Conference Calls

Derrida and Queer Theory? MLA, 6-9 Jan 2011 in Los Angeles –

MLA 2011

contact email:

christianhite@gmail.com

Seeking papers that address some aspect of this (im)possible articulation in celebration (anticipation) of Michael O’Rourke’s upcoming book, DERRIDA AND QUEER THEORY. Please submit 250-word abstracts to Christian Hite

Genres and Historicity : Text, Cotext, Context

University of Bucharest
Michael Hattaway, University of Sheffield
Mihaela Irimia, University of Bucharest
Anthony Kemp, University of Southern California

We look forward to receiving proposals for papers representing the full diversity of possible approaches to the topic, both theoretical and text-based.

Conference fee: 50 euro (conference documents, refreshments).
Presentations, in English, should be 20 min. long plus 10 min. for discussion. Authors are invited to submit abstracts, which may not exceed 300 words (including a list of keywords), and should be submitted in Word format. Proposals must include title of paper, name and institutional affiliation; mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address.

Deadline for receipt of proposals: 20 March 2010.
Please send proposals (and inquiries) to the following e-mail address:
litcultstbucharest@gmail.com

A selection of papers will be published in University of Bucharest Review.

Prof. Irina Pană
Chair of the Conference Committee

Prof. Monica Bottez
On behalf of the English Department’s Literature Section

Re-Living Disaster: Film-History-Identity

London Consortium

contact email:

relivingdisaster@googlemail.com

The London Consortium Presents
Re-Living Disaster: Film – History – Identity
GRADUATE CONFERENCE

April 29-30 2010

University of London, Birkbeck
London, United Kingdom

[UPDATE] Final call – Cinema and Landscape Conference (3/15/10; 4/16/10 – 4/18/10)

Cinema and Landscape

contact email:

j.r.rayner@sheffield.ac.uk
Final Call for Papers

International Conference

CINEMA AND LANDSCAPE

University of Sheffield
United Kingdom

April 16-18, 2010

Forgotten Bodies: Identities, Practices and Representations – PG Conference 9th APRIL 2010

full name / name of organization:

Caroline Walters, The University of Exeter

contact email:

cjw222@exeter.ac.uk

Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe
Third Annual Postgraduate Conference
The University of Exeter

Forgotten Bodies: Identities, Practices and Representations
Friday 9th April 2010

NWSA: Performative Feminisms and Outsider Interventions (Feb 26, 2010; Nov. 11-14, 2010)

Basuli Deb/University of Nebraska-Lincoln

contact email:

bdeb2@unl.edu

NWSA Conference: Nov. 11-14, 2010, at Denver, Colorado
Proposals Due by Feb 26

Indigenous Studies and Popular Culture

Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association

adahan@mnstate.edu

Indigenous Studies – Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association 2010 Minneapolis, Minnesota.Panel and paper proposal deadline: 30 APRIL 2010

The Indigenous Studies area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association seeks panel and paper proposals for the annual Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference, this year to be held at the Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Minneapolis, MN from Friday 1 October to Sunday 3 October.

The area seeks papers whose topics address any aspect of popular culture on Indigeneity, Aboriginality, and First Nations. Topics might address, but are not in any way limited to:

Film, Television,New Media,Literature,Comic books,Radio shows,Cartoon,Folklore,Theater,Performance,Spectacle,Festivals,Ceremonies,Music,Visual art,Gaming,Blogging,Advertising,Indigeneity,Ethnicity,Aboriginality,Nationhood,Transnationality, Diaspora

250 word abstracts may be submitted before 30 APRIL 2010 via email. Please include the following with your submission: your name and affiliation, e-mail address, postal address, phone number, and A/V requirements* (if any). Abstracts may be sent as Word or RTF attachments, or in the body of the email.
*Please note, A/V is limited to a TV/DVD.

Please direct inquiries and proposals to the Area Chair, Anthony Adah, Department of Film Studies, Minnesota State University, Moorhead: adahan@mnstate.edu

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 30 APRIL 2010

More information on the conference may be found at
http://www.mpcaaca.org.

Reasserting the National?: Questioning Origin(al)s in Canada, May 14-15 2010

University of Toronto

canlitconference@gmail.com

What are the differences between “literature in Canada” and “Canadian literature”?
Revising /editing the history of Canadian literature, poetry, or drama
Editing Canadian literature: how do editing practices engage with or deny the works? In what ways do we see the identification of others?
Teaching “Canadian identities”: the pedagogical issues that interconnect with these larger questions of a national identity
The Academy and editing: bridging theory and practice
Do editing practices reassert Canadian nationalism?
How do revisionist literatures present/dramatize the national?

Please submit abstracts of no longer than 300 words to canlitconference@gmail.com by March 22nd 2010.
Visit our website, http://groups.chass.utoronto.ca/canlit, for more information.

Ethics of Racial Identity

Adebe DeRango-Adem, PAMLA

adebe_@hotmail.com

The Ethics of Racial Identity: PAMLA Special Session

Barack Obama benefited from the spirit of tolerance that defined Hawaii’s racial climate. This special session envisions a mixed-race literature in the age of Obama that forwards not solely theorizations of what mixed race identities are, but an ethics for treating mixed race identification in literature. It is designed to re-situate mixedness/interraciality within the field of literary inquiry as a question of the ethical treatment of racialized figures.

Please send abstracts of 500 words or less to adebe_@hotmail.com

Masculine Identifications 9-11 July 2010

University of Huddersfield, UK

conference.presentations05@hud.ac.uk

Abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20 minute papers should be sent to the Conference Committee at conference.presentations05@hud.ac.uk by 16th April 2010
Proposals for PhD research posters/displays are also invited. Posters will be on display during the conference and there will be a dedicated session on one of the days.

Theatre and the Making of Subjects. 28.-31.October 2010, Germany, Mainz

Theatre and the Making of Subjects

10th Congress Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft

28.-31. October 2010, Mainz, Germany

Paper deadline: 30. April 2010

The question of how subjects are constituted has become one of the central research areas of contemporary cultural theory. Subjectivity is understood as something that materializes in individual corporeal processes of its incessant negotiation and emergence against the background of socially given norms. For such a theory, culture is not just text and monument but a performance of meaning based on bodies and actions. Thus, theatre may appear as a paradigmatic site for the “making of subjects”.
The 10th bi-annual congress of the German Society for Theatre Studies examines the making of subjects in artistic as well as cultural practices.

Papers will be divided in three sections:
- Theory regarding the theatrical constitution of the subject
in social relations
- Aesthetic Practice dealing with the affirmation or subversion
of subject norms
- History of the changing models of subjectivity and the subject in art and everyday culture

Abstracts (max. 250 words) may be submitted online by April 30th, 2010. Please submit your proposal through the application form on www.subjekt2010.de . Papers may be held in English or German.

laying Doctor: Performance, Trauma, and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis

Literature and Psychoanalysis Graduate Student Symposium, Department of English, University of Toronto

2010splrg@gmail.com

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

the relationship between teaching and psychoanalysis (“impossible professions”)
trauma theory
ethics and psychoanalysis
transference (Freudian and post-Freudian theories)
literary representations of education and psychoanalysis
gender theory and psychoanalysis
speech acts and violence
borders and thresholds
identification and desire
masculinity, sovereignty, and the symbolic order
theatre and psychoanalysis

Please send abstracts of 300 words in .doc format to 2010splrg@gmail.com. Please include your full name, contact information, and institutional and departmental affiliation. Accepted papers should be no longer than 8-10 pages or 20 minutes. The deadline for submission is March 26.

The Art History and Visual Culture Area of The Midwest Popular Culture and Midwest American Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its upcoming Conference in October.

The MPCA/MACA conference will be held in Minneapolis, MN from 1-3 October, 2010.

Proposals will be accepted from any area relating to art history and visual culture. Potential topics could include, but are not limited to:
-Museum Studies
-Representations of artists in film and/or literature
-Illustrated texts
-Single-artist studies
-Visual Advertisements

Please include name, affiliation, and e-mail address with your 250 word abstract. Send abstracts to Cortney Barko at cbarko1@niu.edu

More information about the conference can be found at http://www.mpcaaca.org/

(Em)powering the Profession: Best Practices in Black Theatre and Performance” 31/0310

CONFERENCE DATES & LOCATION:
July 30 – August 2, 2010
Los Angeles, California
Wiltshire Plaza Hotel

SUBMISSION DEADLINE & DETAILS
Please submit an abstract of your paper, panel, or workshop (400 words or fewer) by March 31, 2010, to Dr. La Tanya L. Reese Rogers, Conference Committee Chair, at LReese@udc.edu for consideration.

Accepted presenters will be notified by April 7, 2010. Submissions postmarked after the notification date will be considered for substitutions. All presenters are expected to register for the conference by June 30, 2010. Visit the website for details: www.blacktheatrenetwork.org

Include in your abstract: your name; co-presenter’s name; full contact information, including phone number and e-mail address; institutional or theatre affiliation (graduate students should identify themselves to receive benefits); the title of the proposed presentation; room set-up requirements (if offering a workshop or lecture); A-V equipment needs; special needs, if any; and length of session (if offering a workshop). At the conference, all papers should be limited to 15 minutes.

SEND ABSTRACTS BY EMAIL (preferred) OR POSTAL MAIL TO:
Dr. La Tanya L. Reese Rogers
Black Theatre Network Conference Committee Chair
University of the District of Columbia
Department of English
4200 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20008
LReese@udc.edu