第 12 屆英美文學學會
國際學術資訊 第六十二期
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 Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2012
June 1-3, 2012
Due: May 1, 2012
The International Academic Forum
accs@iafor.org
Call for Papers: Deadline May 1, 2012
The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global partners is proud to
announce the Second Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, to be held from June 1-3
2012, at the Ramada Osaka, Osaka, Japan.
Hear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive
environment, network, engage in new relationships, experience Japan, explore Osaka
and Kyoto, join a global academic community...
The Second Asian Conference on Cultural Studies will offer a rich diversity of
academic and cultural activity in the fantastically stimulating context of Japan, and in
one of the world's great cities. Come and join us in Osaka for what promises to be a
culturally stimulating, challenging and exciting event.
CONFERENCE THEME: ENCOUNTERS & EXCHANGES
The theme for the 2012 conference is 'Encounters and Exchanges' and the programme
advisers also suggest the following sub-themes with the hope and expectation that
they will excite interesting new interpretations and explorations: 'Post/colonial or
trans/colonial?', 'Transformations of self and place', 'Beyond boundaries?','Difference,
diversity, plurality', 'Cultural re/constructions', 'Politics and power', and 'Ideologies of
culture'. We hope that the conference theme will again encourage academic and
personal encounters and exchanges across national, religious, cultural and disciplinary
divides. We look forward to seeing you (again) in Osaka in 2012!
Professor Stuart D. B Picken
Order of the Sacred Treasure, M.A. (Hons.), B.D., Ph.D., F.R.A.S.
Chairman, Japan Society of Scotland,
Chairman of the IAFOR International Advisory Board
ACCS/ACAS 2012 Conference Chair
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Professor Sue Jackson
Pro-Vice Master, Teaching and Learning,
Birkbeck, University of London
ACCS Conference Programme Adviser
Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 1 2012
Results of abstract reviews returned to authors: Usually within two weeks of
submission
Deadline for submission of full papers: July 1 2012
Deadline for full conference registration payment for all presenters: May 15 2012
Conference Programme Published Online: May 20 2012
ACCS Conference: June 1-3 2012
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"Shakespeare and Emotions"
November 27-30, 2012
Due: July 1, 2012
Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association
conference@anzsa.org
SHAKESPEARE AND EMOTIONS
The 11th Biennial International Conference of the Australian and New Zealand
Shakespeare Association in collaboration with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the
History of Emotions
27–30 November 2012
The University of Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
http://conference.anzsa.org/
Keynote speakers include Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare's Globe London),
Philippa Kelly (California Shakespeare Theater and UNSW), and Steven Mullaney
(University of Michigan). Additional keynote speakers are to be announced.
The study of emotions in history, literature, and other aspects of culture is a
burgeoning field, and Shakespeare takes a very central and influential place. The
conveners invite papers on any aspect of the ways in which Shakespeare and/or his
contemporaries represented emotions in poetry, drama, and other works, and/or how
these representations have been received by audiences and readers from the sixteenth
century to the present day.
There are paradoxes to be explored — how the 'bodily turn' of physiological influence
on emotions could in turn generate more modern models of inner consciousness alone;
how concepts rooted historically in Elizabethan and Jacobean England could be
adapted to fit the philosophies and concepts of later ages, through eighteenth-century
literature of sensibility, nineteenth-century and Darwinian approaches,
twentieth-century psychologism stimulated by Freud, and a host of others. Did
Shakespeare tap into a 'collective unconscious' of 'universal' stories, or did he
arbitrarily choose stories to dramatise which his affective eloquence incorporated into
world literature? Why have his works proved so durable in their emotional power,
both in themselves and adaptations into other media such as opera, music, film and
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dance? Equal attention is invited to plays in performance and in 'closet' critical
readings, as well as textual studies and adaptations.
The New Fortune Theatre, built in 1964 to the exact dimensions of The Fortune
playhouse that rivaled Shakespeare's Globe in seventeenth-century London, will be
available for original practice performances, open rehearsals, and stage-based
research papers, etc. If you wish your presentation to be considered for a Performance
Workshop on the New Fortune stage, please indicate this clearly in your title.
Abstracts of c.200 words should be submitted for consideration
toconference@anzsa.org, addressed to Bob White, Chris Wortham, Danijela
Kambaskovic-Sawers, Mark Houlahan, and Brett D. Hirsch. Abstracts should be
received by 1 July 2012.
Please bear in mind that although our venues have full capability for Powerpoint
presentations and projecting files from your computers, wireless Internet reception is
in some rooms unavailable. If you will need Internet access for your presentation,
please make this clear in your abstract to allow us to programme accordingly.
For more details about the conference, visithttp://conference.anzsa.org/
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The 20th METU British Novelists Conference:
Salman Rushdie and His Work
December 13-14, 2012
Due: August 13, 2012
The 20th METU British Novelists Conference: Salman Rushdie and His Work
elifo@metu.edu.tr, okuroglu@metu.edu.tr
The 20th METU British Novelists Conference: Salman Rushdie and His Work
13-14 December 2012
Ankara, Turkey
Contact name: Elif Öztabak-Avcı (elifo@metu.edu.tr)
The Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University
invites abstracts for its 20th METU British Novelists Conference: Salman Rushdie
and His Work. Abstracts (about 250 words) for 20-minute presentations on any aspect
of Salman Rushdie’s work will be considered. Selected papers will be published in the
conference proceedings.
The abstracts should be sent to wwwbnc@metu.edu.tr by August 13 2012. Please
include name, institutional affiliation, and contact information.
For further details concerning accommodation and latest updates please check the
conference website athttp://www.britishnovelists.metu.edu.tr
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Conferences in North America
The Precarious Alliance: "The Ethics of Water"
October 11-12, 2012
Due: May 1, 2012
Delaware Valley College (Doylestown, PA)
tanya.casas@delval.edu
The Precarious Alliance
The Ethics of Water—everything flows from here
October 11-12, 2012
Delaware Valley College of Doylestown, PA is pleased to host its second Precarious
Alliance Symposium titled The Ethics of Water—everything flows from here, October
11-12, 2012. This interdisciplinary symposium aims to bring together academics,
educators, business leaders, environmental designers, policy makers, environmental
advocates, planners, engineers, attorneys and farmers to discuss issues of
sustainability and regeneration. The 2012 event explores the ethics of water, looking
at the uses and abuses of water systems, technology to improve our stewardship of
those water supplies, as well as our relationship to this life sustaining resource. How
can we meet our needs today without compromising the ability of future generations
and other non-human communities to meet their own needs?
Using the ethics of water as its organizing principle, the symposium will address three
distinct, though interrelated tracks: The Tap and Technology; The Earth; and the Idea.
Proposals for each track could include but are not limited to the following themes:
The Tap and Technology: New technologies for water treatment; condition of and
challenges facing current public water facilities; how water is made safe to drink;
waste water recovery; desalinization; membrane technologies; international
perspectives on public access to potable water sources and technologies for water
treatment.
The Earth: Water and the Marcellus Shale; effects of water pollution; habitat quality
and restoration; environmental remediation and stewardship; invasive species;
land-use policy and climate change
The Idea: Just as water is essential to terrestrial life and vital to civilization, it flows
into and through every imaginable human discourse and discipline. Appropriately
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fluid and capable of filling any form, this track will be devoted to the meaning of
water: water as life; water as rite; water as spirit; water as myth; water as cause; water
as metaphor. Other relevant topics could include: water and human rights; water and
agency; the appropriation of water as a symbol of health, purity, etc. to promote
environmental and corporate causes; the question of water’s capacity for
consciousness, memory, rights.
Delaware Valley College invites the submission of proposals of papers, panels,
workshops, roundtables and poster sessions (no larger than 36” x 48”) to share
perspectives on the above topics. For poster sessions and papers please send abstracts
of no more than 250 words along with a brief biography (including affiliation and
specialization). For themed panels, workshops and roundtables (1 hour) please submit
an abstract of no more than 250 words describing the purpose of the session, abstracts
for each of the individual contributors along with a brief biography. Proposals should
be submitted to Tanya Casas:tanya.casas@delval.edu. The deadline for submission
of proposals is May 1, 2012. Participants will be notified before July 1st.
Along with papers, panels, workshops, roundtables and interactive poster sessions, the
conference will include three keynotes addresses by: Charles Fishman, author of The
Big Thirst; Peter Thum, founder of Ethos Water and the non-profit organization
Giving Water; and Maude Barlow, water activist, co-founder of the Blue Planet
Project and a former Senior Advisor on Water for the United Nations General
Assembly. Other events include a film screening, a live concert organized around the
theme of water, and a student organized interactive water exhibit.
Located in Doylestown, Pa., in the heart of Bucks County, Delaware Valley College is
a comprehensive four-year institution of higher learning with more than 1,600 men
and women enrolled full time in more than 42 academic programs, ranging from
business administration, computer and business information systems and secondary
education to agricultural, biological and physical sciences. Please visit the symposium
website (http://precariousalliance.org) for more information about the conference,
Delaware Valley College, and nearby attractions.
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The Rake's Progress: Stravinsky, Hogarth, Hockney,
Auden, and Kallman
October 26-27, 2012
Due: May 1, 2012
The University of Colorado at Boulder Art Museum, College of Music, and Center for
British and Irish Studies
CBISassistant@gmail.com
Call for Papers
Conference:
The Rake's Progress: Stravinsky, Hogarth, Hockney, Auden, and Kallman
October 26-27, 2012
The University of Colorado at Boulder Art Museum, College of Music, and Center for
British and Irish Studies
To be held in conjunction with the CU-Boulder Opera's performances of The Rake's
Progress and the CU Art Museum's exhibit, Hockney and Hogarth: Selections from
the CU Art Museum's Collection of British Art (featuring Hockney's A Rake's
Progress, 1961-63)
The program committee seeks papers relating to Stravinsky's music, Hogarth and
Hockney's art, and/or Auden's and Kallman's libretto to The Rake's Progress. The
conference seeks to be interdisciplinary, and will consider relevant papers from the
standpoint of music history, musical analysis, art and art history, aesthetics, literary
studies, and stagecraft. Papers will be limited to 20 minutes, with ten minutes for
further discussion.
Deadline for paper proposals: May 1, 2012
Notification for participation: June 15, 2012
Conference date: October 26-27, 2012
Those interested in participating are asked to submit a 500-word proposal in MsWord
or pdf format. E-mail (by May 1, 2012) to:
CBISassistant@gmail.com
All conference events will be held in the Center For British Studies Room (Norlin
Library, CU-Boulder)
Please direct any questions about the conference to conference organizers:
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Jeremy Smith (Director, Center for British and Irish Studies, CU-Boulder):
jeremy.smith@Colorado.EDU
Keith Waters (Department of Music Theory, CU-Boulder):
keith.waters@colorado.edu)
For further information, please see the conference website at:
http://www.colorado.edu/artssciences/british/rake/
The Center for British and Irish Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder
promotes research and teaching in all aspects of British and Irish life, culture, and
history. The Center, the only one of its kind in the country, advocates an
interdisciplinary approach to British and Irish Studies, joining the humanities and
performing arts, the social sciences, and the professional fields. Within the University,
the Center provides an intellectual focus for faculty members and students at all levels.
It plays a vital role within its geographical region, serving people at colleges and
universities throughout the Rocky Mountain/High Plains area. The Center also brings
members of the academic world into contact with individuals and organizations in the
community who are interested in contemporary or historical Britain and Ireland.
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Workshop on Time and Globalization
October 19-20, 2012
Due: May 1, 2012
Time and Globalization Working Project, McMaster University
tempora@mcmaster.ca
We are calling for the submission of paper proposals for an interdisciplinary
workshop on Time and Globalization, to be held at McMaster University in Hamilton,
Canada, on October 19-20 (Friday & Saturday), 2012. The workshop is organized by
the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition (IGHC), which has focused
on research and teaching on globalization and its social and cultural effects since its
creation in 1998. In this workshop we hope to build on work that is ongoing at the
IGHC. We are particularly interested in proposals that focus on the
(re)conceptualization of time, changing relationships among various temporalities,
policy responses to temporal challenges, and relevant reflections on and implications
for sustainability and social justice, in the ongoing processes of globalization. Among
the themes that could be considered are:
o Reconceptualizations of time in the context of globalization
o Changing relationships between local and global temporalities and between various
local temporalities
o Contested globalization discourses and their temporal conceptualizations
o Interplays of spatial and temporal logics in the context of globalization
o The impact of global temporalities, for example acceleration or simultaneity, on
democracy
o Representations of globalization and temporality in literature, film, and popular and
digital cultures
o The relative importance of speed and space in global business and war
o Differential collective and individual experiences of global temporalities
o Rethinking the relationships between gender, sexualities, age, class, culture, ability,
geography and global temporalities
o Tensions between personal, corporate, governmental and environmental
temporalities
o The circulation and acceleration of new health risks and new public health
challenges
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o Global public policies and changing temporalities
o The role of activism in addressing the intersections of globalization and time, with
regard to social justice, efficiency, productivity, speed, or sustainability
The workshop will bring together a small group of scholars from a variety of
disciplines and perspectives, and aims to maximize the fruitfulness of our discussion
by sharing and reading the papers in advance. We are interested in papers that focus
on specific practices in which the interaction of temporal and global influences is
evident empirically, as well as more theoretical papers, as long as they focus on the
interaction of temporality and globalization and are not so embedded in particular
disciplinary literatures that they cannot easily engage with insights from literatures in
other disciplines. They will be circulated to participants a week in advance of the
workshop, and should be 4000-6000 words, excluding endnotes and references. Our
aim is to have some or all of the papers published in a special issue of a journal or an
edited volume.
If this workshop interests you, please email us by May 1, 2012
attempora@mcmaster.ca, with a title and 400-word proposal. We will notify
potential participants by May 15. Please feel free to circulate this invitation to others
who may be interested.
Time & Globalization Working Project, McMaster University
Project
webpage: http://www.socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/institute-on-globalization-and-t
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Ecologies of Seeing or Seeing Whole: Images and
Space, Images within Images conference
September 27-29, 2012
Due: May 10, 2012
The Nomadikon Centre, Bergen, Norway & The College of St Rose, Albany, NY USA
ledbettm@strose.edu
The Nomadikon Centre, The University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and The College
of St. Rose, Albany, New York, USA invite paper proposals for the 6th Nomadikon
Meeting: “Seeing Whole: Images and Space, Images within Images.” The Conference
will be held Sept. 27-29, 2012 on The College St. Rose campus in Albany, New York.
The conference theme reflects an overall interest in the process of seeing itself, with
“seeing” suggesting but certainly not limited to physical sight, but inclusive of an
embodied “seeing.” The conference is interdisciplinary and invites papers on film,
painting, photography, performance, music, material culture, and literature.
Papers may include but are not limited to the ethics and/or aesthetics of image, the
embedded image, images that “make” space, and images that “are” space, the
codification of image, and image that resists codification. In reference to the
conference theme, papers may also address themes of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity,
dis/ability and class. The conference is small by design. We will accept the 25-30
papers that best address the conference theme. We will also have two or three invited
guest speakers.
Registration for the conference is $110.00 U.S. Optional Conference Dinner on Friday
evening is $60.00 U.S. Hotel information will be provided. Send proposals of 300-500
words to Mark Ledbetter atledbettm@strose.edu by May 10, 2012.
Nomadikon is a transdisciplinary research group and center for image studies and
visual aesthetics at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies,
University of Bergen. The center launched in the fall of 2008 with the project New
Ecologies of the Image (2008-2012), and consists of a core team of six locally based
scholars, international affiliates, and a global network of visual culture studies
researchers.
Among the research topics pertinent to the Nomadikon project are the manifestations
of iconoclasm and iconophobia; image wars and visual ideologies; the cultural
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performance of on/scenity (Linda Williams); the aestheticization of affliction;
controversial and offensive images; media convergence and the formation of new
visual ecosystems; the nomadicization of the image; and the visual codification of
subjectivity and social value.
The College of Saint Rose was founded in 1920. The primary academic purpose of
the College was the full development of the person through a strong liberal arts
curriculum. The College of Saint Rose community engages highly motivated
undergraduate and graduate students in rigorous educational experiences. In addition
to developing their intellectual capacities, students have the opportunity to cultivate
their creative and spiritual gifts in a diverse learning community that fosters integrity,
interdependence, and mutual respect.
The College delivers distinctive and
comprehensive liberal arts and professional programs that inspire its graduates to be
productive adults, critical thinkers, and motivated, caring citizens.
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The Transatlantic Writer: Edith Wharton, Text, and
Travel
November 9-11, 2012
Due: May 12, 2012
Edith Wharton Society at South Atlantic MLA (SAMLA) Nov. 9-11, 2012 (CFP
deadline 12 May 2012)
mcarney@gsc.edu
The Transatlantic Writer: Edith Wharton, Text, and Travel
The Edith Wharton Society invites papers that engage with this year’s South Atlantic
Modern Language Association conference theme: "Text as Memoir: Tales of Travel,
Immigration, and Exile." We welcome a range of responses to this topic, including
examinations of her travel writings, other non-fiction, fiction, and poetry.
Please send your 300-500 word abstract and a one-page CV as email attachments by
12 May 2012 to Mary Carney at mcarney@gsc.edu.
The 2012 SAMLA Convention will be held in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina,
November 9-11, 2012.
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After Queer, After Humanism: Rice University
English Symposium
September 14-15, 2012
Due: May 15, 2012
Rice University Department of English
rice.symposium@gmail.com
Rice University English Symposium
Sept. 14-15, 2012
After Queer, After Humanism
http://afterqueerhumanism.blogs.rice.edu/
Queer & Humanism are two categories that have shown their limits in recent critical
discussions. This symposium meets to consider the relation between humanism and
the theorization of sexuality, gender, and sex. It provides a forum to debate the
connection between posthumanism and growing dissatisfaction with “queer” as a
critical concept. We also welcome research on posthuman genders and sexualities
more broadly, from animals to biotech to digital bodies. Papers can address
representation in whatever medium or take up the theoretical coordinates of a topic.
“After Queer, After Humanism” calls for proposals, from any period or discipline, on
theoretical and cultural production concerning the following themes:
gender systems—animal sexuality—biopolitics—LGBTQ!X2—science
fiction—eugenic practices—digital
bodies—identification—biotechnology—reproduction and fertility—political
genomics—erototechnics—ethics—feminist materialisms—race and
sexuality—necropolitics—rights discourse—community formation—body
modification—homophobic power—animal breeding—homonormativity—queer
capital—sexual economies—cultures of biology—evolutionary
narrative—pheromone markets—the liberal subject—pornography—gender and
temporality—political geography—activism—language practices
Proposals (max. 250 words) are due on May 15. Papers should be readable in 20
minutes, but we encourage shorter pieces which allow more time for discussion.
Please email proposals torice.symposium@gmail.com as a word document or pdf
file.
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SAMLA 2012: Beyond the Pleasure Principle?
November 9-11, 2012
Due: May 20, 2012
Comparative Literature Division
gerard@utk.edu
We are seeking proposals for the Comparative Literature regular session at this year's
South Atlantic Modern Language Association meeting in Durham, NC from
November 9 to 11.
-----------------------------------------------------Beyond the Pleasure Principle?
As Lionel Trilling once noted, justifying art by the pleasures it gives has fallen into
disrepute since the 18th century. Wordsworth already registers this defensive posture
in his Lyrical Ballads preface when he asks that the “necessity of producing
immediate pleasure [not] be considered as a degradation of the Poet’s art,” but rather
that artists pay “homage … to the grand elementary principle of pleasure, by which
[man] knows, and feels, and lives, and moves.”
This session asks whether pleasure can still be valorized or whether it must
forevermore be associated with hedonistic “degradation.” Is pleasure an escape from
reality and denial of the historical? Must it necessarily underwrite commodity
fetishism, utilitarianism, and other ideologies? Does academic professionalization
require literary scholars progress “beyond the pleasure principle” in order to
emphasize art’s didactic qualities? Must there be an antithetical opposition between
pleasure and instruction, between formal appreciation and historicist hermeneutics or
do both participate in what Foucault calls “the pleasure of analysis”? In a related vein,
to what extent does pleasure’s banishment as a “serious” question reflect the rise of
the sublime? Does jouissance necessarily trump pleasure because it gestures towards
the pains of this world? Does the sublime’s integration of both pleasure and
unpleasure undermine its strict delineation from the beautiful? Must aesthetic pleasure
be seen as any less engaged with reality – political, historical, metaphysical – than
aesthetic pain?
We invite paper submissions across time periods and national literatures that in some
way address “the fate of pleasure” in literary study. Please email 300-word abstracts
by May 20, 2012, to Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud at gerard@utk.edu.
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6th International Symposium: Identity &
Multicultural Politics
October 29-31, 2012
Due: May 25, 2012
International Network for Alternative Academia
imp-6@alternative-academia.net
6th International Symposium:
Identity and Multicultural Politics
Part of the Research Program on:
Recognition, Agency and the Politics of Otherness
International Network for Alternative Academia
(Extends a general invitation to participate)
Monday 29th to Wednesday 31st of October, 2012
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Call for Papers
This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in identifying the conflicting
forces and political realities of multiculturalism and of identity formations in diverse
political, societal and cultural contexts.
Identity claims and social identity formations have become more prevalent, fluid and
less fixed throughout societies. People in their local, regional, national and even
international contexts are systematically making claims about group identities, which
have consequences for politics, social relations and a cultural sense of belonging. In
the past decades, important changes have been witnessed in legal procedures,
constitutions and cultural normative frameworks that have produced formal
legitimation for recognition claims based on identity, as well as political backlashes
against these initiatives. What are the lessons to be learned from these complex
processes and the considerations to be had for envisioning and contributing to a future
politics of recognition?
We invite colleagues from all disciplines and professions interested in exploring and
explaining these issues in a collective, deliberative and dialogical environment to send
presentation proposals which address these general questions or the following themes:
1. New Challenges for a Contemporary Politics of Recognition
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=> Policy and Normative Transformations Pushed by Identity Based Social
Movements
- How do we critically account for these normative experiences?
- How might the history of these movements be written?
- From a bottom-up perspective, what have we learned?
=> Social Realities Lived and Cultural Changes Enacted under Multicultural Policies
- How has policy-making responded to the needs for social and cultural recognition?
What are the virtues and problems with this route?
- From a top-down perspective, what have we learned?
- How have these conflicts and tensions, demands and needs, dreams and goals been
normalized?
- What do these processes mean for the construction of identity?
=> Multicultural Backlashes
- Has the ‘multicultural project’ become defunct and/or inadequate? Is it any longer
feasible?
- What motives and reasoning inform such assertions?
- How do these political claims affect the current debate on multiculturalism in
specific national and regional contexts and internationally?
2. Talking Back: Contemporary Identity Formations
=> Exploring New Identity Formations
- What are the new identities that are emerging?
- Are these new identities more fluid or less fluid than other formations?
- Are these new identities establishing different forms of relation to the nation state?
=> Context and Politics
- How do these new identity formations relate to other more established identities or
to state sanctioned identities?
- Is there an inter-identity formation politics that needs to be accounted for?
- How are these new identities talking back? In what ways are they unsettling and/or
supporting the current system of state-centered sanctioned recognition?
=> Contestation and Conciliations
- Are these new emerging identities questioning old formations; if so, how?
- What means both social and political are being used to contest their
non-recognition?
- What avenues – state-centered or otherwise – are being sought to secure
recognition?
- Is there a new politics of recognition that is not based on identity claims?
3. Nationalism & Inclusion
=> Re-emerging Nationalisms and the Politics of Inclusion
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- What effects have massive migratory flows had on a politics of inclusion and on
territorial forms of belonging?
- How are belonging and inclusion being redefined both within and outside
nationalistic discourses?
=> Migration and Subject Positions
- How are migrants accommodating to conditions of discrimination and marginality
they face in host territories?
- How are migrants organizing politically and claiming their rights and place within
host nations?
- How might inclusive categories of hospitality and cosmopolitanism have political
and cultural transformative value?
=> Territory, Home and Rooted-ness
- What new conceptions of belonging and its link to territory, home and roots can be
developed to better accommodate diversity and otherness?
- How do we generate concepts of belonging that are more fluid and in sync to the
current conditions of mobility, migration and diversity?
- How do we give collective credence and legitimacy to multiplicity and emphasize
bonds rather than place as a more fluid yet stable sense of belonging?
4. Art, Contestation & Aesthetic Critique
=> Aesthetic Expressions of Identity Construction
- In what ways is art being employed as a means for redefining and reconfiguring
identity at both the personal and societal level?
- How much do these aesthetic experiences seep into the fabric of social life?
- How can we explore the productive effect of art on forms of identity construction?
=> New Voices and New Critiques
- How is art and art expression responding to the need to redefine identity?
- How might art serve as a model in the creation of new ways of experiencing self and
otherness, of understanding identity formation processes?
=> Unsettling Stable Forms of Identity
- How can we participate and foster processes of critical and creative aesthetic
innovation for identity perception and agency?
- Is there a space for playfulness and joy that can come our way by the exercise of art
for the insertion of instability in identity formations?
5. Multicultural Interlacing & Contemporary Life
=> History and Multiplicity
- How can we tell the long history of the experience of multiculturalism?
- How have new patterns of massive migration and globalization contributed and
changed the telling of this story?
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=> Image and Representations
- How can more fluid and less rigid perceptions of social and cultural forms of
identity be constructed?
- What conception of responsibility must be developed to accompany the creation of
new models of political agency?
=> Horizons
- How might we create new horizons in political, cultural and social relations between
migrants and natives, host and guests, self and other, center and periphery, privilege
and marginality?
- How can we instill a sense of co-responsibility and accountability in societies and
cultures alike?
6. New Bonds for Self & Other
=> Self and Other Intertwined
- As identities are socially constructed, performatively enacted and re-made, how are
societies and cultures acknowledging these processes?
- What are the political consequences of recognizing the intertwining of self and
other?
=> Bewildered Self
- Can the self be defined outside its binds to the other?
- How can we account for a selfhood that lives under the fantasy of being unlinked
from other?
- Must the self/other relationship be conceived in terms of hostility? What new
models might allow for a redefinition of the bond as vital dependency and interlaced
identity formations?
=> Self in the Other & Other in the Self
- How are people, groups and organizations contributing to an ethics of social
relations that embeds self in other and vice versa?
- What can we learn from these experiences?
If you are interested in participating in this Annual Symposium, submit a 400 to 500
word abstract by Friday 25th of May, 2012. Please use the following template for your
submission:
First: Author(s);
Second: Affiliation, if any;
Third: Email Address;
Fourth: Title of Abstract and Proposal;
Fifth: The 400 to 500 Word Abstract.
To facilitate the processing of abstracts, we ask that you use Word, WordPerfect or
RTF formats only and that you use plain text, resisting the temptation of using special
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formatting, such as bold, italics or underline.
Please send emails with your proposals to the Annual Symposium Coordination
address (imp-6@alternative-academia.net) with the following subject line: Identity &
Multicultural Politics Abstract Proposal.
For every abstract proposal sent, we acknowledge receipt. If you do not receive a
reply from us within one week you should assume we did not receive it. Please resend
from your account and from an alternative one, to make sure your proposal does get to
us.
All presentation and paper proposals that address these questions and issues will be
fully considered and evaluated. Accepted abstracts will require a full draft paper by
Friday 31st of August, 2012. Papers presented at the symposium are eligible for
publication as part of a digital or paperback book.
We invite colleagues and people interested in participating to disseminate this call for
papers. Thank you for sharing and cross-listing where and whenever appropriate.
Hope to meet you in Montreal!
Symposium Coordinators:
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
General Coordinator
International Network for Alternative Academia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Email: acc@alternative-academia.net
Iain McKenna
Founding Member & Project Coordinator
International Network for Alternative Academia
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Email: i-mckenna@alternative-academia.net
*****
Informational Note:
Alternative Academia is an international network of intellectuals, academics,
independent scholars and practitioners committed to creating spaces, both within and
beyond traditional academe, for creative, trans-disciplinary and critical thinking on
key themes. We offer annual and biannual symposiums at sites around the world,
providing forums that foster the development of new frames of reference and
innovative structures for the production and expansion of knowledge and theory.
Dialogue, discussion and deliberation define both the methods employed and the
values upheld by this network.
Currently our website is under construction, but it will soon be available at:
www.alternative-academia.net
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1st International Symposium: Representations –
Struggles for Reality
November 2-4, 2012
Due: May 25, 2012
International Network for Alternative Academia
rsr-1@alternative-academia.net
1st International Symposium
Representations – Struggles for Reality
Part of the Research Program on:
Aesthetic Lives, Artistic Selves
International Network for Alternative Academia
(Extends a general invitation to participate)
Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th of November, 2012
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Call for Papers
This trans-disciplinary project explores the creation, consumption and dissemination
of representations. It aims to map out the relationship between representations,
conceptions of the real and cultural constructions of reality. Examining
representations as developing at the intersections of epistemological, political and
ethical modes of enquiry, this symposium offers the opportunity to reflect on the
practice and the theory of the constitution, legitimation and social implications of
image, art and the new media.
We invite colleagues from all disciplines and professions interested in sharing these
explorations in a collective, deliberative and dialogical environment to send
presentation proposals that address these general questions or the following themes:
1. Real and Imaginary – A Political History
=> To Represent or To Reproduce?
- How is it that representations reflect, reproduce and create our sense of reality?
- How are representations and our concepts of reality interlaced and intertwined?
- What role do abstractions, conversions and distortions play in the construction of
representations and our bonds to ‘weighty’ conceptions of reality?
=> Power and Legitimacy
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- What is at stake in the battles over representation? What is the relationship between
power, reality and representation?
- What are the processes through which representations are legitimized and
canonized?
- How is a sense of belonging and identity established in and through media, art
and/or artistic creation? How are the threads of power and the needs for legitimacy
played out in this context?
- How are self-representations to be assessed? How are misrepresentations to be
responded to?
- Who gets to name what is real? What standard of evaluation should be employed?
=> You Say You Want A Revolution?: Rebellious Representations
- How are images and ideas transformed into action?
- What is the role of representation in political activism, religious proselytism, and
contestation movements?
- How do representations fuel transformation and change? How do representations
thwart such efforts?
- How are representations contested? What are the spaces for such deliberations?
2. The Authentic, The Original, The Real
=> On Authenticity
- In a world of reproduction, what is the meaning and the value of judgments of
authenticity?
- What factors and institutions fuel the quest for the perfect representation in art and
science?
- How are new technologies reconfiguring our understandings of authority and
expertise?
- Are distortions of reality necessarily destructive? What are the potential productive
forces of distortion?
- What does the return to the representative in contemporary representations reveal
about present day conceptions of reality?
=> On Originality
- What is the relationship between The Original and the original?
- How are new understandings of originality reconfiguring our ideas of genius?
- In an era defined by pastiche and bricolage, how is originality to be assessed?
- Given the prevalence of prequels and sequels, remakes and remixes, are we bearing
witness to the end of creativity and/or the end of originality?
- How are forgeries and fakes to be defined, identified and valued?
- What is the role of the signature in new forms of representation?
=> On Reality
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- How are images transformed into icons?
- In what ways do icons reflect reality? In what ways do they deconstruct reality?
- How are multiple realities to be represented?
- How can emergent realities be captured?
- In what manner should competing representations be assessed? What standards of
evaluation should be employed?
- What do pastiche, bricolage and hybridity reveal about our notions of reality?
3. Being, Becoming and Performing the Aesthetic
=> The Politics of Art and the Art of Politics
- What are the conditions for the possibility of an aestheticization of politics? How are
those conditions met in contemporary cultures?
- What is the role of modern day patrons in the artworld?
- How will the history of the politicization of art be written?
- What does the history and the practice of curating reveal about the intersection of art
and politics?
- What does the structure, organization and operation of art schools reveal about the
politics in and of art?
- What factors shape and inform the development of a political economy of
representations?
- How are representations interpreted as political gestures?
=> Technology as Practice
- How are new technologies for the creation, consumption and dissemination of
representations leading us to reconceptualize The Artworld?
- How is art being commodified in and through new media? How are new
technologies shaping and being shaped by the commodification of art?
- How do new technologies redefine our understanding of imagination?
- How is the relationship between technology and practice being re-established in a
post-internet era?
=> Creativity and Critique
- How might art be conceived of as a form of critique?
- Can creativity be charted? What new models of creativity might be offered to
capture how reality is transformed by representation and representations are
transformed by reality?
- How might creativity be conceived of as critique?
- How are digital and virtual representations leading us to define creativity?
- What new horizons, new metaphors, new means for re-signifying life and experience
in the virtual and non-virtual worlds are being envisioned?
If you are interested in participating in this Annual Symposium, submit a 400 to 500
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word abstract by Friday 25th of May, 2012. Please use the following template for your
submission:
First: Author(s);
Second: Affiliation, if any;
Third: Email Address;
Fourth: Title of Abstract and Proposal;
Fifth: The 400 to 500 Word Abstract.
To facilitate the processing of abstracts, we ask that you use Word, WordPerfect or
RTF formats only and that you use plain text, resisting the temptation of using special
formatting, such as bold, italics or underline.
Please send emails with your proposals to the Annual Symposium Coordination
address (rsr-1@alternative-academia.net) with the following subject line:
Representations – Struggles for Reality Abstract Proposal.
For every abstract proposal sent, we acknowledge receipt. If you do not receive a
reply from us within one week you should assume we did not receive it. Please resend
from your account and from an alternative one, to make sure your proposal does get to
us.
All presentation and paper proposals that address these questions and issues will be
fully considered and evaluated. Accepted abstracts will require a full draft paper by
Friday 31st of August, 2012. Papers presented at the symposium are eligible for
publication as part of a digital or paperback book.
We invite colleagues and people interested in participating to disseminate this call for
papers. Thank you for sharing and cross-listing where and whenever appropriate.
Hope to meet you in Montreal!
Symposium Coordinators:
Cheryl Sim
Commissaire Associée
DHC/ART Fondation pour l’art contemporain
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Email: c-sim@alternative-academia.net
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
General Coordinator
International Network for Alternative Academia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Email: acc@alternative-academia.net
*****
Informational Note:
Alternative Academia is an international network of intellectuals, academics,
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independent scholars and practitioners committed to creating spaces, both within and
beyond traditional academe, for creative, trans-disciplinary and critical thinking on
key themes. We offer annual and biannual symposiums at sites around the world,
providing forums that foster the development of new frames of reference and
innovative structures for the production and expansion of knowledge and theory.
Dialogue, discussion and deliberation define both the methods employed and the
values upheld by this network.
Currently our website is under construction, but it will soon be available at:
www.alternative-academia.net
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4th International Symposium: Otherness, Agency and
Belonging
November 6-8, 2012
Due: May 25, 2012
International Network for Alternative Academia
oab-4@alternative-academia.net
4th International Symposium:
Otherness, Agency and Belonging
Part of the Research Program on:
Recognition, Agency and the Politics of Otherness
International Network for Alternative Academia
(Extends a general invitation to participate)
Tuesday 6th to Thursday 8th of November, 2012
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Call for Papers
This trans-disciplinary research project explores the unfolding dynamic of the
relationship between self and other as it is enacted in our experiences of being
strangers, aliens and foreigners. Examining the history of this relationship, reflecting
upon its ideological and psychological foundations, and bearing witness to its
manifestation in the lived experiences of migrants, refugees and the displaced, this
symposium offers the opportunity to consider at the level of both theory and practice,
new means for establishing a sense of belonging and new methods for engaging the
other.
We invite colleagues from all disciplines and professions interested in exploring and
explaining these issues in a collective, deliberative and dialogical environment to send
presentation proposals that address these general questions or the following themes:
1. Practice, Logic and Dialogue
=> Being and Belonging
- How is belonging conceptualized? How is it lived?
- What are the psychological and the ideological foundations for the need to belong?
- How do ideals of belonging shape and inform the practice of recognition?
- How is the need to belong politicized?
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- In what ways are notions of belonging being reconfigured in response to the rise of
new technologies and new media? In what ways is the need to belong shaping these
developments?
=> Language Lessons
- Can we speak of the self without the other? Can there be a language of ‘we-ness’?
What terms would it employ? How would the grammar for such a language be
constructed?
- What metaphors can be employed in the construction of alternatives to binary
representations of self and other?
- How are new languages -new terminologies and new structures- being lived? That is,
how are they already shaping experience through and in the development of idioms
and rhetoric, signs and symbols?
- What alternatives might dialogical acts of speaking provide for addressing the other
and the self? How might referential acts be used as a model for rethinking self-other
relations?
- What role might embodiment and location play in rethinking difference?
2. Shifting Planes and Contexts
=> Monetary Values
- What is the role of labour migration for economic growth and prosperity? How are
the contributions of labour migration being recognized? How are they being
measured?
- How is migrant labour commodified? What are the effects of this commodification?
- What is the political value of migrants and foreigners, strangers and aliens, refugees
and the displaced? How are they made ‘invisible’ within nations and states? At what
moments are they made visible? How is this dialectic of visibility played out,
experienced and conceived?
- What new models of economic/political inclusion/exclusion are we witnessing?
=> Environment and the Link to Nature
- How are self and other interweaved with nature? What norms, orientations and
models prevail? Are there alternatives that are being collectively enacted? How might
these bonds be reconceptualised?
- What indigenous worldviews might foster the construction of new models of
diversity and plurality?
- How is the new class of environmental migrants being constructed and conceived?
=> A Whole New World
- Who are the new migrants? How are new migratory flows and massive movements
mapping out, both literally and figuratively?
- How are trans-national and post-national ideologies reconfiguring our conceptions
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of the other?
- Who is our neighbour? Do we owe our neighbour hospitality and respect? Why?
- How is responsibility to be attributed in a world that is on the move?
3. Enquiry and Legitimacy
=> Representations
- How are representations of difference created and disseminated through the arts and
media?
- By what means and through what measures do art and media instil and embed
images of otherness? How might these avenues of production be used to transform
and deconstruct such representations?
- How are new technologies and new media framing our ideas of otherness?
- What are the stories of strangers, the allegories of aliens, the fictions of foreigners
and the discourses of the displaced being told? How are such narratives constructed?
With what affect?
=> Acts of Legitimation: On Law
- How do nation states exclude juridically? How do laws protect and/or exclude the
other?
- How do citizens and non-citizens relate within juridical practices and discourse?
- What place do human rights occupy in facilitating inclusionary and/or exclusionary
practices?
- How are trans-national and post-national ideologies configuring conceptions of self
and other?
4. Challenging Ideals
=> Productive Possibilities
- How do our encounters with strangers, aliens and foreigners enrich our lives?
- What are the productive advantages of being deemed ‘the other’?
- What of our experiences of ‘othering’ ourselves? When and why do we choose to be
foreigners? How do these experiences differ from those in which we are ascribed this
condition and status?
=> The Spaces In-Between: Beyond Self and Other
- In what ways are self and other interdependent? What is the history of this
interlacing?
- How are the layerings and overlappings of our identifications as self and other, self
or other lived?
- What new models of/for exchange and engagement are developing in theory and in
practice?
- How might new models of cultural contact based on ideals of fusion, entanglement,
doubleness, syncretism, amalgamation, creolization, interlacing, hybridization and
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interdependence, destabilize the logic of a binary system of self and other? How
might they re-enforce this logic?
If you are interested in participating in this Annual Symposium, submit a 400 to 500
word abstract by Friday 25th of May, 2012. Please use the following template for your
submission:
First: Author(s);
Second: Affiliation, if any;
Third: Email Address;
Fourth: Title of Abstract and Proposal;
Fifth: The 400 to 500 Word Abstract.
To facilitate the processing of abstracts, we ask that you use Word, WordPerfect or
RTF formats only and that you use plain text, resisting the temptation of using special
formatting, such as bold, italics or underline.
Please send emails with your proposals to the Annual Symposium Coordination
address (oab-4@alternative-academia.net) with the following subject line: Otherness,
Agency & Belonging Abstract Proposal.
For every abstract proposal sent, we acknowledge receipt. If you do not receive a
reply from us within one week you should assume we did not receive it. Please resend
from your account and from an alternative one, to make sure your proposal does get to
us.
All presentation and paper proposals that address these questions and issues will be
fully considered and evaluated. Accepted abstracts will require a full draft paper by
Friday 31st of August, 2012. Papers presented at the symposium are eligible for
publication as part of a digital or paperback book.
We invite colleagues and people interested in participating to disseminate this call for
papers. Thank you for sharing and cross-listing where and whenever appropriate.
Hope to meet you in Montreal!
Symposium Coordinators:
Wendy O'Brien
Professor of Social and Political Theory
School of Liberal Studies
Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Email: w-obrien@alternative-academia.net
Oana Andriese
Founding Member & Project Coordinator
International Network for Alternative Academia
Bucharest, Romania
Email: o-andriese@alternative-academia.net
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Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
General Coordinator
International Network for Alternative Academia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Email: acc@alternative-academia.net
*****
Informational Note:
Alternative Academia is an international network of intellectuals, academics,
independent scholars and practitioners committed to creating spaces, both within and
beyond traditional academe, for creative, trans-disciplinary and critical thinking on
key themes. We offer annual and biannual symposiums at sites around the world,
providing forums that foster the development of new frames of reference and
innovative structures for the production and expansion of knowledge and theory.
Dialogue, discussion and deliberation define both the methods employed and the
values upheld by this network.
Currently our website is under construction, but it will soon be available at:
www.alternative-academia.net
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1st International Symposium: Awe, Wonder &
Passion: Music & the Creation of Meaning
November 10-12, 2012
Due: May 25, 2012
International Network for Alternative Academia
mcm-1@alternative-academia.net
1st International Symposium:
Awe, Wonder and Passion: Music and the Creation of Meaning
Part of the Research Program on:
Aesthetic Lives, Artistic Selves
International Network for Alternative Academia
(Extends a general invitation to participate)
Saturday 10th to Monday 12th of November, 2012
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Call for Papers
This trans-disciplinary project seeks to understand the value and meaning music has
in our lives, as well as the multiple ways music structures and informs our
relationships, sense of place and self across historical periods and within cultural,
political and social contexts. Exploring how music is created, received, consumed and
appropriated, this symposium offers an opportunity to consider the ways in which
music is interweaved with social and cultural processes of the construction of self,
membership and community, and conversely with the generation of otherness,
exclusion and isolation.
We invite colleagues from all disciplines and professions interested in sharing these
explorations in a collective, deliberative and dialogical environment to send
presentation proposals that address these general questions or the following themes:
1. Speak to Me: The Language of Musical Creation
- Can music be theorized?
- Is music analogous to language? How to understand a musical phrase, as a spoken or
written sentence? What is the grammar of music?
- Are spaces between notes similar to pauses between words? What is the place of
silence and pause in music? Can we conceive of the force and power of silence?
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- Who do we hear speaking when we listen to music? What do we hear?
- Can there be neutrality in musical creation? Must music have an inherent meaning?
Must it be created with intent?
- Can a novel be transformed into a piece of music? Can a piece of music be
transformed into a painting? What are the challenges of ekphrasis?
2. Phenomenology of the Musical Realm: Emotions and Meaning
- What questions does music allow us to ask? What answers does it facilitate us
finding?
- Can we conceive of music as a mode of enquiry? What would it require?
- How do context, culture and time link music and meaning?
- Is music love by another means?
- How is it that music taps into our emotions giving rise to great passion and great
pain?
- What is the transformative value of music?
- How can we tell the story of the lived experience of ever present appreciation, yet
ever changing meaning of music?
- What would a life devoid of music feel like? What would it sound like?
3. Creativity and Critique
- What metaphors can be most aptly employed to capture the process of musical
creation?
- What is it about music and the musical experience that seems to invade and take
over all senses, to overwhelm life-worlds?
- How does musical creation pay homage to the past? How does it allow for the
re-envisioning of the future? What about the link to the present?
- Can the creative process be articulated? Can it be mapped? Can it be captured by
discourse?
- How can we account for the awesome capacity that music has for breaking frontiers,
shifting boundaries, inventing new forms of expression, redefining terrains,
envisioning new horizons?
- How does music subtlety confront, contest and overturn even its own language and
metaphors?
4. Roots of Music: Grounding, Context and Politics
- How are music and musical taste culturally and socially constructed?
- Given its roots in whorehouses and backrooms to its performance in music halls,
how is music legitimized and sanctified?
- Is music politics by another means? What is the role of music during times of social,
economic and/or cultural crisis?
- What is the interstitial value of music? Does it dissolve or re-instill binary
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oppositions created based upon race, ethnicity, gender, sex, geography and class?
Does music challenge or reinforce such divisions as those made between center and
periphery, self and other; and, the western and the non-western?
- How does improvisation encourage and inform challenges to the meanings and
messages found in and through music?
- How are new technologies affecting the production, dissemination and appreciation
of music?
5. Everyone’s a Critic?
- Do we need special translators to appreciate music?
- Is there a need for music critics? How is the role of the critic being re-configured in
the new media?
- Who gets to define the value of music, to dictate what constitutes musical “taste”?
- Who is talking back to critics? Are there efforts in sidestepping the place that critics
have in the institutionalized visions of music evaluation?
- Is there space for debate about quality and creation of music?
- What can we learn from musicology and ethno-musicology?
6. Productive Forces/Instructive Bonds
- What institutions constrict and confine musical creation? What institutions expand
it?
- Are new technologies and new modes of funding challenging traditional models?
- What factors -social, political and artistic- are informing the recent trend towards
remakes, remixes and replays?
- What is alternative in alternative music?
- Why is there a need for music? What does it add and what does it subtract from our
lives? Why does music persist?
- What does the investigation into the neurological foundations of music add to our
understanding of music? What does it take away?
- Who is defending and protecting the dreams and fantasies made by music and the
musical experience?
If you are interested in participating in this Annual Symposium, submit a 400 to 500
word abstract by Friday 25th of May, 2012. Please use the following template for your
submission:
First: Author(s);
Second: Affiliation, if any;
Third: Email Address;
Fourth: Title of Abstract and Proposal;
Fifth: The 400 to 500 Word Abstract.
To facilitate the processing of abstracts, we ask that you use Word, WordPerfect or
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RTF formats only and that you use plain text, resisting the temptation of using special
formatting, such as bold, italics or underline.
Please send emails with your proposals to the Annual Symposium Coordination
address (mcm-1@alternative-academia.net) with the following subject line: Music &
the Creation of Meaning Abstract Proposal.
For every abstract proposal sent, we acknowledge receipt. If you do not receive a
reply from us within one week you should assume we did not receive it. Please resend
from your account and from an alternative one, to make sure your proposal does get to
us.
All presentation and paper proposals that address these questions and issues will be
fully considered and evaluated. Accepted abstracts will require a full draft paper by
Friday 31st of August, 2012. Papers presented at the symposium are eligible for
publication as part of a digital or paperback book.
We invite colleagues and people interested in participating to disseminate this call for
papers. Thank you for sharing and cross-listing where and whenever appropriate.
Hope to meet you in Montreal!
Symposium Coordinators:
Cheryl Sim
Commissaire Associée
DHC/ART Fondation pour l’art contemporain
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Email: c-sim@alternative-academia.net
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
General Coordinator
International Network for Alternative Academia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Email: acc@alternative-academia.net
*****
Informational Note:
Alternative Academia is an international network of intellectuals, academics,
independent scholars and practitioners committed to creating spaces, both within and
beyond traditional academe, for creative, trans-disciplinary and critical thinking on
key themes. We offer annual and biannual symposiums at sites around the world,
providing forums that foster the development of new frames of reference and
innovative structures for the production and expansion of knowledge and theory.
Dialogue, discussion and deliberation define both the methods employed and the
values upheld by this network.
Currently our website is under construction, but it will soon be available at:
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www.alternative-academia.net
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Conservation, Restoration, and Sustainability: A Call
to Stewardship
November 8-10, 2012
Due: June 1, 2012
Environmental Ethics Initiative at Brigham Young University
George_Handley@byu.edu
“Conservation, Restoration, and Sustainability: A Call to Stewardship”
Brigham Young University--Provo, UT
Date: November 8-10, 2012
This symposium is devoted to exploring the interdisciplinary dimensions of
environmental stewardship in literature and the arts, law, philosophy, science, and
religion. We seek papers that critique, develop, and enhance conceptions of
stewardship that are grounded in current scientific and cultural understanding of
environmental problems. We encourage explorations such problems as climate change,
species extinction, human/animal relationships, food production, land and water use,
air quality, and other environmental and resource problems of national and
international consequence. We especially welcome presentations that also develop the
underlying moral, ethical, cultural, or theological dimensions of such problems. In
other words, we seek papers that will provide guidelines for solutions and the
justifications and methods for motivating conservation, restoration, and the goal of
long-term sustainability. Moreover, we expect papers that reflect various religious,
philosophical, and cultural perspectives. Confirmed keynote speakers include
Margaret Palmer (Director of the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center and
University of Maryland), Jonathan Foley (Institute on the Environment at the
University of the Minnesota), and J. Baird Callicott (University of North Texas and
co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy). This
symposium will address questions about:
Stewardship: What are the advantages and limitations of the idea of stewardship? To
which texts, stories, cosmologies, and artistic traditions can we turn for inspiration?
What are the underlying values and moral limits of environmental laws? What
obstacles and opportunities are there for science to interface effectively with religion,
public policy, and culture to promote better stewardship?
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Conservation: What are the fundamental principles of conservation biology? What are
the crises of conservation we face? How can we translate conservation biology and
other relevant sciences more effectively into the languages of culture and religion,
into human values?
Restoration: What are the challenges of ecological restoration?
How do we know when restoration is necessary? What successes can we point to?
With the need of ecological restoration in mind, what kind of economy is a moral and
efficacious one? What is religion’s relevance to restoration?
Sustainability: What are the fundamental principles of sustainability? What are the
principles of intergenerational as well as intra-generational fairness? How can we
meet the needs of present and future populations? What are the limits of resources we
face and what role might faith, innovation, or modesty play in living within them?
Please send proposals for individual papers or for panels
toGeorge_Handley@byu.edu by June 1, 2012. Proposals for papers should be no
more than 200 words and should include a CV. Proposals for panels should include a
description of the panel’s objectives and a paper proposal and a CV for each
participant.
This symposium is hosted by the Environmental Ethics Initiative at Brigham Young
University and sponsored by generous funds from The Nature Conservancy and from
BYU’s David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies and the Colleges of Life
Sciences and of Humanities.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Margaret Palmer is Director of the National Socio‐Environmental Synthesis
Center (www.SESYNC.org), an NSF and University of Maryland supported research
center dedicated to creating synthetic, actionable science related to the structure,
functioning, and sustainability of socio‐environmental systems. In addition, as a
Professor at the University of Maryland in the Department of Entomology and in the
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), she oversees a
large research group focused on watershed science and restoration ecology. Having
worked on streams, rivers, and estuaries for > 27 years and leading scientific projects
at national and international levels, she has more than 150 scientific publications and
multiple ongoing collaborative research grants. She is past Director of the Chesapeake
Biological Laboratory, serves as an editor for the journal Restoration Ecology and co‐
authored the book The Foundations of Restoration Ecology. Dr. Palmer has been
honored as a AAAS Fellow, an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, a Lilly Fellow, a
Distinguished Scholar Teacher, an Ecological Society of America Distinguished
Service Award, and a University System of Maryland Board of Regent's Faculty
Award of Excellence.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley is the director of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the
University of the Minnesota, where he is a professor and McKnight Presidential Chair
in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior. He also leads the IonE’s
Global Landscapes Initiative. Foley’s work focuses on complex global environmental
systems and their interactions with human societies. He and his students have
contributed to our understanding of global-scale ecological processes, global patterns
of land use, the behavior of the planet’s climate and water cycles, and the
sustainability of our biosphere. This work has led him to be a regular advisor to large
corporations, NGOs and governments around the world. Foley joined the University
of Minnesota in 2008, after spending 15 years on the faculty of the University of
Wisconsin, where he founded the Center for Sustainability and the Global
Environment. He and his colleagues have published over 100 articles in the scientific
literature, including highly cited work in Science, Nature and the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. He has also written many popular articles and essays,
including pieces in the New York Times, Scientific American, SEED, E360, the
Guardian, and elsewhere. Foley has won numerous awards and honors, including the
National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award; the J.S.
McDonnell Foundation’s 21st Century Science Award; an Aldo Leopold Leadership
Fellowship; and the Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of
America. In 1997, President Bill Clinton awarded him the Presidential Early Career
Award for Scientists and Engineers.
J. Baird Callicott is University Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and
formerly Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. He is
co-Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy and
author or editor of a score of books and author of dozens of journal articles,
encyclopedia articles, and book chapters in environmental philosophy and ethics.
Callicott has served the International Society for Environmental Ethics as President
and Yale University as Bioethicist-in-Residence, and he has served the UNT
Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies as chair. His research goes forward
simultaneously on four main fronts: theoretical environmental ethics; comparative
environmental ethics and philosophy; the philosophy of ecology and conservation
policy; and biocomplexity in the environment, coupled natural and human systems
(sponsored by the National Science Foundation). Callicott is perhaps best known as
the leading contemporary exponent of Aldo Leopold’s land ethic and is currently
exploring an Aldo Leopold Earth ethic in response to global climate change. He
taught the world’s first course in environmental ethics in 1971 at the University of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His teaching at UNT includes graduate and undergraduate
courses in ancient Greek philosophy and ethical theory in addition to environmental
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philosophy.
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SAMLA 2012 Charles W. Chesnutt Panel Discussion "Centuries of Chesnutt"
November 9-11, 2012
Due: June 1, 2012
Elizabeth G. Allen / Charles W. Chesnutt Association
egallen@memphis.edu
This discussion will focus on the perspective of Chesnutt's work as it moved through
the post-Reconstruction era into the Harlem Renaissance or from the late Nineteenth
into the early Twentieth Century. Papers that address this topic or the way in which
his work reflects the memory of these movements and hallmarks are strongly
encouraged. Please e-mail abstracts for proposal to Elizabeth G. Allen (The University
of Memphis) at egallen@memphis.edu. The deadline for submission is June 1, 2012.
The Association will host this panel discussion on his works at the 2012 SAMLA
Conference, which will be held in Durham, NC on November 9-11.
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27th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the
Humanities: SYSTEMS OF CONTROL / MODES
OF RESISTANCE
November 1-3, 2012
Due: June 1, 2012
Robert Kilpatrick / University of West Georgia
rkilpatr@westga.edu
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Russell Berman (Stanford University)
How do various systems of authority (e.g. literary, political, sexual, cultural,
economic, linguistic) seek to control individuals, groups, or cultural movements?
How do individuals, groups, or cultural movements engage in resistance to
subjection?
We welcome submissions in all areas of the humanities, including foreign languages
and literatures, English, creative writing, linguistics, cultural studies, the visual arts,
theatre, music, philosophy and history. Papers, proposed performances or screenings
may be submitted by scholars, writers, artists or performers and may be in English,
French, German or Spanish. Conference participants will be encouraged to expand
and revise their papers for submission to the peer-reviewed JAISA: The Journal of the
Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts.
Seehttp://www.westga.edu/forlangconf/index_16187.php for further information.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Russell Berman (Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis)
is the Walter E. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. As former
President of the Modern Language Association, he has been a forceful public
advocate of the humanities in the academy and beyond. Dr. Berman has published
extensively in Comparative Literature and German Studies and is an expert on
cultural relations between Europe and the United States.
For individual proposals please submit a one-page, double-spaced abstract in English,
French, German or Spanish via email to Dr. Robert Kilpatrick, rkilpatr@westga.edu.
Include the presenter’s name, institution, email, phone and any audio-visual or
technical requirements for the presentation. Submissions for panels are especially
welcome. For panel proposals please submit panel title, abstracts and contact
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information for all speakers and the panel moderator. Proposals are due by June 1,
2012. Visithttp://www.westga.edu/forlangconf/ for details and updates.
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Southeastern Renaissance Conference
October 5-6, 2012
Due: June 15, 2012
Southeastern Renaissance Conference
staubsc@appstate.edu
The Southeastern Renaissance Conference invites submissions for our 69th annual
conference, which will be held on October 5-6, 2012, at the University of Tennessee
in Knoxville. Papers can be on any aspect of Renaissance literature, art or culture.
Please submit your full essay (20 minute reading time) by email attachment in either
Word or a PDF file to Dr. Heather Hirschfeld, President of the Southeastern
Renaissance Conference, hhirschf@utk.edu by June 15, 2012.
Submission of your work to the Conference is also an automatic submission to
Renaissance Papers, the journal of the Conference. Even those articles not accepted
for delivery at the meeting will be considered for publication in the journal.
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UVa-Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXVI
September 20-22, 2012
Due: June 17, 2012
University of Virginia's College at Wise
kjt9t@uvawise.edu
The University of Virginia's Medieval-Renaissance Conference is pleased to accept
abstracts for out twenty-fifth conference.
September 20-22, 2012
Keynote Address
P. J. C. Field
University of North Wales
Passion, Naturalism, and the Sea: David Jones's Tristan ac Essylt
The conference is an open event that promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines
of Medieval and Renaissance studies. We welcome proposals for papers and panels on
Medieval or Renaissance literature, language, history, philosophy, science, pedagogy,
and the arts. Abstracts for papers should be 300 or fewer words. Proposals for panels
should include: a) title of the panel; b) names and institutional affiliations of the chair
and all panelists; c) abstracts for papers to be presented (300 or fewer words). A
branch campus of the University of Virginia, the University of Virginia’s College at
Wise is a public four-year liberal arts college located in the scenic Appalachian
Mountains of Southwest Virginia.
Deadline for Submissions: June 17, 2012
Please direct submissions on English Language and Literature and requests for
general information to:
Kenneth J. Tiller
Department of Language and Literature
UVA’s College at Wise
Wise, VA 24293
(276) 376-4587
kjt9t@uvawise.edu
Submissions on Art, Music, and Continental Literature:
Amelia J. Harris
Academic Dean
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UVA’s College at Wise
Wise, VA 24293
(276) 376-4557
ajh7a@uvawise.edu
Submissions on History or Philosophy:
Donald Leech
Department of History and Philosophy
UVA’s College at Wise
Wise, VA 24293
dl4fh@uvawise.ed
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4th annual Louisiana Studies Conference
September 21-22, 2012
Due: July 1, 2012
Dr. Shane Rasmussen / Louisiana Folklife Center
rasmussens@nsula.edu
The 4th annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 21-22, 2012 at
Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The theme of this year’s
conference is “Louisiana Art and Artists.”
The Conference Committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming
conference. This interdisciplinary conference will be accepting proposals from the
following disciplines: American studies, anthropology, architecture, communications,
craft, creative writing, criminal justice, cultural studies, cultural tourism, dance,
design, English and literary studies, environmental studies, ethnic studies, fashion
design, film studies, fine arts, folklore, gender studies, geography, heritage resources,
history, interior design, journalism, linguistics, musicology, music performance,
philosophy, photography, political science, psychology, queer studies, religious
studies, Romance languages, social work, sociology, theatre, and vernacular
architecture.
Although we are especially interested in proposals that deal with art and artists in,
from, or about Louisiana, all papers, creative writing, and short performances (dance,
music, or theatric) that address any aspect of Louisiana studies are welcome.
Proposals are being solicited for fifteen minute presentations from scholars at all
career stages as well as graduate students. Creative work (creative non-fiction, short
fiction, and poetry) is welcome. Undergraduates are invited to submit, provided they
are working with the guidance of a trained scholar. Proposals for panels and
roundtable discussions are welcome. Registration for Conference attendees will be
$40.
Abstracts (300 words max.) for scholarly proposals, creative writing, and short
performances (dance, music, or theatric) should be sent as e-mail attachments to Dr.
Shane Rasmussen, rasmussens@nsula.edu. Presentations should run no longer than
15 minutes. Briefly detail the audio / visual tools (laptop, projection screen, data
projector, DVD or VCR player, etc.) or space (the stage in the Magale Recital Hall
will be provided for short performances) your presentation will require, if any. Please
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include a separate cover page with your name, affiliation, mailing and e-mail address,
and the title of your presentation. E-mails should be entitled: Louisiana Studies
Conference Submission. We will send an e-mail acknowledgement of having received
each abstract within one week of having received it. If you do not receive an
acknowledgment please resend your submission as we may not have received it. The
deadline for submissions is July 1. Accepted presenters will be notified via e-mail by
July 31, 2012.
Read broadly, consider the following possibilities for presentation topics relating to
Louisiana Art and Artists. (Note: The following list of suggestions is not meant to be
comprehensive.)
Louisiana Architectures
Art about/from/in Louisiana
Art Education in Louisiana
Artists (and Artisans) from/in Louisiana
Louisiana Crafts
Louisiana Dance and Dancers
Louisiana Design (fashion, graphic, interior, etc.)
Louisiana Fashions
Louisiana Fictions
Louisiana Films and Filmmakers
Louisiana and the Fine Arts
Louisiana Folk Art and Artists
Louisiana Murals
Louisiana Music, Musicians, and Musicologies
Louisiana Performances and Performers
Louisiana Photographers and Photography
Louisiana Plays and Playwrights
Louisiana Poets and Poetries
Public Art in Louisiana
Louisiana Sculptures
Louisiana Songs and Songwriters
Theater in Louisiana
Louisiana Visions
A selection of scholarly and creative work presented at the conference will be
solicited for publication in Louisiana Folklife, a peer reviewed academic journal
produced by the Louisiana Folklife Center, Northwestern State University, General
Editor, Dr. Shane Rasmussen. Additional information is available on the website for
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the Louisiana Folklife Center at Northwestern State
University:http://louisianafolklife.nsula.edu/.
The Conference will be held in conjunction with the juried exhibition Louisiana
Proximities. For further information or entrance guidelines for the exhibition please
contact Exhibition Chair Leslie Gruesbeck,gruesbeckl@nsula.edu.
Dr. Lisa Abney, Provost, Vice President for Student and Academic Affairs, and
Professor of English, Northwestern State University (Conference Co-chair)
Dr. Shane Rasmussen, Director of the Louisiana Folklife Center and Assistant
Professor of English, Northwestern State University (Conference Co-chair)
The Conference is co-sponsored by the NSU Department of Fine + Graphic Arts,
Folklife Society of Louisiana, the Louisiana Folklife Center, and the NSU College of
Arts, Letters, Graduate Studies and Research.
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“Theatrum Mundi: Faith, Representation, and
Multiculturalism.”
October 5-6, 2012
Due: July 6, 2012
South West Conference on Christianity and Literature
swccl@obu.edu
The 2012 South Western Region Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and
Literature will be held October 5-6 at Oklahoma Christian University in cooperation
with Oklahoma Baptist University. The theme of the conference is “Theatrum Mundi:
Faith, Representation, and Multiculturalism.”
The keynote speaker will be Tony Award-winning playwright, David Henry Hwang ,
who will deliver the 8th annual McBride Lecture for Faith & Literature. Mr. Hwang
will also appear, along with members of the editorial board of the journal Ecumenica,
on a panel addressing issues of faith in contemporary drama.
Call for Papers: Shakespeare’s famous proclamation that “All the World’s a Stage” is
just one among numerous Renaissance assertions of the Theatrum Mundi. In his 1612
Apology for Actors, Thomas Heywood, for instance, argues that
. . . the world a Theater present,
As by the roundnesse it appears most fit,
Built with starre-galleries of hye ascent,
In which Jehove does as spectator sit.
This metaphor gave thinkers in the early modern period and beyond both a means of
defending the sacramental value of the stage itself – and of representation more
broadly – and a means of conceptualizing God’s relationship to his creation as its
author, director, and primary spectator. As we consider this metaphor today, we might
consider the implications of the Theatrum Mundi concept for the expanded stage of a
global society. Is all the world a stage?
For this conference we seek papers that address questions of representation before the
divine. While we are, in keeping with our keynote speaker, especially interested in
papers on dramatic literature, faith, and multiculturalism, we are also interested in
how non-dramatic texts grapple with God as author, director, and/or audience for the
theater of human activity. We will also consider papers more broadly interested in the
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intersection of Christianity and literature, as well as creative writing dealing with
issues of faith.
Email one-paragraph abstracts and session proposals by July 6 to Benjamin Myers at
the following address: swccl@okbu.edu.
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The 18th Irregular Miami J’yce Birthday Conference:
Joyce and England
January 31-February 2, 2013
Due: August 1, 2012 (Panel Topics), October 15, 2012
(Paper Proposals)
University of Miami
MiamiJoyce2013@gmail.com
The 18th Irregular Miami J’yce Birthday Conference:
Joyce and England
University of Miami
January 31-February 2, 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are now being solicited for the 18th Irregular Miami J’yce Birthday
Conference to be held at the University of Miami, January 31-February 2, 2013.
Possible topics could include:
• English characters in Joyce
• Joyce and the English language
• Joyce and subversion
• nationalism & imperialism
• emigration/immigration
• Joyce visiting England
• Joyce and English contemporaries
• Joyce and Shakespeare
• Joyce and Cardinal Newman
• English politics and Joyce
• BUT ALL JOYCE TOPICS ARE WELCOME!
Paper and Panel Proposals should be emailed to Timothy Sutton at the following
address: MiamiJoyce2013@gmail.com
Proposals should include the following information:
—Author and affiliate institution
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—Paper/Panel title
—Max. 300 word abstract
—Technological requests
Panel Topics Due: August 1, 2012
Paper Proposals Due: October 15, 2012
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Atlantic-Canadian Literature in a Shifting World
conference, Acadia University
July 4-7, 2013
Due: Novmber1, 2012
Dr. Herb Wyile, Acadia University
herb.wyile@acadiau.ca
The early twenty-first century is a complicated time for regional literatures,
particularly the literature of a relatively small region like Atlantic Canada.
Globalization, interest in diasporic studies, and an increasingly post-national
sensibility are pushing the reconceptualization of national literatures, with
considerable implications for regional literatures. Furthermore, it is a time when
Atlantic Canada is undergoing considerable cultural change and its future is very
much in flux, with the prospect of economic crisis on the one hand and the possibility
of a resource-based economic resurgence on the other. Additionally, the very concept
of Atlantic Canada continues to be contested, particularly because of differences
between the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland.
Within this overarching milieu, Acadia University will be hosting a conference on
Atlantic-Canadian literature as part of its Thomas Raddall Symposium series.
Conference events will include readings by Newfoundland fiction writer Lisa Moore
and New Brunswick poet Herménégilde Chiasson. The organizers are particularly
interested in papers (in French or English) that situate the literature of the four
Atlantic Provinces in social, economic, and political context. Areas of inquiry might
include the following (but we welcome proposals for papers and panels from all
critical and theoretical perspectives and on any topics related to Atlantic-Canadian
literature, including Acadian literature):
--Is a catchment like “Atlantic-Canadian literature” still a useful frame?
--What is the relationship between the socio-economic realities of Atlantic Canada
and their representation in literature?
--How can the literatures of the region be mobilized for greater political effect?
--Does thinking of literature in a regional context (i.e., “Atlantic”) limit creative
expression, or do changes in Canadian federalism make it an opportune time to
retrench regional identities?
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--How does the current literary production in the region compare with that of past
eras?
500-word proposals should be accompanied by a separate cover page containing a
50-word abstract, full contact information, and a short biographical note. Proposals
for panels should contain a title for the panel, the name of the contact person for the
panel, and the individual proposals complete with cover pages. Proposals should be
submitted electronically by Nov. 1, 2012. Please direct proposals and any questions
to:
Dr. Herb Wyile, Department of English and Theatre, Acadia University,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 2R6
E-mail: herb.wyile@acadiau.ca Tel: 902-585-1255 Fax: 902-585-1070
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Conferences in Europe
Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End: Modernism and
the First World War
September 27-29, 2012
Due: May 1, 2012
Institute of English Studies, University of London
fordmadoxford@hotmail.co.uk
CALL FOR PAPERS: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
Institute of English Studies, University of London
27–29 September 2012
‘There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End
is one of them.’ W. H. Auden
Proposals are invited for an international conference on Ford Madox Ford’s First
World War tetralogy, Parade’s End. First published as Some Do Not . . . (1924), No
More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up– (1926) and Last Post (1928), Parade’s
End has been described by Anthony Burgess as ‘the finest novel about the First World
War’, by Samuel Hynes as ‘the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman’,
and by Malcolm Bradbury as ‘a central Modernist novel of the 1920s, in which it is
exemplary’. In 2010–11, Carcanet published the volumes as major critical editions,
providing for the first time reliable texts, detailed annotations and discussions of the
textual histories. Also in 2011, the BBC and HBO embarked on a five-part adaptation,
scripted by Sir Tom Stoppard. As we approach the centenary of the start of the Great
War, this conference will examine and celebrate Ford’s First World War modernist
masterpiece.
Keynote Address:
Adam Piette, author of Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry 1939-1945
(1995) and The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam (2009)
Special Guest:
Susanna White, BAFTA award-winning director of Parade’s End (2012, forthcoming),
Bleak House (2005), Jane Eyre (2006), and Generation Kill (2008)
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The conference aims to examine Parade’s End from a wide a range of critical,
historical, and theoretical perspectives. Possible topics might include:
• Parade’s End and modernism (including comparisons with other modernist
novels).
• Parade’s End and the literature of the First World War (fiction, poetry, memoirs).
• Parade’s End and Ford’s other fictional and non-fictional war prose (such as No
Enemy, The Marsden Case, When Blood Is Their Argument, Between St. Dennis and
St. George, and the material collected in War Prose).
• Parade’s End and Ford’s War poetry.
• The contexts of Parade’s End: class; women; marriage; family; bureaucracy;
politics (radical toryism, communism, and the suffrage movement); music hall;
cinema.
• The techniques of Parade’s End: style; narrative; point of view; time; memory;
stream of consciousness; character; humour; fairytale and romance; Literary
Impressionism.
• Influences on, and the influence of, Parade’s End.
We are keen to receive proposals from graduate students as well as established
scholars, and we especially welcome papers discussing Parade’s End in relation to
other writers’ works, including (but not limited to): Richard Aldington; Henri
Barbusse; Vera Brittain; Edmund Blunden; H.D.; John Dos Passos; T. S. Eliot; Robert
Graves; Graham Greene; Ernest Hemingway; David Jones; James Joyce; D. H.
Lawrence; Wyndham Lewis; Frederic Manning; R. H. Mottram; Marcel Proust; Erich
Maria Remarque; Siegfried Sassoon; May Sinclair; Rebecca West; Virginia Woolf.
Speakers will be invited to submit papers for publication in International Ford Madox
Ford Studies vol. 13, which will be published in 2014 to mark the centenary of the
outbreak of WWI.
Please send proposals of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers to the conference
organisers Rob Hawkes and Ashley Chantler (fordmadoxford@hotmail.co.uk) by 1
May 2012.
http://fordmadoxford-conference.weebly.com
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Communication of the symbolic and the symbolic of
communication in the modern and postmodern
societies
November 8-9, 2012
Due: May 1, 2012
ESSACHESS and The Open Research Centre for International Applied Research
Studies of Innovations in Communication (ORC IARSIC)
essachess@gmail.com
ESSACHESS and The Open Research Centre for International Applied Research
Studies of Innovations in Communication (ORC IARSIC) organise The International
Conference on Communication of the symbolic and the symbolic of communication
in the modern and postmodern societies. This prestigious event will be held at The
Techno sciences Institute for Information and Communication (ITIC), Paul Valéry
University of Montpellier 3, on 8-9 November 2012.
Kenote speaker: Lucien SFEZ
Important dates:
- May 1st, 2012: Submission of an abstract of approximately 3500 - 5000 characters,
including spaces, five keywords. The title of the paper will be written in French and
English. The proposal must include the name and affiliations as well as the email
address of all authors.
- June 15, 2012: Notification of abstracts acceptance via email.
- September 15, 2012: Full paper submission.
All proposals and additional questions should be addressed to:
celine.bryonportet@ensiacet.fr, mihaela.tudor.com@gmail.com,essachess@gmail
.com
Call for papers is available at this address:http://www.iarsic.com/news/
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Exchange Conference
June 28-29, 2012
Due: May 4, 2012
Rebecca Green, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
ExchangeConference@cf.ac.uk
June 28/29// 2012
POSTGRADUATE
INTERDISCIPLINARY
CONFERENCE
Call for papers
Doctoral researchers from across the humanities and social sciences are invited to
participate in this conference that explores the concept of exchange. By gathering a
broad range of perspectives the conference aims to stimulate interdisciplinary thinking
and help to build new networks between researchers.
In each case, the presentation could look to the present, draw on the past or consider
possibilities for the future. Themes could include explorations of exchange in areas of
interest such as:
Knowledge or research
Innovation, creativity, learning, communication
Attitudes or approaches
Reciprocity, sharing, convergence, dialogue
Psychology, language and behaviour
Meaning, identity, boundaries, relationships
Media or culture
Arts, music, literature, technology
Business or the economy
Globalism, trade, finance, enterprise
Philosophy, politics or religion
Ideas, trends, movements
Geography or society
Globalisation, migration, networks, social capital
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The conference committee welcomes abstracts from those at all stages of their PhD
(including those in the early stages who may wish to communicate their findings so
far as well as their future direction).
To submit a paper for consideration, send a 200 word abstract and include your
contact details and a brief biographical note.
Your abstract should provide a clear and concise overview of your presentation. You
can either introduce your research project as a whole, giving an overview of what you
are doing and why, or you can present a specific part of your research in more detail.
In either case, you should explain its significance to your field.
The length of each talk will be 20 minutes with an additional 5 minutes for questions.
Remember that you are likely to be presenting your research to people outside your
field so your abstract (and your talk) should reflect this.
Speakers will be chosen based on the abstracts submitted and how they relate to
‘exchange’ as the overall theme of the conference. Presentations will then be grouped
into panels that express one or more sub-themes.
Further information is available at www.cardiff.ac.uk/ugc/exchange
Submissions by 5pm Friday 4 May 2012
exchangeconference@cf.ac.uk
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Kafka and the Paradox of the Universal
December 12-14, 2012
Due: May 31, 2012
University of Antwerp
jo.bogaerts@ua.ac.be
Kafka and the Paradox of the Universal
Place: University of Antwerp
Date : 12-14 of December
Organizing Committee: Prof. Dr. Vivian Liska; Prof. Dr. Arthur Cools, Drs. Jo
Bogaerts, Drs. David Dessin
Keynote speakers : Stanley Corngold, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Rodolphe Gasché
Jean-Paul Sartre's saying that "Kafka's testimony is all the more universal as it is
profoundly singular" is indicative of a key paradox in the 20th century Kafka
reception which has wide-reaching implications for our understanding of the interface
between literature and philosophy. Kafka is indeed often regarded as the ultimate
witness to the human condition in the 20th century and, like Dante, Shakespeare, and
Goethe in their times, is attributed a universal significance. Yet Kafka's work is also
known for expressing the irreducibly singular and unclassifiable. The various
conceptions of universality and singularity that underlie these attributions as well as
the different guises in which the paradox of their simultaneity appears will be
explored in the conference ‘Kafka and the Paradox of the Universal’. This topic raises
many questions, among them: How should we understand the notions of universality
and singularity attributed to Kafka's work? And how can we explain the paradoxical
co-occurrence of these attributions?
These and related questions will be considered in a three-day conference at the
University of Antwerp on 12, 13, and 14 of December.
We also welcome proposals by graduate and postgraduate scholars.
Please send abstracts before May 31 to jo.bogaerts@ua.ac.be.
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The Marginalised Mainstream: Literature, Culture &
Popularity
November 8–9, 2012
Due: June 1, 2012
Marginalised Mainstream (Institute of English Studies, Goldsmiths College,
University of Exeter)
marginalisedmainstream@gmail.com
8-9 November 2012, Senate House, University of London
Keynote speakers include: Professor Phillip Tew (Brunel University) and Professor
Christoph Lindner (University of Amsterdam)
‘Texts are always sites of evaluative struggle between the “high” and the “low”,
whatever the presumed hierarchical positioning of their overall domain.’ (Léon Hunt)
The Marginalised Mainstream seeks to discuss the growing interest in and importance
of mainstream culture and the popular as ways of engaging with cultural products of
the late nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries, the long twentieth century,
1880–2010. Specifically, we seek to bring together postgraduate students, early career
academics and established researchers working in the fields of Literature, Cultural
Studies and elsewhere in the Humanities, to explore the mainstream culture and
objects of mass appeal are so frequently marginalised by the academic community, as
well as to offer some explanations for why this marginalisation might be.
We invite proposals for papers, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed
panels from all disciples on themes that could include, but are not limited to, the
following:
• The changing conceptualisation of canonicity;
• Genres, subgenres and the process of genre-fication;
• Queer fictions and alien concepts;
• ‘Low-’, ‘middle-’ and ‘high-brow’ texts;
• Critical acclaim vs. mass appeal;
• Cult classics and forgotten classics;
• Award winners, box-office smashes and bestsellers;
• Taking theory where it’s never gone before;
• Historiographies of gender, race and class.
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It goes without saying that writers, texts or topics need not be canonical and we
actively encourage papers discussing writers, texts and visual media from around the
world.
Panels will consist of three 20-minute papers followed by discussion. A lunch will be
included on the first day, followed by a closing wine reception at the end of the
second, where we hope all delegates and attendees will have a chance to mingle.
Abstracts of no more than 350 words are invited by 1 June 2012 . They must include:
• 350-word abstract, including title;
• your name;
• affiliation;
• contact information;
• a brief biographical paragraph about your academic interests;
• any technical support that might be needed.
Please email submissions, in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, to organisers
Brittain Bright (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Sam Goodman
(University of Exeter) and Emma Grundy Haigh (Goldsmiths College, University of
London) at
marginalisedmainstream@gmail.com
Acceptances will be sent out by no later than 16 July 2012.
Conference website: http://marginalisedmainstream.wordpress.com
Facebook
page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marginalised-Mainstream-Conference-201
2/25...
Please note: we are not in a position to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
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" 'FOUR-FOOTED ACTORS: LIVE ANIMALS ON
THE STAGE' " / University of Valencia, Spain
December 12-14, 2012
Due: June 1, 2012
Ignacio Ramos Gay / Universidad de Valencia (Spain)
ignacio.ramos@uv.es
Writing in 1899, Frederick Dolman argued in an article titled “Four-Footed Actors:
About Some Well-Known Animals that Appear in the London and Provincial Stage”
that the “growth of variety theatres and the decay of comic songs” had developed in
“several kinds of diversion, not the least of which is furnished by the art of the
animal-trainer” (The English Illustrated Magazine, Sep. 1899, 192, p. 521). Dolman
was describing the large-scale entertainments starring animals that had taken over
traditional spectator recreations for the last century in a manner not unlike the success
of music-halls and professional sport. In this sense, Lord George Sanger’s zoological
pantomimes best reflected the spirit of the new age and the advent of the
commercialisation of leisure. As recalled by himself, the cast in the production of
Gulliver’s Travels included “three hundred girls, two hundred men, two hundred
children, thirteen elephants, nine camels, and fifty-two horses, in addition to ostriches,
emus, pelicans, deer of all kinds, kangaroos, Indian buffaloes, Brahmin bulls, and (…)
two living lions led by the collar and chain into the centre of the group”.
Indeed, popular amusements have featured animals since antiquity, as shown by wild
animal fights (venationes and bestiarii) and ritual slaughters (hecatombs) in Greek and
Roman amphitheatres. Similarly, trained animal performances peppered medieval
Europe. A newspaper article published in The Saturday Magazine in 1839 described a
12th-century Anglo-Saxon manuscript portraying a joculator with his pipe and tabor,
accompanied by a dancing bear and dogs and even a cock on stilts. The author sadly
deplored the spread of such activities amongst civilized societies and regretted the
audience’s infatuation with them. “What is the feeling that prompts men to run after
exhibitions of this kind? It is an admiration of the skill displayed by the animal, or
that displayed by the owner in teaching the animal, or merely a love for the grotesque
and marvellous let it be shown in what way it may?” (The Saturday Magazine, April
27, 1839). Dogs, horses, pigs, goats, cocks, bears, monkeys and “quadrupeds of all
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sorts and sizes” frequently performed in Europe. Memorable shows include Astley’s
equestrian drama or the antics of Nicolet’s monkey Turco in Paris, who was capable
of imitating the Comédie-Française actor Molé. Further extravagances like tightrope
dancing canaries, horse-riding oxen, card-playing deer, soldier-marching little birds,
pigs solving mathematical puzzles, boxing kangaroos, and dogs setting-off cannons,
amongst many other animaux savants shows, delighted every kind of audience. As
early as 1572, Thomas Cartwright mockingly declared in his admonition to
Parliament against the use of the Common Prayer that “if there be a bull or a bear to
be baited in the afternoon, or a jackanapes to ride on horseback, the minister hurries
the service over in a shameful manner, in order to be present at the show” (The
Saturday Magazine, April 27, 1839).
The industrialisation of public spectacle turned classic animal performances into
monumental, exotic shows, ranging from grand opera played on horseback to the
vivid representation of a city siege with dogs. Not until the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries did the drama witness such an eclosion of hybrid theatrical forms in which
live animals acquired an essential part in the syntactic, thematic and dynamic
development of the play.
The aim of this conference is to explore the role of live animals on the stage, from the
early modern era to the present time. Papers dealing with visual or textual
representations of performing animals, typologies of animals in the theatre, the
hybridisation of the drama with the circus, the zoo and the cinema, as well as the
semiotic transfer of animal roles from the text to the stage are particularly welcome.
Corollary topics may also include, but are not limited to:
-Animals and the birth of the mass-entertainment industry
-Animals and melodrama
-Animals and pantomime
-Educability and animal training for the stage
-Sentience and animals as moral beings
-Anthropocentrism over non-human others
-Animal cruelty and speciesism on the stage
-Acting animals and spirituality
-Animal impersonators
-Hygiene and public safety measures and regulations in playhouses
-Stage mimicry
-Animal welfare and national identity
-Animal acting and stage scenery
-Performing animals and music
-Animals on the stage and Darwinism
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-Domestic vs wild animals on the stage
-Animals on the stage and the animal rights movement (19th-20th centuries)
-Animal and gender roles on the stage
Contributions:
Contributions are sought from researchers at any stage of their careers. Abstracts (300
words) in English, French or Spanish for 25-minute papers should be sent along with
a short biographical note by 1 June 2012 to Ignacio.Ramos@uv.es
Acceptance will be notified no later than July 2012.
Conference fees and registration:
Speakers: 60 euros
Attendees: 20 euros
Organising committee:
Department of French & Italian Philology
Department of English & German Philology
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Americascapes: Americans in/and their diverse
sceneries -- PAAS Annual Conference
October 17-19, 2012
Due: July 31, 2012
Department of American Literature and Culture, John Paul II Catholic University of
Lublin, Poland
americascapes@gmail.com
Call for Papers
Americascapes, or sceneries have emerged at the cusp of culture and environment as a
result of the process of their interaction in the course of American history. The same
space may be a site of competing scapes projected by conflicting majority narratives
and minority counter-narratives. These constructs have been invested ideologically,
ranging from the indigenous, Native American visions of home territory as cosmos
through the promise of American dream that projected the new land as virginal and
uninhabited, to its failure as a new Garden of Eden. For Puritans America’s promise
was initially associated with the urban allegory of the city on a hill to be subsequently
considered in terms of the Garden of Covenant surrounded with “howling
wilderness,” while, as Louis Simpson suggests, the South articulated its colonial
experience in terms of the garden of chattel. The violent beginnings of the Republic
found reflection in the menacing Gothic scenery of American landscapes in the works
of Charles Brockden Brown. Maintaining that terror is not of Germany but of the soul,
E. A. Poe pointed to the affinity between the external scenery and American Gothic
mindscapes. Transcendentalists construed landscape as revealing moral order, while
the sites of battles and calamities of the Civil War, which still attract thousands of
tourists every year, have become, over years, the ground of conflicting representations
and theatrical reenactments. The nineteenth century also saw dramatic transformation
of the landscape that verged on ecological disaster due to the railway construction
accompanied by mass buffalo shooting and economically driven destruction of
American environment. Those transformations were concomitant with forcible
relocation of Native Americans to reservations. Nostalgia for the disappearing
wilderness has found its expression in the creation of urban parks such as Central Park.
Even as the urban development gave rise to inherently American city-scapes, Charles
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Olson pointed out that Melville’s Pacific, prefigured in the Plains, was also a figure of
the American West; prairies and the seascapes thus form an allegorical continuum.
Mid-twentieth century is marked by the construction of the highways and the
development of the car industry whose crises in the late twentieth century contributed
to the decaying industrial landscapes of the Rust Belt. Twentieth and twenty first
centuries have seen a proliferation of internal and external landscapes, landscape
simulacra such as amusement parks and virtual scapes generated in and for the sake of
the movies and electronic media. On the other hand the interest in the materiality of
embodiment as well as the development of women and queer studies contribute to the
celebration of bodyscapes.
American public space may be viewed as an arena where values, ideas and interests
constantly compete for our attention, time or action. Institutions and cultural tradition
help us demarcate between almost indefinite claims made upon public space by a
multitude of actors who wish to claim its piece for themselves or wish to share it with
others. What emerges from these interactions is a devolution of American public
space. No sphere of human activity is left intact: from A for architecture to Z for
zoning. All emerging spaces are filled by political and social actors with their own
interpretations of what is possible, what is right, what is necessary and what is useless.
Thus, their words and actions define the meaning of the common good.
We are looking for contributions which will approach American politics and society
as a compound space in which various actors (parties, groups, classes, movements,
citizens) constantly (re)interpret and (re)construct American values and goals bringing
tensions between the sacred and the secular domains and the private and public
spheres. Some participants of these debates occupy parks, some quietly stroll down
the corridors of Congress. Some communicate their claims via the media air space,
others prefer to move door to door in local spaces. The organizers of this conference
wish to capture this dynamics and diversity in American democracy today.
We hope to provide a forum for scholars in various disciplines ranging from literary
history, history, sociology to political science and economics. You are invited to
discuss, in English or Polish, questions and issues connected with (but not limited to)
the following problems:
•American public space as a social, political and cultural phenomenon
•Reading city-scapes and their meaning
•History of urban parks (Olmstead’s Central Park)
•Historical, Political and Environmental issues concerning National Parks
•Amusement parks & Disneyland
•America as a Garden
•The development of American suburbia
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•American countryside and provincial America
•Landscapes of Southern trauma and memory
•The significance of wilderness in American culture
•Political and social tensions inherent in the dynamic landscapes of the American
frontier
•Historical, Political, Social and Environmental issues concerning Indian Reservations
•Hybrydity and borderland landscapes
•The significance of marine-, sea- and ocean-scapes in American literature and culture
•America as a techno-scape
•The relationship between internal and external scapes in American tradition
•American dreamscapes and mindscapes
•Bodyscapes
•Mediascapes
•Nineteeth-century American hybrid art: panoramas
•The significance of models and miniatures in American literature
•Celluloid skyline: cinematic representations of American city-scapes
•Representations of urban environment in comic books
•Virtual landscapes and their various uses in American culture
•Computer games and their scenery/landscapes
•Scenery archeology in contemporary American mass culture
•Foreign scenery as constructed and construed in American fiction and poetry
•Monuments in public space and the politicization of landscape
•Landscapes and mindscapes of minority experience
•mythicization of American space (the myth of Aztlan in the Southwest and
California)
The deadline for submitting paper proposals is 31 July 2012. Panel proposals are
welcome. The paper abstracts of 200-300 words, and in the case of panels 600-900
words, should be sent to the address: americascapes AT gmail.com
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"Sef/building in interlanguage: transatlantic views on
multilingualism"
March 21-23, 2013
Due: September 1, 2012
University of Bordeaux 3, France
stephanie.durrans@u-bordeaux3.fr
"Self/building in interlanguage : transatlantic views on multilingualism"
Interlanguage is both a space for transition and a frontier marking the difference
between two territories which it separates while bringing them together in a
relationship of exchange and interaction, and interlanguage plays a fundamental role
in the dynamics that underpin the construction of identity. What some have called
"language marshlands" (Coste 1989) were originally conceived as being an
intermediary system between the source language and the target language, as a system
which every language learner had to pass through during the process of language
acquisition. In literature, from the 1980s onwards, the notion of interlingualism was
applied to examples of linguistic hybridisation within the same syntactic unit with a
view to highlighting the tension that arises and also the possibility of engendering a
language that was "other" (Bruce-Novoa). The problematical role of interlanguage in
the identity building process is therefore an invitation to rethink identity, far from
essentialist confines and within a dynamic and evolving perspective wherein the
constitutive instability of the concept is paradoxically transformed into a springboard
towards a redefinition of the subject (Kramsch 2009).
The reflection that we would like to initiate is set within the wider framework of the
questioning surrounding multilingualism both as an advantage and as a handicap in a
subject's construction process. While it is true that plurilingualism was long
disapproved by the scientific medical community which viewed this phenomenon
simply as a source of diverse pathologies, or even of mental retardation, developments
in thinking spread by globalisation and the accompanying new economic order now
see this as a not inconsiderable added value in international exchanges.
Today, school plays an important role in this process. It is a special place for the
construction of interlanguages. It is a place where the most diverse languages and
cultures meet and it is also a field for observing what is at stake in psycholinguistic
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and sociolinguistic terms when languages and cultures have contact. The evolution of
the notion of interlanguage towards that of "translanguage" (Creese and Blackledge,
2010) bears witness to the current currency of this notion.
One of the aims of this conference is to initiate a transatlantic dialogue by helping to
foster exchanges between American and European specialists in these fields. Bringing
together all these papers will therefore allow us to make a critical assessment of the
linguistic policies carried out by the American government over the past twenty years
and to reflect on the way potential challenges faced by Europe in the 21st century
might be handled in the light of American experience.
We welcome papers which focus on a complementary examination of the two
geographical zones but we would also encourage researchers from different cultural
fields to add to the debate by contributing their specific knowledge in the fields of
education, cultural studies and literature. A fuller version of the call for papers and a
few bibliographic details are available on-line at these
addresses:http://climas.u-bordeaux3.fr OR http://eee.aquitaine.cnrs.fr
A 250 word summary of your proposal with a short biography and bibliography
should be sent to Françoise Bonnet, Stephanie Durrans and Moya Jones at the
following address:
multilinguisme@u-bordeaux3.fr
Deadline: 1 September 2012.
Papers given at the conference will be published after selection by a reading
committee.
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Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues and
Communities
Date Not Available
Due: October 1, 2012
Nathan Waddell / Institute of English Studies / Wyndham Lewis Society
wyndhamlewis2012@hotmail.co.uk
Plenary Speakers: Dr Sara Crangle, University of Sussex (UK); Dr David James,
University of Nottingham (UK); Dr Scott W. Klein, Wake Forest University (USA)
This conference's remit is to explore the numerous ways in which the modernist writer
and painter Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) belonged to cultural networks of influence
and inheritance.
Dedicated Lewis scholarship has during the past decade shown how key a part Lewis
played in various communities of his time (e.g. the early twentieth-century
avant-garde, ‘little magazine' culture, and modernist sociality) as well as how many
important contributions he made to an impressive variety of intellectual traditions and
critical practices (e.g. ethnology, political theorizing, Semitism, Bergsonism, cinema
scholarship, nihilism, and postmodernism, among others).
In all this, Lewis was a profoundly dialogic thinker; his writings are suffused with
quotations of, and references to, other figures (from previous eras as well as his own).
This aspect of Lewis's writing forces responsible accounts of his significance to take
into consideration the numerous ways in which Lewis positioned himself as a
relational thinker and creator, not to mention the complexities of the lines of influence
upon subsequent generations to which his creative energies gave rise.
As a result, the conference calls for papers which take as their focus the dialogic,
collective, and interpersonal sides of Lewis's oeuvre – in words as much as in paint.
All topics will be considered. Please send max. 250-word abstracts to Dr Nathan
Waddell (Conference Organizer) at wyndhamlewis2012@hotmail.co.uk by 1 October
2012.
We are also happy to receive (in addition to single papers) proposals for themed
panels of 3 speakers.
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Journals and Collections of Essays
Equal Rights: Myth or Reality in contemporary
English-speaking Societies?
Due: May 1, 2012
Karine Rivière-De Franco, University of Orleans, France
kriviere@free.fr
Equal Rights: Myth or Reality in contemporary English-speaking Societies?
At the beginning of the XXIth century, as international documents have officially
recognized equal rights (e.g. the European Convention on Human Rights) and the
United Nations General Assembly has adopted conventions on the elimination of all
forms of discrimination based on race, sex or disability, is equality really respected in
contemporary English-speaking societies?
The purpose of this issue of the LISA e-journal is to examine the situation of the
different subgroups of population which may have suffered from, or which are still
experiencing, some forms of injustice or discrimination, be it hidden or not, and to
wonder about the impact of the anti-discrimination laws passed in the various
English-speaking countries as well as about a possible evolution of equality strategies.
Is it still possible to respect each person’s particularities without endangering national
unity? Shouldn’t a communitarian vision be replaced by the recognition of individuals,
whoever they are?
Articles may focus on the groups which have been fighting for their rights for many
years, such as women and ethnic minorities, as well as on other categories of
population which may feel that their rights–relating to employment, politics or private
life–are disregarded: sexual or religious minorities, the disabled, or any group feeling
excluded from the society they live in. Articles may explore one specific geographical
sphere or adopt a comparative approach based on several countries, over a
contemporary period, from the end of the XXth century to the beginning of the XXIth
century.
Contributions should not exceed 10,000 words in length and should be sent together
with a short biography of the author (max. 200 words) and an abstract (max. 300
words). Please follow the norms for presentation indicated on the LISA e-journal
website (http://lisa.revues.org/index.html).
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Please send your proposals (maximum one A4 page) together with a short biography
to Karine Rivière-De Franco (kriviere@free.fr) by 1st May 2012 (the deadline for
completed articles is 1st October 2012).
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Law and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England
Due: May 15, 2012
Summer 2012 Issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
kgilbert@drury.edu
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
http://www.ncgsjournal.com/
Special Issue: Gender and the Law in Nineteenth-Century England (Summer 2012)
Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2012
The nineteenth century was a period rife with watershed moments in the history of
law and gender in England. It is also a period marked by contradictions: legislation
that granted women greater rights under the law took place in fits and starts, and was
never unaccompanied by cultural and social backlash. The period began, in 1801,
with a national census that revealed women outnumbered men by 400,000, and ended
with the repeal of the discriminatory Contagious Diseases Acts and the passage of the
First Married Woman's Property Act. Debates about the relationship between women
and the law, and their attendant questions (e.g. Were women legal persons? Could
they be?), permeated the legislation, court cases, newspapers, serials, and novels of
the day. The roles, and legal power, of English men were also in flux during the
period. The rise of industrialism, as well as the middle class, challenged the
masculinity of the landed and leisured male aristocrat. Laws that granted women
greater rights in marriage, divorce, and ownership of earnings and property served to
challenge the centrality of the male patriarch in traditional family structures. In turn,
masculinity became increasingly defined by both state-sponsored and independent
imperial ventures in the colonies. And by the end of the nineteenth century, a new
version of manhood came into being. The rise of the aesthetes, as represented by the
publicity surrounding Oscar Wilde, and the criticism of the aesthetes, as symbolized
by his rather public trial, serve as the most infamous example of events that brought to
light growing anxieties about masculinity, sexuality, and the law.
This special issue of NCGS invites scholars from across the arts and humanities to
contribute their work on the intersections between law, gender, femininity, masculinity,
and sexuality. Topics that might be addressed include:
• Queen Victoria
• Marriage, Motherhood, and/or Families (including the Child Custody Act, the
Matrimonial Causes Act, and the Married Woman's Property Act)
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• Governesses and their relationship to legal families
• Property and inheritance
• Authorship and the International Copyright Act
• Education (including the establishment of Queen’s College, London; Bedford
College; and Girton College)
• The “odd” women (singletons)
• Women and reform movements (including the Voting Act and the Equal Franchise
Act)
• Labor laws (including the Ashley’s Mines Act and the Factory Acts)
• Health Care and the Contagious Diseases Act
• Criminal Justice (including Prostitution, Sodomy Trials, and Prisons)
• Imperialism, colonialism, and gender
• Masculinities
• Performance
Please send complete papers (of between 5,000 and 8,000 words) electronically for
consideration to the guest editors of the special issue (Prof. Katherine Gilbert and Prof.
Julia Chavez) at the following email
addresses: kgilbert@drury.edu andJChavez@stmartin.edu
Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2012
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to
publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and
nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture. The journal is a collaborative
effort that brings together scholars from a variety of universities to create a unique
voice in the field. We endorse a broad definition of gender studies and welcome
submissions that consider gender and sexuality in conjunction with race, class, place
and nationality. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies publishes two regular issues a
year, in addition to a specially-themed summer issue, and accepts submissions
year-round.
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Film Adaptations: New Interactions
Due: May 30, 2012
Miranda Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal of the English-speaking world
cristelle.maury@univ-tlse2.fr
Miranda, a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed scholarly e-journal on the
English-speaking world is currently seeking articles to complete its thematic issue on
new types of film adaptations. Each thematic issue includes a wide range of articles
on the social and cultural practices of the English-speaking world. Please visit our
webpage athttp://www.miranda-ejournal.fr/1/miranda/index.xsp
In the last forty years, a large number of Hollywood movies have been drawing on
new kinds of sources such as videogames, graphic novels, and comic strips. Unlike
classical novels –the traditional source of most film adaptations– these new sources
do not rely on a strong narrative thread. Videogames are loosely based on a story arc,
and are often structured around one single action. Comic books consist of collections
of loosely related pieces, or compilations of a story. Graphic novels do not necessarily
form a continuous story either, especially when they are based on non-fiction works
or on thematically linked short stories. So, logically, these new forms of film
adaptations should break away from traditional story-telling techniques and more
generally from the codes of classical Hollywood cinema. However, it seems that they
acquire narrative coherence by resorting to the same strategies and devices that are
commonly used in book-to-film adaptations. It can therefore be argued that the very
process of adapting these cultural productions for the screen actually reinforces the
power of fiction. That is precisely what Christian Metz observed when he noted that
“the cinema, which could have served a variety of uses, in fact is most often used to
tell stories – to the extent that even supposedly non-narrative films (short
documentary films, educational films, etc.) are governed essentially by the same
semiological mechanisms that govern the ‘feature films’.” (Film Language: A
Semiotics of the Cinema, Oxford University Press, 1974). We are seeking articles that
can either confirm or challenge these views. Non-fiction sources from the news media
as well as other recent forms of adaptations will also be considered.
For submission send your paper to the editor of this thematic
issue:cristelle.maury@univ-tlse2.fr. Contributions should be between 5,000 and
10,000 words. The submission guidelines are available
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athttp://blogs.univ-tlse2.fr/miranda/submission-guidelines-for-authors/.
Deadline: May 30, 2012.
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Undergraduate Research in Literary and Cultural
Studies
Due: May 30, 2012
Constellations-Undergraduate Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
constellations@warwick.ac.uk
Call for Papers
Constellations is a new journal of undergraduate research in literary and cultural
studies, produced in the Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies at the
University of Warwick. Our first issue is available here:
www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/constellations
The journal aims to provide a forum for critical work by undergraduates
demonstrating the possibilities of the field. We welcome diverse and provocative
approaches to a wide range of literary-cultural topics.
Constellations is seeking submissions of articles of approximately 2,500 to 6,000
words, written by currently enrolled undergraduates. Contributions are encouraged in
a variety of forms, but should generally adhere to MLA citation conventions and be
previously unpublished. Submissions should be made as an email attachment to
Constellations@warwick.ac.uk, with the author’s name and details (year, degree) in
the email but not on the attachment. Please include an email address at which you can
be reached outside of term-time. The next deadline is 30 May 2012.
We look forward to your work!
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GRAMMA - Journal of Theory and Criticism
Due: June 30, 2012
Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou and Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos - Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki
boklund@enl.auth.gr
Journal of Theory and Criticism
Semiotics as a Theory of Culture: Deciphering the Meanings of Cultural Texts
Issue number 20, 2012
Semiotics, defined by Ferdinand de Saussure in the early years of the 20th century as
the study of how sign systems function in the life of society, has become such an
integral part of cultural theory that it is easy to forget the revolution which it made
possible in our understanding of culture. It was semiotics that first allowed us to treat
pictorial and cinematic documents as ‘texts’, that provided a method of analysis for
systems of objects and patterns of behaviour and conduct, that rejected the boundaries
between high and low culture and studied the myriad manifestations of everyday life
on the same level as traditional cultural artifacts.
Today, in the environment created by the explosive growth of information technology
and the culture industry, it is time for a reassessment of what this theory and
methodology can and cannot do. What can it contribute to our understanding and
interpretation of culture? How has it changed our perception of cultural objects and
practices? How does a semiotic awareness contribute to a critical perspective on
culture and society? What, if any, are the limits of semiotic analysis?
For the 2012 volume of Gramma on semiotics as a theory of culture, we invite papers
on all aspects of semiotics, focusing on analysis informed by a reflexive theoretical
and methodological awareness. Papers need not be limited to classical semiotics but
can use poststructuralist, postmodern and other hermeneutic approaches.
Possible areas of analysis include:
Theories of culture and methodologies of cultural analysis
Signs and sign systems
Texts, objects, rituals, institutions
Communication and silence
Convention and rebellion, the norm and the monstrous
The body as text: self-presentation, gender identity, disciplines of the body
Papers should not exceed the length of 7,000 words (including footnotes and
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bibliography) and should be double-spaced. They should adhere to the latest MLA
style of documentation and should be submitted electronically in the form of a Word
document to the editors of the issue, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou and Alexandros Ph.
Lagopoulos, at the e-mail address boklund@enl.auth.gr
Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2012
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Beyond the Bottom-Line: The Producer in Film and
Television
Due: June 30, 2012
Christopher Meir
christopher.meir@sta.uwi.edu
Editors: Andrew Spicer, Anthony McKenna and Christopher Meir
The producer has long been one of the most overlooked and misunderstood figures in
Screen Studies. The historical privileging of the director has caused an artificial
distinction between creativity and commerce, with the director’s ‘vision’ judged
responsible for a film’s artistry and the producer relegated to the shadowy, venal
world of business and the ‘bottom line’. Such reductive views are now beginning to
be challenged with several serious, scholarly and sympathetic studies of the producer
emerging.
Abstracts are invited for contributions to a volume that will seek to further our
understanding of the producer within a range of historical and theoretical contexts.
Proposals on any topic related to the role of the producer are welcome. Possible topics
could include (but are not limited to):
-The producer and theoretical accounts of authorship and/or creativity.
-The collaborative relationships between producers and directors; producers and
screenwriters; producers and stars.
-‘Auteur’ Producers.
-The historical emergence of the producer as a distinct role.
-Producers in different historical periods (e.g. classical or post-classical Hollywood;
‘New Wave’ cinemas, etc.).
-Producers in specific national, regional and/or transnational contexts.
-Producers and genre (e.g. popular genres, documentary, avant-garde, etc.).
-Producers in specific media (e.g. film, television, new media forms such as music
videos, web-based videos, video games, etc.).
-Cross-over producers from film to television (or vice versa).
-Understanding and defining the roles of executive, associate and co-producers.
-Creativity and the profit motive; understanding and accounting for business acumen
generally.
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The collection is under contract with Continuum and will be published in 2013.
Interested authors should send a 250 word abstract to Christopher Meir
(Christopher.meir@sta.uwi.edu) by June 30, 2012. Completed chapters will be
between 5,000 and 8,000 words and will be due by January 31, 2013.
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Queer Indigenous Writers
Due: July 1, 2012
Polari Journal
editor@polarijournal.com
Queer Indigenous Writers - Call for Submission
Polari Journal is calling for submissions for a special issue to be published online in
October 2012. This special issue will feature the best queer indigenous/aboriginal
writing from around the globe. Polari tends towards the shorter forms: short stories,
poetry, essays, scholarly papers, one act plays/scripts and reviews. In general, the
word limit for fiction, plays and essays is 6000 words. Reviews should not be more
than 1500 words. For poetry, the maximum is 100 lines.
At this time financial remuneration is not offered.
All rights remain with the author/s.
The Final Date for submission is July 1st 2012.
Review the Submissions Guide on the menu above.
Send all submissions to the managing editor:
editor@polarijournal.com
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Fall Issue of MP: An Online Feminist Journal
Due: July 31, 2012
MP: An Online Feminist Journal
submissions@academinist.org
MP: An Online Feminist Journal is seeking submissions for its fall issue. We seek scholarly articles, book reviews, and short essays that engage any aspect of feminism
or feminist scholarship. Interdisciplinary and international submissions are highly
encouraged. We recently have published essays about the body, the academy, religion,
girls’ studies, work, activism, and agency.
Maximum length for manuscripts is 30 double-spaced pages. Submissions may be in
any accepted academic format such as MLA, APA, Legal Bluebook, or Chicago Style
but must be consistent throughout and carefully edited. Submissions must not be
published elsewhere already. Also include a current copy of your CV and a 50-word
bio.
For best consideration for our fall issue, please submit your materials by midnight,
July 31, 2012, to submissions@academinist.org. You are welcome to submit after
that date, though those submissions will be considered for our Spring 2013 issue or
later.
Please see our Submission Guidelines for more information.
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Cross-Cultural Studies
Due: July 31, 2012
Center for Cross-Cultural Studies
ccs1@khu.ac.kr
Dear Colleagues,
Cross-Cultural Studies invites submissions for its 2012 Fall edition.
Cross-Cultural Studies is a refereed multi-disciplinary journal published by Center for
Cross-Cultural Studies at Kyung Hee University, Korea. Listed in Korea Citation
Index, it seeks to provide a platform for publication of studies in the fields of cultural
studies, language, and literature. Our journal welcomes inquiries into a particular
culture and language as well as contrastive and comparative studies across different
cultures.
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2012.
Manuscript format requirements:
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Manuscripts should conform to the MLA style for bibliography.
Manuscripts should not exceed 8,400 words.
Manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word (.doc).
4. All manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract of 100 to 120 words and 5
keywords.
Please email submissions to Editor, Dr. Jae-Hak Yoon: ccs1@khu.ac.kr
Best Wishes,
Jae-Hak Yoon,
Editor-in-Chief
Cross-Cultural Studies
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Theorizing Breast Cancer: Narrative, Politics,
Memory
Due: August 1, 2012
Mary K. DeShazer
deshazer@wfu.edu
Co-editors Mary K. DeShazer (Wake Forest University) and Anita Helle (Oregon
State University) invite proposals for a special fall 2013 issue of TULSA STUDIES
IN WOMEN'S LITERATURE that will focus on feminist theories of embodiment in
breast cancer narratives, with particular emphasis on transnational, queer,
environmental, genetic, biomedical/bioethical, and activist discourses. We seek
traditional scholarly or mixed-genre essays that analyze literary and cultural
representations of breast cancer in fiction, memoir, and/or visual culture.
Please send detailed essay abstracts by August 1, 2012, to deshazer@wfu.edu and to
ahelle@oregonstate.edu. Accepted essays should be 6000-9000 words, should
conform to the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, and should be submitted
by Jan. 4, 2013. For a more detailed CFP and further information, contact Mary
DeShazer, deshazer@wfu.edu.
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Nordic Journal of English Studies
Due: September 30, 2012
Nordic Journal of English Studies
nordic.journal@sprak.gu.se
Call for Papers
NJES is inviting scholars in the field of English Studies to submit articles for an
upcoming general issue.
The Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES) is associated with the Nordic
Association of English Studies and is published two to three times a year. NJES
publishes articles on the English language and literatures in English. It welcomes
special issues on different themes of topical interest. The journal has a review section
where we draw special attention to works published in the Nordic countries. The
journal is peer-reviewed and listed in both the MLA, EBSCO and ERIH databases. To
submit your article or for more information please contact us by email
at nordic.journal@sprak.gu.se.
Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2012.
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Special Issue of *Interdisciplinary Literary Studies*
on Contemporary Jacobean Film
Due: November 1, 2012
Elizabeth Kelley Bowman / Northern Illinois University
ebowman@niu.edu
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of
Criticism and Theory (www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_ILS.html)
We invite essays from interdisciplinary perspectives that respond (directly or
otherwise) to Pascale Aebischer’s discussion of the “preposterous contemporary
Jacobean” in discussion of early modern source texts (ca. 1500-1800 – not, for this
journal issue, limited to the Jacobean era).
Examination of the “contemporary Jacobean” in films might include the use of
anachronism, narrative disjunction, radical or extreme subject matter, and irreverence
toward their early modern source material.
Approaches might include adaptation studies, art history, reception history, genre
studies, and historical and theoretical approaches to early modern works and the
materials and production of adaptations.
Accepted essays will be published in a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Pennsylvania State University Press).
Please send essays no longer than 7500 words to Elizabeth Kelley Bowman, Northern
Illinois University (ebowman@niu.edu). The deadline for receipt of essays is
November 1, 2012.
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GRAMMA: Journal of Theory and Criticism Issue
Number 21 (2013): "The History and Future of the
19th-Century Book"
Due: December 31, 2012
Editors of the issue: Maria Schoina and Andrew Stauffer
schoina@enl.auth.gr, amstauff@gmail.com
In the period between 1740 to 1850, the systematization of the entire process of
making and selling books through a network of printers, publishers, booksellers,
writers, readers, and critics led to the evolution of the book trade into a profit-making
machine. The resulting professionalization and commodification of literature created
not only professional authors and critics, making authorship itself undergo significant
change, but set up an entirely new way of conceiving of reading, writing, and selling
literary materials. The changing nature of books, media, information and
communication defined the literary culture of the period and was central to the
establishment of national identity.
Today, the late twentieth-century emergence of digital media has led to a
massive-scale migration of our paper-based inheritance to digital forms, forcing a
return to textual scholarship and its various problematics, as well as placing literature
within a complex interactive matrix of multiple collaborating agents, individual as
well as institutional. Though digitization was not a concern in the nineteenth century,
the drastically changing relationship of literature to its socio-historical milieu invites
parallels with today’s re-inventing of the writing and dissemination of literature and of
the digital transformation in the humanities. The debate becomes even more urgent as
more and more eighteenth and nineteenth-century print literary materials are being
modeled in digital environments. What does digital technology has to offer literary
and cultural history? What are the stakes involved in the translation of print materials
into digital forms?
For the 2013 volume of Gramma on the history and future of the book with a focus on
British and American 19th-century literary materials, papers are invited on the
following or related areas:
• book production and publishing history
• gender, class, and audiences as mediated by print/digital text
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• authorship and its redefinition
• periodicals; serial publication; copyright and pirated editions
• editing 19th-century British writers
• interfaces, platforms, and technologies of 19th-century books
• archiving, preserving, and collecting material and digital records
• the impact of digitization on teaching and scholarship in 19th-century studies
• bibliography, textual criticism, and digital technologies
• the public domain and the creative commons for the 19th- and 21st centuries
Papers should not exceed the length of 7,000 words (including footnotes and
bibliography) and should be double spaced. They should adhere to the latest MLA
style of documentation and should be submitted electronically in the form of a Word
document to the editors of the issue, Maria Schoina and Andrew Stauffer, at the
following email addresses: schoina@enl.auth.gr andamstauff@gmail.com
Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2012
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Shakespeare and Japan -- *Shakespeare* Special
Issue
Due: January 28, 2013
Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
djc@dmu.ac.uk
Contributions are invited for a special issue of the international journal, Shakespeare,
‘Shakespeare and Japan’, edited by Dominic Shellard. Submissions will be considered
on all aspects of Shakespeare and Japan, ranging from performances, film and
television adaptations and translations of Shakespeare. Submissions (marked
“Shakespeare and Japan Special Issue”) should be sent
tohttp://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rshk
Deadline: 28th January 2013.
Enquiries can be made to Deborah Cartmell
djc@dmu.ac.uk
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Virginia Woolf Miscellany: Woolf and Animals
Due: February 1, 2013
International Virginia Woolf Society
kristin_czarnecki@georgetowncollege.edu; neverowv1@southernct.edu
Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Issue #84—Fall 2013
Vara Neverow and Kristin Czarnecki
Woolf and Animals
From the animal nicknames she shared with loved ones to the purchase of “a beautiful
cat, a Persian cat” with her first earnings as a writer; from the cawing rooks in To the
Lighthouse to the complex life of Flush to the disturbing animal imagery in Between
the Acts, animals play a key role in Woolf’s life and writing. We invite submissions
discussing animals in Woolf both fictional and actual. We also welcome articles that
align Woolf with animal elements in the work and lives of others. Please send papers
of up to 2500 words to: Kristin Czarnecki and Vara Neverow by February 1, 2013.
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Shakespearean International Yearbook
Deadline Not Available
Shakespearean International Yearbook
siy@ashgate.com
Call for Papers
The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare
studies, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with
Shakespeare's work and his time, across the spectrum of his literary output.
We invite full-length journal articles of 5000 to 9000 words for upcoming volumes.
Download the style sheet from:
http://www.ashgate.com/siy
Please send your article to the editors at siy@ashgate.com
General Editors: Tom Bishop (Univ. Auckland, New Zealand)
Alexander Huang (George Washington University)
Editor emeritus: Graham Bradshaw (Chuo University, Japan)
Advisory Board:
Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadhavpur Univ., India)
Natasha Distiller (Univ. Cape Town, South Africa)
Jacek Fabiszak (Adam Mickiewicz Univ., Poland)
Atsuhiko Hirota (Univ. Kyoto, Japan)
Ton Hoenselaars (Univ. Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Peter Holbrook (Univ. Queensland, Australia)
Jean Howard (Columbia Univ., New York)
Ania Loomba (Univ. Pennsylvania)
Kate McLuskie (Univ. Birmingham, UK)
Alfredo Modenessi (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
Ruth Morse (Universite Paris VII)
W.B. Worthen (Bernard College)
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IJCES-2012
Deadline Not Available
International Journal of Computer Engineering & Sciences-IJCES
editor@ijces.org
IJCES is an scholarly, online international journal that publishes original research
papers in the fields of Engineering & Technology. The aim of the IJCES is to publish
peer reviewed research and review articles. The Journal welcomes the submission of
manuscripts that meet the criteria of significance and scientific excellence. The
Journal covers all essential branches of Engineering & Technology.
Objectives of IJCES
• To provide a venue for dissemination of research outputs and activities in field of
Engineering Sciences and Technology
• To train young scientists to the interdisciplinary skills.
• To Bridge the gap between research theories and industrial developments.
• To disseminate knowledge and results in an efficient manner.
• To remove barriers from research published online contributing to progress in many
scientific and research disciplines
• To stimulate new research in engineering, computer science and applications.
• To raise the standard of research globally.
We have a high standard of peer review. A strong Editorial Board help us with policy
and decision-making and reviewing manuscripts.
URL : http://www.ijces.org
E-mail for Manuscript Submission:
editor@ijces.org,submission@ijces.org
editor.ijces@gmail.com
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New Shakespeare Series
Deadline Not Available
Kevin Curran
kevin.curran@unt.edu
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance
Editor: Kevin Curran, University of North Texas
For further information, or to discuss submitting a proposal, contact the series editor:
Kevin Curran, kevin.curran@unt.edu
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance aims to reshape
disciplinary boundaries by bringing together two traditionally distinct pursuits –
theoretical inquiry and performance – in the study of Shakespeare. Embracing a
variety of topics, from philosophy and theater to politics and aesthetics, the series
values creative modes of engagement and insists on genuine originality. This series of
scholarly monographs will reinvigorate Shakespeare studies by opening new
conversations among scholars, theater professionals and students.
Editorial Board Members:
Ewan Fernie, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
James Kearney, University of California, Santa Barbara
Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine
Madhavi Menon, American University
Simon Palfrey, Oxford University
Tiffany Stern, Oxford University
Henry Turner, Rutgers University
Michael Witmore, The Folger Shakespeare Library
Paul Yachnin, McGill University
The first volumes in the series are due to appear in 2013.
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