CFP: MP Journal (www.academinist.org/mp) Fall 2009 issue | cfp.english.upenn.edu

MP Journal (http://www.academinist.org ) is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to feminism and women’s studies. Our journal is proudly indexed by Academic Search Premier, EBSCO Host.

We are currently seeking submissions for our fall 2009 edition. Our theme is Anything Goes! Quality, well supported papers on any topic related to feminism or women’s studies are welcome for consideration. Please send full text papers as a Word attachment, a 50 word bio, contact information, and a resume /CV to Lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com by June 29, 2009.

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Sidney at Kalamazoo (9/15/2009; Kalamazoo, 5/13-16/2010) | cfp.english.upenn.edu

The Sidney Society will sponsor three open sessions on Philip Sidney and his Circle at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan). The conference website is here: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/

May 13-16, 2010

Abstracts are invited on any subject dealing with Philip Sidney and his circle. As ever, we encourage proposals from newcomers as well as established scholars.

Papers should be limited to twenty minutes in reading time. Please do not submit an abstract to two different sessions of the conference in the same year.

Abstracts (500 words) should be submitted electronically and should indicate clearly your mailing address and phone number. If you need special equipment for the talk (digital projector, etc.), let us know when you submit your abstract, rather than later, please.

Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2007.

Please send your abstracts (email preferably) to:

Joel Davis

jbdavis@stetson.edu

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Current Research on Cervantes (Abstract Deadline 06/15/09) | cfp.english.upenn.edu

We invite interdisciplinary papers that analyze any aspect of the works of Miguel de Cervantes. Possible topics may include, but are not limited, to the following: relevance of Cervantes in today’s literature, place of Cervantes’s minor works in the literary canon, masculine and feminine discourses in his prose works, intersection among literature, politics and religion in any of his works, space and identity formation, and images of mythology. The work(s) of Cervantes may also be compared and contrasted with that of another Spanish author. Paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Potential panelists should submit abstracts of approximately 200-250 words by June 15th to Maria Mizzi, The University of Georgia, at mmizzi@uga.edu

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[UPDATE] Collection: The Cartographical Necessity of Exile (abstracts, 9/1/09) | cfp.english.upenn.edu

THE CARTOGRAPHICAL NECESSITY OF EXILE

Derek Walcott identified a cartographical necessity of exile in his 1984 collection of poetry, Midsummer, when he wrote:

So, however far you have travelled, your

steps make more holes and the mesh is multiplied –

… exiles must make their own maps

This collection will seek to understand this cartographical imperative. What is the relationship between exile – understood broadly in its most modern, splintered sense to include external and internal exile, diaspora, deterritorialization, reterritorialization, expatriation, migrants, refugees, nomads, the disappeared and the ex-disappeared – and map-making? Mapping is a certain science that enables emplacement and facilitates movement. Yet it can also be an aesthetic project that draws on a heightened awareness of space and place, memory, and historical imaginary. So what kinds of maps do exiles make? Are they private maps or maps that can be shared? How are they conceived of and how are they read? How do they provide for new ways of thinking about the experience of exile? How do authors writing in or about exile represent the doubly ontological and epistemological exercise of map-making? And how, finally, might a cartographical necessity of exile challenge how we conceive of mapping, its history and future, its function, tools, and media?

I am interested in essays that respond to this inquiry from any disciplinary perspective, working in any language, historical period, literary tradition or medium. I anticipate placing the collection with a university press prepared to welcome the inclusion of visual media. Please submit abstracts of 300-500 words and a current CV to kebishop@fas.harvard.edu by 1 September 2009. Final essays of 5,000-8,000 will be due by 1 December 2009. Please note that an invitation to submit completed essays will not necessarily guarantee inclusion in the collection; all final decisions will be made on the merit of the final article. Please also direct any questions or requests for further information to the above email

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Shakespeare and the Art of Lying, Oct. 3-7, 2009, IIAS Simla, India | cfp.english.upenn.edu

The aim of the workshop, to be held over an extended period of time, unlike that of a seminar, is not so much to arrive at firm conclusions but to raise questions that are exploratory in nature, to have an in-depth discussion of the variety and seriousness of Shakespeare’s thoughts on this issue and, in the process, to rethink a concern that can never be out of date.

Those interested in presenting a paper, should mail the full paper of a minimum of 5000 words, excluding notes, (roughly 50 minutes’ duration,) by August 14, 2009, to the President of the Shakespeare Society, email: panjashormishtha@gmail.com.

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Renaissance Transformations (6/1/09); SAMLA (11/6/09-11/8/09) | cfp.english.upenn.edu

Call for submissions to the English II panel, “Renaissance Transformations,” at this November’s SAMLA convention in Atlanta, GA.

As we ponder the issue of change in the post-modern world, we would also like to reconsider how the early modern period imagined transformation. Transformation may include changes political, physical, or psychological boundary crossings or rhetorical tropes. What are the major concerns attendants upon change in early modern England? Is transformation always construed as transgressive and liminal, or does it also have positive social and literary implications? Can we identify a unified discourse of transformation from the various articulations of change in early modern literature?

By June 1, 2009, please send abstracts of 300 words to Niamh J. O’Leary, Pennsylvania State University, at niamhjoleary at gmail dot com.

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Women in the Archives, April 24, 2010 | cfp.english.upenn.edu

Proposals of 300 words are invited for a one-day colloquium, “Women in the Archives: England/New England”, at Brown University.

Women in the Archives explores the use of archival materials in the study of women’s writing, and the construction of disciplinary practices in archival research and pedagogy. This year our theme is “England/New England”, focusing on periodization and regionality in women’s writing during the colonial period. Papers might address themes such as the following:

* colonial perspectives on English culture and writing (and vice versa)

* gender and the emerging sense of regional or national identity

* literary periodization and its complications for colonial writing

* copyright, intellectual property, and gender

The larger concerns of the Women in the Archives series as a whole include:

* pedagogy and interdisciplinary pedagogies

* the construction of archival spaces

* material modes of textuality across disciplines

* technologies of research and teaching, and the impact of digital media on the archive

* new directions in archival research

* editing archival materials

Please submit proposals of 300 words to WWP@brown.edu by October 1, 2009. For more information please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/about/activities/wia/.

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Textual Ancestry (5/17/09; GEMCS, 10/22/09-10/25/09) | cfp.english.upenn.edu

The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies; October 22-25, 2009; Dallas, Texas

Textual Ancestry

In keeping with the GEMCS conference’s theme of “tracing footprints,” this panel explores how a text’s literary ancestors affected the conception, production, and/or dissemination of that text. Papers should examine the impact of textual predecessors on a specific work or body of work, or papers could address how one author’s work directly influenced another’s. Papers that address all genres and historical periods related to early modern studies are welcome.

One-page abstracts (or less) should be sent to Misty Krueger via email at mkrueger@utk.edu by May 17, 2009. For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website at http://www.english.fsu.edu/gemcs/.

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Gender (06/20/2009) | cfp.english.upenn.edu

The editors invite contributions for the forthcoming issue on the theme of GENDER from postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers working across the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Suggested areas for articles include, but are not restricted to:

Cinema, Film & Television

Embodiment, Space & Time

Feminism, Anti-feminism, & Masculinism

Equality & Liberation

Gender, Sex & Androgyny

Language & Linguistics

Stylistics and Discourse

Teaching, Learning & Acquisition

Please send submissions in Microsoft Word format to: e-pisteme@ncl.ac.uk

All submissions must contain the following information:

Completed article (3000-4000 words)

Abstract (100-200 words)

3 to 5 Keywords

Name / Affiliation / Stage of study

E-mail address

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 01 JULY 2009

For more information about e-pisteme and our submission guidelines, please visit: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/e-pisteme/

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‘Reinventing the Renaissance Occult’ 14.11.09 Deadline for proposal 31.5.09 | cfp.english.upenn.edu

‘Reinventing the Renaissance Occult in Modern and Post-modern Culture’

Over the last hundred years many creative writers, critics, thinkers and artists – for example Peter Ackroyd, Derek Jarman, Carl Jung and Marina Warner – have turned to the magicians and alchemists of the Renaissance period for inspiration. Some have been drawn to the intriguing remoteness of such figures from our own more scientific and sceptical age. Others, by contrast, have sought to discover unexpected points of contact between the mysteries of the occult and more modern mysteries, such as quantum science. The lure of the occult today may partly be explained by a growing dissatisfaction with Enlightenment rationalism and its perceived failure to address fundamental human concerns.

This conference, which will take place on Saturday 14 November 2009 at Anglia Ruskin University, will explore these more recent aspects of the afterlife of the Renaissance Occult. We welcome brief proposals for 30 minute papers from creative writers and scholars in any relevant field. Keynote speakers will include Professor Gyorgy Szonyi, a Leverhulme Visiting Professor from the University of Szeged, Dr Ewan Fernie (Royal Holloway) and Professor Marina Warner (Essex). Please send your abstract to sarah.brown@anglia.ac.uk by 31.5.09.

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