Calls for Papers (CFPs): Women in Media, Bad Taste Conference, Punk, Vampires
CFP: Images of Women in Film and Media
Women in film:
We've come a long way, baby! Or have we? MP journal seeks submissions that explore the ways Women/Femininity/Female agency are depicted in visual media such as video games, television, film, animation (anime), comic books, graphic novels, or any other visual depictions. MP Journal welcomes academic papers, book reviews, and other well-written inquiries from a feminist perspective on modern visual representations of women. International submissions are encouraged. Submissions may be in any accepted academic format such as MLA, APA, Legal Bluebook, or Chicago Style but must be consistent throughout and thoroughly and carefully edited. Please send the submission, a 50 word bio, and a CV to Lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com before midnight September 21, 2010.
lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com
Email: lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com
Visit the website at http://academinist.org/mp
22nd Annual Tufts University English Graduate Organization Conference
Thursday, October 21, 2010
BAD TASTE
Keynote Address: Professor Martin Puchner, Harvard University
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
Bad Taste: we know it when we see it, and yet we do not always know what to do with it. Sometimes celebrated and sometimes repudiated, the forms, genres, images, and topics associated with the category of bad taste are always provocative.
In celebration of our conference’s 22nd Anniversary, we are interested in investigating Bad Taste. We seek to explore the ways in which bad taste is identified and utilized. How does the category of taste create and reify genres? What role does taste play in a consumer society? If Bad Taste can evoke shame or pride, how do we evaluate or classify it in terms of affect?
We challenge you to consider the political and ethical dimensions of aesthetic taste. How do groups create consensus about aesthetic norms? How can we historicize the concept of bad taste? Can theories of universality and particularity help us to understand aesthetic judgment?
We encourage abstracts that explore the concept of Bad Taste from a wide range of fields and disciplines. Topics may include but are certainly not limited to:
Form and Genre
The Carnivalesque
Stylistics and Aesthetics
Camp and Kitsch
Dated Material
The Economics of Taste
Obscenity and Pornography
Shame, Humor, and Affect
Imitation and Distinction
Consumption and Consumerism
Bad Manners and Impropriety
High and Low
Nostalgia and Sentimentality
Science Fiction and the Paraliterary
ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be Martin Puchner, Professor of English at Harvard University. Professor Puchner's teaching and research interests range from drama to philosophy to world literature. His scholarship investigates the points of contact between theater and philosophy, as well as the geography of literature. He is currently working on a project that addresses low genres such as fantasy and science fiction and their relation to high literature. Professor Puchner is the author of Stage Fright (2002), Poetry of the Revolution (2006), and The Drama of Ideas (2010). He has also edited Against Theatre (2006), Critical Concepts: Modern Drama (2008), and served as the co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Drama (2009) and as the general editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature (in preparation) and the Norton Anthology of Western Literature (in preparation).
CONTACT:
Please submit a 250-500 word abstract by July 16, 2010. Abstracts must include your name, email address, and phone number. Please direct abstracts to:
Erin Kappeler
TEGO Conference
Department of English, East Hall 210
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
You may also send your abstract as an email attachment. Please include “TEGO Abstract” in the subject line and send to Erin.Kappeler@tufts.edu.
For further information, please contact Erin Kappeler at the above email address or Carla Mastraccio at Carla.Mastraccio@tufts.edu.
Sponsored By:
Tufts English Graduate Organization (http://ase.tufts.edu/tego)
Tufts University English Department (http://ase.tufts.edu/english)
Erin Kappeler
TEGO Conference
Department of English, East Hall 210
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
Email: erin.kappeler@tufts.edu
Visit the website at http://ase.tufts.edu/english/graduate/conference.asp
The 2010 Africana Woman Conference Call for Proposals
The Africana Woman Conference Committee invites undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and community activists to submit proposals for the 2010 Africana Woman Conference, to be held September 16-18, 2010 at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. We welcome the submission of individual papers, complete sessions, workshops, and roundtables on topics relating to and affecting the Africana Woman such as:
• Histories and Biographies
• Literature and Poetry
• Artistic Expression and Aesthetics
• Education, Curriculum
• Policies and governmental actions
• Family and personal relationships
• Communication
• Health and AIDS
• Gender and Sexuality
• Religion and Spirituality
• Motherhood and Family
• And other proposals which would uplift the Africana Woman, her partner, her family, her environment, her place in history, her creativity, and her social situation.
All proposals should include a 300-word abstract with title, presenter contact information including postal address, phone number and email, and a 1-3 page resume or curriculum vitae.
Organizers of complete sessions or roundtables should send in a single submission including: 200 word description of the session with title; Abstracts and resumes/CVs for each presenter; CVs for the session chair; and contact information (address, phone, email) for each participant of the session/roundtable.
The submission deadline for proposals is July 15, 2010. Participants will be notified of acceptance by August 1, 2010
Please submit proposals by mail to:
Africana Woman Conference
c/o Temple University
African American Studies
1115 Polett Walk
Gladfelter 810
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Or
Submit proposals by email to: africanawomanconference@gmail.com.
Registration fee: $40.00 for faculty and professionals; $10.00 for students and community members. Checks and Money Orders should be written to "AYA" and sent to Africana Woman Conference c/o Temple University, African American Studies, 1115 Polett Walk, Gladfelter 810, Philadelphia, PA 19122.
Punk and Popular Culture PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Joint Conference
Call for Papers Punk and Popular Culture
PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Joint Conference
April 20-23, 2011
San Antonio, TX
http://www.swtxpca.org
Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2010
Conference hotel: Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio
101 Bowie Street
San Antonio, Texas 78205 USA
Phone: 1-210-223-1000
Image, Identity, and Ideology is part of the larger Punk area at the 32nd annual SWTX ACA/PCAconference.
This Area will delve into the questions surrounding:
* the Emergence of punk--
Who are the pioneers and forerunners??
What factors lead to its creation
(economic, political, historical)
* Punk Philosophy
* The Rhetoric of Punk
* Anarchism
* Religion and Punk
* The Politics of Punk
* The Psychology of Punk
I am particularly interested in papers that discuss Punk from a Lacanian or Deleuzian angle, but really any paper that discuss the deeper meaning of punk will be considered.
Bryan L. Jones
Department of English
205 Morrill Hall
Bryan.l.jones@okstate.edu
http://www.swtxpca.org
CFP: Vampire States of America (edited collection): intersectional feminist approaches to recent US cinematic and literary narratives about vampires. Deadline: Sept 1, 2010.
We invite scholars in queer studies, ethnic studies, women's and gender studies, history, art history, anthropology, sociology, legal studies, literature, film, and cultural studies to contribute to a projected volume that explores the construction of nation through recent U.S. literary, cinematic, and televisual narratives about vampires.
Since Donna Haraway's observation that "vampires are vectors of category transformation in a racialized, historical, national unconscious," attention has increasingly turned to the ways that the vexed racial formations characteristic of the United States have intersected with vampire narratives.
How have American literary and cinematic vampires figured the haunted past of slavery, the near-genocidal conquest of Native American lands, the conflicts over the shifting national border between the US and Mexico, the imperial and neo-imperial conquest of further territories, or the permeable borders of an immigrant nation?
We are interested in work on narratives both mainstream (such as Stephenie Meyer's /Twilight/ series) and marginal (such as Jewelle Gomez's /Gilda Stories/ or Aaron Carr's /Eye Killers/). We solicit essays that put into practice the insights of feminist intersectionality theory by considering relations among sex, gender, race, and class in the context of national identity.
Call for proposals/papers: Vampire States of America: Taking a Bite Out of Intersectionality
Please send a 500-word proposal and a brief CV
as Word.doc attachments by Sept 1, 2010 to
Luz María Gordillo: gordillo@vancouver.wsu.edu
and
Frann Michel: fmichel@willamette.edu
Completed essays will be due by October 15, 2010
Frann Michel
English Department
900 State Steet
Salem, OR 97209
Women in film:
We've come a long way, baby! Or have we? MP journal seeks submissions that explore the ways Women/Femininity/Female agency are depicted in visual media such as video games, television, film, animation (anime), comic books, graphic novels, or any other visual depictions. MP Journal welcomes academic papers, book reviews, and other well-written inquiries from a feminist perspective on modern visual representations of women. International submissions are encouraged. Submissions may be in any accepted academic format such as MLA, APA, Legal Bluebook, or Chicago Style but must be consistent throughout and thoroughly and carefully edited. Please send the submission, a 50 word bio, and a CV to Lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com before midnight September 21, 2010.
lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com
Email: lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com
Visit the website at http://academinist.org/mp
22nd Annual Tufts University English Graduate Organization Conference
Thursday, October 21, 2010
BAD TASTE
Keynote Address: Professor Martin Puchner, Harvard University
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
Bad Taste: we know it when we see it, and yet we do not always know what to do with it. Sometimes celebrated and sometimes repudiated, the forms, genres, images, and topics associated with the category of bad taste are always provocative.
In celebration of our conference’s 22nd Anniversary, we are interested in investigating Bad Taste. We seek to explore the ways in which bad taste is identified and utilized. How does the category of taste create and reify genres? What role does taste play in a consumer society? If Bad Taste can evoke shame or pride, how do we evaluate or classify it in terms of affect?
We challenge you to consider the political and ethical dimensions of aesthetic taste. How do groups create consensus about aesthetic norms? How can we historicize the concept of bad taste? Can theories of universality and particularity help us to understand aesthetic judgment?
We encourage abstracts that explore the concept of Bad Taste from a wide range of fields and disciplines. Topics may include but are certainly not limited to:
Form and Genre
The Carnivalesque
Stylistics and Aesthetics
Camp and Kitsch
Dated Material
The Economics of Taste
Obscenity and Pornography
Shame, Humor, and Affect
Imitation and Distinction
Consumption and Consumerism
Bad Manners and Impropriety
High and Low
Nostalgia and Sentimentality
Science Fiction and the Paraliterary
ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be Martin Puchner, Professor of English at Harvard University. Professor Puchner's teaching and research interests range from drama to philosophy to world literature. His scholarship investigates the points of contact between theater and philosophy, as well as the geography of literature. He is currently working on a project that addresses low genres such as fantasy and science fiction and their relation to high literature. Professor Puchner is the author of Stage Fright (2002), Poetry of the Revolution (2006), and The Drama of Ideas (2010). He has also edited Against Theatre (2006), Critical Concepts: Modern Drama (2008), and served as the co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Drama (2009) and as the general editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature (in preparation) and the Norton Anthology of Western Literature (in preparation).
CONTACT:
Please submit a 250-500 word abstract by July 16, 2010. Abstracts must include your name, email address, and phone number. Please direct abstracts to:
Erin Kappeler
TEGO Conference
Department of English, East Hall 210
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
You may also send your abstract as an email attachment. Please include “TEGO Abstract” in the subject line and send to Erin.Kappeler@tufts.edu.
For further information, please contact Erin Kappeler at the above email address or Carla Mastraccio at Carla.Mastraccio@tufts.edu.
Sponsored By:
Tufts English Graduate Organization (http://ase.tufts.edu/tego)
Tufts University English Department (http://ase.tufts.edu/english)
Erin Kappeler
TEGO Conference
Department of English, East Hall 210
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
Email: erin.kappeler@tufts.edu
Visit the website at http://ase.tufts.edu/english/graduate/conference.asp
The 2010 Africana Woman Conference Call for Proposals
The Africana Woman Conference Committee invites undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and community activists to submit proposals for the 2010 Africana Woman Conference, to be held September 16-18, 2010 at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. We welcome the submission of individual papers, complete sessions, workshops, and roundtables on topics relating to and affecting the Africana Woman such as:
• Histories and Biographies
• Literature and Poetry
• Artistic Expression and Aesthetics
• Education, Curriculum
• Policies and governmental actions
• Family and personal relationships
• Communication
• Health and AIDS
• Gender and Sexuality
• Religion and Spirituality
• Motherhood and Family
• And other proposals which would uplift the Africana Woman, her partner, her family, her environment, her place in history, her creativity, and her social situation.
All proposals should include a 300-word abstract with title, presenter contact information including postal address, phone number and email, and a 1-3 page resume or curriculum vitae.
Organizers of complete sessions or roundtables should send in a single submission including: 200 word description of the session with title; Abstracts and resumes/CVs for each presenter; CVs for the session chair; and contact information (address, phone, email) for each participant of the session/roundtable.
The submission deadline for proposals is July 15, 2010. Participants will be notified of acceptance by August 1, 2010
Please submit proposals by mail to:
Africana Woman Conference
c/o Temple University
African American Studies
1115 Polett Walk
Gladfelter 810
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Or
Submit proposals by email to: africanawomanconference@gmail.com.
Registration fee: $40.00 for faculty and professionals; $10.00 for students and community members. Checks and Money Orders should be written to "AYA" and sent to Africana Woman Conference c/o Temple University, African American Studies, 1115 Polett Walk, Gladfelter 810, Philadelphia, PA 19122.
Punk and Popular Culture PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Joint Conference
Call for Papers Punk and Popular Culture
PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Joint Conference
April 20-23, 2011
San Antonio, TX
http://www.swtxpca.org
Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2010
Conference hotel: Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio
101 Bowie Street
San Antonio, Texas 78205 USA
Phone: 1-210-223-1000
Image, Identity, and Ideology is part of the larger Punk area at the 32nd annual SWTX ACA/PCAconference.
This Area will delve into the questions surrounding:
* the Emergence of punk--
Who are the pioneers and forerunners??
What factors lead to its creation
(economic, political, historical)
* Punk Philosophy
* The Rhetoric of Punk
* Anarchism
* Religion and Punk
* The Politics of Punk
* The Psychology of Punk
I am particularly interested in papers that discuss Punk from a Lacanian or Deleuzian angle, but really any paper that discuss the deeper meaning of punk will be considered.
Bryan L. Jones
Department of English
205 Morrill Hall
Bryan.l.jones@okstate.edu
http://www.swtxpca.org
CFP: Vampire States of America (edited collection): intersectional feminist approaches to recent US cinematic and literary narratives about vampires. Deadline: Sept 1, 2010.
We invite scholars in queer studies, ethnic studies, women's and gender studies, history, art history, anthropology, sociology, legal studies, literature, film, and cultural studies to contribute to a projected volume that explores the construction of nation through recent U.S. literary, cinematic, and televisual narratives about vampires.
Since Donna Haraway's observation that "vampires are vectors of category transformation in a racialized, historical, national unconscious," attention has increasingly turned to the ways that the vexed racial formations characteristic of the United States have intersected with vampire narratives.
How have American literary and cinematic vampires figured the haunted past of slavery, the near-genocidal conquest of Native American lands, the conflicts over the shifting national border between the US and Mexico, the imperial and neo-imperial conquest of further territories, or the permeable borders of an immigrant nation?
We are interested in work on narratives both mainstream (such as Stephenie Meyer's /Twilight/ series) and marginal (such as Jewelle Gomez's /Gilda Stories/ or Aaron Carr's /Eye Killers/). We solicit essays that put into practice the insights of feminist intersectionality theory by considering relations among sex, gender, race, and class in the context of national identity.
Call for proposals/papers: Vampire States of America: Taking a Bite Out of Intersectionality
Please send a 500-word proposal and a brief CV
as Word.doc attachments by Sept 1, 2010 to
Luz María Gordillo: gordillo@vancouver.wsu.edu
and
Frann Michel: fmichel@willamette.edu
Completed essays will be due by October 15, 2010
Frann Michel
English Department
900 State Steet
Salem, OR 97209