Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Spirituality in the Literatures of the English-Speaking
World
University of Vienna,
Austria - 6-8 July 2009
Deadline for proposals: 1
December 2008
(closed)
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Papers and presentations
are invited for a 3-day conference to be hosted by the Institut
für Anglistik and Amerikanistik, University of Vienna, 6–8 July
2009. The conference, convened by the English Department of the
University of Vienna (Austria) and the research groups
Interdisciplinarité dans les études anglophones
(I.D.E.A.) of Nancy-Université (France) and Écritures
from the Université Paul Verlaine-Metz (France), intends to
bring together scholars of various disciplines from all over the world
who share a keen interest in the study of spirituality and its literary
manifestations in the English-speaking world. The aim of the conference
is to explore the hermeneutic potential of interdisciplinary approaches
to spiritual literature; thus papers relying on insights derived from
such disciplines as theology, philosophy, history, psychology,
psychoanalysis, anthropology or comparative religion (to name only a
few), as well as from comparative and cross-cultural studies in the
field of English spirituality of any period and any religious
tradition, are most welcome.
Papers employing
interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged to address a wide range of
literary texts and topics, including theories of spirituality, a
taxonomy of spiritual texts, spirituality and gender, spiritual
experience and language, theistic vs. atheistic spirituality, the
alleged "common core" of all spiritual traditions, or transcendental
inspiration as a source of knowledge and creativity. Equally welcome
are interdisciplinary readings of spiritual literature of any genre,
period and cultural background from within the English-speaking world,
such as Caedmon, the English Mystics, spiritual counsellors and female
visionaries of the Late Middle Ages, the Metaphysical Poets of the 17th
century, Blake and the Romantics, the American Transcendentalists,
Anglo-Indian mystical authors like Tagore or Sri Chinmoy, Christian
contemplatives of the 20th century like Thomas Merton, or English poems
of Australian aborigines.
The language of the
conference is English exclusively. Proposals - including a short CV and
an abstract in English of up to 400 words (Word document) - should be
sent by 1 December 2008 to Franz Wöhrer
<franz-karl.woehrer@univie.ac>.at and John Bak
<john.bak@univ-nancy2.fr>.
Notification of acceptance: 16 Jan 2009. Presentations should not
exceed 30 minutes; selected papers will be published sometime after the
conference.
(posted 5 Mar '08)
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International Conference
on Informational Communication Technologies in Education 2009
Corfu Holiday Palace
Hotel, Corfu, Greece - 9-11 July 2009
Deadline for proposals: 13
February 2009
(closed)
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Website URL: http://www.icicte.org/
Contacts: <NancyPyrini@icicte.org>; <Ken.Fernstrom@ufv.ca>.
ICICTE 2009 will seek to
address the many challenges and new directions presented by
technological innovations in educational settings. Those attending
ICICTE 2009 will leave with an excellent overview of current thinking
and practices in applications of technology to education.
Thematic streams will include alternative processes, procedures,
techniques and tools for creating learning environments appropriate for
the twenty-first century.
Conference themes include:
•
Institutional and national responses to technological change
• Political economy and educational technology:
Intersections
• The architecture of learning; accessibility; the
evolution of the classroom
• Pedagogy in the evolving tech environment
• Informal and formal adult education
• Multi-grade education
• Instructional design and delivery; evaluation and
assessment
• Strategies and tools for teaching and learning,
simulations and gaming
• Effects on training institutions and industry
• Impacts
on educational institutions: effects on faculty, staff, administration,
and students; curriculum and program development
• Intellectual property
• Ethical considerations in the use of information
technology in teaching and learning
• The internationalization of institutions and of
education
• Open/Distance learning
• Building communities of teachers/educators;
cooperative learning
• Teacher training
• The use of technology in education to promote
democratic ideals, freedom, equality.
All proposals and papers
are peer reviewed by members of the Scientific Committee. If you wish
to present at ICICTE 2008 and have your paper published in the
conference proceedings submit your proposal to Nancy Pyrini at
<nancypyrini@icicte.org> by February 13, 2009. Each proposal will
be double-blind reviewed by the Scientific Committee. Notification on
whether the proposal has been accepted will be sent by February 28,
2009.
Proposals should be in MS
Word and include title, purpose/objective section, and a 250–300 word
summary. Papers must be suitable for a 15–20 minute presentation at a
plenary session.
All presented papers will
be considered for the ICICTE 2009 selected papers issues of Campus-Wide
Information Systems, the UFV Research Review, and Journal of
Interactive Learning Environments.
(posted 19 Dec '08)
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Visual Narrative Media in
Britain from Ally Sloper to Judge Dredd
Liverpool John Moores
University, Liverpool, UK - 10-11 July 2009
Deadline for proposals: 15
December 2008
(closed)
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Popular Narrative
Media/Association for Research in Popular Fictions Conference
Liverpool John Moores University, Dean Walters Building, Liverpool, UK
Covering the period from
the 1880s to early 1980s, this interdisciplinary conference will look
at the histories, methodologies, archives, readers and cultural
practices surrounding a range of visual texts and texts containing
illustrations.
The texts include
anthology and other comics, comic strips, cartoons, illustrated story
papers, and periodicals of which the following are indicative examples:
Ally Sloper's Half
Holiday, Judy, Illustrated Chips, Girl's Own Paper, Boy's Own Paper,
The Dandy, The Beano, School Friend, Whizzer and Chips, Rupert, Hornet,
Wizard, Tiger, Hotspur, Eagle, Girl, Bunty, Giles, Look-In, Look and
Learn, Tammy, Misty, Valiant, 2000AD and Red Letter. Papers on specific
comic book characters and covers are also welcome. Some of the titles
run beyond the period the conference focuses on, but papers should stay
within the period specified.
There is a particular
interest in papers on material for children and young adult readers, as
well as papers on texts for adult readers.
Proposals will explore
the diverse formations, mediations, practices and representations of
these texts and their readers.
They may feature, amongst
many other themes: analyses of cultural practices surrounding these
texts including swapping and collections, or how these texts and images
might be appropriated or wilfully mis-read/decoded.
Papers may also focus on
individual texts or characters, look at documents related to their
production or analyse history and culture as explored through a
specific run of a title or titles or compare productions. They may also
talk about the impact that these texts had on later generations of
creators.
They could, in addition,
look at how such texts adapted to changes in the political and social
climate or affected national policy or civic character or indicated
concerns about the present or future or about the use and perception of
history.
Proposals may also
consider methodology particularly in relation to interdisciplinary
study, archiving and digitisation and the relationship between this
subject area and research in teaching.
250 word abstracts for proposals for 20 minute presentations should be
sent by 15th December 2008 to <mel.gibson@northumbria.ac.uk> or
<mel@dr-mel-comics.co.uk>. Proposals for panels also welcome.
(posted 19 Nov '08)
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8th Annual Transatlantic
Studies Association Conference
Canterbury Christ Church
University, Canterbury, UK - 13-16 July 2009
Deadline for proposals: 1
May 2009
(closed)
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Plenary Speakers:
- Frank Costigliola,
University of Connecticut, ‘W. Averell Harriman and Archibald Clark
Kerr: A Comparative of Politics, Personalities and Reactions to the
Rigours of Living in Moscow’
- Simon Duke, European Institute of Public Administration, ‘Normative
cynicism in EU-US relations’
- Sabine Boeck, Bremen
University, ‘Transatlantic Slavery and Modern Feminism’
Panels, Sub-Panels & Panel Leaders
1. Literature & Culture:
Peter Wright <tearsofajester@hotmail.com> and Alan Rice
<arice@uclan.ac.uk>
1a. New Transatlanticisms:
Africa and the Americas:
Thea Pitman
<T.Pitmann@leeds.ac.uk> and Andy Stafford
<A.J.Stafford@leeds.ac.uk>
2. Planning and the Environment:
Tony Jackson <a.a.jackson@dundee.ac.uk>
2a. EU-US environmental
policies: Comparing EU member states and US states:
Paul Luif
<PaulLuif@compuserve.com>
3. Economics:
Fiona Venn <vennf@essex.ac.uk> , Jeff Engel
<jengel@bushschool.tamu.edu> and Joe McKinney
<joe_mckinney@baylor.edu>
4. History, Security Studies and IR:
David Ryan <david.ryan@ucc.ie> and Alan Dobson
<a.p.dobson@dundee.ac.uk>
4a. Intellectuals,
Policymakers and US Interventionism in Europe:
Kaeten Mistry <kaeten.mistry@gmail.com>
4b. What President for
Transatlantica? A Comparative Historical Assessment of American
Chief Executives and Their Impact on Transatlantic Relations:
David Haglund <haglundd@post.queensu.ca>
4c. Anglo-American
Relations:
Steve Marsh <marshsi@cardiff.ac.uk>
4d. NATO:
Ellen Williams
<d.e.williams@reading.ac.uk>, Luca Ratti
<ratti@uniroma3.it>,
Ralph Dietl <r.dietl@qub.ac.uk> and Oliver Bange
<bange.preuss@t-online.de>
4e. Special Relationship:
400 Years of Dutch-American Relations:
Kees van Minnen <ca.v.minnen@zeeland.nland> Giles Scott-Smith
<gp.scott_smith@zeeland.nl>
4f. Isolationism and
Internationalism in Transatlantic Affairs:
Simon Rofe <jsr13@leicester.ac.uk>
5. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Transatlantic Relations:
Priscilla Roberts <proberts@hkucc.hku.hk> and Taylor Stoermer
<stoermer@virginia.edu>
Proposals to the appropriate panel leaders with a 300 word abstract by
the deadline of 1 May 2009.
http://www.transatlanticstudies.com
(posted 3 Nov '08)
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Meter and Rhythm - Rhythm
and Meter
Hochschule Vechta,
Germany - 21-23 July 2009
Deadline for proposals: 28
February 2009
(closed)
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Organization: Prof. Dr.
Christoph Küper, Institut für Geistes- und
Kulturwissenschaften, Hochschule Vechta, Driverstr. 22, D-49377 Vechta,
Germany, Tel. ++49-4441-1530.
e-mail: <metrics.conference@uni-vechta.de>.
Please address all Conference correspondence to him.
Conference Languages: English and German.
Goals of the Conference:
The conference offers an
opportunity to scholars of meter and rhythm to present the results of
their recent research and at the same time to learn about the research
activities of their colleagues. The conference is thus analogous to the
First International Conference on Metrics, which took place at the
university of Vechta in 1999. The title of that conference served also
as the title of the book in which the conference papers were collected
and published: Meter, Rhythm and Performance - Metrum, Rhythmus,
Performanz, ed. Christoph Kueper (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2002).
This, the Second
International Conference on Metrics, extends an invitation to scholars
world-wide to meet and address a variety of issues regarding rhythm and
meter. For example: single-language verse systems, the metrical style
of specific literary epochs, single writers or single works or the
connections between and among them (genesis, influences,
interdependencies etc.). Empirical investigations of free rhythm and
rhythmic prose are included as well. The conference is directed toward
both specialists in metrics (be they in literature departments or in
language departments that deal with issues of meter and rhythm) as well
as linguists who (departing from the phonological analysis of speech
rhythm) conduct research on topics of metrically-regulated verse rhythm.
Whereas the conference is
open to many themes and approaches, there is a focus specifically on
the area of "theoretical aspects of meter." That focus arises from the
need to take stock of various competing theories and leading proponents
of these views are requested to present the results of their latest
research at the conference. It is hoped that these speakers establish
connections to other theories and models so that scholars of different
persuasions can talk to one another. In the end it is hoped that
compatibilities as well as divergences clearly emerge. The procedure of
extensive discussions after each paper and perhaps also a panel
discussion will aid the participants in understanding and evaluating
the potentials of the various theoretical starting points, the validity
of their premises and their relevance for concrete verse analysis.
Length of a lecture: 30 minutes + 15 minutes discussion OR 20 minutes +
10 minutes discussion.
If you offer a paper,
please send a short abstract (up to 300 words) by the end of February
to the above address.
Download the registration form
here.
(posted 3 Feb '09)
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9th International Gothic
Association (IGA) Conference: "Gothic Re-mediations. Conjuring Ghosts
Across the Media" seminar
Lancaster, UK -
21-24 July 2009
Deadline for proposals: 20
December 2008
(closed)
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Phantasm. From Gk. phantazein "to make visible,
display," from stem of phainein
"to show." Spectrum. From L. specere “to look at, view.”. Suffix
–STRUM. Instrument; the instrument for viewing.
Interdisciplinary
contributions are invited on the subject of the re-mediation and
transcoding of ghosts, spectres, and phantoms, particularly, though by
no means exclusively, in Anglophone literatures. The phenomenology of
the ghostly transfer across the media may include, among others, the
following forms of intersemiotic and transgeneric shifts,
intersections, and negotiations:
- linguistic transits (for
instance, dubbing, subtitles);
- interlinguistic and intralinguistic translations (appropriations,
re-tellings, narrativisations);
- transcultural adaptation and recontextualising;
- visualisation (illustration, graphic adaptations, cartoons);
- paintings;
- stage and screen adaptations;
- digital transmission (including hypertexts).
Examples of
class-room/lecture-hall 'ghost conjuring' through DVDs, slides,
projections, and videos are particularly welcome. Abstracts of up to
300-word should be sent by e-mail attachment (no Word2007) to the above
address by 20 December 2008.
Seminar convenor: Prof. Francesca Saggini, Università della
Tuscia (Italy) - University of Glasgow (UK).
E-mail: <fsaggini@unitus.it>.
Conference website: http://www.monstrous-media.com
(posted 12 Nov '08)
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Facing the East in the
West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture
Freiburg University,
Germany - 23-26 July 2009
New extended deadline for
proposals: 30 October 2008
(closed)
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Organisers: Prof. Dr.
Barbara Korte and Ulrike Pirker, MA (Freiburg University), Dr. Sissy
Helff (University Frankfurt/Main).
In the last decade
migration flows from Central and Eastern Europe - the former Eastern
bloc - to Britain have become a pressing issue in political debates
about human rights law, social integration, multiculturalism and
citizenship in the UK. Moreover, the increasing number of Eastern
Europeans living in Britain has provoked ambivalent and diverse public
reactions and responses, including a whole range of representations in
film and literature, from 'humorous' fiction (such as A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian)
to thrillers like Eastern Promises.
This observation calls
for closer investigation, especially if we keep in mind that some
decades ago British society was similarly sceptical about migrants
coming to 'the mother country' - migrants who have meanwhile become an
integral part of British society and changed notions of British
identity. While current representations and self-representations of
Black and Asian Britons are diverse, the contemporary image of Eastern
and Central Europeans in literature and film tends to favour a
homogeneous iconography and still often verges on stereotype.
In order to approach
'multicultural Britain' from a different vantage point, this conference
intends to discuss a wide range of representations of Eastern and
Central Europe, as well as people from these regions, in British
literature, film and other areas of cultural enunciation. While a focus
will be on waves of migration after 1989, contributions with a
historical perspective are also encouraged (for instance on conceptions
of Europe's East in Dracula
and The Prisoner of Zenda, or
the portrayal of migrants in East End fiction).
By choosing its specific
regional framework, the conference will transcend the discussion of
migration to Britain from an established 'postcolonial' perspective,
and it will contribute to current explorations of 'new' European
identities.
We invite papers with historical and contemporary, comparative and
theoretical approaches to the topic.
Please send a 250-word proposal by 30 October 2008 to:
<facingtheeast@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de>.
(posted 8 Aug '08, updated
9 Oct '08)
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The Art of Stylistics
Roosevelt Academy,
Middelburg, the Netherlands - 28 July-1 August 2009
Deadline for proposals: 15
January 2009
(closed)
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The 29th Annual Conference of the International Poetics and
Linguistics Association.
The following plenary speakers have been invited to the conference:
Dr. Charles Forceville
(University of Amsterdam)
Dr. Michaela Mahlberg (University of Liverpool)
Prof. Keith Oatley (University of Toronto)
Prof. Rob Pope (Oxford Brookes University)
Prof. Gerard Steen (VU University Amsterdam)
Emeritus Prof. Peter Verdonk (University of Amsterdam)
The theme for the 2009
conference is 'The Art of Stylistics’. However, proposals are welcomed
on other subjects within the remit of the International Poetics and
Linguistics Association.
Abstracts for papers
should be of no more than 300 words in length, with keywords, and
should include (1) a title, (2) the name and affiliation of the
speaker(s), (3) a contact email address, and (4) a postal address. An
abstract should also clearly state what the research question is and
also describe the chosen methodology and the text(s)/data that will be
discussed. Please also let us know if you require any special
equipment. All conference rooms have a computer, data projector, and
screen. Papers will be a maximum of 20 minutes in length, with a
maximum of 10 minutes for questions. All chairs will be instructed to
stop speakers after 20 minutes.
Proposals for official
PALA special interest group workshops are also welcomed. Abstracts
should be no more than 300 words in length and should include the
names, affiliations, email addresses, and postal addresses of all
participants. Workshops will be scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, July
28, 2009, from 1 to 5 p.m. Proposals for workshops that are not
official PALA SIGs will have to be approved by both the conference
organization committee and the PALA board.
The deadline for abstracts is January 16, 2009.
E-mail: <pala2009middelburg@roac.nl>
(posted 14 Dec '08)
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The 2009 Wordsworth Summer
Conference
Forest Side, Grasmere,
Cumbria, UK - 27 July-6 August 2009
Deadline for proposals: 23
March 2009
(closed)
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Keynote Lecturers:
- Part
1 (27 July to 1 August): Frances Ferguson, Paul H Fry, Stephen Gill,
Claire Lamont, Nicholas Roe, Fiona Stafford
- Part 2 (1 to 6 August): Gillian Beer, Frederick Burwick, Richard
Cronin, Yoko Ima-Izumi, Michael O'Neill, Ann Wroe
The Summer Conference is
in two parts or 5 nights each, with a changeover day on 1 August. The
registration fee of £185 (or £155 for one part only)
includes all excursions. Full Board hotel rates for 10 nights range
from £550 to £740, and youth hostel rates are £165 (5
nights) or £330 (10 nights) with a discount for those electing to
share a room. For full details please see the downloadable pdf
prospectus on the conference website. All participants must register
for the whole of Part 1, or Part 2, or Both and should do so by 27
April 2009.
Fees rise to £200 (both parts) and £170 (one part) on 28
April. Because both resident and non-resident places are limited, early
registration is advised. Accommodation costs are payable in full by 25
May, after which date no refunds of fees or other costs can be
guaranteed (participants are therefore advised to take out travel
insurance).
Contributions may take
the form of short papers (2750 words) which are scheduled at two papers
to a session or workshops (short handout-based presentations leading
into an hour or more of discussion). There is no theme for the
conference and papers may address any aspect of British Romantic
Studies, including comparative studies, though papers acknowledging the
bicentenary of Charles Darwin would be especially timely.
Proposals (250–500 words) will be considered by two members of the
Board of Trustees, should incorporate a brief c.v. (no more than one
side of A4) and should be submitted in a single email attachment to the
Director by 23 March 2009.
13 Bursaries are available ranging in value from £250 to
£300.
For full details please visit the conference
website and download the PDF
Prospectus:
Further information may be obtained at any time from
<richardgravil@hotmail.com>.
<wordsworth_conferences@hotmail.co.uk>.
(posted 25 Feb '09)
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Roads Not Taken: The 10th
International Connotations Symposium
Eberhard Karls
Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany - 2-6 August 2009
Deadline for Proposals: 31
October 2008
(closed)
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 The symposium will be
about a subject which, strictly speaking, is not a subject at all. It
is the road not taken: an opportunity missed, a word not spoken, a life
not lived. One variation on this theme is the story of a middle-aged or
old character who looks back on his life, in a more or less melancholy
mood, pondering a career he has not had or a relationship he has
not embarked upon (e.g. James, "The Beast in the Jungle"; Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape; Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day).
But the road not taken
need not always be a good thing missed. It could also be the primrose
path of dalliance or any other highroad to ruin avoided by sheer luck,
by divine intervention, or because insight came just in time. An
example would be Prospero's renunciation of vengeance in The Tempest or Christian's not
following the way to Hell in Bunyan's The
Pilgrim's Progress. Another variant of the theme is the
treatment of several plot developments that branch off from the same
premises, as in John Fowles's The
French Lieutenant's Woman (i.e. the roads not taken are treated
as more or less equivalent with the one actually chosen).
Questions to be dealt with include the following:
- How do the road taken and
the road not taken compare with each other?
- Is an unlived life unfolded in great detail or is it merely suggested
through pregnant details?
- Is it conveyed through the character's memories and fantasies or is
it represented through some other means?
- Do pre-modern texts emphasize nemesis avoided whereas modern ones
focus on chances missed?
The conference venue will be the beautifully situated Waldhotel
Zollernblick near Freudenstadt in the Black Forest, with some
meetings to be held at Tübingen.
As the emphasis of the
Connotations symposia is on critical debate, talks should not be longer
than 30 minutes, leaving another 30 minutes for discussion.
Please submit proposals of about 200 words’ length by October 31, 2008,
to:
Prof. Matthias Bauer
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Department of English
Wilhelmstr. 50
72074 Tübingen
Germany
<Matthias.Bauer@connotations.de>
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Universals and Typology in
Word-Formation
Šafárik University,
Košice, Slovakia - 16-18 August 2009
New extended deadline for
proposals: 31 March 2009
(closed)
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The Conference aims to
give an impetus to the research into universals and typology in
word-formation by a joint effort of both morphologists and typologists.
Papers discussing correlations between individual word-formation
processes as well as between WF processes and genetic types and/or
geographically related languages are most welcome. Space will
also be given to any other typologically oriented research into
word-formation as well as papers discussing the scope of word-formation
and the relation between word-formation and other linguistic
disciplines.
Main organizers: Rochelle Lieber, University of New Hampshire, USA,
Pavel Stekauer, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia,
Salvador Valera, University of Jaén, Spain and SKASE.
Guest Speakers:
Laurie
Bauer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Wolfgang U. Dressler, Vienna University, Austria
Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut, Lepzig, Germany
Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Greg Stump, University of Kentucky, USA
Bernhard Wälchli, University of Bern, Switzerland
Important deadlines:
Submission of abstracts:
February 28, 2009
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2009
Submission of a registration form: May 31, 2009
Submission of complete papers: July 15, 2009
All the relevant information copncerning submission of papers,
accommodation, registration, travel instructions, and important
deadlines, is available on the website of SKASE, The Slovak Association
for the Study of English: http://www.skase.sk
(follow "Kosice 2009 Conference").
(posted 8 Nov '07, updated
21 Jan '08, updated 13 Jan '09)
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19th Annual Conference of
the European Second Language Association
University College, Cork,
Ireland - 2-5 September 2009
Deadline for proposals: 31
January 2009
(closed)
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 EuroSLA 19 will be held in Ireland's second city of
Cork, located on Ireland’s southern coast, and European Capital of
Culture, 2005. The conference venue will be in historic University
College, Cork, which was founded in 1845, and is located within 10
minutes' walking distance of the city-centre. Cork is served by regular
flights with low-cost airlines from cities across Britain and Europe.
Conference Papers and Posters
The conference will include presentations in the form of 20-minute
conference papers during parallel sessions, as well as posters which
will be on display during the conference. Abstracts for conference
papers and posters in either English or French are welcome in any area
of Second Language Acquisition. Abstracts of 400-500 words (including
the title and references), should be sent as an e-mail attachment in
Word to <eurosla19@ucc.ie>.
2 copies of the abstract should be submitted: One copy should be
anonymous, while the other should include your name, academic
affiliation, and postal and e-mail addresses.
Please indicate in the abstract whether you wish your abstract to be
considered as a conference paper for presentation during the parallel
sessions, or as a poster.
Thematic Panels
Proposals for thematic
panels are also welcome, in which case the organiser of the panel
should follow the same guidelines as above in their proposal which
should include a general abstract about the theme of the panel, a list
of the proposed speakers in the panel, and the abstracts for their
individual papers. The number of thematic panels and the amount of time
available for each will be dependent on the final conference programme.
Doctoral Workshop
A Doctoral Workshop will
also form part of the conference. This workshop offers students the
opportunity to receive constructive feedback on their work from
established researchers in the field. In particular, the workshop will
focus on issues to do with methodology such as in relation to data
analysis and research design. Proposals for short presentations during
the workshop should follow the same guidelines as above. The aim and
theoretical framework of your work should be clearly indicated, along
with the methodological questions on which feedback would be welcome.
Please indicate ‘Doctoral workshop’ in your abstract.
Deadline
for receipt of all Abstracts: 31 January 2009
It is hoped to provide notification of acceptance before 30 April 2009
Conference website: http://www.eurosla19.com
Plenary speakers at the conference will include:
Paul
Meara, Swansea University
Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University, Philadelphia
Vera Regan, University College, Dublin
Ema Ushioda, Warwick University
Conference Organisers
Martin Howard, University
College, Cork
Muiris Ó’Laoire, Institute of Technology, Tralee
David Singleton, Trinity College, Dublin
(posted 15 Jan '09)
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Ireland In/And Europe:
Cross-Currents and Exchanges, The Seventh Conference of EFACIS
University of Vienna,
Austria - 3-6 September 2009
Deadline for proposals: 15
January 2009
(closed)
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 "Europeanise Ireland, Hibernicise Europe" - the motto for
this conference is provided by James Joyce himself, who, it would not
be an exaggeration to say, had spent most of his writing life in
mainland Europe (including Austria or the Habsburg Empire, as it was
then) benefiting from cultural hybridity and cross-currents
characteristic of cultural and linguistic contact zones.
The recent referendum on
the Lisbon Treaty firmly put Ireland into the limelight again and made
continental Europeans aware of "the island behind the island". It also
brought to a head the issue of Irish-European/European-Irish relations
and the necessity for cross-cultural dialogue and exchange.
In accordance with its
general objectives EFACIS invites contributions on the theme of
"Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges" from a variety of
perspectives and a variety of disciplines (history, philosophy,
theo¬logy, politics, sociology, economics, sport, literature,
theatre, film and media studies, cultural studies and culture as lived
experience).
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Irish-European/European-Irish
Cultural Relations;
Ireland in/and/out of the EU;
The Theme of "Europe" in Irish Studies;
The Irish Diaspora in Europe;
Emigration/Immigration/Re-Im¬migration (from the early missionaries
to The Wild Geese to European migrants in Ireland);
Cultural Transfer;
Comparative Approaches.
Abstracts: If you would
like to propose a paper (in English, not exceeding 20 minutes), please
submit your title and an abstract of 250 words accompanied by a short
biographical sketch. In addition to the presentation of papers we
invite contributions to alternative forms of discussion: e.g. proposals
for themed panels, poster sessions etc.
A special feature of the
2009 conference will be the inclusion of an information session on
European funding, including representatives from major funding agencies
in Europe, and "match-¬making" sessions/ workshops for participants
seeking European partners for fund¬ing proposals.
Doctoral students are
particularly invited to present aspects of their 'work in progress' in
a specially arranged postgraduate forum.
Deadline for submission of proposals and abstracts: 15 January 2009.
All correspondence should be addressed to:
Prof. Dr. Werner Huber,
Department of English, University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 8,
A-1090 Wien/Vienna,
AUSTRIA, tel:+43 1 4277 42481, fax:+43 1 4277 42498;
e-mail:
<wern.huber@univie.ac.at>.
NB: Only paid-up members
are eligible to read papers at EFACIS conferences. (Membership
subscriptions may be taken out or renewed during the conference.) To
join EFACIS, please contact the EFACIS Treasurer: Mark Schreiber,
<schreiber@anglistik.uni-siegen.de>.
The EFACIS website: http://www.efacis.org
(posted 2 Nov '08)
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Ford and France - Ford's
Provence
University of
Provence, France - 10-12 September 2009
New extended deadline for
proposals: 15 January 2009
(closed)
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An
international conference organised by the Ford Madox Ford Society and
the LERMA.
Ford was a major
internationalist, and in particular a lover of France, its literature
and culture. He wrote much on France and French writing - wrote
in French himself occasionally - and set several of his books in Paris
and Provence, where he spent most of his time from 1922 to his death.
He also edited the Transatlantic
Review from Paris, publishing French
writers alongside American and British ones. Yet Ford’s significant
relationship to France has scarcely been studied.
This conference aims to
mark a new beginning in French Fordian studies, relocate Ford in the
cultural setting of Provence, and ensure that his coming out of
copyright (in 2009) sees more of his work translated into French.
Subjects might include:
-
Ford's editorial work for the transatlantic review and its supplements;
- Ford's as yet little-researched French network of writers, poets,
artists and musicians: Philippe Soupault, Francis Carco, Tristan
Tzara, Jules Laforgue, Jean Cassou, René Crevel, Georges
Pillement, Valéry Larbaud, Juan Gris, Jacob Epstein, Braque,
Brancusi, Nina Hamner, Georges Antheil and Eric Satie;
-
Ford's treatment of France in his reminiscences and autobiography;
- Ford's vision of France, from his propaganda books to the French
plots and settings in his fiction;
- Ford's views on the giants of French literature and culture –
Flaubert, Maupassant, Proust, etc.;
- Ford and Biala in France.
Send 300-word abstracts for twenty-minute papers (English and French)
to Dominique Lemarchal <dominique.lemarchal@univ-angers.fr> or
<domford@wanadoo.fr> and Claire Pégon-Davison
<claire.pegon@univ-provence.fr> by December 1, 2008.
The proceedings will be published in the International Ford Madox Ford
Studies (Rodopi).
(posted 2 Jul '08, updated
1 Dec '08)
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Ovid, Myth and (Literary)
Exile
Ovidius University
Constanta, Romania - 10-12 September 2009
Deadline for proposals: 15
February 2009 (closed)
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Set out in the memory of
Ovid, the Latin poet, from whose exilic journey we mark two millennia
in 2009, this conference will explore the avatars of Publius Ovidius
Naso, his legacy throughout the centuries as myth and exile, key
concepts for the understanding of his life and work that have acquired
enriched and urgent meanings in today's (literary) world. At the same
time, the conference offers space for papers and debates on the broader
implications of the concepts of myth and exile from an
interdisciplinary perspective (literature, history, anthropology,
sociology, iconology, the history of ideas, intellectual history,
cultural history, cultural studies, geography, politics, and other
associated fields and disciplines), offering a following up of the
(Ex)patration Conference topics (Constanta, 2007). Participants are
encouraged to (re)analyze writing by the Latin poet exiled to the city
of Tomis (Constanta today), to (re)visit literature inspired by Ovid's
exile and his specific use of myth, as well as to tackle the concepts
of exile and myth from larger cross-/ inter-/ intra-disciplinary
paradigms.
We are pleased to
announce that the following colleagues have already confirmed our
invitation to participate in the conference as key-note speakers:
-
Stephen Prickett, Regius Professor Emeritus, University of Glasgow and
Visiting Professor of English, University of Kent at Canterbury
- Sean Matthews, Director,
D.H. Lawrence Research Centre, University of Nottingham
- Irina Pana, Professor of English and American literature, University
of Bucharest
Proposals (title and abstract, 200 words maximum) should be sent by
February 15, 2009 to:
- Nicoleta Stanca
<nicoletastanca@yahoo.com>
- Diana Hornoiu <dianahornoiu@gmail.com>
- Ludmila Martanovschi <ludmila_martan@yahoo.com>.
(posted 28 Nov '08)
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Scientific Research and
Teaching of Foreign Languages
University of Hradec
Králové, Czech Republic - 15 September 2009
Deadline for proposals: 29
May 2009
(closed)
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The
University of Hradec Králové, Faculty of Informatics and
Management, and Department of Applied Languages are pleased to invite
you to the international conference on "Scientific Research and
Teaching of Foreign Languages" that will be held on 15.9.2009 at the
University of Hradec Králové, Hradecká 1249/ 6,
Hradec Králové.
The full version of the conference paper is limited to six pages
(including literature, pictures or tables) of A4. The conference paper
must be submitted by 29.5.2009 at the latest by e-mail: <jazyky2009
@uhk.cz> or by mail to the Institute of Further Education, Faculty
of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec
Králové
Rokitanského 62,
500 03 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
Organizing Committee:
* Ing. Jaroslava Dittrichová, Ph.D
* Helena Holubičková
* Dušan Khom, DiS.
* Michaela Nováková
* Jana Šimková
The registration form, speaker proposal form, guidelines for authors,
as well as further information on payment, accommodation, venue, etc.
are available on the conference website.
(posted 17 Feb '09)
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FORLANG 2009 - 4th
International Conference on Foreign Languages in an Academic Environment
Technical University of
Košice, Slovakia - 17-18 September 2009
Deadline for registration:
16 June 2009
(closed)
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A conference organized
under the auspices of Dr.h.c. prof. Ing. Anton Čižmár, CSc.,
Rector of the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia.
Conference topics
1.
European Language Portfolio and Common European Framework of Reference
for Languages
2. Why to teach foreign languages at higher education institutions?
3. New trends in teaching foreign languages for specific purposes -
distance education, e-learning, etc.
4. Other methodological issues – project learning, presentation skills
and workshops in foreign language learning.
Papers written according
to guidelines and sent as MS Word attachments to
<forlang.conference@tuke.sk> by 16 September 2009 will be
published in a peer-reviewed conference proceedings distributed after
the conference.
Visit the conference website for more information: http://web.tuke.sk/forlang/index_EN.html
(posted 23 Mar '09)
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Representations of
Military Violence and Its Consequences in Literature, Film and Popular
Culture
Gdańsk, Poland
- 17-19 September 2009
Deadline for proposals: 30
April 2009
(closed)
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A conference organized
jointly by the Polish Institute and the English Institute of the
University of Gdańsk, Poland.
The conference has as its
primary focus the Second World War (1939-1945). This concentration is
motivated by the site of the conference (Gdańsk, Poland, where the
conflict began) and its opening date (on 17 September 1939 the Soviet
Union invaded Poland in support of the earlier German attack on the
country). In addition, the choice of focus recognizes that for Poles,
as for Jews, the 1939-1945 war outweighs any other recent war in
importance. The literature and culture of English-speaking countries
is, however, also rich in responses to the Second World War. It is
hoped that the bringing together of Polish and English-language
treatments of the conflict will open up useful comparative perspectives.
The conference organizers
also invite contributions on French and German experience of the
1939-1945 War.
They further seek
proposals for papers on post-1945 conflicts, such as the war in
Vietnam, colonial struggles, and the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
The languages of the
conference will be Polish and English. Simultaneous translation
services (Polish-English and English-Polish) will be provided for all
sessions.
A peer-reviewed selection of conference papers will be published in
Polish and in English.
Topics/sections
1. "How to Kill"/"Nuts!" --
the experience of combat, heroism and fear
2. "Still Falls the Rain"/"Supply Pressed American Meat" -- daily life
on the Home Front
3. A Woman's War -- Nurses, Doctors, Land Girls, WRNS, WAAFS, Rosie the
Riveter and others
4. "Little Eden"/"The Painted Bird" -- children at war
5. "Mysterious Kôr" -- war and the erotic
6. "Where Was God?"/ 'how everything turns away / quite leisurely from
the disaster' -- literary treatments of war crimes and genocide; the
Holocaust as subject matter
7. "Vergissmeinnicht"/"Maus" - memory and war
8. "Oversexed, overpaid, over here"/"Refugee Blues" -- soldiers abroad,
the experience of refugees
9. From "Banzai! Schweinhund!" to "The One Who Got Away"/"Letters from
Iwo Jima" -- the enemy in literature and film
10. "The Anatomy of Treason"/"Keep Mum, She's Not So Dumb" -- traitors
in fiction and fact
11. "The Man in the High Castle"/"SS-GB" -- alternative wars, counter
history
12. "Went the Day Well?" -- war films 1939-1945, and after
13. "Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall"/"Catch 22" -- comic
treatments of war
14. "The First Casualty" -- war propaganda in film and words
15. Post-1945 Conflicts:
- "Just below the
Manchurian border / Korea's the name of the spot" -- literature and the
Korean War
- "The Battle of Algiers" -- colonial conflicts (Kenya, Cyprus,
Algeria, Suez, Mozambique, Angola)
- "Why Are We in Vietnam?"/"Dispatches"/"Charlie don't surf" -- the
Vietnam War
- "Jarheads and Towelheads"
-- the Gulf Wars, Iraq, Afghanistan
- "Wag the Dog" -- the news media and film in post-1945 conflicts
Send abstracts of papers
(250 words, in the body of the text, not in an attachment), with a
brief biographical note, to Professor Marek Wilczyński
<marek@amu.edu.pl> and Professor David Malcolm
<angmd@univ.gda.pl> by 30 April 2009.
(posted 10 Feb '09)
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Mobile Learning and
Autonomy in Second Language Acquisition
Universidad de Castilla-La
Mancha, Toledo, Spain - 17-19 September 2009
Deadline for proposals: 31
July 2009
(closed)
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Under the impact of ICTs
in general and portable technologies in particular, mLearning (mobile
learning) is becoming a vibrant variety of e-learning. In close
connection with its disciplinary neighbours like CALL, CMC or Distance
Learning, mLearning is challenging conventional teaching-and-learning
practices, thereby becoming a fundamental area for future developments
of autonomy and independence in second language acquisition. In this
context, the EU-funded Lingua Projects EUROPODIANS (Language Courses
for Mobile Technologies) and AMICITIAS (Ambient Intelligence as a
Compelling Instructional Tool for Interlinguistic and Intercultural
Skills) are hosting a conference addressing the connections between
mLearning devices (iPods, PDAs, mobile phones, portable computers,
etc.) and self-directed learning. The symposium will become a forum to
share developments and experiences about theories, approaches,
principles and applications of mLearning, with a especial emphasis on
the application of mLearning for second language acquisition in general
and learner autonomy in particular. We welcome paper proposals dealing
with, but not being limited to, issues such as the following:
1. Theorizing mobile
learning within second-language acquisition.
2. Mobile learning and its disciplinary neighbours: ICT-based Learning,
CALL, Distance Learning, Lifelong Learning, Autonomy and Independence
in language learning.
3. Mobile learning and its potential for blended learning programmes.
4. Portable technologies and their integration within conventional
face-to-face tuition practices.
5. Mobile learning devices and language-learning virtual platforms.
6. The potential of portable technologies for the teaching and learning
of culture.
The following keynote speakers have confirmed their participation at
the conference: Marie-Noëlle Lamy (The Open University, UK) and
David Robison (University of Bradford, UK). Selected papers will be
published in a volume after the conference.
Please send 250-word abstracts by 31st July, 2009to the conference
convenors:
- Javier Enrique Díaz-Vera <JavierEnrique.Diaz@uclm.es>
or
- Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo <Eduardo.Gregorio@uclm.es>
Please indicate your full name, address and affiliation.
Further information will be updated on: http://www.uclm.es/actividades/2009/mobilearn
(website currently under construction).
(posted 8 Jun '09)
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Utopian Spaces of British
Literature and Culture, 1890-1945
University of Oxford,
UK - 18 September 2009
New extended deadline for
proposals: 15 July 2009
(closed)
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NOTE: The deadline for submission of abstracts has been
extended until 15 July.
The registration form is
available for download
on the conference website.
All delegates are
kindly asked to register before 6 September.
From the fin de
siècle to the Second World War, the construction of alternative
social and private spaces exerted a peculiar fascination for many
British writers. The cataclysmic historical events of the period
stimulated Utopian thinking and feeling even as they seemed to make
them problematic or impossible. At the same time radical demands for
new spaces, whether political, religious or aesthetic, also generated
new ways of reading and writing the familiar urban and domestic spaces
of everyday life.
The focus of the
conference is on the spatial manifestations, geographies and practices
of Utopianism, rather than on Utopianism as a category of millenarian
anticipation. Papers are invited which address the various material and
imaginary spatial forms of the Utopian impulse in the literature of
period. How do certain spaces become associated with particular
political or aesthetic visions of modernity? Does the Utopian bear a
particular affinity to some spaces, rather than to others? Is the
Utopian impulse articulated as a desire for order or anarchy?
Please send an abstract
of no more than 250 words in length, including your name, position and
institutional affiliation to <utopianspaces@ell.ox.ac.uk>.
Deadline for submission: 15 July 2009.
Plenary speakers:
Professor Jay Winter (Yale); Dr Matthew Beaumont (UCL); Iain Sinclair
(London).
For further information, accommodation possibilities and updates please
visit our website: http://www.utopianspaces.org
Papers are invited on any
aspect, historical and/or theoretical, of the conference theme. Topics
may include but are not limited to:
- the
political, religious, aesthetic nature of Utopian spaces
- the city as a Utopian space
- imaginary, geographical and textual maps
- representations of Utopian spaces in literature and other media (e.g.
painting, film, architecture)
- gendered/queer Utopian spaces (e.g. the struggle for female
emancipation; representations of the New Woman)
- Utopian aspects of the everyday; strategies for defamiliarising the
everyday (e.g. Mass Observation, Surrealism)
- theoretical considerations of Utopian ‘places’ and geographies
(Walter Benjamin, de Certeau, Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord and others)
- the theatre as a Utopian space
- mobility and transport
- exclusiveness of certain Utopian spaces (who is locked out from these
spaces and for what reasons?)
- racialized Utopian spaces
Registration
(posted 29 Apr '09, updated
15 Jun '09, updated 17 Aug '09)
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MIR Conference 09
University of Maribor,
Slovenia - 19 September 2009
Deadline for proposals: 31
May 2009
(closed)
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 The
postgraduate students of the Department of English and American Studies
at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Maribor invite colleagues
from other universities to a conference in English and American
Literature, Language and Linguistics to be held on Saturday, September
19, 2009 at the University of Maribor.
You are kindly invited to
send abstracts (max. 250 words) and registration forms to
<mbgrad@uni-mb.si> by May 31st, 2009. Mention your full name,
affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, subject area, key words,
and the title of your presentation. A selection of articles will be
published in MIR, the online literary journal of the Department of
English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University
of Maribor.
E-mail notifications of
acceptance will be sent to authors whose papers are accepted by June
30th 2009.
The presentation of your paper will take the form of a 15 minute talk
plus a 5 minute question session.
Conference fee: 30 €
Conference fee includes conference pack and coffee break refreshments.
Payment should be completed no later than July 31st 2009.
Important dates:
Submission of abstracts and
application forms: May 31th 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 30th 2009
Conference fee payment: July 31st 2009
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Linguistic and
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring - LPTS 2009
École Normale
Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France -
21-23 September 2009
Deadline for proposals: 15
May 2009 (closed)
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 The aim of the conference is to provide an
interdisciplinary forum to present and discuss recent work on markers
of discourse structure: adverbials, connectives, discourse particles,
etc. How can we categorize these markers? What kind of relations do
they express? Can they combine several functions at the sentence level
and/ or at the discourse level and, if so, which ones? What impact do
discourse structure markers have on comprehension? When and how are
they acquired? From what age are children able to master their use in
oral and written discourse?
The goal of the
conference is more specifically to advance research into the
relationship between the position of the markers concerned and their
ability to play a role in discourse organization. Do these markers have
a privileged position? We know that sentence initial position is a
strategic position in terms of information structuring/packaging and
memory. But can these factors override the word order constraints of
each language? Are there also observable variations between discourse
genres and between written and oral modes?
We invite papers using
cognitive and functional approaches, based on corpora in different
languages at different stages of their evolution, as well as papers
that report on psycholinguistic approaches based on behavioural data.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Segmentation and
linearization
- Initial positioning
- Saliency and Information Structure
- Grammaticalization and evolution of structure markers
- Typological approach to structure markers
- Spatial and temporal discourse structure
- Effects of discourse organization markers on comprehension
- Acquisition and mastery of their use in discourse production
- Role of text structuring devices in acquiring knowledge
Invited speakers:
-
Peter Crompton (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)
- Tuomas Huumo (University of Turku, Finland)
- Tuija Virtanen (Åbo Akademi University Department Of English,
Finland)
- Isabelle Tapiéro (University of Lyon 2-EMC, France)
- Yves Bestgen (FNRS - UCL, Belgium - representing the psycholinguistic
group of the Spatial Framing Adverbials project).
Proposals will be
subjected to a double, blind review and should be anonymous. They
should not exceed 1000 words (references excluded) and be sent
via email as an attachment (MS--WORD doc, rtf, or PDF) to:
<LPTSO9@ens.fr>.
Please put in the subject
line: “LPTS09_submission”. In the body of the mail, please specify:
author(s); title; affiliation of author(s); presentation or poster; 3-5
keywords.
Important dates:
- Submission deadline: May
15th 2009
- Notification of acceptance: June 15th 2009
- Early registration deadline: July 10th 2009
Details about the registration procedure will be posted on the
conference website shortly:
http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/Linguistic-and-Psycholinguistic
For further information contact Laure Sarda, LATTICE laboratory, UMR
8094 CNRS & ENS: <Laure.sarda@ens.fr>
(posted 19 Mar '09)
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Dis/solutions: the future
of the past in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (10th Biennial
EASA Conference)
University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
- 22-25 September 2009
Deadline for proposals: 1
April 2009
(closed)
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 In his momentous Sorry
speech of February 13, 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd confidently
announced Australia’' firm resolution to /turn a new page in history by
writing the wrongs of the past /and find solutions for the future. The
overwhelming task at hand for Australians in the 21st century is none
but to /close the gap that lies between indigenous and non-indigenous
/peoples and /shape the next chapter /of their history by redefining
the terms of the country’s foundational myths and (his)stories.
Certainly, to quote from Henry Lawson, the country has come a long way
since "it began to boomerang". But in order /to take heart for the
future/ and for its peoples /to become fully reconciled to their past/
they need to revisit and reassess whole chapters of their history until
old lies, myths and stereotypes dissolve and clear the ground for new
solutions, aimed at reconciliation but addressing also possible ways of
articulating a multicultural Australia.
Across the Tasman they
have been clearing the ground for a considerably longer while;
nonetheless there are still pending gaps to be bridged, not only
between Maori and Pakeha, but with other ethnic and social minorities,
in relation to their position and partaking in the diverse national
debates in which New Zealand is currently engaged. As the general
election approaches in late 2008, this might be a good moment both to
discuss possible solutions for old and new problems and to consider the
revision, if not the dissolution, of some of the country’s narratives
and myths.
As for the wider Pacific
region, the challenges faced by its peoples in the 21st century
continue to be determined by uninterrupted currents of change.
Migration movements, political and economic instabilities and global
flows of transcultural exchange have altered the profile of the region,
resulting both in the dissolution of local allegiances and traditional
values and in the creation of new transnational bonds and interinsular
networks, which will inevitably determine the future of the region and
the ways in which we choose to undertake any discussion of its past.
Under the same sun, but
from the opposite hemisphere, with this conference we propose to light
a homely fire, put another billy on and invite boiling academic
discussion over the issue of national and cultural (dis)solutions in
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Our aim will be to explore to
what extent the future of these nations and the region at large will
depend on the disintegration of the allegiances and narratives of the
past, whether those /old approaches /that have failed so far can really
be superseded by new political solutions, new cultural
(re)constructions and narrative formulas, and which aspects are
involved in the process of (dis)solving the past and the present /to go
forward with confidence/.
We particularly welcome submissions that are concerned with (but not
limited to):
· The dissolution,
reconstruction, faking and performance of cultural, national and ethnic
identities.
· The dissolution of History in favour of histories, herstories,
stories.
· Dissolutions and new configurations of landscapes, seascapes
and cityscapes.
· Dissolutions of gender, racial, social, ethnic and indigenous
conflicts.
· Dis/solving multicultural, migration, refugee issues.
· Dis/solving historical mysteries, silences, traumas.
· Dissolving and resolving political and cultural dilemmas of
the 21^st century.
· Dis/solving memories. Re/membering stories.
· Dis/solutions and dis/illusions.
· Diasporic, global
and local dis/solutions.
Our Association’s inter-
and multidisciplinary approach to studies on Australia, New Zealand and
the Pacific can host presentations from a wide range of disciplines and
subject areas such as: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies,
Gender Studies,
History, Linguistics, Literature, Media and Film Studies, Political
Science, Sociology, Visual and performing arts, etc
We encourage a liberal and creative approach to the topic.
One day preceding the conference will be devoted to a *Postgraduate
Seminar*, where postgraduate/advanced students will be able to discuss
their work with experts in their field in a lecture + workshop format.
Please e-mail your 250-word abstracts, marking its subject "10th EASA
Conference", by 1st APRIL 2009 to: <paloma.fresno@uib.es>.
Acceptance of papers will be communicated by 1st May 2009.
For further information, please visit: http://www.easa-australianstudies.net/intro.php
Organising Committee: Paloma Fresno, Aurora García, Alejandra
Moreno, Eva
Pérez, Cristina Suárez, Lucía Loureiro, Marta
Fernández, J. Igor Prieto, Marian Amengual, Juana Mª
Seguí and Caty Ribas (members of the research group "Cultural
Diversity in English-Speaking
Countries" (University of the Balearic Islands).
(posted 8 Jun '08)
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Celebrating Katherine
Mansfield
Menton, France
- 25 September 2009
Deadline for proposals: 14
June 2009
(closed)
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 A Symposium
organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society to celebrate the 40th
anniversary of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship
The year 2009 sees the
40th anniversary of the founding of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial
Fellowship, offered annually to enable a New Zealand writer to work at
the Villa Isola Bella in Menton, once the home of Katherine Mansfield.
During a week of celebrations in Menton from 21-26 September 2009 to
mark this anniversary, the Katherine Mansfield Society will be holding
a Symposium on Friday 25 September.
The Symposium will be opened by H.E. Sarah Dennis, New Zealand
Ambassador to France
and Richard Cathie, Chair, Winn-Manson Menton Trust
Keynote speakers (both former Menton Fellows):
- Vincent O’Sullivan
(invited by Association France Nouvelle-Zélande)
- C.K. Stead
- Gerri Kimber,
(Deputy-Chair, Katherine Mansfield Society), will present a talk on
Katherine Mansfield's reputation in France.
- Amelia McBride, playwright, will perform her play 'Something Childish
but Very Natural', including adaptations of Katherine's stories, on the
subject of growing up and learning to love.
We now invite 200 word
abstracts on ANY aspect of Katherine Mansfield studies for 15 minute
papers to be presented at the Symposium. Papers on Mansfield in
relation to French literature or related to the Menton Fellowship will
be particularly welcome.
Please send your
abstracts to the Symposium organisers: Professor Janet Wilson, Dr Delia
da Sousa Correa and Dr Gerri Kimber:
<kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org>.
Closing date for submissions: 14 June 2009.
For further details and updates, please visit our website: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/
The Katherine Mansfield Society gratefully acknowledges the support of:
- New Zealand Embassy Paris
- The Winn-Manson Menton Trust
- Association France Nouvelle-Zélande
- Mairie de Menton
(posted 13 Apr '09)
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The European Avant-Garde
1890-1930
University College Dublin,
Ireland - 25-26 September 2009
Deadline for propoals: 15
June 2009
(closed)
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An interdisciplinary
postgraduate conference supported by the UCD Graduate School in Arts
and Celtic Studies.
In his seminal 1974 book,
Theory of the Avant-Garde,
Peter Bürger wrote that the aim of the avant-gardists was to
"reintegrate art into the praxis of life". With this statement in
mind, we are pleased to announce the call for papers for an
interdisciplinary conference examining the European Avant-Garde, during
the period 1890-1930.
Papers addressing the avant-garde in literature, the visual arts,
architecture, theatre and film are all welcome.
Speakers may wish to consider, among other issues,
- the movements of
Futurism, Cubism, Dadaism and Expressionism
- specific writers, artists or playwrights within the time period and
their relation to avant-garde aesthetics
- the interaction of avant-garde movements with politics
- the interplay between different avant-garde movements
- the avant-garde as an attack on the concept of art as an institution
- technology and the avant-garde
- the legacy of the avant-garde
- the avant-garde at the turn of the century
- translating the avant-garde
Proposals may come from
the disciplines of modern languages (French, Italian, Spanish, German,
Portuguese), English, art history, film, drama and theatre studies and
comparative studies.
We invite proposals for
twenty-minute papers from postgraduate students. Papers should be
in English. Abstracts (maximum 300 words), together with a short
biography indicating your academic background and research interests
should be emailed to the organizers at the addresses below by June
15th, 2009. Please include your name, academic affiliation, and
contact details.
Organizers:
Selena Daly
<selena.daly@ucd.ie>
Monica Insinga <monica.insinga@ucdconnect.ie>.
(posted 8 Apr '09)
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