call for papers
8-9 Nov. 2012, Reframing Ekphrasis: King's College London Comparative Literature Conference.

We are delighted to invite you to 'Reframing Ekphrasis' at King's College London on 8-9 November 2012. Please email reframingekphrasis@gmail.com to register stating your name and the days you will be attending. Attendance is free and all are welcome!

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephen Cheeke (Bristol) – 'Transfiguration: Nineteenth-Century Ekphrasis'

Thurs. 8 November: 12.30 – 4.30, Room S8.08, King's College London, Strand Campus

Panel 1: Classical to Early Modern Ekphrasis

- Daisy Dunn (UCL/Warburg Institute) – 'Integrating Ekphrasis from Classical Text to Renaissance Image: Achilles Tatius Re-mastered'

- Stanislaus Kuttner-Homs (University of Caen) – 'Beyond the Veil: Ekphrasis as Literary Empowerment in the De signis of Niketas Choniates'

- Beatrice Wilford (KCL) – 'Adaptation as Ekphrasis: Derek Jarman's Edward II'

Panel 2: Ekphrasis in Practice

- Angelina Ayers (Sheffield Hallam) – 'Experiments in Ekphrasis'

- Rebecca Roach (Oxford) – 'Through the Keyhole: Writers, Rooms and Representation'

- Joanne Brueton (UCL) – '"Toi et Sartre vous m'avez statufié": Space, Art and Resistance in Jean Genet and Louise Bourgeois'

Friday 9 November: 9.00 – 6.00, River Room, King's College London, Strand Campus

Panel 1: Ekphrasis at Play: Dialogues, Dialectics and Abstractions

- Pauline Eaton (Birkbeck) – 'Marie NDiaye and Turner: A Silent Yet Complex dialogue Between Visual Image and Textual Narrative in La Naufragée'

- Natalia Font (Exeter) – 'Interrogating the Ekphrastic Ambivalence: Angela Carter and Marosa di Giorgio'

- Kate Symondson (KCL) – 'Abstract Literature: Conrad's Innovations in Representation'

Keynote Speech – Dr. Stephen Cheeke (Bristol) – 'Transfiguration: Nineteenth-Century Ekphrasis'

Panel 2: Ekphrastic Stasis and Movement

- Claudia Tobin (Bristol) – 'Nothing is really statically at rest': DH Lawrence, Cézanne and the Still Life'

- Amanda Cornwall (University of Oregon) – 'Ut pictura poesis in George Elliot's Middlemarch'

- Dr. Lynsey McCulloch (Coventry) – 'The Images Move in a Dance: Animated Statuary and Ekphrastic Motion in the Early Modern Masque'

Panel 3: Postcolonial Ekphrases

- Isil Cihan – 'In the Light of New Ekphrastic Poetics: A Reading of My Name is Red'

- Dr. Sheetal Majithia (NYU Abu Dhabi) – 'Postcolonial Ekphrasis and the Politics of the Rushdie Affair'

- Dr. Andrew Miller (University of Copenhagen) – 'Dabydeen's Turner: Reframing the Aura'

Panel 4: Subjectivity, the Senses, and Ekphrasis

- Dr. Alison Fisch Katz (Jerusalem College of Engineering) – 'In Pursuit of a Full Aesthetic: Ekphrasis in Tess of D'Urbervilles'

- Nina Shiel (Dublin City University) – 'The Senses and Sensuality of Ekphrasis from the Painting to the Pixel'

- Christine Fouirnaies (Oxford) – 'Soul Mirrors and Dead Ends: Ekphrastic Portraits in The Idiot, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge'

6.00: Wine reception

7.30: Dinner at Bedford and Strand Restaurant, Bedford St

48252An Eco-friendly Turn for Supply Chain ManagementAbhishek Thakurtacoscm.analytics@gmail.com1349868604professional_topicsfull name / name of organization: Abhishek Thakurcontact email: tacoscm.analytics@gmail.com

With automotive companies looking at sustainable transportation, supply chain management companies are also looking at following suit.

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Ford and Weyerhaeuser have found that biomaterials can be used for not only exterior, but also interior and under the hood components as well. The companies are working on creating a new type of plastic composites that can replace traditional materials such as fibreglass and minerals.

For the successful completion of this project, it is important that the companies have the right component sourcing partner. The company should offer the best component materials and affordable supply chain solutions. TACOSCM is one of the premier supply chain management companies in India. We provide an array of components and assemblies under various product groups to global customers.

We cater to the requirements of our customers in countries around the world, including the Europe, the United States, & South East Asia. Among our varied services, we offer sourcing, supplier quality, logistics, and packaging services to our customers.

TACOSCM employs knowledgeable and experienced professionals from the industry in component sourcing, supplier quality, logistics, and packaging. We provide up-to-date service in the processes of supplier evaluation, product feasibility, program management, and third party inspection.

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cfp categories: professional_topics 48254UPDATE: 1st Global Conference: Probing the Boundaries of Reproduction (May 2013: Prague, Czech Republic)Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Netbr1@inter-disciplinary.net1349871164african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Netcontact email: br1@inter-disciplinary.net

1st Global Conference

Probing the Boundaries of Reproduction

Sunday 12th May – Tuesday 14th May 2013

Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Presentations:

This conference seeks to explore the boundaries of reproduction, not merely as physical birth but more broadly as an agent of change, of bodily, sexual, cultural (and even viral) transitions.

From iconic images of the incarnation to depictions of monstrous births, the cultural rituals and mythologies of reproduction continue to fascinate us. Bodies that copulate, bodies that reproduce, bodies that replicate, change, decay—or divide—produce anxiety about the boundaries of self and identity. Reproduction, like evolution, reminds us that we are ever in flux, that change is inevitable. Birth, like death, forces us to acknowledge the limits of our bodies and our 'selves.' Additionally, this age of epidemics and viral warfare incites dystopic visions of a future where the effective reproducers are micro-organisms, where humans have been replaced by a replicating other. We seek to explore not only the biological imperative of preserving a species, but also our search for origins, our search for ourselves, our desires, our sexual identities, our gods.

We invite perspectives that explore identity, bodies, boundaries, sexuality and futurity. We likewise invite reflections on whether the nature of our origins tells us anything about who and what we are; whether it lays the ground for understanding what we will become and how our future will unfold. What is the nature of our transition from birth through life to death? Is the end present in the beginning, and does this complicate our notions of evolutions and transitions as forward progress? What does it mean to be pregnant? To impregnate? What concerns are raised about a woman's body historically, culturally, politically, her ability to feed, grow and harbour new life, as well as her control over her own reproductive destiny? What about bodies that replicate without sex? Cloning? Hermaphroditic reproduction? What about non-human reproduction, about invasive species, about viral epidemics?

We encourage scholarly contributions from inter, multi and transdisciplinary perspectives, from practitioners working in all contexts, professionals, ngo's and those from the voluntary sector. We will entertain submissions drawn from literature, medicine, politics, social history, film, television, graphic novels and manga, from science to science fiction.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

-Historical medical discourses about reproduction

-The monstrosity of birth: monstrous births

-Birth in the dystopic narrative

-Freak(s) – of nature; of technology; accidents of birth

-Religious discourse of reproduction

-Gender and biomedicine

-Queering reproduction

-Motherhood/fatherhood/parenthood

-Technologies of and for the body

-Reproduction and ethical practice

-Managing reproductive bodies: law, health care and medical practice

-The "changing" body: rebirth and metamorphosis

-Invading and possessing bodies

-Eugenics, social biology and inter-racial generation

-Genetic engineering and "nightmare" reproductions

-Science fiction: inter-species reproduction: non-human reproduction

-Viral reproduction and pandemic

What to submit:

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Presentations will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th January 2013. 300 word abstracts 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, f) up to 10 keywords.

E-mails should be entitled: BR1 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:

Brandy Scillace: bschillace@inter-disciplinary.net

Rob Fisher: br1@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries 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. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s)

For further details of the conference, please visit:

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/the-bou...

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.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 48255Special Issue on : "Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks" - (IJCNC - SI cfp)International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC)adhocsens@airccj.org1349871356journals_and_collections_of_essaysfull name / name of organization: International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC)contact email: adhocsens@airccj.org

Special Issue on : "Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks"

Guest Editors:

Annamalai A, Prairie View A & M University, USA

Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan

Theme and Scope

Ad hoc and Sensor Networks received a significant and sustained research interest in terms of designing and deploying large scale and high performance computational applications in real life. The purpose of this special issue is to publish high-quality papers on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks in theoretical and practical aspects. This special issue aims to promote state-of-the-art research in the area of Ad Hoc computing, Sensor Networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Authors are solicited to contribute to this special Issue by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to

Ad Hoc Computing

Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems

Addressing and location management

Architectures, protocols, and algorithms

Data management issues

Distributed technology

Mobile ad hoc learning

Mobile and wireless ad hoc networks

Mobile agents for ad hoc networking

Network design and planning

Novel Architectures for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Performance Analysis and Simulation of Protocols

Power-aware and energy-efficient designs

Quality of service

Resource allocation

Security and privacy

Self-configuring and self-healing schemes

Services and applications

Wireless & Mobile network Security

Wireless sensor network

Sensor Networks

Architectures, protocols and algorithms

Compressive sensing

Cooperative spectrum sensing and wireless communications

Cross-layer design for scalable multimedia transmission

Data allocation and information

Deployments and implementations

Embedded, network-oriented operating systems

Energy optimization

Hardware aspects of sensor design

Location management and placement

MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks

Middleware and software tools

Modeling and Performance evaluation

Radio Issues with other wireless/mobile systems

Resource allocation, services, QoS and fault tolerance

Scalability of wireless sensor networks

Security and dependability issues

Sensor circuits and devices

Software, applications and programming

Under water sensors and systems

Visualization of sensor data

Work models

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Issue. Manuscripts should be written in English and strictly follow the guideline of the journal IJCNC. The manuscripts should be submitted to one of the guest editors by November 06, 2012, through email adhocsens@airccj.org

Important Dates

Deadline for Submission : November 06, 2012

Acceptance notification : December 11, 2012

Final Manuscript Due : December 17, 2012

cfp categories: journals_and_collections_of_essays 48257CFP - IJORCS, (Volume 3, Issue 1) - December 2012International Journal of Research in Computer Science (IJORCS) info [at] ijorcs . org1349873986international_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysscience_and_culturefull name / name of organization: International Journal of Research in Computer Science (IJORCS)contact email: info [at] ijorcs . org

eISSN: 2249 – 8265

ISSN: 2249 – 8257

Deadline: 1st December2012

Notification: 15th December 2012

Revision: 25th December 2012

Publication: 5th January 2013

It is our immense pleasure to invite you to submit your manuscripts for publication in International Journal of Research in Computer Sciences, a double blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the propagation and elucidation of scholarly research results.

IJORCS aims to disseminate quality research work and to enhance the ethics and morale of the research community. Besides providing a platform for the reinforcement of science, fast operative publication, IJORCS disseminates the published research work in major indexing databases all over the world which includes, Citeseer, Microsoft Academic Research, BASE, Q-Sensei, Google Scholar, DOAJ, Cabell's Directory and many more.

IJORCS is now associated with CrossRef (The Citation Linking Backbone) as a Member. A DOI Prefix: "10.7815" has been assigned by CrossRef and as a result your manuscript, if published in IJORCS would be assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) number which would be unique in the world each article.

Welcoming the research scholars, scientists around the globe in the Open Access Dimension, IJORCS is now accepting manuscripts for its next issue (Volume 3, Issue 1). Authors are encouraged to contribute to the research community by submitting to IJORCS, articles that clarify new research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in field of computer science.

For list of IJORCS topics visit, Call for Papers (http://www.ijorcs.org/topics)

Authors are requested to submit their papers through the submission form available at: www.ijorcs.org/submit-paper or they can send it through email to: submission@ijorcs.org.

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish your scientific manuscripts.

All paper submissions (http://www.ijorcs.org/submit-paper) are received and managed electronically by IJORCS Team. Detailed instructions about the submission procedure are available on IJORCS website (http://www.ijorcs.org/author-guidelines)

cfp categories: international_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysscience_and_culture 48258[UPDATE] CFP Alternative Modernisms - Deadline 31 OctoberEmma West, Cardiff Universitymodernisms@cardiff.ac.uk1349880750african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Emma West, Cardiff Universitycontact email: modernisms@cardiff.ac.uk

The Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory and English Literature, Cardiff University, present

Alternative Modernisms: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference

Cardiff University, 16-18 May 2013

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania)

Professor Griselda Pollock (Leeds University)

Professor Ástráður Eysteinsson (University of Iceland)

In recent years an increasing number of attempts have been made to widen the traditional modernist canon. Work on women, LGBT and black modernists, as well as marketplace, magazine and middlebrow studies, have expanded the canon, and yet such 'alternative' modernisms are often studied and discussed in isolation, leading to a splintering of the field. This fragmented approach to modernist studies is in danger of not reflecting – or taking into account – the wider cultural and public sphere which modernisms existed in and engaged with. Furthermore, many modernisms, in particular national and regional forms and movements in Europe, still remain largely uncharted.

This conference attempts to provide a common forum for the exchange of ideas and examples across fields, disciplines and nationalities. It will give scholars an opportunity to explore both underexplored modern(ist) forms, mediums, texts, writers and artists, and the relationships between them, working towards a more holistic conception of how 'alternative' modernisms operated.

Indeed, the conference will consider the extent to which all modernisms can be viewed as part of a network of alternatives – to tradition, realism, representation, mass culture or even to each other. As such, the conference hopes to reassess – and problematize – modernisms's approaches to the past, to modernity (or 'modernities'), to other modernisms, and their position within modern culture, exploring new theories and approaches for studying modernisms.

Considering that Welsh modernism in particular still resides on the margins of British modernism – geographically and intellectually – Cardiff is the perfect place for such a reassessment. The conference will also host the inaugural meeting of the Welsh Network of Modernist Studies, a new umbrella organisation which will organise and promote interdisciplinary events that foster links between modernist scholars in Wales.

Submissions are invited that engage with all aspects of the title. Papers might include (but are not limited to):

• Modernisms as alternatives to realism, representation, religion, tradition, linearity, mass culture, 'grand narratives' etc.

• Modernism/modern(ist) thought as an alternative way of seeing/theorising the world

• 'Alternative' modernisms – modernisms outside the modernist canon or mainstream, whether for reasons of race, ethnicity, nationality, language, gender, sexuality, class, geography, aesthetics, ideology, chronology etc.

• Middlebrow, 'intermodern' or popular forms as an alternative to High Modernism

• Alternative ideologies and aesthetics within the (retrospectively applied) field of modernism and the historical avant-garde – differences and contradictions in beliefs and approaches

• Alternative ways of living/lifestyles by modernist figures

• Alternative chronologies, definitions, canons or readings of modernism

• Movement of modernism from an alternative to its contemporary position in the academic, artistic and literary mainstream canon.

Submissions are encouraged on all modern(ist) forms and disciplines, including art, design, fashion, film, literature, drama, music, performance and architecture, as well as modern theory and philosophy. We especially welcome interdisciplinary approaches, ranging across literary studies, history, cultural history, art history, philosophy and critical theory as well as other disciplines in the humanities.

Proposals for papers (20 minutes) should include the paper title; the delegate's name, address and email; a summary of the proposed paper (300 words); and a short bio (100 words). Panel proposals (3 speakers) are also welcome; please send the above details for each speaker plus a short description of the panel as a whole.

Proposals should be sent to Emma West at modernisms@cardiff.ac.uk by 31 October 2012.

** UPDATE: We are pleased to announce four postgraduate bursaries for students studying outside the UK, funded by the School of English Literature, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University. Bursaries will be awarded to postgraduate research students who have had a paper accepted at the Alternative Modernisms conference and will include both a conference fee waiver and a contribution to travel. For details on how to apply, please contact modernisms@cardiff.ac.uk. **

For further information and enquiries, please visit www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/modernisms.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 48259Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy - Spring 2013 Volume 17, Issue 1 - Feature Editor: Marilyn PasquaAcademic Exchange Quarterly (ISSN 1096-1453)marilynpasqua@tiscali.it, academicexchange@yahoo.com1349882428general_announcementsjournals_and_collections_of_essaysfull name / name of organization: Academic Exchange Quarterly (ISSN 1096-1453)contact email: marilynpasqua@tiscali.it, academicexchange@yahoo.com

Call for Papers:

Academic Exchange Quarterly (ISSN 1096-1453)

Spring 2013 Volume 17, Issue 1

Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy

Feature Editor: Marilyn Pasqua

ESL Assistant and contract Professor

University of Calabria, Italy

E-mail: marilynpasqua@tiscali.it

Call For Papers

Call Deadline: 30-November-2012

Link: http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/12lang.htm

Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy

Keyword: LANGUAGE-12

Focus:

This issue aims to explore helpful cutting-edge knowledge on second language acquisition and pedagogy. The target language may be any second/foreign language, including English as a second language (ESL). Both quantitative and qualitative studies are welcome. More specific topics encompass, but are not limited to

1. input and interaction

2. teacher talk (the language of instruction that second/foreign language teachers use in the classroom)

3. interlanguage or learner language analysis (i.e., error, discourse, pragmatics, and conversation analyses)

4. learner variables (such as motivation, personality characteristics, age, aptitude, and learning styles)

5. study abroad

6. task or content based instruction (including immersion program)

7. language for specific purposes (LSP) (including science and technology)

8. form-focused instruction

9. teaching cultural understanding in a second/foreign language class

10. teaching listening, speaking, reading, and/or writing skills

11. teaching and acquiring pronunciation

12. teaching and acquiring vocabulary

13. genre and academic language teaching

14. methodologies and approaches to language teaching

15. learning strategies and/or styles

16. multiple intelligences

17. learner autonomy.

The edition intends to bring together new findings and insights about second language acquisition and, hence, contribute to the enhanced efficacy of second/foreign language learning and teaching.

Who May Submit:

Submissions are welcome from teachers, researchers, administrators, and teacher educators at all levels. Please identify your submission with keyword: LANGUAGE-12

Submission deadline:

any time until the end of November 2012; see details for other deadline options like early, regular, and short.

Submission Procedure:

By E-mail: Send attachment, MS-Word-doc-file type, to academicexchange@yahoo.com

or

Conventional (Paper) Submission: Send by postal mail one paper copy plus a copy on a 3.5 inch floppy disk to: Academic Exchange Quarterly, P.O. Box 131 Stuyvesant Falls, NY 12174 USA

For more detailed information about submitting your manuscripts, please visit

http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm

http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/12lang.htm

For further details about the layout of your manuscript, please visit : http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/layout.htm

cfp categories: general_announcementsjournals_and_collections_of_essays 48260Psalm Culture and the Politics of TranslationRuth Ahnert (Queen Mary, University of London), Tamara Atkin (QMUL), Francis Leneghan (Oxford)psamculture@gmail.com1349884130bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalreligionrenaissancefull name / name of organization: Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary, University of London), Tamara Atkin (QMUL), Francis Leneghan (Oxford)contact email: psamculture@gmail.com

15 – 17 July 2013

Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London

psalmculture.com

We invite paper and session proposals for an

interdisciplinary conference on English responses to

the Psalms, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Civil

War. Keynote addresses to be given by Daniel

Anlezark (Sydney), Brian Cummings (Sussex), Vincent

Gillespie (Oxford), Hannibal Hamlin (Ohio State),

James Simpson (Harvard) and Eric Stanley (Oxford).

The Psalms have been at the centre of English

religious life, language and identity since the

Augustinian mission. This conference aims to bring

together scholars working in different periods and

disciplines to open up new avenues of discussion and

debate. We are interested in all aspects of the English

Psalm tradition, from the conversion to the Civil War,

and possible areas of exploration might include:

• The authority of the vernacular, and the controversy

of translation

• Specific contexts for translation (monastic

production, translations by prisoners, etc.)

• Psalms as political commentary

• Musical settings of Psalms, on the page and in

performance

• Psalm books as physical objects and works of art

• Iconography

• Ecclesiastical and private devotion

• Psalms and the formation of an English literary

canon

• Literary borrowings and intertextuality

• Reading, annotating and glossing

• Comparative analysis of individual Psalms across

languages and periods

• The Psalms as a site of inter-cultural dialogue

(between faiths, between countries)

Proposals

We welcome proposals for papers (no more

than 20 minutes) and panels (of 3 papers)

from both established scholars and graduate

students. It is envisaged that selected papers

will be considered for publication in an edited,

peer-reviewed collection.

Proposal forms can be downloaded via the conference website: psalmculture.com

Please submit all proposal forms and

correspondence to psalmculture@gmail.com.

Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2012

cfp categories: bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalreligionrenaissance 48261CFP (ALA 2013): Melville's Bibles Beyond Moby-DickZach Hutchins / Herman Melville Societyhutchinz@byu.edu1349884456americanethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryreligionscience_and_culturefull name / name of organization: Zach Hutchins / Herman Melville Societycontact email: hutchinz@byu.edu

With Melville's Bibles (2008), Ilana Pardes rebooted the study of Herman Melville's relationship to religion and the Bible, placing Moby-Dick in the context of contemporary exegetical practices. Her pivotal work situates Melville's most famous novel among "an impressive array of interpretive discourses—from literary renditions of biblical texts to traditional commentaries (among them, Calvin's commentaries and rabbinic lore), Gnostic mythos, popular sermons, political speeches, comparative accounts of religions and mythologies, and biblical encyclopedias" (2). A recent surge of scholarly interest in Clarel—Melville's primary statement on matters of faith and spirituality—foregrounds the need to extend this work of religious contextualization beyond Moby-Dick, and this panel seeks papers that reconsider Melville's engagement with religion in his short fiction, poems, lectures, or other novels. Essays might address questions such as: Do Melville's religious views evolve over time and in response to the emergence of new exegetical tools or texts? How does Melville represent non-Christian religions? What role does genre play in the battle between Darwin's "prosing Science" and Rama's unearthly "verse"?

Papers responding to these or other, related questions are solicited for one of two panels sponsored by the Herman Melville Society at the 2013 meeting of the American Literature Association (May 23-26) in Boston. Please send proposals of up to 300 words and a CV or brief biography to Zach Hutchins (hutchinz@byu.edu) by January 3, 2013.

cfp categories: americanethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryreligionscience_and_culture 48262Panel/Roundtable on Teaching Latina/o Literature, 10/25/12 (for Haciendo Caminos conference, NYC, March 7-9, 2013)Jane Hseu, Assistant Professor of English, Dominican University (River Forest, IL)jhseu@dom.edu1349886424americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarypostcolonialfull name / name of organization: Jane Hseu, Assistant Professor of English, Dominican University (River Forest, IL)contact email: jhseu@dom.edu

Seeking participants for a panel/roundtable on teaching Latina/o literature for the 1st Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference: Haciendo Caminos: Mapping the Futures of U.S. Latina/o Literatures at John Jay College of Criminal Justice,City University of New York, March 7-9, 2013 (http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/45902). All aspects of teaching Latina/o literature are encouraged. Other panelists will be presenting on teaching race and space in Latina/o performance poetry and teaching the ethno-racial experience of Latina/os to a predominantly white, privileged audience.

Please email a one paragraph description of your topic in relation to teaching Latina/o literature to Jane Hseu at jhseu@dom.edu by Oct. 25, 2012.

cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarypostcolonial 48263[UPDATE] Festivals and Faires AreaPopular Culture Associationdrktkorolevans@yahoo.com1349887813african-americanamericaneighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitymedievalpopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Popular Culture Associationcontact email: drktkorolevans@yahoo.com

The Festivals & Faires Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes submissions for the 2013 PCA/ACA conference in Washington, D.C. on any festival or faire—modern or historical. Scholars of theatre / theater, drama, performance studies, American studies, popular culture, religion, history, anthropology, folklore, English, theory, and non-western traditions are encouraged to apply. Since the conference is in Washington, D.C., any papers relating to festivals and faires in the District are greatly appreciated. Other specific areas of interest for this year's panels include, but are not limited to:

1. Burning Man;

2. Contemporary American Renaissance Festivals & Faires, including performative panels;

3. Festivals & Faires from outside the United States;

4. Theatre festivals, Shakespeare festivals, and music festivals;

5. Theorizing the festival framework through such scholars as Victor Turner and Mikhail Bakhtin;

6. Festival atmosphere and environment in non-traditional settings, i.e. conferences, work, school.

In addition to these scholarly presentations, the Festivals and Faires Area proposes the First Annual 10-Minute Play Festival at PCA. Submissions of new works for staged reading and/or performance are highly encouraged.

Inquiries about possible papers or proposals for sessions are also welcomed and encouraged.

If your paper or play is accepted, you will receive an acceptance letter, registration information, the information you'll need to join the PCA/ACA, and the room reservation information.

Submit a 250-word abstract to the PCA Database by 30 November 2012.

cfp categories: african-americanamericaneighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitymedievalpopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 48264Rollins Documentary Film ContestPopular Cultural Association/American Culture Associationdennis_cutchins@byu.edu1349891257african-americanamericanecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementspopular_culturereligionscience_and_culturetheatretwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Popular Cultural Association/American Culture Associationcontact email: dennis_cutchins@byu.edu

Announcing the 2013 Rollins Documentary Film Contest for the Popular and American Culture Associations. The contest is open to both students and professionals and films that treat all aspects of popular culture will be considered.

The entry form for the contest may be found at http://pcaaca.org/literary-and-film-awards/

cfp categories: african-americanamericanecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementspopular_culturereligionscience_and_culturetheatretwentieth_century_and_beyond 48265Adaptation (film, literature, and new media)Popular Culture Association/American Culture Associationdennis_cutchins@byu.edu1349891630african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturefilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymedievalpopular_culturetheatrefull name / name of organization: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Associationcontact email: dennis_cutchins@byu.edu

Adapting Culture

Proposal Deadline Nov 30, 3012

As usual, papers on any and all aspects of adaptation will be considered. If you're interested in novel to film adaptations, short story to television adaptations, film to novel adaptations, stage play to radio adaptations, theme park attraction to film adaptations, video game to blog adaptations, or any other kind of adaptation you can think of then kindly submit them!

This year we are particularly interested in "cultural adaptations." But you may want to imagine "culture" as a fairly broad category. Bakhtin argues that any time an author includes a distinct voice in a work of art then aspects of culture cannot help but follow. When Sally Hays tells Holden Caulfield that "There'll be oodles of marvelous places to go," readers almost instantly know something about her as a person and as member of a particular class. In other words, her culture begins to show. How have adaptors dealt with these cultural aspects of particular works, particularly as those works have been adapted for different audiences, time periods, and countries?

As always, we consider "adaptation" a way of looking at texts more than a particular brand of texts. Thus we welcome papers on video game adaptations, new media adaptations, literature to literature adaptations, and radio adaptations along with film adaptations. Papers on any and all aspects of adaptation will be considered.

ALL PROPOSALS AND ABSTRACTS MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE PCA DATABASE http://pcaaca.org/national-conference-2/proposing-a-presentation-at-the-....

cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturefilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymedievalpopular_culturetheatre 48266EREID 2013 - Sustainability Research in the Social and Human Sciences : Why ? How ? For whom ?UBO / Quimper Institute of Technologyisabelle.dangeard@univ-brest.fr1349898099interdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesfull name / name of organization: UBO / Quimper Institute of Technologycontact email: isabelle.dangeard@univ-brest.fr

Researchers in the Social and Human Sciences (SHS) investigating the sustainability of our modes of collective organization are faced with fundamental questions. Dialogue between the various disciplines within the SHS is unavoidable, as is exchange with researchers in the life sciences. Even if there currently exists a general consensus on the reality of a multidimensional ecological crisis (radical climate change, depletion of resources, loss of biodiversity…), the positioning of the social sciences researcher is more controversial. The aim of this conference is to give researchers in all areas of SHS (management sciences, economics, sociology, the philosophy of science, political science, law, psychology…) the opportunity to dialogue on these questions: what position should they adopt on the issue of sustainability? What is their role and what mission should they assign themselves?

Conference website : http://ereid2013.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

cfp categories: interdisciplinaryinternational_conferences 48267Mapping Animality II: Considerations of Animal and Human Space (ACLA Annual Meeting, Toronto, April 4-7 2013)Sundhya Walther/Sarah Henderson, University of Torontosundhya.walther@utoronto.ca1349900926cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Sundhya Walther/Sarah Henderson, University of Torontocontact email: sundhya.walther@utoronto.ca

For full information: http://www.acla.org/acla2013/mapping-animality-ii-considerations-of-anim...

Across disciplinary, geographical, and linguistic boundaries, scholars have united to ask: where is the animal? From the animal's place in philosophical discourse, to its position as one of literature's key metaphorical concepts, to the troubling presence of animal bodies in contemporary art, the animal's centrality to centuries of human discourse is undeniable. At the same time, the dwindling space that animal bodies occupy in the world is increasingly under human surveillance and control. At this juncture of science and the humanities, of visual and literary arts, of wildness and enclosure, of flesh and machine, is it ever possible to locate the animal?

This panel will operate in conjunction with Mapping Animals I, which is more broadly interested in the politics of cultural representations of animality. While we share these interests, we wish to orient them more particularly around questions of space. This panel invites papers that consider the physical, ontological, or ethical location of the animal from a diversity of perspectives.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

Tracking devices that create animal maps

'Crittercams' and the documentation of animal perspectives of space

The location of animality in the body

Reservation of land for wildlife

Animals in human space (strays, feral animals, urban wildlife, companion animals

Practices of enclosure (zoos, circuses, laboratories, factory farms)

The animal within the human

The location of the animal in philosophy, literature, or visual art

The position of the animal vis à vis the human

SEMINAR KEYWORDS: animal; space; ecology; technology; surveillance; posthumanism; conservation; food; speciesism; ethics; representation; mapping; enclosure

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 48268CFP---Beyond Tattoos & Scars: Breaking the Stereotypes of Tattoos within Latino Representations on StageSubmitting Panel for the 37th Comparative Drama Conference; Text & Presentation in Baltimoredsicre@bmcc.cuny.edu1349901911cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitytheatrefull name / name of organization: Submitting Panel for the 37th Comparative Drama Conference; Text & Presentation in Baltimorecontact email: dsicre@bmcc.cuny.edu

CFP; For the 37th Comparative Drama Conference; Text & Presentation (April 4-6, 2013 in Baltimore)

We invite proposals of individual papers to submit for a panel at the conference.

Our working title is : Beyond Tattoos & Scars: Breaking the Stereotypes of Tattoos within Latino Representations on Stage

We would like to organize a session panel that would look at breaking Latino stereotypes found on stage in relevance to tattoos and scars.

We would like to do a call for papers from scholars or artists who would be interested in participating and presenting a paper.

Please send your a 250 word abstract with paper title, author's name, institutional affiliation, and status by Nov 1 to:

Daphnie Sicre

dsicre@bmcc.cuny.edu.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitytheatre 48269CFP Archiving ActivismSpecial Edition of Archival Sciencebenjamin.alexander@qc.cuny.edu1349906146african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturescience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Special Edition of Archival Sciencecontact email: benjamin.alexander@qc.cuny.edu

CFP

Special Edition, Archival Science: Archiving Activism

Editors: Ben Alexander and Andrew Flinn

The proposed Special Edition will explore the myriad connections between contemporary archival practice and activism. This is a topic which although not new is one of rising contemporary significance as archive materials, the institutions which hold them and the many archivists which look after them are increasingly recognized and actively recruited in the cause of political and social justice. This comes at a time when notions of a more active, collaborative and participatory archival practice is gaining currency in the professional archival world.

Article topics may include but are not limited to:

the ways in which mainstream archives and archivists work to preserve activist struggles of the past (including for instance the civil rights movement in the American South, struggles for equality and against discrimination, radical political movements of the left and right as well as across divided and antagonistic communities);

how the establishment of archives and the use of history is considered by some activists (including community, feminist, queer, social movement, anti- discrimination and civil rights activists) to be a core component of their political activities either in independently‐controlled and autonomous archives or in partnership with mainstream memory‐sites in universities and elsewhere;

and finally global moves to ensure preservation and use of the documentation of social and political atrocities (including genocide, human rights abuses and repressive regimes) in Truth and Reconciliation, criminal tribunals and other social justice processes has increasingly involved archivists as key active participants in on-going struggles for Human Rights and Justice.

Please send paper proposals to either Ben Alexander (Benjamin.Alexander@qc.cuny.edu) to Andrew Flinn (a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk).

Proposals of no more than 250 words are due no later than November 15. Select authors will be notified by December 15 and invited to submit a full-length manuscript to Springer / Archival Science. A final list of authors will be confirmed February 1, 2013 and final full-length manuscripts due June 1, 2013.

About the Editors:

Ben Alexander is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College, The City University of New York where he also serves as Director of Archival Studies. In addition to his full-time faculty appointment Alexander also serves as the Head of Special Collections and Archives for the Queens College Libraries.

Andrew Flinn is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Archives and Records Management (ARM) (including the recently (2102) merged Records and Archive Management (International) (RAMI) MA) program in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL). In 2011 he was the Allen Smith Visiting Scholar in the Graduate School of Library and Information and Information Studies at Simmons College, Boston, MA.

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturescience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 48270CFP: At the Edge: New Americanist PedagogyAt the Edge: New Americanist Pedagogyattheedge.umb@gmail.com 1349911164african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: At the Edge: New Americanist Pedagogycontact email: attheedge.umb@gmail.com

We seek submissions for a new digital project that focuses on innovative teaching in American literary and cultural studies. An open-access site, At the Edge aims to highlight emergent approaches in the field and offer possibilities for shaping class meetings and course plans around those approaches.

We hope At the Edge will offer scholars and teachers a lively forum for reflecting on our teaching practices, exchanging ideas about how we make our discipline come alive for our students, and presenting exciting new finds from the digital archives, and in the process, opening our classrooms to a broad audience of fellow teacher/scholars in the field.

Please consider submitting in one of the following categories:

*Annotated Syllabi. If you have an innovative/interdisciplinary/experimental syllabus, consider sharing it with other scholars and teachers, along with reflections about its organizational logic and other issues.

*Short essays (3000 words or less) that reflect on using new methodologies in the classroom, collaborative or off-site uses of class time, the challenges of approaching familiar texts in unexpected ways, or experiences with introducing new or unconventional texts. How does your teaching reflect recent changes in the fields of American literary and/or cultural studies?

*Experimental assignments and/or teaching exercises. We hope At the Edge will provide a venue for teacher/scholars to talk about what we actually do in the classroom. Submissions in nontraditional formats, such as audio or visual clips, that take advantage of the digital platform, are particularly welcome.

Please contact attheedge.umb@gmail.com with questions or to submit content.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 48271[UPDATE] Pastoral for the 21st Century (ASLE 2013, May 28-June 1, Lawrence, Kansas)T.J. Welch, Florida State Universitytjwelch@fsu.edu1349917984african-americanamericanecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisionmodernist studiespoetrypostcolonialrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: T.J. Welch, Florida State Universitycontact email: tjwelch@fsu.edu

Seeking abstracts for a pre-formed panel to be proposed for the ASLE Biennial Conference May 28th-June 1 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

This panel will explore the pastoral mode as a viable form of eco-critique for the 21st century. Proposals from all disciplines and perspectives are welcome. Works analyzed may be from any time period and any genre.

Subjects and methods may include, but aren't limited to:

--the conference theme: "Migrations, Energies, and Limits" See: http://asle.ku.edu/

--urban/rural divides: "The Country and the City"

--pastoral elegy and apocalyptic environmentalism

--living in a "risk society"

--experimental eco-poetics

--pastoral desire and environmental/social exploitation

--anti-pastoral: is pastoral dead?

--matter and materiality

--Stacy Alaimo & "trans-corporeality"

--posthumanism

--Donna Haraway & "companion species"

--chimeras and cyborgs

--eco-feminism

--postcolonial ecocriticism

--critiques, revisions, or explorations of Terry Gifford's "post-pastoral"

Please send abstracts and a brief CV or bio to T.J. Welch by November 1, 2012.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisionmodernist studiespoetrypostcolonialrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 48272Across the Shadow Lines: Diasporas in the Age of Transnationalism (ACLA, Toronto, 4/4-4/7/13; deadline, 11/1/12)Sheshalatha Reddy (Howard University); Parama Sarkar (University of Toledo)Please submit proposals for this seminar through the ACLA website: http://acla.org/submit/index.php.1349957608cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Sheshalatha Reddy (Howard University); Parama Sarkar (University of Toledo)contact email: Please submit proposals for this seminar through the ACLA website: http://acla.org/submit/index.php.

As the movement of peoples across state borders, diasporas are both literal and imaginative insofar as they entail the concomitant crossing of cultural forms. Diasporas forge and decimate local communities, call into question the boundaries of the nation-state, and reconfigure international relations. Ideally, they can result in the creation of new modes of social relations by producing opportunities for education and work and also encouraging the cross-fertilization of peoples, ideas, and arts. Yet migration has historically often been the result of forced labor, persecution, war, environmental degradation, decolonization and neo-imperialism, and the unrelenting spread of global capital. In response, the modern nation-state, obsessed with securing its borders against external threats, polices boundaries through a proliferation of documentation (passports, visas, identity cards, birth certificates).

Against the backdrop of this tumultuous history, this seminar is particularly interested in exploring all incarnations of the contemporary migrant: exile, expatriate, alien, refugee, and undocumented worker. We are interested in how diasporic communities have been imagined and represented in literature or visual arts during the last century. Possible topics may include the following: How do diasporic communities re-configure national boundaries? How do networks of global capital, trans-nationalism, and cosmopolitanism put pressure upon, undermine, and/or complicate the creation of diasporic communities? In what ways are diasporas inclusionary or exclusionary and how do those within the diaspora negotiate integration, assimilation, and/or multiculturalism? How can we read the "feminization" of contemporary diasporas? And how do migrants deal with complicated ideas of home and belonging while crossing state lines?

Please direct any questions to Sheshalatha Reddy sheshalatha.reddy@Howard.edu and Parama Sarkar parama.sarkar@utoledo.edu.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 48273[UPDATE] disClosure Journal: Security disClosure: A Journal of Social Theorydisclosurejournal@gmail.com1349958686african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: disClosure: A Journal of Social Theorycontact email: disclosurejournal@gmail.com

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory • Issue 22: Security

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 16th, 2012

The editorial collective of disClosure seeks submissions that explore SECURITY as it is understood in a variety of areas and disciplines. Possible topics might include:

* Occupy/Resistance

* Violence/Terror

* Regimes/Governance

* Scale

* Technology

* Networks

* Livelihood/Home

*(in)Security

* Geopolitics/Sovereignty

* Empire

* Boundaries

* Citizenship and Migration

* Commonwealth

* Cosmopolitanism

* Economy/Finance

*(trans)Nationalism

* War and Trauma

* Nationhood, Subjectivity,and Personhood

* Public(s)

* Surveillance

disClosure is a blind refereed journal produced in conjunction with the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Kentucky. We welcome submissions from all theoretical perspectives and genres (scholarly articles, interviews, reviews, short fiction, poetry, artwork) and from authors and artists (academically affiliated or not) concerned with social theory.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

Scholarly Articles, Essays, Poetry, and Fiction: Please submit electronically in Word format to disclosurejournal@gmail.com. Submissions should be double-spaced with no more than 10,000 words. Manuscripts, notes, and bibliographies should follow Chicago format, where applicable.

Book Reviews: Please submit electronically in Word format to disclosurejournal@gmail.com. These should be approximately 1,000 words and should review works published no earlier than 2009.

Art and other graphic materials: Artists should submit digital or camera-ready material. Electronic submissions should be accompanied by a hard copy. Art cannot be returned, so do not send originals. Do not submit material that has been half-toned for publication (e.g., pictures in books or catalogues). All art will be published in B&W, so please submit accordingly.

**Authors are responsible for securing copyright and fair-use notices and must submit them prior to disClosure publication. All material accepted by disclosure for publication becomes property of the journal. disClosure is not responsible for loss or damage resulting from submission.

Inquiries and Submissions:

Richard Parmer and Tom Loder

disclosurejournal@gmail.com

Art and Other Graphic Materials:

disClosure

C/O Richard Parmer

1613 Patterson Office Tower

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY 40506-0027

The Committee on Social Theory at The University of Kentucky:

http://web.as.uky.edu/socialtheory/

http://web.as.uky.edu/socialtheory/whatisdisclosure.htm

cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 48274Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, Lincoln, UK, 15-17 June 2013University of Lincoln, UKdmeyerdinkgrafe@lincoln.ac.uk1349960496film_and_televisioninterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespoetryreligionromantictheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: University of Lincoln, UKcontact email: dmeyerdinkgrafe@lincoln.ac.uk

The Lincoln School of Performing Arts, University of Lincoln, UK, is pleased to host the Fifth International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts. The conference will be held in Lincoln, UK, from Saturday 15 June to Monday 17 June 2013. Abstracts (up to 1 page) are invited for papers relating any aspect of consciousness (as defined in a range of disciplines involved with consciousness studies) to any aspect of theatre, performance, literature, music, fine arts, media arts and any sub-genre of those. We also welcome creative work! Please send the abstract to Professor Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, dmeyerdinkgrafe@lincoln.ac.uk Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 1 April 2013. See http://blackboard.lincoln.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/users/dmeyerdinkgrafe/confere...

cfp categories: film_and_televisioninterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespoetryreligionromantictheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 48275Counterfeit Realities (ACLA--University of Toronto)American Comparative Literature Associationburd0083@umn.edu1349964651americaneighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: American Comparative Literature Associationcontact email: burd0083@umn.edu

Organization: American Comparative Literature Association (http://www.acla.org/acla2013/propose-a-paper-or-seminar/); please be sure to mark your submission for this particular seminar: Counterfeit Realities

Location: University of Toronto

Proposal due date: November 1st

Conference date: April 4-7

Seminar Organizers: Wesley Burdine (University of Minnesota), Andrew Marzoni (University of Minnesota)

Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this seminar presupposes is…maybe he didn't. We will examine the ways in which experience and representation have been historically opposed to each other, leading the latter to be deemed as a merely counterfeit or artificial version of the former. Our goal is to consider the different ways that "realism" has come to dictate conceptions of reality, and further, the ways in which media, genres, and theoretical traditions have come to challenge reality as a concept.

The questions we might consider along the way include: If, as thinkers as diverse as Kant, Baudrillard, and Philip K. Dick have posited, the self is ultimately unknowable, how are we, as humans, to locate or define any single reality in which we exist? This, of course, leads scholars of posthumanism and speculative realism to beg the question: is human reality the only reality? Do avant-garde movements such as surrealism or more popular genres such as science fiction, which offer various "hyperrealities," simply provide counterfeits of reality, or rather, come to augment prescribed definitions of reality? Is it possible to maintain stable boundaries between fiction and nonfiction—in terms of the documentary film or literary journalism, perhaps—or do these boundaries inevitably collapse? What is authenticity? How does the counterfeit aid and/or problematize theorizations of an authentic self, or an authentic reality?

We invite participants to reflect on these, and similar questions, as they may arise in considerations of literature, cinema, visual art, and theory.

PROPOSALS may be sent via the ACLA's website here: http://acla.org/submit/index.php

Note: The ACLA works in a seminar format, meaning that this seminar will run over three days, so as to facilitate more conversation between participants.

SEMINAR KEYWORDS: realism, surrealism, reality, hyperreality, media, counterfeit, authenticity, artificiality

cfp categories: americaneighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 48276@Harvard U. - Cultural Materials / Material Culture: Abstracts due Nov. 23rd 2012CHIASMI Graduate Student Conference in the Italian Studies, a Harvard and Brown Collaborationchiasmi@fas.harvard.edu1349971547childrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromantictheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: CHIASMI Graduate Student Conference in the Italian Studies, a Harvard and Brown Collaborationcontact email: chiasmi@fas.harvard.edu

Preface!

FOR A QUICK SYNTHESIS OF OUR CONFERENCE VISION, see our CfP poster at http://chiasmiconference.com/?page_id=25

Announcement!

With this edition of Chiasmi we aim to de-provincialize the Italian Grad Student conference by taking it out of Italian departments (metaphorically, but not only).

We do not want to talk of interdisciplinarity in the abstract: we prefer to activate our tactile sensors & deal / communicate with fellow grads from diverse research environments;

We ask participants to engage in different presentational modes that go beyond the reading of a paper ex cathedra (a short documentary, prezi presentation, word cloud, show & tell, audience participation, sound clips, music, etc.);

we are gluttons for multi-medial, interactive, thought-provoking formats.

Call for Papers!

On behalf of the graduate students of the Italian Section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University, We are pleased to announce the sixth joint Graduate Student Conference for Italian Studies, to be held on Friday March 8th and Saturday March 9th, 2012 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The conference is aimed at exploring the role of materiality in Italian culture. We welcome submissions from any related fields of research (literary studies, Anthropology, Art History, Comparative Literature, Fine Arts, Gender Studies, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Theater and Performance Studies, etc.), in order to establish

an interdisciplinary dialogue among the panelists. Our approach to the material culture/cultural materials Chiasmi will particularly highlight three major subsets for investigation: the presence of objects and their semiotic role within cultural systems of signs; the role of materiality in the production of cultural items and its influence on

their creation; the commodification and objectification of culture. With our focus on materiality, we also want to elicit papers that make use of diversified presentational resources (digital, multimedial, visual, etc.), in order to create a more culturally relevant, interactive, and thought-provoking space for sharing and learning.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

Objects in literature and the arts

Corpus, corporeal, ethereal

Manuscripts, print and the new media

Cultural property

Paraliterature and letteratura di consumo

Urban environments and architecture

Photography and film

Digital vs. analogical

Commodification of literature

Consumerism

Pedagogy: teaching with things

Fashion

The body as object

Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes (approximately 8-10 pages, double-spaced). Papers and presentations may be in Italian or English. We strongly recommend that participants use the language in which they feel more confident and make an explicit reference to the pertinence of their paper to the topic of the conference.

Please send an anonymous abstract (no longer than 300 words) and a cover sheet with the title of your paper, your name, affiliation, contact information, one sentence presentation proposal (documentary, film clips, prezi presentation, word cloud, artifacts to pass, music) and technical equipment needed as a Word file attachment to chiasmi@fas.harvard.edu.

Abstracts must be received no later than November 23rd, 2012.

cfp categories: childrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromantictheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 48277The Crime Comics of Frank Miller (12/10/12; PCA/ACA 3/27/13-3/30/13)Terrence Wandtke / Popular Culture Associationtwandtke@judsonu.edu1349974039americanmodernist studiespopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Terrence Wandtke / Popular Culture Associationcontact email: twandtke@judsonu.edu

Panel Title: "The Crime Comics of Frank Miller"

Deadline for submissions: December 10, 2012

Often cited as a creator responsible for bringing a gritty aesthetic to superhero comics, Frank Miller is also a creator responsible for bringing crime comics back to the forefront of the comics industry. With Sin City (and others), Miller reinstated many conventional (and politically incorrect) aspects of the crime genre while pushing the artistic boundaries of comics at the same time.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

--Miller's implementation of the tropes of pulp fiction, film noir, and classic crime comics into his narrative and visual style

--Miller's synthesis of the superhero and crime genres in Daredevil and Batman, science fiction and crime genres in Hard Boiled and Martha Washington

--Miller's vigilante hero as a social critique

--Miller's masculine aesthetics in its narrative and visual representations, his depiction (and sometimes objectification) of powerful, sexual women

--Miller's development throughout his career in terms of his scripting, illustration, aesthetic philosophy, and political activism

Please submit a 300-word proposal to Terrence Wandtke at twandtke@judsonu.edu. You may include the proposal within the body of the e-mail or attach as a Word document. Your e-mail must be received by December 10, 2012. Please include your affiliation, contact information, and a short bio.

Dr. Terrence Wandtke

Literature and Media

Judson University

cfp categories: americanmodernist studiespopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 48278The Crime Comics of Ed Brubaker (12/10/12; PCA/ACA 3/27/13-3/30/13)Terrence Wandtke / Popular Culture Associationtwandtke@judsonu.edu1349974149americanmodernist studiespopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Terrence Wandtke / Popular Culture Associationcontact email: twandtke@judsonu.edu

Panel Title: "The Crime Comics of Ed Brubaker"

Deadline for submissions: December 10, 2012

Perhaps most famous as the man who killed Captain America, Ed Brubaker has blended superhero and crime comics conventions in works like Catwoman, Gotham Central, Sleeper, and Daredevil. More recently, he has won popular and critical acclaim for his modern (and sometimes postmodern) crime series, Criminal.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

--Brubaker's work with independent and mainstream publishers, creator ownership of Criminal (published by Marvel)

--Brubaker's traditional presentation and revision of crime fiction tropes in Criminal (as well as in superhero works like Gotham Central and Daredevil)

--Brubaker's collaboration with different artists, synthesizing his narrative with their illustration to develop a visual style that evokes noir

--Brubaker's stories that mix fantasy and reality, experiments with narrative and form that allude to other frames of reference (such as the Archie Comics style in Criminal: The Last of the Innocent)

Please submit a 300-word proposal to Terrence Wandtke at twandtke@judsonu.edu. You may include the proposal within the body of the e-mail or attach as a Word document. Your e-mail must be received by December 10, 2012. Please include your affiliation, contact information, and a short bio.

Dr. Terrence Wandtke

Literature and Media

Judson University

cfp categories: americanmodernist studiespopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 48279The Bahamas at 40: Reﬂecting on the Past, Envisioning the FutureThe College of The Bahamassoscience@cob.edu.bs1349975062cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: The College of The Bahamascontact email: soscience@cob.edu.bs

The Bahamas at 40: Reﬂecting on the Past, Envisioning the Future

THE COLLEGE OF THE BAHAMAS

Nassau, The Bahamas

June 12th-14th, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

The College of The Bahamas, School of Social Sciences, is pleased to announce a conference in recognition of the fortieth anniversary of Bahamian independence. The aim of the conference is to examine the context and construction of the Bahamian nation; investigate the challenges emerging in the post-independence period; discuss contemporary social, cultural, economic and political issues that have emerged since 1973; and explore future prospects for nation building and development.

Abstracts

Abstracts are now being accepted. Deadline for submission is 1st January, 2013.

Length of Abstract: 250 words

Abstracts must contain the following:

• Author(s) name(s)

• Institutional affiliation

• Title of abstract

• Body of abstract

• Email address

Submissions are sought from all scholars including postgraduate students. The submissions may take the form of:

• Papers/panels

• Roundtable discussions

• Poster presentations

The Conference topics are designed to inspire invitations of submissions that approach these topics from a variety of perspectives and methodologies that extend across different academic disciplines. The conference themes are as follows:

• Bahamian Economy

• Bahamian Family

• Citizenship, Rights and Identity

• Crime and Deviance: Problems and Solutions

• Cultural Expressions

• Education: Reflections, Challenges and Innovations

• Health, Health Care and Well-being

• Media and Communication in the Information Age

• Migrations

• Myths and Stereotypes

• Orality in the Bahamian Context

• Psychology of the Bahamian Experience

• Role of Religion

• Small Island Sustainability: Energy, the

Environment, Tourism and Urbanism

• Sovereignty and Independence

• The Bahamian Experience in a Regional Context

Abstract Submission

Submit your proposal/abstract electronically via email attachment to Mr. Stephen Aranha, sbaranha@bahamashistoricalsociety.com, and Dr. Christopher Curry, ccurry@cob.edu.bs.

Note: When submitting your abstract, indicate whether you are submitting an individual presentation, as part of a proposed panel, roundtable or poster presentation.

Notification of Acceptance

Receipt of abstracts will be acknowledged by the Review Committee. If you do not receive notice of abstract receipt, you should email within a week to confirm receipt.

Registration Fees

Early Registration on or before April 5th, 2012, $250.000

Regular Registration beginning April 6th, 2012, $300.00

Day rate: $125.00

Student Registration: $125.00

Contact Information

Feel free to contact the Committee if there are any questions at the address below:

School of Social Sciences

The College of The Bahamas

Oakes Field Campus

Telephone: 1 (242) 397-2606/7

Email: soscience@cob.edu.bs

For updates please visit our website at: www.cob.edu.bs

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 48280CFP-The Sixties--PCA/ACA National Conference-Nov. 30 DeadlineDeborah Carmichael, Area Chaircarmic28@msu.edu1349975102african-americanamericanethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarypopular_culturereligiontheatrefull name / name of organization: Deborah Carmichael, Area Chaircontact email: carmic28@msu.edu

CFP: The Sixties: The culture, the movements, and the Summer of Love

The PCA/ACA National Conference will be held March 27-30, 2013 at the Wardman Park Marriott in Washington, D.C.

Deadline for proposal submissions is November 30, 2012.

The Sixties Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes submissions on any aspect of the decade. Topics of interest might include, but are not limited to:

•1969, or other significant dates, places, or events, e.g. Days of Rage, etc.

•Religion, Spirituality, The Jesus Movement

•Sex, drugs, and rock n roll

•Communal living

•Different understandings of the "hippie movement" chronology

•Countercultural movements such as Hippies, SDS, Black Panther Party, and the White Panther Party

•Analysis of influential books and films (Kerouac, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Doors of Perception, The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, etc.)

•Politics, race and gender: Then and Now

•Music and fashion as cultural expression and consumer culture

•Media reaction and representation

Deadline for submission of a 100-250-word abstract is November 30, 2012.

Inquiries about possible papers or proposals for round table sessions or full panels are also welcomed and encouraged.

If your paper is accepted, you will receive an acceptance letter, and information on registration, PCA/ACA membership, hotel accommodations, etc.

ALL ABSTRACTS AND PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE PCA DATABASE FOR CONSIDERATION.

Send queries to:

Deborah Carmichael

Michigan State University

carmic28@msu.edu

or

Lisa Williams

Michigan State University

will2062@msu.edu

cfp categories: african-americanamericanethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarypopular_culturereligiontheatre 48281The University of St. Francis 23rd Annual English Language and Literature ConferenceUniversity of St. Francis English Departmentell@stfrancis.edu1349978458african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromantictheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: University of St. Francis English Departmentcontact email: ell@stfrancis.edu

The University of St. Francis is currently seeking paper submissions for its 23rd annual English Language and Literature Conference. Undergraduate students are encouraged to submit work for inclusion in conference presentations.

The conference will take place on campus in Joliet, Illinois on March 23rd, 2012. Susanna Childress, an award winning poet, and Alicia, a short story writer and novelist whose book Towelhead was turned into a major motion picture by director Alan Ball, will be key note speakers at the conference.

That night of the conference the student thespians at the University of St. Francis will perform the spring musical.

ELL at the University of St. Francis is a wonderful opportunity for students to build their resume, share their work, meet students with similar interests, and enjoy a rich literary and cultural education.

Email papers to ell@stfrancis.edu

Deadline: December 15, 2012

cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromantictheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 48282Expanding Cinema: Spatial Dimensions of Film Exhibition, Aesthetics, and Theory (February 15-16, 2013)Department of Film Studies, Yale Universityexpandingcinema@gmail.com1349984780film_and_televisiontwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Department of Film Studies, Yale Universitycontact email: expandingcinema@gmail.com

A Conference at Yale University

New Haven, CT

Conference dates: February 15-16, 2013

(Proposals due December 10, 2012)

Keynote speaker: Giuliana Bruno (Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University)

Closing remarks by Francesco Casetti (Professor of Film Studies, Yale University)

This conference will take a fresh look at cinema's expansion beyond its traditional theatrical setting and classical style. Since the 1980s, technological developments and changes in the economics of film distribution have eroded classical models of film spectatorship, and in recent decades this trend has only picked up speed. Contemporary viewers encounter cinema across a variegated landscape; they are exposed to moving images in taxis, on portable devices, in art galleries, and as part of large-scale public artworks.

Our moving image culture has broken significantly with the 'classical' mode that most scholars agree dominated motion picture production between the 1920s and 1970s. Yet at the same time, alternative and experimental filmmaking and exhibition practices have kept 'non-classical' spectatorship in constant play. Throughout the 20th century, a diverse array of filmmakers, artists, and exhibition venues have experimented with 'expanded' notions of cinema: Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's imagined three-dimensional cinema, Ken Jacobs's projector-based performances, and Andy Warhol's informal screenings in the Factory are just a few examples. Arguably, exhibition space is a formal feature of these works. Analyzing such experimental practices often requires we attend not only to film texts, but also to the audiences and exhibition environments that structured the cinematic event.

Because artists and filmmakers often propose unique and carefully-considered relationships between moving images and their spatial environments, studying such practices can help us better theorize the spatial dimensions of cinema. Experimental exhibition practices could even help us historicize the many possible spaces and publics that coalesce around moving images today. Moreover, a consideration of 'space' as an aesthetic feature of cinema (in terms of on-screen space, production space, and exhibition space) could help us devise means of close-reading that augment the textual and linguistic models that long dominated film analysis.

This conference doesn't restrict itself solely to experimental cinema; we invite any project that aims to engage theoretically with the spatial dimensions of cinema as it expands beyond its traditional theatrical environment and classical forms. We hope that such discussions can help conference participants entertain an expanded, flexible account of film spectatorship – the psychic interplay between film text, exhibition situation, and viewer.

Topics for presentations include, but are not limited to:

- Experimental film and alternative exhibition venues

- Expanded cinema (light shows, projector-based performance, etc.)

- Cinema in the museum and art gallery

- The moving image in public space, from public art to advertising and surveillance

- The materiality of film exhibition (projector, celluloid, screen)

- Cinema's life on television and the internet

- Relationships between early cinema, the avant-garde, and "post-cinema"

- Spatial elements of film form and filmmaking practice

- Critical practice as an extension of cinema (video blogs, video essays, etc.)

- Technological change and the emergence of new forms and genres

We seek papers that engage theoretically or historically with cinema's expanded forms, both in the past and today.

Please send an abstract of 200-300 words to conference co-chairs Mal Ahern, Luca Peretti, and Andrey Tolstoy at expandingcinema@gmail.com by December 10, 2012. Acceptances will be sent out by December 20, 2012.

cfp categories: film_and_televisiontwentieth_century_and_beyond 48283Vocal Positioning: Mapping the Fictional Voice - ACLA, Toronto - April 4-7, 2013Elizabeth Alsop, Western Kentucky University and Leah Anderst, Queensborough Community Collegeelizabeth.alsop@wku.edu, landerst@qcc.cuny.edu1349986007americanmodernist studiestheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Elizabeth Alsop, Western Kentucky University and Leah Anderst, Queensborough Community Collegecontact email: elizabeth.alsop@wku.edu, landerst@qcc.cuny.edu

Call for Papers - Vocal Positioning: Mapping the Fictional Voice

American Comparative Literature Association

April 4-7, 2013

University of Toronto, Canada

Paper Proposal Deadline: Saturday, November 1, 2013 - 10am EST

This seminar aims to explore the diverse ways voices have been "positioned" both in fictional discourse, and in critical discourses about fiction. Beginning with Genette, narrative theorists have been centrally concerned with "locating" a point of origin for utterances in literary texts: of answering the question, "who is speaking?" But considerably less attention has been paid to those texts in which voices are not assigned a clear point of origin. If what Barthes calls the "classic" text has – as Mary Ann Doane suggests of the Classical Hollywood film – historically attempted to "spatialize the voice, to localize it," what about those texts that obfuscate the voice's location?

We invite papers that consider this phenomenon of vocal dislocation, and its potential consequences for literary theory. We especially welcome papers that either propose alternative means of "mapping" voice, or that challenge the theoretical usefulness of such spatial metaphors altogether.

Possible topics include:

-Plural or Choral Voices

-Visible Voices in Graphic Narrative

-Narratorless or "Denarrated" Narratives

-Multi-narrator novels

-Voice and Translation

-Vocal Positioning and Genre

-Fictional Voices in Nonfiction

-Posthuman or Non-Human Voices

-Critical/Theoretical Voices

-Dialect and speaking voices

-Reader's experiences of voices

Seminar Co-Organizers

Elizabeth Alsop, Western Kentucky University - Elizabeth.alsop@wku.edu

Leah Anderst, Queensborough Community College, CUNY - landerst@qcc.cuny.edu

Conference Information

The ACLA's annual conferences have a distinctive structure in which most papers are grouped into twelve-person seminars that meet two hours per day for the three days of the conference to foster extended discussion. Some eight-person (or smaller) seminars meet just the first two days of the conference. This structure allows each participant to be a full member of one seminar, and to sample other seminars during the remaining time blocks. Previous conference programs that show this pattern are available at the ACLA website. The conference also includes plenary sessions, workshops and roundtable discussions, a business meeting, a banquet, and other events. Members may only submit one paper proposal per year. It is not necessary to be a member of ACLA in order to submit a seminar or paper proposal. However, all presenters and seminar leaders who participate at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Toronto must be registered for the conference and current members of the ACLA for 2013 in order to participate.

Conference Website: http://www.acla.org/acla2013/

Paper Proposal Website: http://acla.org/submit/index.php

To propose to this seminar, be sure to choose "Vocal Positioning" from the drop down menu following the 250 word paper proposal blank.

We look forward to reading your proposals.

cfp categories: americanmodernist studiestheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 48284Rhetoric and Technical Communication at 2013 SWTX PCA/ACASouthwest Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associationsean.zdenek@ttu.edu1349986275film_and_televisioninterdisciplinarypopular_culturerhetoric_and_compositionfull name / name of organization: Southwest Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associationcontact email: sean.zdenek@ttu.edu

Call for Papers: Rhetoric and Technical Communication

34th Annual Conference February 13‐16, 2013

Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association

http://swtxpca.org/

Submission Deadline: 11/16/12

Conference Hotel:

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque

330 Tijeras

Albuquerque, NM 87102

505.842.1234

Individual papers and panels are now being accepted on topics related to Technical

Communication and Rhetoric in Popular Culture for the 34th annual Southwest/Texas Popular

and American Culture Association to be held in Albuquerque, NM.

Papers and panels that connect to the conference theme of "Celebrating Popular/American

Culture(s) in a Global Context" are particularly welcome. Some possible topic areas:

‐‐ TC/R in a global context

‐‐ Rhetoric & TC

‐‐ TC/R Theory

‐‐ TC/R Methodology

‐‐ Argumentation

‐‐ Political Rhetorics

‐‐ Multimedia & Multimodal Composition

‐‐ Visual Rhetoric/Visual Communication

‐‐ Sonic Rhetorics

‐‐ Spatial and Temporal Rhetorics

‐‐ Social Networking

‐‐ Technical Writing

‐‐ Professional Writing

‐‐ TC Pedagogy

‐‐ New Media/New Communication Technologies

‐‐ CMC/CMS & TC

‐‐ Intercultural TC

‐‐ Gender, Race & TC

‐‐ Rhetorical agency, identity, ethos

‐‐ Ethics in TC and R

‐‐ Mobile TC/R

‐‐ New media writing practices

‐‐ Accessibility/Disability & TC/R

‐‐ Generation Studies in TC/R

‐‐ The Future of TC/R

cfp categories: film_and_televisioninterdisciplinarypopular_culturerhetoric_and_composition 48285Dark Nature: Ecocriticism and the Gothic (ASLE 2013, May 28-June 1, 2013)Association for the Study of Literature and Environmentthomashillard@boisestate.edu1349989578ecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfull name / name of organization: Association for the Study of Literature and Environmentcontact email: thomashillard@boisestate.edu

Panel for the 2013 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Conference

May 28-June 1, 2013, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Panel Title: Dark Nature: Ecocriticism and the Gothic

As scholarship on Gothic literature has proliferated over the past decades, critics have amply investigated Gothic representations of many issues connected to race, gender, class, and national identity. And while setting has long been a central and defining convention of Gothic literature, until very recently scholars have largely ignored the Gothic mode's engagement with (or reflection of) environmental concerns. Such an oversight is interesting, given the pervasive contemporary cultural interest in environmental dread, collapse, and catastrophe, and the Gothic's emphasis on fear, excess, transgression, trauma, and violence. This panel seeks to address these connections, and welcomes paper proposals about any topic exploring intersections between ecocriticism and the literary Gothic.

Please send a 300-400 word abstract, contact information, and a brief C.V. (as well as any queries) to Tom Hillard at thomashillard@boisestate.edu by Friday, November 2, 2012.

Please visit http://asle.ku.edu/ for conference details and information.

cfp categories: ecocriticism_and_environmental_studies 48286[UPDATE] Essay Collection: Mexican Horror FilmsDr. Gerardo T. Cummings Rendónmexicanhorrorfilms@gmail.com1349992439cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaystheoryfull name / name of organization: Dr. Gerardo T. Cummings Rendóncontact email: mexicanhorrorfilms@gmail.com

Proposals are sought for an edited collection on Mexican Horror Films, a collection that explores the historic and/or cultural relevancy of theatrically released Mexican horror films. This collection is slated to be published by a well-established American press with a long history of publishing on horror and fantasy films. The editor seeks essays on each of the following films that explore why they are important and enduring. The term "Mexican horror film" applies to those cinematic works that were produced/directed in Mexico or whose major creative force is of Mexican origin. The "horror" element of each film can be gore, the supernatural, monsters, suspense, etc. We encourage examination of the film itself (the plot, questions of fidelity between the script and the finished product, topics related to film grammar) and other topics or themes within Mexican Horror Film Studies surrounding representation, audiences, political and social references, identity, violence aesthetics, genre, patriarchal institutions, religious allegories, gender, queer, feminism, post-colonialism, temporality, fetishism, "the Other" or "Máscara metaphor", and the film's central "terror" (monster, horror element, etc) as an allegory for Mexico, its post-revolutionary growing-pains, or its labyrinthine identity paradox-dichotomy. References between Mexican horror films and philosophers like Octavio Paz, Ramón Xirau, Leopoldo Zea and Roger Bartra are encouraged. Moreover, any connections to Vladimir Propp, Laura Mulvey, Julia Kristeva, and/or horror theories are welcomed also. Lastly, we'd welcome old or new interviews (with proper copyright clearance) with those that made or are still making Mexican horror films.

Suggested movie titles include:

El monstruo resucitado (1953) Chano Urueta.

La bruja (1954) Chano Urueta.

El ataúd del vampiro (1958) Fernando Méndez.

Muñecos infernales (1960) Benito Alazraki.

El barón del terror (1962) Chano Urueta.

La maldición de la llorona (1962) Rafael Baledón.

Pánico (1965) Julián Soler

El libro de piedra (1969) Carlos Enrique Taboada.

The Mansión of Madness (1972) Juan López Moctezuma.

Más negro que la noche (1975) Carlos Enrique Taboada.

La tía Alejandra (1978) Arturo Ripstein.

Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas (1978) Juan López Moctezuma.

Veneno para las hadas (1984) Carlos Enrique Taboada.

Completed essays should be in English, with a word count between 6K-8K, and MLA formatting. Suggestions for essays on other films are welcome. Please email all proposals (approximately 300 words) and your CV/bio (approx. 3-4 sentences) by October 31, 2012. Completed essays will be due on December 15, 2012. Previously published work (with appropriate copyright permission) will be considered. If you supply photographs, screenshots, scans of "Carteles" or have permission to publish these images, please specify that in your proposal. Email to the editor all correspondence as Word attachments to: mexicanhorrorfilms@gmail.com

The editor expects this work to be tied to other similar-themed collections, so if you are unable to collaborate in Mexican Horror Films: Studies in the Horror Film email the editor your research interests or areas of expertise. The common denominator between this and other projects and scholars/academicians who collaborate with me, is their strong passion for horror film.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaystheory 48287ACLA 2013: Postcolonial Mediterranean Subjectivity, April 4-7 Maria Hadjipolycarpouhadjipol@umich.edu1350005155cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Maria Hadjipolycarpoucontact email: hadjipol@umich.edu

Dear colleagues,

I am writing to solicit applications for the 2013 conference of the

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), which will take place

April 4-7 in Toronto. This is a great opportunity for those interested in 19th and 20th century Mediterranean Literature and Culture and in postcolonial studies in general to propose a paper for a series of panels with the general title: "Postcolonial Mediterranean Subjectivity" (see the description below.)

Comparative perspectives within the Mediterranean or of the Mediterranean with other regions, are particularly encouraged.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal or have questions about the conference, please contact me directly (hadjipol@umich.edu)

Yours,

Maria Hadjipolycarpou

Postcolonial Mediterranean Subjectivity

The Mediterranean remains an unexplored region in postcolonial studies for two reasons: 1) the geopolitical emphasis on Africa, India and Southeast Asia in postcolonial studies; 2) the emphasis, in Mediterranean Studies, on the Mediterranean as a space of co-existence and connectivity. The Mediterranean however, is also a region heavily colonized both by European empires and by Mediterranean regimes like the Ottoman, the Byzantine, the

Venetian, and others; something that historian David Abulafia calls "the cataclysm of conquest" (2003).

This seminar explores questions of postcolonial subjectivity and identity in the Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th century. It explores the ways in which the subject incorporates imperial and colonial pasts and the ways in which it (re)claims its individuality in forms of artistic expression such as literature, film, performance, installation art.

Research questions:

- What conditions shape Mediterranean postcolonial subjectivity?

- Could the study of postcolonial Mediterranean subjectivity

refine the existing methodology in postcolonial studies?

- What new literary and artistic examples the Mediterranean puts

on the postcolonial literary map?

- In which new ways we can think about the relationship between "self" and "other;" colonizer and colonized.

- What is the role of history in postcolonial mediterranean subjectivity?

Possible Topics:

the self and its relationship to history; autobiography; biography; the body; layers of the historical past; ruins; archaeology; the palimpsest; (imaginary) mapping; geography; women and homosexuals as alternative voices

within the nation; stories, storytelling and their embodiment; fascism; resistance through art; hellenism vs hebraism as the two major intellectual trends of the mediterranean; the coexistence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism; the Balkans; the Andriatic; the Black Sea; the Iberian Peninsula; transition from Empire to democracy; corruption; identity and representation in and across the sea; self and other; political/economic relations between the North and the South;

Key words: postcolonialism; empire; nationalism; history; postcolonial subjectivity; the body; storytelling; resistance; temporality.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 48288Perceptions of Self in Society as viewed through Literature and the ArtsSt. John's University Humanities Review (Vol. Eleven, Issue 1/ Spring 2013)meghan.punschke12@stjohns.edu1350014795african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_tele