第 13 屆英美文學學會
國際學術資訊 第一○八期
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
The Prosaic Imaginary: novels and the everyday, 17502000
July 1-4, 2014
Due: March 31 2014
The University of Sydney
http://novelnetwork.org/
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Professor Maud Ellmann, Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of
the Novel in English, Chicago
Associate Professor Julie Park, Vassar Professor John Plotz, Brandeis
The conference will open up the nuances of the term ‘prosaic’ by exploring the privileged
relationship between the novel genre and multiple and complex categories of the
‘everyday’. Building on John Plotz’s notion of the novel as exemplary ‘portable property’,
the conference will address the relationship between novel-reading as everyday activity
and the novel’s prosaic subject matter, whether this is conceived as material object,
cultural practice, or speech act.
Suggested topics:
The novel and things
The novel and film/and TV Readerships of the novel The novel and gender
The novel and childhood Queer novels Psychologies of the novel Novel genres
The odd or uncategorisable The secular imagination Book history and the novel
The novel and the digital everyday Characters as quasi-persons
Novel worlds
The novel and the institutionalisation of affect The novel as political action
Temporalities of the novel
The novel and the forms of property
The scale of the novel
Proposals for 20 minute papers or for 3 paper panel sessions should be sent to
Vanessa Smith (Vanessa.smith@sydney.edu.au) by March 31 2014. Postgraduate
submissions welcomed.
VANESSA SMITH |
Professor of English |
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
S427, John Woolley Building A20 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006
T +61 2 9351 2857 | F +61 2 9351 2434
vanessa.smith@sydney.edu.au
2nd Eurasian Multidisciplinary Forum
October 23-26, 2014
Due: September 15, 2014
European Scientific Institute,Grigol Robakidze University and University of the Azores
contact@emforum.eu
After the successful 1st Eurasian Multidisciplinary Forum, EMF 2013 which gathered
over 150 researchers from more than 40 countries worldwide the European Scientific
Institute, ESI, Grigol Robakidze University and the University of the Azores are inviting
you to attend the EMF 2014 which will be held in the magnificent Tbilisi. The 2nd
Eurasian Multidisciplinary Forum, EMF 2014 will be a kind of academic bridge between
different cultures, scientific attitudes, academic stages and is aimed at gathering
researchers from all around the world, thus contributing for a global flow of the newest
scientific thoughts and promotion of the interdisciplinary concept.
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Conferences in North America
Made Spaces and Liminality in Postmodernity
January 8-11, 2015
Due: March 20, 2014
Modern Languages Association (MLA) Vancouver 2015
alou4781@uni.sydney.edu.au
This special session examines the transformative nature and function/dysfunction of
narrative spaces and liminality, and how these provide exegesis to postmodern
consciousness. Interdisciplinary approaches are most welcome. Abstracts 250-300 words
by 20 March 2014; Anastasia Nicephore (alou4781@uni.sydney.edu.au)
World Congress on Special Needs Education
August 11-14, 2014
Due: April 1, 2014
Infonomics Society
info@wcsne.org
The World Congress on Special Needs Education (WCSNE-2014) will be held at the
Temple University. The WCSNE is dedicated to the advancement of the theory and
practices in special needs education. The WCSNE promotes collaborative excellence
between academicians and professionals from educational and industrial sectors. The aim
of WCSNE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various
educational and industrial sectors with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the
knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of special needs in education.
The WCSNE-2014 invites speakers to share their knowledge on issues or subject matters
in special needs in education that encompass conceptual analysis, case studies, design
implementation and performance evaluation.
The topics in WCSNE-2013 include but are not confined to the following areas:
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*Accessible World
*Art Education
*Assistive Technologies
*Business Education
*Course Management
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Educational Foundations
*Interaction and Cultural Models of Disability
*Learning / Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
*Global Issues In Education and Research
*Pedagogy
*Research Management
*Ubiquitous Learning
*Research In Progress
*Other Areas of Education
The 2014 International Conference on Romanticism
September 25-28, 2014
Due: April 1, 2014
The International Conference on Romanticism (ICR)
icr2014@stthomas.edu
The 2014 meeting of the International Conference on Romanticism will be held in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, hosted by the University of St. Thomas. In keeping with the
spirit of the ICR, the conference organizers wish to focus on the cross-disciplinary and
international aspects of Romanticism. The theme will be “Romantic Reflections: Twins,
Echoes, and Appropriations” which should be interpreted in its broadest context.
For more information please visit the conference website at
http://www.stthomas.edu/mcl/icr/
Possible topics could include but should not be limited to: Reflections in the arts
Reflections in the sciences Romantic reflections Sociological reflections Cross-national
echoes Environmental reflections Colonial reflections Romantic Others Reflections in
nature
Class reflections Gothic appropriations Gender reflections Intertextual echoes War and
Peace
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Boundary and border crossings Critical reflections
Romantic collaborations Philosophical reflections Interdisciplinary Romanticism
Traveling reflections Aesthetic reflections Economic echoes
Romantic appropriations of archetypes and myths
Abstract for complete panels and individual papers are welcome. Please send 250 word
abstracts to icr2014@stthomas.edu The deadline for submissions is April 21st , 2014.
DECADENCE: An Interdisciplinary Graduate
Conference
August 15-17, 2014
Due: April 25, 2014
Dalhousie Association of Graduate Students in English
dagse.conference@gmail.com
Decadence: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Dalhousie University (Halifax,
N.S., Canada)
August 15-17, 2014
If it is a cliché to speak of one’s own age as decadent, so be it. These are decadent times.
Justin Bieber’s car collection and Viktor Yanukovych’s presidential palace fit
comfortably in a world where the 85 richest people have accumulated as much wealth as
the poorest half of the planet’s population, according to a recent Oxfam study. Such
narrowly defined good times cannot roll. This disparity between extreme wealth and
poverty expresses the paradox inherent in the term “decadence.” Indeed, decay is at the
etymological heart of decadence, which the OED defines as a “process of falling away or
declining (from a prior state of excellence, vitality, prosperity, etc.).” However, given this
definition, to what or to whom should such a term be applied, or to what end? At what
point does self-indulgence constitute over-indulgence, or—to shift the conversation
slightly—at what point might institutional or political aches, pains, and anxieties be
symptomatic of inevitable collapses on a larger scale?
Although literary critics most commonly associate decadence with nineteenth-century
and fin-de-siècle authors such as Baudelaire, the French Symbolists, and Oscar Wilde,
this interdisciplinary conference aims to encourage exploration of the ways in which this
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term can be effectively applied to a variety of historical and contemporary subjects,
periods, or politics. For example, artworks such as Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted
platinum skull have re-kindled debates about artistic decadence. It seems clear that the
various manifestations of decadence could never—and cannot now—be articulated,
illustrated, or even imagined independently of a particular complex of cultural, moral, or
socio-political conditions. But how does decadence figure into other disciplines? What
does decadence look like in the twenty-first century? Are exquisite excesses inevitable, or
even necessary?
The Dalhousie Association of Graduate Students in English (DAGSE) invites
submissions for paper presentations for “Decadence: An Interdisciplinary Graduate
Conference.” We welcome proposals from students at all levels and in all areas of
graduate study. This three-day
conference will be held August 15-17, 2014 at Dalhousie University, located in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, and will investigate the symptoms and effects of decadence as a literary,
artistic, historical, and socio- cultural phenomenon.
We invite proposals for papers (15-20 minutes) on themes and subjects including, but not
limited to:
Decay and decline; the erosion of discipline, morals, ethics, and empires
Neoliberalism: patterns of production and consumption Decadence and the Ivory Tower
Sexuality and gender; hypersexuality and erotomania Aestheticism, Symbolism, and finde-siècle literature Decadence abroad: the French Decadents, the “Lost Generation,” et al.
The Dandy, the flâneur, the bon viveur: decadence and self- fashioning
Decadence and modernity Aristocratic and political excesses
Decadence in/and art; “degenerate” art Decadence and religion
Physical, aesthetic, or intellectual pleasures Foodies, food blogs, and the rise of the
gourmet Affluenza: decadence as illness
Reality TV, Internet Celebrities, "slacktivism"
Health and Fitness, HGH, plastic surgery, and biohacking
Submission: Please submit a 250-word abstract plus a 50-word biographical statement
that includes your name, current level of graduate study, affiliated university, and email
address to dagse.conference@gmail.com.
Include the words “conference abstract” in subject line, and include name on the cover
letter only.
Deadline: April 25, 2014. Accepted presenters will receive notification by the end of May.
Contact the organizers at dagse.conference@gmail.com if you have questions about the
conference. Visit the conference website (which may still be under construction) at
http://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/english/news-events/dagse- conference.html.
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Urban Studies
October 3-5, 2014
Due: April 30, 2014
Megan Cannella
megan.cannella@gmail.com:
2014 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference Friday-Sunday, October 3-5,
2014
Indianapolis, IN
JW Marriott Indianapolis
Address: 10 S. West St., Indianapolis, IN 46204, Phone: (317) 860-5800
Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of the presentation) to the
appropriate Area on the Submissions website (submissions.mpcaaca.org). Individuals
may only submit one paper, and please do not submit the same item to more than one
Area.
Deadline for receipt of proposals is April 30, 2014.
Please include name, affiliation, and e-mail address of each author/participant. A
preliminary version of the schedule will be posted on our website around August 2014.
The final version will be distributed in hard copy at the conference.
Special Notes Regarding Proposal Submissions: (1) MPCA/ACA can provide an LCD
projector for presentations. You must ask for it at the time you submit your proposal. (2)
If necessary, indicate and submit potential scheduling conflicts along with your proposal.
(3) If you wish your presentation to be listed as MACA (rather than MPCA), please
include this request with your proposal.
Please plan to attend the entire conference. Panels will run at the following approximate
times: Friday 8:30am-7:00pm, Saturday 8:30am-7:00pm, and Sunday 8:00am-1:00pm.
Special events will include speakers Dr. Elizabeth Ellcessor and Dr. Jonathan Eller on
Friday evening and Julie Whitehead, the executive director of the Kurt Vonnegut
Memorial Library, as the luncheon speaker on Saturday. These events, plus continental
breakfast on Saturday and Sunday, will be free for conference registrants. A special preconference workshop on publishing will be offered on Thursday 12pm-5pm for an
additional $25. This workshop will be geared toward graduate students and new
professionals interested in writing scholarly articles or book proposals; lunch will be
included in the fee.
All participants must be members of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest
American Culture Association. Membership is $50 for students with ID, retirees, and
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unemployed, and $70 for all others. Membership is for the calendar year through
December 2014. The membership fee is separate from the conference registration fee. To
join the MPCA/MACA, you may pay with your conference registration fee, or you may
send a separate check at any time to Kathleen Turner, 328 N. Madison St #1, Tupelo, MS
38804. Make check payable to Midwest Popular Culture Association. A membership
form may be printed from our website at <http://www.mpcaaca.org>. The Midwest
PCA/Midwest ACA is a separate organization (with separate fees) from the National
PCA/ACA and from other regional PCA/ACA organizations. The membership fee may
be paid by credit card via Square or PayPal beginning in about June 2014.
All participants must register for the conference. Registration is $80 for students with ID,
retirees, and unemployed, and $90 for all others. There will be a $15 late fee for
registration on-site or postmarked after September 15, 2014. (This fee is waived for
residents of countries other than the USA or Canada.) Payment on-site will be by cash,
check, or via credit card on Square. To preregister, send a check anytime to Kathleen
Turner, 328 N. Madison St #1, Tupelo, MS 38804. Make check payable to Midwest
Popular Culture Association. A registration-membership form may be printed from our
website at <http://www.mpcaaca.org>. The registration fee is separate from the
membership fee. The registration fee may be paid by credit card via Square or PayPal
beginning in about June 2014.
A special group rate for a limited block of rooms reserved on a first-come, first-served
basis will be secured with the JW Marriott Indianapolis. Check for details at the MPCA
website. Indianapolis is in the Eastern Time Zone.
Attendees are financially responsible for all costs related to their participation in the
conference, e.g., transportation, lodging, meals, registration, membership, etc. Graduate
students are invited to apply for competitively awarded travel grants from MPCA/MACA.
Details are available at < http://mpcaaca.org/conference/travel-grants/>.
Cancellation Policy: If you submit a proposal (or if you accept an invitation to appear on
a panel), you are promising to attend the conference if your proposal is accepted and you
are promising to pay the conference registration fee, the Association membership fee, and
a late fee of $15 if applicable. If your proposal is accepted and you do not attend the
conference, it is expected that you will (1) notify all members of your panel, your Area
Chair, and the MPCA/MACA Executive Secretary (Kathleen Turner) of your
cancellation; (2) provide such notification as early as possible; (3) arrange to have your
paper distributed at the panel; (4) arrange for somebody else to carry out any other duties
you may have; and (5) pay your membership and registration fees (plus late fee if
applicable). If conditions 1-5 are met, you may file a written request, after the conference,
for a refund of half your registration fee. For coauthored papers, all authors are welcome
and encouraged to attend, but only one author is required to attend.
Geocritical Approaches to 20th and 21st-Century
Literatures
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October 31 to November 2, 2014
Due: May 15, 2014
Megan Cannella
megan.cannella@gmail.com
Through a geocritical focus, the goal of this panel is to explore the significance of spatial
identity. Building on the “Familiar Spirits” theme of the conference, this panel will focus
on the spirit and identity of an area and its people. Topics can vary from an ecocritical
approach to a tribal community’s relationship with the spirit of land, to the spatial
identity of post 9/11 urban landscapes, or anywhere in between.
Please submit all proposals through the conference website:
www.pamla.org
If you have any questions, please to not hesitate to contact me at:
megan.cannella@gmail.com
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Conferences in Europe
New Racisms: Forms of Un/Belonging in Britain Today
May 8, 2014
Due: March 31, 2014
Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies in partnership with DEMOS
sccsnewracisms@sussex.ac.uk
The publication of the Parekh Report on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain (Runnymede
Trust 2000) sparked intense debate in Britain. In response to the report’s suggestion that
Britishness carries ‘systematic, largely unspoken, racial connotations’, much of the
ensuing debate focused on the extent to which Britain is an inherently multicultural and
even hybrid nation. Britain was re-cast as being a ‘nation of immigrants’, where cultural
diversity strengthens and enriches the nation (Fortier 2005). Hall has described this as
‘multicultural drift’ (Back and Hall 2009), a sense that British society has irreversibly and
incrementally moved away from its stable and mono-cultural foundations; and yet there
remain deep and irreconcilable ambiguities towards some cultural differences and
minority groups. New ‘hierarchies of belonging’ have emerged in which minority
communities are positioned differently and afforded greater or lesser degrees of tolerance
and inclusion (Back, Sinha and Bryan 2012). For example, new migrants can be depicted
as ‘benefit tourists’, asylum seekers as a threat to national security, and even long settled
Muslim communities are increasingly subject to scrutiny and suspicion as potential
terrorists and a threat to British way of life. This conference seeks to explore these
processes of ordering, and to attend to debates around inclusion/exclusion, belonging /
unbelonging, equality/inequality, power/resistance. To what extent are the new forms of
globalised migration different from the colonial and post-colonial migration of the past,
and how is this giving rise to racisms which are different from the past?
Since 2004 acquiring British citizenship has been tied to compulsory integration
measures: migrants must demonstrate their English language skills and knowledge of
British cultural values. This represents a re-framing of integration away from the rightsbased conceptualisation of the 1990’s, where the focus was on legal equality, security of
residence and social and political participation, to an identity issue with migrants having
to prove their willingness to commit to the ‘common values’ and cultural traits of the host
country. In these debates there is assumed to be a set of dominant and clearly defined
British values (as articulated in the Life in the UK citizenship test). These are set in
opposition to migrant values which are left unexplored, but generally depicted as of
concern. But how is this expectation to adopt a British identity, and espouse British
values, viewed and experienced from the perspective of the migrants themselves, and
how is cultural hybridity, or conflict, managed or avoided?
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‘Super-diversity’ and the ‘diversification of diversity’ brought about by migration
(Vertovec 2007), has resulted in the multiplication and increasingly complex axis of
identification and difference. This is not just about the addition of further variables of
difference; it is also about ‘new conjunctions of interactions of variables’ (Vertovec
2007:1025). Complex migration and asylum regimes further contribute to diversification
by giving rise to multiple legal statuses and varying states of precariousness to more
groups of people for longer (Zetter 2007). Identities are more complex and fluid
reflecting shifting allegiances and interests, and giving rise to new issues and challenges.
This has led some commentators to call into question the relevance of ethnic categories
and to argue that they no longer have analytical purchase in the dynamism of today’s
urban multiculture. Instead, it is argued that super-diversity brings the need for a new
politics of identity which transcends static ethnic categories (Fanshawe and
Sriskandarajah 2010).
We welcome papers on the following topics:
Immigration, migration and the media
New forms of racism, new figurations of ‘race’
Emergent ethnicities and belonging
The rise of political parties and re/sentiments such as UKIP
Re-examinations of cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism/diversity
Stereotypes, visual images, and narratives of asylum, migration and refuge
Cultural formations and religious formations that deploy ‘race’
Complex political victims
The affects of racism
Papers should be no longer than 15- 20 minutes; please send 250 word proposals to
sccsnewracisms@sussex.ac.uk by 31 March 2014.
We welcome creative pieces, to discuss please contact Conference Directors
s.r.munt@sussex.ac.uk and l.m.morrice@sussex.ac.uk
For any other queries about the conference please contact conference organisers: We look
forward to welcoming you to Brighton in May! www.lifeintheukproject.co.uk
@NewRacisms14
This conference is supported by Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies, and the AHRC
Cultural Values Project: Cultural Values from the Subaltern Perspective: A
Phenomenology of Refugees' Experience of British Cultural Values.
This conference is being organised in conjunction with a Sussex Centre for Cultural
Studies event in honour and memory of Stuart Hall, which will include a screening of
John Akomfrah's film 'The Stuart Hall Project', and a panel discussion. Stuart Hall's work,
with Dr Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths) and Professor Avtar Brah (Birkbeck). This will take
place from 2-5.30pm on Thursday 8 May, and will be followed by a drinks reception.
Literary London 2014: Ages of London
July 23-25, 2014
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Due: March 31, 2014
Literary London Society
m.dines@kingston.ac.uk
23-25 July 2014, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London
Proposals are invited for papers, comprised panels, and roundtable sessions, which
consider any period or genre of literature about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central
and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-Roman times to its
imagined futures. While the main focus of the conference will be on literary texts, we
actively encourage interdisciplinary contributions relating film, architecture, geography,
theories of urban space, etc., to literary representations of London. Papers from
postgraduate students are particularly welcome for consideration.
Confirmed plenary speakers: Bernadine Evaristo (Brunel) Mark Ford (UCL)
Lynne Segal (Birkbeck) David Skilton (Cardiff)
While papers on all areas of literary London are welcomed, the conference theme in 2014
is ‘Ages of London’. Topics that might be addressed are:
London life writing: diaries, auto/biographies, memoirs
Institutionalised memory: museums, memorials, heritage – and their discontents
Life stages: youth, adulthood and old age in the capital
Intergenerational relations: education, inheritance, conflict
Historical and neohistorical fiction
Archaeological, historiographical and mythical accounts of London and its locales
Time travel and futurological visions
Growth and decline; dereliction and regeneration
Technological, economic and demographic change
Rethinking literary, historical and architectural periodization
Please submit all proposals for 20-minute papers, comprised panels, and roundtable
sessions through the Literary London Society website
(http://www.literarylondon.org/conference/cfp.html).
Deadline for submissions extended to 31 March 2014
For further information please contact Dr Martin Dines at
m.dines@kingston.ac.uk
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Chaucer at Galway II: Chaucer and Realism
June 25-26, 2014
Due: April 1, 2014, 9 am
Guest Speakers:
Professor Piero Boitani (Sapienza – Università di Roma)
Professor Paul Strohm (Columbia): ‘Chaucer on the Waterfront’
Realism in the literary and aesthetic sense is not a medieval term, and perhaps it is not a
medieval concept. But the recognition, perhaps by another name, of Chaucer as a realist,
appears quite early in the reception of his poetry, as one reader after another notes his
‘excellency of [his] descriptions’ (Francis Beaumont), or his ‘art and cunning’ in
comprehending ‘all the people of the land’ (Speght), or his unerring presentation to us of
our ‘fore-fathers and great grand-dames’ (Dryden). And to his general readership, and to
such popularizers as G. K. Chesterton, Chaucer is quintessentially a realist avant-la-lettre.
But scholarship, especially of the past few decades, begs to differ, emphasizing less the
universalist, humanist and realist Chaucer, and more the minutely-placed man (and
poetry) of his own moment.
This international conference, the second ‘Chaucer at Galway’ conference, will be held in
the medieval city on the west coast of Ireland at the National University of Ireland,
Galway. We welcome papers on any aspect of what Erich Auerbach called the
‘representation of reality’ in Chaucer’s work (or in that of his contemporaries). But we
also welcome discussions of Chaucer’s own immersion in time and space (biographical
and/or historicist approaches), art-historical approaches to Chaucer’s place in the
medieval/pre-modern/modern/post-modern art contexts, and theoretical considerations of
the changing meanings of realism (e.g. Auerbach, Ricoeur, Camille, Jameson, etc.),
realism and psychology, realism and the representation of social forms, realism and
periodization (and anti-periodization) and much else besides. Scholars who would like to
speak about Chaucer (or his contemporaries) without reference to the conference theme
of realism are also invited to send proposals for papers. We plan to publish a selection of
the essays.
Possible topics might include:
Chaucer’s historicism
Biography of Chaucer
Naturalism
Verisimilitude
Ethics
Language
Medieval philosophical realism and its implications for literary realism
Classical and medieval literary theory that pertains to realism
Narratology
Mimesis
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The work of various scholars and theorists on realism, e.g. Erich Auerbach, Michael
Camille, Fredric Jameson
Aesthetics of realism
Representation
The mirror and the lamp
Realism and truth/epistemology
Realism in the ‘Middle Ages’ and periodization
Historicism and realism
A history of realism
Please send a 200 word abstract by 1st April, 2014 to any one of the organizers:
Dr. Clíodhna Carney (National University of Ireland, Galway)
cliona.carney@nuigalway.ie
Dr. Frances McCormack (National University of Ireland, Galway)
frances.mccormack@nuigalway.ie
Dr. Brendan O’Connell (Trinity College Dublin) oconneb2@tcd.ie
For further information: http://www.nuigalway.ie/galwaychaucer/
The Emergency: Ireland in Wartime
June 27-28, 2014
Due: April 11, 2014
National University of Ireland, Galway
mark.phelan@nuigalway.ie
Keynote address: Robert Fisk (seven times world journalist of the year and author of In
Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the price of neutrality, 1939-45)
In anticipation of the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, NUI
Galway will host a conference exploring the political, social and cultural dynamics of
Ireland in wartime. Papers are invited on themes that include, but are not limited to
international relations & diplomacy volunteering & military service partisanship
security, intelligence & espionage regional variations (including Northern Ireland) &
local experiences personal & organisational profiles
everyday life
the wider cost of neutrality the wartime diaspora
intellectual & literary discourses class & gender
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the economy sources
Towards locating wartime Ireland within a wider bloc of neutral powers, proposals that
examine “The Emergency” through the lens of comparative and/or transnational history
are especially welcome. This conference is open to all disciplines, whilst postgraduates
and early career academics are particularly encouraged to contribute.
This conference is supported by the NUI Galway Millennium Fund, the College of Arts,
Social Sciences Celtic Studies, and the Department of History.
'Localities through Mobility. Cultures of Motorway in
Contemporary Europe'
June 11-12, 2014
Due: April 13, 2014
Section of Contemporary Cultural Studies in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural
Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) announces call for
papers for international, interdisciplinary conference entitled 'Localities through Mobility.
Cultures of Motorway in Contemporary Europe'. The conference will be held on 11-12
June 2014 in Poznań (Poland).
The main aim of the conference is to explore the multifaceted connections between
locality understood as socio-cultural practice, grassroots economies and the present
development of motorways. We invite contributions from every relevant perspective and
field (anthropology, sociology, geography, economics, geoinformatics, development
planning ) that cover the following areas:
phenomenon of motorway as a specific cultural landscape;
cultural, economic and social aspects of modernization in the context of motorway;
construction of motorways as a production of new forms of enterprise and new way of
facing the trauma of big changes;
culture of transport and logistics (flow, mobility; cultural landscapes; objects of/through
movement);
anthropology of motorway (motorway and roadside spaces; different social actors and
motorway;
seasonal character of socio-economic practices connected to the road);
motorway as a factor of development;
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cultural dimension of a suburban infrastructure (suburbanization, splintering urbanism;
local/ suburb/provincial/rural economies and business; roadside and suburb aesthetics;
motels, roadside trading, prostitution).
Proposals should be submitted by 13 April 2014. The conference language is English and
all presentations should be in English. Proposals (maximum 500 words) along with a
brief biographical statement (no more than 100 words) should be send to:
ieiakconference@gmail.com
SUBMISSION FORM:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_X5uGDPMx3EWlB1R1JlNGI3aDA/edit?usp=sharing
Proposal submission deadline: April 13, 2014
List of approved proposals: April 20, 2014
The conference language: English
Organizers will cover costs of accomodation during the conference (11/12 June 2014)
and will provide conference materials and catering. Participation in the conference is free
of charge. Organizers do not reimburse for any travel expenses or additional
accomodation costs. All presentations will be audio-recorded and displayed online on
Creative Commons BY-SA License.
Organizers: prof. dr hab. Waldemar Kuligowski, dr Agata Stanisz
Conference secretary: Aleksandra Reczuch
The conference is financed from the research grant 'Moving modernizations. Influence of
motorway A2 on local cultural landscapes' funded by the Polish National Science Center
(OPUS Programme). Project website: http://ruchomemodernizacje.weebly.com/
Textual Trails - Transmissions of Oral and Written
Texts
October 30 to November 1, 2014
Due: April 15, 2014
The European Society for Textual Scholarship
ests2014proposals@gmail.com
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Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2014
11th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship
Helsinki, 30 October - 1 November 2014
Texts tend to travel across space and time, carried by sound waves, written on
parchments and codices, sealed in envelopes and travel trunks, and streaming as bits in
the internet. They pass from mouth to mouth, from singers' performances to scholars'
notes, from stone engravings to printed books, or from writing desks to digital editions.
Sometimes it is possible to trace the trail of a text or a fragment via several phases of
transmission. These trails can be, for instance, a part of the genesis of one writing or an
editorial history of one literary work, or they can run through a historical text tradition of
scribal texts.
The eleventh conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, TEXTUAL
TRAILS. Transmissions of Oral and Written Texts (Helsinki, 30 October - 1 November
2014), seeks to explore all kinds of textual trails from various angles of scholarly editing
and textual scholarship. The present call for papers encourages submissions on related
topics, such as:
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Stemmatology in theory and practice
Chains of changes in edition history
Textual continuums in genetic editing
Digital editing and visualisation of textual trails
Metamorphoses of bibliographic codes
Evolving ideas and textual growth
Variance and invariance in the transmission of oral and written texts
Spatio-temporal text mining.
PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS AND PANEL SESSIONS
ESTS conferences are characterised by a combination of plenary and panel sessions.
Please submit your proposal before 15 April 2014, by email to the programme committee
(ests2014proposals@gmail.com). You will be notified by 18 June 2014 whether your
proposal has been
accepted or not. Proposals for papers
Abstracts in English (500 words maximum) are to be submitted to the organising
committee, along with the presenter's name, concise biography, address, telephone, email
and institutional affiliation. Speakers will have 20 minutes to deliver their paper, leaving
room for a 10-minute discussion.
Proposals for panel sessions
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Typically, a panel of academic papers should include 3 (maximum 4) speakers and 1
moderator (session chair). Each session will last for 1.5 hours allowing for 30 minutes for
questions and discussion. Proposers should submit:
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Session title and a session intro (ca 100 words)
Paper titles
Abstracts for each paper (500 words max.)
Short biography for each participant and the panel chair (ca 100 words)
Institutional affiliation and address for each participant
Audio-visual and other technical requirements. PARTICIPATION AND
REGISTRATION
Contributors and panel moderators must pay the conference fee and must be members in
good standing of the European Society for Textual Scholarship for 2014 (except invited
speakers).
For more information about the ESTS, please see http://www.textualscholarship.eu/.
Your current membership status is indicated at http://ests.huygensinstituut.nl/.
More information about registration and possibilities of accommodation will be published
later on a conference website.
On behalf of the programme committee
Sakari Katajamäki, Finnish Literature Society / Edith - Critical Editions of Finnish
Literature
Teemu Roos, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
Sakari Katajamäki Managing Editor
FINNISH LITERATURE SOCIETY (SKS)
Research Department
Edith – Critical Editions of Finnish Literature
Hallituskatu 2 B (P.O. Box 259) FI-00171 Helsinki
FINLAND
tel +358 (0)400 908056
American Literary West
October 8-10, 2014
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Due: April 30, 2014
REWEST (UPV/EHU, U. Basque Country)
rewest2014@gmail.com
The american literary west: a territory without borders? III international conference
UPV/EHU (University of the Basque Country) Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, October 8-10,
2014
The III International Conference on “The American Literary West,” organized by the
REWEST research group (UPV/EHU, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz,
Spain) will address the literary representation of the American West, centering on the
different meanings, connotations, and implications of the term “border” in our present
century when used in connection with this peculiar region. We invite papers exploring
theoretical and practical aspects of the West as a pluralistic literary space, with a special
attention to twenty-first century western texts that renew and revise the traditional
imaginary of western American literature. The symposium will privilege transnational
and interdisciplinary approaches aiming to understand properly a genre whose
iconography has moved well beyond both national limits and literary borders. Of
particular interest will be the complex relationships between literature and a series of
socio- political, economic, and cultural events that have taken place in the present century,
as illustrated by 9/11 and its aftermath, the economic recession, globalization,
immigration, feminism, interculturality or the contemporary environmental crisis.
Similarly, we will also examine the transnational characteristics of the American West,
discussing the literary representation of the American West beyond US borders. The
conference will also extend the analysis of western iconography to other artistic
manifestations beyond writing, exploring the cultural transfers between literature and
other cultural phenomena. Certainly, the long-lasting cultural transfers and intertextual
links between western writing and western movies will be a major issue in this
conference. However, this forum will also address other cultural and artistic
manifestations that interact, overlap, and interrelate with western writing in complex,
often dialogic ways, as exemplified by television, music, photography, art, digital art,
video- games, the internet, sports, comics and graphic novels, or translation. We welcome
presentation abstracts on these and related questions. Possible topics include but are not
limited to:
 the influence of the cultural myths of the Old West and the western in the present
century
 the West as an exceptional region as opposed to the West as an inherent part of
American culture
 motion vs. roots in the American West
 the impact of urbanization and technology
 the interaction between identity and the western landscape
 changing interpretations of sense of place in the American West
 migrations and diasporas in the West
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environmental literature of the American West
voices of protest
reimagining women in the West
western masculinities
bordercrossing
western mythologies
the American West in popular culture
science fiction and the West
western American Music or Music and Western images
the West in the Web
digital West
western images in comics and graphic novels
sports and the West
Please send 300 word abstracts (also a short bio and five key words, not included in the
300 words limit) to the following email address: rewest2014@gmail.com by April 30,
2014. Papers may be presented in English, Spanish or Basque, though the official
language of the conference will be English.
Confirmed plenary speakers:
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Krista Comer (Rice University, Texas)
Susan Kollin (Montana State University)
Kirmen Uribe (Writer): Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, Mussche….
Willy Vlautin (Writer): The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete, The Free…
Special interactive performance by David Fenimore (University of Nevada, Reno)
Plenary round table “The Global Literary West” with Jose Aranda (Rice
University, Texas), Neil Campbell (University of Derby, UK) and Alan Weltzien
(University of Montana, Western)
The Organizing Committee REWEST
III International Conference on “The American Literary West”
Resistance. Subjects, Representations, Contexts
November 6-8, 2014
Due: May 1, 2014
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Center for Migration, Education, and Cultural Studies, Carl von Ossietzky University,
Oldenburg, Germany
Martin.Butler@uni-oldenburg.
Organized by Martin Butler and Paul Mecheril Opening Lecture by Gayatri C. Spivak
(New York)
Not least because of its 40th anniversary and the commemoration of the host University’s
name patron, Carl von Ossietzky, the conference sets out to explore phenomena of
resistance in different historical and contemporary contexts from an interdisciplinary and
transcultural perspective in order to add to a theoretical debate on the term and concept(s)
of resistance. The conference will be framed by three major questions: 1. What is
‘resistance’? 2. On which normative grounds do forms of resistance work, how are they
legitimized? 3. Who uses the term/concept of ‘resistance’? When, where, and for what
purposes? In order to approach these questions, the conference takes a distinctly
comparative view on the various notions of resistance in different disciplinary as well as
social and/or cultural contexts in order to discuss whether ‘resistance’ is an exclusively
‘western’ concept, or whether there are concepts of resistance that are not based on or
refer to western intellectual, political, or ideological traditions.
Details on the conference's concept and the submission of proposals can be found in the
CfP which is available at:
http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/forschung/cmc/conference- resistance-nov-14/
Please send your proposal to: cmc.sekretariat@uni-oldenburg.de
Submission deadline: May 1st, 2014.
Space Oddities: Urbanity, American Identity, and
Cultural Exchange
November 21- 23, 2014
Due: May 26, 2014
Austrian Association of American Studies (AAAS)
elisa.edwards@uni-graz.at
41st AAAS Conference in Graz, Austria / Nov. 21 – 23, 2014
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When we think of American cities, we have a complex (and often contradictory) set of
images in mind, possibly encompassing glimpses of the Boston Marathon bombings,
postcard motifs of the One World Trade Center, and palm trees on Sunset Boulevard, L.A.
In its various shapes and discourses, the American city functions as both a parameter and
an expression of the complexities of U.S. social practice. At the same time, it also serves
as a prism of overarching social and cultural transformation.
This conference is interested in tracking these recent changes by focusing on the ‘oddities’
of the American urban imaginary in the age of globalization and deterritorialization. “The
city as we imagine it, the soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare,” Jonathan
Raban points out, “is as real, maybe more real than the hard city one can locate on maps,
statistics, monographs on urban sociology, demography and architecture.” Our line of
inquiry reflects Raban’s idea of the ‘soft city,’ but also follows Henri Lefevbre’s premise
in The Production of Space that every society produces its own space as a means of
expressing its specificity and distinction from other societies.
Thus conceived, the city serves as a site of negotiation between America’s ‘lived space,’
marked by the experience of transcultural encounter and ethnic heterogeneity, and the
nation’s ‘abstract space,’ defined by more ideological, mythological, and institutionalized
patterns. Following Lefevbre’s three modes of spatial production, namely perception,
representation, and imagination, we will examine the conflicting genealogies, aesthetics,
and functions of U.S. American urban space in recent years.
Possible targets of discussion include “real-and-imagined places” (E. Soja) such as Las
Vegas and Los Angeles as well as more historically grounded metropolises such as New
York City and Chicago. What all American cities seem to have in common is that they
participate in a discourse that Edward Soja has put under the header of an “imaginative
geography,” that is, a form of cognitive mapping that constructs national and cultural
identity along the lines of geographic borders. Special attention will be paid to three
forms of American spatiality: a.) lived urban spaces (Atlantic/Pacific cities, transcultural
modes of exchange, urban subcultures, etc.), b.) mapped spaces (city charts, Google maps,
etc.), and c.) imaginary and mediated spaces (fake cities, simulacra such as Disneyland,
literary and cinematic cities, etc.).
We invite scholars from various disciplines to submit proposals for papers and panels
dealing with issues of spatiality and urbanity.
Contributions could address – but are not limited to – the following topics and questions:
Affective spaces – How can American cities be imagined in terms of affects and
emotional involvement? How can urban space be visualized affectively (somatic rhythms,
etc.)?
Commercial spaces – In what way have spaces of capital (banks, malls etc.), in which
identity is absorbed by commerce, influenced the organization of American urban space?
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Gendered spaces – To what extent are American cities still divided into separate spheres
(sports stadiums, shopping malls, public parks, etc.)? How have these divisions changed?
Globalized spaces – How are U.S. metropolises structured along what Appadurai calls
“global ethnoscapes” or what Soja has termed “thirdspace” (transnational areas within
city life, etc.)?
Heterotopias – In what way is American urban space permeated by “heterotopias”
(Foucault), that is, utopias put into practice (asylums, prison houses, etc.)?
Liminal spaces – How do border-crossing phenomena contribute to the production of
American space(border cities, transcultural interchange between the U.S. and
Canada/Mexico, etc.)?
Public spaces and counter-publics – Which influence do subversive phenomena have
upon the organization of urban space in the U.S. (Occupy, Gay Pride marches, etc.)?
Racialized spaces – In what way are racialized/ethnicized spaces (Chinatown, ethnic
subcultures, etc.) still inscribed into the American urban imaginary?
Stratified spaces – To what extent can we find class hierarchies and social stratifications
in the modern cityscape (ghettoes, suburbs, etc.)?
Spaces of ageing – Is the category of age dominant in the appearance and representation
of American cities (youth culture, etc.)?
Temporal spaces – To what degree are rented and mobile spaces (hotels, cars, trains, etc.)
involved in the construction of an aesthetics of fluid urban space?
Virtual spaces – How have phenomena of digitalization (Facebook, Twitter, spaces of
security, 3-D cities, etc.) shaped our understanding of urban territories in the U.S.?
Please send abstracts (or glowing pamphlets) of no more than 300 words, accompanied
by a bio sketch of no more than 100 words, to elisa.edwards@uni-graz.at by May 26,
2014 (Monday).
ENCLS/REELC 6th Biennial Congress: "Longing and
Belonging"
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August 24-28, 2015
Due: October 1st, 2014
European Network for Comparative Literature and Comparative Literature Association of
Ireland
brigitte.lejuez@dcu.ie
The congress will take place in two places (2 days each) Dublin City University and
National University of Ireland, Galway
Dates: 24-28 August 2015
The notion of belonging has often been examined from the perspective of location and of
the politics of relations to space and culture. Literary studies have helped map out and
interrogate the representations of topographical belonging, creating new possibilities for
interpreting individual and collective images. Politics of relations also explore the notion
of becoming, as attached to belonging, and the conditions out of which actions are
produced, experience is built and beliefs emerge. Artists and characters may adhere or
resist systems pertaining to spatially, historically or culturally defined groups, bringing
political considerations to the fore, which can in turn entail stylistic innovation involving
transmutation or hybridization of classical approaches.
Adaptation and rewriting (prose, film, graphic novels) can be the vehicles of such action.
While providing new readings of iconic texts, they are intrinsic elements of a cultural
heritage which actualises traditional ideas and representations. This is particularly the
case with the treatment of fairy tales whose new versions have been developing, whether
addressed to children or to adults, in graphic novels, films, stage performances, etc. These
transformations involve moving the location of the original plot and characters to new
contexts (realistic, utopian, dystopian or digital, for example) thus challenging the social
or cultural baggage transmitted by canonical texts over time. They also apply to musical
traditions in which the evocation of ancestral places is of essential importance regarding
ideological and aesthetic criteria. Adaptation and rewriting can indeed operate through
songs (operatic or popular), which skilfully describe places, provoking strong feelings of
nostalgia in their listeners, especially if the singers, lyrics or musical instruments present
a certain significance for the audience, resonating with memories and emotions attached
to specific spaces. Identities are constructed and contested in a wide variety of contexts.
Distinctions between identities, whether cultural or gendered, relate to a sense of
belonging to a powerful centre vs an opposite periphery or minority. These distinctions
can either strengthen or undermine the perceptions of individuals and groups (their autoand hetero-images). Hierarchical barriers can also be constructed between affiliations and
with regard to the value of certain forms of knowledge. Authors and artists have often
disrupted claims of cultural or national superiority when grounded in political, racial or
geographical specificity. Identities can be refined or transformed across time and space
by both global and local events. However, as different literatures have revealed, after a
sense of liberation from monolithic political systems, nostalgia can occasionally set in,
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ideologies having shaped conceptions of self and community. Longing for an idealised
past can prove as painful as longing for a promised land, and artists may find themselves
in sublimated exilic states while seeking either a new home and new identity or a way to
come home to a former identity.
The notions of longing and belonging therefore lend themselves to a comparative
exploration through different disciplines, such as: Geocriticism, Diaspora Studies,
Migration Studies, Imagology, Myth- and Folklore criticism, (Post-) Colonial Studies;
Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, Masculinity Studies; Ekphrasis,
Adaptation Studies, Intermedial Studies, Reception and Reader- response Theory,
Children Literature; Literature and Anthropology, Literature and Science, Literature and
Psychology, Literature and Philosophy, Ethics in/and Literature.
All subjects related to the main theme of the congress are welcome. For instance, avenues
of investigation may include the following:
What fields belong to Comparative Literature or does Comparative Literature belong to?
Belonging to and/or rejection of schools of thought: Comparative Literature as
independent practice
Expressions and manifestations of longing and belonging, and of longing to belong
Places of (be)longing (fantasy, dream, imagination, virtuality, heterotopia, homeland,
cradle, home, club…)
Belonging to a nation, group (patriotism, ethnicity, religion, school, subscription,
allegiance…)
Limits imposed or labels attached to individuals and groups
Forced belonging (subjugation, arranged marriages, colonization, slavery…)
Perceptions/images/stereotypes of a place, nation, group
Belonging as catharsis
Longing for the other/longing for the self
Belonging to a gender or sexual identity / denegation of same
Perceptions/stereotypes of gender or sexual identity
Belonging to a specific art form/ subversion of same
Text (be)longing to/for image and vice versa
Denunciation of belonging to a group (religious, political…) or to a community
(including an interpretive community)
Exile, immigration, emigration and longing
Possible worlds, digital worlds, and virtual escapism
Past allegiance (nostalgia, anthropology, mythology, rejection of tradition)
Longing for inclusion/refusal to integrate
Being unable to belong/no longer wanting to belong
Dreaming of belonging/reality and belonging
Reception as the expression of a desire or rejection.
We welcome proposals for individual papers and for thematic panels. Please send your
300-word proposals and short biographies to Brigitte Le Juez: Brigitte.lejuez@dcu.ie and
Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa: h.schmidthannisa@nuigalway.ie by October 1st, 2014.
The languages of the congress will be English, French and Irish. However, poster
sessions may be organised in any European language.
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The congress takes place on the East and West coasts of Ireland. Cultural visits and
events will be organised in and between Dublin and Galway.
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Journals and Collections of Essays
Death and the Maiden: A Special Issue of Writing from
Below
Due: March 28, 2014
S.Abblitt@latrobe.edu.au
Huzzah! We're extending the deadline for submissions for our upcoming Death
& the Maiden special issue. You now have until Friday 28 March 2014. You can still
view the original call-for-papers for a guide to what we're looking for:
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/ojs/index.php/wfb/article/viewFile/441/414
The theme
Eros and Thanatos have been bound together since the god of death and the underworld
Hades kidnapped the young maiden Persephone. A recurring symbol and theme in
Western cultural production since the fifteenth-century, imagery of death and the maiden
reveals a dark bond between sexuality and death, as if daring to exhibit the former can
only really inevitably lead to the latter, often with an obscene. Pictures of a decaying
corpse seducing a young woman, such as Hans Baldung's Death and the Maiden, became
popular during the Renaissance, and have been repeated and adapted oftentimes since, the
theme taken up by modern artists such as Edvard Munch and Egon Schiele, or composer
Franz Schubert. European folk and fairy tales, such as the perennially retold Bluebeard,
have often adapted the motif, and more recently works such as ‘Where Are You Going,
Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates, have engaged with the legacy of the motif,
reworking this symbol of a long-standing anxiety for a contemporary audience and
modern sensibility, with an eye towards what it might be able to reveal about us, here and
now, today. Writing from Below wants to uncover not only why this motif endures, how
it has evolved and why, and what this socio-cultural persistence means, but also desires to
ask: How might we recuperate this motif, remix it, rewrite it from below, as an act of
critical subversion?
The call
Writing from Below is calling for both critical and creative works responding to the
broad theme of ‘Death and the Maiden', for a special issue of the journal to be published
in August 2014. We are seeking submissions which examine the motif of ‘death and the
maiden', and other associated themes and subjects, in literature, poetry, film, television,
music, sound art, theatre, dance, visual arts, etc., on topics including (but not limited to):
§ Female sexuality and death, homicide, or suicide
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§ Social or cultural histories of the ‘death and the maiden' motif, the aesthetic and
theoretical evolution of these figures
§ Critical analyses of the concept of maidenhood, why the maiden is bound so
intimately to the figure death
§ Critical analyses of artistic, philosophical, or psychoanalytic approaches to ‘death and
the maiden', including its relation to what Freud postulates as the ‘death drive'
§ ‘Death and the maiden' in popular culture (film, television, literature, art, etc.)
§ Sexuality, death, and the body, including diseased and decaying bodies, necrophilia
§ Sexual violence, rape culture
§ Representations of ‘death and the maiden' in historical or contemporary reporting of
real crimes against women
§ La danse macabre, the connection between dance and the idea of death
§ Queering ‘death and the maiden', non-female maidens, transgendered or non-gendered
maidens
§ Critical or creative retellings, remixes, inversions, or subversions of ‘death and
the maiden', in any publishable medium
We welcome submissions from across (and outside of) the disciplinary spectrum: literary
and cultural studies, journalism, media and cinema studies, game studies, art history,
visual art, theatre and drama, performance studies, languages and linguistics, philosophy,
theology, sociology, anthropology, history, politics, public policy, law, legal studies,
criminology, the health sciences, etc.
Submissions
This special issue of Writing from Below is now open for submissions until Friday 28
March 2014. Written submissions, whether critical or creative, should be between 3,000
and 7,000 words in length, and should adhere to the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual
of Style. All submissions (including creative works - we do not privilege one type of
work over another) will be anonymously peer reviewed by at least two referees. All
written submissions must be accompanied by a 200 word abstract and a brief
biographical statement. All artworks must be accompanied by an artist's statement of
approximately 500 words, and a brief biographical statement.
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Enjoyment: Special issue of The Comparatist
Due: April 1, 2014
The Comparatist
zallouz@whitman.edu
Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist Topic: Enjoyment
General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)
We welcome contributions that examine the problematic of enjoyment in comparative
studies and literary theory. What is enjoyment? What constitutes enjoyment today? Who
enjoys? What does it name? How do we translate it? What are enjoyment’s politics and
ethics? Can literature, and the arts more generally, capitalize on enjoyment? Is enjoyment
still possible after ideological critique and its hermeneutics of suspicion? Topics of
interest could include:
Enjoyment as jouissance
Barthes and the pleasures of reading
Žižek and enjoyment as a political category Decadence
Queer pleasures Feminine enjoyment
Enjoyment, loss, and the death drive Media spectacles
Theories of enjoyment and the enjoyment of theory The distribution of the sensible
Interested contributors should submit a 1-page abstract by April 1, 2014 to
zallouz@whitman.edu. Deadline for completed articles will be December 1, 2014.
Presbyterians in the trans-Atlantic world, 1550-1700
Due: April 1, 2014
Queen's University Belfast
c.gribben@qub.ac.uk
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Conference: "Presbyterians in the trans-Atlantic world, 1550-1700" 12-13 September
2014, Queen's University Belfast
This interdisciplinary conference will describe and analyse the development of
Presbyterian ideas, identities, networks, and communities in the early modern transAtlantic. Speakers who have already confirmed their attendance include Francis Bremer,
Polly Ha, Laurence Kirkpatrick, Scott Spurlock, Elliot Vernon, and Michael Winship.
Selected papers from the conference will be published in an edited volume under the title,
Presbyterians in the trans-Atlantic world, 1550-1700.
The organisers, Crawford Gribben and Scott Spurlock, welcome proposals (approx.
200/250 words) for individual papers, or for panels of three papers with a chair, related to
the conference theme. All proposals should be sent to Crawford Gribben
[c.gribben@qub.ac.uk] by 1 April 2014.
This conference is part of the "Radical religion in the trans-Atlantic world: Ulster Scots
perspectives" project, and is funded by the Northern Ireland DCAL Ministerial Advisory
Group on Ulster Scots (2014-15).
Articles required for Issue 2 of The New Union
Due: April 30, 2014
The New Union
editors@new-union.co.uk
We require articles on political and cultural subjects for Issue 2 of The New Union. For
more information and to see our first articles, visit www.new-union.co.uk.
Articles should be 4,000-6,000 words and proposals must be sent to
editors@new-union.co.uk by the end of March.
The deadline for completed articles is 30 April 2014.
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New Writing: International Journal for the Practice
and Theory of Creative Writing
Due: May 1, 2014
editor@newwritingjournal.com
"New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory" is open for
submissions for Volume 11 (Issue 11.3, to be published in late 2014) and Volume 12
(Issue 12.1, 12.2 and 12.3, to be published in 2015).
The journal considers critical work relating to Creative Writing practice and the critical
examination of Creative Writing. Strong pedagogically focused papers are considered.
Creative work (in any genre) is likewise also welcome.
Word length and submission guidelines at: www.newwriting.org.uk
Submissions welcome via this journal submission site. Early submission is encouraged.
New Writing is independent of any organisation, and is published internationally in hard
copy as well as electronically by Routledge/Taylor and Francis.
Editor-in-Chief: Graeme Harper.
The journal includes on its Peer Review Board: Lisa Appignanesi - independent writer,
UK
Homi K. Bhabha - Harvard University, USA
Donna Lee Brien - Central Queensland University, Australia Liam Browne - Brighton
Festival (UK) and Dublin Festival (IRE) Katharine Coles - University of Utah, USA
Jon Cook - University of East Anglia, UK Peter Ho Davies - University of Michigan,
USA
Chad Davidson - University of West Georgia, USA Dianne Donnelly - University of
South Florida, USA Greg Fraser - University of West Georgia, USA Richard Kerridge Bath Spa University, UK
Jeri Kroll - Flinders University, Australia
Alma Lee - Vancouver International Writers Festival, Canada Nigel McLoughlin University of Gloucestershire, UK
Sir Andrew Motion - Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Stephen Muecke - University of New South Wales, Australia Paul Muldoon - Princeton
University, USA
Nessa O'Mahony - independent writer, UK Robert Pinsky - Boston University, USA Rob
Pope - Oxford Brookes University, UK Harriet Tarlo - University of Leeds, UK
Stephanie Vanderslice - University of Central Arkansas, USA Michelene Wandor independent writer, UK
Joe Woods - Poetry Ireland
Bronwyn T. Williams - University of St Louis, USA
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New Writing aims to celebrate the best of Creative Writing -- exploring creative and
critical practice in and around universities and colleges, and beyond as well.
All work is peer reviewed.
Collection on Poe
Due: May 1, 2014
Gerry Del Guercio
gerry9301@bell.net
Editor seeks one 20-25 page essay on Edgar Allan Poe and slavery as well as one essay
on “The Tell Tale Heart” to complete a collection of essays that will be a part of a new
series at Lehigh University Press (Roman & Littlefield). Please send resumes and 100
word abstracts to Gerry Del Guercio at gerry9301@bell.net. The deadline is May 1st
2014.
Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost
Due: May 8, 2014
Rennes University / Presses Universitaires de Rennes
delphine.texier@univ-rennes2.fr, glwinter@free.fr
We are seeking innovative critical essays on William Shakespeare's Love’s Labour’s Lost
and its stage and screen adaptations for a volume of critical essays to be published by
Presses Universitaires de Rennes (peer-reviewed publication) in September 2014.
The volume will feature essays in English and in French and is entitled "Lectures de
Love’s Labour’s Lost de William Shakespeare" (Critical Readings of William
Shakespeare's Love’s Labour’s Lost) and will be the latest in a series of similar essay
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collections "Lectures de William Shakespeare” in the “Univers Anglophones” series (see
http://www.pur-editions.fr/detail.php?idOuv=3066 for a sample of the series)
Please send your proposal (600 words) together with contact details and a brief biography
to delphine.texier@univ-rennes2.fr and glwinter@free.fr by April 20th. Acceptance of
proposals will be notified by May 8th.
Completed essays approx. 6,000 words will be due by June 30th and will be peerreviewed.
NeoAmericanist CFP Issue 7.2
Due: May 16, 2014
NeoAmericanist
neoamericanist@uwo.ca
NeoAmericanist, an online multi-disciplinary journal for the study of America, is issuing
a CALL FOR PAPERS to interested Undergraduate and Graduate students. We are
accepting any academic PAPERS as well as REVIEWS of books from Bachelor, Master
and Doctoral level students on the topic of the United States of America.
NeoAmericanist's goal as a journal is to push the boundaries of scholarship and theory by
blurring the lines of academic disciplines and popular culture by building an online
community of students and professional scholars, and by supporting alternative methods
for expression. We therefore invite students of history, theory and criticism, philosophy,
political studies, economics, sociology, geography, first nations studies, anthropology,
women's/gender studies, architecture and design, film studies, amongst others, to submit
any original work pertaining to the study of America.
View our submission guidelines and requirements:
http://www.neoamericanist.org/get-involved/submission-guidelines
Please submit your articles for consideration via our online form:
http://www.neoamericanist.org/get-involved/submission-form
Questions and inquiries may be directed to NeoAmericanist Executive Editors.
The DEADLINE for submission is May 16, 2014. Email: neoamericanist@uwo.ca
Visit the website at http://www.neoamericanist.org
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Edited Collection on Bruce Springsteen for Routledge
Studies in Popular Music Series
Due: May 18, 2014
Bill Wolff / Rowan University
wolffspringsteencollection@gmail.com
I am soliciting abstracts by scholars from all disciplines, including scholar-fans and fanscholars, to be considered for inclusion in an edited collection on Bruce Springsteen,
which will eventually be submitted to Routledge’s Studies in Popular Music series. The
editor of this series has expressed an interest in seeing a Springsteen collection proposal.
In the middle of Bruce Springsteen’s 2012 Wrecking Ball tour promotional interview
with the Paris media, one reporter observed, “so many people these past couple years
look to you for your interpretation of events… Look at us: when we were waiting for you
earlier, so many people care about what you think, and what you feel about what is
happening in the world.”
For many around the globe, Springsteen has become a voice of the everyday citizen in a
political and social climate where such voices are marginalized. He has received a
Kennedy Center Honor and with Peter Seeger sang before millions after Barack Obama
was elected President for the first time. He has actively located his work within the
lineage of Woody Guthrie and Seeger, reinforcing the necessity of contemporary folk
music. In his SXSW Keynote he also asserted the importance of early rock and roll on his
work, exclaiming, “Listen up, youngsters: this is how successful theft is accomplished!”
In other places, he has discussed the significant influence of film and short stories, often
describing his records as cinematic and looking for sounds that would evoke certain
images. A new community of musicians, such as Tom Morello, Mumford and Sons, the
Hold Steady, and Arcade Fire, has looked to him as a guide. In his most recent albums,
Springsteen remixes work in the public domain and covers lesser known artists whose
work speaks in a voice similar to his own. He has become quite adept at composing songs
that respond to immediate contemporary events, such as “American Skin (41 Shots)” and
“How Can a Good Man Stand Such Times and Live.” As performers, Springsteen and the
E Street Band are incomparable, with shows lasting over 3 hours without a break.
Despite his contemporary appeal, Springsteen also seems to be rooted in the traditional
relationship between label and artist. His recent move to release live versions of his
shows soon after the events, while seemingly progressive, reinforces artist- and labelcentric publishing
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with the possibility of refocusing fans on official bootlegs rather than those they compose
themselves. Yet, Springsteen doesn’t seem to mind—and rather enjoys—fans recording
his concerts with their phones and uploading them to YouTube. He is genuinely
appreciative of the efforts fans go through to see his shows and has fun with their sign
requests. The decades-long conversation he has been having with his fans (and fans with
other fans) has, like all conversations, been made more complex as a result of convergent
media.
Within this context has been a steady stream of writing on Springsteen, including several
recent biographies, collections of interviews, international symposia, and the upcoming
first issue of an academic journal dedicated to Springsteen.
The Routledge Studies in Popular Music series is described as a “home for cutting-edge,
upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections covering Popular Music. Considering
music performance, theory, and culture alongside topics such as gender, race, celebrity,
fandom, tourism, fashion, and technology, titles are characterized by dynamic
interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.”
Possible subjects might include but are certainly not limited to:
Springsteen and the folk tradition Springsteen and influence
Springsteen’s notebooks and his writing process Springsteen and the rhetoric of
conversation Springsteen and the rhetoric of performance Springsteen fans and fandom
Springsteen fan compositions Springsteen anti-fans Springsteen and philanthropy
Springsteen and gender Springsteen and race Springsteen and remix
Springsteen and transmedia storytelling The @springsteen account
Springsteen archiving and collecting
Springsteen tour data collection and representation Springsteen and online videos
Springsteen and the relevance of popular voices Springsteen and the music industry
Springsteen and his global appeal Springsteen and literature Springsteen and film
Springsteen and community Springsteen and religion Springsteen and I
Springsteen’s SXSW Keynote Address
Please submit a 500 - 750 word abstract and 200-word biographical note that to Dr. Bill
Wolff, Associate Professor of Writing Arts, Rowan University, at
wolffspringsteencollection@gmail.com by May 18,
2014. Indicate the anticipated word length of your chapter, between 3000 and 6000 words.
Biographical note should in part describe your qualifications for writing your article.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by June 30, 2014. Once abstracts have been
accepted, a proposal will be submitted to Routledge. If accepted, chapters will be due in
late 2014. All chapters will receive blind review.
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Bruce Springsteen for Routledge Studies in Popular
Music Series
Due: May 18, 2014
Bill Wolff / Rowan University
wolffspringsteencollection@gmail.com
I am soliciting abstracts by scholars from all disciplines, including scholar-fans and fanscholars, to be considered for inclusion in an edited collection on Bruce Springsteen,
which will eventually be submitted to Routledge’s Studies in Popular Music series.
In the middle of Bruce Springsteen’s 2012 Wrecking Ball tour promotional interview
with the Paris media, one reporter observed, “so many people these past couple years
look to you for your interpretation of events… . Look at us: when we were waiting for
you earlier, so many people care about what you think, and what you feel about what is
happening in the world.”
For many around the globe, Springsteen has become a voice of the everyday citizen in a
political and social climate where such voices are marginalized. He has received a
Kennedy Center Honor and with Peter Seeger sang before millions after Barack Obama
was elected President for the first time. He has actively located his work within the
lineage of Woody Guthrie and Seeger, reinforcing the necessity of contemporary folk
music. In his SXSW Keynote he also asserted the importance of early rock and roll on his
work, exclaiming, “Listen up, youngsters: this is how successful theft is accomplished!”
In other places, he has discussed the significant influence of film and short stories, often
describing his records as cinematic and looking for sounds that would evoke certain
images. A new community of musicians, such as Tom Morello, Mumford and Sons, the
Hold Steady, and Arcade Fire, has looked to him as a guide. In his most recent albums,
Springsteen remixes work in the public domain and covers lesser known artists whose
work speaks in a voice similar to his own. He has become quite adept at composing songs
that respond to immediate contemporary events, such as “American Skin (41 Shots)” and
“How Can a Good Man Stand Such Times and Live.” As a performer, Springsteen and
the E Street Band are incomparable, with shows lasting over 3 hours without a break.
Despite his contemporary appeal, Springsteen also seems to be rooted in the traditional
relationship between label and artist. His recent move to release live versions of his
shows soon after the events, while seemingly progressive, reinforces artist- and labelcentric publishing with the possibility of refocusing fans on official bootlegs rather than
those they compose themselves. Yet, Springsteen doesn’t seem to
mind—and rather enjoys—fans recording his concerts with their phones and uploading
them to YouTube. His relationship with contemporary media and his fans, then, is
complex and, oftentimes, rather vague.
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Within this context has been a steady stream of writing on Springsteen, including several
recent biographies, collections of interviews, international symposia, and the upcoming
first issue of an academic journal dedicated to Springsteen.
The editor of the Studies in Popular Music Series has expressed an interest in seeing a
Springsteen collection proposal. The series is described as a “home for cutting-edge,
upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections covering Popular Music. Considering
music performance, theory, and culture alongside topics such as gender, race, celebrity,
fandom, tourism, fashion, and technology, titles are characterized by dynamic
interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.”
Possible subjects might include but are certainly not limited to:
Springsteen and the folk tradition Springsteen and influence
Springsteen’s notebooks and his writing process Springsteen and the rhetoric of
conversation Springsteen and the rhetoric of performance Springsteen fans and fandom
Springsteen fan compositions Springsteen anti-fans Springsteen and philanthropy
Springsteen and gender Springsteen and race Springsteen and remix
Springsteen and transmedia storytelling The @springsteen account
Springsteen archiving and collecting
Springsteen tour data collection and representation Springsteen and online videos
Springsteen and the relevance of popular voices Springsteen and the music industry
Springsteen and his global appeal Springsteen and literature Springsteen and film
Springsteen and community Springsteen and religion Springsteen and I
Springsteen’s SXSW Keynote Address
Please submit a 500 - 750 word abstract and 200-word biographical note that to Dr. Bill
Wolff, Associate Professor of Writing Arts, Rowan University, at
wolffspringsteencollection@gmail.com by May 18, 2014. Indicate the anticipated word
length of your chapter, between 3000 and 6000 words. Biographical note should in part
describe your qualifications for writing your chapter. Authors will be notified of
acceptance by June 30, 2014. Once abstracts have been accepted, a proposal will be
submitted to Routledge. If accepted, chapters will be due in late 2014. All chapters will
receive blind review.
Disability and Blood"
Due: June 1, 2014
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (Liverpool University Press)
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SFrohlic@ucsd.edu
Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies – Call for Papers Special Issue:
“Disability and Blood”
Guest Editors: Michael Davidson (UCSD) and Sören Fröhlich (UCSD)
Since the HIV/AIDS blood feuds of the 1990s, scholarship into social and cultural
definitions of blood has provided much-needed insights into statistical (Tukufu Zuberi),
economical (Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell), and medical constructions of what
blood was, is and how it can function (Keith Wailoo).
This special issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS) aims
to close a gap in considerations of disability and blood. What does blood mean in cultural
constructions of disability? How are disability and the body’s fluid tissue related in
literary and cultural productions? Blood seems omnipresent in cultural representations,
ranging from mass-murderers and pure-blooded wizards, vampires, and the undead, to
ritual uncleanness, illegitimate Presidential offspring, and pre-natal diagnostics.
Be it in the blood work chart and diagnostics, in statistics of pathology, or in other
definitions of individuals through blood, ‘abnormalities’ in the blood constitute disability
just as disability qualifies blood itself. Yet blood always transgresses boundaries and
destabilizes categories; it simultaneously defines and defies constructions of disabled and
disability. We invite submissions from scholars who consider how blood functions in the
construction of disability. Is it stable or fluid, definable or contagious, visible or hidden?
How does blood affect disability, and how does disability affect the blood? How are
either or both abjected from the ‘normal’ to create what Lennard J. Davis calls a “diverse
sameness?”
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The female body as disabled, menarche, menstruation, birth,
Race as disability, disability as race, the “one-drop rule,”
Scientific racism, racial historiography and disability,
Eugenics in cultural productions,
Gendered disability, gendered blood,
Medical discourses,
Blood in treatments, procedures, and as medical commodity,
Contagion and infection, conversely, immunization and vaccination,
Purity and pollution as disabling discourses,
Disability and blood in religious discourses,
Containment and rupture as definitions of disability,
Pathology and normalization of blood,
Migration, exile, asylum and definitions of blood,
Indigeneity, inheritance, lineage and disabilities,
Representations of bleeding and blood.
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Please email a one-page proposal SFrohlic[at]ucsd.edu by June 1, 2014. Contributors can
expect to be selected and notified by August 1, 2014. (Full drafts of the selected articles
will be due on February 1, 2015). Please direct any questions to Sören Fröhlich.
For further information about JLCDS please contact Dr. David Bolt (boltd[at]hope.ac.uk).
Failure in Literature and Art
Due: June 1, 2014
albeit
submissions@albeitjournal.com
If at first you don't succeed ... shouldn't we ask why not? albeit, an innovative new online
journal of scholarship and pedagogy, invites scholarly articles, detailed lesson plans,
book reviews, creative pieces, and nonfiction essays exploring the theme of "Failure."
Topics for this issue can include, but are not limited to:
"Bad" texts, or films, novels, plays, television shows, etc., that were considered failures
in their time
Characters or ideas within texts that fail to succeed Guilty pleasures
Creative fiction or nonfiction pieces investigating the concept of failure
Complete submissions, along with a brief biographical statement, should be emailed to
submissions@albeitjournal.com by June 1
albeit may be found at www.albeitjournal.com and is a new internet literary journal
focusing on the intersection between traditional scholarship and teaching documents. We
seek to bring the scholarship to the students and offer professors and teachers documents
easily fitted into existing syllabi. Each issue of albeit will feature articles, lesson plans,
book reviews, and a syllabus.
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Early Career Researchers II
Due: July 1, 2014
Gender Forum
l.czarnowsky@uni-koeln.de
Special Issue - Early Career Researchers II
In order to encourage the next generation of academics, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed
e-journal GenderForum (http://www.genderforum.org/) has launched its first annual
Early Career Researchers Issue in October 2013. Now every October will see an issue
that spotlights the work of emerging researchers.
Contributions can be new academic writing composed specifically for this issue, or
exceptional, previously unpublished term papers on all topics pertaining to Gender
Studies, Feminist Studies and/or Queer Theory.
Abstracts of 300-400 words plus a brief biography should be sent to Laura-Marie von
Czarnowsky (l.czarnowsky@uni-koeln.de) by May 1st, 2014. The deadline for the
completed papers is July 1st, 2014.
Collecting, Archiving, Publishing North America
Due: June 15, 2014
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory, and Culture / University of Lodz
jadwigamasz@gmail.com
Jeremy Braddock, in his Collecting as Modernist Practice, argues that the material
collection and the anthology both be considered as an “authored work” and, following
Bourdieu, a “system of positions.” The history of collecting and publishing in the 20th
century – from Peggy Guggenheim to the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX –
illustrates a widespread development and framing of how literary and cultural materials
are received. Publishers, editors, librarians, and curators have all played a fundamental
role in authoring and shaping the reception, preservation, and influence of textual and
cultural objects. Text Matters invites contributions to its 5th issue that analyze the
construction and management of North American literary and cultural artifacts within the
frame of archival or textual studies, as well as reception theory. Any articles dealing with
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art history, reception theory, the archive, and/or digital humanities that do not fit this
theme are also welcome.
Please see the style sheet available from the journal’s website http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/ for details. The deadline for submissions is April 30th, 2014. They should be
emailed to text.matters@uni.lodz.pl and jadwigamasz@gmail.com. Editors invite
potential contributors to contact them about thematic proposals at
jadwigamasz@gmail.com and dorfil@uni.lodz.pl.
Picking Through the Trash
Due: July 18, 2014
PIVOT: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought
pivot@yorku.ca
"Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.”
—Ray Bradbury
“[T]rash talks to us, or certainly speaks of us. However much we want to put trash and
garbage and waste and rubbish out of sight, out of mind, out of smell, there is
considerable evidence that we take them to be revelatory of all manner of not
insignificant facts about individuals, communities, civilizations, or that tired old
workhorse the ‘human condition.’”
—Elizabeth V Spelman
Even when claiming a love of trash culture, many of us take care to emphasize that this
admiration happens at a distance. Phrases like “guilty pleasure” often accompany the
admission, for we are aware we might be saying too much about ourselves, or aligning
ourselves too closely with something whose main attraction might be its ability to be
consumed easily, rapidly, and in large quantities. Yet designating someone or something
as being trash or trashy reflects as much on the cultural commentators as on the given
object. In this sense, “trash” is a political term, premised on notions of hierarchy and
exclusion, even when we try to collapse these through kitsch or camp reclamations.
In this era of escalating environmental crises, our trash is creeping up on us: we are faced
more and more with the problems of reducing, reusing, and recycling, and with the everpolitical question of where exactly to pile our trash up; thus, the explosion of discussions
in urban planning, environmental studies, and other disciplines on how to restore balance
to a world overwhelmed by the human ability to “trash” the planet.
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PIVOT will explore these themes in its fourth issue, entitled Picking Through the Trash.
We invite participants from across disciplinary borders to submit papers that engage with
any aspect of this field of inquiry.
Possible topics may include the following thematic concerns:
“Trashy” pleasures, in literature, film, television, and popular culture Notions of cultural
capital and evaluation
Sorting practices, both cultural and literal Kitsch, camp, re-appropriation, and resistance
Eco-criticism, environmentalism, and urban planning The abject, decay, and
decomposition
Hoarding and other “dirty” habits Consumerism and appetite
Trash talking and insult culture
Authors are requested to submit full articles of 6,000-8,000 words by Friday July 18,
2014 to pivot@yorku.ca.
All submissions must follow the style guidelines found at
http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/pivot/about/submissions#onlineS....
PIVOT is an annual multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing innovative critical
writing from emerging and established academics. Each issue encourages scholars from a
wide-range of fields to engage with a focused but multifaceted central topic, bringing into
conversation their various disciplinary perspectives. By juxtaposing viewpoints and
theoretical approaches that may otherwise remain disparate, Pivot creates a space in
which readers can explore the intersections between various fields and modes of thought.
Our mandate is to showcase scholarly work by graduate students and working academics,
and to foster communication and cooperation between students and faculty across
disciplinary boundaries. The journal invites contributions of scholarly articles relevant to
the upcoming issue’s topic, in both English and French, from authors in all scholarly
disciplines.
Exploring JRPG Virtual Worlds
Due: November 30, 2014
Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures (ISSN 1883-5953)
editors@synaesthesiajournal.com
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Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures is an international, open-access
interdisciplinary journal, rigorously peer-reviewed and oriented toward advancing new
perspectives and understandings of how thought, engagement, and the communication of
meanings hinge upon human perception.
The journal encourages new dialogues in communication theory and research by
publishing original scholarship from scholars within the international community that
explores issues from the interpersonal to mass-marketed, regional to global, academic to
corporate, among genders and across time. The journal welcomes innovative theoretical
essays and research articles and aims to advance the progressive exchange of ideas.
Synaesthesia invites submissions for a special themed edition of the journal devoted to
Japanese role-playing video games (JRPG’s), entitled ‘Exploring JRPG Virtual Worlds’
(Vol. 2, no. 4).
Synaesthesia managing editors Dr. Christopher Melley and Dr. Daniel Broudy are
pleased to announce that Dr. Jeffery Klaehn will be acting as lead editor on this special
edition of the journal.
Possible themes/topics that may be explored include JRPG’s within the context of social
theory, representation, narrative, masculinity and femininity, race and ethnicity,
inequality (social, political, economic), power, agency, identity, media, channels of
distribution, Western RPG’s, and fandom.
JRPG franchises that may be discussed include (but are not limited to) Dragon
Warrior/Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, .hack, Persona, Shin Megami Tensei, Pokémon,
Grandia, Suikoden, Skies of Arcadia, the SaGa series, Chrono Trigger, Xenogears,
Breath of Fire, Wild Arms, Lunar, Eternal Sonata, The World Ends With You, Xenoblade
Chronicles, Baten Kaitos, Phantasy Star, Star Ocean, and the Tales series.
All articles considered for publication will undergo a peer-review process.
Scholarly work accepted for publication with the online journal will receive subsequent
consideration for publication within future collected volumes.
Submissions should be rigorous in scholarship yet accessible in style for
audiences across a wide spectrum of disciplines.
Submissions lodged by e-mail should include a title, abstract, author's name, and
institutional affiliation. Please include the proposed title of your paper in the subject line
of your e-mail submission. If including images within the manuscript, please adhere to
fair use policy and include relevant caption/copyright information. Manuscripts attached
to e-mail submissions should be saved in the MSWord .doc(x) format.
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014
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