic novel or film adaptation)
Contemporary and classic literature
The Republic by Plato
Marxist and neo-Marxist criticism
Utopia by Thomas More
Gender studies and feminist theory
Zombie genre films, TV shows, novels, and graphic novels
Postcolonial theory
Science fiction and fantasy
Queer theory
Satire and political commentary
Diversity in dystopian texts
Post-apocalyptic texts
The keynote speaker for this conference will be Dr. David Lavery, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Middle Tennessee State University. He has authored or co-authored twenty-two books, including works on Joss Whedon and the Sopranos television series. Dr. Lavery's talk is entitled: "The Plan is Death: Imagining the End with James Tiptree Jr."
We welcome proposals from current students and recent graduates (within the last five years) of MA or PhD programs in English, Film Studies, or Cultural Studies. Presentations should be twenty-minutes in length and may explore a range of topics addressing our theme in relation to literature, film, or other new media. Presentations that utilize audiovisual presentations are encouraged.
Proposals:
Please upload proposals of 250-300 words by December 1, 2015 to the conference website at www.una.edu/englishgradcon. You may also send proposals directly to Eric Hughes at ehughes@una.edu. Suggestions for panels are also welcomed. All proposals will receive a decision on acceptance by January 15, 2016.
Travel Scholarships:
A limited number of travel scholarships for out-of-town presenters are available and must be made at time of proposal submission. Presenters will be notified of travel scholarship award when they are notified of acceptance. More information and the application can be found on our website: www.una.edu/englishgradcon
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. Winners will receive a certificate and recognition at the conference.
Information:
Further information on the conference, the University of North Alabama, our department, and the Florence area is available on our website: www.una.edu/englishgradcon
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 64099Insider or Outsider? The State of Medieval Iceland2016 ACMRS Conference, February 4-6, 2016.Daniel.Najork@asu.edu; sma@princeton.edu1442428690medievalfull name / name of organization: 2016 ACMRS Conference, February 4-6, 2016.contact email: Daniel.Najork@asu.edu; sma@princeton.edu
"Insider or Outsider? The State of Medieval Iceland"
Special session, The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2016 Conference: "Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance." February 4-6, 2016.
Organizers: Daniel Najork (Arizona State University) and Sarah M. Anderson (Princeton University)
Iceland is notable for the continuity of its literary traditions, examples of which are extant from about the twelfth century onwards – not too long after the beginning of continuous settlement of the island in the early Middle Ages. The Icelandic language is renowned for its morphological and lexical conservatism, for the nearly complete lack of dialectal variation in the nine-hundred-year-long record of Icelandic (cf., e.g., the substantial dialectical variation found in Icelandic's closest linguistic kin, Norwegian, through the same period), and for the success of its modern program of "language purism". Until Norwegian overlordship commenced in 1262 CE, the island is also singular during the early medieval period (i.e., during the period of the Icelandic "commonwealth", 930-1262 CE) for its kinglessness and for other cultural features not exampled elsewhere in the West. Both the linguistic and the literary continuity are crucial to the collective memory of Icelanders, and both emphasize Iceland's special medieval legacy in the formation of Icelandic national identity. Yet, this identity can also seem frozen, monolithic, and fundamentally separated, island-like, from ideas that constitute the "medieval" elsewhere in the West, as if Iceland were, in fact, a real cultural ultimate Thule, not an imagined one.
This session raises the question of how medieval Iceland saw itself and of how it was – and is – seen in relation to "mainland" Western medieval cultures and ideas. Is Iceland on the margins, even marginal, if rich cultural phenomena like chivalry and kingship sign what constitutes the medieval? Or is medieval Iceland a different but exceptional place, a society that produced mind-blowingly cerebral skaldic poetry and that extraordinary narrative form, the saga? Did this country start the gender-equality that we are just catching up with? Is Iceland the ultimate outsider during the Middle Ages, or the definitive insider, the place that produced an astute critique of, and alternative to, the medieval West? This session invites papers that put these and similar questions about Iceland's outside / inside state into circulation.
Please send abstracts of 250-500 words to Daniel.Najork@asu.edu and sma@princeton.edu by November 23 at 4 PM EST.
cfp categories: medieval 64100[UPDATE] NeMLA 2016 Pedagogy Roundtable / Interdisciplinary HumanitiesNortheast Modern Language Associationbirdsal5@msu.edu1442429463cultural_studies_and_historical_approacheshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_cultureprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositiontwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: birdsal5@msu.edu
The Bane of Their Existence: Making Interdisciplinary Humanities Matter
At many colleges and universities, there exist general education requirements in the so-called "interdisciplinary humanities." Most students, even those majoring in the humanities, don't look forward to these classes—which can be large and unwieldy—and they don't regard them as especially important in their own degree trajectories. Students seem to think that they won't learn anything, that they will have to endure lecture after lecture, write a couple of papers, take a final, and forget the rest. And, all too often, professors and graduate students saddled with the task of teaching these courses feel the same way. What might we do about this? Are there ways to make general education courses in the humanities interesting and engaging for all involved?
This roundtable seeks to investigate several things. One, how do humanities scholars define "interdisciplinary humanities," in the first place? Two, how might we compare that definition with students' expectations and university course descriptions? Three, how can we discuss ways in which we might make this kind of learning both fun and engaging for students in all majors—and for us? Topics may include, but are not limited to: general pedagogical approaches (face to face and online), approaches to specific texts and contexts, text selection, writing assignments, and our own goals and expectations for such courses. The goal is to come away with a sense of how and why teaching such courses matters, and with new approaches to course materials.
Please submit a 250-word abstract and CV to Kate Birdsall via email at birdsal5@msu.edu AND via NeMLA's system: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15706
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approacheshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_cultureprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositiontwentieth_century_and_beyond 64101ACLA 2016: Theories of PovertyJohn Whalen and Kyle Kamaiopili, Tufts UniversityJohn.Whalen@tufts.edu1442430894general_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesfull name / name of organization: John Whalen and Kyle Kamaiopili, Tufts Universitycontact email: John.Whalen@tufts.edu
We are looking for submissions, from both graduate students and faculty, for panel at the 2016 ACLA conference in Cambridge, MA. Questions can be addressed to John Whalen (John.Whalen@tufts.edu) or Kyle Kamaiopili (Kyle.Kamaiopili@tufts.edu). To submit, please visit the ACLA's submission portal, linked here: http://www.acla.org/seminar/theories-poverty . Submissions are due by Midnight PST on September 23rd. We look forward to hearing from you!
CFP: Theories of Poverty
Financial collapse, the death throes of capitalism, racism, the distribution and calculation of violence and destruction, interminable war indistinguishable from natural catastrophe, and global climate change— the impoverishment of the planet and many of its inhabitants continues without any foreseeable relief. As more capital and political power is transferred to the world's most affluent, and the value of life becomes contingent on states of indebtedness, is it possible that we— from recent graduates of prestigious universities to the most isolated and abject "untouchables—" are consumed by more poverties, by altered, newer poverties? Indeed, has poverty become so rapacious that it begins to take on pandemic-like qualities— Greece, Angola, Guatemala, Haiti, Gaza, Spain, Zambia, Baltimore, Tehran, Tripoli, Detroit?
What do we "make" of poverty? Are statistics enough? Do we define poverty through the lenses of capital, property, ownership, health, class, caste, or political status? Does our reaction to poverty demand of us the same fetishization of commodities as the perpetuation of poverty? How has poverty been thought historically? Are the impoverished simply subjects for the "sciences," or necessary elements within the economics of scarcity? What, ultimately, is poverty? Can it be defined? How does it work, and how does it work for us? These, among others, are central questions to this seminar.
For Franciscans, poverty is something to be attained, a state of religious purity. For many philosophers and political theorists the poor are often those sublimated and contrasted to the thinker, non-thinking anti-philosophers for whom and from whom the theorist takes his authority. And how do the arts of characterization and plot within poetry and the novel depend upon the poor? How much must the "poor" labor so that we may think and write about "the poor?"
Thus, in this seminar we would like to examine theories of poverty. We invite submissions from all fields of study.
cfp categories: general_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferences 64102Ecospeak and Ecocriticism - Thematic IssueL'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria - Academic Journalecopoetique@gmail.com1442431957ecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysfull name / name of organization: L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria - Academic Journalcontact email: ecopoetique@gmail.com
CFP: "Ecospeak and Ecocriticism: What Reciprocity Between Humanity and the Planet?"
In 2016 the Journal "L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria" is publishing a thematic issue titled: "Ecospeak and Ecocriticism: What Reciprocity Between Humanity and the Planet?"
Since the end of last century our Planet Heart has become the object of an attention aimed at awakening environmental awareness. "Being" means today "being in a place" and the word 'place', as opposed to the more abstract 'space', has become an essential concept to rethink our way to inhabit the Planet. In this sense, Yi-Fu Tuan affirms that places are "centers of felt value", because humans can develop a place-attachment but not a space-attachment, this last being a geometrical or topographical abstraction without sentimental bonds.
One of the theories exploring these matters is Ecocriticism, born with the "intent to include the environmental question in literary criticism, as it had already been done for civil rights and for the feminist and postcolonial question" (S. Iovino). Which points of view can then spread from such a perspective, not only on literary matters but inside a wider analysis taking into consideration the so called Ecospeak? How does communication treat the relationship humanity/nature?
We invite to present contributions answering, from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, one or more of the following questions:
• How does the Ecological question and consciousness modify the narration, both at discourse and contents level?
• How do different literary traditions relate to the concept of Ecocriticism?
• Is Ecocriticism compatible with the Christian conception of the creation?
• Which argumentative strategies are used in ecocritical discourse and how are they transposed from one cultural field to another through translation?
• Which communicative manipulations are put to use with respect to the new and increasingly widespread ecological sensibility?
• How does the ecological crisis and the modern ecological awareness intervene in the relationship of humans with the place where they live?
We believe this last perspective to be particularly interesting to be explored in the year when EXPO 2015, titled Nutrire il Pianeta, Energia per la Vita, takes place in Milan. Moreover, the theme of sustainability, of intelligent and responsible growth, of attention to the Planet, to climate changes, to resources and raw materials are among the key points of Horizon 2020.
We invite submissions related, but not limited, to any of the aforementioned issues.
Deadline for submissions : 22 November 2015.
Papers, no longer than 20.000 characters with spaces, must be submitted online through the journal website : http://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu and must follow the journal stylesheet.
Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by April 2016.
cfp categories: ecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesjournals_and_collections_of_essays 64103[UPDATE] ACLA 2016: The House in Literature: practices of commemoration, consumption, display and self-fashioning.Diviani Chaudhuri / State University of New York at Binghamtondchaudh1@binghamton.edu1442432035african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialtheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Diviani Chaudhuri / State University of New York at Binghamtoncontact email: dchaudh1@binghamton.edu
There's only one more week left to submit paper proposals for the American Comparative Literature Association's 2016 Annual Meeting to be held at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts March 17-20, 2016.
Abstracts must be received by Midnight PST on Wednesday, September 23, 2015.
Innovative presentations are invited for the proposed seminar, "The House in Literature: practices of commemoration, consumption, display and self-fashioning."
Each ACLA seminar has 8-12 participants and meets over three days during the annual meeting.
Interested participants may upload abstracts of no more than 1500 characters, including spaces, to the ACLA website at http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper
Online registration is required to upload papers, but does not require the purchase of membership at this point.
Please contact the seminar organiser at dchaudh1@binghamton.edu with any questions or possible ideas for presentations/presentation format.
The following CFP is also available at http://www.acla.org/node/5089
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Drawing on the work of early twentieth century scholars and authors such as (but not limited to) Gaston Bachelard, Martin Heidegger, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf, to more recent work by Pierre Bourdieu on the Kabyle house, Mark Girouard on the English country house and Carel Bertram on the Turkish house, this seminar will examine representations of the private residence in literature in relation to practices of commemoration, consumption, display and self-fashioning.
While structuralists following Bourdieu sought to show that the order of the house served as the basis for homologies with other domains (including expressive systems), more recently, Antoinette Burton has positioned the house as a "material archive for history" and a "real political figure in an extended moment of historical crisis" in the context of violent state-formation in South Asia, which generated a large population of refugees across social classes essentially dispelled from their homes based on ethnreligious affiliation.
This seminar seeks to expand this body of work by asking:
If the twentieth century is characterised by refugeehood and statelessness, how does literature grapple with multiple dispossessions of house and home? What functions does the house serve in literary cultures, especially in such violent transitional moments?
To what extent does the house function as a metonym for nation and as a mnemonic for national identity?
How does the private residence articulate with literary representations of the city, and with landmarks, public monuments and civic spaces therein, especially given the overexposure of the figure of the flaneur in the scholarship on urban modernity?
In what ways do domestic architecture and interior objects order literature?
In what ways does the house figure in practices of literary self-articulation?
How do literary cultures represent as well as shape women's relation to household commodities and to consumption?
How do literary representations of domestic interiors and spatial practices inflect discourses of (colonial and transnational) modernity and postcolonial nostalgia?
Can certain forms of residential dwellings--vernacular forms such as the courtyard house, for instance--serve as iconic repositories of the past? If so, what role does literature play in investing meaning(s) to this past, and in its strategic revision through memory-work?
While some private residences are monumentalised for large-scale public consumption--as is evidenced by the long history of the American house museum, for example--others cannot be preserved as historical sites. In what ways and to what ends can literature 'musealise' these houses and participate in the cultures of display?
cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialtheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64104CFP ACLA 2016: Numbing the Pain: Aesthetics and Anaesthetics of Global Mexico (March 17-20, 2016 Harvard U)Marcela Romero Riveraromerorivera@hws.edu1442432245cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityinterdisciplinarytheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Marcela Romero Riveracontact email: romerorivera@hws.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS
NUMBING THE PAIN: AESTHETICS AND ANAESTHETICS OF GLOBAL MEXICO
ACLA 2016, Harvard University. March 17-20, 2016
Organizers: Marcela Romero Rivera, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Maximillian Alvarez, University of Michigan.
Deadline for submissions: September 23rd, 2015.
Forward your questions to: romerorivera@hws.edu or maximill@umich.edu
Submit a paper at: http://www.acla.org/node/5246
"Being 'cheated out of experience' has become the general state, as the synaesthetic system is marshaled to parry technological stimuli in order to protect both the body from the trauma of accident and the psyche from the trauma of perceptual shock. As a result, the system reverses its role. Its goal is to numb the organism, to deaden the senses, to repress memory: the cognitive system of synaesthetics has become, rather, one of anaesthetics."
–Susan Buck-Morss
In reevaluating Walter Benjamin's famous Artwork essay, Susan Buck-Morss pores over the ghostly premonition embedded in Benjamin's closing lines: "[mankind's] self-alienation has reached such a degree that it is capable of experiencing its own destruction as an aesthetic enjoyment of the highest order. So it is with the aestheticization of politics, which is being managed by fascism." The synaesthetic system is "open" in the extreme sense; we could
think of it as the nervous system itself, but only by accepting the nervous system as a circuit of sensibility not confined to the seemingly finite contours of the rubbery brain, the fleshy body. "As the source of stimuli and the arena for motor response, the external world must be included to complete this sensory circuit." The aesthetic is the realm in which we are in-/de-creasingly open to the world, in which we sense, feel, experience, respond. And
the "uncivilizable trace" of the senses is part of the core of the "biological apparatus," whose indispensible drive is that of self-preservation, for the individual and the group. For Benjamin, as for Buck-Morss, as for us now, it is precisely this drive that is being cut off.
The aesthetic condition of (post-)modern life is a "crisis of perception." Our sensorium is constantly "shocked" by technological mediation and manipulation, by controlled spectacle, by fashion, by our routinized saturation in phantasmagoria to the point that our synaesthetic system "reverses its role" and anesthetizes the frayed nerves. Pharmaceuticals don't only numb us to the overload; they allow us to become spectators of a world we are in but no longer feel. It is under this general anesthesia that we can watch the world burn and be disappointed when the explosions aren't big enough. We propose this crisis of perception as an analytic context through which to frame new, and reframe old, issues of "global Mexico." Dealing with political/perceptive realities in Mexico, on/of the border, ways of relating to Mexico "from outside," and Mexico as concept, we invite papers that deal with
any range of topics, such as: media and technology; literature; art; the body; drugs; cultures; (pre-)linguistic regimes; sexuality; sensuality; materiality; cognition; "nature"; inside/outside; etc.
More information at: http://www.acla.org/node/5246
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityinterdisciplinarytheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64105[UPDATE] New Frontiers in the American West (Submission Deadline: September 30, 2015)Northeast Modern Language AssociationKyle Wiggins kwiggins@bu.edu1442432872americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinarypopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: Kyle Wiggins kwiggins@bu.edu
While narratives of "savage war" along the borders of wilderness and civilization are not unique to the United States, Americans' tendency to assign those stories mythic significance is. As Richard Slotkin has argued, 20th-century fictional and cinematic frontiers became shared sites "in which Americans could imagine (or observe others imagining) the basis for a new (or renewed) cultural consensus on the meaning and direction of American society." For Slotkin and other scholars of the American West, the authors and directors of classic westerns treated the frontier as a blank page on which to record the national character and revise or reinforce national values like self-reliance, the free market, and American exceptionalism—often during challenging historical moments like the Cold War, Vietnam protests, and the Civil Rights Movement. Yet as the production of frontier narratives has continued—even exploded—in the 21st century, new works in the genre have used the zone of the frontier to challenge these national values. From apocalyptic gunslingers in the comic book East of West to space cowboys in TV's Firefly to the lawless open range of the interstate highway system in the novel The Devil All the Time, the Western's tropes have infiltrated unlikely corners of popular and literary culture.
Believing the time has arrived for a fresh critical or theoretical appraisal of the Western, this panel will explore the emerging anti-myths of the Western genre, stories that treat the frontier as a place of ecological hazard, civilizational tragedy, or technological terror. The diversity of these new frontier narratives will allow panelists to contemplate a variety of theoretical approaches (eco-criticism, post-colonialism, techno-criticism) and genre focuses (novels, film, graphic narratives), creating an opportunity for interdisciplinary conversation.
Interested participants can submit abstracts of 300 words to: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15895
NeMLA's 2016 conference will be held in Hartford, CT from March 17-20. The deadline for submission is September 30th.
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinarypopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 64106CFP: Special Guest-Edited Issue of [in]Transition on Latin American cinema and film cultures[in]Transitionmichael.talbott@castleton.edu, npoppe@middlebury.edu1442433944americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitypopular_culturepostcolonialfull name / name of organization: [in]Transitioncontact email: michael.talbott@castleton.edu, npoppe@middlebury.edu
Guest Editors: Nicolas Poppe, Middlebury College
Michael Talbott, Castleton University
Videographic criticism has recently emerged as an exciting new mode of film scholarship, allowing one to write not simply on films, but with them. Through experimentation with a wide-range of styles and affects, many of which lie outside what is able to be expressed by the written word, those practicing videographic criticism have just begun to explore its possibilities. In this special issue of [in]Transition, we aim to provide a space for the application of this emerging and generative mode of scholarly expression to Latin American cinema and film cultures.
We are especially interested in videographic work that sets itself apart from traditional modes of scholarship on Latin American cinema. As Eric Faden has described, videographic work "moves scholarship beyond just creating knowledge and takes on an aesthetic, poetic function. Critical media, unlike say the traditional journal article, should evoke the same pleasure, mystery, allure, and seduction as the very movies that initiated our scholarly inquiry." Insofar as the essays included in this special issue will shape meaning through the sights and sounds of their object(s) of study, they need not replicate the ways in which we have traditionally written on cinema and/or film cultures.
So as to open videographic work to as broad of an audience as possible, we invite submissions that engage with the any aspect of Latin American cinema and film cultures. Submissions must be submitted in English, the language in which [in]Transition is published; however, in the spirit of accessibility, submissions with an accompanying version in Spanish and/or Portuguese are especially welcome. Please direct any questions to the guest editors, Nicolas Poppe (npoppe@middlebury.edu) and Michael Talbott (michael.talbott@castleton.edu). For submission guidelines, consult the [in]Transition website (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/contribute). The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2016.
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitypopular_culturepostcolonial 64107UPDATE: ACLA 2016: Pedagogy, In TheoryCarolyn Laubender/ Duke Universityccl23@duke.edu1442434747americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespostcolonialtheoryfull name / name of organization: Carolyn Laubender/ Duke Universitycontact email: ccl23@duke.edu
Pedagogy, In Theory
ACLA, 2016
Organizers: Carolyn Laubender and Chase Gregory, Duke University
Abstracts (250-300words) & CVs due through the ACLA portal (http://www.acla.org/seminar/pedagogy-theory) by 9/23
Marxism and psychoanalysis, which represent two of the three famous "hermeneutics of suspicion," each have an important but conflicted relationship with the work of education. As Lenin writes in 1918, "Marxism educates the vanguard of the proletariat which is capable of assuming power … of being the teacher, the guide, the leader of all the laboring and exploited people" (The State of the Revolution). Less than twenty years later, Freud will pessimistically reflect on the state of the psychoanalytic "cure", saying that "it almost appears that the analyst's work might be the third of those 'impossible' professions in which, even before you begin, you can be sure you will fall short of complete success. The two others, known about for much longer, are education and government" (203). Taken together, these two quotes demonstrate a wide range of assessments about the function of education: it is both necessary to revolution yet fundamentally impossible; both empowering and inadequate; both liberatory and repressive.
Subsequent post-structuralist interventions by scholars such as Michel Foucault have further complicated these initial theorizations, showing how knowledge might productively operate with power, and thereby moving us beyond an understanding of pedagogy as only either repressive or liberatory. Though the trope of education persists throughout these oeuvres, scholarship typically engages "critical pedagogy" far less frequently than the more "practical" concerns of daily teaching and institutional constraint. Thus, this seminar takes pedagogy as its central object, and invites papers that theorize its current purchase for understanding our critical theories (be they feminist, queer, critical race, Marxist, psychoanalytic, etc)
Topics this seminar would welcome engaging include:
*the role of pedagogy/education/knowledge in any critical genealogies
*the common disjunction between "praxis" and "theory", between "method" and "content"
*the link between knowledge and sexuality
*the anxiety about sex and/in the classroom
*visibility and identity in pedagogy
*(sexual) consent and pedagogy
*power and pleasure and pedagogy; power and pain or jouissance and pedagogy
*pedagogy as "impossible"; measures of "success" and "failure" in pedagogy
*the relationship between knowledge and political change; pedagogy as revolutionary (Lenin; Freire) versus knowledge as ideology (Althusser)
*the "form" of pedagogical relationships in connection with their political agenda; "political pedagogy" versus "pedagogical politics"
*the many meanings of "discipline"
*the institutionalization of pedagogy and other "radical" or revolutionary forms of thought
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespostcolonialtheory 64108The Womanist Mystique: A Symposium on Scholarship and ActivismDestiny Crockett/ Undergraduate at Princeton Universitydatc@princeton.edu1442435710african-americanethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitypopular_culturetheoryfull name / name of organization: Destiny Crockett/ Undergraduate at Princeton Universitycontact email: datc@princeton.edu
"The Womanist Mystique: A Symposium on Scholarship and Activism" will be a one day long event held on Princeton University's campus on February 6th. We are accepting papers now, and will stop accepting papers on December 1st. The brainchild of an undergraduate student, this event welcomes all scholars, but particulalry undergraduate researchers to submit their papers for presentation.
Why do we need womanism? How do the differences between Black feminsm and womanism guide scholarly thought and activism? How do we see he two play out in literature (for example: Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou)? How have we seen it unfold in movement spaces? What do we make of the representations of Black women, both historically and contemporarily?
This symposium will bring together academics and scholar activists to the historical materialization of a scholarly movement that began with women such as Anna Julia Cooper and Mary Church Terrell, continued through activists Ella Baker and Diane Nash during the Civil Rights Movement, and is now both an intellectual movement with Kimberle Crenshaw, Dorothy Roberts, and many others, and is also materializing within the Black Lives Matter movement. We will do this through panel presentations and discussions on literature, the histrory of Black women's activism, and will be a space for both the theorist and the activist. Paper topics can range from a critical analysis of a work of literature, to coverage of a historical or contemporary movement, to any critical analysis of a historical phemena that has disproportionately impacted Black women.
cfp categories: african-americanethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitypopular_culturetheory 64109[Extended Deadline]- Two Panel Call For Papers - Border Crossings and Revolutions2016 Irish Association for American Studies/British Association of American Studies ConferenceJennifer Andrews (jandrews@unb.ca) and Richard Cole (rich.cole@ualberta.ca).1442439335african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: 2016 Irish Association for American Studies/British Association of American Studies Conferencecontact email: Jennifer Andrews (jandrews@unb.ca) and Richard Cole (rich.cole@ualberta.ca).
Two Panel Call For Papers at the 2016 Irish Association for American Studies/British Association of American Studies Conference at Queen's University, Belfast (7-9 April 2016)
Border Crossings and Revolutions
Scholarship on the Mexican-American border has dominated the field of border studies for the past forty years, from the publication of Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera in 1987 to the present. Yet the forty-ninth parallel remains an under-examined yet critical divide, separating Indigenous tribes and cultivating distinct colonial and neo-colonial histories in both Canada and the United States.
Richard Ford's most recent novel, Canada, examines the complex relationship of America to its northern neighbour, focusing on how one young white boy remakes his identity once he has crossed the 49th parallel, albeit with relative ease. While the novel portrays the Prairies and later Central Canada, looking specifically at the Windsor-Detroit border, Ford offers a distinctly American vision of Canada. Using the theme of border-crossings and revolutions (and recalling that during the American Revolution, many British Loyalists fled northward to what was to become British North America), we are interested in papers that consider the relevance of the Canada-US border from an American Studies perspective.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
-border security and surveillance
-innovative approaches to border theory and the concept of hemispheric studies (typically dominated by the United States)
-American exceptionalism and the border
-space/place and the 49th parallel
-que(e)rying the border
-borders and regions
-revolutionary borders
-Indigenzing the border
-border claims after the human rights revolution
-trauma, testimony, and geopolitical reconciliation
-cultural memory and the revolutionary moment
-how the revolutionary spirit is maintained
-mobilizing (counter)revolutionary affects across borders
Please send abstract (250 words maximum) and a brief (2-3 sentence) scholarly biography by October 1, 2015 to Jennifer Andrews (jandrews@unb.ca) and Richard Cole (rich.cole@ualberta.ca).
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cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64110Religion in the Age of Enlightenment [annual]RAEbrett_mcinelly@byu.edu1442439396americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centurygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiesreligionromanticfull name / name of organization: RAEcontact email: brett_mcinelly@byu.edu
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment (RAE). now in its fifth volume, is a scholarly annual published by AMS Press. RAE publishes scholarly examinations of (1) religion and religious attitudes and practices during the age of Enlightenment; (2) the impact of the Enlightenment on religion, religious thought, and religious experience; and (3) the ways religion informed Enlightenment ideas and values, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including, but not limited to, history, theology, literature, philosophy, the social and physical sciences, economics, and the law. While the Enlightenment generally refers to an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swept through Western Europe, the editors welcome studies that encompass the seventeenth-century intellectual movements that gave rise to the ideals of the Enlightenment—e.g., materialism, skepticism, rationalism, and empiricism—as well as studies that consider later manifestations of Enlightenment ideas and values during the early nineteenth century. The editors likewise welcome studies of non-Western religious topics and issues in light of Enlightenment attitudes.
The editors are now considering articles for volumes 7 and 8. To be considered for these volumes submissions must be received by May 1 of 2016. Visit http://www.amspressinc.com/rae.html for more information and submission guidelines. Queries can also be sent to brett_mcinelly@byu.edu.
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centurygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiesreligionromantic 64111ACLA Seminar: Proustian Awareness (Harvard, March 2016)Adeline Soldin, Dickinson Collegesoldina@dickinson.edu1442442473gender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarymodernist studiestwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Adeline Soldin, Dickinson Collegecontact email: soldina@dickinson.edu
Call for Papers : American Comparative Literature Association, 2016
Seminar: Proustian Awareness: Seeing, Reading, Listening, with the author of la recherche
Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dates: 17-20 March, 2016
Abstract submission deadline: 23 September, 2015
Famous for his ponderings on the experience of art — literature, music, theater, paintings, architecture — Proust has long informed his readers' awareness of their own aesthetic encounters and practices. Proust teaches us about sensorial awareness throughout his masterpiece, from his afternoons reading in Combray to the Balbec sunsets that evoke the fictional painter Elstir, to his spiritual engagement with Venetian architecture. The narrator of In Search of Lost Time champions the intertextual, emotional, and exceptional qualities of reading, looking, and listening. What is exceptional about art, Proust writes, is that that we are able to see the world through others' eyes. How have Proust's eyes enlightened your vision?
For Roland Barthes, Proust is "the reference work, the general mathesis, the mandala, of the whole literary cosmogony." Do you, like Barthes, find Proust when reading Stendhal, or Nabokov or Morrison? Or maybe Proust has revolutionized your sensitivity towards a certain sonata, painting, or cathedral? This panel seeks proposals for papers that explore Proustian intersections — crossroads that are tied together with inspiration from his writing — in artistic work from any region or period. With this panel, we hope to learn more about how Proust continues to inflect the creation, reception, and critique of art in all its forms and around the world.
Please submit paper proposals (300-400 words) and short bios on the ACLA website: http://www.acla.org/seminar/proustian-awareness-seeing-reading-listening... by September 23, 2015.
Contact Adeline Soldin at soldina@dickinson.edu with any questions.
cfp categories: gender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarymodernist studiestwentieth_century_and_beyond 64112(REMINDER) ICFA 37: "Wonder Tales" Children's and Young Adult Literature and Art DivisionThe International Association for the Fantastic in the Artsrdfierce@gmail.com1442448827childrens_literaturefilm_and_televisionpopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: The International Association for the Fantastic in the Artscontact email: rdfierce@gmail.com
37th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Wonder Tales
March 16-20, 2016
Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel
Deadline: October 31
The Children's and Young Adult Division (CYA) of ICFA welcomes papers for the 37th annual conference, when our theme will be "Wonder Tales." Folklorists often use this term to refer to the stories commonly known as "fairy tales" due to the genre's emphasis on the marvelous and its invocation of wonder, but what is wonder and where can it be found? Many events, characters, or objects generate a response of wonder—transformations and resurrections— but wonder also may be generated in technological advances and from the "sense of wonder" in science fiction.
Papers might explore wonder tales and their modern incarnations, readers' responses of wonder to fantastic texts, uses of wonder within fantastic texts, how wonder is invoked across mediums and genres, and the relationship between wondering (marveling) and wondering (questioning).We welcome papers on the work of our guests: Guest of Honor Terri Windling (author and editor, winner of nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Solstice Award), Guest of Honor Holly Black (author of The Spiderwick Chronicles, and winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in Children's Literature and a Newberry Honor book for Doll Bones), and Guest Scholar Cristina Bacchilega (author of Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies and Fairy Tales Transformed: 21st-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder). We also welcome proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media.
The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2015. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, and graduate students.
For more information on the CYA division, see http://www.fantastic-arts.org/ or contact Rodney Fierce (CYA Division Head) at rdfierce@gmail.com.
The Submissions Portal is now live! To submit a proposal, go to http://www.fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/.
cfp categories: childrens_literaturefilm_and_televisionpopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64113ACLA Panel, 17-20 March 2016: Toward the Empirical Study of Poetic Form Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aestheticschristine.knoop@aesthetics.mpg.de1442484906humanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypoetryrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturefull name / name of organization: Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aestheticscontact email: christine.knoop@aesthetics.mpg.de
Poetic form is marked by regularities, such as metre, rhyme, verse length, the structure and interdependence of stanzas, and myriad other features. Even where poetry discards or deflects such regularities, for instance by changes of metre, free rhythms, non-rhyming verses or unconventional schemata, they are still echoed within the form: we usually define unconventional and irregular poetic forms by their absence of regularities, thereby implicitly highlighting the resulting gap even where it becomes poetically productive.
The analysis of the formal features of poetry has somewhat gone out of style in literary studies; most research on poetic language focuses on semantic aspects, including semantic schemata such as metaphor, hyperbole, etc. By contrast, small-scale analyses of phonetic, morphological, and syntactic elements of poetic language on stanza and verse level appear to have been largely left behind with the structuralist aesthetics of Jakobson and Mukarovsky. The growing detachment of literary studies from linguistics has further added to the neglect of strictly formal philological endeavours. However, it is precisely the analysis of these elements which allows us to generate and strengthen hypotheses about why formalized poetic features have long been, and continue to be, cognitively and emotionally appealing, not only in poems themselves, but also in other genres, such as advertising slogans or pop songs.
Due to the many fixed formal schemata available to poetry, which by far exceed those usually found in prose or drama, poetry not only lends itself to semantic analysis, but also to the systematic empirical study of its formal features: Which formal features (rhyme schemata, metrical schemata, verse structures, …) have been successful with which authors or at what times, and why is this the case? Which cognitive and emotional processes may be responsible for the lasting cultural success of regularized poetic forms? How can conventional formal regularities enhance the individual experiences triggered by poetry, as well as the individual creation of meaning? Reversely, what may be the cognitive and emotional advantages of non-regularized poetry?
This seminar invites proposals offering and discussing empirical approaches to studying poetry that are based on the analysis of individual formal features (rhyme, metre, verse and stanza structures, etc.), as well as theoretical reflections on if and how empirical study can add to an understanding of poetic forms. Papers are welcome from both the perspectives of digital corpus analysis and the experimental study of reader response.
cfp categories: humanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypoetryrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culture 64114SPECTRA Journal submissions open for Issue 5.1SPECTRA (the Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory Archives) Journal editor@spectrajournal.org1442493509cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheoryfull name / name of organization: SPECTRA (the Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory Archives) Journal contact email: editor@spectrajournal.org
Initial abstracts due: October 15, 2015
Contributors informed of decision no later than: October 22, 2015
Full submissions due: December 1, 2015
All abstracts should be submitted online at spectrajournal.org
The editors of SPECTRA: the ASPECT Journal invite scholarly work in all areas of social, political, ethical and cultural thought for the Fall 2015 issue. We are interested in work that is thoroughly transdisciplinary, valuing multiple systems of knowledges and engaging in discussions that interpolate critical thought and concrete action.
Trajectories of inquiry may include theoretical, critical, empirical, and performative explorations of issues that transcend disciplinary boundaries.
Contributions that emphasize traditionally marginalized perspectives or phenomena/issues (women, people of color, socio-economic status, queer/LGBT, international, and non-native English speakers) are especially welcomed. Book reviews, original artwork, multimedia pieces, audio compositions, reflections, and interviews are also welcomed.
To see past examples of selected works, see the SPECTRA archives: https://spectrajournal.org/index.php/SPECTRA/issue/archive.
If you have questions, please contact Jordan Laney and Anthony Szczurek at editor@spectrajournal.org
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheory 64115Medical Humanities at ACLA (Submission 25 Sept 2015, Presentation 17-20 March 2016)Lisa M DeTora/Hofstra Universitylisa.m.detora@hofstra.edu1442499094americanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalpopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheoryvictorianfull name / name of organization: Lisa M DeTora/Hofstra Universitycontact email: lisa.m.detora@hofstra.edu
Medical Humanities: Reading the Body in the Medicine, Literature and the Visual Arts
This seminar will explore the means by which the body can be read across artistic, literary, visual, and medical discourses. By investigating readings of the body in arts and medicine, we hope to establish a dialogue between disciplines and discourses. We are particularly interested in readings of gender, transition, looking relations, and the medical gaze. We welcome work from all historical and cultural contexts and from scholars in all disciplines. Work that draws on materials from outside the United States is especially welcome as is work on visual media such as medical imaging, film, television, fine art, graphic novels, medical illustrations, pin-ups.
cfp categories: americanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalpopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheoryvictorian 64116[UPDATE: Proposals due November 1st, 2015] Intense Humanity: Politicizing Technicity, or Re-Feeling the Post-HumanSam Kolodezh and Bryan Reynoldsskolodez@uci.edu1442499651cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalrenaissancescience_and_culturetheatretheoryfull name / name of organization: Sam Kolodezh and Bryan Reynoldscontact email: skolodez@uci.edu
Intense Humanity:
Politicizing Technicity, or Re-Feeling the Post-Human
Technicity is theorized as a medium of labor, a process, a substance, and a combination of the three as an open set in a dynamic, interdependent, and interactive relationship with categories of the human. Yet, the human, the intensive ethical category of value-making and vitality, is often left behind even as, and especially because, theories of technicity imagine a futurity out of multiplicities of rupture. The increased acceleration, integration, internalization and miniaturization of technology has spurred theories of technicity that continually attempt to theorize it as overtaking, changing, or destroying categories of the human through technologization and catastrophe. Hence, contemporary theories of the posthuman (Ihab Hassan, Katherine Hayles, Carey Wolfe, etc.), of the inhuman (Francois Lyotard, Manuel de Landa, Quentin Meillasoux, Graham Harman, Ian Bogost), and of catastrophe (Maurice Blanchot, Paul Virilio), have attempted to critique and theorize human from the outside. Put differently, these various traditions posit technicity as outside of the human and belonging to a different spacetime than the human even as they argue that humans are always already technical. Yet, as Arthur Bradley argues in his Originary Technicity from Marx to Derrida, each of these schools that attempt to theorize technicity as technical all the way down, contribute to what Agamben calls the "anthropological machine," turned towards technicity, which continuously reimagines the human as a category both distinct and primary to technology even as technology overwhelms the human. They end up with theorizations that are not "technical all the way down." Meaning, humans remain a primary category defined through the "other" of technicity. While Bradley's argument is contestable, he comes to an interesting conclusion: perhaps instead of theorizing the end of the human, we might otherwise theorize the end of technology as a category distinct and separate from the human. The stake of such an argument is that while we may have never been modern, we have always been human.
Technology is seemingly playing an ever-expanding role in the world: smartphones guide refugees and keep communities together, social media has become a political platform for ISIS, apps are being created to fight against police brutality, ideas of techno-libertarian utopias surge in silicon valley, computer models are more adept at simulating and predicting environmental catastrophes, cyber-security is a nationalist concern, even as jingoistic politics of the right rise to continue defining superior humanity through a particular type of technical extension and stability. In short, technicity moves through political discourses as individuals feel technology has left them behind, is taking them forward, or continues to make them into technical implements systematically and structurally. Yet, technicity is undertheorized as immediately mediated, urgent, and intense. In this collection, we are interested in these aspects of technicity and the human both now and in the past. How can we think of technology as part of rather than different from human and what might this achieve?
What are the political stakes of theorizing technicity?
How is technicity theorized with and through the human?
How do discourses of technicity substantiate concepts of 'otherness' (as opposed to difference), and how can they resist them?
How can chaos and catastrophe be thought of otherwise or even affirmatively?
What opportunities and spacetimes are created when humans intensely engage with technology? How?
What are the stakes of theorizing technicity in conjunction with spirituality, religion, ecology, and environment?
How are these various discourses related, and what can theorizing within and through them do?
We are interested in these questions across history and disciplines: from virtuoso musicians and their instruments and the early modern theater as a technology, to refugees and their use of smartphones and black, white, conservative, and progressive populist movements in the United States. More importantly, we are interested in the intensity of technicity rather than its extension—its urgency, its potential, and its political playfulness for an intense humanity.
Please send proposals of 500-750 words to the editors, UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor Bryan Reynolds (bryan.reynolds@uci.edu) and UC Irvine doctoral student in theater and performance studies Sam Kolodezh (skolodez@uci.edu). Proposals are due November 1st, 2015 and completed drafts are due February 1st, 2016.
Thanks, Bryan & Sam
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalrenaissancescience_and_culturetheatretheory 64117[UPDATE] 2nd Annual Literature and Social Justice Graduate ConferenceLehigh English Department Graduate ProgramLSJLehigh@gmail.com1442501536african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromantictheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Lehigh English Department Graduate Programcontact email: LSJLehigh@gmail.com
The Lehigh English Department's second annual Literature and Social Justice Graduate Conference will take place on Lehigh's campus in Bethlehem, PA, on March 4th-5th, 2016. We will be accepting proposals from Master's and Doctoral students on this year's conference theme, public humanities. Public humanities takes literature and social justice out of the confines of the classroom or academic publication by balancing theoretical concepts with practical actions and projects that benefit others in order to expand participation in and appreciation for the humanities. In addition to those papers that focus on literature and the role of the English department within public humanities, we are also open to papers that address the many diverse topics within the intersection of literature and social justice. This call is open to scholars working in all time periods, genres, and theoretical approaches. Potential topics related to the public humanities theme include but are not limited to:
--the interplay of academia, literature, and public outreach
--online venues for public humanities
--literacy and literature in the academy vs in the public sphere
--public outreach and access to the humanities
--public radio/public broadcasting/podcasts
--service learning through literature
--the university's responsibility to the community
--public histories/storytelling and community engagement
--museums, archives, collections, and sites
--documentaries and representing the voices of others
--concepts of audience
--public humanities and the literature curriculum
--teaching literature beyond the traditional classroom
--literary and interdisciplinary collaborations for public humanities
Graduate students should submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to Dashielle Horn and Dana McClain at LSJLehigh@gmail.com by October 15th, 2015. Check back at the conference website for updates: http://lsjlehigh.weebly.com/.
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_sexualitygraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromantictheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64118POLITICS AND POETICS, 3rd symposium, Leverhulme Research Network 'Imaginaries of the Future', Belfast, 19-21 Jan. 2016Queens University Belfast; Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies Limerick; Newcastle University, UKs.mcmanus@qub.ac.uk; nathaniel.coleman@ncl.ac.uk1442503241americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturescience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Queens University Belfast; Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies Limerick; Newcastle University, UKcontact email: s.mcmanus@qub.ac.uk; nathaniel.coleman@ncl.ac.uk
What does it mean to think of politics as a poetics, and to do so through the prism of the expectant, the anticipatory, the Not-Yet, and the futural? The third symposium of the 'Imaginaries of the Future' International Research Network seeks to investigate the ways in which futures are both imagined and governed, projected, deferred and deterred, through different disciplinary formations, and to explore the effects of competing ways of conceiving futurity.
The 'hope project' at the heart of utopianism pursues a future transformed through collective agency, and develops an anticipatory register in which visions of competing futures are mobilized to orient such collective political agency. Conversely, in what ways are creative practices of agency obstructed, and how are visions of 'the future' deployed in reactive, prohibitory ways? How does the utopian anticipatory compare with other categories of futurity, such as precaution or pre-emption, risk or threat? How, then, can we theorize the ambivalence of the anticipatory, modes of capture and recuperation?
Symposium participants may interrogate utopianism itself, exploring the poetics of utopian desire, affect, and agency vis-à-vis the politics of contestation, challenge, and transformation. We may also consider the specificity of politics and poetics, and the relations of connectivity between these approaches. Is politics necessarily reducible to calculative and instrumental modes of grasping the future? Is poetics more attuned to the epistemological and ontological uncertainty of the future, to what has not and might not happen? Or, is there a politics to poetics, and a poetics to politics? How can engagement with poetics help map forms of relationality and connection, and what is the role of affect, emotion, memory in creating connections and preconditions for political agency? What might be the political valence of aesthetic and sensual categories of experience -- touch, proximity, intimacy, harmony and dissonance? How might technological and cybernetic invention advance both human agential capacity, as well as contribute to a critique of the anthropocentrism of both politics and poetics? And can we think of ethics (say, the Levinasian encounter with the Other, or perhaps the Spinozist endeavour to enhance capacity, agency, connectivity, and joy) as a missing third term between poetics and politics?
We welcome proposals of 250-300 words in length from across the arts and humanities (and beyond) for papers, presentations or performances of up to 20 minutes in length. Please send all proposals to both s.mcmanus@qub.ac.uk and nathaniel.coleman@ncl.ac.uk
Bursaries
Five travel bursaries, two of up to £1000, and three of up to £350, will be awarded through open competition to individuals who promise to make a significant contribution to the work of the Network. The larger bursaries are intended for applicants traveling a significant distance to attend the symposium. We welcome submissions from all career stages including PhD researchers. Bursary recipients will be expected to contribute a piece of writing and/or embedded media to the Network blog, and will be invited to submit work to be considered for publication opportunities arising from the symposium.
To apply for a bursary, please send a CV along with your proposal to both s.mcmanus@qub.ac.uk and nathaniel.coleman@ncl.ac.uk
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturescience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64119Edith Wharton Society Panels at the 2016 American Literature Association Conference, May 26-29; Deadline: January 15, 2016Edith Wharton Societyskim@judsonu.edu; paul.ohler@kpu.ca1442506307americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementspopular_culturereligionfull name / name of organization: Edith Wharton Societycontact email: skim@judsonu.edu; paul.ohler@kpu.ca
The Edith Wharton Society invites proposals for the following two panels:
1. Wharton and Religion
We invite papers exploring any aspect of religion, spirituality, and the sacred in Wharton's writing, including the afterlives of religion in gothic, aestheticism, satire, and scientific discourse. How does religion figure within the Wharton imaginary? How is her fiction shaped by the legacy of Biblical poetics, religious fiction, or other religious genres? How does religion inflect her response to modernism? In addition to the Christianity most familiar to Wharton, we also welcome studies of Wharton in relation to Islam, Judaism, and other religions addressed in her work. Abstract and short bio to Sharon Kim, skim@judsonu.edu.
2. Wharton and the Culture of the Monthly Magazine
We seek papers that investigate Wharton's engagement with the culture of the monthly magazine, including critiques of readers and reading in Wharton's work as well as contextual studies of publications in periodicals. Papers might also offer new information about Wharton's relations with individual magazines—she published in more than twenty—and/or consider the history of Wharton's dealings with editors and publishers in the context of Laura Stevens's call to attend to "questions of authority, canonicity, the means of textual production, and other questions central to feminist literary scholarship." Please send proposal (250-500 words) and a short CV to Paul Ohler, paul.ohler@kpu.ca.
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementspopular_culturereligion 64120Spaces & Flows: Seventh International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies - A Common Ground ConferenceCommon Ground Publishingsupport@spacesandflows.com1442506666general_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesscience_and_culturefull name / name of organization: Common Ground Publishingcontact email: support@spacesandflows.com
SPACES & FLOWS: SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN AND EXTRAURBAN STUDIES
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
10-11 November 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals for paper presentations, workshops, posters, or colloquia are invited for Spaces & Flows: Seventh International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, held at University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA, 12-13 October 2016. Proposals are invited that address urban and extra-urban studies through one of the following categories:
Theme 1: Urban and ExtraUrban Spaces
Theme 2: Human Environments and Eco-systemic Effects
Theme 3: Material and Immaterial Flows
2016 Special Focus: "Planetary Urbanization in the Modern World"
VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS
If you are unable to attend the conference in person, you may present in a Virtual Poster session or a Virtual Lightning Talk. Virtual sessions enable participants to present work to a body of peers and to engage with colleagues from afar. As a virtual participant, presenters are scheduled in the formal program, have access to select conference content, can submit an article for peer review and possible publication, may upload an online presentation, and can enjoy annual membership to the community and subscriber access to Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies.
SPACES AND FLOWS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND EXTRAURBAN STUDIES
All presenters are invited to submit written articles for publication to the fully refereed Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies. Articles may be submitted by in-person and virtual participants as well as Community Members.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
We welcome the submission of proposals at any time of the year. All proposals will be reviewed within two to four weeks of submission. The dates below serve as a guideline for proposal submission based on our corresponding registration deadlines.
*Advanced Proposal Deadline – 10 January 2016*
Early Proposal Deadline – 10 April 2016
Regular Proposal Deadline – 10 August 2016
Late Proposal Deadline – 10 October 2016
For more information and to submit a proposal visit: http://spacesandflows.com/2016-Conference/Call-For-Presenters
Please forward this announcement to your colleagues and students who may be interested.
Enquiries: support@spacesandflows.com
Web address: http://spacesandflows.com/2016-Conference/Call-For-Presenters
Sponsored by: The Spaces & Flows Knowledge Community / Common Ground Publishing
cfp categories: general_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesscience_and_culture 64121Crip Futurities: The Then and There of Disability Studies (Feb. 11-12, 2016)University of Michigan Disability Studies GroupCRIPFUTURE2016@gmail.com1442507957african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: University of Michigan Disability Studies Groupcontact email: CRIPFUTURE2016@gmail.com
Crip Futurities: The Then and There of Disability Studies
keynote speakers: Ellen Samuels (UW-Madison) and Alison Kafer (Southwestern)
February 11-12, 2016
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
When we imagine future worlds, will they be accessible? What might crip future(s) entail? Following Alison Kafer's "politics of crip futurity" outlined in Feminist, Queer, Crip, this conference centers the then-and-there of Disability Studies, wherein disability is not understood as lack or impediment, but as a "potential site for collective reimagining" (Kafer 9). We seek to nurture coalitions between scholars, artists, and activists who collectively aim to articulate the future of Disability Studies.
We also take this opportunity to honor the legacy of Tobin Siebers, whose foundational work in Disability Studies continues to enrich new scholarship.
We invite a broad range of proposals for individual presentations and for full 90-minute sessions in ANY format, from traditional papers to performances, collaborative panels to workshops. We welcome contributions from all disciplines and global/historical contexts that engage with the future of Disability Studies and/or Tobin Siebers' legacy in literature, film, art, design, philosophy, performance, social science, and so forth. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
crip time and temporality
the beginning and end of life
disability and speculative fiction
disability and utopia
disability and new media or genres of inquiry
emerging interdisciplinary directions
global and transnational expansions of the field
redefinitions and revisions of concepts such as health and illness
bioethics, eugenics, and genetics
developing medical/scientific technologies
new design (i.e. assistive devices, universal design, architecture, etc. )
new pedagogies and platforms of scholarship
future visions of disability history and theory
Tobin Siebers' life and legacy:
engagements with his academic scholarship or personal essays
the impact of his teaching
personal memories
We are also calling for 5-minute lightning talks presenting works-in-progress related to the conference theme; and poster presentations from faculty, staff, students, and community members, showcasing current, local projects and happenings. Conference participants are eligible to present a lightning talk or poster in addition to a main-session presentation.
Please submit a CV and 250-300 word proposal with title, institutional affiliation, and contact information as an e-mail attachment to CRIPFUTURE2016@gmail.com by November 15, 2015, and feel free to contact us at that address with any questions or concerns.
This 8th annual UMInDS (University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies) conference is hosted by members of the UM Disability Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop, a Graduate Student Interest Group within the Department of English Language and Literature.
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cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64122The Rise and Development of Dystopia in YA Literature [UPDATE]Northeast Modern Language AssociationLindsay.Bryde@gmail.com1442508501americanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypopular_culturefull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: Lindsay.Bryde@gmail.com
The Rise and Development of Dystopia in YA Literature
Young Adult (YA) Literature has always featured a variety of sub-genres working in conjunction with familiar tropes (beauty, sexuality, identity, etc.). In the last decade, there has been a steady rise in popularity of the dystopia sub-genre (e.g., Divergent, The Hunger Games, The Selection, Uglies), particularly in the emergence of strong female heroines. While each series has its own distinctive features and developments, a question remains when we look closely at the genre: is there any originality left when we know the pattern of events and characters? This roundtable looks to examine the rise and development of the dystopia sub-genre from its origins to the current climate.
The conference is through the Northeast Modern Language Association and will take place March 17-20, 2016 in Hartford, CT.
Submissions are due: September 30, 2015
NeMLA uses a user-based system to process abstract submissions. Interested scholars should submit 250 word abstracts to Lindsay Bryde through the NeMLA website using the link below: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15632
For questions about the new submission system, you can contact NeMLA web support here: websupport@nemla.org.
Questions specific to the roundtable can be sent to Lindsay.Bryde@gmail.com
cfp categories: americanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypopular_culture 64123Showrunners in the Classroom: Teaching Strategies for Composition & Literature Courses [UPDATE]Northeast Modern Language AssociationLindsay.Bryde@gmail.com1442508584americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypopular_cultureprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositiontheoryfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: Lindsay.Bryde@gmail.com
Showrunners in the Classroom: Teaching Strategies for Composition & Literature Courses
In the last two decades, there has been a steady rise in our pop culture's awareness of the role writers, producers, and directors play in developing television series both from a commercial and critical context. With the advent of social media, fans are able to hear directly from the source on the fandoms that they hold so dear. This panel looks to investigate lesson plans and courses that are based on using the work of television auteurs in composition and literature classrooms. How are instructors using television episodes to construct critical thinking and writing skills?
The conference is through the Northeast Modern Language Association and will take place March 17-20, 2016 in Hartford, CT.
Submissions are due: September 30, 2015
NeMLA uses a user-based system to process abstract submissions. Interested scholars should submit 250 word abstracts to Lindsay Bryde through the NeMLA website using the link below: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15708
For questions about the new submission system, you can contact NeMLA web support here: websupport@nemla.org.
Questions specific to the panel can be sent to Lindsay.Bryde@gmail.com
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypopular_cultureprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositiontheory 64124UPDATE: North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald StudiesJohn Pennington, Editor of North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studiesjohn.pennington@snc.edu1442509770childrens_literaturegeneral_announcementspopular_culturevictorianfull name / name of organization: John Pennington, Editor of North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studiescontact email: john.pennington@snc.edu
North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies
North Wind, the journal devoted to the works of George MacDonald, is seeking articles for its 2015 edition. Articles are welcome on all aspects of MacDonald: his fairy tales, fantasies, novels, poetry, and sermons. The journal is also seeking shorter "notes and queries" and "connections" that focus on issues related to MacDonald.
Deadline for submissions is October 31, but final manuscript deadline can be negotiated. All submissions should be sent to John Pennington, Editor, North Wind, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI 54301: john.pennington@snc.edu. . The complete editorial guidelines can be found at
http://www.snc.edu/northwind/
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North Wind is a refereed journal. Articles are listed in The MLA International Bibliography. For more details on the George MacDonald Society, see www.george-macdonald.com.
cfp categories: childrens_literaturegeneral_announcementspopular_culturevictorian 64125ACLA Seminar: Creative Alternatives to Neoliberalism: Poetic Word in Urban SpacesAmerican Comparative Literature Associationikressner@albany.edu, c.grabner@lancaster.ac.uk, ashea@cca.edu1442511972interdisciplinarypoetrypostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: American Comparative Literature Associationcontact email: ikressner@albany.edu, c.grabner@lancaster.ac.uk, ashea@cca.edu
Creative Alternatives to Neoliberalism: Poetic Word in Urban Spaces
In this seminar, we invite papers that explore the ways in which poetic words engage with the material and the immaterial in the contemporary urban world, marked by spatial inequality, racism, sexism and the related phenomena of segregation, marginalization, gentrification, or deliberate decay. Many examples of contemporary urban poetry speak about, and from within, spaces marked by the watershed of neoliberal policies, principles and beliefs, and the financial crisis of 2007-08.
The short form, read, performed, exchanged or written on the urban surface, interferes with established spatial orders and creates alternatives to them based on the terms of creation, instead of possession or productivity. This world-making, poetic expression, which is often the fruit of cooperative or communal endeavors, furthermore problematizes the traditional ideas of the public and the private and revisits conventional notions of enunciation and authorship. In the best of cases, it is an exercise in democratic imagination.
This seminar seeks papers that explore the role of the poetic word as a critical response to the realities of living in today's post-industrial, neo-colonial and neoliberal cities. We are interested in studies of a variety of poetic expressions and from diverse urban zones. Studies may include strategies of writing against monumentalization, poetry in relation to the city as tourist attraction, street art's sensory responses to urban rhythms (in lines with and beyond the historical vanguards), poetry of resistance to the language of advertisement, art in relation to an economy of sharing, lyrics of dispossession and discarded objects, and the poetic word as world making.
Submission Deadline: September 23, 2015
Conference: Harvard, March 17-20, 2016
cfp categories: interdisciplinarypoetrypostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64126Wreck Park Journal is Open for Submissions for Winter IssueWreck Park Journalwreckpark.criticism@gmail.com1442516432african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Wreck Park Journalcontact email: wreckpark.criticism@gmail.com
WRECK PARK: A Journal of Interesting Fictions, Interested Criticism
Wreck Park is a double-blind, peer reviewed publication run out of Binghamton, New York. The journal publishes prose, poetry, criticism, and interviews, and is particularly interested in conceptual frameworks and developments that set to disrupt canonical and standardized discourses of the contemporary academic and literary landscapes. Wreck Park is a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and welcomes authors, poets, researchers, and thinkers whose work reflects an interrogation of engendered norms and traditions within societies, cultures, intellectual circles, and beyond.
Wreck Park is inviting works of criticism, and – in keeping with an unbound sensibility – there is no preferred subject, location, time period, or theme for submission. Rather, we are looking for works that are invested – that is, interested – in the ongoing deconstruction and reformulation of literary, critical-theoretical, and cultural studies. We seek works that explore the intersections between texts, critics, and modes of inquiry through their political, cultural, and ideological impacts; we look for scholars who politicize the aesthetic and aestheticize the political; and we favor those essays which are uncompromising in challenging margins and opening new frontiers in scholarship.
The editorial process for the criticism section of Wreck Park meets the professional standard for double-blind, peer review; accordingly, articles published in Wreck Park can be listed as a peer-reviewed for purposes of tenure and promotion. In our commitment to open and public scholarship, we will not be available through expensive, exclusive database searches. We will rather remain available online, for free.
Article submissions should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words and formatted to conform to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Book Review submissions should follow the above guidelines but remain between 600 and 2,000 words. If interested in submitting a book review, it is strongly recommended to submit a brief proposal of a book prior to submitting the review (or to request a list of books the journal is interested in having reviewed).
The issue is set to be published electronically January 2016. The deadline for consideration is December 1st, 2015.
If interested, please send your article or review to the editor at wreckpark.criticism@gmail.com
For more information, visit the journal's official website at www.wreckparkjournal.com.
Best,
M. Heiligenthal
Criticism Editor
Wreck Park Literary Journal
Possible approaches and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Transnational and New American Studies
• Neoliberalism and Political-Economic Theory
• Inter/trans/a- disciplinarity Approaches
• Post-structuralism and Politics
• Post-Colonialism and Subaltern Studies
• Onto-political Criticism
• Critical Race Theory
• Print Culture and Archival Studies
• Queer Theory
• Eco-criticism
cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64127Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism (student journal) [submissions due 11 Jan 2016]Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism / Brigham Young Universitybyucriterion@gmail.com1442517856general_announcementsgraduate_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysfull name / name of organization: Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism / Brigham Young Universitycontact email: byucriterion@gmail.com
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
Call for Papers: Winter 2016 Issue
Submission Deadline: 11 January 2016
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous essays by undergraduate and master's students. The pieces can be written from diverse critical perspectives and about texts from any time period or literary tradition. Submissions are peer-reviewed by a selection board at BYU, and final decisions are made by the journal's two Editors-in-Chief in consultation with a faculty advisor. Essays may be submitted on a year-round basis, but Criterion is currently soliciting submissions for its Winter/Spring 2016 issue, scheduled for publication in April of 2016. The submission deadline for the 2016 issue is 11 January 2016.
Submissions to both the general section and the Forum should be between 3000 and 6000 words (not including the bibliography). All submissions should be double-spaced, written in English, and formatted according to the most recent MLA guidelines. Submissions should be uploaded as MS Word files through our new website and online submission system, found here: http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/criterion/
You will be asked to create a profile before uploading your submission. Please follow the instructions and include:
• author's full name
• undergraduate or graduate institution
• current year (i.e. junior, senior, first- or second-year master's student, etc.)
• paper title
• contact information (email, phone number, current address, and permanent address)
In the "cover letter" section addressed to the editors, please include an affirmation that the submission contains the author's original work and is free from plagiarism. Criterion encourages authors to be sensitive to nuances of language and presentation, avoiding language that exhibits racial, ethnic, and gender bias, and treating issues of sexuality and violence with sensitivity. The contents of Criterion represent the opinions and beliefs of the authors and not necessarily those of the editors, staff, advisors, or Brigham Young University.
For its 2016 Winter/Spring issue, Criterion anticipates reserving space for multiple essays that address the intersection of religion and literature and the question of faith during points of crisis. To provoke thoughts on this topic, Professor Emeritus Laura Dabundo has provided the prompt for this year. Authors should not attempt to address all of the issues raised by Professor Dabundo; rather, Criterion hopes this prompt will serve as a springboard for creative and well-focused essays on relevant issues and texts. The prompt can be accessed here: http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/criterion/forum_prompt.html
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email us at byucriterion@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
Kristen Soelberg and Chelsea Lee
2015 Editors-in-Chief
cfp categories: general_announcementsgraduate_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essays 64128CALL FOR MEMOIRS/APPEL DE MÉMOIREPeninsula: A Journal of Relational Politicspjrp@uvic.ca1442518955bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Peninsula: A Journal of Relational Politicscontact email: pjrp@uvic.ca
(La version française suit l'anglais)
Memoir. noun. 1. A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge; 1.1 (memoirs) An account written by a public figure of their life and experiences; 2. An essay on a learned subject; 2.1 (memoirs) The proceedings of a learned society. Origin – Late 15th century (denoting a memorandum or record): from French mémoire (masculine), a special use of mémoire (feminine) 'memory'. (OED)
Peninsula: A Journal of Relational Politics is a journal of political theory open to a broad range of methodological, philosophical, and disciplinary perspectives. Our area of focus is politics; our approach is critical; and our perspective is relational.
Peninsula invites contributions to a special issue that focuses less on a specific topic, theme or form of content, than on a form of expression, a genre or style of writing: the memoir(s). What relationships can be established between the production and publication of memoirs and political life? How do memoirs resemble to and differ from other forms, genres or styles, such as the essay, the monograph, or the ethnographic relation? Is the memoir necessarily a memorializing or self-aggrandizing, heroic text, or can it be a counter-memorializing piece of writing? Can memoirs be read as effective analyses and powerful critiques, or are they primarily personal testimonies of everyday thoughts and actions? Why would one assume that these categories are mutually exclusive?
Authors of memoirs are often already known as political actors in certain circles and networks. They can be retired generals or high officials, for example, but also grass-root activists, up-and-coming analysts, stubborn artists, etc. The pertinence of a memoir seems to be a function of the author's perceived merit, valor, and accomplishments in the face adversity. In many cases, the production and publication of a political memoir, a more or less autobiographical account of past political deeds, can itself constitute a political deed. Old and new memoirs can also be read as documents of self-reflection, as auto-ethnographies that might take part in mediating the critical transmission of past knowledge, experiences, creations and traditions to present and future generations. Memoirs are sites of recollections, or repositories of memories, and encountering one can be a memorable event. There can transpire a poignant authenticity from the pages of a memoir, but it is also the case that many memoirs are known to have been the works of ghostwriters. One may not be the best person to tell one's own story, after all!
We invite contributions in the form of memoirs, leaving the theme, the topic or the subject to the authors' discretion. Indeed, we do not claim to be able to precisely define what text undoubtedly counts as a memoir and what text does not: the exploration of the limits of this form is what Peninsula seeks to encourage with this special issue.
Texts should be submitted to Peninsula (pjrp@uvic.ca) by November 1st 2015.
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Peninsula: A Journal of Relational Politics est une revue de théorie politique ouverte à un large éventail de perspectives méthodologiques, philosophiques et disciplinaires. Notre champ de pensée est politique; notre approche critique; et notre perspective relationnelle.
Peninsula invite des contributions pour la publication d'un numéro spécial dont l'objet d'étude est moins un sujet, une thématique ou un contenu défini qu'une forme d'expression, un genre ou un style singulier : le mémoire. Quelles relations y a-t-il entre la production et la publication de mémoires et la vie politique? En quoi les mémoires ressemblent ou diffèrent-ils d'autres formes, genres ou styles d'écriture ou de paroles politiques telles que la monographie, l'essai, le manifeste, le commentaire ou les relations ethnographiques? Le mémoire tend-il nécessairement à l'écriture héroïque d'un texte commémoratif ou auto-glorifiant? Peut-il, au contraire, donner lieu au travail d'une contre-mémoire? Est-ce que les mémoires peuvent être abordés comme des analyses rigoureuses et de riches critiques, ou sont-ils d'abord et avant tout le témoignage personnel de pensées et d'actions qui tissent les scènes de la vie quotidienne? Y a-t-il lieu de présumer que ces catégories soient mutuellement exclusives?
Les auteurs de mémoires jouissent plus souvent qu'autrement d'une notoriété déjà bien établie dans certains cercles et réseaux. Qu'il s'agissent de généraux ou haut fonctionnaires à la retraite, de militants dans les mouvements sociaux, d'analystes émergents, d'artistes insoumis, etc., la pertinence d'un mémoire semble tributaire du mérite, de la valeur et des accomplissements de l'auteur face à l'adversité. Dans de nombreux cas, la production et la publication d'un mémoire politique, le récit plus ou moins autobiographique d'œuvres politiques passées, peuvent constituer en eux-mêmes des gestes politiques. Les mémoires, qu'ils soient d'un lointain passé ou d'aujourd'hui, peuvent aussi être lus comme des documents d'auto-réflexion, des auto-ethnographies pouvant contribuer à la transmission critique de savoirs anciens, d'expériences, de créations et de traditions aux générations présentes et futures. Le mémoire est un site de réminiscences, une collection de souvenirs dont la rencontre peut être en soi un événement mémorable. Des pages d'un mémoire peut transpirer une authenticité saisissante, mais le mémoire est également connu pour être parfois l'œuvre d'un prête-plume. On peut ne pas être la meilleure personne pour raconter sa propre histoire, après tout!
Nous invitons des contributions sous la forme de mémoire, laissant à la discrétion des auteurs le choix des thèmes et des sujets. En effet, nous ne prétendons pas pouvoir définir hors de tout doute ce qui constitue un mémoire et ce qui ne le fait pas; l'exploration des limites de cette forme d'écriture ou de parole est ce que Peninsula vise à encourager avec ce numéro spécial.
Les mémoires doivent être soumis par courriel à Peninsula (pjrp@uvic.ca), au plus tard le 1er novembre 2015.
cfp categories: bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 64129ACLA 2016: Consumerism and Prestige (abstracts due 9/23/15)Anthony Enns / Dalhousie Universityanthony.enns@dal.ca1442519274bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookfull name / name of organization: Anthony Enns / Dalhousie Universitycontact email: anthony.enns@dal.ca
"Consumerism and Prestige: The Materiality of Literature in the Postindustrial Age"
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
Harvard University
March 17-20, 2016
Organizers:
Anthony Enns (Dalhousie University)
Bernhard Metz (Freie Universität Berlin)
Anh Nguyen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
This seminar will explore the relationship between consumerism and prestige by examining how the material properties of books (such as the cover, binding, typography, and paper stock) reflect and perhaps even influence their cultural status. Beginning in the nineteenth century, printing and binding became cheaper, faster, and more easily accessible than ever before, which increased the demand for new content and lowered the cultural entrance level, resulting in the expansion of popular or trivial literature as well as a wide range of new formats, such as dime novels, pulp magazines, and paperbacks. At the same time publishers also sought to mimic the conventions of exclusiveness through deluxe editions, which attempt to preserve the highbrow status of literature as a marker of class distinctions. These same trends can also be seen in the development of digital media, as cultural distinctions are now being reconfigured through new forms of electronic display in the postprint era.
The relationship between consumerism and prestige thus reflects fundamental historical changes with regard to the development of technology, literacy, and social power. While the industrialization of print resulted in a sudden explosion of print material, which democratized literature by making books available to a mass reading public, these developments were perceived as a potential threat to the literary elite, who relied on material distinctions as a way of securing their cultural authority. As the divide between highbrow and lowbrow taste widened, the material properties of the text became the primary site where the cultural status of literature was constructed and contested. In many cases, the distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow texts had little to do with the content of the texts themselves, given that books more often functioned as markers of socioeconomic status, like clothing or home décor. At the risk of being provocative, one might even go so far as to say that since the eighteenth century the concept of literary taste has been more closely related to fashion sense than critical judgment, although this claim clearly challenges the hermeneutic and philosophical traditions upon which these cultural distinctions rely for their continued relevance.
Our seminar will address this provocative claim by examining the tensions between consumerism and prestige in the history of book production, consumption, and reception over the last two centuries. Participants will explore how the cultural status of literary texts can be understood as an inherent consequence of the industrialization of print and how the material form of a book often changes the value of texts otherwise experienced as less prestigious. Contributions are particularly invited on the following topics:
-- The impact of printing technologies on the production and distribution of literary texts.
-- The relationship between the material properties of literary texts and their cultural prestige.
-- The production and reception of popular literary formats, including dime novels, pulp magazines, paperbacks, etc.
-- The relationship between new forms of electronic display and the cultural status of digital texts, including e-books, e-readers, cell phone novels, etc.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 1500 characters in length, including spaces, by September 23, 2015.
For more information, or to submit an abstract, please visit: http://www.acla.org/seminar/consumerism-and-prestige-materiality-literat... or contact the organizers:
Anthony Enns: anthony.enns@dal.ca
Bernhard Metz: bernhard.metz@fu-berlin.de
Anh Nguyen: a_nguyen@mit.edu
cfp categories: bibliography_and_history_of_the_book 64130[UPDATE] Proposed Panels for SCSECS (South Central SECS) Feb 25-27 2016South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studiessspencer@uco.edu1442522174cultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarypoetryromantictravel_writingfull name / name of organization: South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studiescontact email: sspencer@uco.edu
The list of proposed panels for this year's meeting of the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS) is now available at http://www.scsecs.net/scsecs/2016/panels.html
This year's conference theme is "East Meets West in the Eighteenth Century." The theme is meant to be evocative rather than exclusionary, so if you've got an idea for a paper or panel that doesn't quite fit with the east/west theme... Send it in anyway!
The meeting will take place at the historic Skirvin Hilton hotel in downtown Oklahoma City on February 25-27. We have been able to secure a fantastic sleeping room rate, but the number of rooms available in the block is limited so reservations should be made as soon as presenters hear back that their paper has been accepted.
The deadline for proposals for individual papers is October 30, 2015. We will also consider complete panels (that is, panels that have three or four presenters already in place) up to that date.
A full description of the conference itself is available on our Call for Papers page: http://www.scsecs.net/scsecs/2016/cfp.html
The organization's website, with links to previous years' conference programs, is http://www.scsecs.net
If you have any questions, or if you have a proposal for a paper that does not fit any of the panel topics on the list, please contact the conference organizer:
- Susan Spencer
Professor of English
University of Central Oklahoma
sspencer@uco.edu
100 N. University Dr., Box 184
Edmond, OK 73034
Conference Bonus:
The University of Central Oklahoma will host an Asian Studies Development Program workshop, to be held at the Skirvin Hilton all day on Thursday, February 25, and a follow-up series of panel discussions on various aspects of Asian culture, politics, and history on the following day. The sponsors have invited SCSECS members to attend any one of these talks on either day, so if you want to come a bit early or do some "corridor crossing" during our concurrent panels on Thursday or Friday, this might be a chance to increase your knowledge of Confucian philosophy, traditional music, or Chinese sitcoms.
Both the ASDP group and SCSECS will enjoy a plenary luncheon at the Oklahoma City Petroleum Club, located directly across the plaza from the Skirvin Hilton: http://www.petroleumclubokc.com/ . The luncheon will feature a presentation by Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak of the University of Hawai'i. Professor Wichmann-Walczak is a leading expert in the United States on Jingjù, or "Beijing opera," which got its start in the reign of Emperor Quianlong (1711-1799), sixth emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
Before the presentation we are planning a live east/west face-off between Beijing-style and western-style opera singers, which is bound to be an unforgettable event. The Petroleum Club itself--a private club for Oklahoma City's oil and gas executives, located at the penthouse of the second-highest building in the city with sweeping views of the capital building and other local landmarks--would be well worth the trip in itself.
We hope to see you in Oklahoma City this year!
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarypoetryromantictravel_writing 64131America's Contradictory Promise (Nov. 1)ACCUTE / Congress 2016 (28-31 May 2016)srangwal@ualberta.ca1442522777african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisionmodernist studiespostcolonialfull name / name of organization: ACCUTE / Congress 2016 (28-31 May 2016)contact email: srangwal@ualberta.ca
"Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." These words inscribed on founding father and slave-owner Thomas Jefferson's Memorial speak to the essential principles of equality and freedom in the new American nation. Over 200 years later, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in Between the World and Me (2015), "In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage." This contradiction between laudable ideals and material reality forms the heart of the American ethos. This panel welcomes papers on U.S. literary or filmic narratives, historical or current, that attempt to expose, expand, or resolve this contradiction. Questions to consider include: How does the historical legacy of promise and contradiction manifest through the specificity of character and story? How do particular forms make racialized, gendered, or classed subjects visible? How are the inequalities of the exchange economy rendered through the logic of narrative?
Please send proposals to srangwal@ualberta and include the following:
A 300- to 500-word proposal (with NO identifying marks of any kind)
A 100-word abstract
A 50-word bio
A 2016 Proposal Information Sheet (https://accutecanada.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/2016-proposal-info-shee...)
Note: You must be an ACCUTE member in good standing to apply for a member organized panel. All submissions rejected by member organizers will be considered in ACCUTE's 2016 general pool.
The deadline for all member-organized panel submissions is 1 November 2015.
For more information, please see: http://accute.ca/accute-conference/accute-cfp-member-organized-panels/
cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisionmodernist studiespostcolonial 64132FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES - A Common Ground ConferenceCommon Ground Publishingsupport@thehumanities.com1442523186americanclassical_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespopular_culturerhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheoryfull name / name of organization: Common Ground Publishingcontact email: support@thehumanities.com
FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, USA
8-11 June 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals for paper presentations, workshops, posters, or colloquia are invited for the Fourteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities held at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in Chicago, USA, 8-11 June 2016. Proposals are invited that address the humanities through one of the following categories:
Theme 1: Critical Cultural Studies
Theme 2: Communications and Linguistics Studies
Theme 3: Civic, Political, and Community Studies
Theme 4: Literary Humanities
Theme 5: Humanities Education
2016 SPECIAL FOCUS: 'Nature at the Crossroads: New Directions for the Humanities in the Age of the Anthropocene'
VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS
If you are unable to attend the conference in person, you may present in a Virtual Poster session or a Virtual Lightning Talk. Virtual sessions enable participants to present work to a body of peers and to engage with colleagues from afar. As a virtual participant, presenters are scheduled in the formal program, have access to select conference content, can submit an article for peer review and possible publication, may upload an online presentation, and can enjoy Annual Membership to the community and subscriber access to the New Directions in the Humanities Collection.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES COLLECTION
All presenters are invited to submit written articles for publication to the fully refereed New Directions in the Humanities Collection. Articles may be submitted by in-person and virtual participants as well as community members.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
The current review period closing date for the latest round of submissions to the Call for Papers (a title and short abstract) is 11 September 2015. Please visit our website for more information on submitting your proposal, future deadlines, and registering for the conference.
For more information and to submit a proposal visit: http://thehumanities.com/2016-Conference
Enquiries: conferencedirector@commongroundpublishing.com
Web address: http://thehumanities.com/2016-Conference
Sponsored by: New Directions in the Humanities / Common Ground Publishing
cfp categories: americanclassical_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespopular_culturerhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheory 64134Secularization and the Novel, a Seminar for ACLA 2016 at Harvard, March 17-20 - Proposals Due Sept 23rd [UPDATE]American Comparative Literature Associationsiemers.ryan@gmail.com1442529065african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespostcolonialreligionromanticscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: American Comparative Literature Associationcontact email: siemers.ryan@gmail.com
The history of the novel is also, it would appear, a history of secularization. For Ian Watt, Michael McKeon, Franco Moretti, and many others, the novel is a product of what Max Weber called rationalization. More recently, in Martha Nussbaum's _Love's Knowledge_ and Lynn Hunt's _Inventing Human Rights_, the novel is seen as participating in the production of secular modernity—-through the elaboration of modernity's ethics and the encouragement of empathy across socio-economic boundaries, respectively. How then should we characterize the relationship between the novel and secularization? Is the novel an effect or a cause of secularization? Or, if the relationship between the two is more dialectical, how should that dialectic be described? Perhaps there is no relationship, causal or otherwise, and we should disentangle the two—-but how? This seminar proposes to address questions such as these.
Of course, what we mean by "secularization" informs how we go about addressing these questions. In sociology, the theory of secularization has undergone revision due to the persistence and continued relevance of religion. Once considered an inevitable decline of religious practice and affiliation due to modernization, secularization may take on more varied forms and winding (even recursive) paths than previously thought. In the philosophy of history, meanwhile, Hans Blumenberg defends modernity from debts to religion proposed by Carl Schmitt, Karl Löwith, and others by suggesting a secularization of functions rather than contents. For Blumenberg, the function of responding to questions inherited from earlier epochs accounts for the lamentable overextension and distortion of authentically modern contents. The modern notion of possible progress, for example, becomes overextended to "reoccupy" the "answer position" left over from Christianity as to the transcendent purpose of history. In so doing, possible progress becomes inevitable progress. Blumenberg's strategy of narrowing the "authentically modern" in order to rule out identity between secular and religious contents raises the question of whether or not such a narrow modernity can ever be fully achieved. If not, then a secularization of functions becomes unbounded and opens up to peripatetic and recursive possibilities. Whether we see secularization as a straight line, a circle, or a tangled mess has obvious implications for our view of secularization's relationship to the novel.
To submit a paper proposal, please visit the official CFP (http://www.acla.org/seminar/secularization-and-novel) and click on "submit a paper for this seminar." (Please ignore the language at the bottom of the CFP about emailing the abstract to me.) Proposals are limited to 1500 characters.
The ACLA describes the structure of its multi-day seminars, which are somewhat unusual for a conference, here: http://www.acla.org/annual-meeting
Please direct questions to Ryan Siemers using the contact email above.
cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespostcolonialreligionromanticscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64135Call for Panelists - Bodies Out of Work: Staging the Experience of Unemployment (ATHE 2016)Laura Farrell-Wortmanfarrellwortm@wisc.edu1442531588african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialrenaissanceromantictheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Laura Farrell-Wortmancontact email: farrellwortm@wisc.edu
We are seeking participants for a proposed panel on the staging of unemployment for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2016 conference in Chicago, IL.
Bodies Out of Work: Staging the Experience of Unemployment
In considering this year's conference theme of "bodies at work," we must simultaneously reconcile the precarity of contemporary labor: "bodies at work" also occur alongside "bodies out of work." Moreover, the un- and under-employed body has increasingly garnered attention in both performance and academic circles via discourses of faculty adjunctification, the limits of non-profit funding models in supporting theatre-making, and the shifting landscape of labor in both classrooms and on stages.
Given these realities, this panel explores the theatricalization of unemployment and underemployment both in the academy and beyond it. How do playwrights and theatre artists conceive of the experience of losing one's livelihood? In what ways can we use theatre to explore the complex social, psychological and political ramifications of unemployment and contingent labor? What does it mean for unpaid, uncontracted or underemployed theatre artists to create and stage these works? The panel takes particular interest in analyses of these experiences from a variety of time periods and geographical locations.
Please submit a short abstract, including bio and a/v needs, to farrellwortm@wisc.edu by October 1, 2015.
cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialrenaissanceromantictheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64136[UPDATE] ACLA 2016, Harvard: Images of Science in LiteratureCatalina Florina Florescu, Pace Universityfflorescu@pace.edu or ravaseala@gmail.com1442534366african-americanamericanclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Catalina Florina Florescu, Pace Universitycontact email: fflorescu@pace.edu or ravaseala@gmail.com
This seminar investigates the views man has expressed about the impact of technology and science across recorded history. Questions that might be addressed include: What is the relationship between religion and technology? Has man always viewed technological innovations as positive? What relationship is there between man's vision of utopian society and technology? The seminar promotes awareness of the importance of literature in creating and maintaining the social, political, ethical and religious systems by which we live. The seminar also considers how humans have discussed the impact of technology and science on society. Suggested primary works may include, but are not limited to, T. More's Utopia; A.Huxley's Brave New World; H. Müller's The Passport; S. Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape; E. Ionesco's Rhinoceros; S. Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone; A. Clarke's "The Nine Billions Name of God"; U. Guin's "The One Who Walked Away from Omelas"; A. Lightman's Einstein's Dreams; etc.
Please submit an abstract online, http://www.acla.org/node/5239, no later than Sept 23rd.
Thank you for your scholarly interest.
Dr. Florescu
cfp categories: african-americanamericanclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64137CFP: Honors Education: Supporting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (12/4/15;3/9/16-3/11/16)National Society for Minorities in Honors conference@nsfmih.org1442535438african-americanethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryprofessional_topicsfull name / name of organization: National Society for Minorities in Honors contact email: conference@nsfmih.org
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Call for Papers
Supporting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Honors Education
March 9-11 2016
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan
To launch the National Society for Minorities in Honors (NSFMIH), Oakland University's Honors College is hosting a two day conference, offering a key opportunity for discussion and networking.
The focus of the inaugural conference will be on topics concerned with the support of diversity, equity and inclusion in college honors programs and honors colleges.
We now invite proposals
While all topics pertaining to the theme are welcome, special attention will be given to presentation topics that include the creation of honors "pipelines" from high school to college, programmatic work on supporting diversity in honors, and topics focusing on specific under represented or under served populations.
Proposals: 150 word abstract
Presentation: 15 minutes in length (each 60 minute session will allow for 15 min question time)
Those who might be interested in attending include: Honors College/program faculty, Academic Affairs staff, Academic advisers, Admission officers.
Participants/attendees (non-presenting) will also be very welcome at the conference.
Closing Date for Proposals: December 4 2015
Please send proposals to: conference@nsfmih.org
Further inquiries: Graeme Harper, Dean, Honors College, Oakland University: gharper@oakland.edu
Oakland University: in spirit of the words of Andrew Carnegie, Matilda Dodge Wilson donated her estate in 1957 to provide "ladders upon which the aspiring can rise," establishing what is now Oakland University. The OU campus has 1,443 acres with the historic address of Rochester, Michigan, and includes the National Historic Landmark, Meadow Brook Hall. Grounded in teaching, service and research, Oakland University offers more than 270 degree and certificate programs to aspiring minds from its large campus spanning two thriving cities (Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills) in southeast Michigan.
cfp categories: african-americanethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryprofessional_topics 64138"New and Novel Ways of Teaching the Nineteenth Century"NSCA Graduate Student Caucusncsagradcaucus@gmail.com1442546007americaninterdisciplinarypoetryprofessional_topicsvictorianfull name / name of organization: NSCA Graduate Student Caucuscontact email: ncsagradcaucus@gmail.com
In the spirit of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association's conference theme, "The New and the Novel in the 19th Century/New Directions in 19th Century Studies," the NCSA Graduate Student Caucus invites submissions for the panel "New and Novel Ways of Teaching the Nineteenth Century." The panel will be held at the annual meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska on April 13-16, 2016.
One of the greatest challenges of any educator is bringing the past to life in an accessible, engaging way for students. This panel seeks to collect and present innovative ways of teaching the nineteenth century in a college or advanced high school classroom. Topics could include: teaching and discussing nineteenth century texts, incorporating visual and audio material, developing multi-modal and digital assignments, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to the classroom, or teaching the controversial. Papers can focus on an individual assignment or activity or a more general philosophy or pedagogical practice. We also welcome alternative interpretations of the theme.
This panel is open to scholars from all disciplines, although graduate students are particularly encouraged to submit abstracts for consideration. Please email a 250-word abstract and one-page CV to ncsagradcaucus@gmail.com by Monday, September 28, 2015. For more information on NCSA or the 2016 conference, please see http://www.ncsaweb.net/Current-Conference.
cfp categories: americaninterdisciplinarypoetryprofessional_topicsvictorian 64140World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain info@worldcongresslbp.com1442567395interdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesscience_and_culturefull name / name of organization: World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain contact email: info@worldcongresslbp.com
Deadline for submissions is 20 December 2015
• Anatomy and biomechanics
• Epidemiology: evidence based papers on effectivement diagnostic and therapy outcome
• Lumbar pain
• Pelvic girdle pain
• Motor Control
• Minimally invasive surgery
• Sports medicine
• Exercise and therapeutic intervention
• Manual techniques
• Prevention and education
All submissions of articles to be made through the abstract form on the website: http://www.worldcongresslbp.com/abstracts/
Information about the formats of presentations, instructions for authors, etc. is now available on the congress website www.worldcongresslbp.com
cfp categories: interdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesscience_and_culture 64141CFP - GRETA Journal (vol. 21) - Dec. 15th 2015GRETA Journal, Revista para Profesores de Inglésgretajournal@gmail.com1442567634general_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysprofessional_topicsfull name / name of organization: GRETA Journal, Revista para Profesores de Ingléscontact email: gretajournal@gmail.com
GRETA Journal, Revista para Profesores de Inglés (ISSN 1989-7146), is preparing the publication of its 21st volume. GRETA Journal publishes manuscripts on English Language Teaching Methodology. The objective of the journal is to bridge the gap between the field of Applied Linguistics and class praxis. Other fundamental goals include providing updated information about the latest trends, techniques, materials, and methodologies employed in EFL teaching and to exchange experiences and publications between research teams both on a national and international level.
GRETA Journal is included in the following databases: ANEP/FECYT, CIRC, DIALNET, DICE, Linguist List, IN-RECH, ISOC-Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (IEDCYT-CSIC) , MIAR, LATINDEX, MLA International Bibliography, MLA List of periodicals and RESH.
In keeping with its continuous concern for state-of-the-art issues, the journal makes a call for contributions related to one specific topic of current and future relevance for education at any level: The Role of Multimodality in the Teaching of Foreign Languages (Volume 21, no. 1). We also welcome papers on other topics, approaches, frameworks, etc. for a different miscellaneous issue (Volume 21, no. 2) with the following regular sections:
Theory Behind the Practice
Classroom Techniques
In the English Classroom (Primary, Secondary, University, Adults)
Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Bilingual Education
New Technologies in the English Classroom
Teaching Culture and Teaching Literature
Teacher Training and Development
Contributions can be in English or Spanish and should adhere to the publication guidelines of the Journal, available at http://www.gretaassociation.org/web/guest/revista. The manuscripts received will be evaluated in a double blind peer review process. The deadline for submissions for the next volume is December 15th, 2015. Manuscripts should be sent by e-mail to gretajournalsubmissions@gmail.com.
The editors:
Carmen Aguilera Carnerero
Laura Torres Zúñiga
Eva María Gómez Jiménez
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cfp categories: general_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysprofessional_topics 64142Image and Information - 8 December 2015, University of St AndrewsThe Art of Identification Networktheartofidentification@gmail.com1442570171cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinaryscience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: The Art of Identification Networkcontact email: theartofidentification@gmail.com
Identification has historically been ratified via the production of paper documents and the presentation of visual images. This workshop will be based upon the premise that the representation of identity formed by such documents and images can be constructively read/viewed alongside the representations offered by literary texts and visual art. The workshop will thus concentrate on the aesthetic dimension of identity documents and the information they contain, and will seek to elucidate the various strategies and theories which, historically, have underwritten the truth-claims made for and by identifying practices. This will facilitate an exploration of how such practices relate to the cultural self-fashioning of citizen-subjects and what happens to those processes of fashioning a self in the age of information technologies and mass culture.
This workshop is the second in a series of one-day events that are running as part of the AHRC funded network 'The Art of Identification'. For full details of the network see its website - http://artofidentification.com. The workshop will be of interest to a range of academics and practitioners and proposals are welcome from all disciplines. If you wish to present a paper please send a 300 word abstract and recent CV to theartofidentification@gmail.com by Friday 9 October 2015.
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinaryscience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64143NEW ACADEMIA: An International Journal of English Language, Literature & Literary Theory Print ISSN 2277-3967 E- ISSN: 2347-2073Interactions Forum Punenewacademia.if@gmail.com1442573276african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitymodernist studiespoetrypostcolonialtheatretheorytravel_writingvictorianfull name / name of organization: Interactions Forum Punecontact email: newacademia.if@gmail.com
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NEW ACADEMIA: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory (Print ISSN 2277-3967) (Online ISSN: 2347-2073)
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Deadline for submission: 30 Sept. 2015
New Academia is a refereed and indexed journal published quarterly by Interactions Forum.
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• Each paper must be accompanied by i) A declaration that it is an original work and has not been published anywhere else or send for publication ii) Abstract of paper about 100-200 words and iii) A short bio-note of the contributor(s) indicating name, institutional affiliation, brief career history, postal address, mobile number and e-mail, in a single attachment. Please don't send more attachments. Give these things below your paper and send all these things in a separate single MS-Word attachment.
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cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitymodernist studiespoetrypostcolonialtheatretheorytravel_writingvictorian 64144The Wenshan Review (ISSN: 2077-1218): Launch of its new website & call for submissionsThe Wenshan Review of Literature and Culturewsreview@nccu.edu.tw1442574097african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culturecontact email: wsreview@nccu.edu.tw
The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, issued both in print and online versions, is excited to announce the launch of its new website: www.wreview.org . Authors are warmly invited to submit articles and book reviews via "Online Submissions." Also, the call remains open for submissions to the special issue on Affective Perspectives from East Asia (which can be found in News). Members of the editorial board are based at top universities in the UK, US, and East Asia and cover almost all research areas of literary and cultural studies. Normally, reviews of articles are completed in 3 months.
Contact Email:
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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_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64145Touching the Body in Pieces: Affective Ecologies of the Modern Body (NeMLA- March 2016, Hartford, CT) [UPDATE]North East Modern Language Associationmolly_hall@my.uri.edu or kara_watts@my.uri.edu1442580242african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetryreligionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: North East Modern Language Associationcontact email: molly_hall@my.uri.edu or kara_watts@my.uri.edu
From artist Hans Bellmer's distorted dolls, to Rupert Brooke's "dust" in a "corner of a foreign field," to Virginia Woolf's "orts, scraps, and fragments," bodies – textual, phenomenological, cultural, political, and physical – seem to fall to pieces in modernism. How can we conceptualize the modern body in light of its affective and ecological surrounds?
Broadly, this panel seeks to examine these ecologies of bodies and their surrounds in modernism. Specifically, we endeavor to explore textual bodies and their composition (or decomposition) in ways that help us understand the ecological placement of the body as it engages with modernism's historical and physical environments. What is the relation of modern bodies to both "hard" and "soft" surrounds? How is the natural body "queered" by the natural world or other surroundings? Does the queer intervene in these conceptions of dualistic bodies, as Judith Butler argues? How is the wounded body – which seems to negotiate both the hard and soft by opening permeable bodily and subjective bounds – represented in or through landscapes of war, or in relationships with nature and landscape? What is embodiment, or what are the boundaries of the body and its hard surrounds if the body itself is an affective environment or ecology of its own? How does modernity's affective shift register or occlude a relationship between subject the "outside"? How is the body and/or its emotions disseminated, or dismantled? Related elements to consider could include WWI, WWII, "publicity," cities and urbanity, T.S. Eliot's cool impersonality, nation or politics, robotic or prosthetic bodies; and in parallel, the domestic, rurality, sentimentality, the homefront, sympathy or suffrage.
We welcome all approaches to the question of the modern body's conceptualization or re-/de-conceptualization, including those that cross disciplinary bounds.
Go to http://www.cfplist.com//nemla/Home/S/15703 to submit a 200-300 word abstract by September 30, 2015. Email molly_hall@my.uri.edu or kara_watts@my.uri.edu with any questions.
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_announcementsinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetryreligionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 64146Transnational Lives CFP | disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory Volume 25The Committee on Social Theory at The University of KentuckyCate Gooch & Ashley Ruderman, University of Kentucky, disclosurejournal@gmail.com1442583374americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialtheorytravel_writingfull name / name of organization: The Committee on Social Theory at The University of Kentuckycontact email: Cate Gooch & Ashley Ruderman, University of Kentucky, disclosurejournal@gmail.com
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 December 2015, by 5pm EST
The editorial collective of disClosure seeks submissions that explore Transnational Lives as they are understood in a variety of areas and disciplines, including (but not limited to) Sociology; Gender & Women's Studies; History; Philosophy; Anthropology; Political Science; Hispanic Studies; Communications; Theories of Transnationality, Hybridity and Bifocality; and Literature (particularly analyses dealing with border studies, immigration, or transnational lives). Possible topics might include:
• Migration
• Transnational
• Translocality
• Bifocality
• Intersectionality
• Globalization
• Immigration (all forms)
• Border studies
• Hybridity
• Mestizaje
• Cosmopolitanism
• International gender relations
• International affairs
• Ethnography
• Belonging/inclusion/exclusion
• Home
disClosure is a blind refereed journal produced in conjunction with the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Kentucky. We welcome submissions from all theoretical perspectives and genres (scholarly articles, interviews, reviews, short fiction, poetry, artwork) and from authors and artists (academically affiliated or not) concerned with social theory. The 25th volume will include interviews with Nina Glick Schiller, Otto Santa Ana, Floya Anthias, and William Nericcio.
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Scholarly Articles, Essays, Poetry, and Fiction: Please submit electronically in PDF or Word format to http://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure. Submissions should be double-spaced with no more than 10,000 words.
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cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialtheorytravel_writing 64147[UPDATE] Queer Deviation: Complicating Heteronormative Endings in Early Modern Literature / NeMLA / Hartford, March 17-20, 2016Kelsey Norwood / NeMLAheteronormative.endings.nemla@gmail.com1442587912gender_studies_and_sexualityrenaissancefull name / name of organization: Kelsey Norwood / NeMLAcontact email: heteronormative.endings.nemla@gmail.com
Critical inquiry into early modern English literature over the last few decades has attended to a proliferation of heteronormative endings in literary texts. These appear, for example, in the form of dramas that end in socially acceptable marriages, such as Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, or sonnet sequences like Sidney's Astrophil & Stella, in which a male protagonist is denied a happy ending because his interest lies with a woman who is already engaged or married to another man.
Although scholarship has, for years, expounded and debated the insistent heteronormative quality of these endings, this seminar will take a different approach, fixating instead on the smaller details of these narratives that resist texts' otherwise heteronormative conclusions and prevent clean, perfect endings. Investigating the moments of exception that emerge in early modern texts, papers in this seminar will consider how heteronormative endings are problematized by queer details that pervade these narratives, with an eye toward contemplating the larger cultural and theoretical implications of these small instances of queer resistance.
Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2015. Abstracts should be under 300 words. Please submit online at http://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15982
cfp categories: gender_studies_and_sexualityrenaissance 64149Star Trek and Gender Studies Nadine Farghaly Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net 1442594644african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypopular_culturescience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Nadine Farghaly contact email: Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net
Since its premiere on September 8, 1966, Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek has become one of the icons of science fiction. With the 50th anniversary coming up this collection will focus on gender representations within the Star Trek universe throughout these five decades. From the very beginnings of Nichelle Nichols (as the first African American actress in a science fiction series) as Uhura to such powerful female such as Jadzia Dax (who lives in symbiosis with a wise and long-lived creature), The Borg Queen (the focal point within the Borg collective consciousness and a unique drone within the collective), Seven of Nine (a rehumanized ex Borg), T'Pau (the only person ever to turn down a seat on the Federation Council), Captain Janeway (the only female captain with her own series) or B'Elanna Torres (the half human half Klingon ex-Maquie) to name but a few of the iridescent female characters the Star Trek universe has to offer. In addition, the male characters are equally as tantalizing. From the enigmatic James T. Kirk (who not only survived but helped others to survive at a young age at Tarsus IV) and his loyal 1st Officer Mr. Spock (the only human Vulcan hybrid in existence), Worf (the first Klingon to serve in the Federation), Q (an almighty being able to bend time and space to his wishes) to Miles O'Brien (a formerly no name character who later become a fan favorite) or Odo (a character who can shapeshift but does not shift into a human form). The sheer multitude of individuals, races, and universes this franchise has to offer calls for a deep and focused scrutiny of the gender relations in it.
Invited are papers concerning all Star Trek TV shows, movies, graphic novels, novels, audio plays, web series, fan productions (such as Star Trek Renegade), fanfiction (remember that Kirk and Spock are the original slash pairing), electronic games, board games, fan gatherings, spinoffs, parodies, revivals, paratexts, fan cultures, etc. So basically everything that can be connected to Star Trek.
I am looking for fun and entertaining chapters that are written in a way to attract and engage laymen as well as long term fans and academics. The collection should be a celebration of this wonderful franchise … have some fun with it!
We are on a tight schedule. Final copy should be send to the editor around August 2016.
Abstracts and proposals are welcome and need to be send in by the 15th of October 2015.
Articles of 5,000-8,000 words should be formatted using MLA style.
Any questions should be directed to the editor, Nadine Farghaly (Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net), The deadline for chapter submissions is December 15th , 2015, with anticipated publication in Star Trek's 50th anniversary year.
cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypopular_culturescience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 64150MisrememberingAmeer Sohrawardy, Rutgers Universityasohrawardy@gmail.com1442595758americancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarymedievalrenaissancescience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Ameer Sohrawardy, Rutgers Universitycontact email: asohrawardy@gmail.com
This is a collection of essays that will revolve around the idea of misremembering in literature. A diversity of approaches are welcome (eg: historicist, cognitive science, theories of temporality, narrative theory, animal studies.)
Several questions will guide the collection: What does it mean to 'misremember'? What does the 'mis' of 'misremembering' refer to? Something 'not remembered'? Something re-membered differently than the 'original' memory? What are the ontologies of misremembering?
Is misremembering always accidental? Is it 'anachronistic,' as we've currently understood the word (eg: de Grazia, Tribble.) If the cognitive sciences teach us that we must re-arrange old memories in order to accommodate new ones, is misremembering a stage in this transition?
If post-Enlightenment thinking teaches us that our memories make us distinctly human, how does misremembering shape our perception of what it means to be human? Can we detect different cognitive perceptions of 'the human,' when literary animals misremember (especially from the pre-Enlightenment period)?
In our current age, when our memories are digitally stored, does misremembering mean something different than it did in earlier ages?
Abstracts of 250-300 words may be emailed to ameersoh@rci.rutgers.edu. Abstract deadline is December 31st, 2015.
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarymedievalrenaissancescience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64151The Teaching of Literature across Two-Year and Four-Year Colleges: Comparative Perspectives @ACLA, Mar 17-20, 2016, Cambridge MAAmerican Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2016dfzino@gmail.com1442598069african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2016contact email: dfzino@gmail.com
Organizer: Dominique Zino, LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)
This seminar seeks to bring into conversation a range of faculty – tenured and tenure-track professors, adjunct lecturers, and graduate students – teaching at two-year and four-year institutions.
We will aim to discuss the following pedagogical questions: What ways of reading, writing, and thinking should students be introduced to in their first two years of college, especially if they plan to study literature at a four-year college or university? What do we value most as teachers of literature? What concepts, skills, or texts do we find most fundamental to helping students to read literature deeply and to apply it to other realms of learning?
Participants might also choose to respond to institutional issues: Do literature classes in two-year and four-year colleges fulfill the same purposes and learning objectives? (Should they?) How are literature students' analytical skills assessed at two-year and four-year institutions? What challenges do instructors at two-year institutions face that teachers at four-year institutions may not see, and vice versa? What similar challenges do instructors face at both kinds of institutions? What kind of pedagogical practices are employed at two-year institutions that could be useful for teachers and students at four-year institutions?
The seminar invites papers that discuss classroom experience alongside pedagogical and/or literary theory. Faculty who may be teaching and/or studying transfer students at their respective institutions are also encouraged to contribute to this discussion.
cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64153Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts on Philosophy and Poetry, January 29-30, 2016University of Dallasudbgsaconference@gmail.com1442603667graduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypoetryfull name / name of organization: University of Dallascontact email: udbgsaconference@gmail.com
"'Dear Homer, if you are not third from the truth about virtue, a craftsman of a phantom, just the one we defined as an imitator, but are also second and able to recognize what sorts of practices make human beings better or worse in private and in public, tell us which of the cities was better governed thanks to you?'" (Plato, Republic, X 599d)
The Braniff Graduate Student Association of the University of Dallas is pleased to announce the second annual Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts. This conference will explore the relationship between philosophy and poetry through the various lenses of philosophy, theology, literature, political philosophy, and the human sciences generally. Related topics include but are not limited to:
Reason and the imagination
Psychology and poetry
Religious poetry
Poetry and the city
The liberal arts of the trivium and the fine art of poetry
We invite scholars working in the liberal arts to submit a one page abstract that considers the relationship between philosophy and poetry from the perspective of their discipline or through an interdisciplinary approach. Preference will be given to papers conversant with the great texts of the Western tradition. In addition to a scholarly abstract, those interested may submit an original poetry sample of no more than three minutes presentation time to be performed at a poetry reading in conjunction with the conference.
Submit abstracts and original poetry to udbgsaconference@gmail.com. Abstracts should be prepared for blind review. Please include a separate cover letter with your name, paper title, email address, and institutional affiliation.
Abstracts are due no later than Monday, November 2, 2015. Presenters will be asked to submit conference-length papers suitable for a 15 minute presentation (approximately 2500 words) by December 31, 2015.
cfp categories: graduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypoetry 64154[REMINDER] "The Critical 'I'" (9/30/2015; 3/17-20/2015) NEMLA roundtableDavid Bahr, BMCC-CUNYdbahr@bmcc.cuny.edu1442606605americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryrhetoric_and_compositiontwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: David Bahr, BMCC-CUNYcontact email: dbahr@bmcc.cuny.edu
CFP: "The Critical 'I'"
NEMLA Mar 17-20, 2016, Hartford. CT
Abstract deadline Sep 30, 2015
This roundtable examines the explored and unexplored possibilities (and challenges) of the autobiographical "I" in academic scholarship and literary criticism, both inside and outside the academy.
Scholars of life writing, such as Nancy K. Miller (Enough About Me, Bequest & Betrayal), have often included the personal in their scholarly projects. Yet, what might those traditionally marginalized by race, class, gender, sexuality, culture, and religion, add to various academic disciplines because of their personal experience. The social science forum Artic anthropology, addressing the combined disciplines of ethnography and biography, queried: "If, as [anthropologist] Michael Herzfeld has argued, the combination of these two genres as 'ethnographic biography' promises to overcome the vexing and ultimately specious divide between individual, socio-cultural and historical domains of experience, how might scholars across diverse fields take advantage of this potential?" Furthermore, creative scholars, such Wayne Koestenbaum (The Queen's Throat) and, more recently, Louis Bury (Exercises in Criticism), have employed poetic, autobiographical aspects in their critical work, while encouraging scholars to look at the critical work done by autobiographical creative writers such as Geoff Dyer (Out of Sheer Rage).
Although it can be argued that much academic criticism has an autobiographical basis, in terms of what animates an author's passion and interests, the inclusion of the self is often discouraged because of its perceived lack of objectivity and/or rigueur. Furthermore, effective use of autobiography in scholarly writing can be difficult to employ, as autobiographical and scholarly concerns should, ideally, complement each other, with the personal advancing the scholarly project; in some cases, its exclusion may hamper or falsify the critical work being done. This roundtable will provide creative scholars with an opportunity to discuss the challenges and potential of the critical "I." Proposals representing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, historical eras, and methodological approaches are all welcome.
Submission Guidelines
This panel will be a part of the 47th Annual NeMLA Convention, March 17 to 20, 2016, in Hartford, CT.
Interested authors should submit abstracts of no more than 250 words through the CFP list on NeMLA's website https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15697. Submissions must also include the author's full name, email address and institutional affiliation.
Submissions must be received by September 30, 2015.
Accepted panelists must be members of NeMLA by December 1, 2015, and register for the conference by the same date in order to present. Participants may only deliver one paper at the conference.
Inquiries (but not proposals) should be sent to David Bahr (dbahr@bmcc.cuny.edu)
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryrhetoric_and_compositiontwentieth_century_and_beyond 64155[UPDATE] The Science of Affect in American Literature and Culture NeMLA, March 17-20, Abstracts Due Sept 30Northeast Modern Language AssociationSubmission Online at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15802 ; contact NZeftel@gmail.com with any questions1442606925americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiestheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: Submission Online at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15802 ; contact NZeftel@gmail.com with any questions
Chairs: Nicole Zeftel (CUNY Graduate Center) and Allison Siehnel (University at Buffalo)
Submit Abstracts Here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15802
Patricia Clough has recently identified what she calls an "affective turn" in fields across the humanities and social sciences, which reimagine the place of emotion and the body within the political, economic, and social. Affect is increasingly important to nineteenth-century American studies, as critics like Michael Millner and Christopher Castiglia work to understand how feelings such as sympathy and anxiety helped shape literature and popular culture, as well as our definitions of citizenship more broadly. In addition, this affective turn is present in the sciences: Raffi Khatchadourian's recent investigative piece, "We Know How you Feel: Computers are Learning Emotion and the Business World Can't Wait" in the New Yorker (19 Jan. 2015), examines how contemporary computer science research capitalizes on consumer feelings to create an "emotion economy." This panel seeks to explore how these trends can be linked to the nineteenth-century's interest in the readability and knowability of human emotion (through, for example, pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism, phrenology, and electrical psychology). Though these various investigations into affect work towards very different ends, the trend to pursue human emotion pervades American literary and scientific studies. In what ways are recent scientific explorations that endeavor to quantify human interiority similar to nineteenth-century science that posited the knowability of the self? What can such similarities tell us about the ability to "know" both our own and others' emotions? This panel will draw attention to the potential intersections between affect theory and nineteenth-century science, literature, and psychology. We welcome papers that explore nineteenth-century science and psychology on its own terms, and especially in relation to the spread of Western culture and United States imperialism. As well, we invite papers that consider the place of science in affect studies through the present day.
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiestheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64156Twenty-First Century South African Literature: Combating Current Human Rights Abuses (ALA conference, April 6-9, 2016)Renée Schatteman/ African Literature Association conferenceschatteman@gsu.edu1442609259cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Renée Schatteman/ African Literature Association conferencecontact email: schatteman@gsu.edu
Now that the race-based master narrative of apartheid is beginning to fade from the country's collective consciousness (as seen most clearly in the South Africans born after 1994 who have no lived experience of its system of comprehensive repression), South African literature produced in recent years has begun to explore the human dimensions of new forms of discrimination resulting from social phenomenon such as xenophobia, ethnic tensions, homophobia, language bias, and the misrepresentation of HIV and AIDS. This panel welcomes papers dealing with literary works that identify such human rights violations, explore their causes and ramifications, and challenge the post-apartheid rhetoric of the rainbow nation.
Please submit an abstract of up to 250 words to schatteman@gsu.edu by October 30th, including name and institutional affiliation.
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 64157Call for Papers 2016 National Black Writers Conference "Writing Race, Embracing DifferenceCenter for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNYCreynolds@mec.cuny.edu1442612786african-americanfull name / name of organization: Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNYcontact email: Creynolds@mec.cuny.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS
13th National Black Writers Conference
"Writing Race, Embracing Difference"
March 31, 2016 – April 3, 2016
Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York
Sponsored by the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College
In her classic essay Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Toni Morrison writes that although the habit of ignoring race may be desirable and generous, "A criticism that needs to insist that literature is not only 'universal' but also 'race-free' risks lobotomizing that literature and diminishes both the art and the artist."
This desire to ignore race is turned upside down in the critique of Rita Dove's editing of The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry. Helen Vendler, a Harvard professor and literary critic, lambasted former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove for her inclusion of "some 175" poets and for her choice of poems: "mostly short" and "of rather restricted vocabulary" in the anthology and states that "Multicultural inclusiveness prevails…."
The 13th National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) "Writing Race, Embracing Difference" places the issues of race and difference at the forefront of the literature produced by Black writers and provides for writers, scholars, literary agents, editors, publishers, students, academics, and the general public to examine these themes through panel discussions and roundtables.
We invite interested faculty, independent researchers, and students to submit proposals for papers focused on the conference theme and panels or in the literature and work of our conference honorees: Rita Dove, Edwidge Danticat, Michael Eric Dyson, Charles Johnson, and Woodie King Jr.
The year 2016 marks the centennial of the birth of author and educator John Oliver Killens, founder of the National Black Writers Conference. Since 1986, the National Black Writers Conference has been held at Medgar Evers College to bring together writers, critics, booksellers, book reviewers, and the general public to establish a dialogue on the social responsibility of the Black writer and the emerging themes, trends, and issues in Black literature. As we celebrate his birth in 2016, we welcome proposals on the literature and works of John Oliver Killens.
The Presentation of Papers will be held during the Conference on Thursday, March 31, 2016.
Conference Theme: "Writing Race, Embracing Difference" in the Literature of Black Writers
Conference Panels:
● Afrofuturism: Reimagining the Past, Present, and Future
●Decoded: Hip-Hop and Youth Culture
● The Politics of Race and Psychology in the Literature of Black Writers
● The Impact of War, Disaster, and Global Crises in the Literature of Black Writers
● Creating Dangerously: Courage and Resistance in the Literature of Black Writers
A one- or two-page proposal with references should be submitted by January 15, 2016. Please include name and contact information on the title page.
Please submit to: writers@mec.cuny.edu, with 2016 NBWC Call for Papers in the subject line.
cfp categories: african-american 64158"Small Screen Fictions" ParadoxaAstrid Ensslin <a.ensslin@bangor.ac.uk>, Pawel Frelik <pawel.frelik@gmail.com> Lisa Swanstrom <swanstro@gmail.com>1442625077americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisionhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Paradoxacontact email: Astrid Ensslin <a.ensslin@bangor.ac.uk>, Pawel Frelik <pawel.frelik@gmail.com> Lisa Swanstrom <swanstro@gmail.com>
Paradoxa, Issue in Preparation
Volume 29, "Small Screen Fictions"
Anticipated publication date: December, 2017
Editors:
Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University, Bangor, Wales)
Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland)
Lisa Swanstrom (Florida-Atlantic, Boca Raton, Florida, USA)
In the last few decades, digital technologies have dramatically reconfigured not only the circumstances of media production and dissemination, but also many of their cultural forms and conventions, including the roles of users, producers, authors, audiences, and readers. Arguably the most spectacular of these digital transformations have affected the large screens of cinema multiplexes and the increasingly large screens of home televisions, but other narrative forms have emerged on a smaller screens as well.
Today, with growing frequency, narratives are experienced on the smaller screens of laptops, tablets, and even mobile phones. These narratives often involve direct reader/viewer/player interaction, enabling highly idiosyncratic, individualized and unique narrative experiences. Some of these fictions are merely digitized or wikified versions of texts previously available in the codex form—their digital conversion affects some of the ways in which readers engage with them, but the basic structures of these narratives remain unchanged. Some others, however, have been written and designed (these two words often blur) specifically for these small screens. Their functionalities and affordances are not replicable in any other medial form, nor do they demonstrate an allegiance to any single pre-existing art form.
Paradoxa seeks articles for a special issue devoted to "Small Screen Fictions." Both in-depth analyses of individual texts and more general, theoretical discussions are invited. The genres and media of interest include but are not limited to:
• DVD novels, such as Steve Tomasula's TOC (2009);
• literary-narrative video games and ludic, gamelike fictions whose principal interest is in offering innovative storytelling experiences, such as Chinese Room's Dear Esther (2012) and Device6 (2013);
• twitter and blog texts, such as Jennifer Egan's "Black Box" (2012);
• collectively written, locative online texts, particularly those breaking narrative linearity, such as Hundekopf (2007), The LA Flood Project (2013) and The Silent History (2013);
• interactive graphic novels, such as Nam Le's The Boat (2014);
• genre-bending, dialogic hybrids, such as Blast Theory's Karen (2015);
• neo-hypertextual fictions enabled by user-friendly authoring software such as Twine;
• physically distributed narratives that make use of small screen spaces, not merely to create and display fictions, but also to navigate, negotiate, and interact with real-world spaces through geo-caching or other means, such as Ingress (2013), Cartegram (2014), and Call of the Wild (2015).
Similarly, possible approaches to such screen texts include but are not limited to:
• the changing cultural patterns and expectations of engagement with narrative;
• the reality and illusions of linearity and non-linearity;
• the shifting nature of public and private spectatorship;
• the role of touch and tactility, as well as other human senses in experiencing narratives;
• the blurring of the verbal and the visual, of fact and fiction, of reading and writing, of natural and artificial;
• the economic, social, and political contexts of authorship and readership of such texts;
• the implications of such narrative experiences for the meaning(s) and perceptions of fiction, genre and literature.
Abstracts of 500 words should be submitted by 1 March 2016 to the editors: Astrid Ensslin < a.ensslin@bangor.ac.uk>, Pawel Frelik < pawel.frelik@gmail.com> Lisa Swanstrom < swanstro@gmail.com>. Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by 1 April 2016. Full drafts (6,000 to 8,000 words) will be due by 1 October 2016.
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisionhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64159[Reminder] Contemporary Literature as Digital Literature - NeMLA 2016, Hartford, CTTimothy Wilcox / Stony Brook Universitytimothy.wilcox@stonybrook.edu1442640461americanhumanities_computing_and_the_internettwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Timothy Wilcox / Stony Brook Universitycontact email: timothy.wilcox@stonybrook.edu
Digital technology permeates the daily experience of life in the Western world - through shifting social relations owing to social media, the ability to search and store mass amounts of information, ever-increasing recording and broadcasting possibilities, and so on. Even in areas where cell phones and Internet access are absent, lives are still shaped by new forms of globalization building off possibilities - or new needs - opened up by digital technology. This panel seeks papers which examine the relationship between literature and digital technology. For decades writers have been working to imagine the effects of emerging or prospective technology, and in recent years things like Google searches have started to become common in narratives, though the possibilities such a tool opens have existed much longer. Accordingly, possible topics include how digital technology has been imagined in literature, how it has been suspiciously absent, the way writers try to make sense of these new phenomenological experiences, and so on. Papers may be examinations of the history of such writing, close examinations of specific problems and texts, or somewhere in between. Papers may also consider contemporary writing, including things like electronic literature, in relation to earlier texts. One possible set of considerations is: how digital technology is or is not heterogeneous, whose stories do or do not get told/read, and what possibilities this holds for this emerging history of digital narratives.
This panel will be part of the 2016 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention, to be held in Hartford, CT from March 17-20, 2016.
Submissions go to:
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15661
The deadline for abstract submissions is September 30, 2015.
cfp categories: americanhumanities_computing_and_the_internettwentieth_century_and_beyond 64160French Literature after the Houellebecq Years - Please send your proposal by using the NeMLA link below by Sept. 30NeMLA conference (Hartford, Connecticut - March 17-20, 2016)gviennot@uark.edu1442642329cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitymodernist studiestheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: NeMLA conference (Hartford, Connecticut - March 17-20, 2016)contact email: gviennot@uark.edu
March 17-20, 2016
Hartford, Connecticut
Northeast Modern Language Association
NeMLA French Literature after the Houellebecq Years
In 1998, Michel Houellebecq confirmed his promising debut, "Whatever", by publishing "Elementary Particles", arguably the fin de siècle masterpiece France had been seeking. With it ended the last derivations of the Nouveau Roman.
At the core of his writing, dark realism evidenced the disenchantment seeping in Western civilization. His depiction of the 1968, his harsh critiques of feminism, as well as other unresolvable aspects of his texts, were deemed disturbing.
Novel after novel, perhaps with less anger, Houellebecq depicted France thrown in a devastatingly morbid and cryptic world, quite in line with the baudrillardian simulacrum. Relentlessly exploring this path, "The Map and the Territory", showed an ungraspable and loveless world which aims pointlessly at financial profitability, including in the market of contemporary art. Love and art, the two forces that never die – the former is born from tenderness in childhood, the latter lies in our tendencies toward aesthetics, were dying. Dark urges pressed his characters; this time a surgeon killed for fun, in what he saw as an artful posture.
His latest novel, "Submission", whose subject seemed impossible to exploit literarily, describes a cold, hostile, nonsensical world where Houellebecq's prose and statement appear more devitalized than ever. Is literature still valid in the present? Houellebecq doubts it and keeps advocating for the rediscovery of the old masters, Huysmans being among them. In some ways, Houellebecq seems to be asking others to go on and lead the French literature for a couple decades like he did.
Among the newer writers, some are connected to Houellebecq by critics; some are deliberately taking the path away from the baudrillardian dead end and the literature of disaster some critics have come to dislike. Either way, the aim is to show that art, culture, education and love are still relevant to salvage our democracies and retrieve a more invigorating literature.
Our panel will focus on the new voices that are gaining attention in the French novel. We invite you to talk about one or two authors among this new generation of French writers whom you find the most compelling / surprising / relevant / uplifting. Who can refresh the French novel and address the Western disenchantment as sharply as him, but perhaps by offering a little more hope?
Please submit your proposal by using the following link, by September 30:
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15978
Invitations will be notified by Oct. 15.
The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) is a scholarly organization for professionals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other modern languages. With more than 2,000 members, NeMLA is the largest of the regional MLA affiliates. The annual convention affords NeMLA's principal opportunity to carry on a tradition of lively research and pedagogical exchange in language and literature. The convention includes panels and seminars, roundtables and caucus meetings, workshops, literary readings, film screenings, and guest speakers. In addition, NeMLA supports its members through awards, fellowships, and opportunities for professional development.
NeMLA members can join a scholarly community and shape the conversations that happen by presenting a paper at the annual convention. The deadline to submit a paper abstract to an accepted session for NeMLA's 47th annual convention, which takes place March 17 to 20, 2016 in Hartford, CT, is September 30, 2015.
Information about membership:
http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/about/members/rates.html
Please note that you do NOT need to be a current NeMLA member to submit an abstract. Creating a NeMLA account is free. For those participating in the upcoming convention, registration opens in late fall.
Convention participants must register and join NeMLA by December 1. After December 1st, there will be a $25 late fee and a $50 late fee after January 5.
Chair: Dr. Gilles Viennot (University of Arkansas)
Email: gviennot@uark.edu
Conférence du 17 au 20 mars 2016
Hartford, Connecticut
Northeast Modern Language Association
La littérature française après les années Houellebecq
En 1998, Michel Houellebecq confirmait ses débuts prometteurs, en donnant suite à son premier roman "Extension du domaine de la lutte" avec "Les particules élémentaires", dont on a pu lire qu'il était le chef-d'œuvre que la France se cherchait pour finir le siècle et ouvrir sur un nouveau millénaire. Par ce texte important, l'auteur mettait un terme aux expérimentations parfois absconses du Nouveau Roman.
Au cœur de son écriture, un réalisme sombre reflétait le désenchantement ayant gagné l'Occident. Sa description de 1968, sa critique dure du féminisme, ainsi qu'une dimension irrésoluble de son écriture, choquèrent une partie de la critique, mais séduisirent un large public.
Puis, roman après roman, avec un peu moins de colère, Houellebecq décrivit une France cryptique et morbide, non sans évoquer le simulacre dénoncé par Jean Baudrillard. Explorant cette perspective sans relâche, "La carte et le territoire" donnait à lire un monde insaisissable, dénué d'amour, et où triomphait fatalement la profitabilité, notamment sur le marché de l'art contemporain. L'amour et l'art, les deux forces qui refusent de mourir – le premier né de la tendresse qui nous est dispensée lors de l'enfance, le second issu de nos penchants naturels vers l'esthétique –, y étaient bord de l'extinction. Les personnages étaient animés de passions obscures ; un chirurgien esthétique fou se mettait à tuer pour le plaisir, tout en se réclamant d'une démarche esthétique.
"Soumission", au sujet périlleux à exploiter littérairement, déploie un monde encore plus froid et hostile. La prose de Houellebecq se fait dévitalisée. Le non-sens gagne du terrain. La littérature est-elle encore une entreprise valide ? A l'évidence, Houellebecq en doute, qui renouvelle ses encouragements à relire les grands maîtres, ici Huysmans. En extrapolant un peu, ne semble-t-il pas vouloir passer la main, invitant la relève à prendre la tête des lettes française ?
Parmi les nouveaux écrivains susceptibles de donner une nouvelle direction aux lettres françaises, la critique juge que certains sont dans la continuité de Houellebecq, mais que d'autres auteurs prennent délibérément un chemin différent, éloigné de l'impasse baudrillardienne parfois décriée. En tout état de cause, tous ces auteurs cherchent à démontrer que l'art, la culture et l'amour restent déterminants. Pourront-ils insuffler un nouvel élan à nos démocraties, par le biais d'une littérature vivifiante et revigorante ?
Notre panel se concentrera sur les nouvelles voix écloses récemment dans le roman français, et qui s'imposent progressivement dans le paysage littéraire. Vous êtes cordialement invités à présenter un ou deux auteur(e)s. Quelle écriture vous paraît saisissante, juste, et motivante ? Qui, parmi la nouvelle génération, estimez-vous comme particulièrement intéressant ? Qui vous semble en mesure de refaire une santé au roman français, en s'attaquant frontalement au malaise occidental, à l'instar de Houellebecq, mais en autorisant peut-être un surcroît d'espoir ?
Le panel sera en anglais. Les propositions en français seront examinées, mais priorité sera donnée aux présentations en anglais pour garantir au maximum que chaque participant est compris par l'ensemble de son auditoire. Merci par avance de votre compréhension.
Veuillez soumettre votre proposition (300 mots) et un titre (100 mots), avant le 30 septembre, en utilisant le lien suivant :
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15978
Les invitations seront notifiées avant le 15 octobre.
Directeur du panel: Dr. Gilles Viennot (University of Arkansas)
Email: gviennot@uark.edu
La conférence NeMLA (North East Modern Language Association) se tiendra à Hartford, dans le Connecticut (USA) du 17 au 20 mars 2016.
Informations sur l'inscription à NeMLA + tarifs:
http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/about/members/rates.html
Veuillez noter que vous n'avez pas besoin d'être inscrit à NeMLA pour soumettre une proposition de communication. La création d'un compte NeMLA est gratuite.
Les participants au panel doivent s'acquitter de l'inscription à NeMLA ainsi que l'inscription à la conférence. Le service d'inscription sera disponible à la fin de l'automne 2015. Les participants à la conférence doivent être membres de NeMLA avant le 1er Décembre 2015.
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitymodernist studiestheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64161The University's Reception of LacanUniversité de Bourgognebenedicte.coste@u-bourgogne.fr jmurray@univ-fcomte.fr1442651324interdisciplinarytheoryfull name / name of organization: Université de Bourgognecontact email: benedicte.coste@u-bourgogne.fr jmurray@univ-fcomte.fr
The University's Reception of Lacan
One-day Conference
Thursday, May 12, 2016, University of Bourgogne, Dijon
Conference organizers: Bénédicte Coste and Jennifer Murray
Lacan's position in relation to the institution of the university was "rather peculiar," as he commented in 1969 before an assembly of post-graduate students from the prestigious Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes where his seminar was being hosted. Lacan was never 'of' the university, and he stood by his ex-centric status even as he gave his seminars within university walls. And yet, in the last few decades, numerous academics in various fields have asserted the importance of his ideas and theoretical reflection in their own teaching and research. How, then, is Lacan considered within the university institution today? More than thirty years after his death, what place does his heterodox theory occupy, not only in departments of psychology and psychoanalysis, but more generally within the arts and social sciences? In view of the developments in the scientific, social and political fields and given the changes taking place within university structures and curriculums, the moment seems propitious to examine the question of the pertinence and durability of Lacanian theory within teaching and research.
The objective of this one-day conference is to analyse the changes in the university's reception of Lacanian theory. Some of the questions implicit in this endeavour include: Who writes about or with Lacan? Which fields of study affirm this connection most fully and to what end? What types of curriculum make a place for the teaching of Lacan, and which aspects of his theory are privileged? What is the situation with regard to university research and publication?
Moreover, in view of the availability of a number of English translations of Lacan's publications and seminars we would like to consider the reception of Lacan both in France and in countries where English is spoken. The relationship between Lacan and the USA was marked by the conferences he gave at Yale and Columbia University in 1975 to students outside of the field of psychoanalysis. As a now prominent figure of French Theory, Lacan is the subject of books, articles, and websites written or produced by teachers of the arts and humanities in Anglophone countries: examples of this mode of working with Lacan include the establishment of a Masters in psychoanalysis focused on the teachings of Freud and Lacan at the University of Kingston in Great Britain, and the activities carried out at the Centre for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture at the University of Buffalo where teaching and publishing projects are supported.
Do these approaches differ fundamentally from those of analysts and academics in France? Looking at Anglophone countries and at France, we will reflect on the current-day presence or absence of Lacanian teaching, thinking and research within the scope of the university, so as to be able to see more clearly what the potential force of Lacan's thinking is today, at the beginning of the XXIst century.
Please send your proposals for papers along with a short resume of your publications to benedicte.coste@u-bourgogne.fr and jmurray@univ-fcomte.fr by November 30, 2015.
cfp categories: interdisciplinarytheory 64162Out of the Past and Into the Night: The Noir Vision in American CultureInterdisciplinary Humanities: The Journal of Humanities Education and Research Association (HERA)dore.ripley@gmail.com1442682150cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Interdisciplinary Humanities: The Journal of Humanities Education and Research Association (HERA)contact email: dore.ripley@gmail.com
Deadline for submission: Nov. 15, 2015
HERA is pleased to announce an upcoming issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities that focuses on noir visions in American culture (www.h-e-r-a.org).
When American movies made their way across the Atlantic after World War II, the French couldn't help but notice their dark and emotionally bankrupt quality, dubbing them noir. Classic noir texts by authors like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain feature moody, morally bankrupt characters that take on the big dark city as alienated, angst-ridden antiheroes.
Classic noir faded in the 1950s, but during the 1970s as noir made a comeback through neo-noir, it spawned new forms including tech-noir, a form set in the near future where a gloomy dystopia with an environmentally corrupt aesthetic reflects the characters' personalities as they question the essence of human nature. Tech-noir, in turn, spawned cyberpunk, retro-noir, and steam punk as aficionados still squabble over whether noir is a genre, style, or movement.
From classic to neo-noir to tech-noir, this issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities will examine the history, issues, and theories of the noir vision in American culture as exemplified by literary and mass cultural fiction (films, texts, art, pulps, comics) and its interactions with historical, social, political, psychological and literary-cinematic contexts.
The completed essays should be approximately 6,000 words.
The Humanities Education and Research Association, Interdisciplinary Humanities' parent organization, requires that authors become members of HERA if their essays are accepted for publication. Information on membership may be found at http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_join.htm.
For more information about Interdisciplinary Humanities, including guidelines, go to: http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_journal.htm
Please submit articles to Dore' Ripley (guest editor) at dore.ripley@gmail.com.
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 64163Triangular Atlantic Entanglements: Rights and Revolutions (U. S., France, Haiti), NeMLA 17-20 March 2016Robert R. Daniel / Saint Joseph's Universityrdaniel@sju.edu1442683975african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinarypostcolonialfull name / name of organization: Robert R. Daniel / Saint Joseph's Universitycontact email: rdaniel@sju.edu
This session seeks to discern and categorize some of the important "entanglements" between the U.S., France and Haiti. It will focus specifically on writers and works from these three countries who look to the different revolutions and their resulting cultures, thematizing human rights as a fundamental social principle and revolutionary thinking as a process. The panel is intended to be cross-cultural and comparative. Papers informed by post-colonial theory or by cultural and ethical frameworks are particularly welcome.
Over three decades, three distinct political revolutions took place in three distinct situations. Inspired by Enlightenment-era notions (including human equality, the necessity of respecting rights and the state's legitimacy being determined in some measure by the consent of the governed), these revolutions generated radically different results. Each displayed significant internal tensions and cognitive dissonances (e.g. the proclamation of human rights coexisting with the institution of slavery and/or the practice of genocide or mass homicide). Over time, the revolutions themselves and the resulting cultures gave rise to both creative and critical works that focus on histories forged or re-forged by revolution and by the idea of human rights as a fundamental principle. There are many examples ways in which writers from these three cultures looked to the others as sources or touchstones. The most obvious example, perhaps, is Alexis de Tocqueville's La Démocratie en Amérique, but there are many others (Madison Smartt Bell's novels about the Haitian Revolution, Michel-Rolph Trouillot's critique of euro-centric historiography, Césaire's La Tragédie du roi Christophe, etc.). This panel seeks to draw out, conceptualize and analyze significant literary and intellectual entanglements between and among these cultures, these literatures, these deep wells of human experience sited around the Atlantic, specifically those that enact cross-cultural dialogue and critique and/or that focus on rights and revolutionary social/political change (or the lack thereof).
Papers informed by post-colonial theory or by cultural and ethical frameworks and that compare the corpora of writers from different national traditions are particularly welcome.
To submit an abstract:
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15785
cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinarypostcolonial 64164[UPDATE] The Contemporary CanonAmerican Comparative Literature Associationhmatthe1@binghamton.edu1442685772african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryfull name / name of organization: American Comparative Literature Associationcontact email: hmatthe1@binghamton.edu
[For the annual American Comparative Literature Association's conference, held at Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016]
This seminar seeks to examine the world of non-canonical literature, and its effects on readership throughout and beyond American society and its interests.
The literary canon is shaped by and formed from Western novels that have been historically deemed important in the shaping of western society. Throughout time, in order to be considered educated, one must have been familiar with as many canonical texts as possible. Now, the canon has begun shifting with the wide availability of texts over locations and times, as well as the recognition of superb authors who are not the stereotypical "dead White man." The literary canon is changing every day. No longer are "The Canterbury Tales" or "Frankenstein" considered the apex of literature – a new breed of literature have been taking their places in the home, in classrooms, and in the hands of the American reader. As new authors emerge and become popularized within American societal contexts, we must wonder its effects on the reader.
This seminar aims to examine what are these "new canonical" texts are, who writes them, and for whom they are written. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
-New definitions of canonical literature
-world literature in a "new canon"
-queer lit in a "new canon"
-young adult literature in a "new canon"
-effects of contemporary or canon literature in the classroom
-alienation effects of "old canon" texts
To submit a paper: please visit the ACLA's website at www.acla.org/annual-meeting. Submissions should be no more than 300 words. Submission are due September 23rd.
cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinary 64165Neo -Victorianism and Steampunk - The 37th Annual Conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)Southwest Popular/American Culture Associationgordmarshall@gmail.com1442692237americanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Southwest Popular/American Culture Associationcontact email: gordmarshall@gmail.com
Neo-Victorianism and Steampunk
The 37th Annual Conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
February 10th – 13th, 2016
Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center
Albuquerque New Mexico 87102
Submission Deadline: November 1st 2015 at conference2016.southwestpca.org
What the neo-Victorian represents, then, is a different way into the Victorians – for students and faculty alike. This is not contemporary literature as a substitute for the nineteenth century but as a mediator into the experience of reading the 'real' thing; after all, neo-Victorian texts are, in the
main, processes of writing that act out the results of reading the Victorians and their literary productions.
-- Mark Llewellyn, "What Is Neo-Victorian Studies?" Neo-Victorian Studies 1:1 (Autumn 2008) 168.
Originally coined in the late 1980s, the term steampunk was "retrofitted," if you will, to describe a group of nineteenth-century-inspired technofantasies – darkly atmospheric novels of a time that never was... It is an uncommon hybrid of a term, describing even more uncommon tales of historical science fiction infused with Victorian visions of wildly anachronistic technologies.
-- Julie Ann Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller eds. Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology. Latham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013. xv.
...[O]ne common element arguably shared by all steampunk texts, objects, or performances is the one on which this journal is predicated: the invocation of Victorianism.
-- Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall, "Introduction: Industrial Evolution" Neo-Victorian Studies 3:1 (2010) 1.
These three quotations on both Neo-Victorianism and Steampunk begin to form the general parameters of what these fields are or will become. This conference area's aim is to press against the boundaries of the accepted discourse in the hopes of finding new texts, images, sub-cultures, etc. that can expand or further define this new and exciting genre and culture. Any paper on any aspect of Neo-Victorianism and/or Steampunk will be considered. This, our third year as a separate area at SWPACA, is particularly exciting as it should coincide with the release of a special issue of The Journal of American Studies in Turkey (edited by the Area Chair) on the subject - made up in large part of versions of papers previously presented at the conference.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
* Neo-Victorian/Steampunk Literature
* Neo-Victorian/Steampunk film and television series
* The importance of the web to Neo-Victorianism/Steampunk
* Periodizing Steampunk
*Steampunk as part of the Neo-Victorian cultural discourse
*The outsider/amateur and the cultural production of Steampunk
* Maker culture in Steampunk
* Steampunk community formation
* The politics of Neo-Victorianism/Steampunk
* Consumption and Consumerism
* Gender and Sexuality
*Race and postcoloniality in Neo-Victorianism/Steampunk
The conference organizers are particularly interested in graduate student presentations (as well as those of independent scholars, in order to make the conference as inclusive as possible and provide a balance of viewpoints on a particular subject). As such, the conference has a number of awards for graduate student papers, which can be found at:
http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/
Check out the Association's new journal: Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. More information can be found on its website: http://journaldialogue.org/
For information about the conference and other presentation areas, registration, and hotel accommodations, go to the SWPACA website at: http://www.southwestpca.org
To apply to the Neo-Victorianism and Steampunk Area, please follow the instructions for submitting a paper abstract on the submissions database at: conference2016.southwestpca.org
If you have questions, requests, or require further information, please contact the Area Chair:
Gordon Marshall, Area Chair, Neo-Victorianism and Steampunk
Department of American Culture and Literature
Baskent University
Ankara TURKEY
cfp categories: americanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64166NeMLA 17-20 March 2016 cfp: Triangular Atlantic Entanglements: Rights and Revolutions (U. S., France, Haiti)Robert R. Daniel / Saint Joseph's Urdaniel@sju.edu1442693752african-americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinarypostcolonialfull name / name of organization: Robert R. Daniel / Saint Joseph's Ucontact email: rdaniel@sju.edu
Over about three decades, three distinct political revolutions took place in three distinct places. Inspired by Enlightenment-era notions (including human equality, the necessity of respecting rights and the state's legitimacy being determined in some measure by the consent of the governed), these revolutions generated radically different results. Each displayed significant internal tensions and cognitive dissonances (e.g. the proclamation of human rights coexisting with the institution of slavery and/or the practice of genocide or mass homicide). Over time, the revolutions themselves and the resulting cultures gave rise to both creative and critical works that focus on histories forged or re-forged by revolution and by the idea of human rights as a fundamental social principle. There are many examples ways in which writers from these three cultures looked to the others as sources or touchstones. The most obvious example, perhaps, is Alexis de Tocqueville's La Démocratie en Amérique, but there are many others (Madison Smartt Bell's novels about the Haitian Revolution, Michel-Rolph Trouillot's critique of euro-centric historiography, Césaire's La Tragédie du roi Christophe, etc.). This panel seeks to draw out, conceptualize and analyze significant literary and intellectual entanglements between and among these cultures, these literatures, these deep wells of human experience sited around the Atlantic, specifically those that enact cross-cultural dialogue or critique and/or that focus on rights and revolutionary social/political change (or the lack thereof).
Papers informed by post-colonial theory or by cultural and ethical frameworks and that compare the corpora of writers from different national traditions are particularly welcome.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words. Papers will be 20 minutes, as part of a panel.
To submit: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15785
Questions? Contact Robert R. Daniel (rdaniel@sju.edu)
cfp categories: african-americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinarypostcolonial 64167American Association of Australasian Literary Studies Annual Conference 31 March–2 April 2016 University of Washington, SeattleAmerican Association of Australasian Literary Studiesmachosky@hawaiii.edu1442711019cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialtheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: American Association of Australasian Literary Studiescontact email: machosky@hawaiii.edu
The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites paper proposals for its 2016 Annual Conference, to be held at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, 31 March – 2 April 2016. Papers addressing any aspect of Australian, New Zealand, and South Pacific literary, film, and cultural studies are welcome. Papers on Aboriginal, Maori or other indigenous topics are especially welcome. Proposals from graduate students are strongly encouraged. Presentations are generally 20 minutes long; however, alternate presentation formats will be considered. Please send a paper title and 250-word proposal (or alternate format description) by 15 November 2015 to Brenda Machosky (machosky@hawaii.edu). Please label the email subject line: AAALS 2016 proposal.
Since these dates fall during most Australian universities' mid-semester break, we hope many Australian scholars will be able to attend.
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialtheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 64168[UPDATE] Phoneography: Low-tech, Mobile, Mutant, and Guerilla Film Theory NeMLA DEADLINE: 9/30NeMLArromanow@uri.edu1442714213cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinarypopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: NeMLAcontact email: rromanow@uri.edu
Call for Papers
46th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 17-20, 2016
Hartford, CT
iPhoneography: Low-tech, Mobile, Mutant, and Guerilla Film Theory
Deadline: September 30, 2015
This panel will invite a critical examination into the historical, theoretical, and aesthetic underpinnings of low-tech, mobile, and guerilla film, its producers and consumers. The effect of these new ways of creating and viewing film reflects the 21st century cultural, artistic, and economic constraints and contexts that affect the complex and ever-changing art of film, which this roundtable will explore in light of the theories and practice of low-tech and mobile cinema, iPhoneography, and guerilla filmmaking and filmmakers.
Submit 300-word proposals online at NeMLA's website at: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15904
Deadline: September 30, 2015
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinarypopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 64169[UPDATE] Roundtable: "Crushed Silos: The Video Essay, Film, Writing, and Technology." NeMLA Hartford, CT DEADLINE: 9/30NeMLArromanow@uri.edu1442714424cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisionhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_culturerhetoric_and_compositiontwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: NeMLAcontact email: rromanow@uri.edu
Call for Papers 46th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) March 17-20, 2016 Hartford, CT
Roundtable: "Crushed Silos: The Video Essay, Film, Writing, and Technology." The video essay represents an active place where the barriers between disciplines is merged and converging, and where pedagogical practices, as well as analytical examination, can take place across academic borders.
This roundtable will explore the significance of the video essay as an emerging tool that has challenged the syntax, forms, and expectations of the conventional written essay, as well as the structure of both narrative and documentary film. We will explore the video essay's emergence in popular cultural expression on sites like YouTube and Vimeo, as well as its place in the classroom where it challenges conventional modes of content delivery and student expression.
Deadline: September 30, 2015 Please submit 300-word proposals online at NeMLA's website at:
http://www.cfplist.com//nemla/Home/S/15902
Deadline: September 30, 2015
Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation Brief bio Email address Postal address Telephone number A/V requirements
More information on the convention here: https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisionhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_culturerhetoric_and_compositiontwentieth_century_and_beyond 64170Update: Lacan and Literature 18-20 March 2016 NeMLA Hartford CT by 9/30/2015J. A. McQuail -- NeMLAjmcquail@tntech.edu1442716356african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespostcolonialromantictheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: J. A. McQuail -- NeMLAcontact email: jmcquail@tntech.edu
Papers are invited for a panel on Lacan and Literature at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention in Hartford, CT. 3/18-20 2015. Papers may be on specific literary figures like Poe and Joyce who Lacan explored, or consist of an in-depth analysis of Lacan's own writings and style. Lacanian analysis of works by authors not specifically examined by Lacan are also welcome. Please send an abstract or completed papers to jmcquail@tntech.edu by 9/30/2015; put NeMLA Lacan in subject heading. Papers should be 15-20 minutes maximum.
Jacques Lacan refined and elaborated on the ideas of Freud; Freud liked to say he discovered the unconscious and Lacan discovered that the unconscious is structured like a language. Like Freud, Lacan found his own psychoanalytic thinking stimulated by reading literature. His seminar on "The Purloined Letter" by Poe is one lecture that comes to mind, but Lacan's later years were consumed by his exploration into the works of James Joyce. Papers are invited on any aspect of Lacan and Literature.
cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespostcolonialromantictheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64171Women, Democracy, and the Ideology of Exclusion (Volume of Collected Essays) [UPDATE]The University of Alabama, Aristotle University of Thessalonikikatkit@enl.auth.gr;tsummers@ua.edu1442729546classical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiesrenaissancevictorianfull name / name of organization: The University of Alabama, Aristotle University of Thessalonikicontact email: katkit@enl.auth.gr;tsummers@ua.edu
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR A VOLUME OF COLLECTED ESSAYS
Women, Democracy, and the Ideology of Exclusion
From the Birth of Democracy through the Early 20th Century
Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers, The University of Alabama (Editor)
Katerina Kitsi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (Co-Editor)
From the earliest configurations of democracy in classical Athens, it became clear that women were not allowed to participate actively in its design and practices. Though extremely important in conveying citizenship to their offspring and providing the state with officials to run it and soldiers to protect it, they themselves had little else to add to its operation beyond involvement in religious rituals, weddings, and funerals. It's easy to imagine how frustrated women were and how pressingly they questioned their family men regarding the paradox of their situation, to be practically excluded and, consequently, socially devalued, while told time and again how important and, indeed, irreplaceable they were both for their family and the state. Soon, statements about the inferiority of women in terms of their physiology, their intellect, or their moral capacities started surfacing in various genres, which may well have been attempts to justify women's exclusion from the affairs of the city-state and beyond. This general scheme regarding the social and political status of women was maintained throughout the centuries after the dissolution of democracy under the subsequent ascendancy of empires, monarchies and oligarchies, not only in Greek city-states but also throughout Medieval and Renaissance Europe and even after democracy was revived in the early modern era and down to the early twentieth century.
Proposals, therefore, are invited for papers that will explore various aspects of the ideology of 'female inferiority', which, though not propounded systematically, permeated, nonetheless, late archaic and classical literature, while it was upheld throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Modern Era in an attempt to explain and justify women's exclusion from active social and political participation, most notably withholding from them the right of vote until the early twentieth century. Please send proposals of 300 words by email attachment to Profs. Katerina Kitsi (katkit@enl.auth.gr) and Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers (tsummers@ua.edu) by January 15, 2016.
cfp categories: classical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiesrenaissancevictorian 64172The Pedagogical (Re)Turn (9/30/15)NeMLA 2016 (March 17 - 20, 2016)justin.hayes@quinnipiac.edu1442765686interdisciplinaryprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: NeMLA 2016 (March 17 - 20, 2016)contact email: justin.hayes@quinnipiac.edu
Twenty years ago, Gerald Graff mused in "The Pedagogical Turn" that the future of theory would be in its reapplication from literature to pedagogy. In the intervening years, theory may not have reorganized the literature classroom, but it has transformed critical thinking pedagogy. The work of Wittgenstein, Jakobson, Derrida, Lyotard, Foucault, and others who have informed literary studies has recently been drawn upon by Mark Weinstein, Michael Peters, Tim John Moore and others to shift instruction in critical thinking away from general (informal) logic, which assumes a transparency of language, to thinking as embedded in language and thereby governed by varying modes of reading and writing. This shift suggests a return to Graff's original musing of how theory might be converted into a praxis for reading, writing about, and thinking about literature. The co-chairs of this roundtable, who also serve on the editorial board of Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing, invite submissions that explore the possibility of a pedagogical return of theory to the literature classroom. The goal of the roundtable will be to use the presentations as a framework for discussing with the audience how theory might be developed into pedagogical projects that are both deployable and publishable.
Please submit a 250-word abstract by 9/30/15 directly to the NeMLA panel website: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15698
cfp categories: interdisciplinaryprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64173The (Native) American University (9/30/15)NeMLA 2016 (March 17 - 20, 2016)justin.hayes@quinnipiac.edu1442765890americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityinterdisciplinarypostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: NeMLA 2016 (March 17 - 20, 2016)contact email: justin.hayes@quinnipiac.edu
The colonial appropriation of indigenous place names has been an abiding concern of postcolonial studies. The severing of names from their semantic, grammatical, and linguistic ties within the native language and their re-contextualization within the language of the settler creates, in a variety of ways for both colonizer and colonized, a gap between the experience and meaning of a place and the name used to describe it, complicating the colonial boundary. Although the American university is a primary site for postcolonial study, it rarely if ever studies itself as a site of colonial appropriation, despite its widespread use of Native American place names for both large institutions (e.g., University of Connecticut) and small local schools (e.g., Housatonic Community College). How might the university reflexively interrogate its own appropriation of place? Might this investigation retrieve indigenous cosmologies that could revise and redefine the mission of the university? Or is such an investigation, carried out within academic discourse, always already an expansion of the colonial boundary? Is such an investigation inescapably ironic and thereby self-defeating? Or might the process of uncovering new layers of irony signify a postcolonial mode of inquiry? This panel welcomes a diversity of conventional and innovative approaches to this neglected area of postcolonial studies.
Please submit a 250-word abstract by 9/30/15 directly to the NeMLA panel website: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15816
cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityinterdisciplinarypostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 64174"Law and Literature in Sub-Saharan Africa" ACLA 2016 (March 17-20, 2016)Nienke Boernb1105@nyu.edu1442766855interdisciplinarypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Nienke Boercontact email: nb1105@nyu.edu
"Law and Literature in Sub-Saharan Africa"
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
March 17-20, Harvard University
Organizers: Nicholas Matlin, NYU; Nienke Boer, NYU
African writing—both fiction and literary non-fiction—has long engaged with questions of legitimacy, law, justice, and governance, as even a cursory look at texts by writers from the continent confirms. For writers as diverse as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Calixthe Beyala, Ayi Kwei Armah, Antjie Krog, and others, literature can serve to challenge the dominant legal order, question legal norms, and highlight the discrepancies between legal truth and apparent reality. Oftentimes, it can be a venue for imagining alternative legal orders and diverse forms of inclusive governance. Building on the work of law and literature scholars like Julie Peters, Richard H. Weisberg, and Peter Goodrich, as well as theorists like Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben, this session aspires to expand the range of texts usually discussed in law and literature scholarship while at the same time developing new comparative approaches and conceptual vocabularies for African and postcolonial studies.
Our session builds on work by scholars like Mahmood Mamdani, Achille Mbembe, Mark Sanders, Adam Sitze, Joseph Slaughter, Luise White, and others, who have all in diverse ways examined the intersections between legal discourses and cultural production in colonial and postcolonial Africa. We invite papers engaging with all aspects of law and literature in an African context, including, but not limited to, questions of:
(Il)legitimacy and the rule of law
Prison experiences and bureaucracies
Censorship and/or blasphemy
Copyright
Political activism as/and criminality
Segregationist law (including apartheid)
Legal pluralism
Legal reform and/or alternative/imagined legal orders
Corruption and satire
Reconciliation within a legal framework
Law and justice in detective fiction/dictator novels
Land ownership and reform
Human rights
Seminar Keywords: Africa, law and literature, postcolonial, Global South
Abstracts should be submitted through the ACLA website portal, which closes September 23rd. http://www.acla.org/seminar/law-and-literature-sub-saharan-africa.
Contact us at nb1105@nyu.edu and nick.matlin@nyu.edu with any questions!
cfp categories: interdisciplinarypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64175[UPDATE] NEMLA 2016 Panel Still Laughing: Ancient Comedy and Its Descendants Due 9/30Claire Sommers (the Graduate Center, CUNY) and Barry Spence (University of Massachusetts)csommers@gc.cuny.edu1442771215classical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespopular_culturerenaissanceromantictheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Claire Sommers (the Graduate Center, CUNY) and Barry Spence (University of Massachusetts)contact email: csommers@gc.cuny.edu
Aristotle in his Poetics outlines his theory of tragedy and gives readers a framework for assessing and understanding the genre; his treatise providing the equivalent analysis of comedy has sadly been lost, and as a result, it is difficult to find a unified theory of ancient comedy. Perhaps the closest we have is Democritus' statement that "Laughter is a complete conception of the world." Centuries later, Bakhtin would elaborate upon this sentiment by claiming that the carnivalesque comedy allows for dialogue between multiple genres and voices in order to create a world in which societal structures are upended. Though ancient comedy evolved from Aristophanes' examples to Menander's New Comedy and finally to the Roman comedies of Plautus and Terence, all of them borrow stylistically from contemporaneous works in order to create a world where traditional hierarchies are suspended and inverted. This panel will explore the tropes of ancient comedy and their influence on more modern literature, drama, satire, film, and theory. Possible approaches include:
* analyzing comedy's relationship with other ancient genres
* examining ancient comedy's influence on post-Classical works
* using modern critical and humor theory to analyze classical comedy
* exploring the comic and satirical treatment of Greco-Roman subject matter in post-Classical literature
The goal of this session will be to understand humor through its Classical antecedents, tracing the evolution of comedy from its ancient origins to the present day. By contemplating the emergence of ancient comedy and its enduring effect on subsequent literature, drama, film, and theory, this panel will synthesize its own theory of ancient comedy and determine why we are still laughing so many centuries later.
Submit 300 word abstracts to https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15714 by September 30th.
cfp categories: classical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespopular_culturerenaissanceromantictheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 64176Innovative Representations of 'Utopias' in Studies in EnglishInternational Graduate Conference: Innovative Representations of 'Utopias' in Studies in Englishconferencegraduate@gmail.com1442775010african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialrenaissancescience_and_culturetheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: International Graduate Conference: Innovative Representations of 'Utopias' in Studies in Englishcontact email: conferencegraduate@gmail.com
The Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies at Hacettepe University is pleased to announce its second graduate conference which this time will be held on an international ground, "Innovative Representations of 'Utopias' in Studies in English". We welcome academic proposals produced in English on British Literature/Culture, Commonwealth Literature/Culture, Irish Literature/Culture and American Literature/Culture from MA and PhD students enrolled in graduate programmes all over the world.
The intention of this conference is to provide graduate students a platform on which to discuss the varied portrayals of utopias and dystopias on both human and non-human scales. "Innovative Representations of 'Utopias' in Studies in English" proposes to investigate the politics, nature, roles and effects of utopian and dystopian literacy in the cultural, fictional, real and virtual worlds. We are particularly interested in receiving papers from a spectrum of research areas and a broad range of literary and non-literary genres, including cultural studies, which help illustrate these themes. In honour of the 500th anniversary of the publication of Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516), the title of the conference has been chosen as an umbrella term. Therefore, the conference is inclusive of all the "-topia" subgenres, regardless of the title's proposal to include solely "utopias". Papers favouring inter/cross/multi-disciplinary perspectives will be given preference so as to generate fruitful discussion among various disciplines.
Possible topics under 'Utopias' include, but are not limited to:
Utopias, Dystopias, Anti-Utopias and Eutopias
Utopias/Dystopias and Ethnic/Racial Politics and Immigration
Utopias/Dystopias and Gender Studies
Utopias/Dystopias and Postcolonial Studies
Utopias/Dystopias with a Political Perspective
Utopias/Dystopias and Environmental Studies
Utopias/Dystopias and Animal and Plant Studies
Utopias/Dystopias of the Space Age
Utopias/Dystopias and Multimedia
Fantastic Literature
Science Fiction
Climate Change Fiction
Games and Digital Artefacts with a Utopian/Dystopian Dimension
Abstract Submission: 300-word abstracts, together with contact information (full name, institutional affiliation, department, email address, brief bio) of participant(s) should be sent as Microsoft Word documents, attached to an email message addressed to conferencegraduate@gmail.com by 10 January 2016.
The official language of the conference is English. Selected presentations will be organized into panels of 2 or 4 with regard to their themes. All the presentations are limited to 20 minutes which will be followed by a ten-minute discussion. The presenters are strongly advised to make an oral presentation and not a read-out of the complete paper. The conference will take place at conference halls at the Beytepe Campus of Hacettepe University on 15 March 2016.
Website of the Centre: http://www.iekaum.hacettepe.edu.tr/english/ (CFP is soon to be published on the page.)
cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialrenaissancescience_and_culturetheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 64177Cinemas of Extraction: Life Itself (Deadline: September 23, 2015)ACLA (Harvard, March 2016)Ted.Geier@rice.edu1442782052film_and_televisiontheoryfull name / name of organization: ACLA (Harvard, March 2016)contact email: Ted.Geier@rice.edu
NOTE: Must submit via the ACLA submission website by September 23. http://www.acla.org/seminar/cinemas-extraction-life-itself
What can film express that is not at some distance-- extracted-- from its object? What is the obect, and what is possession in this figure of expressive extraction?
This essentially idiotic question about the tasks of cinema, the violence of committed expression, and the basics of aesthetic distance and of representation, writ large, seems to haunt cinematic thought despite a multitude of critical approaches to film studies that really ought to have answered such questions by now. Particuarly in comparative literary studies settings that invite formal and theoretical inquiry into key themes and problems in diverse works of cultural expression, these fundamental questions remain and continue to produce new thinking on the matter while also testing the bounds of the cultural object in comparative studies. As such, the multitude of answers on another fairly basic yet persistently generative question-- the question of life, perhaps simpler yet the question of being-- "on film" promises its own multitude of articulations, ironies, and failures. Such a multitude of potential irrelevancies, this polyphonic thickness, drives this seminar on comparative film studies, forms of life, ecological or otherwise permeative thought, and technical inquiry.
One related interest for this seminar will be in the various forms of thought (whether coined under signs of biopolitics, posthumanism, ethics, law, more, less) film studies employ (or might employ) in addressing seemingly basic, urgent, even necessary concerns about life and its prospects, lives and their existences, not lives at all. However, no preference must be given to reflexive cinematics or to assertive theoretical frames of inquiry, and no precisely "scholastic" invocation of key thinkers-- Yoshimoto, Agamben, Mulvey, Silverman, Fanon, Spivak, Foucault, Butler, Heidegger, Arendt, whatever-- is more productive than a matter of fact articulation of the matter from specific film examples/details/analyses, but philosophical approaches are certainly encouraged.
This should proceed, then, through pathways and cinematic works including: porn; film production and its material/economic resources (animal parts in film, itself, energy use in the entertainment industry, digital media ecologies, etc.); psychoanalytic and cognitive flim studies; Hollywood system cinema and its reification of identities and narratives; world cinema and global critique/critiques of globality; film form (including sound); affect studies; poststructural film theory; recent turns to Ecocinema; documentary and activism; narrative film studies.
Finally, should the restriction of FILM studies announce itself too firmly in the call itself, feel free to drive the seminar shape further with proposals that mediate/reject/resist the gaps and presumptions of this proposal's language and terms.
cfp categories: film_and_televisiontheory 64178ACLA 2016: The Poetics of Reflexivity: Image, Text, and the Reflexive Gesture Phillip Griffith and Avra Spector, Graduate Center, CUNYPLGriffith@gmail.com1442790107graduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetryfull name / name of organization: Phillip Griffith and Avra Spector, Graduate Center, CUNYcontact email: PLGriffith@gmail.com
This seminar uses the concept of reflexivity to explore interdisciplinary questions about the relationship of a self to the world by investigating various points along the reflexive route. The reflexive act, following a path similar to a boomerang's, moves away from a subject only to return as it traces a recoiling -- a turning, deflecting, or bending back. We ask: what is revealed when different points along this trajectory are represented in language or image? We are interested in reflexivity not only as a completed loop but in its disruptions, fragmentations, blockages, and failed journeys. How does marking the reflexive act at a particular point in its path dictate a set of terms for the relationship of a self to the world?
A concrete example of the reflexive path occurs in French grammar. The reflexive verb expresses an action always performed upon the subject of the verb, causing the sentence to look back at where it has been: Je me lave les mains. The reflexive path of the sentence starts at the subject ("je") and meets its turn at the end of the reflexive verb ("me lave").
This reflexive turn exists, too, in art. Reflexivity can be found in narrative structure, particular scenes, moments, or characters as well as in a text's relation to its social and historical context. The overarching narrative structure of Woolf's To The Lighthouse (1927) produces a temporal bending back after the middle section, "Time Passes," but so, too, is the novel composed of distinct moments that can be read reflexively. In Branagh's film version of Hamlet (1996), a play on mirror images during the "To be or not to be" speech suggests the body's reflexive relationship to itself in a loop simultaneously disrupted and completed by the mirror image. The oneiric photomontages by German-Argentine photographer Grete Stern, especially those in her Los sueños series (1948-51), suggest the psychological shock possible as the reflexive action transgresses interior, as well as exterior, borders.
In philosophy and theory, reflexivity operates in terms of Barthes' argument for the relationship among reader, pleasure, and text, compounding the number of participants in reflexivity; in Benveniste's notion that subjectivity forms in the fluid exchange between an I and a You, begging the question: does what returns in the reflexive loop find the subject it left?; reflexivity plays a key role in hermeneutics, de- and reterritorialization, phenomenology, ethics, and critiques of power.
We welcome papers from all periods and approaches. Other topics to explore include:
history
migration
photography
silence
listening
performance
improvisation
collaboration
translation
sound studies
Please send an abstract of 1500 characters (about 300 words) and a brief bio.
If interested, please be in touch with Phillip Griffith and Avra Spector at PLGriffith@gmail.com. Proposals must be submitted through the ACLA website by midnight PST September 23.
cfp categories: graduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetry