第 12 屆英美文學學會
國際學術資訊 第八十三期
Contents
Conferences in Asia Pacific and Other Places
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Conferences in North America
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Conferences in Europe
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Journals and Collections of Essays
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Conferences in Asia Pacific and Other Places
Conference on Human Development in Asia
Due: April 20, 2013
PRESDA Foundation
secretariat@presda.org
The conference theme of Change, Continuity and Diversity: Perspectives on
Sustainability for Asia seeks to explore such issues and their links to the notion of
sustainability through the combined and holistic lenses of an interdisciplinary
approach. This conference will be held in Hiroshima, Japan, during the 68th
Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
Remembrance events and tours are held during the conference, including a guided
tour of Peace Park on August 6th, which is the anniversary of the atomic bombing.
COHDA is also organizing a special trip on August 9th to Miyajima Shrine Island —
a UNESCO World Heritage site, and a must-see for any visitors to Japan. Those
wishing to join these tours should visit our Travel page for registration details.
While taking account the wider themes of Change, Continuity and Diversity, the
sub-themes of the conference will focus on the following nine areas for submissions
due by April 20, 2013:
Education
Population and Ageing
Healthcare and Social Support
Politics and Conflict
Inequality and Justice
Gender and Culture
Migration and Identity
Environment and Technology
Economy and Sustainability
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Conferences in North America
From Monadism to Nomadism: A Hybrid Approach
to Cultural Productions
April 12-13, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
The Annual Center for Research in the Humanities & Arts Graduate Students
conference will be held at the campus of the University of California, Merced on
April 12-13, 2013.
wc.2013gradconf@ucmerced.edu
The Annual Center for Research in the Humanities & Arts Graduate Students
conference will be held at the campus of the University of California, Merced on
April 12-13, 2013. From Monadism to Nomadism: A Hybrid Approach to Cultural
Productions will focus on the intersection and interplay of cultural studies, the social
sciences, and the humanities, encouraging the exploration of various theoretical
frameworks, case studies and fieldwork, and research. By juxtaposing issues such as
intercultural negotiation, trans-(post)modern society, migratory aesthetics, diverse
understandings within liquid societies, and symbolic struggle, this conference
provides a venue to explore the post-(de)colonial dilemmas created by the reinvention
and promotion of culture as a coherent and diverse reality.
Does the construction of cultural production contribute to the making and re-making
of society? The conference will explore constructed worlds in all their visual
manifestations and encourages submissions that deal with the idea of a world that is
not preexisting and fixed, but constructed, or in the process of creation. This idea of a
world is exceedingly supple and open to numerous complex interpretations. A world
can be both tactile and virtual, exterior and interior. It can be ancient, contemporary
and everything in between. Technology, language, diaspora and migration, global
economics, political discourses, and other phenomena contain the power to not only
construct new worlds, but also to redefine and destroy existing worlds. With these
ideas in mind, we seek papers that highlight not only the generation of worlds, but
also their delineation within society. We welcome papers that discuss how ideology
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implements and transforms the process of world making or world breaking, provoking
new methods of communication and cultural interaction.
Topics for discussion include, but are not limited to:
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Trans-border Literature
Urban Studies
Digital humanities
World Heritage
Digital heritage
Material culture studies
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Post(de) colonial Identities
Glocal production
Keynote speaker: California poet laureate Al Young.
Paper or panel proposals in English or Spanish should include an abstract (between
150-350 words – panel proposals should include a panel abstract, as well as individual
paper abstracts). Submissions should be submitted using the individual paper or panel
proposal forms (found on the website). Abstracts must be appended to the completed
paper proposal form (as a single document) and submitted, via email to
wc.2013gradconf@ucmerced.edu by February 22, 2013. Only completed applications
will be considered.
The working languages are English and Spanish. There is no registration fee for this
conference. Selected participants will be notified by March 1, and your full paper will
be due by March 25.
Accepted papers will be considered for inclusion in the published proceedings of the
conference.
IMPORTANT DATES,
February 22, 2013 / Deadline for submissions
March 1, 2013 / Successful applicants notified
March 25, 2013 / Final paper due
April 12-13, 2013/ Conference
Submit abstracts via e-mail to:
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wc.2013gradconf@ucmerced.edu
RELATED LINKS
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http://alyoung.org/
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Our Text, Your Text, This Text, a panel at
(dis)junctions Grad Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Sarah Lozier and Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
This panel invites papers that explore textual encounter and interaction within religion.
For many religious traditions, their religious texts become paramount—questions of
texts’ creation, authenticity, authority, vision, revision, and reception, to name just a
few, comprise a significant part of the field. So too are questions of interpretation of
texts and their messages over centuries or millennia, or when transported into a
diasporic context. Who owns a text? Who has the right to interpret, create, or modify
texts? What changes over time? What should? What authority does the text itself have?
All of these questions and more vary widely by time, place, and religious tradition.
We welcome papers or panel submissions addressing any of these themes of textual
interaction and change.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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Encountering Early Modern/Medieval Texts panel at
(dis)junctions Grad Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
This year’s (dis)junctions conference theme focuses on “encounters,” with an
emphasis of the term’s foregrounding of the unexpected. However, under these
conditions, true “encounters” with texts of the early modern and medieval periods,
texts which have been repeatedly studied for hundreds of years, may seem unlikely.
Can we truly “encounter” Shakespeare’s texts (or Chaucer’s, or Milton’s), or is that
encounter always mediated by an already-constructed knowledge formation? This
panel invites the submission of papers which address this improbable phenomenon of
encountering the early modern and/or medieval text. Also invited are papers which
reflect on encounters within early modern/medieval texts, encounters with or within
early modern/medieval histories, and any other papers which consider the conference
theme of “Encounters” in conjunction with the early modern and/or medieval period
to a significant degree. If submissions are numerous and productive, papers that
consider the early modern and the medieval may be separated into two distinct panels.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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Encountering Celebrity, a panel at (dis)junctions
Grad Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Sarah Lozier and Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
Studies of celebrity, fame, notoriety, and stardom have become increasingly complex
and important in our media saturated society. Beginning with studies of fame--which
focused on a wide variety of figures that operated in the public sphere, including
politicians, religious figures, and military heroes--and studies of stardom--which
interrogated stars like Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Diahann Carroll
and Lucille Ball as symbols of societal fears, prejudices, and desires--the field of
celebrity studies has continued to evolve, accommodating the changes in media and
the relationship between the individual and the public sphere in the 21st century. The
term celebrity, and the field of celebrity studies now includes a wide array of figures
and phenomenon, from historical heroes, to pop culture icons, to political leaders.
This panel invites papers that explore these fields as sites of "encountering." Topics
may include, but are not limited to, readings of specific celebrities as spaces where the
individual encounters societal forces, fame as a process that requires the process of
encountering to exist, or textual instances of celebrity encounters. Papers form the
wide variety of disciplines celebrity studies draws from (like English, sociology,
history, media studies, race, ethnic, sexuality, and gender studies) are encouraged.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
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for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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Modern Horror panel at (dis)junctions Grad
Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Sarah Lozier and Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
The horror genre is structured around encounters with the unknown. Yet the meaning
of these encounters (narratively, as well as in terms of race, class, gender, and
sexuality) remains in flux, even within overarching myths such as that of the vampire.
One example is the Swedish novel Let the Right One In, which centers around a boy’s
encounter with a MTF transgender vampire. This text simultaneously employs the
threat of Cold War ideologies, with the possible invasion into Sweden by Soviet
missiles triangulated around the drama of “encountering,” and befriending, the
vampire. This panel invites papers that analyze such complex modern encounters
within horror, and how the genre stages encounters with social, political, and
economic concerns. Another topic which this panel can address is how
modern/postmodern texts stage encounters with older stages of the gothic and horror
genres. Papers could include: how myths about vampires, or other horror archetypes,
have changed; how readers/audiences encounter horror and what this says about their
gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, etc.; how horror mediates and/or rejects normative
political discourse; how modern “horror” encounters other contemporary genres; how
tropes of “horror” frame encounteres within modern discussions of terrorism,
immigration, and Otherness.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
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representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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Rhetoric and Poetics panel at (dis)junctions Grad
Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
In Rhetorical Power, rhetorical and literary theorist Steven Mailloux defines rhetoric
as “the political effectivity of trope and argument in culture” (xii). Crucially, this
definition resists the not uncommon understandings of rhetoric as mere “eloquence,”
as florid, deceptive language, or as “persuasive discourse,” instead foregrounding
rhetoric as a methodology or lens for identifying the roles of historical and
socio-political power relations in shaping how and why certain tropes, arguments, and
language use prove effective in the first place. Similarly, Terry Eagleton, in Literary
Theory: An Introduction, argues that there is no such thing as either an apolitical
aesthetic or mode of criticism, but rhetoric can function as a kind of meta-theory with
an extensive capacity for self-reflexivity.
In general, this cfp seeks papers that explore various types of encounters between
rhetoric and poetics. Proposed papers might take up questions similar to the following:
What would it mean to understand all poetics as “cultural poetics”? What types of
knowledge are necessary in order to understand a given poetic/ aesthetic? How rigid a
distinction can/ should legitimately be made between the fields of rhetoric and poetics?
In what ways are such distinctions both productive and problematic? What types of
concerns about and within texts can rhetoric address that poetics cannot, and vice
versa?
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted atwww.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
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unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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Religion in/and/as Pop Culture, a panel at
(dis)junctions Grad Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Sarah Lozier and Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
Despite claims that modernity is disenchanted and secular, one encounters religion
everywhere. References to religion appear in many different pop culture media,
whether as themes and topics or as casual references, character building, or
background elements. Conversely, religious groups or institutions appropriate pop
culture forms in order to reach new subsections of believers, proselytize to outsiders,
or provide general messages for society at large. Consider the ways in which religion
appears in popular novels like Moore’s Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s
Childhood Pal, themes in music like Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown, or
television programs like Futurama, South Park, or Family Guy. Consider also the way
evangelical Christian organizations have utilized media forms from the advent of
radio through the Internet, or the comic book-format of the Chick Tracts. What does
the ubiquity of religious imagery mean for both the secular and sacred arenas within
which such interaction takes place? What benefits are there for secular media forms to
reference or draw upon religious elements, however tangentially? What does it say
that some of the most skillful users of diverse media forms are religious groups? How
have these interactions—these encounters—with, between, among, against each other
affected both religion and media forms? We welcome paper or panel submissions
exploring any of these themes or other topics regarding encounters between religion
and popular culture.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
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unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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Histories and Futures of Reading, a panel at
(dis)junctions Grad Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Sarah Lozier and Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
At the close of the twentieth century, the proliferation of networked digital
technologies has led a number of critics to call into question the future of reading.
However, in the last several years it has become increasingly clear that reading
continues to be an important aspect of our cultural practice, even as it manifests itself
in multiple forms. This panel invites papers that concern themselves with both the
history and the future of reading. Paper submitted to this panel may address the
following questions: How have reading practices changed over time in a given
historical period? What kinds of reading practices are specific to print culture and/or
networked digital culture and what practices span both? How do social reading
practices transform the concept of reading and text? What does the future of the book
look like and what kinds of literacies will readers need in the future? What kinds of
encounters emerge between literary reading practices, gaming and visual studies?
How do print books, e-readers, computers and mobile phones stage specific
encounters between readers and texts? Papers on this panel may take any number of
critical or methodological approaches, but they should respond in some way to the
significance of reading in any historical period or genre.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
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for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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Language/Translation panel at (dis)junctions Grad
Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Sarah Lozier and Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
This panel seeks papers that discuss different methods and effects of encountering
language in its varying forms. These “varying forms” can be understood as different
languages, in a translation studies context; as aural/oral language or visual/written
language in an aesthetic, literary, or art historical context; or as a series of codes or
coded information, as in a linguistic anthropology or computer studies context. Papers
in this panel may consider questions such as: In what ways does the language itself
inform our encounter of a text? What kinds of structures do we encounter as
languages? How does the identification of a structure as “language” affect the
encounter? How does implicit, hidden, or connotative information contained within
language affect our understanding of personal, textual, or computer-mediated
conversations? What happens when we no longer encountering the Signified content,
and instead have access only to the Signifier? These are just some examples of
questions that abstracts submitted to this panel might address. Papers from any period
or tradition that deal with any aspect of language’s role in structuring encounters are
welcome.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
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for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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Virtual Encounters-Video Games, a panel at
(dis)junctions Grad Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Sarah Lozier and Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
Video games are a space in which encounters are enacted on many different levels.
There are encounters within the game’s narrative space; encounters at the interface of
player and narrative; and encounters within the external gaming space (think
two-player games). These encounters can also be broken down into player-computer
and player-player encounters. This panel invites papers that explore these different
spaces of encounter in video games. How do these spaces disrupt normative
discourses on sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and social class? How do these
encounters disrupt or challenge the player’s identity? What are some implications of
network-mediated encounters in massively multiplayer online games? How might we
rethink the structure of encounter between the gaming space and external “reality”?
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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Ding Dong Hostess is Dead, a panel at (dis)junctions
Grad Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Sarah Lozier and Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
On November 16, 2012, Hostess announced that, rather than cave to striking bakers’
demands, they were closing their doors for good. Within hours of this official
announcement reaching the digital environment, the information went viral, and
people flocked to grocery stores to stock up on these iconic, American, cream-filled
snacks. This panel invites papers that explore the cultural implications of this event
within the context of encounters. Papers submitted to this panel may address the
following questions: how does the Hostess corporation structure encounters of
American culture and Americana? How does its long history of labor struggles
contribute to or critique our understanding of laboring classes, peoples, and
organizations in America? How does the iconic-ness of Twinkies, Cupcakes, and
Wonderbread speak to our relationship with food? How does this event and people’s
reactions to it help us explore and discuss the fluid boundary between digital and
physical spaces and events? How can we use this event to interrogate the changing
environment of news events and the media in our post-industrial, digitized age?
Papers on this panel may come from any disciplinary or methodological background,
but they must deal with the announcement of the last shipment of Hostess treats in
some way.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
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representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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Transnational American Literatures, a panel at
(dis)junctions Grad Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Sarah Lozier and Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
Immigration and migration call into question the boundaries of American literature.
As writers from all over the world reside in the United States and as writers from the
United States often take on global themes, U.S. literature seems to be moving away
from a national practice towards a global one. This panel invites papers that concern
themselves with transnational American literature. Paper submitted to this panel may
address the following questions: What differing or related perspectives on
globalization emerge in American literature and postcolonial literature? How does the
global flow of capital influence textual production, circulation and reception of texts?
How does literature of diaspora and postcolonial literature disrupt or alter our concept
of American literature? How are different American localities portrayed as global and
how are global localities portrayed as American in literary texts and pop culture?
What kind of hybrid global identities emerge and how is the idea of global American
culture reaffirmed or contested in literature? Papers on this panel may take any
number of critical or methodological approaches, but they should respond in some
way to the relationship between American literature and culture and/or postcolonial
literature and culture and globalization.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
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for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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20th/21st Century Poetics, a panel at (dis)junctions
Grad Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Sarah Lozier and Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen the explosion of new, experimental
poetic forms within literary circles. From the highly restrictive forms of the Oulipo
movement, to the blurring of lines between prose and poetry, to the rejection of the
Lyric or narrative poem in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, sound, and concrete poetry
movements, encounters with(in) this period’s poetry offer fruitful sites for critical
interrogation.
This panel invites papers that interrogate, explore, or otherwise discuss topics in
twentieth century to contemporary poetry. Topics may include but are not limited to:
political and social environments that produce such poetic experimentation; the effect
of a “non-narrative” poem; the aesthetic value of highly constricted formal poetry;
biographical approaches to reading poetry; the blurring boundaries between prose and
poetry, and artistic/critical response to this blurring; poetry used for pedagogical
purposes; the cultural and aesthetic implications of Spoken Word movements. Papers
on this panel may take any number of critical or methodological approaches, but they
should respond in some way to poetry produced in the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
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representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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Critical Digital Humanities panel at (dis)junctions
Grad Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Sarah Lozier and Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
n keeping with this year’s (dis)junctions conference theme, Encounters With(in) Texts,
this panel invites papers that explore the notion of encounter within the context of
Critical Digital Humanities. The conference theme theorizes that encountering is
related to, but hardly synonymous with interaction and mediation - two theoretical
lenses more frequently deployed within the Digital Humanities field. As such, one
area in which papers on this panel might focus, then, is in further explicating the
theoretical constellation made up by these three terms. How can we further theorize
the differences and similarities within mediation, interaction, and encounter? Other
topics that papers on this panel might address include, but are not limited to the
following: questions of encountering copies and “originals”; questions of
encountering texts within a digital environment; notions of seriality, repetition, and
replication; questions concerning the digital archive and its (in)exhaustibility;
differing expectations structuring our encounters with user-generated vs. corporate
generated content online; encountering the digital environment through different
material/physical devices; encounters of identity performances online. Papers that
from any time period, genre, or disciplinary tradition that deal with questions,
structures, and environments of digitization are invited to this panel.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
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representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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Doll Encounters, a panel at (dis)junctions Grad
Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
When we encounter dolls as grown-ups, what is it that we are encountering? What
might personal and cultural doll-identifications betray about relationships with the
past, with gender and sexuality, with play, with tenderness and with terror? This panel
invites submissions which reflect upon the sociocultural meaning of the doll as text,
as artifact, or, more traditionally, as an enduring literary and filmic obsession. In
psychoanalysis as well as in the popular imagination, dolls have long played the role
of uncanny object. This panel is particularly interested in the way in which new
technologies, products and markets have uncannily reproduced, intensified and
responded to anxieties and hauntings from the past. Particularly timely topics might
then include the following: dolls for adults (Realdolls and 'reborn' dolls); dolls that
move on their own (automatons and cybernetic dolls); and dolls that return the gaze
(surveillance dolls; dolls in gothic and horror; 'the double'). Dolls in queer childhood,
doll collections, mourning, paper doll books, and relationships between dolls and
trauma, are also of interest.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social
Sciences Graduate Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
This year’s (dis)junctions conference at UCR invites papers that contribute to
conversations around notions of “encountering,” with particular focus given to the
operation of texts, understood as representational media objects, within “scenes of
encounter.”
Encounter: transitive verb
1 a: to meet as an adversary b: to engage in conflict with
2: to come upon face-to-face
3: to come upon or experience especially unexpectedly
In our contemporary situation within media-saturated, cosmopolitan modernities, we
“come upon” texts and Others so frequently that “encountering” with its unanticipated
and oppositional valences has become the norm. To articulate both the continued
utility and the potential limitations of our critical literacies in a world of encounters
this conference examines the impact of situatedness, unexpectedness, and/or
unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media objects, embodied encounters
negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and representations of “encountering”
within texts.
Please visit disjunctions2013.org for specific panel CFPS, as well as a fuller
theorization of the conference theme of “encountering.”
As always (dis)junctions welcomes panels and papers from all areas of the humanities,
social sciences, and creative disciplines, as well as panel proposals from our
colleagues in the physical sciences.
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Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted through
www.disjunctions2013.org or emailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than
February 22nd.
We are proud to announce that the keynote speaker for the 2013 (dis)junctions
conference will be Dr. Nicholas Mirzoeff, professor of visual studies in New York
University's Media, Culture and Communication department. An
internationally-renowned scholar of visual culture, his work has appeared in such
journals as The Journal of Visual Culture, Visual Arts Research, Radical History
Review, and Culture, Theory, and Society, and has been translated into Italian,
Spanish, Chinese, and Polish. In addition to being a premier voice in visual culture
scholarship, he is a contributing editor for the online project, and is a co-PI in the
development of the multi-media, digital-born authoring software, “Scalar.”
Dr. Mirzeoff’s work ranges from explorations of the importance of the interaction
between art and visual sign language in modern France, to the historicization of war
and diaspora and the counter-historicization of global visual culture. The editor of
both editions of Routledge’s Introduction to Visual Culture (2000, 2009), as well as
the Routledge Visual Culture Reader (2002), his current work in visual studies
focuses around three major areas: developing a genealogy of “visuality”; developing
visual culture as a field of study and a methodology; and working in conjunction with
creative visual artists and media practitioners. Currently, he is working in conjunction
with Islands First on a project that explores the visual culture of climate change.
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Romantic Circulations, a panel at (dis)junctions Grad
Conference
April 5-6, 2013
Due: February 22, 2013
Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside
disjunctions2013@gmail.com
This panel invites submissions dealing with any aspect of circulation, distribution and
discovery in the Romantic period. With the conference theme of 'encounters' and the
the proliferation of global/local exchange in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries in mind, the notion of cosmopolitanism, as addressing sites and narratives of
encounter between the center and the periphery or the periphery and the center, offers
one way of approaching these concerns. Scholars are also encouraged to not only
concentrate on encounters in the metropol, but on the circulating natures of the people,
information, art and technology that structure and mediate encounters both at home
and abroad - and that destabilize from what point of view "at home" and "abroad" are
considered. However, while voyages of discovery offer one fruitful area for such
encounters, so do travel narratives of the continent, accounts or narratives of
revolution and war, staged encounters with(in) museums, with(in) poems, novels,
encyclopedias or with(in) art. How do questions of publication, literacy and the
distribution of texts both private and public enter into this discussion? Where and how,
and in what forms do we see encounters manifesting or explored? Papers might
address various fields of knowledge, from the literary, scientific and social to the
political. Papers might also consider encounters between these fields of knowledge.
For example, how do questions of science and literature meet? How are technologies
of travel, writing or vision interacting? The question of evidence might arise; what are
the remnants of such encounters? Are they sites of cooperation or struggle?
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted at www.disjunctions2013.org or
mailed to disjunctions2013@gmail.com no later than February 22nd, 2013.
This is a panel call for the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s general
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theme, “encountering with(in) texts,” examines the impact of situatedness,
unexpectedness, and/or unpreparedness on “face to text” encounters with media
objects, embodied encounters negotiated through or overdetermined by texts, and
representations of “encountering” within texts. Please visit www.disjunctions2013.org
for more information on this year’s theme, our other subject- and discipline-specific
panel calls, and Keynote Speaker Dr. Nicholas Mirzeoff.
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African Literatures Division, MLA 2014
Due: March 1, 2013 (Panel 1); March 15, 2013 (Panel
2)
MLA AFRICAN LITERATURES DIVISION SESSIONS
tunjitunji@yahoo.com
PANEL 1
The State in African Literatures
Papers on representations of the state (both the real and the desired) and biopolitics
in African literatures. 250-word abstracts by 1 March 2013; Alain Lawo-Sukam
(lawosukam@tamu.edu) and Neil Kortenaar (kortenaar@utsc.utoronto.ca).
PANEL 2
Expatriation, Authorship, and Reception in African Literatures:
Consequences, forms and themes of expatriation and location in recent African
literatures. Abstracts (300 words) by 15 March 2013; Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi
(tunjitunji@yahoo.com) and Joya Uraizee (uraizeej@slu.edu).
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Media in Transition 8: public media, private media
May 3-5, 2013
Due: March 1, 2013
MIT Comparative Media Studies / MIT Communications Forum
seawell@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8
Media in Transition 8: public media, private media
International Conference
Conference dates: May 3-5, 2013 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA.
Featured Speakers Include:
Roderick Coover, Dept. of Film and Media Studies, Temple University
Henry Jenkins, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USC
Jose van Dijck, Dept. of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013. Please see the
end of this call for papers for submission instructions.
The distinction between public and private – where the line is drawn and how it is
sometimes inverted, the ways that it is embraced or contested – says much about a
culture. Media have been used to enable, define and police the shifting line between
the two, so it is not surprising that the history of media change to some extent maps
the history of these domains.
Media in Transition 8 takes up the question of the shifting nature of the public and
private at a moment of unparalleled connectivity, enabling new notions of the socially
mediated public and unequalled levels of data extraction thanks to the quiet demands
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of our Kindles, iPhones, televisions and computers. While this forces us to think in
new ways about these long established categories, in fact the underlying concerns are
rooted in deep historical practice. MiT8 considers the ways in which specific media
challenge or reinforce certain notions of the public or the private and especially the
ways in which specific “texts” dramatize or imagine the public, the private and the
boundary between them. It takes as its foci three broad domains: personal identity, the
civic (the public sphere) and intellectual property.
Reality television and confessional journalism have done much to invert the relations
between private and public. But the borders have long been malleable. Historically,
we know that camera-armed Kodakers and telephone party lines threatened the status
quo of the private; that the media were complicit in keeping from the public FDR’s
disability and the foibles of the ruling elite; and that paparazzi and celebrities are
strategically intertwined in the game of publicity. How have the various media played
these roles (and represented them), and how is the issue changing at a moment when
most of our mediated transactions leave data traces that not only redefine the borders
of the private, but that serve as commodities in their own right?
The public, too, is a contested space. Edmund Burke’s late 18th century invocation of
the fourth estate linked information flow and political order, anticipating aspects of
Habermas’s public sphere. From this perspective, trends such as a siege on public
service broadcasting, a press in decline, and media fragmentation on the rise, all ring
alarm bells. Yet WikiLeaks and innovative civic uses of media suggest a sharp
countertrend. What are the fault lines in this struggle? How have they been
represented in media texts, enacted through participants and given form in media
policy? And what are we to make of the fate of a public culture in a world whose
media representations are increasingly on-demand, personalized and
algorithmically-designed to please?
Finally, MiT8 is also concerned with the private-public rift that appears most
frequently in struggles over intellectual property (IP). Ever-longer terms of IP
protection combined with a shift from media artifacts (like paper books) to services
(like e-journals) threaten long-standing practices such as book lending (libraries) and
raise thorny questions about cultural access. Social media sites, powered by users,
often remain the private property of corporations, akin to the public square’s
replacement by the mall, and once-public media texts, like certain photographic and
film collections, have been re-privatized by an array of institutions. These undulations
in the private and public have implications for our texts (remix culture), our access to
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them, and our activities as audiences; but they also have a rich history of contestation,
evidenced in the copybook and scrapbook, compilation film, popular song and the
open source and creative commons movement.
MiT8 encourages a broad approach to these issues, with specific attention to textual
practice, users, policy and cultural implications. As usual, we encourage work from
across media forms and across historical periods and cultural regions.
Possible topics include:
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Media traces: cookies, GPS data, TiVo and Kindle tracking
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The paradoxes of celebrity and the public persona
Representing the anxieties of the private in film, television, literature
MMORPGs / identities / virtual publics
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The spatial turn in media: private consumption in public places
Historical media panics regarding the private-public divide
When cookies shape content, what happens to the public?
Creative commons and the new public sphere
Big data and privacy
Party lines and two-way radio: amplifying the private
The fate of public libraries in the era of digital services
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Methodologies of internet and privacy studies
Creative commons, free software, and the new public sphere
Public and civic WiFi access to the internet
Surveillance, monitoring and their (dis)contents
Submit an Abstract and Short Bio
Short abstracts for papers should be about 250 words in a PDF or Word format and
should be sent as email attachments to mit8@mit.edu no later than Friday, March 1,
2013. Please include a short (75 words or fewer) biographical statement.
Include a Short Bibliography
For this year’s conference, we recommend that you include a brief bibliography of no
more than one page in length with your abstract and bio.
Proposals for Full Panels
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Proposals for full panels of three or four speakers should include a panel title and
separate abstracts and bios for each speaker. Anyone proposing a full panel should
recruit a moderator.
Submit a Full Paper
In order to be considered for inclusion in a conference anthology, you must submit a
full version of your paper prior to the beginning of the conference.
If you have any questions about the eighth Media in Transition conference, please
contact Brad Seawell at seawell@mit.edu.
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Adoption and Disability, MLA 2014
Due: March 1, 2013
Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
mf107@nyu.edu
Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture panel invites 15-min. papers that
explore connections between adoption and disability (literary and cinematic
representation included). Abstracts (<500 words) and a brief CV (2pp.). by 1 March
2013; Marina Fedosik (mf107@nyu.edu).
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Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Student
Conference in Transnational American Studies
April 19-20, 2013
Due: March 1, 2013
Binghamton University - English Department
shiftingborders@gmail.com
Conference Title: Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Student Conference in
Transnational American Studies (4th Annual)
Theme: “Historicizing Difference in Globalized Subjectivities”
Dates: April 19th & 20th, 2013
Location: Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
FEBRUARY UPDATE INFORMATION: This year’s roundtable discussion will be
held on Saturday, April 20th at the newly renovated University Downtown Center.
The panel will include our keynote speaker, Branka Arsic, along with Binghamton
University professors Susan Strehle, William Spanos, Praseeda Gopinath, and William
Haver. They will discuss the past, present, and future of transnational studies, and
participate in an extended question-and-answer period with the audience.
We’ve also expanded the space available for the conference. This allows us to
formally accept abstracts for panels consisting of three to four papers.
Keynote Speaker: Branka Arsic, Columbia University
Roundtable Discussion:
Branka Arsic, Columbia University
Susan Strehle, Binghamton University
William Spanos, Binghamton University
William Haver, Binghamton University
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Praseeda Gopinath, Binghamton University
“Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders” is an interdisciplinary graduate student
conference dedicated to exploring the changing contours of the sphere of American
Studies, including the crisscrossing currents between areas previously demarcated in
separate disciplines. This year’s focus, “Historicizing Difference in Global
Subjectivities,” examines the historical, temporal, and geopolitical foundations of
identity and subject formation and the locations of their contestation. We aim to
unearth and interrogate emerging perspectives on not only the histories of various
formulations of difference, but also methods for reinterpreting or reimagining their
deployments with and through each other. Taking as a premise the constant recurrence
of the “global” within discourses of historical intersections between cultures, we are
interested in the ways in which the concept of “difference” is constructed, packaged,
disbursed, and consumed within a wide variety of discursive structures, and how that
concept contributes to the construction of subjectivities. In seeking to interrogate the
processes of formulating differences of subjectivity over time, this conference also
draws on a variety of methodologies for imagining history, of theorizing the global,
and the in/accuracies of the very concept of “subjectivity.” Such a focus also brings
into the foreground histories of the present, and possible modes of understanding
contemporary global communities as both constitutive of, and constructing, history.
This conference will focus on these intersectional concepts with an eye toward the
transnational, looking beyond simple formulations of difference and identity and
expanding the range of narratives used to describe the emergence of difference. Such
an aim emerges out of the call of transnational critics to analyze various historical
instantiations of the concept of the “global.” These methodological and content-based
concerns produce a number of critical questions: What are the relationships between
identities and difference across time? Are historical fluxes determined by
constructions of the global, or do they direct those constructions? What are the limits
to expressing and understanding any particular subjectivity insofar as it is conditioned
or influenced by the historical moment and global positioning? Are there historical
subjectivities more or less determined by global perspectives? We invite submissions
that engage these and other questions and critiques about the emergence of difference
within global contexts. In particular, this conference seeks papers that interrogate the
methods of imagining history and subjectivity at the various sites of subjectivity, and
strive to acknowledge the interplay between individual histories, geopolitical spaces,
and the fluxes proper to each.
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To submit a paper for review, please email shiftingborders@gmail.com with your
name, school, and a 300-word abstract.
Submission deadline: March 1st, 2013
Please visit “Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders” on Facebook for further details.
Potential Topics Include:
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Border Politics and the Production of Trans-Border Identities
The (De) Construction of National Identity
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War, Stability, and the (Im)possibility of Subjectivity
The Exchange of Subjectivity and Global Capital
The Construction of Post- and Anti- Colonial Subjectivities
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Differentiating Racial Identity
The Globalization of Gender Norms
The Policing of Global Subjectivity
American Exceptionalism and the Production of National Identity
The Arab Spring and the Deployment of Subjectivity
The Transoceanic Slave Trade
Queering National Subjectivity
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Global Governance, the European Union, and the Construction of Transnational
Sovereignty
The Nation State in Opposition to Globalization
The Global/ Local of Citizenship and its Impacts on Communities
Technology and the Production of Global Community
Global English and Literary Production
Sexual and National Instabilities
Global Diasporas and the Limits of Subjectivity
Transnational States and Hybrid Subjectivities
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Poly-lingual Subjects and National Identity
Global Racial Histories
Multi-lingual Literature and the Construction of History
The Emergence of the Literary and the Emergence of the Global
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Electronic Atwood, MLA
January 2014
Due: March 8, 2013
Margaret Atwood Society
kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu
This panel will be on Atwood's creative use of electronic media, including her new
works published only in electronic format. Send 250 word abstracts by 8 March 2013
to Theodore F. Sheckels (tsheckel@rmc.edu).
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Randall Jarrell at 100, MLA 2014
Due: March 8, 2013
MLA 2014 and MLA Executive Committee on Children's Literature
cnoimann@bmcc.cuny.edu, MLA in Chicago 2014
“All that I’ve never thought of - think of me!”
In commemoration of Randall Jarrell's 100th birthday (May 6, 1914), The Modern
Language Association division of Children's Literature is soliciting papers that shed
new light on his work. We seek papers that discuss Jarrell as a children’s literature
author, a poet, a critic, a novelist and an essayist. We are especially interested in
papers on his work as a teacher, his collaborations, translations and influence.
Please send an abstract (400-500 words) and a 2-page CV by Friday, March 8, 2013 to
Tali Noimann (cnoimann@bmcc.cuny.edu)
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Collaboration in Comics, MLA 2014
January 9-12, 2014
Due: March 8, 2013
Modern Language Association: Discussion Group on Comics & Graphic Narratives
charles.hatfield@gmail.com
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The verbal-visual form of comics offers unique opportunities for collaboration. We
invite critical perspectives on the advantages, constraints, and effects of collaboration
in comics.
Rationale: Though comics is a dialogic form, current academic work on comics has
remarkably little to say about the possibility of genuinely dialogical creation, that is,
collaboration. The bulk of recent scholarly and curatorial work on comics favors the
concept of cartooning as a singular personal handwriting, that is, an autographic trace,
ignoring the historical importance and artistic potential of multi-authored comics. The
proposed panel seeks to illuminate this blind spot in comics study by inviting critical
perspectives on collaboration from multiple angles. We seek proposals on all topics
relevant to this issue, including but not necessarily limited to:
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The legal, ethical, economic, and artistic implications of creative teaming
Instances of tense, difficult, or complicated collaboration
Studio projects (e.g., Eisner et al., The Spirit; Hergé et al., Tintin)
Notable collaborative teams in comics, e.g., Goscinny and Uderzo, Jodorowsky
and Moebius, Koike and Kojima, Kurtzman et al., Moore et al., Pekar et al.,
Gaiman and McKean, Simon and Kirby, Stanley and Tripp, many more
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Collaborations that go beyond the usual division of scenarist and artist, e.g.,
Dupuy-Berberian, Karasik and Mazzucchelli (City of Glass), Trondheim/Sfar et
al.
Artists’ collectives, e.g., Actus Tragicus, CLAMP, Fast Fiction, Stripcore,
Wimmen’s Comix
Collaborative autobiography in comics, e.g., Pekar et al., American Splendor;
Brabner, Pekar, and Stack, Our Cancer Year; Kominsky-Crumb and Crumb;
Sowa and Savoia, Marzi; Wojnarowicz and Romberger, Seven Miles a Second
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Specific collaborative processes and their artistic ramifications, e.g.,
constraint-based experiments, exquisite corpse games, and jams; scripting by
thumbnail v. full script; the Marvel method
Metacritical consideration of how criticism and theory value, or devalue,
collaborative work
Creators who shift roles (scenarist, artist, etc.) between projects, e.g., David B.,
Frank Miller, Sfar, Shanower, Trondheim
Editors as collaborators, e.g., Goscinny, Menu, Spiegelman/Mouly, many
examples in manga
Collaborations with family or partners, e.g., the Crumb family, Los Bros
Hernandez, Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot in Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes
Send 200 to 300-word abstracts in .doc or .pdf to Charles Hatfield
(charles.hatfield@gmail.com) by 8 March 2013.
Submitters will receive notification of results by April 1.
PLEASE NOTE: This CFP is for a proposed, not a guaranteed, session at MLA 2014,
meaning it is contingent on approval by the MLA Program Committee. Though the
Discussion Group on Comics & Graphic Narratives will decide before April 1 which
papers it would like to include, the MLA Program Committee will not consider the
session proposal until after that date. All prospective presenters must be current MLA
members by no later than 7 April 2013.
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Transnational Comics, MLA 2014
January 9-12, 2014
Due: March 8, 2013
Modern Language Association: Division on Literature & Other Arts; Discussion
Group on Comics & Graphic Narratives
nhora.serrano@csulb.edu; anke.finger@uconn.edu
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How have comics affected, and been affected by, transnational cultural exchanges?
Spurred by the development of the Internet and wordless communication,
transnationalism has come to mean a new way of thinking about the relationships and
interconnectivity among cultures, languages, arts, and peoples on the international
stage. Comics and graphic narratives have long been the visual and textual testament
to this global interaction. From the influence of 19th and early 20th century European
comic art on American comics (and vice versa), the cultural links between Japanese
manga and comics worldwide, and the rise of graphic novels in non-western countries
to current issues of production, translation, and cultural reception, comics and graphic
narratives lend themselves to a transnational lens. Indeed, in these complex and
vulnerable times, as globalization refigures what we mean by “worldwide” and
cultural forms cross-pollinate across national boundary lines, the prospect of a truly
transnational comics studies seems more important than ever.
This panel invites papers that explore the cultural exchange that comics and graphic
narratives have had and continue to offer. A few questions to consider:
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How do American comics differ from manga? From bande dessinée?
How have specific comic artists influenced each other in transnational and
intercultural contexts? Papers might consider, for example, how a distinctive
style (such as Hergé’s ligne claire) has been adopted by artists in other countries,
or how comics anthologies (such as RAW or Stripburger) and festivals (such as
the FIBD in Angoulême) facilitate transnational connections.
How have superhero characters been adapted around the world? What are the
implications of these transnational adaptations?
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What are the cultural implications when comics are translated into other
languages and for other audiences, for example into English for American
markets? What aspects of the original context are preserved or lost in this
translation?
How might emerging theories of transnationalism, or analyses of globalization,
shed light on comics and comics culture?
Send 200 to 300-word abstracts in .doc or .pdf to Nhora Serrano
(nhora.serrano@csulb.edu) and Anke Finger (anke.finger@uconn.edu) by 8 March
2012.
Submitters will receive notification of results by April 1.
PLEASE NOTE: This CFP is for a proposed, not a guaranteed, session at MLA 2014,
meaning it is contingent on approval by the MLA Program Committee (which will
make its decisions after April 1). All prospective presenters must be current MLA
members by no later than 7 April 2012.
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Atwood's Latest Work Roundtable, MLA
January 2014
Due: March 15, 2013
Margaret Atwood Society
kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu
The ORYX AND CRAKE trilogy will be completed in October. We're proposing a
roundtable discussion of the final book. Abstracts suggesting the approach you
anticipate taking by 15 March 2013 to Theodore Sheckels (tsheckel@rmc.edu) and
Karma Waltonen (kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu).
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Literary Responses to Mind Science, MLA 2014
Due: March 15, 2013
Nikki Skillman / American Academy of Arts and Sciences
nskillman@amacad.org
“In any period,” M.H. Abrams writes, “the theory of mind and the theory of art tend
to turn on similar analogues, explicit or submerged.” How has the literature of the
long twentieth century responded to philosophical and cultural transformations
brought about by the rise of mind science? What thematic and formal means have
literary artists used to explore the ontological, epistemological, and ethical
implications of cognitive materialism? How has the explanatory power of cognitive
science eclipsed the explanatory power of psychoanalysis in recent fiction and poetry?
Possible topics include the neuronovel, drug use, the resistance to science, mental
illness, correspondences between biological and textual form. Abstracts that address
stylistic responses to the concept of embodied consciousness are especially welcome.
Please send abstracts of roughly 350 words to Nikki Skillman,
nskillman@amacad.org by 15 March, 2013
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Transcendentalist Women and Friendship, MLA 2014
Due: March 15, 2013
MLA 2014
abrahae@sunysccc.edu
This session invites papers on transcendentalist women’s conceptions and practices of
friendship, especially in comparison to their male counterparts. 250-word abstract by
15 March 2013; Eileen Abrahams (abrahae@sunysccc.edu).
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Marxism and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First
Century, MLA 2014
January 9-12, 2014
Due: March 15, 2013
MLA 2014 Special Session
gallego@stolaf.edu; ameehan@email.arizona.edu
This panel seeks to address the theoretical-methodological intersectionality of two
influential but controversial disciplines(Marxism and psychoanalysis), with special
focus on their current historical, cultural, and/or political relevancy and applicability.
Please note that this is a proposed special session for the 2014 MLA Convention,
which will be held from January 9-12, 2014 in Chicago, IL.
Please send 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013 to Adam Meehan
(ameehan@email.arizona.edu) and Carlos Gallego (gallego@stolaf.edu).
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Engaging Bayard Taylor, PAMLA Conference
November 1-3, 2013
Due: March 31, 2013
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
wccorley@csupomona.edu
Engaging Bayard Taylor: This once-forgotten poet, novelist, and travel writer is now
frequently referenced in studies of transnationalism, sexuality, class, and imperialism
in 19th c. American literature. What interpretive issues result from his revival as a
touchstone of popular literary culture? Papers on individual works or on Taylor in
relation to other literary figures welcome. Abstracts and CV via PAMLA's online
proposal system by 3/31/2013: http://www.pamla.org
The 2013 PAMLA conference will be held at the Bahia Resort in San Diego,
California, on November 1-3, 2013. All panel participants must join PAMLA by May
1, 2013 and must register and pay for the conference by September 15, 2013.
Questions to Liam Corley (wccorley@csupomona.edu).
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Whitman North and South
June 28-29, 2013
Due: April 1, 2013
Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association
twwa@northwestern.edu
Whitman North and South
THE SIXTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WALT WHITMAN SYMPOSIUM
to be held at
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.
June 28 & 29, 2013
In 2013, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation
Proclamation, TWWA welcomes papers discussing Walt Whitman’s writings in
relation to any aspect of the U.S. Civil War in national or international memory. In
addition to papers that interpret Whitman’s work in terms of the War between the
Northern and Southern States, we also welcome papers that approach Whitman either
hemispherically or globally, focusing on the legacies, significance, and lasting
consequences of Whitman’s writings as they have circulated, been translated, revised,
and reworked by different language constituencies, nationalities, and literary schools
in Central and South America and in the Northern and Southern hemispheres of the
globe more generally.
One-page abstracts should be sent electronically, no later than April 1, 2013, to all
four Symposium Organizers: Professor Ed Folsom, Professor Ken Price, Professor Jay
Grossman, and Professor Vanessa Steinroetter.
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In Bodies We Trust: Performance, Affect, & Political
Economy
October 11-13, 2013
Due: April 5, 2013
Northwestern University Department of Performance Studies Graduate Student
Conference
nupsconf@gmail.com
In Bodies We Trust: Performance, Affect, & Political Economy
an interdisciplinary graduate student conference
Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Proposals Due: April 5, 2013
Conference Dates: October 11-13, 2013
Keynote Speaker: Judith Hamera
Faculty Discussants: Joshua Chambers-Letson, Nick Davis, Tracy Davis, Hannah
Feldman, Marcela Fuentes, Barnor Hesse, Richard Iton, Chloe Johnston, D. Soyini
Madison, Susan Manning, Kaley Mason, Coya Paz, Janice Radway, Ramón H.
Rivera-Servera, C. Riley Snorton, Elizabeth Son, and Harvey Young
psconference.soc.northwestern.edu
Call for Papers & Performances
“Each act of activism … is a compilation of stories or ‘scenes’ that could not be told
without acknowledging the macro forces of a neoliberal political economy that is
ingrained in their plots.”
–D. Soyini Madison, Acts of Activism: Human Rights of Radical Performance
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(2010)
“This is a history carried and felt on the body.”
–Ramon Rivera-Servera, Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality and Politics
(2012)
What is the relationship between affect and political economies? What role might
performance play in negotiating conditions of bodies, affects, political economies, and
spaces? In Bodies We Trust: Performance, Affect, & Political Economy—the 2013
Department of Performance Studies Graduate Student Conference—invites graduate
students, artists, and activists to generate new understandings among affect, political
economy, and performance.
‘Affect’ and ‘political economy’ have each become integral in elucidating
performance. Affect—embodied feelings that circulate—has been used to make sense
of minoritarian feelings of otherness such as José Esteban Muñoz’s ‘feeling brown’ or
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s ‘queer performativity,’ and embodied responses to
postmodern capitalism such as Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt’s ‘affective labor.’
Political economy—the influence of “political … and economic systems” on
“institutions, culture, and human behavior”*—animates how performance operates in
frameworks of policy, economies, and political institutions. We invite papers and
performances that illuminate, complicate, and challenge relationships across
embodied feelings, political and economic systems, and performance.
Each panel and each performance will be paired with a Northwestern University or
Chicago-area faculty member who will act as a discussant. Confirmed faculty
discussants include Joshua Chambers-Letson, Nick Davis, Tracy Davis, Hannah
Feldman, Marcela Fuentes, Barnor Hesse, Richard Iton, Chloe Johnston, D. Soyini
Madison, Susan Manning, Kaley Mason, Coya Paz, Janice Radway, Ramón H.
Rivera-Servera, C. Riley Snorton, Elizabeth Son, and Harvey Young. The three-day
conference also includes a keynote address by Judith Hamera, a collaborative plenary
with Northwestern and Chicago-area faculty, movement workshops, and catered
receptions to build community with attendees across disciplines and artistic interests.
We seek proposals for traditional academic papers, live performances and
experimental formats.
Papers, performances and experimental panels might want to consider:
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Neoliberal affect: aesthetics and neoliberalism, affective labor and affective
political economies
Feeling Value
Minoritarian Affects
Black Atlantic Economies
Political Economies of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Ability
Decolonial aesthetics
Transhistorical relationships (including affective responses to eras of economic
collapse)
Censorship of performance artists who engage affect as a modality of political
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economic commentary (e.g. the NEA Four, Pussy Riot, and the Hemispheric
Institute’s No-Encuentro 2012)
Reproducibility, Circulation, and Commodification
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Virtual Politics
Space, Utopia, and Economies
Movement as Political Economy (bodily practices and global ideological
movements)
Bodies Affecting Political Economies (protesting bodies, bodies in pain, aberrant
bodies)
Theories of the Flesh
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Embodied Epistemologies
Critical Ethnography
Sensorium in Politics
Affective Historiographies
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The deadline for proposals is April 5, 2013.
Please submit all proposals, and any questions to, nupsconf@gmail.com.
For paper proposals, please submit as one word, pages, or pdf document:
1) Name and Contact Information (with email address),
2) an abstract (~300 words), and
3) a brief biography (~250 words);
For performance and experimental proposals, please submit as one word, pages, or
pdf document:
1) Name and Contact Information (with email address),
2) description of performance (~300 words),
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3) a brief biography (~250 words),
4) technical requirements and duration,
and, if applicable, 5) up to six jpeg images, link to an online portfolio, or other
relevant media.
We will notify participants by May 20, 2013.
This conference is generously supported by the Department of Performance Studies at
Northwestern University and by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. The
conference will provide a travel reimbursement (up to $250) for each participant who
does not live in the Chicago area. There is no registration fee.
-*D. Soyini Madison, Critical ethnography: method, ethics, and performance, SAGE:
Thousand Oaks, CA, 2012, 66.
-psconference.soc.northwestern.edu
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Entangled Children: Technology,
Media-Enhancement, and Storytelling, SAMLA
November 8-10, 2013
Due: May 1, 2013
SAMLA Children's Literature Discussion Circle
cldc.samla@gmail.com
Entangled Children: Technology, Media-Enhancement, and Storytelling in Children's
Culture
In My Mother Was a Computer, N. Katherine Hayles states that one of the most
important elements of scholarly analysis is examining entanglement: “a manifestation
of what [Hayles] call[s] ‘intermediation,’ that is, the complex transactions between
bodies and texts as well as between different forms of media” (7). The 2013 SAMLA
Children's Literature Discussion Circle seeks papers for this year’s panel addressing
any aspect of technology, entanglement, or multimodal/transmedia storytelling in
children’s and adolescents’ literature, poetry, media, and games. We welcome
presentations exploring depictions of technology or networks, theoretical works on
media shifts and new media practices for children’s literature, as well as historical or
archival work with representations of media and children/adolescents.
Topics might include (but are not limited to):
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Technological determinism or liberation
Technology and play
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Technology and reader/player agency
Technology and utopia/dystopia
Technology through images—manuals, comics, graphic novels, etc.
Technology and making meaning in print, digital, and networked worlds
Teenagers, surveillance, and civil rights
Relationships between old and new technologies
Relationships among technology, humanity, and/or the
environment/government/turmoil
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Operational logics of children’s media or games
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Convergence, intermediation, entanglement or multimodal texts
The cyborg or technological enhancement of bodies
Please send abstracts of 300-500 words as a word document by May 1, 2013 to Lisa
Dusenberry via email at cldc.samla@gmail.com. The 85th annual SAMLA conference
will be held November 8-10, 2013 at the Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta,
Georgia.
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“Cultures, Contexts, Images, Texts: Making Meaning
in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds” Poster
Session, SAMLA 2013
Due: June 28, 2013
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
samla@gsu.edu
Visual Representations of Scholarly Work
INTERSECTIONS OF TEXT, IMAGE, AND RESEARCH
SAMLA welcomes proposals of representations of scholarly work that serve to
explicate a researched topic and expand understanding through visual design and
incorporation of visual elements and graphics. Proposals for this session should
explain how research will manifest itself in the presentation. The presentation may be
multimedia or a poster display. Limited technology may be available for
multimedia/multimodal works.
While this form of presentation is new in the study of literature, composition/rhetoric,
and linguistics, the Program Committee believes this method will create new
opportunities for discussions about literature and language and expand our
understanding of scholarly research. Presentations that focus on the special topic of
the conference, “Cultures, Contexts, Images, Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital,
and Networked Worlds” are particularly encouraged.
By June 28, 2013, please submit a brief description of the project and visual design to
the SAMLA office at samla@gsu.edu.
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African American Studies Pedagogy Conference
October 11, 2013
David Tenenbaum/ Shaw University
dtenenbaum@shawu.edu
Please submit abstracts for papers to be presented at a conference on “African
American Studies Pedagogy” to be held at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC on Oct. 11,
2013. Among the topics to be addressed will be “reconsidering the canon of essays
and speeches in the African American Studies classroom,”“teaching African American
Literature and Film,” and “the use of technology in African American Studies
pedagogy.”
Please send 250 word abstracts to Dtenenbaum@shawu.edu.
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Conferences in Europe
Flann O'Brien Conference Rome 2013
June 19-21, 2013
Due: March 1, 2013
"Problems with Authority: The II International Flann O'Brien Conference" (Università
Roma Tre, 19-21 June, 2013).
viennacis.anglistik@univie.ac.at
"Problems with Authority: The II International Flann O'Brien Conference" (Università
Roma Tre, 19-21 June, 2013).
Second Call for Papers Updated Deadline: 1 March 2013
http://www.univie.ac.at/flannobrien2011/rome2013.html
Keynotes:
Jed Esty (University of Pennsylvania)
Carol Taaffe (Author of "Ireland Through the Looking-Glass: Flann O’Brien, Myles
na gCopaleen & Irish Cultural Debate")
Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp)
Performers:
Mikel Murfi (Director of "John Duffy’s Brother")
Mark O’Halloran (Award-winning screenwriter of "Adam and Paul" and "Garage")
The International Flann O'Brien Society is proud to announce that a conference on the
works of Brian O'Nolan will be hosted by the Department of Comparative Literatures,
at the Università Roma Tre under the title "Problems with Authority: The II
International Flann O’Brien Conference".
It is an exciting time for the expanding field of Brian O'Nolan scholarship, as we
explore O'Nolan's under-analysed and ever-expanding body of minor texts and start to
close the many critical gaps in the academic record. At the centre of these critical
projects are explorations of O‟Nolan‟s texts as fertile territory for mediating between
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conflicting Authorities: between traditional and modern scripts, local and international
perspectives, and between avant-garde and conservative approaches to the authorities
of science, history, and literary tradition. With these issues in mind, the conference
aims to address questions of canonicity and authority in Brian O'Nolan's work.
2013 sees the publication of collections of O'Nolan's short stories (Neil Murphy &
Keith Hopper, Dalkey Archive) and dramatic works (Daniel Jernigan, Dalkey
Archive). As these collections give us greater access to a rich variety of overlooked
texts in the O'Nolan canon, they also prompt and challenge us to broaden and retrace
its borders. Indeed, given the amount of pseudonyms and apocryphal texts in play, we
might ask whether these borders can ever be definitively drawn. Similarly, the vast
collections of O'Nolan's correspondence, manuscripts, and drafts housed in Illinois,
Boston, and Texas, – as well as the Irish Times online digital archive – have given rise
to Genetic and Cultural Materialist approaches that seek to explore the borders of
authorship and authority in O'Nolan's ever-expanding oeuvre. And while
longer-running critical conversations continue to be finessed about the ways in which
O'Nolan's texts are shaped by towering 20th Century figures such as Joyce and
Beckett (and the more local authorities of Church and State), the increasingly
international contexts in which O'Nolan is being read have brought a new set of
names to the table: from Jarry, Borges, and Kafka, to Nabokov, Danielewski, and
Calvino. This international gaze brings with it other issues, such as the challenges of
adaptation and translation, and the opportunities of exploring O'Nolan's broader canon
as a fertile ground for a range of critical perspectives, from Cultural Materialism,
Queer Theory, and Feminism, to Metafiction, Genre Theory, and Deconstruction.
The organisers invite proposals on any aspect of O'Nolan's writing, but are especially
interested in papers that explore questions of authorship and authority in O'Nolan's
work, including, but not limited to:
Broadening the Canon
– Problems of Canonicity and the Reception of Minor Works
– O‟Nolan on Screen and Stage: The Forgotten Scripts
– O‟Nolan as Letter Writer
– Challenges in Adapting/Translating O'Nolan's Writing
– The Gaelic Language Works & Columns
On Whose Authority?
– Ideological Critique & the Comedic Subversion of Authority in O'Nolan's Writing
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– Conflicting Authorities: The Traditional vs. the Avant-Garde, the Local vs. the
International in O'Nolan's Writing
– Writing Under the Influence: O'Nolan & his Contemporaries
– The Clowning of Science: Menippean Satire and the Encyclopaedic Ideal
– The Reception of Brian O'Nolan in Ireland and Beyond
Theoretical Authorities
– Death of the Author: O'Nolan and Capital "T" Theory
– O'Nolan and Philosophy
– O'Nolan and Theories of Genre
– Cultural Materialist and Genetic Approaches
– Male Authorities / Feminist Readings
– Ideas of Space and Place in O'Nolan's Writing
Please submit paper & panel proposals to viennacis.anglistik@univie.ac.at by 1
March 2013.
John McCourt (Università Roma Tre)
Ruben Borg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Paul Fagan (University of Vienna)
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Bearing Across: Translating Literary Narratives of
Migration
September 16-17, 2013
Due: March 13, 2013
Erasmus University College of Brussels, Belgium
philippe.humble@vub.ac.be; arvisepp@vub.ac.be
International Conference organised by the Centre for Literary Translation at the
Erasmus University College of Brussels in cooperation with the Centre for Literature,
Intermediality, and Culture at the Free University of Brussels (VUB)
16.09.2013-17.09.2013, Brussels, Erasmus University College of Brussels,
Department of Applied Linguistics, Centre for Literary Translation
Deadline: 13.03.2013
Bringing together scholars from different disciplines such as cultural studies,
translation studies, area studies, comparative literature, and anthropology, this
conference aims at providing a new understanding of migration as a theoretical
concept, analytical category, and lived experience in the study of the translation of
migration literature, be it by the authors themselves, or by professional translators.
Through issues such as dwelling and displacement, monolingualism and
multilingualism, transnationalism and national identity, this conference seeks to
investigate how the translation of narratives of migration – e.g. in German-Turkish,
Dutch-Moroccan, French-Algerian, British-Indian literature – engages with and
shapes the ongoing redefinition of cultural identities.
In Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie describes the relationship between
migration and translation as follows: “The word ‘translation’ comes, etymologically,
from Latin for ‘bearing across’. Having been borne across the world, we are translated
men.” (Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991.
London: Penguin, 1992. 17) The condition of the modern subject as a ‘translated man’
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indeed seems to be that of geographical and linguistic border-crossing, between the
local and the global. Translation can thus be regarded as a sequence of language
practices and an existential situation of migrants dealing with dislocation. Accordingly,
this conference focuses, on the one hand, on translation of literary narratives of
migration as intralingual transaction – as cultural translation – that reformulates and
reassesses cultural specificities in a new and often alienating way and, on the other
hand, as interlingual transaction that applies processes of mediation to issues of
agency and communication (cf. Doris Bachmann-Medick). Therefore, this conference
focuses basically on two strands: 1. literature by migrant authors, either written in
their own language, but ‘translating’ their unfamiliar surroundings, or written in the
language predominant in their ‘unfamiliar surroundings’; and 2. literature, written by
migrant authors, translated into the language of their actual place of residence or into
any other language.
Submissions for 20-minute papers may include, but are not restricted to:
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Theoretical approaches to the concept of ‘migration’ in translation
Political commitment and translating migration literature
Transmission of identity and belonging in translation
Translation of linguistic hybridity (creolisation, multilingualism,
ungrammaticality)
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Self-translation and the question of migrant authors writing in adopted languages
Significance of the literary translator in the reception of migration literature and
the emergence of (alternative) literary canons
Relationship between translator’s poetics and author’s poetics
Translation as aesthetic and ideological adaptation
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Organising Institution:
Erasmus University College of Brussels
Department of Applied Linguistics
Centre for Literary Translation
Organising Committee:
Philippe Humblé, PhD
Arvi Sepp, PhD
Gys-Walt Van Egdom, MA
Scientific Committee
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Prof. dr. Elisabeth Bekers (Free University of Brussels, VUB)
Prof. dr. Hans Vandevoorde (Free University of Brussels, VUB)
Prof. dr. Dirk Vanden Berghe (Free University of Brussels, VUB)
Prof. dr. Rita Temmerman (Erasmus University College of Brussels)
Prof. dr. Ilse Logie (Ghent University)
Prof. dr. Désirée Schyns (University College Ghent)
Address:
Erasmus University College of Brussels
Department of Applied Linguistics
Pleinlaan 5
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Registration:
250 word abstracts and a 150 word bio should be submitted by 13 March, 2013 to
Arvi Sepp (arvisepp@vub.ac.be) and Philippe Humblé (philippe.humble@vub.ac.be).
For further information, please contact Gys-Walt Van Egdom at
Gys-Walt.Van.Egdom@vub.ac.be. Graduate students are also welcome to submit their
proposals and participate in the conference.
Please note there will be a conference fee of 60 Euro.
The language of the conference is English, but we encourage the use and visibility of
other languages in multilingual handouts, slides, etc.
A publication of the proceedings with selected contributions in a refereed volume is
planned.
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Vonnegut and Attention - a satellite workshop of The
Arts of Attention Conference 2013
September 12-14, 2013
Due: March 31, 2013
Károli Gáspár University
vonnegut.and.attention@gmail.com
The works of Kurt Vonnegut prominently feature with issues connected to attention
through tropes and topics as well as through literary technique: it is a core motif in
many of his writings, and is of key importance with regard to his style. This workshop
invites contributed papers approaching the notion of attention in the Vonnegutian
œuvre through literary theory, philosophy, anthropology, and psychology among
others. We are particularly interested in contributions presenting interdisciplinary
investigations.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to
vonnegut.and.attention@gmail.com as an attached Word or PDF file (please do not
paste the abstract into the body of your email!), and include your name and affiliation
(if applicable) as well as whether you need any kind of multimedia equipment
(projector, etc.) for your presentation. Participants will have approximately 20
minutes for presentation, which will be followed by a 10-minute Q&A session and
discussion.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 12 PM, March 31, 2013. You shall
receive a response on acceptance/rejection by April 5.
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals! See you in Budapest!
Best regards,
the Organizers:
Rebeka Sára Szigethy
Ádám T. Bogár
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New Crops, Old Fields: (Re)Imagining Irish Folklore
September 5-7, 2013
Due: May 1, 2013
Queen's University Belfast
newcrops@qub.ac.uk
Keynote Speaker :
Prof. Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (University of Notre-Dame)
From our homes to our houses of government, from our schoolyards to our stadia,
from our galleries to our gable walls, folklore is being re-imagined in all aspects of
everyday life in Ireland. Today, with globalised, media-centric culture, the folk
traditions take on new lives in music, literature, theatre, radio, film and television,
advertising and tourist industries. The ancient stories and characters still find a place
within the new multicultural Ireland and their depiction continues to evolve. Irish
folklore has been made new again, in a regenerating of the tradition, where the old
and the new, the oral, the textual and the visual intermingle.
This conference aims at exploring the rich traditions of Irish folklore, and looking at
the various ways it is being, has been or indeed was, re-purposed and reinvented. We
hope to bring together researchers at various stages of their careers, both professional
and postgraduate, working on any and every aspect of the folklore of Ireland, its
reappropriation and dissemination up to the present day or indeed the reuse of
traditions. We welcome proposals from researchers in the fields of Agriculture,
Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Dance, Drama, Ecology, Film Studies,
Folklore, Geography, History, History of Art, Languages, Literature, Media Studies,
Music, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology and Theology, Tourism Studies.
Topics may include (but are not limited to) the reuse of legends, myths, beliefs,
folktales, songs, rhymes and riddles, music, dance, sayings and proverbs, customs,
oral history, etc in:
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the Visual Arts (paintings, sculptures, dance, etc) and iconography
Film, Television and Radio
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Advertising, tourism, the diaspora and folklore around the world
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Politics
Literature, in English or as Gaeilge
Children's Literature
Food and drink
Music
Theatre and performance
comparative approaches of the reuse of Irish folklore and international folklore
urban folklore
Please submit proposals of 300 words and a short biography to newcrops@qub.ac.uk
by 1st May 2013.
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2013 Fourth International Conference on Urban and
ExtraUrban Studies
November 22-23, 2013
Due: October 3, 2013
Common Ground Publishing
conferencedirector@home.commongroundpublishing.com
Call for Papers
The Spaces and Flows: Fourth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban
Studies is held at the University of Amsterdam on 22-23 November 2013. This
conference aims to critically engage the contemporary and ongoing spatial, social,
ideological, and political transformations in a transnational, global, and neoliberal
world. In a process-oriented world of flows and movement, we posit, the global north
and global south now simultaneously converge and diverse in a dialectic that shapes
and transforms cities, suburbs, and rural areas. This conference addresses the mapping
of, the nature of, and the forces that propel these processural changes. Proposals for
paper presentations, workshops, roundtables or colloquia are invited, addressing
spaces and flows in a time of economic and political uncertainty in one of the
following themes:
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Urban and Extraurban Spaces
Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects
Material and Immaterial Flows
The final deadline for proposal submission is 3 October 2013. Please visit
http://spacesandflows.com for more information on submitting your proposal, future
deadlines, and registering for the conference.
Virtual participation is available for those who are unable to attend the conference in
person. Proposals for virtual presentations may be submitted at any time, up to the
start of the conference. All conference registrants (in-person and virtual) may also
submit their written papers for publication in the refereed Spaces and Flows: An
International Journal of Urban and Extra Urban Studies.
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Plenary Speakers:
Plenary Speakers and Guest Speakers will engage discussion and thought around the
theme – Spaces and Flows in a Time of Economic and Political Uncertainty.
Plenary Speakers
• LORETTA LEES, King’s College London
• GORDON MACLEOD, Durham University, UK
Guest Speakers
• JAN NIJMAN, PhD, U of Colorado at Boulder
• DAVID WILSON, Syracuse University
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Journals and Collections of Essays
Washington Irving: The Fantastic in the Time of
Nations
Due: April 19, 2013
Scott Sprenger / Arnaud Huftier / Otrante: journal of fantastic art and literature
sprengers23@yahoo.com
Call for contributions:
Otrante : arts et littératures fantastiques
Volume 36: “Washington Irving: le fantastique au temps des nations”
The ways in which Washington Irving’s fiction was inflected by European gothic
literature has been the subject of a number of previous studies. Critics have been
especially interested in explaining how his adaptations of gothic themes to the early
American context contributed to the formation of an American identity by its
insistence on the frictions between local superstitions and imported ones. The Legend
of Sleepy Hollow or Rip Van Winkle, emblematic of Irving’s work, can easily be
interpreted in this light, but at the risk, perhaps, of a simplification.
The simplification comes from the perception of this new national consciousness
solely as a schizoid form or as an aspect of a transatlantic tension arising from the
American displacement of European influences. To be sure, this tension is part of the
foundational structure of Irving’s literary production, but its explanatory power is
partial: Irving simultaneously attempts to expose the mystifications of emerging
“national” (or nationalist) forms of consciousness, both in America and abroad.
Approached in this light, studies of Irving can no longer be content with his
emblematic texts or with reading him as an American version of the European gothic.
Indeed, we propose here to embrace the entirety of his works (historical, biographical
and fictional) and to broaden the frame of analysis to the general problem of emerging
national (and rationalist) forms of consciousness. Scrutiny of his histories and
biographies has shown that they are unreliable as reflections of “historical reality,” but
Irving’s historiographical unreliability is not due to error or a lack of archival due
diligence. The fictional dimensions of his historiography are, on the contrary, coherent
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with his broader aim to uncover what we might call a moral geography, or an
unofficial mapping and reconstruction of experience at the zones of cultural and
mental displacement, as nations engaged in internal colonization. Irving seeks to lift
to the surface realities that official national discourses, and national(-ist) forms of
consciousness, had displaced and repressed under the sign of legend, archaic
superstition, barbarity or madness. It is precisely this ‘lifting to the surface’ of
unclassifiable human experience that accounts for the fantastic effects of Irving’s
writing and recommends revisiting his work.
On both sides of the Atlantic, Washington Irving’s originality as a writer has often
been misrecognized or undetected by being considered a gothic imitation by
Anglo-American critics or a precursor to the fantastic by the French. This special
issue of the French journal Otrante is devoted to showing how and why Irving
invented literary effects that resist traditional “national” generic and literary historical
classifications. Irving’s formal originality, we propose, derives from the depth and
complexity of his explorations of the hidden causes of nationalist pathologies and its
connection to a fundamentally “unconceptualizable” aspect of political and cultural
modernity. It is not thus the inventor of a national consciousness that we celebrate
here, but more ambitiously, the surprising precursor of cultural anthropology or social
psychology.
Articles written in or translated into native French would be appreciated. Strong
articles in English will be considered for translation by professionals in France.
1-page proposals due by April 19, 2013. Final papers (30,000 characters including
spaces) are due Sept 20, 2013.
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The Human
Due: May 5, 2013
The Human, a journal of humanities, social sciences, and arts
human@humanjournal.org
The Human (www.humanjournal.org) is an international and interdisciplinary new
journal that publishes articles written in the fields of literatures in English (British,
American, postcolonial, etc.), classical and modern Turkish literature, sociology,
drama, comparative literature, and cultural studies, as well as creative works of art
such as poems, short stories, and plays. To learn more about the journal and its
principles, please visit this page:
http://www.humanjournal.org/index.php/about-the-human-manifesto
Please also view our submission guidelines here:
http://www.humanjournal.org/index.php/submission/guidelines
The submission deadline for the June 2013 issue is May 5, 2013. Submissions we
receive after this date will be considered for the later issues of the journal. All works
will be peer-reviewed.
Submissions or inquiries should be emailed to human@humanjournal.org
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The Pleasures and Politics of Popular Erotic Fiction
(Edited Collection)
Due: May 24, 2013
Dr Kristen Phillips, Claire Trevenen, Curtin University (Bentley, Western Australia)
k.phillips@curtin.edu.au; Claire.Trevenen@curtin.edu.au
The publication of EL James’ Fifty Shades of Grey in 2011 marks a particularly
visible moment in what appears to be a proliferation of erotic fiction, written by and
for women, since the end of the twentieth century. More than just an instance of a
particular genre of fiction, Fifty Shades has spawned considerable discussion of the
significance of ‘women’s popular erotic fiction’ generally.
The Pleasures and Politics of Popular Erotic Fiction seeks to explore this phenomenon,
its social and textual origins and its attendant conceptual and political effects. In doing
so, the book aims to examine the discursive regularities and popular debates framing
the production and reception of women’s popular erotic fiction; the cultural anxieties
and transformations such texts express; the ways in which they reinscribe and
negotiate relations of gender, sexuality, race, and kinship. We are interested in
exploring the ideological forces underpinning their development and visibility as both
a ‘new’ and ‘popular’ form; the ever-growing proliferation of subgenres and their role
in shaping popular ideas about romance, relationships, desire, and the erotic.
We invite proposals for contributions to an edited collection of critical research on the
cultural significance of ‘women’s popular erotic fiction’. Possible areas of research
include (though are not limited to):
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The cultural work of the different subgenres (BDSM, paranormal romance, erotic
crime fiction, ménage a trois, ‘neighbour from hell’, sex confessionals) and the
ways of speaking about, categorising and marketing these texts.
The rise of independently published online erotic fiction (production and
consumption) and the discourses surrounding it.
Debates around originality and derivativeness.
The continuities and departures of erotic fiction from its predecessors in romance
fiction and chick lit, as well as those from more ‘respectable’ literary traditions.
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The role of popular erotic fiction in reinforcing and/or transgressing the
hegemony of whiteness, heterosexuality, patriarchy, the family, etc.
The role of this fiction in circumscribing an idea of ‘the West’, as well as the
possibilities offered by non-western forms of popular erotic fiction.
The pleasures of reader consumption and the discourses surrounding it.
The function of romance in women’s erotic fiction.
Expressions of interest, including an abstract (250-300 words), a short author bio and
list of recent publications, may be forwarded via email to the editors by 24 May, 2013.
The anticipated due date for accepted contributions (6,500 –7,500) is 29 November,
2013.
Dr Kristen Phillips, Claire Trevenen, Curtin University (Bentley, Western Australia)
Contact email: k.phillips@curtin.edu.au, Claire.Trevenen@curtin.edu.au
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Guernica Canadian Writers Series, Collection of
Essays, Michael Onddatje
Due: May 30, 2013
Dr. Jolene Armstrong, Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, Athabasca
University
jolenea@athabascau.ca
Call for papers: Guernica Canadian Writers Series, collection of essays, Michael
Onddatje
I am seeking contributions by scholars from any relevant discipline on the works of
Michael Ondaatje for the Guernica Writers Series (to be published by Guernica Press
www.guernicaeditions.com/writers.html). This is an edited collection of essays that
focuses on any of the works of this author including novels, poetry, and film.
Deadline for submission of an abstract of 300 words is May 30, 2013. The deadline
for completion of accepted successful essays of 15- 20 pages is August 30, 2013.
Proposed publication date of this edition in the series is early 2014.
Please contact jolenea@athabascu.ca for more information.
Dr. Jolene Armstrong
Associate Professor
Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences
Athabasca University
www.athabascau.ca
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Essay Collection: Graphic Novel Pedagogy
Due: June 1, 2013
Matthew L. Miller / University of South Carolina Aiken
matthewm@usca.edu
Call for Papers: Graphic Novel Pedagogy
Contributions are needed for an edited collection of essays on teaching graphic novels
and/or comics. The overall goal of the collection is provide a place to gather ideas
about pedagogy, organized generally around three major trends: 1) problems with
using graphic novels in the classroom, 2) best practices for teaching graphic novels
for college students, and 3) rewards for using graphic novels in various academic
settings. References to specific novels and more general discussions are welcomed.
The editor encourages essays across multiple disciplines. Possible topics could consist
of the following:
Problems – Essays could offer discussions of various stumbling blocks, or challenges,
when using graphic novels in the classroom. Each instructor/writer could include a
“teaching moment” where the instructor tried to adjust and resolve the problem.
Potential problems could include the following:
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Struggles with Visual Literacy
Dead classroom discussions
Navigating offensive materials
Finding source materials for student papers
Technological problems with incorporating panels into papers
Struggles with creative projects or graphic novel workshops
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Collaborating outside your discipline
Strategies – Essays could offer discussions of best practices when using graphic
novels in the classroom. Aside from the best graphic novels to use, potential best
practices scenarios could include the following:
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Rhetoric through comics
Building critical thinking through visual literacy
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Graphic novels as First-Year Reading/Common Reading Experiences
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Using graphic novels to teach content in multiple ways
Making graphic novels in Creative Writing Programs
How to use technology for graphic novel projects/papers
Rewards – Essays could offer discussions on the benefits of using graphic novels.
Each could address at least one effective moment in the classroom where a graphic
novel enhanced learning and content. Potential rewards include the following:
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Witnessing history through graphic novels (i.e., Speigelman’s Maus, Satrapi’s
Persepolis, Cruse’s Stuck Rubber Baby, etc.)
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Improving critical thinking through reading, contextualizing, and writing
Learning life writing through graphic memories (i.e., Thompson’s Blankets,
Small’s Stitches, Neufeld’s A. D., etc.)
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Creating graphic novels, novellas, and stories in creative writing/art setting(s)
Exploring foreign cultures through manga, European comics, and multicultural
American comics
Increasing visual literacy and literacy in general
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The editor of this collection has secured the firm interest of a publisher. Abstracts for
proposed contributions should be between 250-300 words. Name, institutional
affiliation, email, and phone number must be included. The deadline for abstracts is
June 1, 2013. If accepted for inclusion, final manuscripts would be due by December
31, 2013.
Inquiries and/or abstracts should be sent to matthewm@usca.edu.
Matthew L. Miller, Ph. D.
Associate Professor of English
University of South Carolina Aiken
(803) 641-3208
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Sherlock Collection of Essays
Due: June 1, 2013
Nadine Farghaly
Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are one of the best known couples in Literature.
Since Arthur Canon Doyle first published his famous detective stories in 1887, with
his work covering the years 1880 until 1914 when Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
finally retired to the countryside, these stories have not lost any of their charm.
Frequent adaptations in both the book world and the movie world have demonstrated
that the famous detective has neither lost his charm nor his appeal. Different
adaptations have added different layers to the Sherlock Holmes universe. While
Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock brought a sexy playfulness to the screen, Benedict
Cumberbatch's Sherlock made his social ineptness as well as his disabilities more
prominent. The same can be said for the different John Watsons. Jude Law, added a
very sophisticated Watson while Martin Freeman's Watson is a down to earth, broke,
Afghanistan war veteran who suffers from PTSD. The female characters of these
adaptations are also more than worthy of a thorough analysis; the recent BBC version
features Irene Adler as a dominatrix. All of these different versions show very
distinctive advantages and challenges, as well as they demonstrate different
views/takes on sexuality. BBC's Sherlock has been given the moniker The Virgin
while Ritchie's Sherlock obviously has a promiscuous side.
The CBS adaptation titled Elementary adds another layer of discourse to the Sherlock
Holmes discussion. In this version of the famous detective stories John Watson has
been transformed into Jane Watson. Here, Holmes is a former consultant to Scotland
Yard whose drug addiction brings him to a rehabilitation centre in NYC. Post-rehab,
Holmes moves in with a “sober companion” in Brooklyn, Joan Watson, a “former
surgeon who lost her medical license after a patient died while consulting with the
NYPD.” The series is already highly awaited by critics and fans alike since the gender
change is something that, while it has been attempted before, never worked
successfully. And while not much can be said about this series at this point, it will be
necessary to analyse it thoroughly. The gender politics implemented in this show
alone will be a reason to review it.
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Another aspect that is not too underestimated and highlights the audiences' interests
into this fandom is the I Believe in Sherlock Holmes movement inspired by the BBC
Sherlock Season Two Finale. Although it is unclear whether or not the movement was
started by the BBC or by fans, it does not really matter in the end. Thousands of fans
are participating in the movement, and there seems to be no end in sight;
demonstrating a high kinship and connection to Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick.
This collection will strongly focus on the gender politics that have been assigned over
the last three years to the different Sherlock Holmes adaptations.
The following categories suggest possibilities but are by no means exhaustive:
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Fandom and/or Reception
Transformation and/or Adaptation
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Gender
Race
Sexuality
Romance and Desire
Power
Monstrosity
Heroism
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Villainy
Identify
Visual Style and practices
What to Send:
300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be
submitted by June 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of
the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by December 1, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to: Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net receipt
of the abstracts will be send within one week. In case you do not receive an email,
please resend your proposal.
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Tomb Raider Collection of Essays
Due: June 1, 2013
Nadine Farghaly
Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net
First appearing in the 1996 video game Tomb Raider, Lara Croft has since then been
featured in over ten video games, two motion pictures, several graphic novel series, an
animated series and books. Moreover, the character’s fame secured her a place in the
Guinness book of records as the most recognizable female video game character, as
well as a Star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. Lady Lara Croft is an intelligent,
adventurous, attractive and athletic English Aristocrat and archaeologist. Although she
has widely received positive receptions as a strong female role model, there are some
voices who reduce this character to her outward appearance. Nevertheless, it is Lara
Croft who has been responsible for improving the quality as well as quantity of other
female game characters and is widely used as a standard to measure their meaning.
The first Tomb Raider (2001) movie is still the second highest-grossing video game
movie headlined by a woman. The cultural importance of this vital female character
should not be underestimated and deserves a thorough academic investigation.
This publication aims to examine Tomb Raider/ Lara Croft in literature, art, and other
media to questions concerning sexuality, gender, identity, social change and feminism.
It will provide an interdisciplinary stage for the development of innovative and
creative research and examine this vital and complex female protagonist in all her
various manifestations and cultural meanings.
What to Send:
300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be
submitted by June 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of
the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by December 1, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to: Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net receipt
of the abstracts will be send within one week. In case you do not receive an email,
please resend your proposal.
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SEL Special Issue: Staging Allegory
Due: September 1, 2013
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
campana@rice.edu
Special Issue: Staging Allegory (Spring 2015)
ESSAYS DUE: September 1, 2013
When in a recent essay entitled "The Medieval" Fredric Jameson describes the great
"crisis in representation" indexed by medieval allegory, he refers to Dante's
"representational dilemma" that "the poet's language must act out what can, in any
case, never be representationally expressed or rendered" (Jameson, "The Medieval" in
The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages [Durham NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2010]; my
emphasis). Jameson was by no means literally referring to theater, and yet what is the
force of this metaphor of language that "acts out"? If language is neither merely active
nor merely troublesome but prone to acting, what might be said of the theatricality of
allegory and about allegorical works that think deeply about the nature of theater?
This special issue will take as its focus the intersection of allegory and the stage in
early modern England. In spite of some notable exceptions, theories of allegory tend
to dwell on poetry, prose, and other modalities of language while theories of early
modern theatricality tend to neglect allegory. Those steeped in Walter Benjamin's The
Origin of German Tragic Drama tend to be less interested in what theater brings to
conversations about allegory and what happens to the symbolic and linguistic
properties of allegory when staged. Even scholarship on quasi-allegorical works, such
as the masque, tends not to foreground or conceptualize allegory except incidentally.
As such, the body of writing on theater and allegory in early modernity is relatively
limited.
The hope of this topic is to draw together scholars who might not always sit at the
same table including those interested in Medieval and Renaissance theater history,
performance studies, theories and histories of allegory, and, more broadly, genre, and
cultural and critical theories, among others. Topics for this special issue may include
but are not limited to allegory and anti-theatricality; allegorical stage plays of the
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Renaissance; Medieval irruptions of allegory on the Renaissance stage; allegorical
moments in non-allegorical plays; religion and allegory on the post-Reformation stage;
character, personification, and the (non)human on the stage; stage properties and
allegorical objects; allegory, emblem, and the tension between visuality and textuality;
economy and allegory; gender, sexuality, and the staging of allegory.
Manuscripts should be submitted online at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sel.
Please be sure to mention that the submission is intended for the Staging Allegory
Special Issue in a cover letter that is uploaded into the system or by typing directly
into the cover letter field. General submission guidelines are available in the system
under the Instructions and Forms tab or on the journal's web site at
http://www.sel.rice.edu/.
Questions may be directed to:
Dr. Joseph Campana
Department of English MS-30
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston TX 77005
713-348-4316
jac4@rice.edu
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