Call for Papers: Teaching English Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), October 4-6, 2007 Calgary, Alberta, Canada < http://www.tourismcalgary.com/ <http://mail.rockford.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URLhttp://www.tourismcalgary.com/> > at the Westin Calgary Hotel <http://www.westincalgary.com <http://mail.rockford.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URLhttp://www.westincalgary.com> > .
Submit 300 word abstracts by March 1 to Breyan Strickler, .
Seeking papers that explore pedagogies and practical experiences that promote the utility and value of the liberal arts in the community. In a period where the intellectual is viewed with some suspicion, and disciplines are valued according to how much they relate to a career, the study of literature and language is often dismissed as simply an esoteric endeavor. This panel will consider how the study of the language and literature make clear the immediate cultural consequences of knowledge. Papers might consider and describe how the study of rhetoric/composition or literature has been used to change perceptions about the role of language and argument-and scholarship-in our lives and communities.
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Breyan Strickler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Rockford College
113 Scarborough Building
5050 E. State Street
Rockford, IL 61108
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Office Phone: (815) 226-4183
Office Fax: (815) 394-5171
Ongoing Call for Papers for the Community Literacy Journal
The peer-reviewed Community Literacy Journal seeks contributions for upcoming issues. We welcome submissions that address any social, cultural, rhetorical, or institutional aspects of community literacy; we particularly welcome co-authored pieces in collaboration with community partners.
Possible articles and approaches include, but are not limited to:
* What are the broad, disciplinary implications and possibilities
for emerging community-literacy initiatives at the programmatic and institutional levels?
* How are the rhetorical features of oral, written, and visual curricula negotiated and transformed in academic-community collaborations?
* To what extent will it become important--or not--to distinguish between "community literacy" and "service learning"?
* What roles will writing-program administrators play in supporting community-literacy efforts?
* What is the place of community literacy in "managed" and market-principle driven universities?
Deadlines:
* Fall 2007 special issue on Appalachian Literacies: manuscript deadline June 15, 2007. Special issue editors: Katie Vande Brake () and Kimberly Holloway ().
* Spring 2008 issue: manuscript deadline, October 1st, 2007.
Format: The MLA Style Manual, 2nd ed. (New York: MLA, 1998) supplemented, where necessary, with the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed. (New York: MLA, 2003).
Shorter and longer pieces are acceptable (8-25 manuscript pages) depending on authors' approaches: case studies, reflective pieces, scholarly articles, etc.
When submitting materials, please include institutional and home mailing addresses, an article abstract of 50-100 words, and a brief author bio.
Send journal queries or materials in e-mail or as an .rtf attachment to: Michael R. Moore:
Or via US Mail:
Michael R. Moore
c/o Community Literacy Journal
319 Walker Arts & Humanities Center
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, MI 49931
CFP: Article Submissions for Volume--The Canterbury Tales Revisited--
21st Century Interpretations
In this volume we will seek to relinquish a false attempt to "reconstruct" Chaucer's audience, an impossible task at best, or to produce an "authentically" medieval reading, but instead resituate the Canterbury Tales within a context of modern readership and scholarship, responding to the texts as 21st readers, recognizing there is no way to escape the fact that we are colored by our own period.
Dr. Kathleen Bishop
New York University
Please note the new deadline: JANUARY 15, 2007
"Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box": Poe and Twentieth Century Poetry. Poe and his poetic theories have continued to be a point of engagement for twentieth-century poets, as witnessed by the recent publication of the posthumous Elizabeth Bishop poem from which the title of this panel is taken. This panel is calling for papers that engage with any aspect of Poe's relation to poets and poetry of the last century.
Send 250-word abstracts to Stephen Rachman
<mailto:rachman_at_msu.edu>rachman_at_msu.edu or Marcy J. Dinius
<mailto:dinius_at_english.udel.edu>dinius_at_english.udel.edu by January
15, 2007.
CFP: Rewriting the Body (grad) (1/5/07; disjunctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)
This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference, April 7-8, 2006. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation Nation," this panel attempts to explore how the body as cultural text is rewritten through acts of (re)appropriation, misappropriation, passing, mimicry, and resignification.
Papers from all periods and areas are welcome. Suggested topics include
Juridical bodies
Virtual bodies
Historical, narrative, and/or developmental bodies
Racialized, gendered, and/or sexed bodies
Monstrous and/or illegible bodies
Confessional bodies
Transgender and/or transsexual bodies
(Non)Canonical bodies
Material bodies
Supernatural, phantasmal, and/or illusory bodies
Pathologized, medicalized, criminalized, and/or abject bodies
'Primitive' and/or postmodern bodies
Uncontrollable and/or excessive bodies
Fetishized and/or idealized bodies
Fragmented bodies and/or bodies without organs
Performative bodies, broadly conceived
Bodies as ontology
Bodies under (de)/(re)construction
Email abstracts of approximately 250 words to
on or before Jan. 5, 2007. All submissions will be acknowledged upon receipt.
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society at the ALA in Boston, May 2007
The recent publicaton of "The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin" edited by Henry Louis Gates signals the importance of Harriet Beecher Stowe on particular African American authors and the development of the literary traditio n as a whole. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society invites papers for a session that investigates the nature of Stowe's influence on African American literary production. Paper topics may consider Stowe's influence on any aspec t of African American literary production. Please email a 250-word a bstract to: Tess Chakkalakal at by 15 January 2007.
The Henry James Society will sponsor two sessions at the Modern Language Association annual conference, December 27-30, 2007, Chicago. Proposals are invited for the following panels:
MLA, 2007
Henry James and the Things of Modernism
The influence of modern inventions and institutions on new social configurations in James's fiction and non-fiction: photography, early cinema and new visual perspectives, hotels, high buildings, domestic and commercial space, telegraph and telephone, newspapers and news circulation, new museums, art collections, public libraries, private and public space.
James's 'The Tempest' Essay
2007 marks the centennial of this rarely discussed essay, but it might be the occasion for freely considering James's relation to: Shakespeare's plays as creative resources, as confirming 'the absolute value of Style', the drama, endings of careers, cultural icons, the relation between 'the Poet and the Man' or ideas of authorship, the act of reading, predecessors.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: March 12, 2007.
Please send abstracts (500 words maximum) for twenty minute papers,
preferably by email to:
Tamara Follini, President, Henry James Society, 2007.
Clare College, Cambridge CB2 1TL, UK
The Henry James Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association annual conference, May 24-27, 2007, Boston. Proposals are invited for the following panels:
ALA, 2007
Henry James and Boston
In The American Scene James reflected that Boston had 'left consequences out of proportion to its limited seeming self': Boston (and Cambridge) in his fiction, non-fiction, in his formulations of the American character, mind, spirit, Boston as cultural center, 'sacred' center, Boston authors, authorities, friends.
Henry James Writing Biography
James's practice of the 'devilish art': form and method, Hawthorne, William Wetmore Story and His Friends, memorial essays, biographical digressions in criticism, the 'Others' of A Small Boy, biography as social critique, as reflective space, as space of mortality and immortality, revelation and reticence, curiosity and ethics.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: January 10, 2007.
Please send abstracts (500 words maximum) for twenty minute papers, preferably by email to:
Tamara Follini, President, Henry James Society, 2007.
Clare College, Cambridge CB2 1TL, UK
Call for Papers
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Reconstruction is proud to announce the publication of its Vol. 6, No. 4 (2006) themed issue, "Theories/Practices of Blogging," which can be found at http://reconstruction.eserver.org. Featured in the issue:
* Craig Saper, "Blogademia"
* Tama Leaver, "Blogging Everyday Life"
* Erica Johnson, "Democracy Defended: Polibloggers and the Political Press in America"
* Carmel L. Vaisman, "Design and Play: Weblog Genres of Adolescent Girls in Israel"
* David Sasaki, "Identity and Credibility in the Global Blogosphere"
* Anna Notaro, "The Lo(n)g Revolution: The Blogosphere as an Alternative Public Sphere?"
* Emerald Tina, "My Life in the Panopticon: Blogging From Iran"
* Various Authors, "Webfestschrift for Wealth Bondage/The Happy Tutor"
* Lilia Efimova, "Two papers, me in between"
* Lauren Elkin, "Blogging and (Expatriate) Identity"
* Various Bloggers, "Why I Blog"
Reconstruction is now accepting submissions for the following upcoming theme issues:
* Class, Culture and Public Intellectuals (deadline: December 1, 2006)
* Visualization and Narrative (deadline: December 15, 2007)
* Fieldwork and Interdisciplinary Research (no deadline set)
For individual CFP requirements and guest editor contact information,
please check our "Upcoming Issues" page at http://reconstruction.eserver.org/upcoming.shtml.
Reconstruction is also accepting submissions for upcoming Open Issues. The next Open Issue is scheduled for publication in Fall 2007.
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN: 1547-4348) is an innovative cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Reconstruction publishes one open issue and three themed issues quarterly--more or less in the third week of January, April, July, October.
Submissions may be created from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limited to: geography, cultural studies, folklore, architecture, history, sociology, psychology, communications, music, political science, semiotics, theology, art history, queer theory, literature, criminology, urban planning, gender studies, graphic design, etc. Both theoretical and empirical approaches are welcomed.
As a peer reviewed journal, submissions to Reconstruction are read in traditional double-blind fashion, critiqued, and subsequently either returned to the author for revision or accepted for publication. In the case of disputed articles, the readers unable to come to a consensus, the article will be read by an additional reader and then, again, decided upon for future publication.
Articles accepted for publication are done so under the following conditions: 1) If the article has not appeared in English previously, the article will not appear in publication before its publication in Reconstruction. 2) The author of said article is responsible for any and all legal complaints made against the work, and is thus financially responsible for any legal actions. 3) Any subsequent publication of the article, in any form, must acknowledge its earlier publication in Reconstruction. The author is responsible for gaining permission to use any copyrighted images or other materials.
In matters of citation, it is assumed that the proper MLA format will be followed. Other citation formats are acceptable in respect to the disciplinary concerns of the author. For further information, please consult our Submission Guidelines found at http://reconstruction.eserver.org/guidelines.shtml.
Reconstruction is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.
All submissions and submission queries should be written care of .
The 12th congress of the European Committee for Sports History will be hosted by the University of Southern Brittany, Lorient, France, 20th-22nd September 2007. Congress participants will take part in a reflection on the artistic status of sport, as well as its relation to and representation in the arts (including literature). Some artistic representations have no intention but to reflect some “reality”, whereas some other representations pursue a variety of specific goals. Moreover, whether in the arts or as a consequence of the moral qualities it allows and constrains those who take part to display, sport is widely believed to be the vehicle of a social ethic as well, making it necessary to envisage “reality” and “construction” dialectically. 200-word abstracts on the type of “reality” such artistic “constructions” mediate, in a critical, diachronic, possibly dialectical and cross-community perspective should be e-mailed to not later than April, 30th 2007.
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CALL FOR PAPERS/PEOPLE: Enlightening 2007
Philadelphia, PA
July 12-15, 2007
A Harry Potter Camp for Families presented by Bonding over Books
Enlightening 2007 (E7) is the world's first Harry Potter Camp for Families. Sponsored by Bonding over Books, E7 will include a mix of serious academic exploration of J.K Rowling's text, interactive events and competitions for families to engage in together, and workshops in which participants learn and practice how to contribute to the fandom.
The event is designed to enable fans of Harry Potter to deepen existing connections within families and form new connections with peers. J.K. Rowling's magical series provides a unique opportunity for shared experiences and discussions on several important topics relevant to all ages. The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education will co-sponsor and host E7 in a setting worthy of the special occasion -- Penn's gothic, ivy-league campus.
We invite proposals for interactive sessions that support and expand on the central theme of the event. In particular, E7 seeks fresh ideas, delivered in novel, experiential ways. As an interactive, participant-centered event on a smaller scale than other Harry Potter symposia, we look for proposals that include a plan to engage attendees, involving them in role plays, workshops, activities, or other experiential methods of your choosing.
Topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:
· Different parenting styles of the various mother/father figures in Harry's world
· Friendship and love -- stated and unstated, requited and unrequited -- in the Harry Potter world
· Role of social organizations, such as religion and government, in the texts
· Racism and discrimination in the Wizard world and how dictators (from Voldemort to Hitler) are able to use these environments to gain power and support
· Compare and contrast the way different age categories read and interpret the texts
· Harry Potter in the school curriculum
· Life lessons from the texts and how they might facilitate family discussions of some of the books' most difficult themes: choices, perseverance, loss, grief, and coming of age