international conferences

LITERARY TOURISM & NINETEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE

An International One-Day Conference

to be held on

Friday, 8th June 2007

Institute for English Studies, University of London, U.K.

CALL FOR PAPERS

UPDATE

Cerpac (Research Centre for Commonwealth Studies)
http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/cerpac

Novembre 8-9-10, 2007, Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III), France

Guest writers: Bernardine EVARISTO and Karen KING-ARIBISALA
Keynote speakers: John McLeod (University of Leeds, UK) and Gerry
TURCOTTE (University of Wollongong, Australia)

To: Shakespeareans

re: 7th Triennial Congress of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa:24-27 June
2007:Rhodes University, Grahamstown:

               THE INTERNATIONAL SPREAD OF SHAKESPEARE

                  http:www.ru.ac.za/shakespeare OR
      http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/isea/shake/conference.html

“The Child and the Fantastic: Readings in
children’s fantasy literature”
Children's Literature Association - India (CLAI) first
international conference will be held from March 26,
2007 to March 28, 2007 at Trichur Towers Hotel,
Thrissur, Kerala, Southern India.

CFP: Pre-cinema and 'Cinematicity' / 1895: Before and After
March 24 - March 25, 2007
British Comparative Literature Association and the Centre for Film
Studies, University of Essex (UK)
Keynote Speakers: Ian Christie (Birkbeck); Tom Gunning (Chicago);
Marina Warner (Essex)
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars interested in
exploring the history of pre- and early film: the previsions of cinema
as both technology and cultural form, and early cinema's influence on
twentieth-century art, literature and culture.=20
Proposals for papers of 20 minutes are invited on these and similar
topics:
* prehistory of film in the arts
* literary anticipations of the cinema

Call for Papers
=20

I ANNUAL ASIAN CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ACSA) CONFERENCE
=20

NEW OLD WORLDS: THE CHANGING FACES OF ASIA
=20

Assumption University

592 Ramkhamhaeng 24, Hua Mak

10240 Bangkok, Thailand

=20

Conference dates: SATURDAY-SUNDAY 31.03.2007-01.04.2007

=20

CFP deadline for submissions: 07.01.2007

=20

NEW OLD WORLDS: THE CHANGING FACES OF ASIA
=20

>>>Call for Presentations<<<

Performing Identity/Crossing Borders
Abstracts due: Dec. 15, 2006
Presentation Venue: Nicosia, Cyprus, May 3-6, 2007

=85the breakdown of the belief systems or frameworks of meaning that =20
formed the foundation of cultural coherence and continuity until =20
World War Two has provided a breakthrough for artists who have been =20
marginalized by the hegemonous thinking of white patriarchy.=97 Robert =20=

Wallace, Producing Marginality 141

As national borders become more porous and more restrictive, identity =20=

politics and the body =97 in all its manifestations =97 have once again =20=

Papers are being sought for an international conference to be held at
the University of Wales, Swansea on July 7-9, 2007: 'The Merry Widow:
Rethinking Widowhood in History, Culture and Society'. The conference
will cover the topic from a wide range of perspectives and information
can be accessed from our website at

http://www.swan.ac.uk/english/gender/conferences/widow.

=20

POETS & POETRY PANEL

L'ENVERS DU DECOR: A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

L'Envers du décor

47th Annual SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur)
Congress

Avignon, France : 11th, 12th and 13th May 2007

Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse.

What takes place centre-stage starts life behind the scenes. The chaotic
become disciplined, the underground overground, expressions of freedom are
constrained. What are we to make, however, of this flipside and of those
that choose to walk on the wild side?

Judgment and Apocalypse: Aspects and Approaches

The third annual Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference will be held at =20
Lincoln College Oxford on April 13th =96 14th 2007 on the theme of =20
Judgement and Apocalypse in the middle ages and Early Modern period. =20=

Contributions are welcome from diverse fields of research such as =20
history of art and architecture, history, theology, philosophy, =20
anthropology, literature and history of ideas.

Papers will be 20 minutes or less.
Please send a 250 word abstract in the body of your email (no =20
attachments please) to oxgradconf_at_gmail.com by 1 February 2007

Suggested topics:

Tenth Nordic Conference for English Studies
University of Bergen, Norway
Thursday May 24 to Saturday May 26, 2007

Third Circular and Second Call for Papers

The Tenth Nordic Conference for English Studies will be hosted by the =20=

CFP: Cine-Excess: An international Conference on Global Cult Film Traditions (1/15/07; 5/3/07-5/5/07)

Organised by the Cult Film Archive at Brunel University and Sci-Fi-London Film Festival

Apollo West End Cinema, Lower Regents Street, London, UK.

Over the last decade there has been an explosion of critical interest around the global traditions, traits and themes of cult film. Whether defined by horror, kung-fu, sci-fi, sexploitation, blaxploitation, kitsch musical or 'weird world cinema', cult film has moved from the margins to the mainstream of critical respectability.

Biff! Bam!! Crikey!!! Comics as Art, Entertainment and Design

Comics are an important and vital part of popular culture, shaping the early reading experiences of many children, as well as commanding an increasing body of adult readers. They can offer slapstick fun or serious literary themes and have spread into every imaginable genre (comedy, horror, war, adventure, autobiography, documentary and so on). Comics therefore have the potential to be both popular entertainment and provocative art, and have a profound influence on various other media and art-forms, including film, animation, computer games, and television.

Changing the Nation: Günter Grass in International Perspective

An International Conference at the University of Liverpool, UK
5-7 September 2007

Confirmed speakers: Avi Primor (Israeli Ambassador to the FRG, 1993-99) Patrick
O'Neill (Queen's, Canada), Krishna Winston (Wesleyan, US) Michael Minden
(Cambridge, UK), Julian Preece (Kent, UK), Karen Leeder (Oxford, UK), Volker
Neuhaus (Cologne, Germany)