CFP: The Jewish Woman and Her Body (10/1/09; 3/7-9/10)

The Jewish Woman and her Body

Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio

March 7-9, 2010

Call for Papers deadline: October 1, 2009

Since Eve, the woman and her body have had a central position in Jewish tradition. Experiences such as childbirth, violence, sexuality, hunger, infertility, and aging have preoccupied Jewish life. Representations of the female body in Jewish texts include idealization, restriction, and objectification. This interdisciplinary conference will explore real and imagined constructions of the Jewish woman and her body.

Proposals from all disciplinary approaches, historical periods and geographical locations are welcome.

Submissions for individual papers should consist of a 250 word abstract, contact information, and a short bio of the speaker. Proposals for a panel should include a 100 word description of the overall panel in addition to a 250 word abstract of each paper on the panel as well as contact information and a short bio of each speaker.

Proposals should be sent electronically to:

Dr. Helene J. Sinnreich

Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies

Youngstown State University

hjsinnreich@ysu.edu

Review Board:

Helene Sinnreich, History and Holocaust, Youngstown State University (Host and Co-Chair)

Rachel S. Harris, Hebrew Literature and Israel Studies, University at Albany (SUNY) (Co-Chair)

Judith Lewin, English and Jewish Literature, Union College

Caryn Aviv, Sociology, Denver University

Marla Segol, Religion, Skidmore College

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CFP: Maternity and Romance Narrative in the Renaissance (5/2/09; RSA ‘10)

Panel Title Maternity and Romance Narrative in the Renaissance

Contact Information

Karen Bamford

Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB CANADA

kbamford@mta.ca

Proposed Topic Area

Helen Hackett notes the “profoundly ambivalent attitude to the maternal” in Shakespeare’s last plays (_Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance_ , 155). In spite of the associations of romance as a genre with a female readership, such ambivalence to the maternal may characterize the romance tradition more broadly. This panel will explore aspects of the maternal in the romance narratives that circulated in England and continental Europe in the Renaissance. Papers may consider romance in any genre or guise.

Proposals are invited from graduate students as well as more senior scholars of literature for papers at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, to be held in Venice on 8-10 April 2010.

Papers may be proposed and given in either English or Italian.

Please send a brief abstract, as well as a short CV, to kbamford@mta.ca, by Friday, April 18th. Accepted proposals will be announced by May 2nd.

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CFP: Early Modern Women Writers and Genre (5/2/09; RSA ‘10)

2010 RSA Venice Conference Call for Papers

These Calls are prepared by individuals who wish to create a panel on a specific topic. Please contact the individual directly regarding this Call.

Panel Title Early Modern Women Writers and Genre

Contact Information

Martine van Elk

California State University, Long Beach

mvanelk@csulb.edu

Proposed Topic Area This panel explores the choices early modern women writers made among literary forms. How do women’s artistic choices respond to and seek to change the cultural climate in which they worked? How did the book market and manuscript circulation relate to female artistic output? How did literary contacts and influence affect women’s generic choices? And once women decided to work within specific genres, how did they transform those genres? How does work in literary genres relate to other female artistic output such as painting, embroidery, paper cutting, and glass engraving?

Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches are welcome.

Please e-mail an abstract and a brief CV to Martine van Elk at mvanelk@csulb.edu by May 2, 2009.

This session will be sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

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Reflections in the Margins: Representations of the Marginalized in Iberian and Latin American Literatures | cfp.english.upenn.edu

2009 marks, in addition to an historic moment in US politics, the anniversary of many watershed moments in the history of Hispanic Literatures. On the Peninsula, this year marks the 400th anniversary of the expulsion of the moriscos from Spain, ending the era of the so-called convivencia of three cultures in Iberia. In Latin America, we celebrate the 400th anniversary of the 1609 publication of the Comentarios Reales by the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, offering a new perspective in the telling of indigenous history in the New World. . In more recent history, we commemorate seventy years since the end of the Spanish Civil War and the ushering in of a dictatorship, which would attempt to silence dissident voices in three ensuing decades.

Given the historic nature of these anniversaries in relation to how the Hispanic world has dialogued with and about marginalized groups the Spanish graduate students in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago are organizing its 3rd annual conference entitled “Reflections in the Margins: Representations of the Marginalized in Iberian and Latin American Literatures,” which will take place October 16-17, 2009 at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago.

The list of questions we hope to consider includes, but is by no means limited to, the following:

• How have traditionally marginalized writers (mestizos, slaves, females, homosexuals) made their voices heard in Hispanic literature?

• How have the marginalized (Jews, moriscos, gypsies, the indigenous, mestizos, blacks, prostitutes, heretics, criminals, pícaros, the mentally ill, the sexually “deviant” etc.) been represented in oral, written and visual cultures of the Hispanic world?

• How are marginalized bodies treated as disposable objects? How are the conditions of marginality performed?

• How does the very language of expression (indigenous, Catalan, Basque, etc) contribute to the marginalization and expression of voices?

The conference organizing committee welcomes papers from all theoretical perspectives in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Interdisciplinary proposals are particularly encouraged. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes in length (7-8 typed pages, double-spaced).

Abstracts of approximately 250 words may be sent as a Word attachment to marginalizedvoices@gmail.com.

For more information, please visit our website: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/sgsc/

The deadline for abstract submissions is June 30, 2009.

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Shakespeare as Critic: In His Time and Ours: Literary, Social and Political conference 8-10 October 2009 | cfp.english.upenn.edu

ABOUT THE SEMINAR

Great writers are gifted with not merely powerful imaginations but also incisive intellects. The greatest among world writers, Shakespeare had both these gifts in greater measure than any other writer known to mankind. Given to seeing life steadily and seeing it whole Shakespeare screened and scrutinized every subject he presented on the stage showing it from all sides, throwing the dramatic searchlight on every nook and corner in the multi-dimensional structure of his plays, be they comedies, tragedies, histories, or romances. Among the more prominent aspects of Shakespeare’s picture of life which readily attract critical attention are the literary, social and political, for it is these, more than all others, that seem to have interested the dramatist most.

In all the phases of his career as dramatist and poet Shakespeare seems to have remained interested in the ongoing debates in his time about the theories of literature and language, structures of society, and paradoxes of politics, for time and again the bard of Stratford returns to these themes from Henry VI to Henry VIII, from The Taming of the Shrew to Timon of Athens, from Twelfth Night to The Tempest. Although one cannot mention a subject in Shakespeare which has not elicited considerable critical writing, one can still speak of those not hitherto treated together, nor made to reflect the common search light that critically illuminates the various themes as the sun illuminates the various universe.

It is with these ideas in view that the international seminar on Shakespeare has been planned to draw together eminent scholars and debate these prominent aspects of his work, showing how the three are not only distinct but interrelated as well, and also reveal the writer’s allround critical intelligence that does not fail to expose the sublime, as well as the sordid side of life and literature, social customs and conventions, their edicts and institutions. Hopefully, the debate will yield rewarding results of significance to the ever-growing Shakespeare scholarship

Please send your abstract to Professor S.P.S. Dahiya or prof bhim S. Dahiya at his email:

spsdahiya@yahoo.com and bhimsdahiya@gmail.com

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Shift: Queen’s Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture – Call for Papers, Deadline: April 1, 2009 | cfp.english.upenn.edu

We are pleased to announce an open call for submissions to the second issue of Shift, set to be launched 01 October 2009. Shift welcomes academic papers, as well as exhibition and book reviews, dealing with visual and material culture from graduate students in any discipline in the humanities. Papers may address a full range of topics and historical periods. Topics may include, but are not limited to, art and propaganda, patronage, gender and identity, spirituality and art, nationalisms and regionalisms, modernism and modernity, performance art, photography and film, perspectives in theory, methodology, and historiography, collection and representation, art and technology.

All manuscripts should be sent by email to sh.ift@queensu.ca by 01 April 2009. For further details and submission guidelines please see the journal website at http://www.shiftjournal.org/callforpapers.htm.

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Women in Literature: PAMLA Annual Conference at San Francisco State University Nov. 6-7, 2009 | cfp.english.upenn.edu

Call for Papers Online Submission Deadline: March 30, 2009

The “Women in Literature” panel of this years PAMLA conference invites proposals for papers addressing the session topic from a broad range of scholarly perspectives.

Graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars from the United States and abroad are all welcome to submit a proposal via PAMLAs online submission form at http://www.pamla.org/2009/proposals. Please keep proposals to 500 words or less and include an abstract of your paper no more than 50 words.

Please visit http://www.pamla.org/ for information regarding PAMLA, its peer-reviewed journal _Pacific Coast Philology_ to which session presenters are encouraged to submit their papers to be considered for publication, membership requirements for conference presenters, and conference registration.

The sessions presiding officer, Melissa Baker, may be reached at Melissa.Baker@asu.edu if you have any further questions about the session.

Shakespeare (5/15/09; 10/1-3/09)

Popular Culture/American Culture Association in the South Conference

Wilmington, NC October 1-3, 2009

Deadline: May 15, 2009

Proposals are invited for papers on teaching Shakespeare to today’s undergraduates, on Shakespeare and film, on theatrical productions, and on other topics relevant to Shakespeare in popular and/or American culture. Send abstracts (maximum of 200 words) by May 15, 2009, to Prof. Emily Miller, Department of English and Fine Arts, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia 24450 or e-mail them to millerep@vmi.edu. Maximum reading time for papers: twenty minutes.

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Pre-1700 English Literature (3/30/09; PAMLA, 11/6/09-11/7/09) | cfp.english.upenn.edu

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference

Session Topic: English Literature (pre-1700)

November 6-7, 2009

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, California

Submission Deadline: March 30, 2009

Paper proposals sought for a panel on Pre-1700 English Literature.

Proposals on any topic within the field are encouraged.

Please submit a 500 word proposal and 50 word abstract through the online proposal submission form: http://pamla.org/2009/proposals

See the PAMLA website (www.pamla.org) for information regarding membership and conference registration.

Questions about the panel session can be directed to the presiding officer, Hilda Ma, at hm1@stmarys-ca.edu.

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