Shakespeare Bulletin, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, is now accepting submissions for its 2006-07 volumes and beyond. We are interested in critical discussions of contemporary and/or historical performance, on stage and/or screen, in the drama of Shakespeare and/or his contemporaries.
Submissions and queries should be sent by email to Andrew Hartley, editor, at:
Papers are invited for a "Film and Literature" panel at The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association's annual meeting (Nov. 10-11 at Riverside, CA). Papers that treat aspects of English and American Literature and Culture are especially welcome, provided that they conform to the panel’s overall theme of film and literature.
Please send paper title, 500-word abstract, and 50 word summary to David Pollio, Christopher Newport University () by March 15th. One does not have to be a member of PAMLA to propose a paper, but one must become a member by April 15 to be listed in the program. For more information, see www.pamla.org.
Thank you.
Yours,
David
Dr. David M. Pollio
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures
Christopher Newport University
1 University Pl.
Newport News, VA 23606
E-mail:
Office Phone: 757 594-7493
Call for Papers
"Renaissance Medievalisms"
An interdisciplinary conference to be held at The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Victoria College, University of Toronto 6-7 October 2006
This interdisciplinary conference will examine the presence of the medieval past in the culture of Renaissance Europe. While the rejection of the medieval heritage and the renewal of classical ideals have traditionally been used to define the Renaissance, the undeniable continuum of medieval culture into the early modern period is undisputable, especially in light of recent scholarship on "early modern" Europe. Clearly, then, the transference and adaptation into the Renaissance of patently "medieval" elements of European civilization from Boethius to Boccaccio needs further investigation in order not only to validate their continued presence, but also to determine exactly how and what they contributed to the "renewal" we call the "Renaissance."
Proposals are invited on all areas of scholarly investigation into Early Modern Europe and the European expansion overseas (1400-1650), and especially (but not exclusively) in the following general areas:
Art and Literature
Commerce and Economics
Learning, Scholarship, and Humanism
Science and Medicine
Politics and Judicial Practices
Religion
Sex and Gender
Theatre and Spectacle
Travel and Exploration
Proposals should include the title of the presentation, a 150 words
abstract, and a one-page c.v. Proposals should be emailed to
Deadline for submission: Wednesday, 15 March 2006
Submissions are invited for a collection of essays on women's literary culture in 19th and 20th century literature. This book will pay specific attention to the various ways in which women writers "speak" by confronting, connecting, embracing, challenging, and defining identities of womanhood. Special considerations include, but are not limited to: domesticity, mothering, sexuality, representations of historical women, women of color, displaced women, mythological and/or ideological representations of womanhood, communities of women writers, the literary marketplace.
Each chapter will be approximately 6,000 words in length. Please email inquiries, papers or proposals of 250-500 words and a brief vita by 15 April to: Robin Hammerman, Department of Humanities, Stevens Institute of Technology (email: )
Call for Papers:
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA
November 10-11 2006
** Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture**
Proposals welcome for 15-minute paper presentations concerning any aspect of nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Please email 500-word proposals along with a 50 word abstract (in-message or as attachment) to: Please include your name, institutional affiliation, and preferred contact information with your proposal.
Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2006
Multiple submissions of the same paper to different sessions are not allowed, but requests for declined submissions to be rerouted to another session are encouraged. Presenters must be members of PAMLA by April 15, 2006.
Further conference website with details and membership information at: www.pamla.org
Mary A. Armstrong
Dept. of English
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Title: Romanticism and the Environment
Chair: Chantelle MacPhee, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
The Romantics have a unique relationship with nature and the environment. The Prelude and other major works reflect on nature, our relationship with it, and the elements. This session will explore the environment and discuss the Romantics' role in it. Was their view of nature radical for the 18th and 19th centuries? This session is open to all areas of Romanticism: British, German, American......
This session is part of SAMLA, to be in Charlotte, North Carolina. You must become members of SAMLA by June 1, or you will not be listed in the 2006 Convention program nor will pre-registration material be sent. Speakers will have 20 minutes each, followed by a 30 minutes question period thereafter.
Please submit your name, address, phone number and email address when submitting a proposal. Also, please tell us if you have any audio visual needs. If you do not wish any, please indicate that as well. Please include a title as you would like it to appear in the program.
Chantelle MacPhee, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
English Department
Antonio R Barcelo Ave.
University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
Cayey, PR 00736
CALL FOR PAPERS
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Associated
Organization panel
48th Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention
November 9-12, 2006
The Palmer House Hilton
Chicago, Illinois
"Reconciliation in Environmental Writing." Any topic relating to the idea of human reconciliation with nature as a theme, purpose, subject, or method in writing about the environment.
Please submit proposals by April 15 to:
Thomas K. Dean
Special Assistant to the President
The University of Iowa
101 Jessup Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
(319)335-1995 (direct)
(319)335-3549 (main office)
(319)335-0807 (FAX)
Call for papers for a proposed special session for MLA '06 in Philadelphia that will explore Pearl S. Buck's works in the context of U.S. involvement in global affairs. The panel invites papers that investigate how Buck's political analysis and social commentary informed her fiction and how her fiction negotiated with foreign policy questions of the day. Papers that analyze how Buck fictionalized major world events such as the Second World War, the Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Revolution, the Korean War, U.S. imperialism, the American Century, atomic bombs, the G.I. orphans are particularly welcome.
Please send 1-2 page abstracts (500 words) by March 15, 2006 to Ichiro Takayoshi at it2009_at_columbia.edu
--Ichiro Takayoshi
Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Fellow
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
602 Philosophy Hall
1150 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Call for Papers
South Central Modern Language Association
Dallas 2006 - "Cultural Roundup"
"Cultural Roundup in Children's Literature"
The Children's Literature Division of the SCMLA invites paper proposals
for the 2006 meeting to be held October 26-28 in Dallas, Texas. In keeping with the conference theme "Cultural Roundup," this panel welcomes proposals for papers on the topic of culture with attention to gender, religion, race, ethnicity, and adolescence.
For more information about membership in the SCMLA or the upcoming
meeting in Dallas, please visit the SCMLA web site at http://www.ou.edu/scmla.
Please send 500 word abstracts either electronically or via ground mail by March 15 to:
Joanna Johnson
English Department
Box 19035
University of Texas Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019-0035
817-272-1333
“Here we come/ Dyma ni’n diwad†-
Traditional and contemporary folk performances in Britain’
A two-day symposium hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Wales Aberystwyth in collaboration with Aberystwyth Arts Centre
2 + 3 June, 2006
with: Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane (Folk Archive); Doc Rowe and other guests.
http://users.aber.ac.uk/hhp/
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Boggins and Burrymen, Paper Boys and Pace Eggers, Hodeners and Plough Stots… Wren-boys, Furry-dancers, Bottle-kickers, Cheese-rollers, Tar-barrel carriers…Mari Lwyd and Obby Oss and Straw Bear… These traditional figures of the British performative calendar have recently been joined by carnivalists, hen nighters, love paraders and street reclaimers as examples of what we may regard as present day “folk performance†.
In both rural and urban contexts, there exist customs, events and activities, energetic and engaging, enacted on particular dates and occasions, in the main by people who would probably not consider themselves artists. Some are long-term survivals, others of more recent origin; all demonstrate continuing localized creativity. They range in form from expository folk dramas to participatory games; they involve elements of disguise and misrule, humour and resistance.
Most have fallen under the academic scrutiny of folklore and regional studies; few have been regarded through the optic of performance studies.
To redress this balance, and at the commencement of a linked series of enquiries into the archiving of performance, the Performance Studies Research Group in UWA is organising a short symposium on concepts and manifestations of folk performance, traditional and contemporary; their documentation; and their influence upon contemporary artists.
This event coincides with the exhibition ‘Folk Archive – Contemporary Popular Art from the UK’ at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, curated by Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane. (27 May – 15 July 2006)
Deller and Kane’s enquiry into ‘what might constitute present day folk art’ will serve as an inspiration for an investigation of the following themes:
- the contemporaneity of so-called traditional practices
- the influence of folk art on contemporary performance
- artists and the appropriation of its motifs
- the collecting and archiving of ephemeral cultural practices
“…If art practice has changed in recent decades then what might be considered folk art has similarly changed, and we must take into account performance and action, video and installation.†(Deller & Kane, Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK, London: Book Works 2005)
PROGRAMME
On the evening of Friday 2 June, Deller and Kane will present the ‘Folk Archive’ and engage in public discussion of its themes and aims.
The timetable for Saturday 3 June is organised around illustrated lectures and extended in-depth conversations with practitioners and archivists of folk performance, working in both English and Welsh contexts. Confirmed guests include legendary collector Doc Rowe; Bernard Fishlock (Marshfield Mummers); and Mari Lwyd practitioners. In a concluding session, a number of performance artists discuss the significance of traditional practices for their work.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Two sessions of contributory papers are also planned. We are seeking 20-minute papers on any aspect of British everyday creativity and popular culture that is performative in nature. The papers should address one or more of our themes:
- the nature of everyday performative creativity
- the contemporaneity of so-called traditional practices
- the influence of folk art on contemporary performance
- artists and the appropriation of its motifs
- the collecting and archiving of ephemeral cultural practices
We welcome contributions from performance studies, theatre studies, folk studies, ethnology and ethnography, regional studies, Welsh studies, history, musicology, archive studies and related fields.
Please send proposals to:
Dr Heike Roms, Performance Studies, Dept Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth SY23 3AJ, UK
phone: (+44) 1970 - 621911 (direct)
departmental secretariat: (+44) 1970 - 622828
fax: (+44) 1970 - 622831
http://users.aber.ac.uk/hhp/
DEADLINE for paper proposals: 31 March 2006
You will be notified by 20 April if your paper has been accepted.
REGISTRATION FEE
Attendance at the symposium is FREE OF CHARGE.
Please secure your place by contacting Dr Heike Roms at the address above.
We are happy to assist with advice on local accommodation and travel arrangements.
Hosted by:
Mike Pearson, Professor of Performance Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth
Dr Mikel Koven, Film Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth
Dr Heike Roms, Performance Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth
In collaboration with Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Exhibitions: Eve Ropek)
M/MLA special session, Chicago 11/9-12, 2006
Session Title: Truth in Genre: Great Expectations in Contemporary Memoir
Truth within memoir has again received media attention thanks to James Frey's admission that he lied to tell a better story. Responses to Frey's book remind us that the reading public, reporters, critics, and writers of creative nonfiction might hold the genre of memoir to a different set of standards than some editors, publishers, and scholars. Is the public outrage justified? How might competing definitions of memoir be used to further a discussion of genre, literary quality, and reader's expectations? Theoretical, popular, journalistic and/or historical approaches are welcome. Analysis of individual texts is discouraged except as an example to further an argument about genre or truth in memoir.
Note: panel acceptance is pending. All participants must become 2006 M/MLA members and pay the 2006 convention registration fee by JUNE 1 in order to be included in the printed program.
contact: Julia Galbus, Associate Professor of English, University of Southern Indiana at
Please send 250-word abstract and 1-page CV by April 10, 2006.
Dear Ladies and Gentleman,
you have contributed to recent research in American Studies. Therefore, we would like to invite you to our international and interdisciplinary conference on "HipHop meets Academia", organized by Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany and splash!, Europe's largest hiphop festival.
We are looking for practicioners and scholars who would like to present their latest findings in research and lived youth culture. Since you have worked in this field, we would kindly ask you for contributing to our conference by submitting an abstract by April 15, 2006. You can find possible panels and further contact information via the URL given at the bottom of this mail.
Please also forward this email to other scholars or practicioners who might be interested in presenting their papers or display our flyer at your department.
Please contact us if you have any further questions. Thank you for your attention.
Best,
Marcel Hartwig
American Studies @ Chemnitz University of Technology
Reichenhainer Str. 41, room 201
09126 Chemnitz
Germany
(+49) 371/531-4087
www.tu-chemnitz.de/hiphop