第 12 屆英美文學學會
國際學術資訊 第六十九期
Contents
Conferences in Asia Pacific and Other Places
2
Conferences in North America
24
Conferences in Europe
78
Journals and Collections of Essays
1
114
Conferences in Asia Pacific and Other Places
From Cover to Cover: Reading Readers
November 7-9, 2012
Due: August 1, 2012
Department of American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University
ake2012conference@gmail.com
From Cover to Cover: Reading Readers
Hacettepe University
Department of American Culture and Literature
30th Anniversary Conference
Ankara, Turkey
November 7 – 9, 2012
Reading has had numerous meanings for different people at different times and
places. From reading an animal’s tracks, or a street sign, to reading Derrida, the act of
reading has referred to a wide range of activities. People have read for practical
purposes (for information, for knowledge, or for material gain), for holy ends (the
Quran said “Read in the name of your Lord”), for political and social reasons (“Once
you learn to read, you will be forever free,” said Frederick Douglass), for
entertainment, etc. In the age of computers, cell phones, and the Internet, traditional
notions about the significance of reading, its function, and value seem to be
challenged in various ways. Our conference aims to take a fresh look at the “good old
practice” of reading in all its denotations and connotations from all possible quarters
and perspectives, provided that papers relate to the American context.
Possible topics may include:
 Reading practices across cultures: anthropology of reading.
 Reading across race, gender, class, and nationality.
 Historical and cultural forms of literacy and illiteracy: from knowing the
alphabet to media literacy.
 Economy of reading: advertising and marketing (book fairs, book signing,
newspaper book supplements); reader as consumer and book as a commercial
2
product; literary awards and prizes.









Reading high and low: questions of taste and preference; popular literature; war
of the genres, etc.
Reading and the institution: reading and institutional practices (legal, medical,
religious, etc.) and the issue of power.
Reading critically: role of literary criticism; theories of reading such as Marxist,
feminist, poststructuralist, etc.; particularly reader oriented approaches, their
methods and strategies; types of readers, such as ideal reader, implied reader,
informed reader etc.
Politics of reading: right to read; reading as a medium of social change;
censorship of reading; reading and ideology.
Reading, knowledge and information: libraries and archives, cultural heritage
and texts.
Reading communities such as book clubs and blogs, social networks, interpretive
communities, etc.
Representations of reading: acts of reading within the literary text (the character
as reader), in cinema, visual arts, the media, and popular culture.
Reading to write and writing to be read, or not to be read (e.g., Emily Dickinson);
writers as readers of their own works or others’ works; writers on reading.
Reading materials: nature (e.g., for transcendentalists), cave writings,
coffee-cups and palms, laundry lists, letters, books, periodicals, anthologies, the
Internet, etc.
 Comparative approaches to the entry points above.
Abstracts between 200 to 300 words and a short bio should be sent to Dr. Ceylan
Özcan at ake2012conference@gmail.com by August 1, 2012.
For more information about the conference, see our departmental website:
http://www.ake.hacettepe.edu.tr/Install/
3
1st Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Food
January 30-February 1, 2013
Due: September 14, 2012
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
food1@inter-disciplinary.net
1st Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Food
Wednesday 30th January – Friday 1st February 2013
Sydney, Australia
Call for Presentations:
‘You are what you eat’ is a saying that usually signifies the influence of diet on
health and well-being. When we turn this adage around – ‘What you eat is what you
are’ – we see more clearly the broader implications of our ways with food. Our history
and culture as well as our economic and social circumstances determine, and in turn
are reflected in, the nature of our food consumption. The same applies to our personal
beliefs and predispositions. Eating is an everyday necessity – and yet there is an
immense variety in the manner in which we nourish ourselves. Furthermore, mostly
due to circumstances beyond our control, not all of us humans have access to
adequate nutrition. It follows that eating requires our attention, one way or another,
throughout our lives, pleasantly for some, and desperately for others. Indeed, it has
been observed that in rich societies people obsess about food because they have too
much, and in poor societies they think about it all the time because they have too
little.
The vicissitudes of consumption do not constitute the whole story about food.
What ends up on the plate has usually arrived there after a long and complex journey
which involves not only time and distance – again, variably so – but also a multitude
of processes. The extent to which these are understood is by no means equal in all
societies and cultures; some people live much closer to their food supply than others,
and/or are more personally active in its production and preparation. Food is central to
the economy of social systems at all levels; on global scale, food is deeply implicated
in the overall economic and political circumstances of the contemporary world.
The inter-disciplinary project seeks to open up a multi-faceted enquiry into the
ways in which food and its consumption are enmeshed in all aspects of human
existence. Certainly to-day there is no shortage of commentaries on this subject, both
4
in the public arena and within academia, and there is broad recognition of the place of
food in the globalised economy – as well as of its role in discourses about
international inequalities, climate change and public health issues. A focus on the
perceived problems of the day, however, often results in specific ‘fields’ of study
where the high level of activity, productive though it is, may create barriers to an
understanding of different perspectives. This project will provide a framework for a
broadly based dialogue concerning food and eating. It is our hope that this will put on
our table a variety of matters to be considered at a number of levels and from many
different points of view.
Presentations, papers, performances, work-in-progress and workshops are invited
on any issues related to the following themes:
Food and existential matters:
Eating and evolution
Food and group identity: food as manifestation of cultural origins and
influences
Food as transmigration, diaspora and de-colonialism.
Food and ritual
Eating as a need and as a want: what is appetite?
Food and philosophy
Representations of food and eating:
The histories of food; repasts of the past
Reflections of food and eating in literature
Food and the performing arts
Portrayals of consumption in visual culture
Food and the modern media
Food as metaphor
Eating and well-being:
Fearing food – fears and facts
Beliefs and controversies about food and wellness
Health, illness and food in medical discourses
The magic of food – ancient and modern; food as fetish
The role of ‘expert’ advice in eating practices
‘Diets’ – disturbed eating patters or rational action?
Food and society:
Food at the interface with class and culture
The politics of food production and consumption
Food security: issues of quantity and quality
The industrialisation of food production and its counter-movements
5
‘Foodism’: conspicuous consumption, or identity management?
Working with food:
Food production and provision; pleasures and problems
The restaurant: guests’ perspective
Cooking and serving for customers
Being a chef: the reality and the mystique
Behind the counter of the gourmet store
The daily bread; making and baking
What to Send:
300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted simultaneously
to both Organising Chairs by 14th September 2012; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a)
author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
E-mails should be entitled: FOOD Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and
any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal;
it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic
route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Mira Crouch: miracrouch@optusnet.com.au
Rob Fisher: food1@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Making Sense of: programme of research projects.
It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and
explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of...
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of...
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
6
1st Global Conference: Protoscience, Health and
Well-Being
January 30-February 1, 2013
Due: September 14, 2012
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
21science@inter-disciplinary.net
1st Global Conference: Protoscience, Health and Well-Being
Wednesday 30th January – Friday 1st February 2013
Sydney, Australia
Call for Presentations:
The popular experiences of alternative healing, DIY and free and open source
technology are everyday experiences of the contemporary individual. These
experiences are being conceptualised by Fuller (2010) as ‘anti-establishment science
movements’ which tacitly challenge the highly socially positioned ‘scientific expert’,
the social agent of the establishment science. In the field of health, these movements
are challenging the biomedical domination in the field. One of the responses to deal
with the authority challenges has been the absorption of selective alternative healing
practices (such as acupuncture, homeopathy) into the established health systems while
reasserting the central place of biomedicine with continued usage of the referents
‘alternative’ and ‘complementary’.
As agents of the ‘anti-establishment science movements’, ‘lay’ people become
involved into everyday science and knowledge production, they become
protoscientists. For example, blog discussion on the side-effects of a particular
medicine/drug can be more personal, revealing and informative and can go beyond
what an information leaflet or a clinician may offer. While blogging, the ‘lay’ person
generates and exchanges knowledge with the other bloggers that may be useful for
one’s health. There is a paucity of literature depicting these movements as ‘bottom up’
challenges of establishment science literature. This kind of authority challenge has
only marginally been considered by the ‘establishment’ science (for example: Fuller
(2010)) and this conference will provide a platform for such consideration and
discussion with specific focus on self-healing, health knowledge co-production and
DIY treatments. This conference welcomes papers from various fields of study, such
7
as social sciences, humanities, medical sciences and philosophy.
Presentations, papers, performances, work-in-progress and workshops are invited
on any issues related to the following themes:
 Alternative and self-healing practices beyond the relational milieu vis-à-vis a
conventional/non-conventional medicine binary
 The empowering effect of the free and open source technology vis-à-vis the
status of the individual/the agent as knowledgeable agent in the field of health
 Everyday science, self-healing and empowerment
 The effect of the DIY practices on established health systems and peoples’
personal lives
 The embeddedness of protoscience in the everyday life


The responses of the ‘challenged’ biomedical establishment science
The consequences of the anti-establishment science movements for economic
relations determining the health care industry

Discussion of the relevance of these movements in relation to the existent
theories of power
Critical assessment of the knowledge ‘anarchy’ and how the ‘non-expert’
knowledge informs the prevailing health science
Philosophical underpinnings of protoscience as everyday science
The relevance of the historical and socio-political context regarding what
constitutes ‘mainstream’ in the health sector



We actively encourage participation from practitioners and non-academics with
an interest in the topic as well as pre-formed three paper panels
What to Send:
300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted simultaneously
to both Organising Chairs by 14th September 2012; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a)
author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
E-mails should be entitled: SCIENCE Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and
any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal;
it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic
route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Irena Veljanova: I.Veljanova@uws.edu.au
Rob Fisher: 21science@inter-disciplinary.net
8
The conference is part of the Ethos programme of research projects. It aims to
bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore
various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/protoscience-hea...
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/protoscience-hea...
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
9
1st Global Conference: Travel: Practice, Process and
Product
January 30-February 1, 2013
Due: September 14, 2012
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
travel1@inter-disciplinary.net
1st Global Conference: Travel: Practice, Process and Product
Wednesday 30th January – Friday 1st February 2013
Sydney, Australia
Call for Presentations:
Having become an integral component of many countries GDP and a means of
employment for numerous communities and a point of concern regarding social and
environmental issues, the concepts of travel and tourism have become a serious focus
of discussion across numerous disciplines. Questions regarding ‘what is travel, what
does it mean to travel, why we travel and how we travel?’ have become a central core
of this discussion. However, the notion of travel is not a new phenomenon.
Historically, the human race has traveled for a myriad of specific purpose often
related to simply ‘seeing what was over the next hill.’ Other historical aspects also
included changing living conditions, a sense of adventure or expansion of domains.
While these aspects still exist, new motivational factors have arisen such changing
working conditions, business, pleasure, relief or aid work, the need to understand new
cultures, religious or spiritual pilgrimages, personal or familial responsibilities,
educational opportunities and economic advancement or refuge from oppressive
political governments. All of these aspects have generated research and practitioner
related discussion on numerous specific areas including the travel industry, internet,
adventure tourism, travel writing, town planning, history of travel, photography of
place and space, transportation, environmental science and sustainability, diasporas,
advertising, space travel, hotel design, religious studies of iconic spaces, spirituality,
cognitive science, architecture, philosophy, business, business leadership and
management, educational travel and management, outdoor education, adventure
therapy, school based education and. sociology. While many see Alvin Toffler’s
concept of ‘future shock’ as the catalyst for serious research, when he stated that our
10
desire for travel is a form of reaction to the pressures of modernity, the notion of
travel also affords people the opportunity to connect their present to a past not fully
understood, and has most certainly become an increasing area of interdisciplinary
need for academics and practitioners across the globe. Given the economic,
environmental, physiological, psychological and socio-emotional concerns and
pressures humans face in this current era, this project seeks to give research and
practical voice to an important aspect of global concern.
Presentations can deal with any of the previous travel elements, but are not
limited to these focal areas. Other questions and points are more than welcomed, as
well as answers to questions such as:
 What are the historical constructs of travel?



Where and when did travel start?
How do specific disciplines define ‘travel’?
Why do we travel?






What is the nature of ‘travel’ within specific cultures, or across cultures?
What impact does travel have on diverse environments around the globe?
What is the impact of tourism on specific cultures and societies?
How does travel impact on the social, emotional or physical health of travelers?
Does travel create health and wellbeing concerns?
How are governments at all levels dealing with the rapid growth of the travel
industry?









Where, why and how did the 21st century’s concept of ‘travel’ start?
Why does our current notion of travel exist?
What does the future hold for travel?
How does travel writing parallel the actual notion of travel?
Why has travel writing become such a popular form of reading?
How does the backpacker industry fit into the travel industry?
What are the benefits and concerns of the backpacker industry?
What are the theoretical bases for travel?
Where does travel fit into the concept of “travel” at the personal, local and
national levels?
 Is travel a ‘spiritual’ endeavor?
 What is the intersection between cognitive, psychological and psychological
areas as they relate to travel?
 Where does ‘self, and the notion of identity fit with the idea of traveling?
What to Send:
300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted simultaneously
to both Organising Chairs by 14th September 2012; abstracts may be in Word,
11
WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a)
author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
E-mails should be entitled: TRAVEL Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and
any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal;
it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic
route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Phil Fitzsimmons: phil.fitzsimmons@avondale.edu.au
Rob Fisher: travel1@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Diversity and Recognition programme of research
projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share
ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition...
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition...
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
12
1st Global Conference: Digital Interfaces: Creative
Industries and Arts
February 4-6, 2013
Due: September 14, 2012
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
di1@inter-disciplinary.net
1st Global Conference: Digital Interfaces: Creative Industries and Arts
Monday 4th February – Wednesday 6th February 2013
Sydney, Australia
Call for Presentations:
This project approaches videogames from a multi-, inter- and cross-disciplinary
perspective that seeks to blend theoretical discussions with concerns of the industry in
order to benefit both groups. We therefore welcome papers that explore how games
work in society, how they are made, how they are analysed and discussed and current
industrial trends. More importantly, because these concepts are often discussed
separately, this is an opportunity to examine interrelationships and improve
understanding of games across the board. It is of great importance for the industry to
contribute to the development of games education just as it is important for the
growing education sector to be more informed about production and industry
practices.
Presentations, papers, performances and artworks are called for, but not limited
to, the following themes:
The Games Themselves:
Game studies of the games themselves, this track invites analysis and criticism of
videogames as texts, games and cultural objects. Current analyses that reflect the
progress made in modern game studies over the past few years could focus on, but not
be limited to, the following topics:
Videogame theory, analysis, criticism
Art, fiction, story, literature writing etc
Music audio and performance (voice, physical mo-cap etc)
Videogames in the World
This track invites discussion of the videogames in a cultural context. How are
13
videogames integrated in the world? How are videogames represented in wider
society?
Where are they discussed?
By whom and in what terms?
What is their relationship to other media?
Games in society, game culture
Videogames media & journalism, rhetoric and politics of/around games
Player relationships and communities
"serious" games, instructive, educational and training games
Production of Games
There are growing opportunities for game production non-entertainment fields, such
as education, science, health and engineering.
This track seeks to expand the discussion of Videogames beyond the entertainment
market and promote closer alignment between commercial practicalities and academic
concerns.
We invite practitioners, artists, professionals, developers and educators to share their
experiences.
Works in progress, post-mortems
Linkage diaries: academia, industry and independent projects, models, experiments
etc.
Approaches, methods and practices
Technology, programming, design, innovations
Performance notes (as above, music, voice, physical etc)
The Creative Industry
The videogames industry is a creative industry, full of unique opportunities and
constraints. This track invites discussions of game development in the real world, and
especially in Australia.
How can great game designs become great games that players can buy?
What opportunities exist in Australia that could be capitalised on?
Where are there obstacles that could be avoided?
What is the global context in which the Australian game industry finds itself?
Business models, practice and progress
Games Marketing and Gamers as a market
Intellectual Property
Showcase and/or Workshops
We welcome: Games for exhibition Workshops in design, analysis and production
What to Send:
300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted simultaneously
14
to both Organising Chairs by Friday 14th September 2012; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a)
author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
E-mails should be entitled: DI1 Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and
any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal;
it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic
route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Adam Ruch: adam.ruch@mq.edu.au
Rob Fisher: di1@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Ethos programme of research projects. It aims to
bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore
various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/digital-interfac...
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/digital-interfac...
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
15
1st Global Conference: Crisis and Opportunity
February 7-9, 2013
Due: September 14, 2012
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
crisis11@inter-disciplinary.net
1st Global Conference: Crisis and Opportunity
Thursday 7th February – Saturday 9th February 2013
Sydney, Australia
Call for Presentations:
The intention of this lively inaugural project is to bring together established and
emerging international practitioners and theoreticians, philosophers and scientists, and
writers, artists and performers who wish to share their ideas, experiential processes,
practice, and research about crisis and opportunity.
A significant focus for the project is an annual conference which will provide
valuable opportunities for new participants to become involved in the first of many
thoughtful, unique, and creative dialogues with one another. In this engaging and
responsive forum presenters are encouraged to share their discipline with enthusiasm
and to foster new working relationships through the exploration, examination and
discussion of their work with colleagues.
Initially, this project defines ‘crisis’ as an unstable, potentially dangerous
situation, or event, which may impose difficult or extreme life changes or challenges.
The term ‘opportunity’ here anticipates the effects and/or outcomes of pre-crisis
preparation or interventions and post-crisis responsiveness and management. Thus,
the effective management of crisis may, in part, depend upon the careful framing of
opportunity as a useful resource and as a positive outcome.
This broadly focused project, therefore, encourages an examination of crisis and
opportunity as both independent and interconnecting areas of scholarly and creative
interest. Consequently, it is expected that participants will view crises and
opportunities from multiple perspectives and in many socio-cultural contexts. These
may include, but need not be limited to, specific disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, or
systems perspectives that examine the management of, and exposure to, crisis events
in international, organisational, group, and personal settings.
Participants in this project are encouraged to explore the notion that crises can
16
provide opportunities for significant growth in areas of organisational management
and planning, professional development and education, as well as those situations that
influence psychological and spiritual well-being. Consequently, we warmly invite
professional practitioners, educators, planners, theoreticians, artists, and writers to
present and reflect upon their work in this key area of emerging research and practice.
Presentations, performances, papers, art-pieces, workshops, and pre-formed
panels are invited on any of the following themes:
 The roles of crisis and opportunity in human development and across the
life-span;
 The development of crisis theory;
 Case studies in crisis management and organisational change – examining and







balancing proactive and reactive strategies;
Critical issues in the management of crisis;
The relationship between crisis and opportunities – crises that create
opportunities, and opportunities that precipitate crises.
Cultural perceptions of crisis and opportunity;
Representations of crisis and opportunity in literature, the arts and in the media;
Crisis, opportunity and psycho-spiritual development;
Philosophical, ethical, and legal issues in crisis and opportunity;
Learning from global crises and opportunities.
Please note that presentations that deal with related themes will also be
considered.
It is our hope that a number of these interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary
dialogues will be ongoing and that ultimately a series of related cross context research
projects will be developed. It is also anticipated that these will support and encourage
the establishment of useful collaborative networks, and the development, presentation,
and publication of research materials. Through such richness and diversity, it is
expected that awareness for the work within and the links between crisis and
opportunity will contribute to a body of knowledge that serves both individuals and
organisations.
What to Send:
300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted simultaneously
to both Organising Chairs by Friday 14th September 2012; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a)
author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
E-mails should be entitled: CRISIS Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and
any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We
17
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal;
it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic
route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Peter Bray: PBray@eit.ac.nz
Rob Fisher: crisis1@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Persons programme of research projects. It aims to
bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore
various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/crisis-...
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/crisis-...
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
18
2nd Global Conference: Queer Sexualities
February 11-13, 2013
Due: September 14, 2012
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
qs2@inter-disciplinary.net
2nd Global Conference
Queer Sexualities
Monday 11th February – Wednesday 13th February 2013
Sydney, Australia
Call for Presentations:
Following the success of the inaugural conference for this project, we are pleased
to announce a second conference, to be held in Sydney in February 2013. Our first
conference saw global representation from a variety of areas of study, including
sociological studies, queer literary studies, queer art, music, performativity and
identity. This conference aims to extend that interdisciplinary dialogue and gather
voices from underrepresented areas of the globe. 20 years since the reclamation of the
word ‘queer’ by the LGBTQIA community, this conference would like to take a
closer look at broad themes of queer sexualities through time and space,
non-normative sexual constructions, and queer sexual identities from a diverse range
of perspectives by scholars working in various academic disciplines. Yet our meaning
of the word queer is not limited to non-mainstream sexuality, as we opt for inclusion
of ‘unusual’ heterosexual practices into the ‘queer domain’ in order not to
discriminate but understand, include and accept.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on any aspect of
Queer or LGBTQIA Studies, including issues related to the following themes:
 Queer space, place, time and visibility: queer geographies, queer spaces, queer
places, queer venues, queering institutions, queering language practices,
occupation of space, heteronormative practice in space/place, queer globalization,
queer futurity, queer temporalities
 Queer being and identities: LGBTQIA identities, queer bodies, queer
embodiment, queering age, queer intersectionality, queer race, queer class, queer
disability, queer performativity, queer subjectivity, queer bioethics
19




Queer emotions and feelings: queer families, queer bonds/bonding/legacies,
LGBTIQIA parenting, public vs. private feelings, affective economies
Queer theories and theoretical approaches: queer theory, gender studies, straight
queer theory, sexuality studies, disability studies, queer postcolonial theory,
queer ecocriticism, queer critical whiteness studies, queer race studies, queer
multiculturalism, queering ethnicities, queer epistemologies, queer pedagogies,
etc.
Queer Arts: queer art, queer architecture, queer media, queer film, queer TV,
queerotica/queerporn, queer music, queer performances (not performativity),
queer literature, queer speech/language/linguistics, queering
museums/galleries/archives
Queer histories and social scientific studies: history, historiography, historical
shapings of queer, queer shaping of history, queering history, queer sociological
and anthropological studies, queering religion, etc.

Queer politics and crisis: Movements, activism, advocacy, politics, emancipation,
pride, liberation, queer hate, oppressive queer societies and states, queer social
reform, homonationalism, biopolitics, queer secularity, queering ethics,
queertopias, politics of gender, representations and resistances of non-normative
corporeality
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel
proposals. Papers and presentations will also be considered on any related theme. 300
word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted by Friday 14th
September 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper, if
appropriate, should be submitted by Friday 23rd November 2012.
What to Send:
300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted simultaneously
to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats
with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email
address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract. E-mails should be entitled: QS2
Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and
any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal;
it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic
route or resend.
20
Organising Chairs
Anne-Marie Cook & Rob Fisher: qs2@inter-disciplinary.net
Gregory Luke Chwala: chwala.luke@gmail.com
The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It
aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and
explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/q...
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/q...
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
21
The Future of English in Asia: Perspectives on
Language and Literature
April 19-21, 2013
Due: November 30, 2012
English Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
osullivan@cuhk.edu.hk
The Future of English in Asia: Perspectives on Language and Literature
April 19-21, 2013
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
As English becomes progressively more multimodal and destandardized and as
we look to a future where by 2050 Chinese “will have nearly triple the numbers of
speakers that English has” (Ostler, 2003) it is important to explore how English can
respond to the challenges and opportunities of this multilingual age. Whether we see
English as a tool to “win friends and influence people,” as a lingua franca, or as a
language whose use is now more symbolic than communicative, its possibilities
remain endless. Now that English looks to a new stage in its history in this globalized
“Asian century” it is timely that the future of English is explored from an Asian
perspective.
If Hong Kong can provide us with an acid test for the possibilities that lie ahead
for English in Asia, then recent events that point to a change in attitude to English in
Hong Kong can be revealing of broader trends. It is important that the dimensions of
this shift in perspective are examined so that the relevant disciplines (Linguistics, ESL,
Literary Studies, World Englishes, English Education, to name but a selection) can
adapt accordingly. In linguistics alone there has been a great deal of research on Hong
Kong English (HKE) by Deterding, Kirkpatrick and others. It has been argued that
English language benchmarks in HKE are often based on exonormative (usually RP
English) models of English which may not represent the English actually spoken in
Hong Kong (Kirkpatrick, 2007). This has informed recent debates in Hong Kong
society on the relative merits of multilingual teachers and native English teachers for
secondary schools. This conference sets out to explore how such issues are
transforming English language teaching and learning in university curriculums across
22
Asia.
English literary studies is another important element of English in Asia. Literary
studies offers a valuable outlet and resource for English language students. Literary
education fosters literacy and intercultural education as well as enabling imaginative
and creative learning. It offers a broader approach to learning than one grounded
solely on critical thinking. In a recent article on education in Hong Kong, Anthony
Cheung Bing-leung points to the promise subjects such as literary studies can hold for
education in general. Cheung Bing-leung argues that education in Hong Kong is in
danger of becoming “commodity” education. He warns against what Harry Lewis, a
former dean of Harvard, called “excellence without a soul”. He suggests we should
offer a system of education where the “new generation” should “be able to display
imagination and creativity unbounded by conventional wisdom and mainstream
thinking”. In the current academic curriculum in Hong Kong, English literary studies
(ELS) and the important local tradition of Hong Kong literature in English provide a
valuable resource for such imaginative and creative learning.
The conference will explore various dimensions of English in Asia. The debates
on the “role of English” in Hong Kong mediate broader political and social issues and
these are relevant for English language teaching and learning in universities across
Asia. This conference also examines English language publishing (both academic and
non-academic) in Asia that are bringing together the different perspectives and
different voices on English language teaching, learning and writing. Topics include,
but are not restricted to:
 Intercultural communication
 English teaching and technology
 Teaching English as a second/foreign language
 World Englishes
 Globalization and English
 The future of English literary studies (ELS) in Asia
 Theory in Asia
 Hong Kong literature in English




Linguistics and the future of English in Asia
Pedagogy and English in Asia
Twenty-first century literatures in English
Publishing in English in Asia
Please send a 300 word abstract by November 30 to: osullivan@cuhk.edu.hk
Selected papers will be put forward for publication
Contact: Dr. Michael O’Sullivan, Associate Professor, English Department, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong: osullivan@cuhk.edu.hk
23
Conferences in North America
Sex and Cinema in the 21st Century
November 2-3, 2012
Due: July 19, 2012
Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, Texas Christian University
k.hart@tcu.edu
Call for Papers: Sex and Cinema in the 21st Century
We invite panel and individual-paper proposals pertaining to the theme of sex
and cinema in the 21st century, for presentation at this fall's Film and Television in the
21st Century Conference (to be held at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas,
November 2-3, 2012).
The members of the conference committee are seeking contributions that
examine noteworthy cinematic representations of sex, gender, and/or sexual
orientation from the early years of the 21st century in relation to, and as an extension
of, groundbreaking 20th-century representations. Individual paper presentations will
be limited to 20 minutes in length.
We also invite submissions of relevant media offerings (of any length, in DVD
format) pertaining to the topic of sex and cinema in the 21st century for screening and
discussion at the conference.
We encourage submissions from scholars, educators, students, and
filmmakers/videographers at all levels, and from disciplines including anthropology,
communication, cultural studies, film studies, history, journalism, LGBT studies,
media studies, popular culture, and sociology.
Given adequate participant interest and high-quality submissions, we are hoping
to publish selected papers (with author’s permission) in a special collection of essays.
Persons submitting individual-paper proposals are asked to submit a one-page
abstract with complete contact information (name, institutional affiliation, mail and
e-mail addresses, contact telephone number) and a one-paragraph author biography.
Panel proposals (featuring three paper-presentations total) should include panel title,
brief description of panel theme, name of the panel chair, one-page abstracts of each
paper in the panel, complete contact information for each presenter on the panel
24
(name, institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses, contact telephone number),
and one-paragraph author biographies for each presenter on the panel.
In order to be considered, all proposals must be received no later than July 19,
2012. Please e-mail conference proposals to Professor Kylo-Patrick Hart
(k.hart@tcu.edu).
Decisions regarding the status of submitted proposals will be made and
communicated as quickly as possible following the submission deadline, and certainly
no later than August 1, 2012. For specific inquiries prior to submitting a proposal,
please contact Dr. Hart at your convenience by e-mail (k.hart@tcu.edu).
25
4th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference
September 21-22, 2012
Due: July 31, 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
26
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 31. Accepted presenters will be notified via e-mail by
August 15, 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
the Louisiana Folklife Center at Northwestern State University:
27
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.
28
Philadelphia from the Vernacular to the Spectacular
September 26-29, 2012
Due: August 31, 2012
The Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts &
Landscapes
wbrew@mc3.edu
The Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts &
Landscapes (PAS: APAL) will hold its 44th annual conference in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, on September 26-29, 2012. The meeting will be held in downtown
Philadelphia at Loews Hotel, housed in the historic 1932 Philadelphia Saving Fund
Society skyscraper.
The 2012 Conference theme is: Philadelphia: the Vernacular to the Spectacular.
Philadelphia has a unique history among major U.S. cities and has garnered many
descriptions — City of Brotherly Love, Athens of America, Greene Country Town,
the Holy Experiment, City of Firsts, Cradle of Liberty, City of Neighborhoods, and
Workshop of the World. You can explore these themes and many more on the website
http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/
The conference committee is currently soliciting proposals for papers, special
sessions, and panel discussions relating to the conference theme. However, papers on
all material culture and landscape topics of interest to the Society will be welcome.
Note: only papers submitted by PAS:APAL members and registered participants will
be accepted for the Friday program.
Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes with additional time for comments
and questions. All presentation equipment will be provided. Abstracts must be no
longer than 300 words, including the authors' names, affiliations, and title. Electronic
submission in Microsoft Word is preferred. Abstract submissions are due by 5:00 p.m.
Friday, August 31, 2012, and will be published in P.A.S.T. (Pioneer America Society
Transactions). Abstracts should be sent directly to: Wayne Brew: wbrew@mc3.edu.
For more information, please see:
http://www.pioneeramerica.org/annualmeeting2012.html
29
Arthurian Monster Quest: Investigating the Monsters
of the Arthurian Tradition, Medieval through
Modern
May 9-12, 2013
Due: September 1, 2012
The Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of Britain
ArthurianVillainyResearch@gmail.com
CALL FOR PAPERS
ARTHURIAN MONSTER QUEST
INVESTIGATING THE MONSTERS OF THE ARTHURIAN TRADITION,
MEDIEVAL THROUGH MODERN A SESSION FOR THE 48TH
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES (WESTERN
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, KALAMAZOO, MI) FROM 9-12 MAY 2013
SPONSORED BY THE ALLIANCE FOR THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH ON
THE VILLAINS OF THE MATTER OF BRITAIN
PROPOSALS BY 1 SEPTEMBER 2012 (EARLY SUBMISSION
RECOMMENDED)
Inspired by the pioneering work of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, teratology, the study
of monsters, is experiencing a renaissance of late in Medieval Studies. Much of this
new work has been conducted under the auspices of MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the
Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly
Theory and Practical Application), but there remain other avenues to explore,
especially with regards to fields of interest, like Arthurian Studies, that stretch outside
the medieval and into the various eras of post-medieval history. In sponsoring this
session, The Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of
Britain hopes to offer some much needed illumination into the darker parts of Arthur’s
realm and provide some sense of the history of the monsters that dwell in these
shadows.
In existence for nearly fifteen hundred years, the Matter of Britain, the body of
myths and legends associated with King Arthur and his court, has long been linked
30
with the supernatural, chiefly in Arthur’s own nebulous fate as the Once and Future
King and in the wonder-workings of the incubus-spawned Merlin, the fairy women
variously called the Lady of the Lake, and Arthur’s sibling Morgan le Fay, who is of
human origin despite her otherworldly title. These characters have all received much
attention from scholars, but the larger mass of Arthurian preternature has not. Besides
these examples, the denizens of Camelot presented in medieval texts encounter many
further mystical creatures, all of which we might consider as unnatural, or monstrous,
today, including demons, dragons, the Fair Folk, figures we would now label as
witches, giants, griffins, hellhounds, the restless dead, unicorns, werewolves, and,
who can forget, the enigmatic Questing Beast. These monsters, although important
features of their respective narratives, have all received little attention in modern
scholarship. Their successors have received even less attention, despite the
continuance of all of these preternatural beings in post-medieval Arthurian texts,
including such extremes as the Blazing Dragons franchise, which recasts Arthurian
figures as anthropomorphic dragons. In addition, as the corpus of Arthuriana has
expanded exponentially following the close of the Middle Ages, this new Matter of
Britain has also introduced additional creatures of the night (such as ogres, vampires,
zombies, and a plethora of new creations featured in the Merlin television series) not
found in medieval tales of Arthur’s court. Modern Arthurian texts, moreover, have
expanded the provenance of the monstrous and transformed ordinary figures from the
legend into monsters. It is this world of Arthurian monsters that we seek to explore in
these sessions with the intent of opening up their realm for further discussion and
appreciation.
Please note, all submissions will also be considered for a special issue of
ARTHURIANA on the topic. Completed essays will be due in June 2013.
PLEASE SUBMIT PROPOSALS OF 500 WORDS OR LESS, PARTICIPANT
INFORMATION FORM (AVAILABLE AT
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html), AND A
COPY OF YOUR CV TO THE ORGANIZERS AT
ArthurianVillainyResearch@gmail.com
PLEASE INCLUDE “KALAMAZOO 2013 PROPOSAL” IN THE SUBJECT
LINE
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ALLIANCE FOR THE
PROMOTION OF RESEARCH ON THE VILLAINS OF THE MATTER OF
BRITAIN, PLEASE ACCESS OUR BLOG AT
http://ArthurianVillainyResearch.blogspot.com/
31
Still Getting Medieval on Television:
Medieval-Themed Television of the Twenty-first
Century and Its Impact on Medieval Studies
May 9-12, 2013
Due: September 1, 2012
The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Ages@gmail.com
CALL FOR PAPERS
STILL GETTING MEDIEVAL ON TELEVISION:
MEDIEVAL-THEMED TELEVISION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND
ITS IMPACT ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES
A ROUNDTABLE FOR THE 48TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON
MEDIEVAL STUDIES (WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, KALAMAZOO,
MI) FROM 9-12 MAY 2013
SPONSORED BY THE VIRTUAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF POPULAR
CULTURE AND THE MIDDLE AGES
PROPOSALS BY 1 SEPTEMBER 2012 (EARLY SUBMISSION
RECOMMENDED)
In the twentieth-century, film and later television were the primary media for
disseminating information about the Middle Ages to mass audiences. However, in the
twenty-first century, that paradigm has shifted—a fact we had not yet realized in
organizing our 2007 sessions at both the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting
and the International Congress on Medieval Studies—with the “reel Middle Ages” of
film giving way almost completely and the “televisual Middle Ages” becoming the
dominant texts in our contemporary (re)construction of the medieval. Consequently,
thanks to the healthy manufacturing of new works for distribution on television as
well as (in defiance of the hithertofore ephemeralness of television programming) the
preservation of older ones online and on DVD, we should not discount their impact on
us and our students, both now and in the generations to come.
In apparent ignorance or (perhaps) denial of television’s usurpation of film’s role
32
as the major innovator of medieval-themed texts, the study of medieval-themed film
continues to expand, while research on televisual medievalisms remains limited
despite the growing number of high profile programs both in the United States and
abroad. Currently, television produces an overabundance of one-offs, series, telefilms,
miniseries, commercials, and documentaries, all created in ever-increasing numbers
for an incredibly diverse audience across the globe and provides viewers, starting with
simple plots for young children and culminating in an increased sophistication and
content for older adults, with vivid, informative and entertaining recreations of the
medieval past (either as they truly were or, more usually, as we wish they had been)
and/or transformations of that past in a vibrant medieval present. We can no longer
ignore television’s Middle Ages as a fertile ground for discussion and debate—a fact
addressed in the call for proposals for three recent collections on the topic. In this
roundtable session, designed to continue the ongoing work of the Virtual Society for
the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages, we hope to further alleviate some
of the disparity between filmic and televisual medievalisms and provide both a
gateway into accessing this material as well as to evaluate how these programs might
be profitably integrated into medievalist research and teaching.
Please note, all submissions will also becinsidered for inclusion in an essay
collection on medieval-themed TV.
PLEASE SUBMIT PROPOSALS OF 500 WORDS OR LESS, PARTICIPANT
INFORMATION FORM (AVAILABLE AT
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html), AND A
COPY OF YOUR CV TO THE ORGANIZERS AT
Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Ages@gmail.com
PLEASE INCLUDE “KALAMAZOO 2013 PROPOSAL” IN THE SUBJECT
LINE
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE VIRTUAL SOCIETY FOR THE
STUDY OF POPULAR CULTURE AND THE MIDDLE AGES, PLEASE ACCESS
OUR BLOG AT http://PopularCultureandtheMiddleAges.blogspot.com/
33
Writing and the Locus of Self: Ascribing Meaning
from Writer to Text, NeMLA 2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 5, 2012
Kristen Nielsen, Boston University
nielsen@bu.edu
Call for Papers 2013 Northeast MLA, March 21-24, Boston
Abstract Submission Deadline : September 5, 2012
Panel Topic: "Writing and the Locus of Self: Ascribing Meaning from Writer to Text"
Investigation of the concept of self in the teaching of writing and the production
of the writer’s text has attracted growing interest in pedagogical study, as well as in
rhetoric, creative writing, and literary theory, with many of the themes from such
research fields overlapping. This panel invites papers on topics exploring, through
analysis of theory or description and study of pedagogy, the relationship between
writing and the concept of self. Papers might examine the process and means of
writing the self; methods of teaching or practicing self assessment, self critique, or
metacognition in writing; the interplay between the objective and the personal in
writing; or theories of the role of self concept in the creative process. Abstracts from a
wide range of areas are welcome, including composition and rhetoric, literature,
linguistics, and creative writing, as well as proposals describing the study of writing
or writing pedagogy in disciplines outside of English. Papers employing any number
of critical or theoretical approaches to the investigation of writing and the self are also
welcome.
Questions and Submissions to: Kristen Nielsen, nielsen@bu.edu
Submissions should include
Full name
Name of organization:
Title of Paper
250-word abstract
34
Contact email
Contact Phone Number
For detailed cfp and convention information visit:
http://nemla.org/convention/2013/
35
Culinary Contact Zones: Charting Transatlantic
Exchange in Early American Food Culture
February 28-March 2, 2013
Due: September 7, 2012
Conference of the Society of Early Americanists
cfarrish@fulbrightmail.org
Eighth Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists
February 28—March 2, 2013
Savannah, Georgia
CFP: Culinary Contact Zones: Charting Transatlantic Exchange in Early American
Food Culture
Panel Organizer: Christopher Farrish
We invite proposals for an interdisciplinary panel exploring the intersections of
food, eating, and dining, with nation-making and transatlantic exchange in early
America. What styles of cooking and eating emerged in the contact zones between
British and colonial tradition? How did indigenous and African cultures influence
specific localities? How were Caribbean influences folded into Southern habits?
When people wrote about meals, both magnificent and mundane, what did they say?
What of the receipt books and published cookbooks; how may we read these texts as
cultural documents that evoke place as well as engage a “culture of reprinting?” How
did dining room architecture in plantation homes and northern estates reflect larger
circuits of capital and social status? This panel will approach food and eating in these
expansive terms, encompassing ingredients, cooking techniques, and meals, but also
architecture, trade, and literary production. In so doing we will expose early American
food culture as deeply influential on and evocative of emerging notions of home,
place, and nation.
Please send a 250-word abstract and a 1-page CV to Christopher Farrish
cfarrish@fulbrightmail.org by Friday, September 7, 2012
36
Conference on the Harlem Renaissance 2012
November 7-9, 2012
Due: September 7, 2012
Paine College - School of Arts and Sciences
ewilliams@paine.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE ON THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
November 7 – 9, 2012
Paine College ~ Augusta, GA
“The Harlem Community: Contemporary and Historical Enclave of Creativity”
The School of Arts and Sciences at Paine College is requesting proposals for the
Annual Conference on the Harlem Renaissance. The conference will be held on the
campus of historic Paine College from November 7 - 9, 2012. The 2012 conference
will explore the contemporary and historical significance of the Harlem community as
one of inspiration and opportunity. Conference participants will examine the critical
role of the Harlem community and its far-reaching impact nationally and globally.
Areas of examination include but are not limited to:
The Apollo Theater – Present and Past
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Harlem Restaurants – Sylvia’s and Red Rooster
The Harlem Globetrotters
Democracy Prep Charter Middle School and Democracy Prep Harlem
Contemporary and Historical Harlem Jazz Culture
Patronage During the Harlem Renaissance
Opportunity and Crisis: Impact During the Harlem Renaissance
Intersections of Race, Class, and Culture – Views of Contemporary and Historic
Harlem
Erotic and Exotic Renderings towards Misinterpretations of the Harlem Renaissance
Spirituality, Religion, and Faith During the Harlem Renaissance
The Cotton Club
Emergent Literary Voices – Contemporary and Historical
37
A’Lelia Walker’s Tearoom Salon, “The Dark Tower”
The Negro Experimental Theater
Pan African Congress (1919 and 1920)
Charles S. Johnson, Sociologist
Marcus Garvey – American and Caribbean Influences
James Van Der Zee – Visual Chronicler of Harlem
Proposals/Abstracts are sought in three categories:
Professors, independent scholars, artists and designers
Graduate students
Undergraduate students
Submission Requirements: Individual proposals/abstracts should be no more than
250 words and panel abstracts should be more than 750 words. A clear explanation of
the significance of the presentation is requested.
Indicate all participants, status (professor, independent scholar, artist, designer,
and student) and tentative title/focus of the panel and/or individual presentation.
Proposals/Abstracts should be submitted no later than Friday, September 7, 2012.
Earlier submissions to ensure participation and capacity are encouraged.
Submit electronically to ewilliams@paine.edu.
38
"By the Author of David Simple": New Approaches
to Sarah Fielding
April 4-7, 2013
Due: September 15, 2012
Stephanie Harper Recine / American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies
stephanie.harper.15@my.csun.edu
Just past her 300th birthday, the popularity of Sarah Fielding is increasing; yet,
her life and writing tend to be overshadowed by the critical reception of her brother,
Henry. This panel seeks to advance the conversation surrounding Sarah Fielding,
especially as it relates to new approaches on themes of gender, nature, and trauma in
her work. Furthermore, papers which focus on teaching Fielding are encouraged.
Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words and a 1-page CV to Stephanie
Harper Recine (stephanie.harper.15@my.csun.edu) by September 15th, 2012.
39
Robin Hood and the Outlaw Canon: Medieval Texts
and Contexts
May 9-12, 2013
Due: September 15, 2012
International Association for Robn Hood Studies
akaufman@aum.edu
L.A.Coote@hull.ac.uk
"Robin Hood and the Outlaw Canon: Medieval Texts and Contexts."
Robin Hood is certainly one of the best known figures associated with the
Middle Ages. Like King Arthur and the characters and the iconography of the
Arthurian tradition, Robin Hood and his topos have likewise become mainstays of
popular culture and are in many ways part of the global consciousness. But popularity
and name recognition does not always translate to canonicity. While the corpus of
Arthurian literature contains a number of texts that are firmly within the literary canon
(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur, and
Chretien’s five romances, to name but a few), the same cannot be said of the texts of
the Robin Hood tradition. The aim of these sessions is to address the literary, cultural,
and ideological factors that have kept the Robin Hood tradition out of the literary
canon, and to examine ways in which certain Robin Hood texts have begun to work
their way back into the scholarly and pedagogical discourse. These sessions are
unique, for the question of the canonicity of the Robin Hood tradition as not been
adequately addressed. Moreover, these session will be timely, for the fifteen years has
seen not only an increase in significant scholarly contributions to the field of Robin
Hood studies, such as Stephen Knight and Thomas H. Ohlgren’s TEAMS edition
Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales (1997), Knight’s Robin Hood: A Mythic
Biography (2003), and Ohlgren’s Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465-1560 (2007),
but also has witnessed a growth in the number of Robin Hood classes taught at
undergraduate and graduate levels and even in some high schools. A transgressive
figure, Robin Hood and his texts have been given outsider status, yet he and his
greenwood world have maintained a hold on our collective imagination. It seems that
now is the opportune time for a reconsideration of Robin Hood’s place within the
40
canon.
Please send abstracts and a completed Participant Information Form (link below)
by September 15, 2012, to Alex Kaufman (akaufman@aum.edu) and Lesley Coote
(L.A.Coote@hull.ac.uk).
Participant Information Form:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper
41
48th ICMS
May 9-12, 2013
Due: September 15, 2012
Rhonda L. McDaniel
rhonda.mcdaniel@mtsu.edu
You are invited to submit abstracts for papers for the 48th ICMS in Kalamazoo,
MI that address the kinds of memory and representations of memory at work in
Anglo-Saxon culture and literature. The proposed papers may explore the topics of
how Anglo-Saxons portrayed memory at work in art and literature, what they
understood the work of memory to accomplish, the use of memory to affect the
actions of others, etc. Abstracts should be submitted electronically to Dr. Rhonda L.
McDaniel at rhonda.mcdaniel@mtsu.edu by 15 September 2012.
42
Special Session on "Reconceptualizing the Literature
of Late Medieval/Early Modern Scotland"
May 9-12, 2013
Due: September 15, 2012
Timothy S. Miller
tmille17@nd.edu
We invite papers for our special session at the 48th International Congress on
Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI (May 9-12, 2013): "On the Borders:
Reconceptualizing the Literature of Late Medieval/Early Modern Scotland."
We are interested in seeing proposals on any topic concerning the still
under-studied literature of late medieval and/or early modern Scotland, but especially
those that address the challenges to conventional periodization that the authors of this
notoriously "in-between" period represent (roughly 1425-1525, but with no strict
boundaries on either side). Papers might focus on any of the following areas, although
they are certainly not restricted to them:





new approaches to periodization
humanism and classicism in Scottish vs. English contexts
the idea of "The Northern Renaissance," broadly understood
questions of historiography and nation
the influence of Scottish texts on English authors of the fifteenth and sixteenth
century (e.g. John Skelton)
We also enthusiastically welcomes papers on any of the authors usually grouped
together as "Scottish Chaucerians" -- the poet of the _Kingis Quair_, Robert Henryson,
William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas, among others -- although proposals for papers
that do not focus primarily on the influence of Chaucer will be read with special
interest.
By September 15, 2012, please submit a one-page abstract and completed
Participant Information Form to tmille17@nd.edu, as required by the organizers of
ICMS: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html
43
"The History and Future of Data Visualization"
(Digital Humanities Caucus)
April 4-7, 2013
Due: September 15, 2012
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
lauren.klein@lcc.gatech.edu
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (AESCS) Annual Meeting
April 4-7, 2013
Cleveland, OH
CFP: "The History and Future of Data Visualization" (Digital Humanities Caucus)
Panel Organizer: Lauren Klein, Georgia Tech
According to the New York Times, the "next big thing" for the humanities is data.
But scholars of the eighteenth century have long recognized that era as the one in
which taxonomical representation of data, and related forms of visual display, rose to
the fore. This panel seeks papers that address the history and future of data
visualization, broadly conceived. Topics may include: data-mining and visualization
techniques applied to eighteenth-century texts; eighteenth-century ideas about—and
approaches to—data, and related forms of display; creative uses and/or theorizations
of digital tools for teaching and research.
Please send 250 word abstract and 1-page CV to Lauren Klein,
lauren.klein@lcc.gatech.edu before Saturday, September 15th.
44
Books Have Their Histories: Medieval Chronicles and
Their Scribes, Manuscripts, and Early Editions
May 9-12, 2013
Due: September 15, 2012
Dominique Hoche
dominique.hoche@westliberty.edu
Books Have Their Histories: Medieval Chronicles and Their Scribes, Manuscripts,
and Early Editions – In Memory of Lister M. Matheson
International Medieval Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan: May
9-12, 2013.
Deadline: September 15, 2012
For information, contact dominique.hoche@westliberty.edu or
dominique.hoche@gmail.com
Lister Matheson (1948-2012; Professor of English and Medieval Studies,
Michigan State University) was a major scholar in many fields, but two of his most
important scholarly legacies lie in the arenas of medieval chronicle studies (including
the Middle English Prose Brut and the relation of chronicles to medieval literary
traditions) and early book and manuscript studies (in a wide variety of content areas,
from historical writing and popular legends to scientific texts and
ownership/biographical studies). He was a frequent and fondly-remembered
participant in many Medieval Congresses over the years, both as a speaker and as an
organizer and chair of sessions.
Papers for these memorial sessions should be united by the broad theme of the
medieval presentation of history and the codicological settings through which that
history was transmitted. Papers may focus on various aspects of later medieval
chronicles; manuscripts and printed texts linked to medieval historical writings; the
scribes, printers, owners, or commissioners of such texts; and similar topics. As
Professor Matheson's own work has shown, a full understanding of medieval
historical texts demands attention to both the content of the works in question -45
which could vary quite significantly depending on the needs or interests of the users
of those texts -- and the material circumstances of producing those works. Papers
illuminating these connections should be of interest to historians, literary specialists,
and/or early book scholars, inter alia.
Proposals should be no longer than 400 words and must clearly indicate the
significance, line of argument, principal texts and relation to existing scholarship (if
possible). Email the proposal in the body of the message, a 50-word bio note, and a
completed Participant Information form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to
Dominique Hoche at dominique.hoche@westliberty.edu or
dominique.hoche@gmail.com. Due September 15, 2012.
For general information about the 2013 Medieval Congress, visit:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/index.html.
46
Feeling like Langland
May 9-12, 2013
Due: September 15, 2012
International Piers Plowman Society (IPPS)
radavis@uci.edu
This session addresses a vital and evolving field of research that comprises
investigations into the history of emotion, theories of affect, and representations of
cognition and sensory perception. “Feeling,” a gerundive, is both a process and a
thing, as Sarah McNamer reminds us. It integrates “the somatic, affective, and
cognitive in a pre-Cartesian universe” where “‘to feel’ can mean ‘to know.’”
Coalescing around this inclusive term, this panel seeks to bring together participants
from a variety of approaches to the textual representation, production, and
management of “feeling,” considered broadly. Papers may address Piers Plowman
directly, examine related texts and discourses in a comparative approach, or discuss
the concept and operation of "feeling" in more theoretical terms. Possible paper topics
could include but are not limited to: Piers Plowman and the history of emotion;
studies of the poem’s treatment of particular emotions; representations of the senses
and sensation; the poem’s affective architectures, or spaces of feeling; its
engagements with affective devotion and other forms of performativity or scripted
emotion; and its exploration of affective modes of knowing, including the relationship
between the bodily senses, or outer wits, and the inner cognitive and volitional
faculties that depend on their mediation of the perceptual world. We also welcome
comparative studies or papers focused on poetry and prose works in related traditions:
studies of mystical feeling, monastic and fraternal discourses, encyclopedic
representations of emotions or the senses, displays of feeling in courtly traditions,
such as lyric and romance, and feeling in liturgical and devotional practices.
Send abstracts of ca. 300 words, or any queries, to Rebecca Davis
(radavis@uci.edu) by September 15.
47
Neighboring Genres
May 9-12, 2013
Due: September 15, 2012
International Piers Plowman Society (IPPS)
radavis@uci.edu
James Simpson has observed that Langland “often merges recognizable genres in
one sequence of his poem . . . often with the effect of creating poetry that is
distinctively Langlandian, and beyond the reach of traditional generic categories.”
How then do we talk about genre and Piers Plowman? As Simpson notes, the poem
sows affiliations with a vast array of literary as well as expository and didactic forms
of writing. This panel invites papers that examine these "neighboring genres" within
Piers Plowman, among associated texts, and in its manuscript contexts. What is the
effect of the layering or serial appropriation of genres within the poem? How does
Langland’s handling of genre compare to others of its kind? What do the generic traits
of its manuscript neighbors suggest about its audiences’ expectations and affinities?
Paper topics might include, but are not limited to: Langland’s use of particular genres
in unexpected contexts or to new purposes; generic influences whose presence and
function in the poem has not yet been fully understood; intertextual studies of Piers
Plowman and other works that share particular generic traits; examinations of specific
manuscript contexts, such as genre in compilations like the Vernon Manuscript or
Cambridge University Library Dd 1.17; the repeated associations of Piers Plowman
and particular texts, such as Mandeville’s Travels, or types of texts, like the historical
romance; generic mismatches or dissonance within the poem or within its contextual
settings; and studies of the appearance of particular genres or generic discourses
within the poem, such as debate, lyric, romance, liturgy, personification allegory,
estates satire, sermon, religious polemic, petitionary, legal, and other bureaucratic
forms, historical narrative, prophesy, and apocalypse, to name a few.
Send abstracts of ca. 300 words, or any queries, to Rebecca Davis
(radavis@uci.edu) by September 15.
48
Versions of Piers Plowman
May 9-12, 2013
Due: September 15, 2012
International Piers Plowman Society (IPPS)
radavis@uci.edu
In his recent book The Lost History of Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner
concludes that Piers Plowman, “the most magnificent of poems,” is also “one still in
the process of becoming.” This is not to imply that the poem will reach some final
point of achievement, but rather that we must enlarge our understanding of the poem
to include “innumerable acts of production and intervention from the 1360s to today.”
Taking a capacious view of our object of study, this panel invites papers that explore
Piers Plowman in its many-versioned manifestations. Possible topics may include, but
are not limited to: studies of particular manuscripts; discussions of the dating and
ordering of the poem’s versions; appropriations of the poem in the Rising of 1381;
considerations of works in the Piers Plowman tradition, including Mum and the
Sothsegger and Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede, but also of texts that may be said to
imitate or respond to Langland more obliquely, including works, for example, by
Chaucer, Hoccleve, and Usk; and considerations of modern editions, from the
perspectives of editors as well as from other types of readers, including the teachers
and researchers who depend on these editions.
Send abstracts of ca. 300 words, or any queries, to Rebecca Davis
(radavis@uci.edu) by September 15.
49
ASECS 2013/Culture and Violence before the
Revolution
April 4-7, 2013
Due: September 15, 2012
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, April 4-7, 2013, Cleveland, OH
antons@newschool.edu
The period of the French Revolution has long been recognized as a privileged
moment in which sovereign violence and cultural production come together and erupt
into new visions of civilization and history. Yet how is the relation between
sovereignty, culture and violence understood in the decades leading up to the
Revolution? Where are the contradictions and tensions that inhabit visions of Ancien
Régime literature, the arts and Enlightenment thought that make the encounter
between culture and violence unavoidable or necessary? What cultural image does
violence give rise to and how does violence come to be understood as being a
fundamental aspect of culture? How is violence—whether the sovereign violence of
the state or private, individual violence—recuperated and understood in aesthetic or
"spiritual" terms? Papers exploring these themes and issues across the broad field of
eighteenth-century literature, thought and the arts are welcome.
50
Nineteenth Century Studies Association 2013:
Loco/Motion
March 7-9, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
Nineteenth Century Studies Association
sternk@longwood.edu
Call for Papers
Loco/Motion
34th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Fresno, California, March 7-9, 2013
The long nineteenth century set the world on the move. Travel became
increasingly important for business and pleasure, for war and peace. At the same time,
new forms of moving people arose: the balloon, ships, undergrounds, funiculars, the
railroads. Each carried riders to great distances, different locales, and novel pursuits.
But motion wasn’t purely spatial; new movements arose as well, sweeping the
inhabitants of the period into fresh vistas of thought and endeavor. We seek papers
and panels that capture the sense of movement at work and at play during the long
nineteenth century (1789-1914). Papers may address the intersections of movement/s,
focus on technologies of motion in isolation, or reveal the desires—for gain, glory,
greed—that set the world on its feet.
Some suggested topics:
 Gold Rushes (Mineral Manias and Speculative Destinations)








Literature of the Sea
Maps and Cartography
The Science of Exploration (Darwin’s Voyages)
Narratives of Time Travel, Travel into Space (Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle)
The West as Destination and Concept
Celebrity Performance Tours
Movement of Goods and Ideas
Migration and Relocation
51

Expeditions


Concepts of Motion and Stasis
New Forms of Creative Motion and Locomotion (Moving Pictures, Photography,
Dance, Music)
We also welcome other interpretations of the conference theme.
The campus of California State University, Fresno, will host us in 2013. Its
setting makes it the perfect place to explore the conference theme, since Fresno is
ringed by the original Gold Rush towns and three superb national parks (Yosemite,
Sequoia, and Kings Canyon), two of which are nineteenth-century creations. As a
result, Fresno still bears evidence of the vast changes caused by the movements of the
nineteenth century. The library of CSU Fresno houses the Donald G. Larson
Collection on International Expositions and Fairs; material from this archive will be
featured in a special exhibition for the conference, as will material from the Robert
Louis Stevenson Silverado Museum.
Please e-mail abstracts (250 words) for 20-minute papers that provide the
author’s name and paper title in the heading, as well as a one-page cv, to Prof. Toni
Wein at NCSA-2013@sbcglobal.net by September 30, 2012. Please note that
submission of a proposal indicates intent to present. Presenters will be notified in
November 2012. Graduate students whose proposals are accepted may, at that point,
submit complete papers in competition for a travel grant to help cover transportation
and lodging expenses.
52
Literature, Service Learning, and the Engaged
Humanities, NeMLA 2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
NEMLA 2013
meanes@sage.edu
A NEMLA 2013 Roundtable
Boston, MA. March 21-24, 2013.
As Gregory Jay points out in “The Engaged Humanities,” there are material and
institutional barriers that discourage academics in the humanities from developing
community-based programs, but there are also intellectual habits and
non-collaborative traditions that interfere as well. Service learning is an excellent way
to engage students and faculty in humanities-based community programming and to
encourage us all to think more deeply about the value and significance of the
humanities in society. Notably, though service learning has been gaining institutional
support in recent years – sometimes in the form of institutional mandates – the
humanities seem less quick to embrace this turn than the social sciences and the arts.
Furthermore, it is in the composition classroom where English programs most
frequently intersect with service learning, as for decades writing pedagogies have
emphasized civic engagement as a central component of a liberal arts education and
writing as a direct means of civic engagement and service learning.
The incorporation of civic engagement in the literary curriculum through the
creation of public humanities events, participation in community humanities
programming, and community-based service learning projects can be a means of
revitalizing the humanities in our institutions, re-casting the value of the literary
studies in relation to institutional missions, and developing new forms of
student-centered learning and meaningful research.
This roundtable will bring together teacher-scholars to discuss practical
strategies for community partnership development and course/project design as well
as some of the surprises, challenges, and lessons learned through engaged humanities
and service learning endeavors. It will also examine obstacles to meaningful
53
engagement and open up some of the connections between the practical challenges of
this work and broader philosophical issues of engaged pedagogies, the ethics of
reciprocity, and the conflicting objectives within higher education today.
300-500 Word Abstracts due September 30, 2012 to meanes@sage.edu.
Information about the conference can be found at:
http://nemla.org/convention/2013/index.html
54
The Originality of Adaptation and Novelization,
NeMLA 2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
Northeast Modern Language Association
aio2101@columbia.edu
The Originality of Adaptation and Novelization
This panel studies how adaptations of literature into film, and novelizations of
film into literature, stress their originality. How do such derivative works manage
their break with their sources while not alienating their audience?
Marketing and reception studies of adaptations / novelizations are welcome, as
are papers on works only re-using characters or loosely borrowing from sources in
other media.
Please send 250 word abstracts to Ana Oancea (aio2101@columbia.edu) by Sept.
30, 2012.
This panel has been approved for the 2013 NeMLA Convention. It is listed in
areas: Cultural Studies and Film; Theory and Literary Criticism.
The Convention will be held in Boston, MA, March 21-24, 2013.
55
Contemporary Literature and the Possibility of A Left:
Toward A New Politics, NeMLA 2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
Adam Kelly & Maggie Gram, Harvard University
literature.left@gmail.com
Might contemporary literature help to construct a left politics for our time? Can
it help us to revive old political models, or to invent new ones? This seminar solicits
readings of contemporary literary texts that grapple (or afford their readers tools with
which to grapple) with the possibilities of political engagement in the present. We ask
how particular literary genres might be fit or unfit for contemporary political thinking,
and how contemporary texts use literary form to engage questions of equality and
inequality, corporatism, sustainability, democracy, racial justice, and human rights.
We also encourage inquiries that reach beyond these categories to interrogate received
terms and logics and to address political challenges and possibilities on multiple (local,
national, global) scales.
We hope that the broad scope of the seminar will allow for conversations
between critics of contrasting methodologies and areas of expertise, including but not
limited to contemporary Marxism, the new economic criticism, liberal aesthetics,
sociology of institutions, eco-criticism, gender and sexuality studies, critical race
studies, postcolonial studies, etc. We set no restrictions on the genres or national
origins of the literature under consideration, although papers should be written in
English.
The seminar format is as follows: there will be between 6 and 10 participants,
who will pre-circulate papers of 3,000-5,000 words. The session at NeMLA will be
two hours long; each participant will give a very brief oral description of his or her
paper, for the benefit of audience members, before we proceed to open discussion.
The co-chairs will act as respondents.
Send abstracts of 300-500 words to Adam Kelly and Maggie Gram, Harvard
University, at literature.left@gmail.com. Include your name and affiliation with your
abstract.
56
Deadline: September 30, 2012.
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
57
But Will They Know About My Novel?: The Kindle,
Publishing, and Creative Writing (Roundtable),
NeMLA 2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
Northeast Modern Languages Association
shenkle@hotmail.com
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
When the Justice Department sued Apple and six major publishers for collusion,
there were clear signs of anxiety over a publishing monopoly based in no small part
on one party’s dominance over the eBook market. That future may be debatable,
what’s less debatable is that book publishing has already changed dramatically. This
roundtable will examine how new publishing models and electronic publishing will
change our hiring practices, our tenure and promotions, our creative writing
departments, and our writing. Please send 250 word abstracts to Scott Henkle at
Deadline: September 30, 2012
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)
The 2013 NeMLA convention continues the Association's tradition of sharing
innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. The 44th annual event
will be held in historic Boston, Massachusetts, a city known for its national and
maritime history, academic facilities and collections, vibrant art, theatre, and food
scenes, and blend of architecture. The Convention, located centrally near Boston
58
Commons and the Theatre District at the Hyatt Regency, will include keynote and
guest speakers, literary readings, film screenings, tours and workshops.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session;
however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention
participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or
participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp.html
59
Under Scott's Shadow: Historical Fiction in the
Nineteenth Century, NeMLA 2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
Northeast Modern Language Association
lgoodman@fas.harvard.edu
Under Scott’s Shadow: Historical Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
This panel seeks papers on nineteenth-century historical fiction and criticism.
Most accounts of the historical novel emphasize the achievements of Walter Scott,
and while papers on Scott are welcome, this panel also seeks papers on aspects of
historical fiction that are often neglected or under-appreciated. How have different
authors approached this genre? How have they critiqued or challenged the model of
the historical novel created and popularized by Scott? Please send any inquiries and
250-500 word abstracts to Lesley Goodman at lgoodman@fas.harvard.edu.
Deadline: September 30, 2012
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session;
however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention
participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or
participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp.html
60
Literary Celebrity and Social Discourse in
Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Culture, NeMLA
2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
Joanna Collins and Hans Mattingly/University of Pittsburgh
jkayco@gmail.com
Call for Papers
Literary Celebrity and Social Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Culture
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
Building on recent scholarly attention to the intersections between literary and
celebrity studies, this panel seeks papers on the phenomenon of literary celebrity in
nineteenth century Anglophone culture. Of particular interest are the ways in which
such celebrity inflects and is inflected by the social discourses of the period, including
those of gender, sexuality, race, imperialism, class, print culture, crime, and
performance. Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches encouraged. Please send
350-word abstracts to jkayco@gmail.com and hamst20@pitt.edu.
Deadline: September 30, 2012
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)
The 2013 NeMLA convention continues the Association's tradition of sharing
innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. The 44th annual event
will be held in historic Boston, Massachusetts, a city known for its national and
maritime history, academic facilities and collections, vibrant art, theatre, and food
61
scenes, and blend of architecture. The Convention, located centrally near Boston
Commons and the Theatre District at the Hyatt Regency, will include keynote and
guest speakers, literary readings, film screenings, tours and workshops.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session;
however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention
participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or
participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp.html
62
Women's and Gender Studies Caucus, NeMLA 2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
Northeast Modern Language Association - NeMLA, WGSC
rbode@trentu.ca
Chairs of the pre-approved panels and roundtables of the NeMLA Women’s and
Gender Studies Caucus seek proposals. Unless otherwise stated, proposals are due by
September 30th.
For panel / roundtable descriptions, and submission information, please see:
http://nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp_womensstudies.html
The full convention CFP is available at:
http://nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp.html; further information on the convention and
NeMLA can be found at www.nemla.org
63
Transnational Canadian Writing, NeMLA 2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
Northeast Modern Language Association
joel.deshaye@mcgill.ca
Call for Papers
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
The 20-minute presentations for this session will examine the cultural
significance of Canadian authors who write in and about other countries. Authors to
consider include, but are not limited to, Dionne Brand, Rohinton Mistry, Mavis
Gallant, Thomas King, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Gurjinder Basran, Erin Mouré, Lydia
Kwa, Fred Wah, Ruth Ozeki, Josef Škvorecký, Michael Ondaatje, Saul Bellow, and
Margaret Atwood. This session asks how this transnational writing complicates and
enriches Canadian literature and other national literatures. Send brief abstracts in Rich
Text Format to Joel Deshaye: joel.deshaye@mcgill.ca.
Deadline: September 30, 2012
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)
The 2013 NeMLA convention continues the Association's tradition of sharing
innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. The 44th annual event
will be held in historic Boston, Massachusetts, a city known for its national and
maritime history, academic facilities and collections, vibrant art, theatre, and food
64
scenes, and blend of architecture. The Convention, located centrally near Boston
Commons and the Theatre District at the Hyatt Regency, will include keynote and
guest speakers, literary readings, film screenings, tours and workshops.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session;
however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention
participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or
participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp.html
65
The Dandy after Wilde, NeMLA 2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
Bill Harrison / SUNY Geneseo
harrison@geneseo.edu
CFP: The Dandy After Wilde (NeMLA 2013; abstracts due 9/30/12)
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
This conference panel, The Dandy After Wilde, investigates how the fluid
cultural tropes of dandyism can be understood within a complex latticework of
gendered, racialized, sexual, and national identities. Recent work (that is, since 2000)
by Susan Fillin-Yeh, Miranda Gill, and Monica Miller have done much to focus
attention on what Miller terms "alternative dandyism" -- conceptions of the dandy
beyond its classic Brummellian tropes. This significant reappraisal of the dandy, in
combination with a popular, internet-fueled sartorial advocacy for dress and
consumption under the monicker of dandyism, make further exploration of these
cultural paradigms even more trenchant.
Writers and critics as varied Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin, Cyril
Connolly and Albert Camus, have been drawn to the dandy as idealized literary and
cultural type. The twentieth-century suggested significant revisions to the dandy's
paradigms; for example, after the prosecution of Oscar Wilde, as Alan Sinfeld notes,
the dandy became inextricably linked to gay male sexuality. Further developments in
both the political and consumer realm, particularly for Western democracies,
challenge both the status of the dandy as type as well as its concomitant attractions.
This panel encourages critical considerations of the problematization of
dandyism and reexaminations of dandical representations dating after 1900, the year
of Wilde's death. While submissions of all kinds are invited, of special interest are
papers that acknowledge the demands that modernist and post-modernist culture place
upon this paradigm, as well as projects that consider dandyism from multi-cultural or
66
transnational perspectives.
Send 250-word abstract to Bill Harrison, harrison@geneseo.edu. Subject line:
NeMLA 2013.
Deadline: September 30, 2012
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)
The 2013 NeMLA convention continues the Association's tradition of sharing
innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. The 44th annual event
will be held in historic Boston, Massachusetts, a city known for its national and
maritime history, academic facilities and collections, vibrant art, theatre, and food
scenes, and blend of architecture. The Convention, located centrally near Boston
Commons and the Theatre District at the Hyatt Regency, will include keynote and
guest speakers, literary readings, film screenings, tours and workshops.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session;
however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention
participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or
participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp.html
67
Searching for Authority: Rebellious Readers in Early
Modern Texts (1640-1740), NeMLA 2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
North East Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Fabriziogarciaabstracts@gmail.com
Searching for Authority: Rebellious Readers in Early Modern Texts (1640-1740)
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
At a glance, reading may appear to be a passive activity; the solitary reader takes
in the words on the page and is in some sense restricted by the scope of whatever is in
the text. Because reading is in many ways instructional and can be used to educate or
dictate to the reader, in early modern England those in power often used texts to
control those classified as inferior or other, whether in the form of the complete denial
of literacy or restrictions on what can and cannot be read. But as Edith Snook explains
in her study of early modern women’s literacy, “reading was not necessarily
circumscribed by social expectations that it would be a religious, domestic, chaste,
trivial, or passive activity” (5). In women’s writings (as well as writing by and about
other subordinates, such as servants or slaves), quotations, allusions, descriptions of
characters’ reading, and representations of different types of reading, show the myriad
of ways in which reading and literacy were utilized in the period to grapple with
questions of power and to redefine and renegotiate the position of the reader and
world in which the reader lived. In these texts reading leads to the stimulation of the
reader’s imagination, expansion of the mind, and overall empowerment, highlighting
the subversive potential of literacy and illustrating an anxiety about the effects of
reading. This panel will explore how representations of literal acts of reading,
figurative reading such as the reading of situations or people, and the allusions to
things read impact power structures. We will address questions such as: how is
68
reading represented in texts? What are the dangers of reading? What is the connection
between reading, identity, and power? Does reading empower or control the person
reading? How is reading material re-appropriated, redefined, or utilized? How does
reading in the text shape the text and/or the world in which the reader exists? Send
250 word proposals and a brief CV to Andrea Fabrizio and Ruth Garcia at
Fabriziogarciaabstracts@gmail.com
Deadline for Abstracts: September 30, 2012
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)
The 2013 NeMLA convention continues the Association's tradition of sharing
innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. The 44th annual event
will be held in historic Boston, Massachusetts, a city known for its national and
maritime history, academic facilities and collections, vibrant art, theatre, and food
scenes, and blend of architecture. The Convention, located centrally near Boston
Commons and the Theatre District at the Hyatt Regency, will include keynote and
guest speakers, literary readings, film screenings, tours and workshops.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session;
however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention
participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or
participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp.html
69
The Western Fascination with Cannibalism, NeMLA
2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
Elena Daniele, Brown University
elena_daniele@brown.edu
CFP
THE WESTERN FASCINATION WITH CANNIBALISM
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
This panel invites papers on the theme of cannibalism – whether a trope within
travel literatures of wonders, an ethnographic report, an account of survival, a fiction
of horror, an anthropology of the aberrant, a metaphor, or anything between and
beyond these categories. Please send 300-500 word abstracts and brief biographical
statements to Elena Daniele: elena_daniele@brown.edu
Deadline: September 30, 2012
70
The Sequential Monster: Reading Comics as
Monstrous, NeMLA 2013
March 21-24, 2013
Due: September 30, 2012
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 44th Annual Convention, March
21-24, 2013
lauere@sunysuffolk.edu
Comic books, graphic novels and webcomics generally combine words and
images to create narratives. Perhaps we can see them, therefore, as monstrous: beasts
that combine the elements of verbal and visual, narrative and static communication
forms. Like a monster composed of pieces of other animals, the whole is greater than
the sum of its parts. This panel will examine a social understanding of comics forms
and the kinds of literacies required to accept and interpret them. Abstracts of 300
words to lauere@sunysuffolk.edu; Deadline: September 30, 2012. Include: name,
affiliation, anticipated a/v requirements.
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 44th Annual Convention
http://nemla.org
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
71
39th Annual African Literature Association
Conference--"Literature, Liberation, and the Law"
March 20-24, 2013
Due: November 30, 2012
Simon Lewis/ College of Charleston
lewiss@cofc.edu
Literature, Liberation, and the Law
The 39th annual conference of the African Literature Association (ALA)
Charleston, South Carolina, March 20-24, 2013
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
 Leonora Miano, multiple award-winning Cameroonian writer
 Njabulo S. Ndebele, Noma Award-winning novelist, short story writer, and critic
 Justice Albie Sachs, former ANC activist and Constitutional Court Judge of
South Africa


Binyavanga Wainaina, Caine Prize-winning Kenyan writer
Cleveland Sellers, civil rights activist and President of Voorhees College in
Denmark, South Carolina.
Conference Theme, and Rationale
From its inception the ALA has embraced the cause of liberation in Africa and
the diaspora. Hosting the 39th annual conference in Charleston, SC in 2013, in the
midst of Charleston’s four-year arc of commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the
American Civil War, and coincident with the 50th anniversaries of the Civil Rights
movement and the era of African decolonization, allows the ALA to further its
important intellectual and political contribution by contesting memory locally,
nationally, and internationally. Mindful of these significant historical and
geographical resonances, the ALA’s 39th annual conference, “Literature, Liberation,
and the Law,” seeks papers that explore the manner and extent to which
writing--whether in statute books or in literature—can bring about liberation.
Invoking the conference’s three key terms—literature, liberation and law—we
encourage scholars to cross disciplinary boundaries in engaged and thoughtful ways
72
as they reflect on how the legal, the political, and the literary are intertwined. More
specifically, we anticipate investigations into, among other things:
 how liberation is inscribed in constitutions and declarations of human rights
 whether mental liberation depends on one’s own linguistic or legal framework
 what literature has come out of, or has influenced, African and African diaspora
emancipation movements from the age of Revolution to today
 what relationships exist among literature, the law, and education, and to what
extent literacy has empowered different groups at critical junctures
 how different narrative forms have grappled with the problem of freedom, the
experiences of immigrants, the struggle for representation.
 whether the language of liberation is equally effective for all Africans


irrespective of gender, class, ethnicity or sexual orientation
how effective writing can be in securing freedom from economic domination
to what extent literature or the law can provide security from environmental
racism and/or the threat of ecocide
 what the historical conflicts between liberty and equality are
 how statutes attempt to amend and/or reconcile such conflict
 to what extent new media and technology enable liberation
Please send abstracts of up to 500 words for individual papers and/or four-person
panels to Simon Lewis at lewiss@cofc.edu before November 30th, 2012.
Details on registration will be available at
http://claw.cofc.edu/ala/conference.html.
Conference Hosts and Venue: The conference is hosted by the Carolina
Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) program at the College of Charleston and
the Charleston School of Law. Established in 1994, the CLAW program is dedicated
to promoting scholarship on the Carolina Lowcountry, the Atlantic world, and the
connections between the two. The program has established an impressive track record
of conferences, symposia, seminars, and public lecture series, supported by significant
digital archive initiatives and a book publication series with the University of South
Carolina Press. Both the College of Charleston and the Charleston School of Law are
committed to principles of diversity and international education, and both are acutely
aware of the Africanness of Charleston and of the problematic history of race in our
city.
The city of Charleston is thus a compelling site for the conference. While clearly
identified in public perception as the center of secession and hence of Jim Crow
segregation, Charleston can lay claim to being the birthplace of African America—the
city was the site of disembarkation of an estimated 40% of enslaved Africans brought
to continental North America during the period of the Atlantic slave trade.
73
Connections between Charleston and slave forts such as Goree Island in Senegal and
Bunce Island in Sierra Leone are well documented. In the latter case it has been
possible to trace the lineage of families living in this area to individuals shipped from
Bunce Island to Charleston in the 1750s. Given these connections, Charleston remains
to this day one of the most African cities in the United States, the geographical center
of the federally funded Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. The city has
particularly close ties to West Africa, not only because of the slave trade, but also
because of the large number of African-American Charlestonians connected with
“repatriation” and colonization projects in Sierra Leone and Liberia in the late
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The city also has extremely close ties to the
Caribbean, having been founded as an offshoot of the colony of Barbados. Many
freed slaves from Charleston found their way to the Bahamas, while refugees from St.
Domingue [Haiti] played an important role in early nineteenth-century Charleston
(not least in motivating Denmark Vesey’s planned 1822 uprising), and filibustering
Charlestonians sought to invade Cuba in the mid-nineteenth-century. Over the last two
decades city authorities and private institutions have paid much greater attention to
this history, preserving and marking key sites even as gentrification gnaws away at
long-established communities.
Convener: Simon Lewis (College of Charleston) Conference Committee:
Abdellatif Attafi, Viviane Bekrou, Tim Carmichael, Jack Parson, Mary Battle, Assan
Sarr, John Walsh, John White (all College of Charleston); Deborah Gammons
(Charleston School of Law)
Accommodation and Travel
The conference hotel is the Marriott Hotel, 170 Lockwood Boulevard,
Charleston, SC 29403 (tel: 843-720-0835; fax: 843-723-0276;
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/fact-sheet/travel/chsmc-charleston-marrio...). A large
block of rooms has been reserved at the special conference rate of $149 + tax per
night.
We are currently negotiating with airlines for discounted air-travel to Charleston,
and with local tour operators for special conference rates for tours of the city and the
surrounding area.
74
Pippi to Ripley: The Female Figure in Fantasy and
Science Fiction
May 4-5, 2013
Due: January 15, 2013
Katharine Kittredge and Elizabeth Bleicher, Ithaca College
kkittredge@ithaca.edu
ebleicher@ithaca.edu
Pippi to Ripley:The Female Figure in Fantasy and Science Fiction
May 4-5, 2013
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY
Keynote speaker: Tamora Pierce
The first day, Friday, May 4 features panel discussions on using Children’s and
YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comics and films in classroom,
libraries and community events. There will also be Fantasy and Science Fiction
creative workshops and academic panels for middle and high school students. We
invite librarians, middle school and high school teachers, reading specialists and
teacher educators to send 300-500 word presentation proposals on teaching or
programming with Fantasy and Science Fiction texts to Elizabeth Bleicher
(ebleicher@ithaca.edu) by January 15, 2013.
The second day, Saturday, May 5 is an academic conference featuring
presentations of papers submitted individually and assembled into panels by topic. We
welcome paper proposals on all aspects of female representation within an
imaginative context, including but not limited to:
 Child-heroines in folktales from multiple cultures.
 The evolution of characters such as Buffy (The Vampire Slayer), Cat Woman,
and Red Sonja as they are presented in television, film, graphic novels/comics, or
literature.
 Female characters in video games such as Tomb Raider, Metroid, and Mass
Effect.
 Female characters featured in Shonen and Shojo manga as well as other images
75
of female characters in anime films and television.



Robot , cyborg, and psychically-enhanced girls and women.
Female heroes and villains in comic books and graphic novels.
YA heroines in the works of Madeleine L’Engle, Tamora Pierce, and Suzanne
Collins.
 Depictions of goddesses, Amazons, and fierce female entities from western and
non-western traditions.
Please send a 300-500 word abstract by January 15, 2013, to Katharine Kittredge
(kkittredge@ithaca.edu).
Pippi to Ripley is intended to foster intellectual engagement between the college
community and local students, teachers, writers, readers and artists; and to provide an
affordable venue for undergraduates, graduate students and professors to present their
work. Towards these ends, the presenter’s registration fee is $35; all other participants
are invited to attend for free. Direct questions to Katharine Kittredge,
kkittredge@ithaca.edu.
76
Rebecca West: Celebrity, Publicity, Memory
September 20-22, 2013
Due: March 1, 2013
International Rebecca West Society
anorton@anselm.edu
Rebecca West: Celebrity, Publicity, Memory
New York University, September 20-22, 2013
Although Rebecca West created a wide-ranging, original, and important body of
work, her reputation has always been a matter of contestation. Indeed, to the
frustration of scholars, her name remains linked to the better-known H.G. Wells, the
lover of her youth and the father of her only child Anthony West, as recent books and
films have shown (such as David Lodge's A Man of Parts and the Wells biopic War
with the World).
This conference explores the processes by which a celebrity writer's reputation
passes into cultural memory. How have scholars shaped her reputation by selectively
creating their own Rebecca Wests? How do these recent cultural representations
reinforce or contest her reputation? How did West's peers create or contribute to the
memory of West? How did West's manipulation of her own image affect the way she
is remembered? Are women writers, and West, remembered primarily in a gender
context? How can we understand West in light of recent theorizing of modernist
celebrity by critics such as Aaron Jaffe and Faye Hammill? And what does West’s
work contribute to conceptualizing larger aspects of personal and cultural memory?
These questions, and others, can productively frame discussions of West's fictional
and non-fictional work. We also welcome abstracts on other topics related to West's
voluminous oeuvre.
Please send abstracts of up to 200 words by March 1, 2013, to Ann Norton at
anorton@anselm.edu
77
Conferences in Europe
Oppositions: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate
Conference
September 28-29, 2012
Due: July 20, 2012
University of Salford, UK
oppositionsconference@gmail.com
*Please Note Deadline Extended*
28th and 29th September 2012
University of Salford
This postgraduate conference seeks to explore ideas of opposition through the
full range of disciplines in the arts, media, and social sciences.
In the context of the current crisis of capitalism, there are many examples of the
forms ‘opposition’ can take: the Tea Party in the United States, the rise of fascist
groups, campaigns run via new technologies and social media, religious
fundamentalisms, and general strikes in Greece. Though it carries radical overtones,
‘opposition’ in itself is not tied to any particular dogma, left or right. We invite papers
that explore the value and values of opposition as a position to be adopted by
individuals or groups.
We welcome proposals for papers from postgraduate students that engage with
any aspect of opposition. These could include, but are by no means limited to: the
‘culture industry’ and alternative youth cultures; opposition parties within
parliamentary politics; grass-roots activism; the history and future of the labour
movement; hegemony; Foucauldian ‘resistance’ and its limits; radical pedagogies and
the role of the University; community and class; the aesthetic value of
non-mainstream or outsider art; aesthetic oppositions such as contrapuntal music or
bricolage; and the formation of creole or pidgin languages.
Papers are welcome from fields such as politics, literature, philosophy,
anthropology, religions and theology, geography, sociology, history, classics,
translation studies, linguistics and social linguistics, visual and screen studies, new
78
media and communication studies, and the performing arts. Interdisciplinary papers
are very welcome.
Keynote Speakers Will Include: Yngvar Steinholt (Visiting Scholar, Salford),
"'Tahrir on the Red Square': A Lasting Political Awakening of the Russian Cultural
Underground?", and Bob Jeffery (Sheffield Hallam), "Oppositional Salford: Dirty Old
Town to Splintering Post-Industrial City",
There will also be a screening of the new documentary 'From Cable Street to
Brick Lane' followed by a Q&A session with its creators.
Abstracts of 250 words are invited for presentations of 20 minutes. Proposals for
performances, screenings etc. are also accepted. The conference intends to publish an
edited volume of the best papers presented.
Send abstracts to oppositionsconference@gmail.com by 20th July 2012.
79
Kisses and A Love Letter: Reading Sexed Subjectivity
in Anglophone Literature and Visual Arts after
Lacan’s Seminar XX
March 22, 2013
Due: July 30, 2012
One-day Conference: Friday, March 22, 2013, University of Franche-Comté,
Besançon, France.
jmurray@univ-fcomte.fr
Deadline extended to July 30.
Kisses and a Love Letter: Reading Sexed Subjectivity in Anglophone Literature and
Visual Arts after Lacan’s Seminar XX
In the field of Anglophone studies in France and elsewhere, Lacanian theory
remains an omnipresent marginality. Like Freud, Lacan is amply cited in current
critical papers, but generally as a ‘peppering’ element, rarely as a fully assumed
structuring theory of reading. It is to those who are engaged in a process of reading
and deciphering subjectivity from within a Lacanian critical orientation that this call is
primarily addressed. As an emanation from a research group interested in questions of
gender and sexual identity, this conference will be particularly attentive to the
intersection between the arts and women and to the implications of the Lacanian
formulas of sexuation and the concepts of love, desire, and jouissance. In other words,
it will take as its key text, Seminar XX : Encore (1972-1973), translated into English
by Bruce Fink in 1992, and explored from diverse perspectives in Reading Seminar
XX: Lacan’s Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality (Suzanne
Barnard and Bruce Fink, editors, 2002). Other noteworthy readings of Lacanian
perspectives on sexuality appear in The Cambridge Companion to Lacan
(Jean-Michel Rabaté, dir., 2003).
Like all of the seminars, Seminar XX is generally written using the roman
numerals XX, letters that jump out at Anglophone eyes to form a hurdle, an obstacle
to overcome, but perhaps, in the negating function of the X, they also appear to
anticipate the barring of the universal of Woman. And, as the written sign for a couple
80
of kisses sent off to the addressee, they open the way to the enigmatic chapter entitled
“A love letter.”
The interface between cultural analysis and Lacanian theory has been given
renewed impetus, notably through the writing of Slavoj Zizek which moves freely
between theoretical exposition and analysis of cultural objects: in this respect, one
might usefully consider Enjoy Your Symptom: Lacan In Hollywood and Out (1992)
along with such articles as those reprinted in “Part II: Woman” of The Zizek Reader
(Wright and Wright, eds., 1999) which deal more specifically with sexual theory.
Another prominent Lacanian cultural analyst, Joan Copjec, author of “Sex and the
Euthanasia of Reason” in Read My Desire (1995) can also be accredited with Imagine
There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation (2002), an impressive work of combined
theoretical explication and analysis of the visual arts, in which the author questions
the ‘feminine’ in radically productive ways.
Concerning Lacanian literary analysis, sustained readings are relatively few and
do not generally engage with the later Lacan, but I would mention without hesitation
an example from outside the domaine of Anglophone studies, namely Ginette
Michaux’s De Sophocle à Proust, de Nerval à Boulgakov: essai de psychanalyse
lacanienne (2008) which provides not only convincing and subtle Lacanian readings
of literary texts, but also a method and purpose to the perilous enterprise of reading
psychoanalytically, which is to say, a reading which attempts to bring to light the logic
of desire.
The goal of this conference will therefore be to focus on sexed subjectivity, in
particular on the side of the feminine, in relation to desire, love, and jouissance in the
sphere of Anglophone literary and visual arts. A critical approach in dialogue with the
theoretical perspectives opened up through the growing body of commentary on
Lacan’s later work will be privileged as will close engagement with the letter of the
written or visual text.
Joan Copjec, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature and
Media Study, and Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture
at the University of Buffalo, will be our keynote speaker.
This one-day international conference organized by the Gender Studies branch of
C.R.I.T. (Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et Transculturelles) will take place
on Friday, March 22, 2013.
Contact: Jennifer Murray (Associate Professor, North American Literature,
Université de Franche-Comté). Please e-mail a 300-500 word abstract to
jmurray@univ-fcomte.fr by July 30, 2012. Papers (25 minutes) will be given in
English.
81
The Status of Rewriting in 20th –21st Century Art,
Film and Literature in English
November 22-23, 2012
Due: September 31, 2012
Nathalie Martinière, Estelle Epinoux - University of Limoges
nmartiniere@gmail.com
estelle.epinoux@unilim.fr
EA 1087 Ehic (Espaces Humains et Interactions Culturelles) is pleased to
announce the organisation of a conference entitled The status of rewriting in
20th –21st century art, film and literature in English : aesthetic choice or political act?
to be held at the University of Limoges (France) on November 22-23, 2012.
Rewriting appears as a protean figure of renewal, in which a large part of
contemporary literary analysis and theory seems to be grounded. It is however of
particular interest in situations that follow a conflict (whether armed or not), when
various artistic media (literature, the visual arts, films) may contribute to renegotiating,
or even to rewriting the traumas of the past. Artistic rewriting may even try to set
them right, or heal them, by addressing for instance the ethical questions fiction
encounters when it is reified into “classics”, i.e. works whose political, cultural or
even artistic specificities in a precise context tend to be erased by their status, or by
giving a voice to those who were forced to silence in such “classics”.
Rewriting, it has been argued, corresponds to the ethos of our time –
summarizing our way of passing stories and history to the next generation. In
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson contends
that, in our post-modern world, rewriting/parody boils down to pastiche and therefore
has no critical dimension. His main reproach is that in such a situation, history and the
past become meaningless: “the past as 'referent' finds itself gradually bracketed, and
then effaced altogether, leaving us with nothing but texts.” But our world is not only
post-modern, it is also the site of endless conflicts which are mirrored in the artistic
production. We would therefore like to explore those situations when rewriting, on the
contrary, roots artistic productions in a historical context that cannot be left aside or
forgotten. In such a context, history and the work of memory rather seem to be part
and parcel of the artistic stakes of rewriting, hesitating between the temptation to
82
repeat past conflicts (hopefully with a difference) and the desire to overcome them, at
times displacing tensions onto the artistic scene.
We would like to address the question of rewriting in-between politics and
aesthetics in the English-speaking/writing world and to see what sort of potential
influence what may at first glance look like a very autotelic game has or may have on
reality. Contributors are invited to explore the issue, dealing for example with the
following questions:
 How do rewritings or parodies mirror these “post-conflict” situations, when
politics and aesthetics intermingle so closely?
 What is their status?
 Is there not a danger for rewriting to become a stereotype of literary/artistic

production that keeps its eyes turned towards the past rather than imagines a
future?
Does, as Jameson contends, the mediation of literature/art preclude the
possibility of tackling the historical stakes seriously?
 Or do historical, political and ethical stakes limit aesthetic preoccupations in
rewritings?
Submissions for papers including an abstract (300 to 500 words) and a short
biographical note should be sent by 07/31/2012 to Nathalie Martinière
(nmartiniere@gmail.com) and Estelle Epinoux (estelle.epinoux@unilim.fr)
Acceptance of proposals will be notified by 09/01/2012. Papers should
preferably be delivered in English and a selection will be the object of an international
publication.
Scientific committee
Emilienne Baneth (NYU, USA)
Estelle Epinoux (Limoges, France)
Isabelle Gadoin (Poitiers, France)
Myrtle Hooper (Zululand, South Africa)
Georges Letissier (Nantes, France)
David Murphy (Stirling, UK)
Nathalie Martinière (Limoges, France)
Emmanuel Vernadakis (Angers, France)
83
The Personal is Political Revisited: Investigating
Notions of Place and Space
October 6, 2012
Due: August 5, 2012
School of Arts, University of Northampton
lisa.robertson@northampton.ac.uk
“It is at this point a political action to tell it like it is, to say what I really believe
about my life instead of what I’ve always been told to say.”
Carol Hanisch, “The Personal is Political” 1969
“We [need to] recognise space as the product of interrelations; as constituted through
interactions, from the immensity of the global to the intimately tiny.”
Doreen Massey, "Space, Place and Gender" 1995
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jenny Bavidge, University of Cambridge
When Carol Hanisch published her essay ‘The Personal is Political' in the
feminist collection _Notes from the Second Year_, its title was swiftly adopted as the
slogan for the women’s liberation movement whose supporters demanded equality at
all levels of society: at work, in the home, and legislatively. Revisiting the concept of
the personal as political and considering its effect on the perception and experience of
space and place is the focus of this one-day interdisciplinary event.
We draw upon existing dialogue in the field, from activists like Carol Hanisch to
academics such as Doreen Massey, to generate discussion and inspire practical work
on this topic. We aim to reflect upon the ways that engaging with power structures
informs space and place in practice and theory. In creating art and formulating bodies
of thought in the context of war, globalization, and incredible political apathy, it is
important to ask what it means to spatially locate the self in the social structures on
which we build our research and base our practice. We extend our consideration of
politicised space to include the experience of other marginalized groups such as
postcolonial subjects and migrants, as well as people outside of mainstream
84
communities, like prostitutes or prison inmates. We are interested in understanding the
ways that academic exploration and artistic practice contests marginal spaces.
We invite 250 word abstracts for twenty-minute papers from postgraduate
students and early career researchers across the disciplines whose work engages with
the ways that the personal as political can be spatially conceived. We also encourage
collaborative proposals. Submissions should include your name, affiliation, and the
title of your paper. Please send abstracts, and direct queries, to Lisa Robertson
(lisa.robertson@northampton.ac.uk). Deadline for proposals is 5 August, 2012.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Representations of politicized space in film, literature or art;
The built environment and the formation of identity;
Spatial considerations of artistic medium or academic form;
Exiles, migrants and spatial rebellion;
Urban spaces: suburbs, slums and squares;
Travel and mutable space;
The spatial effects of protest, occupation or riot.
Organisers: Anna Maria Everding, Elena Marcevska and Lisa Robertson
This event is generously supported by the School of Arts, University of
Northampton Research Fund.
85
Ireland and Scotland: Conflicts and Cross Currents
November 9-11, 2012
Due: August 10, 2012
University of Sunderland/North East Irish Culture Network
Mr Colin Younger (NEICN Manager) colin.younger@sunderland.ac.uk
Following the success of the previous nine international Irish Studies
conferences, this year the University of Sunderland, in association with NEICN,
invites papers for an interdisciplinary conference, which will run from 9th to 11th
November 2012.
The conference organisers hope to represent a wide range of approaches to Irish
and Scottish culture from academics and non-academics alike. Performances,
roundtables, collaborative projects, and other non-traditional presentations are
encouraged in addition to conference papers. We welcome both individual
submissions and proposals for panels. In connection with the conference theme we
welcome submissions for panels and papers based around the often overlapping and
interconnected histories and cultures of Ireland and Scotland. Possible themes include,
(but are not limited to): Theory; Gender; Advertising and Commodity Culture; Gothic;
Fantastic; Tartan and/or Emerald Noir; Romanticism; Revolution; Evolution;
Language; Immigration; Diaspora; Borderlands and Border Identities; Devolution;
Ulster; Partition; Celticism.
Along with papers specific to the conference theme, we are interested in using
this conference to highlight the most recent work in the field. Therefore, we welcome
submissions addressing any and all topics or themes relevant to Irish and/or Scottish
studies. Following the interdisciplinary nature of the conference we welcome
proposals from the areas of: Literature, Linguistics, Creative Writing, Performing Arts,
History, Politics, Folklore and Mythology, Anthropology, Sociology, Geography,
Tourism, Art and Art History, Music, Dance, Media and Film Studies, Cultural Studies,
Celtic Studies and Studies of the Diaspora.
North American and other international scholars, practitioners in the arts, and
postgraduate students are all encouraged to submit proposals to the conference
organisers.
Each session will include three or four 20-minute presentations followed by
discussion. A selection of accepted papers will be published in the conference
86
proceedings. The University of Sunderland houses the North East Irish Culture
Network, established in 2003 to further the study of Irish Literature and Culture.
Speakers at the seven previous conferences included: Terry Eagleton, Robert Welch,
Luke Gibbons, Ailbhe Smith, Kevin Barry, Siobhan Kilfeather, Shaun Richards,
Lance Pettitt, Stephen Regan, Lord David Puttnam, Andrew Carpenter, John Strachan,
John Nash, and Willy Maley, with readings from Ciaran Carson Medbh McGuckian,
Bernard O’Donoghue and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne.
LENGTH: Papers should not exceed 2000 words / 20 minutes’ delivery.
DEADLINES: Enquiries and submissions (name, affiliation, title of contribution, and
abstract of no more than 200 words) should be submitted by 10th August2012 to: Mr
Colin Younger (NEICN Manager) - colin.younger@sunderland.ac.uk
CONFERENCE VENUE: The Chester Road Campus of the University of
Sunderland
FURTHER DETAILS AND INFORMATION: Registration details, and relevant
information on travel arrangements and accommodation will be included in the
second CFP. For more information on NEICN, see www.neicn.com
87
Fifteen Years after the Discovery of A ‘New Traherne’:
Future Directions for Traherne Studies
December 14-15, 2012
Due: August 17, 2012
Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
ceg47@cam.ac.uk
Thomas Traherne (c.1637-1674) was a polymath with a distinctive theological
vision. He wrote extensively, but remains a relatively obscure figure in
seventeenth-century studies. Traditionally misunderstood as a figure somewhat out of
his time, he is frequently considered within the contexts of medieval mysticism or
post-Enlightenment Romanticism, when in fact he was strongly engaged with the
thought of his age. Traherne read, noted and wrote upon a great variety of subjects –
philosophical, theological, literary and scientific – perhaps remarkably considering his
geographical circumstances and the relative privacy of his life. His works are
grounded in many influences and reveal a great openness as to what writings, ancient
and modern, could offer inspiration and guidance. This is a writer that believed, rather
emphatically, that it would be possible both to discover and to communicate to others
the intrinsic nature of “ALL THINGS”.
The aim of this symposium is to address the interdisciplinarity of Traherne’s
work, with the hope of encouraging future interdisciplinary collaboration in Traherne
studies. We are particularly interested in bringing together the endeavours of literary
criticism – which cover an early and persistent association between Traherne and the
metaphysical poets, the historicising of Traherne and a more recent interest in the
manuscript evidence – with the fields of theology and philosophy, in which Traherne
has been considered as a Christian mystic, an Anglican founding-father, a spiritual
brother to the Cambridge Platonists, or a unique theological thinker with relevance to
broader discussions on the practice of theology.
This will be the first academic symposium on Traherne since the discovery of the
new manuscripts in 1996/7. The works of the Lambeth Palace MS (Inducements to
Retiredness, A Sober View of Dr Twisse, Seeds of Eternity and The Kingdom of God)
and the unfinished biblical epic, The Ceremonial Law, have opened up previously
unknown aspects of Traherne’s thought and shone new light on the more well-known
88
poems, Centuries, Thanksgivings and Select Meditations. We especially welcome
papers that focus on the content of the Lambeth MS and The Ceremonial Law, and
work that considers ways of responding to the overall question of the symposium:
what is the way forward for Traherne studies?
Possible topics for papers might include, but are not limited, to:
 Identifying Thomas Traherne: Thomas Traherne as Poet, Theologian, Mystic,
Heretic, Career Cleric, Platonist, Aristotelian, Anglican... How do we situate
Traherne in his time? Is it still appropriate to associate him with the Romantics,
or the metaphysical poets? How do we arbitrate between competing pictures of
Traherne?
 Influences on Traherne: The Cambridge Platonists, the Royal Society, Thomas


Hobbes, Francis Bacon, the church fathers
Material Texts: The formation and editing of the manuscripts
Interdisciplinary approaches to Traherne: Traherne as poetic-theologian /
theological-poet
 New approaches to Traherne: Traherne and music, Traherne and art, Traherne
and poetry, Traherne and ecology
We invite proposals for 20-25 minute papers – please send an abstract of 300
words, along with a short biographical statement, to Cassie Gorman
(ceg47@cam.ac.uk) and Beth Dodd (esd26@cam.ac.uk). The deadline for abstracts is
August 17th, 2012. We will inform applicants about acceptance by the end of August.
89
Devils and Dolls: Dichotomous Depictions of 'The
Child'
March 27, 2013
Due: August 31, 2012
Jen Baker / University of Bristol
devils_dolls@live.co.uk
Devils and Dolls: Dichotomous Depictions of ‘The Child’
Wednesday 27 March 2013
University of Bristol, Graduate School of Arts and Humanities
Confirmed plenary speaker: Professor George Rousseau, (Magdalen College,
University of Oxford)
Second plenary to be confirmed
An inter-disciplinary conference open to both postgraduates and academics at
any stage of their career, seeking to examine the contrasting images and
representations of children as angels or devils, innocent or evil, light or dark in fiction
and culture. Why are children offered little dimension in representations? What is the
significance of representing the child either as innocent or evil – to both the
originating discourse and in a wider context? Is such polarization detrimental to our
understanding of what it means to be a child and how we respond to real children?
The “humanities” is intended as a fluid term; depictions from any period of
history, any social or cultural context, fictional or media representations are
encompassed. In light of this, submissions are invited from a range of disciplines and
topics may include, but are certainly not limited to, depictions of the child as:





A devil, demon, monster, wicked/sinful (for instance Heathcliff, Damien from
The Omen, the child Sir Gowther)
As angelic, child-saints or martyrs, innocent (paintings of putti, Romantic child
figures, Little Nell)
Contrasting images of the two in various fields; e.g. philosophical thought,
religious doctrine
The child as “uncanny”
The child in art (Blake’s illustrations, Millett’s Bubbles, the Virgin and child)
90

Televisual, cinematic or dramatic depictions.

The Freudian child as depicted by psychoanalysts or psychoanalytic readings of
figures.
The child in horror/gothic fiction
Monstrous births
Supernatural children; vampires, werewolves, ghosts, zombies
Contrasting images as represented in adult fiction and/or children’s literature
Children in Victorian chapbooks – models of religious virtue?
The sexualised child – innocent or corrupt?
The child in myths, fairy and folk tales
The “foreign”, tribal, refugee or postcolonial child









Media representations of children.
We invite abstracts of 250-300 words for 20 minute (previously unpublished)
papers, sent in Word format to devils_dolls@live.co.uk by Friday 31st August 2012
with the “subject” of the email as ‘Devils and Dolls abstract submission’.
Please ensure your abstract appears in the following format:
Paper title
250 – 300 word abstract in plain text
Name of author and affiliation
Email address
Up to ten keywords (these can be compound terms)
Please also indicate whether, if required, you would be happy to chair a panel.
All abstracts will be acknowledged by email receipt, and you should therefore
receive an acknowledgement within 5 working days.
Once the deadline has passed, a panel will review the abstracts anonymously and
a draft conference plan will be constructed. We will reply to all submissions to offer
both a decision and some feedback. If your paper is not selected at this time, we hope
you are still able to attend the conference and contribute to the discussion.
Some papers may be selected to comprise a collection of essays in the first
edition of the Bristol Journal of HARTS following the conference.
Conference organisational committee:
Jen Baker
Daniel Bowers
Liz Renes
contact email: devils_dolls@bristol.ac.uk
91
America’s Forgotten Voices
December 13, 2012
Due: September 21, 2012
University of Nottingham
forgottenvoices2012@gmail.com
America’s Forgotten Voices: Imperatives of memory and the vagaries of history in
American culture, from settlement to 1900.
The University of Nottingham School of American and Canadian Studies invites
abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference, aimed at postgraduate and early-career
researchers across the range of approaches to American Studies, to be held on 13th
December 2012. The organisers are delighted to confirm that the keynote address will
be given by Professor Robert Cook of the University of Sussex.
One month before signing the Emancipation proclamation, Abraham Lincoln, in
his annual address to Congress, exhorted the assembled congressmen; “fellow citizens,
we cannot escape history”. With this conference, we seek to question the
intransigence of Lincoln’s declaration by interrogating how memory and forgetting
operate in American culture up to 1900. Whether by way of reinstatement of
‘forgotten voices’, or through those who have survived the vagaries of canonical
exclusivity, we propose to examine how fears of forgetting and strategies of
memorialisation were discussed in works of the period, and how subsequent
intellectual, social, or political exigencies have impacted the passage of ideas.
Recent years have seen the opening of archives to digitisation and the widened
availability of pre-twentieth century American books via online services. This has
rendered the works of marginal figures of early American literary, intellectual,
political, and religious culture more accessible than ever before. Such conditions offer
fresh opportunities for the recovery of forgotten voices and texts and present new
spaces in which to recast canonical constructions of the cultural histories of the
United States. But how should such scholarly processes be viewed, and in what ways
do they contribute to our understanding of the attitude toward memory and
forgetfulness in American thought? What can such recoveries tell us about an era
which, from the self-conscious interventions in history of the founding fathers to the
utopian aesthetic and social experiments of the nineteenth century, seems profoundly
92
interested in declaring its own memorialisation? Furthermore, what are the
implications for a culture which has always tended to assert its exceptionality in terms
of its place in broader international histories?
We invite proposals for 20 minute papers from researchers in all arts, humanities,
and social science disciplines which will interrogate aspects of the processes of
memory, remembrance, recovery and forgetting during the formative years of the
United States. Thematic emphases may encompass, but are not limited to:
- Historical self-consciousness in American culture.
- Millennialism, Providentialism, and other forms of mythopoesis in historical
narrative.
- Literary or historical canonicity, and the processes of canonical alteration.
- Active or intentional ‘forgetting’ as a political or aesthetic practice.
- Concepts of legacy in aesthetic and social contexts.
- Memorialisation in American art, literature, architecture, and popular press.
- Contemporary issues in the semantics and politics of recovered and rediscovered
American cultures.
- The impact of the digital humanities on the study of pre-1900 texts.
Proposals of 300 words should be sent to the conference committee at
forgottenvoices2012@gmail.com. The Deadline for submissions is 21st September
2012.
http://forgottenvoices2012.wordpress.com
93
“Shakespeare’s Tongue” – French Shakespeare
Society Congress
March 21-23, 2013
Due: October 1, 2012
French Shakespeare Society
contact@societefrancaiseshakespeare.org
The 2013 Conference of the French Shakespeare Society will take place in Paris in
March 21-23, 2013.
ENTER SHAKESPEARE, PAINTED FULL OF TONGUES…
Shakespeare’s tongue is and is not « Shakespeare’s tongue » or what the French
call « la langue de Shakespeare ». If Shakespeare has largely contributed to the
evolution and enrichment of the English tongue, the language that is cultivated in his
works seems in many ways to be as far from the English of his time as from the
English spoken by our contemporaries. As a foreign language within the English
language, both near and distant, dead and living, Shakespeare’s tongue is all the more
fertile since it resists comprehension, pronunciation and translation, forbidding any
stability of sound and meaning. The great number of Shakespearean dictionaries can
in itself suggest that Shakespeare’s tongue is not one but multiple, a theatrical tongue,
a living tongue par excellence, which has spoken to us and has been spoken for four
centuries, on stages worldwide. It is “of an age” but also “for all time” and if,
according to Jonson, the playwright had “small Latin and less Greek”, one can
nevertheless say about Shakespeare that « he hath the tongues » (Much Ado About
Nothing, 5.1.163).
THE ANATOMY OF THE TONGUE IN SHAKESPEARE’S WORLD
In his treatise Lingua (1525), echoing the story of Aesop’s tongues, Erasmus
described the tongue as the best and the worst organ, calling it an “ambivalent organ”,
an idea similar to the biblical proverb according to which “Death and life are in the
power of the tongue” (Prov. 18 : 21). Shakespeare’s plays draw our attention to the
materiality of the tongue, which appears as the organ of taste and “gormandizing”
(2Henry IV, 5.3.53) but also as an instrument of speech that allows us to “do things
94
with words”, an organ that is “doubly portcullised” (Richard II, 1.3.161) with lips
and teeth and whose barriers are often transgressed. To study Shakespeare’s tongue is
to explore how Shakespeare represents the tongue in a corpus where the word
“tongue” in all its forms appears more than 600 times, according to the Harvard
Concordance. « There’s a double tongue ; there’s two tongues » (Much Ado About
Nothing, 5.1.165-66) : whether it be caressing or wounding, poisonous or sweet,
eloquent or rebellious, feminine or masculine, the tongue that appears in
Shakespeare’s world is the subject of numerous comments that are embedded in the
biblical and classical culture of the tongue but whose specificities are worthwhile
exploring.
SHAKESPEARE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
One of the purposes of this congress is to examine the particularities of the
Shakespearean idiom and to assess the playwright’s and poet’s part in the shaping and
the evolution of the English language. Contributors are invited to consider what
makes Shakespeare’s language different from Marlowe’s or Jonson’s and to examine
the reasons why “Shakespeare’s tongue” has come to stand for the English language
as a whole. Further topics for study might include the evolution of Shakespeare’s
language from one play to the other, from one period to the next, as well as the
challenges that Shakespeare’s tongue presents for translators. The heteroglossia that
emerges from Shakespeare’s “gallimaufry” of words will be another object of focus
and the congress will welcome analyses of the presence of foreign languages (French,
Latin, Italian, Spanish), of dialects (Irish, Scottish, Welsh), and idiolects such as «
Pistolisms », or « Quicklyisms ».
SHAKESPEARE AS A LIVING LANGUAGE
A vehicle for poetic expression, the Shakespearean idiom is also a spectacular
tongue, designed to be seen, embodied, tasted and voiced out. Both good and evil,
amorous and injurious, sweet and bitter, Shakespeare’s words dramatize a war of
tongues which achieves its full meaning in performance. Contributors are invited to
examine the various features of this war of tongues as well as the good and evil
tongues that inhabit Shakespeare’s world. The orality, pronunciation and articulation
of Shakespeare’s language will be another area of study.
Adapting the biblical aphorism (James 3 :7-8), one could say that “Shakespeare’s
tongue … can no man tame”.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Taming the untamable: those of you who wish to meet this paradoxical challenge
95
can send their proposals to contact@societefrancaiseshakespeare.org before October
1st, 2012.
96
Painted Gladiatrices: Women, Art and the 18th
Century Social Arena
April 11-13, 2013
Due: October 9, 2012
Lauren Puzier, Sotheby's Institute of Art; Heather Carroll, The University of
Edinburgh
L.Puzier@sothebysinstitute.com
H.N.Carroll@sms.ed.ac.uk
In an oft-quoted letter from 29 July, 1782 to Fanny Burney, Edmund Burke
comments on how he lives ‘in an age distinguished by producing extraordinary
women.’ Burke has proved his powers of foresight, for it is difficult to speak of the
eighteenth century without mention of at least one woman who made a significant
impact on European history. How were so many women able to step beyond their
conventional roles and cause those such as Burke to take notice?
This session will explore the development/creation of women’s social images
through art in the eighteenth century. What were the relationships between social and
visual images of women? Of particular interest is how art conveyed women’s roles in
the social spectrum.
Recently, historians such as Robert Darnton and Nicholas Hammond have drawn
attention to the importance, prevalence and power of gossip in this period, while
recent exhibitions have highlighted the importance of eighteenth-century women and
art. This session will consider women’s relationship in the fierce social arena of the
eighteenth century and the role art played within it.
Paper abstracts are invited for submission for the 2013 Association of Art
Historians (AAH) Conference academic session, Painted Gladiatrices: Women, Art
and the Eighteenth-Century Social Arena.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to either Heather Carroll
(H.N.Carroll@sms.ed.ac.uk) or Lauren Puzier (L.Puzier@sothebysinstitute.com) by 9
October 2012.
For more information and submission details see:
http://18thcsocialarena.wordpress.com/
97
Will Self and the Art of the Contemporary
November 30-December 1, 2012
Due: October 30, 2012
Roehampton University
laveryn@roehampton.ac.uk
Will Self and the Art of the Contemporary
Friday 30th November and Saturday 1st December 2012
The University of Roehampton, London
Invited speakers include: Jeannette Baxter (Anglia Ruskin); Peter Childs
(Gloucestershire); Caroline Edwards (Lincoln); Sebastian Groes (Roehampton); M.
Hunter Hayes (University of South Carolina, USA); Hugo Spiers (UCL); Philip Tew
(Brunel)
Will Self is the most notorious and exciting contemporary writers as well as one
of Britain’s most visible public intellectuals. Self is astoundingly prolific, has written
across many different genres and is our foremost literary satirist, whose linguistic
pyrotechnics and surreal conceits give an idiosyncratic and highly illuminating
perspective on the world today. As psychogeographer and provocateur Self has staked
out as the world his territory, drawing our attention to the surreal and grotesque within
everyday life. As Self’s status as master of Zeitgeist is now confirmed by his
Professorship of Contemporary Thought, this conference presents a unique
opportunity to reflect on the significance of Self’s achievements, bringing together the
foremost critics working on contemporary fiction. Will Self will be reading from work
in progress and talk about his extensive body of work.
Short papers and panels are invited on aspects of Self’s writing focusing on
topics including the work’s relation to genre, intertextuality and form;
(post)modernism and new realism; political and cultural geography and the
contemporary; satire and surrealism; place, psychogeography and the urban
environment; (semi-)documentary fiction/gonzo and life-writing; mental illness,
psyche and consciousness; gender, sexuality and alterity; morality and ethics; class,
Englishness and Otherness.
Send abstracts for papers of 250 words, together with a brief biographical note,
to Nick Lavery at the email address below, before 30 September 2012. Requests for
98
early notification of acceptance for international delegates are welcome. For further
information and registration details, please contact:
Nick Lavery, English and Creative Writing, Digby Stuart College, Fincham 301,
University of Roehampton, London, SW15 5PU. Email: laveryn@roehampton.ac.uk.
Tel: +44(0)20 83923291.
Conference organiser: Nick Lavery (University of Roehampton)
99
Between Bodies/Bodies Between
April 5-6, 2013
Due: November 1, 2012
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
betweenbodies2013@nuim.ie
This conference engages bodies and embodiment in literature and the humanities,
seeking to survey the state of scholarship and future directions after over a decade of
groundbreaking work.
We particularly welcome papers that consider the body in its liminality or
interactions between bodies, and papers that consider the body in relation to Ireland.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
 Body, soul, intellect
 Sickness, medicine and mortality
 Emotion, affect, sensation
 Animal bodies, nonhuman bodies
 The political or legal body



The body and violence
Sexuality and imtimacy
Gendered bodies, racial bodies, disabled bodies
Our plenaries are renowned Victorianist Professor Francis O'Gorman (Leeds),
groundbreaking Joycean Vike Plock (Exeter) and leading Irish feminist scholar
Moynagh Sullivan (NUIM).
100
Leiden University Graduate Conference "Death: the
Cultural Meaning of the End of Life"
January 24-25, 2013
Due: November 15, 2012
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)
lucasconference2013@gmail.com
Death is a defining factor in the explorations of our subjectivity, art, history,
politics, and many other aspects of our social interactions and perceptions of the
world. In the modern age, conceptions of death have continued to shift and evolve, yet
our perceptions are still fueled by an instinctive fear of the end of life.
In recent decades, we have rebelled against the threat of death by inventing new
technologies and medicines that have drastically increased our life
expectancy—diseases and disabilities are gradually disappearing. Some believe that
one day we will completely conquer the aging process, and ultimately death. Life can
now be seen as a new form of commodity, a material object that we can trade, sell, or
buy.
Despite our attempts to shut-out death or overcome its inevitability, the end of
life has remained a visible and unavoidable aspect of our society. From antiquity to
the present day, perceptions of death have been represented through various different
mediums: visual culture, art, literature, music, historical writing, cinema, religious
symbols, national anniversaries, and public expressions of mourning.
This conference aims to explore how death has been represented and
conceptualized, from classical antiquity to the modern age, and the extent to which
our perceptions and understandings of death have changed (or remained the same)
over time. The wide scope of this theme reflects the historical range of LUCAS’s
(previously called LUICD) three research programs (Classics and Classical
Civilization, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Modern and Contemporary
Studies), as well as the intercontinental and interdisciplinary focus of many of the
institute’s research projects.
PROPOSALS:
The LUCAS Graduate Conference welcomes papers from all disciplines within
the humanities. The topic of your proposal may address the concept of death from a
101
cultural, historical, classical, artistic, literary, cinematic, political, economic, or social
viewpoint.
Questions that might be raised include: How have different cultures imagined the
end of life? What is the role of art (literature, or cinema) in cultural conceptions of
death? How might historical or contemporary conceptualizations of death be related
to the construction of our subjectivity and cultural identity? What is the cultural
meaning(s) of death? To what extent has modern warfare changed our perceptions of
death? How is death presented in the media and how has this changed? In what ways
has religion influenced our reflections on death and the afterlife?
Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) to present a 20-minute paper to
lucasconference2013@gmail.com. The deadline for proposals is 15 November, 2012.
You will be notified whether or not your paper has been selected by 1 December,
2012.
As with the previous LUCAS Graduate Conference (2011), a selection of papers
will be published in the conference proceedings. For those who attend the conference,
there will be a registration fee of €45 to cover the cost of lunches, coffee breaks, and
other conference materials. Unfortunately we cannot offer financial support at this
time.
If you have any questions regarding the conference and/or the proposals, please
do not hesitate to contact the organizing committee at:
lucasconference2013@gmail.com. Further details will be available online in the Fall.
The organizing committee:
Odile Bodde
Maarten Jansen
David Louwrier
Jenny Weston
102
Narrative Features of Early Modern Narrative
June 27-29, 2013
Due: November 30, 2012
Monika Fludernik and Gerd Bayer
gdbayer@phil.uni-erlangen.de
sekretariat.fludernik@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
Abstracts are invited for a seminar to be proposed to the 2013 meeting of the
International Society for the Study of Narrative, 27-29 June 2013 in Manchester,
England.
Narrative Features of Early Modern Narrative
The early modern age was marked by major cultural changes, religious schism,
and technological innovations. Momentous developments such as the spread of
printing and the growing importance writers paid to their own state of mind and
selfhood left their traces on the narrative features of various forms of early modern
discourse. Allowing for a wide range of generic traditions, such as prose fiction,
autobiography, diary, confession, or the essay, this seminar will ask both for the state
of narrative in the early modern age and for areas of innovation and change that
marked the period’s approach to narrative.
Papers in this seminar could, for instance, ask:
 how narratives position themselves between realism and imagination, between
factual and fictional forms of representation
 what specific narrative techniques early modern narratives employ and for what
purposes
 how authors of early modern narratives fashion themselves vis-à-vis their






narrators
how narratives endow their characters with a sense of selfhood
how narrative texts draw from theological, philosophical and political discourses
what kind of culturally defined narratees and readers early modern narratives
inscribe
how narrative features travel across cultural and linguistic borders
how narrative features impact the process of generic development
what role lyrical and dramatic genres play in the refashioning of early modern
103
narrative features.
Please send both a 200-word abstract for a 20-minute presentation and a
100-word statement about your work and publications by 30 November 2012 to the
seminar organizers, Gerd Bayer and Monika Fludernik, at
gdbayer@phil.uni-erlangen.de as well as
sekretariat.fludernik@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
Further conference details are available here:
http://www2.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/conferences/international-conference-on-narra...
104
International Pynchon Week 2013
August 5-8, 2013
Due: December 20, 2012
Sam Thomas
samuel.thomas@durham.ac.uk
AUGUST 5-8 2013, DURHAM, UK:
LINES, LEGACIES, ANNIVERSARIES
2013 marks 3 significant anniversaries for readers and scholars of Thomas
Pynchon: 50 years since the publication of his first novel, V., 40 since his most
acclaimed work, Gravity’s Rainbow, and 250 years since the arrival of Charles Mason
and Jeremiah Dixon on American shores (the start of the surveying project that would
divide a nation and, of course, the subject of Pynchon’s metahistorical novel, Mason
& Dixon). In light of this, International Pynchon Week 2013 will be held at Durham
University in the UK from the 5th to the 8th of August. The location of the conference
has a special resonance as Jeremiah Dixon was born and buried in County Durham.
Given the timing and setting of IPW 2013, we would particularly welcome
papers that address the legacies of V. and Gravity’s Rainbow and / or Pynchon’s
engagement with the life of Jeremiah Dixon and the North East of England.
Other topics for consideration might include, but are no means limited to:
Pynchon’s literary heritage / Pynchon’s influence and influences / Pynchon and
canonicity
 Novel theoretical approaches
 Biographical criticism
 Trans-Atlantic / Trans-Pacific / Pan-American connections








Pynchon and History
Political implications of Pynchon’s work
Pynchon and borders / boundaries / frontiers / nationhood (esp. Englishness)
Gender and sexuality in Pynchon
Pynchon’s publishing process
Archival research and Pynchon’s source materials
Pynchon’s music and songs
The shape and/or phases of Pynchon’s career and its evolving contexts
105

The Pynchon scholarly community itself, including online developments (e.g.
P-Wiki, PYNCHON-L)
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be emailed to
samuel.thomas@durham.ac.uk by 20th December 2012. Speakers will be notified by
the 1st February 2013. Selected proceedings will be published in a special issue of the
new, open access journal Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon.
106
Nineteenth-Century Aetiologies, Exoticism, and
Multimodal Aesthetics
April 2-4, 2013
Due: December 30, 2012
University of Liverpool
painpara@liv.ac.uk
Nineteenth-Century Aetiologies, Exoticism, and Multimodal Aesthetics
University of Liverpool, 2-4 April 2013
Of illness and exotic curatives, one hardly escapes solidago odora, ass’s milk,
juice of millipedes, senna, horse dung, and snake oil. Medical narratives during the
nineteenth century manifest somewhat irreconcilable cross-modalities of enthusiasm
and fear with ‘otherness’. Drawing inspiration from early Greek philosophy, the
post-Enlightenment art flourished with a focus on various modes of otherness;
debating determinism, slavery, forgiveness, and nationalism while bringing together
concepts that play major roles in our contemporary pedagogical approaches. Though
it is not often emphasized, modes of eroticism in prose, poetry, and painting, whether
of metaphorical or mythological conceptualisation, communicate certain
entanglements with ‘otherness’. Given that today, multimodal normativity in
aesthetics has moved in part a considerable distance from the concept of
individualism, but not necessarily from egotism, how can it be read on account of
mere ‘embodiment’? Multimodality, then, having been acclaimed with much
achievement in current scholarship of literature and linguistics, is indebted to a
prominent array of historical theories and practices mainly expanding on
historiographies of otherness and aetiology.
How can ‘otherness’ be configured in multimodal aesthetics today, compared
with the aftermath of the Enlightenment? Take for instance “our” entrance into a
visual exhibition displaying the portrait of St Damien of Molokai (1840-1889) and a
quote, famously by Leucippus (c. 5th Century BCE): “οὐδὲν χρῆμα μάτην γίνεται,
ἀλλὰ πάντα ἐκ λόγου τε καὶ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκης (Nothing happens at random, but everything
from rational principle and of necessity)”. What happens here―one may claim at any
given time―tends part of its semiotic bearing to hermeneutic consistency in order to
107
be meaningful. How can we discuss the workings of ethics in this example? How does
‘otherness’ configure the contextual and conceptual aesthetics of aetiology?
In recent years, research into aesthetics and modality has often closely edged
towards semantic drifts. Through systematic attempts, for example, multimodality has
come to attach mind and body in the contemporary understanding of cognition and
stylistics, at the expense of ignoring historiography and by means of re-phrasing
definitions of ‘embodiment’, as if bending over to cultural studies. Given this
realisation, in which contextual paradigm do iconography and tonality of exoticism
and multimodality unfold? What is the locus of agency in contemporary reception of
multimodal aesthetics but also within the historical context of the nineteenth century?
Is ‘otherness’ historically in favour of/at odds with aesthetic racialization? What is the
position of authenticity and otherness in socio- and psycholinguistic studies?
Philosophy, anthropology, literature, art history, psychology, music, medical
humanities, and linguistics scholars are welcome to participate. The conference will
expand on representations of otherness considering the following and other relevant
themes:
 Multimodality in perspective: word-image aetiologies
 Musical exoticism and nationalism, tonalité moderne
 Mind/brain/body relations, embodied cognition
 The exotic pharmacy after the Enlightenment
 Masculine tropes of otherness









Feminine as exotic, female as aetiology
Artefacts as modes of aetiology
Aetiology, illness, and idealism
Ethics and aesthetic racialization
Narrative, egotism, individualism, and the multimodal “I”
Architecture and sculptures of difference
Colour, texture, and shape in meaning
Orientalism, historicism, and exotic icons
Haptic perception, emotional stimulation





Medical consumerism and exotic conceptions
Sensational consciousness, spatial indifference
Exoticism and nineteenth-century moralists
Courage-exoticism, Romantic rarity
Insanity, hard and soft determinism
Workshops:
1- Iconography, Cross-Modality, and the Body
108
This workshop addresses a new perspective into modalities and intersections,
particularly in relation to the workings of ‘bodies’ in iconography. Nineteenth-century
iconography and its various aspects including its contemporary reception will be put
into discussion.
2- Representations of Otherness and Beauty
This session invites research into the gendering of aesthetics and aesthetic
racialization. Social semiotics and pedagogical approaches will be explored.
Methodologies and the practice of nineteenth-century otherness and beauty will be
explored.
Participation:
To submit individual proposals for 20-minute papers + CV/Biog. note, and for
panel proposals of up to three papers, each 20 minutes, email: painpara@liv.ac.uk
Deadline is 30 December 2012. Two postgraduate bursaries will be available,
memorial of Dr Wasfia Mhabak. Discounted registration fees will be available to
members of Embodiments Project Series. A selection of presentations will be
considered for publication as 2013 special issue of the International Journal of
Literature and Psychology: http://literatureandpsychology.liv.ac.uk
For further details please visit: http://embodiments.liv.ac.uk
109
Benjamin's Figures: Dialogues on the Vocation of the
Humanities
August 28-30, 2013
Due: December 31, 2012
Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, Netherlands
m.j.a.kasten@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Benjamin’s Figures: Dialogues on the Vocation of the Humanities
Ever since Theodor Adorno’s famous pronouncement that there could be no
more poetry after Auschwitz, the ‘crisis in the humanities’ has been a commonplace,
and that for varying reasons. Today we find this notion reinforced, however, by the
global financial crisis that is scourging the humanities faculties of universities
worldwide. How can the humanities justify their existence in an academic
environment facing ubiquitous cutbacks – an environment where, as Stanley Fish
argues, productivity, efficiency and consumer satisfaction appear to be the only
relevant criteria anyway?
Even if eloquent spokespersons such as Fish and Martha Nussbaum may be
overstating the case it appears that the humanities, more than ever, need to reconsider
their specific role for our times. For on the one hand the institutional call for more
efficiency may be seen to conflict with the humanities’ insistence on interdisciplinary
research as a requirement for developing a critical perspective on the operations of
culture as a whole. On the other hand the concept of interdisciplinarity itself must be
constantly rethought in order to prevent ‘the cultural turn’ from being reduced to an
empty cliché.
Leiden University, for its part, proposes to address this need for reflection on the
vocation of the humanities by organizing an international conference devoted to the
thought of philosopher of culture Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). In doing so, we hope
to consolidate an interdisciplinary initiative started in 2010, when we marked the
recent fusion between our former faculties of arts, philosophy and religious studies by
a conference on the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer.
A conspicuous feature of the writing of Benjamin is its lack of any formal
pretence to system building. In fact the bulk of his oeuvre is made up of short essays
110
and notes on a wide range of seemingly disparate cultural phenomena, in which
philological commentary and criticism go hand in hand. The reason for this absence
of closure and the frequent shifts in focus must not be sought in any incidental default.
Instead, they reflect Benjamin’s experience of his own age as requiring a direct,
polemical style and approach antithetical to incorporation into a fixed order.
If fragmentariness imposes itself as a necessary formal characteristic of
Benjamin’s writing, his project is nevertheless held together by a single underlying
ambition: to study cultural signs as the integral expression of the religious,
metaphysical, political, and economic tendencies of a specific historical period. True
to the semantic potential of Greek aisthesis, he promotes aesthetics to the status of an
all-encompassing, interdisciplinary theory of experience. For the timeless idea, says
Benjamin, is to be captured only in the process of its historical becoming – that is, at
its origin, the vanishing point where it enters, and dissolves into, the material as the
force determining its necessary form in history. The apprehension of this origin thus
depends on a dual intuition where the singular reveals itself as part of a structure, a
constellation that transcends the realm of the material while yet remaining faithful to
each of its particulars: ideas stand to objects as constellations stand to stars (GS I.1,
214).
In his analyses of cultural phenomena and the constellations to which they can be
assigned Benjamin shows himself unusually aware of the role of the philosopher/critic.
Characteristically, this agent takes on different shapes according to varying contexts:
the angel of history, the narrator, the flaneur, the child, the dwarf, the collector – to
name just some central personas. Indeed Benjamin’s use of multiple, at times
carefully orchestrated voices in his texts radicalizes the notion of interdisciplinarity in
ways which, we feel, provides a vital source of inspiration for the humanities in our
times.
For our forthcoming conference we solicit papers reflecting on the socio-critical
potential of the humanities through one or more of these Benjaminian figures. What
critical light, for instance, could the flaneur of the Arcades project shed on the recent
upheaval in cities all over the world as a result of the Occupy movement? How would
the angel respond to our various ‘end of history’ theories? Is the collector’s universe
doomed to disappear with the advent of the worldwide web?
The conference is scheduled to take place at Leiden University, Netherlands,
from 28 through 30 August 2013. Confirmed keynote speakers are Jochen Hörisch
(Universität Mannheim) and Uwe Steiner (Rice University). As on the previous
occasion, papers may be presented either in English or German. A selection of papers
will be published in a volume edited by the conference organizers. Proposals are due
before December 31, 2012. Please send an abstract (300-500 words) as a Word
111
attachment to Madeleine Kasten. Acceptance decisions will be communicated by
February 1, 2013. Informal suggestions and inquiries are, as always, welcome.





Dr. Jef Jacobs, Associate Professor of German Language and Literature,
J.G.A.M.Jacobs@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. Madeleine Kasten, Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies,
M.J.A.Kasten@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. Herman Paul, Assistant Professor of Historical Theory,
H.J.Paul@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. Rico Sneller, Assistant Professor of Ethics and History of Philosophy,
H.W.Sneller@religion.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. Gerard Visser, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Culture,
G.T.M.Visser@hum.leidenuniv.nl
112
Cannibals: Cannibalism, Consumption and Culture
April 25-26, 2013
Due: December 31, 2012
Hannah Priest/Hic Dragones
conference@hic-dragones.co.uk
25-26 April 2013
Manchester, United Kingdom
From contemporary horror film to medieval Eucharistic devotions, from
Freudian theory to science fiction, cannibals and cannibalism continue to repel and
intrigue us in equal measure. This two-day interdisciplinary conference will explore
humanity’s relationships with, and attitudes towards, cannibalism, whether fascination,
horror or purely practical considerations.
Papers are sought from all disciplines, including but not limited to literature, film
studies, history, anthropology, archaeology, psychology and medicine.
Proposals are sought for 20 minute papers. Possible topics may include:









Cannibalism in popular culture
Cannibalism as cultural metaphor
Theorizations of cannibalism
Taboos, socialization and psychoanalysis
Survival and necessity
Maternal infanticide
Vampires, werewolves and zombies – a question of species?
Eating the enemy
Rites, rituals and sacrifice

Serial killers (in life and in fiction)
Please send 300 word abstracts to the conference convenors at
conference@hic-dragones.co.uk by 31st December 2012.
For more information, please see www.hic-dragones.co.uk/events
113
Journals and Collections of Essays
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form: Buddhism
and American Poetry
Due: July 30, 2012
Book Collection
Editor: Clare Emily Clifford / ccliffor@bsc.edu
Proposals are sought for a critical volume titled Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is
Form: Buddhism and American Poetry. I am looking for a few additional essays
complete the collection, which is already secured for publication.
This collection gathers critical essays addressing American poets, poetry, and
poetics intersecting with Buddhist philosophy and practice. Although the Buddha’s
teachings have long influenced American literature over the last century, within the
last twenty years we have seen the publication of three collections specifically
featuring Buddhist American Poetry, with the most recent being The Wisdom
Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry (2005). Therefore, proposals may
engage the work of individual poets, particular volumes of poetry, trends among
Buddhist American poetics, or concentrate attention on specific poems in
conversation with Buddhism——but all proposals should root theoretical
complexities in a mindful reading of poetry.
Approaches and connections could include but are not limited to:
 what constitutes a “Buddhist poem”
 how Buddhist philosophy and practice figure in the American poetic text
 aspects of lineage, teachers, and gurus
 representations of varying Buddhist schools and practices








poetry representing Theravada, Mahayana, or Vajrayana traditions
visualizations and the language of imagery
the poetry of bodhicitta and the Bodhisattva path
sitting, walking, or writing meditation
contemplation of karma and samsara, interdependence and emptiness
“Western” Buddhism and the dispersal of the Dharma
esoteric philosophy and/or American Avant-Garde poetics
the role of form in Dharma poetry
114

interconnections between Buddhism and science



Buddhism, the environment, and American ecopoetics or ecospirituality
engaged Buddhism and nonviolent poetics
the Buddhist protest poem.
Email submissions preferred; please send 400-600 word abstracts as MSWord
attachments to Dr. Clare Emily Clifford by July 30, 2012 at ccliffor@bsc.edu.
Dr. Clare Emily Clifford
Department of English
Birmingham-Southern College
ccliffor@bsc.edu.
115
Unveiling Fashion: Gender, Islam, and Global
Modernities
Due: July 31, 2012
Ellorashree Maitra / Nida Sajid
unveilingfashion@gmail.com
This collection of interdisciplinary essays will trace the historical trajectory of
the production, circulation, and consumption of Muslim femininity and fashion from
early modernity to the era of transnational globalization. The essays will collectively
work through the politics of zenana (feminine) fashion, to unravel how dress and
appearance have historically constituted complex, embodied performances of Muslim
feminine identity and community in the global arena. Our goal is to investigate the
aesthetic and political impact of discourses of modernity in the fashioning of Muslim
women’s bodies, dress, and lives in multiple geographical sites from the early modern
period through the post-9/11 era. We are especially interested in essays that theorize
fashion in new, innovative ways so as to complicate traditional accounts of the harem,
seraglio, and zenana as secluded spaces harboring communities frozen in time. We
welcome scholarly contributions from a broad spectrum of disciplines (such as
literature, film, history, religion, anthropology, gender studies, and art history, etc) and
addressing topics including (but not limited to):
 Censorship and Iranian Cinema
 Bollywood Aesthetics
 Performance Traditions in Islamic Cultures
 Theatre and Empire
 Memoirs, Letters, and Autobiographies
 Orientalism and Travel Writings








Graphic Novels and Comics
Art and Visual Culture
Architectural Spaces and Everyday Life
Representations of Harems and Seraglios
Weddings and other Ritual Ceremonies
The Glamour Industry and Consumer Capitalism
Cross Dressing and Border Crossings
Power Dressing and Politics
116

Veils and Headscarves in Public Discourse


Citizenship and Civil Society
Identity and Faith in Islamic Diaspora
Please submit an abstract of 300-500 words and a brief CV to
unveilingfashion@gmail.com by July 31, 2012. Authors will be notified by
September 15 whether or not their abstract has been accepted. The deadline for
full-length article, if accepted, is January 15, 2013. Articles should be between 6,000
and 9,000 words in length, accompanied by an abstract of around 200 words. All
submissions will be peer reviewed and the editors will notify authors of acceptance
for publication by March 15, 2013.
Preliminary inquiries are welcome: kindly address them to
unveilingfashion@gmail.com
Nida Sajid
Dept. of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures
(AMESALL)
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Lucy Stone Hall B 319
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8070
nidasajids@gmail.com
Ellorashree Maitra
Department of English
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
510 George Street
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
elmaitra@gmail.com
117
THE TAKEOVER: Street Lit's Market Capture as
Art, Controversy & Commercial Phenomenon
Due: August 10, 2012
Keenan Norris/ Scarecrow Press
knorris@peralta.edu
Call for Papers
THE TAKEOVER: Street Lit's Market Capture as Art, Controversy &
Commercial Phenomenon will assemble a collection of scholarly essays, articles, and
interviews in order to develop the discussion around this emergent literature. Our
anthology will present a wide-ranging exploration of the topic. This anthology seeks
to provide more extensive and diverse opinion, information and critical analysis than
any critical work on street lit has thus far. Not only will we give voice to the
competing sides in the debate around street lit’s artistic validity, but we will also
chronicle street lit’s history as a sub-genre within African-American letters about
urban spaces and its contribution to current understandings of mass incarceration,
poverty and violence in America, and the market for books by and about black people.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Deadline for Abstracts (250-750 words): August 10, 2012
Deadline for Complete Papers (4000-7000 words): December 1, 2012
Nov.-Jan.: Review chapters, request revision
Full manuscript: February 2013
Submit full manuscript to publisher: April 2013
*Please include contact info and full list of credentials with all submissions
Possible Topics (others are very much welcome):
 Market analysis: Has street lit actually taken over the market for black literature?
 A definition of the genre (writers should consult Urban Grit: A Guide to Street
Lit)
 A history of the genre from its origins to the current day
 A description of street lit’s appeal, including reasons for its appealing, and to
whom it appeals
 Comparative analysis of the street lit genre to other literary genres
118

Comparative analysis of specific street lit text(s) to other works in
African-American literature
 Street lit’s relationship to hip-hop on the level of subject matter and/or business
and marketing
 Major street lit authors and their works
 Major street lit publishers
 Why street lit is loved and why it is castigated
 Authors, novels, memoirs and poetry of interest (the following are suggestions,
not constraints):
Sister Souljah, Midnight: A Gangster Love Story
“Basic Economics” by Tommy Bottoms
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-8NuZZPD9E)
50 Cent, From Pieces to Weight
Kenji Jasper, Snow
Terri Woods’ trilogies
Colson Whitehead, Zone One
Nathan Heard, Howard Street
David Bradley, South Street
-Keenan Norris, Editor
knorris@peralta.edu
909-553-9802
119
Simulated Childhood--Mechanized Children
Due: August 15, 2012
Red Feather Journal
debbieo@okstate.edu
Red Feather Journal (www.redfeatherjournal.org), an online, peer-reviewed,
interdisciplinary journal of children’s visual culture, seeks submissions for the Fall
2012 issue (deadline Aug, 15, 2012) that explore images of simulated children,
simulated childhood, or mechanized children. Simulated or mechanized children are
found in such films as AI, Pinocchio, Village of the Damned, Child’s Play, Doll
Graveyard, Coraline and in television shows like “Howdy Doody,” “Torchy the
Battery Boy,” and “Small Wonder.” Other examples of simulated children simulated
children within material culture are jewelry items, glassware, masks, or other items in
the shape of a child. Submissions may explore any aspect of the simulated
child/childhood or mechanized child from a variety of disciplines.
Red Feather Journal will also consider submissions of tasteful photo essays or
artistic works the depict simulated or mechanized children and/or childhood.
Copyright information, including permission for use of each image, must be included
with the submission. Red Feather will not use any image without the express written
consent of its copyright holder.
International submissions are encouraged.
Red Feather Journal is published twice a year, in March and September, and
adheres to the MLA citation system. Authors are welcome to submit articles in other
citations systems, with the understanding that, upon acceptance, conversion to MLA is
a condition of publication. Red Feather Journal is indexed through EBSCO host and
MLA bibliography.
Interested contributors please submit the full paper, an abstract, and a brief
biography (please include full contact information) as attachments in Word to
debbieo@okstate.edu or to redfeatherjournal@yahoo.com
Deadline for submissions for the Fall 2012 issue is August 15, 2012.
120
Postgraduate English
Due: August 19, 2012
Postgraduate English journal
pgeng.submissions@durham.ac.uk
Paper are now solicited for the forthcoming Issue of Postgraduate English
journal: Special Issue on Basil Bunting and Friends (Issue 25, September 2012):
The 25th Issue of Postgraduate English focuses on the work of Basil Bunting and
on poets associated with Bunting, and will address the possibility a broader modernist
tradition to which he belongs, in line with the theme of a forthcoming conference, to
be held in Durham on the 4th and 5th July.
More information about the conference can be found here:
http://sleightslearnedfromothers.blogspot.co.uk/
We welcome papers that position Bunting in the broad modernist context, discuss
movements in music, philosophy, religion, science, visual art, nature, politics, and
fiction, as well as poetry, which influenced Bunting, or were influenced by him in turn.
Bunting’s work might be discussed in relation to any of the following figures:
Dante Alighieri, W. H. Auden, J. S. Bach, Richard Caddel, Catullus, Kamo no
Chōmei, Bob Cobbing, Robert Creeley, Saint Cuthbert, Peter Dale, Donald
Davie, Karl Drerup, T. S. Eliot, Ferdowsi, Ford Madox Ford, George Fox, Allen
Ginsberg, Bill Griffiths, Hāfez, Ian Hamilton-Finlay, Horace, Omar Khayyam,
Tony Lopez, Mina Loy, Lucretius, Hugh MacDiarmid, Barry MacSweeney,
Manuchehri, Karl Marx, Thomas Meyer, Stuart Montgomery, Eric Mottram,
Lorine Niedecker, Charles Olson, George Oppen, Tom Pickard, Ezra Pound,
Dorothy Pound, Rudaki, Saadi, Domenico Scarlatti, Colin Simms, Joseph
Skipsey, Gael Turnbull, Francois Villon, Walt Whitman, Jonathan Williams,
William Carlos Williams, Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Wordsworth, Louis
Zukofsky
Please note that participation in the conference is not required for a paper to be
considered for inclusion in the forthcoming issue of the journal.
We also invite book reviews for the next issue. Please contact the editors in
advance with details of the book you wish to review.
Papers (of maximum 7000 words) for inclusion in the issue must be received no
later than 19th August 2012.
Please consult submission guidelines and style guide available here:
121
http://www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate.english/index_files/Page1894.htm
N.B. Papers which do not comply with the submission requirements will be
returned to the author for revision before they can be accepted for peer review.
Please send inquiries, submissions and Forum content to the editors, via
pgeng.submissions@durham.ac.uk
ABOUT THE JOURNAL:
Postgraduate English is an established, professionally peer-reviewed journal for
postgraduate students of English in the UK and Europe run by English Studies
Department at Durham, UK.
In addition to scholarly articles, we also invite book reviews, reflections on
postgraduate teaching, and free-wheeling polemics on all things academic, from
intramural malfeasance to the education cuts. These need not be refereed.
We are also happy to publish details of conferences or colloquia aimed at
postgraduates. For further details, please see the submissions guidelines. The email
address for submissions is pgeng.submissions@durham.ac.uk.
www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate.english
122
Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World
Due: August 31, 2012
Kevin Maier
kevin.maier@uas.alaska.edu
Ernest Hemingway is a writer we often associate with particular places and
animals: Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Spain's countryside, East Africa's game
reserves, Cuba's blue water, and Idaho's sagebrush all come to mind. We can also
easily picture the iconic images of Hemingway with flyrod bent by hefty trout, with
bulls charging matadors in the background, or of the famous author proudly posing
with trophy lions, marlin, and a whole menagerie of Western American game animals.
As Robert E. Fleming once put it—updating Gertrude Stein's famous quip that
Hemingway looked like a modern and smelled of museums—Hemingway "was also a
hunter, fisherman, and naturalist who smelled of libraries" (1). Hemingway indeed
read widely in natural history and science, as well as the literature of fieldsports. This
lifelong interest in the natural world and its inhabitants manifests itself in
Hemingway's writing in myriad ways. To be sure, from the trout Nick Adams
carefully releases to Santiago's marlin, from Robert Jordan's "heart beating against the
pine needle floor of the forest" to Colonel Cantwell's beloved Italian duck marshes,
and from African savannahs to the Gulf Stream, animals and environments are central
to Hemingway's work and life.
Since its origins, Hemingway scholarship has been marked by a robust treatment
of these animals and environments. Malcolm Cowley's introduction to The Portable
Hemingway focused on the fishing of "Big Two-Hearted River," for example.
Similarly, Phillip Young's famous "code-hero" hypothesis hinges on an understanding
of hunting culture's rules of engagement for the natural world. In both these instances,
and in much of the early scholarship, however, Hemingway's representations of the
natural world are mined for how they explain male psychology more than for how
they suggest a particular relationship to the natural world or its inhabitants. While
these representations often served as background for broader arguments related to
more human-centered matters in early scholarship, more contemporary critics have
opted to treat animals and environments directly. Fleming's 1999 collection
Hemingway and the Natural World offers an excellent foundation, but with the rapid
emergence of environmental literary studies in the last two decades much work
remains.
123
This collection aims to not only advance scholarship on Hemingway's
relationship to the natural world, but to also facilitate bringing this scholarship to the
classroom. Indeed, the goal of the Teaching Hemingway series is to present
collections of essays on various approaches to teaching emergent themes in
Hemingway's major works to a variety of students in secondary schools and at the
undergraduate and graduate level. The goal of this particular volume of the series is to
explore how teaching Hemingway might help shed light on broader questions about
the human relationship to the nonhuman world.
While the final organization will depend upon the accepted essays, we anticipate
three general essay types:
Texts. These essays will treat the teaching of texts individually or comparatively.
While most should engage teaching strategies, some are allowed to remain mostly
interpretative as long as they are mindful of the volume's audience and purpose. We
need essays to serve as models of literary criticism for our students. In this and the
other categories, you can certainly discuss the pedagogical challenges you have faced,
and perhaps continue to face.
Contexts. For teachers who want to illuminate the texts through a more intensive
examination of historical or cultural contexts, these essays will demonstrate ways of
helping students see and write about the relationship between Hemingway's work and
extra-textual material. (What was Hemingway's relationship to Louis Agassiz-style
natural history? How much of Teddy Roosevelt's sportsman's conservation platform
did Hemingway embrace?) Alternatively, essays of this type might focus chiefly on
the context itself. (How might an understanding of the debates between
conservationists and preservationists shed light on Hemingway's relationship to
broader environmental politics? How might debates about evolution help us
understand Hemingway's writing about the natural world?)
Course Design. These essays will offer ways of incorporating Hemingway's
work into a literature and environment course--or as unit on these themes in more
general course. Essays of this type will address matters of the course's or unit's
general design and aims, text selection, and emergent connective threads, and will of
course spend a good deal of time explaining Hemingway's place in the course.
Assignment sequences and other methods for achieving the course goals are also
welcome.
We are looking for essays of approximately 2500-4000 words that consider any
of a number of topics related to the broad theme of Hemingway and the natural world,
as well as essays that offer pedagogical theories and practices for teaching specific
texts. The editors welcome proposals from emerging scholars, and the volume will
reflect a wide range of critical approaches. Proposals of no more than 750 words
124
should be sent to both Kevin Maier (kevin.maier@uas.alaska.edu) and Teaching
Hemingway series-editor Mark Ott (mott@deerfield.edu) by 31 August 2012 to
ensure fullest consideration for inclusion in the volume. Authors whose work is
accepted should plan to deliver completed manuscripts by 15 January 2012.
125
Essay Collection on Detective and Mystery Fiction
Due: August 31, 2012
Casey Cothran and Mercy Cannon
cothranc@winthrop.edu
"The murder novel,” declares Raymond Chandler, “has a depressing way of
minding its own business, solving its own problems and answering its own questions.
There is nothing left to discuss. . ." Or is there? Does detective and mystery fiction
provide such seamless closure as to render critical voices irrelevant? What does the
metafictional quality of this genre offer the careful reader? What happens when we
turn our attention from defining and classifying mysteries to analyzing the formal
properties of the texts and the cultural work performed by them? In this proposed
volume, we seek nuanced readings that will open up discussion on modern works of
fiction (such as P.D. James, Elizabeth George), classic texts (Agatha Christie, Wilkie
Collins), and film or television (BBC's Sherlock). Essays that address issues of
narrative structure, intertextuality, and metafiction are especially sought, although any
theoretically informed analysis is welcome. The scope is inclusive, as we hope to
offer compelling new ways of understanding these popular narratives.
Please send abstracts of 500 words to Dr. Casey Cothran at
cothranc@winthrop.edu or Dr. Mercy Cannon at cannonm@apsu.edu by August 31,
2012. Submissions should be accompanied by contact information and a brief
paragraph bio.
Completed essays of approximately 5000-6000 words in MLA format will be
due in Spring 2013. We look forward to reading your work.
Casey and Mercy
126
From New Media to Old Utopias: ‘Red’ Art in Data
Capitalism?
Due: August 31, 2012
Leonardo Electronic Almanac
info@leoalmanac.org
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is inviting proposals from academics,
critical theorists and artists for an issue investigating the relevance of communist
utopianism to New Media Art’s ideological dispositions. Relevant areas of interest
addressed by the issue’s contributors could include, but are by no means limited to:







Art, technology and social media
The rise of New Economies and the rise New Media Art
The working class and affective labour in data capitalism
New media artworks as commodities: “use” and “exchange” values
Digital Art and symbolic or cultural capital
New Media Art’s reaction to the global economic crisis (2008-2012)
Legal issues and new concepts of intellectual property in Digital Art


The online democratization of art
The art of protest: from anti-globalization to the “Facebook Revolutions” and the
“Occupy” movement
 The role of New Media Art in ex-communist countries
 Hacktivism as art: a revolution for the Digital Age?
 Tactical Media and its progeny
 The institutionalization of radical New Media Art
 Histories of leftist aesthetics
http://www.leoalmanac.org/red-art-lea-call-for-papers/
Senior Editors: Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor-in-Chief), Julian Stallabrass (Courtauld
Institute of Art) and Susanne Jaschko (prozessagenten)
Editor: Bill Balaskas (Royal College of Art)
127
Fame in Adolescent & Children’s Literature
Due: September 1, 2012
Nicole Wilson & Julianne Guillard
jguillard@vcu.edu
n.wilson@wayne.edu
The subject matter
As a result of the successful call for papers for an upcoming MLA conference
panel on fame in adolescent and children’s literature, we are accepting abstracts of
500 words for a proposed anthology on the topic. Essays devoted to one of the
following themes will be considered (as will relevant, original themes not listed
below):




The dangers of fame
The child as celebrity (whether wanted or unwanted fame)
The child and infamy
The YA author and celebrity

Fame as the new "normal" (what is "normal" when fame becomes the
norm--sexting, YouTube, viral videos, Facebook, etc.? Is there such thing as
celebrity when everyone has it?)
Mediums of fame (how does fame, and the famous, perpetuate itself or
themselves?)
Metafame (fame-perpetuating books like Hunger Games/Harry Potter/Gossip
Girl that are, themselves, treatises on fame, media, etc.)
Is celebrity inherently "bad"?
Authorial intent, message, and the child reader




Emailed submissions should be original in scope and not previously published or
under review for publication. Submit proposals to both editors at jguillard@vcu.edu
& n.wilson@wayne.edu for review.
The editors
Nicole Wilson, Ph.D., (Wayne State University) and Julianne Guillard, Ph.D.,
(Virginia Commonwealth University) will edit the collection. Dr. Wilson will convene
128
the 2013 MLA Children’s Literature Association endorsed panel on fame; Dr.
Guillard’s research interests include the author as celebrity & pop culture.
They can be reached at n.wilson@wayne.edu; jguillard@vcu.edu.
Deadlines
Abstract (500 words) submission due: Sept. 1 2012
Notification of accepted abstracts: Nov. 1 2012
Full papers returned to editors (3,000-6,000 words): Feb. 1 2013
129
Margins: A Journal of Literature and Culture
Due: September 1, 2012
Department of English, Gauhati University
nandana5@rediffmail.com
Margins, an international peer-reviewed journal, is published annually in
summer by the Department of English, Gauhati University. It offers a space for the
exploration of the marginal in its theoretical implications and in literature and culture.
It welcomes examination of the historical and the contemporary through
interdisciplinary perspectives – looking at texts in both their wider conceptual and
immediate situational significance. It has a special interest in the retrieval of texts and
authors who have been invisible in mainstream disciplinary concerns but are
considered significant in their respective locations and are presented convincingly. It
would consider new work by young researchers in areas that meet the journal’s
interest in the marginal, though this will depend on the quality of submissions and the
opinions of the journal’s referees. The journal also has a book review section and will
be open to reviews of books that match the journal’s thrust on the marginal.
Submissions should be between 7500 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references),
use the MLA Handbook style for referencing, and be sent as an email attachment in
MS Word to either of the two editors. Potential contributors should send a 500 word
abstract of their essays by September 1, which will be returned with the comments
and suggestions of our reviewers by October 1. Completed submissions should reach
the editors by January 31. They will be returned with reviewer’s comments and if
selected a final deadline for submission will be intimated then. Book reviews (not
exceeding 2500 words) and review essays (not exceeding 5000 words) may be
submitted to the Review Editor. Submissions for the fourth section carrying the piece
by the selected author and an adequate context introduction either in the form of an
essay or a conversation should not exceed 10,000 words.
This is the second issue of the journal. The first issue is available on the Gauhati
University website: http://www.gauhati.ac.in
130
Fantastic Narratives and the Natural World
Due: September 1, 2012
Belphégor – Popular Literature and Media Culture
fantasticnarratives@gmail.com
Call for contributions
Belphégor – Popular Literature and Media Culture
http://etc.dal.ca/belphegor/
Fantastic Narratives and the Natural World
Fantastic literature has always had a special relationship with the natural world.
Unnatural events require a background against which to display their peculiarity. In
his study on the uncanny, Freud remarked that the German word unheimlich is both
an antonym and a synonym of heimlich, a term that evokes ease and familiarity, but
also secrecy and concealment. The supernatural can only emerge from the natural, and
what is beautiful, attractive and sublime in the natural world can most effectively turn
into a disturbing force, creating the locus of uncertainty in which Todorov identifies
the determining element of the fantastic.
Pliny’s Naturalis historia already used legends and stories to illustrate the
peculiarities of the vegetable and animal kingdom, blending mystery with knowledge
and scientific study with the thrill of the inexplicable. While resorting to the
supernatural is a common strategy for explaining the natural, the latter remains the
basis for our understanding and representation of what lies beyond it. In his journey to
the underworld, Dante crosses several landscapes populated by hybrid beings and
characterized by the violation of natural laws, but the term of comparison for the
earthly paradise remains the pine forest next to Ravenna. In Macbeth, when Birnam
Wood comes to Dunsinane, the fantastic is but a brief flash, as reality readily reasserts
its rights through a rational explanation. When, in The Lord of the Rings, Fangorn
Forest moves onto Isengard, the meaning of “reality” itself is questioned.
Just like the flora, the fauna can go beyond its traditional representation as an
alien force to be mastered, undergo sudden metamorphoses and inspire unsettling
recognitions. The pseudo-science of Physiognomy literally means "knowledge of
nature," and its exponents often recognized a similarity in human features with other
animal species; in fantastic literature, these comparisons are often literally realized as
the human and the animal are transformed into one another. Similarly, Darwinist
131
theories inspired fantastic narratives that, bringing the notion of natural selection to
absurd consequences, illustrated the correspondence of ontogenesis and phylogenesis,
the origins of an individual organism and the development of its species.
We invite contributions that address the intersection between the natural world
and the fantastic and particularly welcome cross-cultural and interdisciplinary
approaches.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Nature as a background/ protagonist of the fantastic
- Fantastic, marvelous, uncanny nature
- Allegorical and poetical readings of imaginary landscapes
- Enchanted forests
- Imaginary vegetations, impossible ecosystems
- Strange and supernatural animals
- Metamorphoses and hybrid creatures,
- Fantastic intrusions in scientific discourses that address the natural world
Articles and a short bio-bibliographical paragraph should be sent to the attention
of Elisa Segnini at fantasticnarratives@gmail.com by September 1, 2012.
Guidelines for Submissions
 Length: 15-20 pages, double space.
 Formatting: Times New Roman font, font size 12, one-inch margins. Send the
file in Word format.




MLA (Modern Language Association) Style
(http://www.library.dal.ca/Files/How_do_I/pdf/mla_style6.pdf)
Use Endnotes, rather than Footnotes
Include a Works Cited list at the end of the documents
Illustrations:
 Illustrations should be numbered in sequence (ex. Fig. 1, Fig. 2); provide a
caption that contains the name of the copyright holder (ex. Reproduced
courtesy of …).
 Images must be submitted as TIFFs, rather than Jpegs, scanned at a


resolution of 300 dpi, greyscale.
It will be necessary to obtain Permission to Reprint from the copyright
holder.
Costs pertaining to the acquisition of permission to reprint are the
responsibility of the author of the essay.
132
The Financialized Imagination and Beyond
Due: September 14, 2012
TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
maxhaiven@nyu.edu
Call for papers—The Financialized Imagination and Beyond
Special issue of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Fall 2013
Proposals due September 14, 2012
Link to PDF version of the CFP: http://t.co/xcuw44bq
Edited by Max Haiven (New York University/Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
University) and Jody Berland (York University)
Narrowly defined as the so-called “FIRE” industries (high finance, insurance and
real estate), finance has gained tremendous power over the global economy in recent
years. Critics describe “financialization” as a profound and far-reaching social and
cultural shift. Advances in financial modelling, computing and communications
technology have changed the nature and power of financial speculation, but the vast
expansion of new forms of debt, credit and everyday financial services have also had
dramatic impacts on daily life. From credit cards to sub-prime mortgages, from
student debt to the privatization of pensions, from pay-day loans to online stock
trading, financial practices have become mainstream cultural issues. Films,
biographies, novels, television shows and web-texts about finance and financiers
(lionized or demonized) are more popular than ever. Logics of finance inform and
shape public policy and social institutions, from hospitals and schools to science and
cultural production, with “risk management,” “return on investment,” and “market
efficiency” as key weapons of the neoliberal lexicon. Driven in part by immaterial,
speculative, leveraged wealth, capitalism normalizes precarious labour and life in both
material and immaterial forms, and each of us is expected to manage our risk
portfolios and embrace a life of endless speculation. While the politics of debt,
predatory lending and speculative capital have long shaped geopolitical realities,
especially in the developing world, the unapologetic “age of austerity” threatens a
new intensity of inequality and exploitation, with dramatic human and ecological
consequences.
Facing continuous global financial crises and new social movements emerging to
contest this “age of austerity,” cultural studies has important questions to ask about
133
the financialized imagination. How is “finance” represented in fiction, film,
journalism and art? How is finance itself a form of “representation” as well as a
cultural phenomenon driven by beliefs, narratives and technologies? How do
representational technologies contribute to the production of wealth? How do we
explain the charisma of the speculator, the valorization of “risk management” and the
fetishization of “financial literacy” under hyper-neoliberalism? What are finance’s
effects on cultural production and the political economy of culture? How is the rise of
digitized financial power related to the global play of material and immaterial
economics, labour and culture? How is financialization connected to and expressed
through race, class, gender, sexuality, colonialism, imperialism and ablism? What are
the geopolitical and affective consequences of financialization? How do we
historicize and “periodize” financialization, and what is at stake in analyzing what
Marx called “fictitious capital”? What are the effects of financialization on everyday
culture? How is debt linked to politics of precarity, disposability or borders? Are there
ecologies of financialization? How does finance’s tremendous power to commodify
potential futures as present-day “risk” affect how we imagine the future? What are the
contours and limits of the “financialized imagination”? Have we moved from a
society of the spectacle to a society of speculation? What lies beyond?
Social movements such as the Occupy movement and, more broadly,
anti-austerity struggles from Athens to Chile, Nigeria to India, Korea to Montreal
have been waging cultural struggles over the meaning of debt, the uses and abuses of
banking, and the nature of economic power. Critical films, fiction, blogs and other
genres seek to probe finance, financialization and the financial crisis, with varying
degrees of success.
TOPIA invites contributors to propose academic articles, shorter “offerings,”
reviews and review essays for a special issue on the “financialized imagination and
beyond.” Themes and topics include (but are not limited to):
 Cultural representations of finance, financialization, financiers and the financial
crisis in and across media
 The cultural politics of debt and credit in everyday life: government spending,




ecological debt and debt as a paradigm of social discipline
Finance as representation of space, time, knowledge, culture, materiality or
immateriality
Calculation and the new common sense: the fate of futurity, the cultural idiom of
speculation and the practices of “risk management”
Finance capital(ism) and the politics and economics of cultural production: the
financing of culture
The cultural politics of crisis
134






The interplay of oppressions (gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, citizenship)
and finance, from racialized predatory sub-prime lending to women-focused
microcredit schemes, from the “Wall Street Man” to the legacies of debt-bondage
and slavery
The roots and legacies of colonialism and imperialism in finance (and vice versa)
The financialization of daily life and social institutions
The cultural and affective dimensions of finance, financial labour and financial
speculation: how are cultures of speculation built and reproduced? What does
financial wealth represent? What kinds of affects and sensations are produced by
wealth through speculation, display, or loss?
Tension and interplay between material and immaterial capital, labour and
culture, money and power
Historical precedents and patterns of finance and financialization: narrating
events from Tulip Mania to the collapse of the Asian Tigers; from the speculative
value of enslaved Africans to the predatory sub-prime mortgage industry that
thrived on inner-city poverty
 Struggles against finance, financialization and austerity, and their spaces,
strategies, narratives, potentials and limits
 Horizons beyond the crisis
Prospective authors should submit a 300-word proposal, accompanied by a brief
biographical note, to the editors by September 14, 2012. Selected authors will be
invited to prepare articles by February 15, 2013, with publication dependent on the
peer-review process. The issue will be published in Fall 2013. More information can
be found at TOPIA’s website, www.yorku.ca/topia.
Please direct proposals and queries to Max Haiven at maxhaiven@nyu.edu, and
to Jody Berland at jberland@yorku.ca.
135
Critical Disability Studies in Latin American
Literature and Film
Due: September 15, 2012
Susan Antebi and Beth Jörgensen
susan.antebi@utoronto.ca
beth.jorgensen@rochester.edu
Call for Papers: Edited Volume
Libre acceso: Critical disability studies in Latin American literature and film
Co-Editors: Susan Antebi (University of Toronto) and Beth E. Jörgensen (University
of Rochester)
Disability studies theory has had a significant impact on research in the
humanities over the past two decades, particularly with regard to British and North
American cultural production. In contrast, relatively few studies to date have engaged
Latin American literary or filmic works through a disability studies-informed focus.
Yet disability has a pervasive presence in both canonical and less familiar works of
Latin American literature and film, emerging through reflections on the experience
and meaning of corporeal and intellectual differences, as well as through
representations of disabled characters. These representations and reflections raise
questions about the biological bases and the cultural constructions of illness and
disability, processes of stigmatization, appearance-based discrimination, body identity,
medical history, physical torture, colonial violence, and the racialization of corporeal
and cognitive difference. In addition, in the wake of colonialism and the ongoing
crisis of global capitalism, percentages of disabled people in the Global South,
including Latin America, remain high with respect to more economically privileged
world regions, thus suggesting the need for an interrogation of Latin American
disability politics in international context.
For this edited volume, the first of its kind in our field, we seek original essays in
English that employ disability studies perspectives on all genres of literature and film
from all countries of Latin America, produced in the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries. Each essay will identify a significant issue in contemporary disability
studies, contextualize it for the time period and place of production of the work(s) to
be studied, and structure the analysis around a well-defined theoretical approach.
136
Topics may include









Disability identity Disability rights movements, human rights
Disability and/as performance Complex embodiment
Disability and sexuality
Disability and drag Diverse disability studies models: medical, social, etc.
Passing Disability in biopolitics
Intersections and assemblages: disability, gender, race, class, sexual orientation
Disability life-writing
“Overcoming” disability
Feminism and disability Disability in popular culture
Disability and critical race theory Normalcy and discourses of ableism
 Disability and psychoanalysis Metaphors and embodiments of nationalism
Timeline for submissions:
September 15, 2012: 250-350 word proposals
No later than October 15, 2012: Editors will reply to all authors submitting proposals.
February 28, 2013: Completed essays. Length 20-30 pages, including notes and works
cited.
Inquiries and submissions by email to: Susan Antebi (susan.antebi@utoronto.ca) and
Beth Jörgensen (beth.jorgensen@rochester.edu)
137
"A Mediterranean Manifesto" on Modernism in the
Mediterranean
Due: September 15, 2012
Adam J. Goldwyn, Uppsala Unviersity; Renee M. Silverman, Florida International
University
adam.goldwyn@lingfil.uu.se
Call for papers for a volume on Modernism in the Mediterranean
Title: A Mediterranean Manifesto: Cultural Exchange and the Formation of a
Modernist Aesthetic in the Mediterranean Basin
Eds. Adam J. Goldwyn (Uppsala University) and Renée M. Silverman (Florida
International University)
Call for Papers:
For centuries, the Mediterranean Sea has at once divided and joined the various
nations, cultures, language groups, and artistic traditions which have flourished in the
Mediterranean basin: the Maghreb, Iberia, Southern Europe, the Balkans, the Levant,
and Egypt. As a dividing line and barrier to intercultural exchange, it has allowed each
of these regions and cultures to develop unique artistic traditions. As the major
geographical feature binding these diverse cultures together, however, the
Mediterranean Sea has also facilitated inter- and intra- cultural exchange, perhaps
never more so than during the Modernist period. How did Modernist artistic and
political movements interact in the Mediterranean, and in which directions did the
manifestos issued by them circulate through the region? What was the impact of such
circulation? And how did Mediterranean art and culture represent the historic and
aesthetic tumult of the Modernist period?
This volume will examine Mediterranean Modernism and its legacy from an
interdisciplinary and inter-/intra- cultural comparative perspective, focusing on
literature, film, painting, music, architecture and other media. We welcome papers
addressing any aspect of Modernism in the Mediterranean from its inception in the
second half of the 19th century to after the Second World War. Topics may include:
• Mediterranean iterations of international movements such as Futurism and
Surrealism.
• Innovation in genres and media (e.g. Futurist painting and poetry).
138
• Interaction and cultural exchange among two or more Mediterranean cultures (e.g.
Alexandria’s Jewish, Arab, and French communities, or relations between Greeks
and Turks in Cyprus).
• Intracultural exchange and the myriad forms of Modernism which emerged from a
single Mediterranean location (such as Cavafy, Marinetti, Ungaretti, and Durrell in
Alexandria).
• Modernist depictions of the Mediterranean itself during the period (in, for example,
Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons of Cyprus or Henry Miller’s Colossus of
Maroussi);
• The relationship between art, history, and politics (e.g. Futurism and Fascism or the
avant-garde and different political movements, such as Communism).
• The formation of a Mediterranean identity (as, for instance, in the first two decades
of the twentieth century in Catalan painting, and in the work of Catalan author and
critic Eugeni D’Ors).
Papers on similar themes will also be considered.
E-mail one-to-two page abstracts with brief academic bio and institutional
affiliation to Dr. Goldwyn at adam.goldwyn@lingfil.uu.se by September 15, 2012.
139
DU Journal of English Studies
Due: September 30, 2012
Department of English, Dibrugarh Univerisity
payaljainpayal@gmail.com
Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES) is an annual
peer-reviewed Journal assigned ISSN 0975–5659. It publishes full-length articles on
all aspects of English Studies, both theoretical and practical. The journal invites
manuscripts in the broad areas such as - Literature in English as well as English
translations, literary criticism and theory, issues in research and research methodology,
linguistics, ELT, etc. The Journal also publishes reviews of texts, reference books and
scholarly works related to the discipline. All articles submitted for publication will be
evaluated by the journal’s referees. The name of the contributor, and his/her full
official address along with e-mail id should be given in a separate page to facilitate
confidential peer reading. The contributors are expected to follow the following
guidelines:
 Manuscripts of the full-length articles should be between 3000-6000 words and
the Reviews must not exceed a word limit of 2000

The manuscripts should be prepared according to the MLA Handbook (latest
edition) style
 Endnotes must be used rather than footnotes
 Works Cited should be included in the manuscript
The next issue of Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES Vol.
21) is scheduled for publication in January 2013. Contributions for possible inclusion
must reach the Editors of the Journal by 30th September 2012. These can be either emailed or sent to the postal address given below. For further information also you may
write in the same addresses.
Hope to receive a positive response from you,
The Editors, DUJES (Vol. 21)
Department of English
Dibrugarh University
Dibrugarh –786004 (Assam)
Contact no. 0373- 2370232
Email: payaljainpayal@gmail.com; anuragdu2009@gmail.com
140
The Rest is Silence
Due: September 30, 2012
Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought
pivot@yorku.ca
Sometimes silence is not golden – just yellow.
- Anon.
When they hold their tongues, they cry out.
- Cicero
The very idea of silence, an absence of sound or communication, is inherently
unstable. Silence functions as a blank signifier that can be invested with meaning at
will—or at whim. It can thus be used as a tool of oppression and resistance,
agreement and disapproval, deep engagement and withdrawal. One wonders, however,
whether contemporary society, with its loud technology and louder forms of media, is
becoming increasingly befuddled by instances of silence. For example, Joel and Ethan
Coens’ No Country for Old Men (2007) uses an absence of soundtrack to emphasize
the bleakness and moral uncertainty of the contemporary American West: after
screenings, the public left the theatres perturbed in part because the film did not offer
sound cues that would help viewers digest the plot. The proliferation of cellular
phones and blackberry devices, as well as of social networks such as Facebook and
Twitter, testifies to the fact that silence is a persona non grata in an age of immediate
vocalization of personal experience. And yet, perhaps because of this monopoly of
noise and narration, silence has become fetishized and idealized as a marker of
transcendence and self-development, whether in the form of meditation, private
reading, isolation tanks, or solitary hikes.
These are just some of the topics that will be explored in the third issue of Pivot,
entitled The Rest Is Silence. We invite participants from across disciplinary borders to
submit papers that engage with any aspect of this highly mobile field of inquiry.
Possible topics could be inspired by, but should not be limited to, the following
thematic concerns:
 Silence in film and visual arts
 Dramatic silence/pause
 Comedy and silence
141

Politics of exclusion and erasure in literary canons










Loud silences
“Digital hum” – replacement of human speech by machines
Vows of silence
The role of silence in religions, spirituality and
memorial/monument/memory
Reading aloud and reading quietly
Disability studies
Disciplining through silence – seen but not heard
Politics of interrogation
Muting and censorship

Gags and muzzles
Please submit 6000-7000 word articles by SEPTEMBER 30, 2012 by registering
and submitting at http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/pivot/about
All submissions must follow the style guidelines found on the same page.
142
Rethinking Empathy
Due: October 1, 2012
Meghan Marie Hammond and Sue J. Kim / NYU and UMass Lowell
mmh340@nyu.edu
Sue_Kim@uml.edu
Rethinking Empathy: What Literature Can Teach Us About Feeling With Others
Recent years have seen exciting developments on the topic of empathy in a
number of fields including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. We
invite proposals for essays to be included in a collection on empathy and literature.
We believe this volume will serve as an important contribution to a growing field of
inquiry. The collection conceives of “literature” broadly to include the graphic novel.
We are also open to other narrative media, such as film, television, and online media.
We welcome proposals that treat any genre of literature, but the focus of inquiry
must be specifically empathy. While we will consider proposals for papers that
analyze the conceptual and practical differences between empathy and sympathy, we
will not entertain proposals for papers that focus exclusively on sympathy. Proposals
for contributions that will treat postcolonial literature, ethnic U.S. literatures, or
literature outside the Anglo-American tradition are especially welcome. While we are
eager to read proposals by scholars working in languages other than English, all
essays for the collection will be written in English.
Selected proposals will challenge common conceptions about empathy, asking
readers to rethink what it is, what is does, and who is capable of performing it.
Potential topics may include but are not limited to: the connections between empathy
and violence, the relation between empathic structures and narrative structures, or the
diversity of empathic forms (i.e. affective empathy, cognitive empathy, physical
empathy). We encourage proposals for papers that make productive connections to
other academic fields like psychology and neurobiology while maintaining a focus on
literature.
Please send 500-word proposals for papers outlining subject, primary sources,
and methodology to both Meg Hammond (mmh340@nyu.edu) and Sue J. Kim
(sue_kim@uml.edu) by October 1, 2012. The editors will use accepted abstracts for a
book proposal to be submitted to a respected university press. We anticipate that
finished essays of approximately 7,500 words will be due by July 15, 2013. Please
143
include along with your proposal a brief biographical statement of no more than 150
words outlining your credentials and publication history.
144
This Rough Magic - Teaching Medieval and
Renaissance Lit.
Due: October 1, 2012
This Rough Magic (www.thisroughmagic.org)
boechem@sunysuffolk.edu
This Rough Magic (www.thisroughmagic.org) is a journal dedicated to the art of
teaching Medieval and Renaissance Literature. We are seeking academic, teachable
articles that focus on, but are not limited to, the following categories:
 Authorship







Genre Issues
Narrative Structure
Poetry
Drama
Epic
Nation/Empire/Class
Economics









History
Religion
Superstition
Philosophy and Rhetoric
Race/Ethnicity
Multi-Culturalism
Gender
Sexuality
Art
We also seek short essays that encourage faculty to try overlooked,
non-traditional texts inside the classroom and book reviews.
Submission deadline for our Winter 2012 issue is currently October 1st, 2012.
For more information, please visit our website www.thisroughmagic.org or
contact Michael Boecherer: boechem@sunysuffolk.edu
Faculty and Graduate Students are encouraged to submit.
This Rough Magic's editorial board members are affiliated with the following
academic institutions and organizations:
145

The American Shakespeare Center








Bridgewater State University
The Catholic University of America
Fitchburg State University
Newman University
State University of New York - Stony Brook
Suffolk County Community College
University of Connecticut
Vassar College
146
Food and Masculinities
Due: October 31, 2012
Meredith Nash, University of Tasmania
meredith.nash@utas.edu.au
CALL FOR PAPERS – Special Issue - Women’s Studies International Forum
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/womens-studies-international-forum/call...
Eating like a ‘man’: Food and the performance and regulation of masculinities
Guest Editors
Meredith Nash, University of Tasmania
Michelle Phillipov, University of Tasmania
Scope
This special issue is intended to provide a sustained examination of feminist
perspectives on food as a site for the performance and regulation of masculinities.
Existing feminist scholarship on food and eating has tended to focus on women’s
experiences food preparation and consumption. While this has been an appropriate
corrective to the historical marginalisation of women’s lives and experiences, much of
this work tends to focus on food and eating as primarily feminine experience. The
ways in which food operates as a site of masculine gender construction for both men
and women has been largely neglected in the scholarship. More work is urgently
needed that considers food and masculinities from global and international
perspectives and which addresses the vectors of nationality, ethnicity, migration, class,
age and sexuality. Contributions to this special issue will extend existing feminist
work on gender, food and eating by examining masculinities as important sites
through which meaning and power with respect to food are mobilised (and sometimes
contested).
We are especially interested in papers that explore relationships between food
and masculinities beyond hegemonic masculinity. We intend to unsettle and ‘queer’
the notion that masculinity is associated with biological ‘men’ as much as possible,
and so we are interested in contributions that will engage with transgender
masculinities and female masculinities and how they operate in connection with food,
eating and embodiment.
147
Themes
We hope that the articles in this special issue will raise questions on several
levels: conceptual (how do concepts of masculinity help to us understand and define
contemporary gendered relationships to food?), cultural (what discourses of
masculinity are attached to food, and how do men and women negotiate these
cross-culturally in their daily lives?), political (how can feminist perspectives on food
and masculinities assist us to understand, and contest, relationships between food,
eating, gender and social power?), and practical (how does masculinity help us to
address the gendered nature of food access and inequity around the world?)
We are seeking articles that adopt a feminist approach to food and masculinities
and that explore one or more of the following topics as they relate to masculinities or
‘men’:
• The gendered geopolitics of food
• Food and nation-building
• Foodways and their relationship to agriculture, globalisation and industrialisation
• Cross-cultural relationships to food
• Class and consumption
• Food and families
• Food, fitness and health
• Embodied experiences of eating
• ‘Obesity’ and ‘fat’
• Food, appetite and emotion
• Food, sex and sexuality
• Eating and (im)morality
• Risk related to food
• Food fads and trends
• Fast food, extreme food, competitive eating
• Genetically modified food
• Famine and hunger
Contributors are invited to submit articles of 7500 words (maximum) by 31
October 2012.
Articles for this special issue will need to be submitted via the Elsevier Editorial
System (EES) for Women's Studies International Forum: http://ees/elsevier.com/wsif/
Authors should follow Women's Studies International Forum’s submission
guidelines available at
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/361/authori....
Articles for this special issue will need to be submitted via the Elsevier Editorial
System (EES) for Women's Studies International Forum: http://ees/elsevier.com/wsif/.
148
Authors must select “Eating Like a Man SI” in the “Article Type” step in the
submission process. Authors must also request ‘Kalwant Bhopal’ at the ‘Request
Editor’ stage of the submission process.
The editors of the Special Issue welcome discussion of initial ideas for articles
via e-mail (please send queries to both of the editors):
Meredith Nash: Meredith.Nash@utas.edu.au
Michelle Phillipov: Michelle.Phillipov@utas.edu.au
149
Interviews & Essays on Native American/Indigenous
Filmmakers
Due: November 1, 2012
M. Elise Marubbio/ Augsburg College
marubbio@augsburg.edu
Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities (Texas A & M
University-Commerce) welcomes submissions of substantive interviews with or
essays on new Native American/Indigenous filmmakers/directors/producers for a
special issue that will include a dvd containing shorts or clips from work by those
interviewed. This special issue of Post Script, co-edited by M. Elise Marubbio and
Angelo Baca (independent filmmaker), encourages original essays and interviews in
this area coming from a Native perspective on film and focusing on Native and
Indigenous film of North America. We are seeking work from filmmakers, scholars
and academics, curators, teachers and the like.
Interviews with Native filmmakers may focus on:
 Personal responses to working as a Native filmmaker;





Group responses by those working on a particular Native film project;
Issues surrounding audience, community, aesthetics, storytelling, project focus,
response; to the mainstream industry, etc.
Interviews should be substantive and include:
An introduction that sets the tone for the interview and provides the reader with
background information on the filmmaker/director/producer or group;
Is edited for continuity and ease of reading;
Includes resources for the readers to access work by those interviewed; and
Accompanying clips or short films to be included on the dvd.







Essay Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Narrative films;
Video, shorts, animation;
Documentaries;
Analysis/readings of individual films or film projects;
Themes, aesthetics, modes of storytelling in film;
Film as an aspect of oral tradition and storytelling;
Personal responses to working as a Native filmmaker, which may include issues

150
surrounding audience, community, aesthetics, storytelling, project focus,
response to the mainstream industry, etc.
Please note that Post Script does not reprint previously published material. Please
submit completed interviews of no more than 7,000 words and in MLA format to
guest editors M. Elise Marubbio at the addresses below by November 1, 2012.
Interviews should be sent as both an attachment (virus free) and a hard copy with
clips.
M. Elise Marubbio
Associate Professor, American Indian Studies
Augsburg College
CB 115
2211 Riverside Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55454
(612) 330-1523
marubbio@augsburg.edu
151
English Forum: Journal of the Department of English,
Gauhati University
Due: November 30, 2012
Department of English, Gauhati University
sanjeevnath21@gmail.com
The Editor, ENGLISH FORUM: JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH, GAUHATI UNIVERSITY, Guwahati, Assam, India, seeks submissions
for its March 2013 issue. Articles that are received will go through a process of peer
review before being selected for publication. Articles, between 5000 to 8000 words,
can be on any issue concerning English Literature and other literatures in English. The
articles should be typed in Microsoft Word and the referencing must be according to
the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Seventh Edition). Articles should
be mailed to sanjeevnath21@gmail.com by November 30, 2012.
152
After Postmodernism
Due: December 15, 2012
Christopher K. Brooks
chris.brooks@wichita.edu
An essay collection on the current state of literary theory based on the notion that
Postmodernism is waning or that postmodernist discourse should stand aside.
Postcontemporary theory, hybrids and revisions of postmodern discourse, critical
methods that simply eschew postmodernist ideologies (e.g., Affect Theory), figures or
works that transcend postmodernist discourse--any and all ideas are welcome.
Chapters nearing 25 pages would be best; book contract is assured. Send inquiries to
email cited above. Target date for completed essays is December 15, 2012.
153