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Call-for-Papers - the starting point for even thinking about Abstracts and Conferences. This is Part One in our online content for today's workshop "
Designing Abstracts and Attending Conferences." Please join us this afternoon in Rome 771 at 2:00pm
In the meantime, check out some of the latest CFPs to hit my desk. These have all been emailed from fellow grads, faculty, or from the list-serves that I have joined in the past year (all great ways to find conferences in your field). Another excellent resource is checking in with the
U Penn CFP site (the search function is the best).
They are organized here by the
Abstract Deadline Date - I find this helpful in keeping my CFPs organized. These are not complete CFPs, but they include all of the major details like location, dates, and submission rules. To check out the full CFP, click on the links or send an email our way if you have any questions.
From now on, EGSA Blog will post regular updates on CFPs that we think will interest you. Also, stay tuned for the rest of our online content regarding Abstract writing and Conference Tips.
October 24, 2011 –
Predicate
For this year’s
issue, entitled Imperative, Predicate seeks scholarship that at
its core is
immediate. You need
not interpret “immediate” as limited to “contemporary”: we want papers
that signal or
demonstrate movement in the critical discourse of any time period. Since
imperative implies
demand, a successful paper will demand change in the fields it engages, or
respond to a demand
made by an external force: scholarship, politics, culture, daily life, etc.
Potential topics
include:
● Cultural crises
and shifts
● Developments in
technology and new ways to engage with texts
● Conversations
between disparate or previously discarded points of view
● The body in
conversation with the rhetorics of regulatory systems
● The emergence of
change within a social movement or academic field
● Language in flux,
specifically but not limited to issues of authorship, gender, race,
ablebodiedness, and class
● The immediacy of
stasis, circularity, and the failure or refusal to move
Submissions should
be sent as email attachments to the address below. Please do not include your
name in the text of the paper. In the body of your email, include your name,
your class year, the title of your paper, the subject of your paper and a brief
biography listing your research interests. Papers should not exceed 5,000 words
in length. Submissions are due on Monday 24
·
Conference Dates: March
21-25, 2012 in Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel
Featuring our own Jeffrey Cohen as Guest Scholar
We welcome paper proposals on
all aspects of the fantastic, and especially encourage papers on the work of our
special guests and attending authors. Please see our website at www.iafa.org for information about how to propose
panel sessions or participate in creative programming at the conference. Paper
proposals must consist of a 300-word abstract accompanied by an appropriate
bibliography to the appropriate Division Head (see our website for details).
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2011. Participants will be notified
by November 15, 2011, if they are accepted to the conference. Attendees may
present only one paper at the conference and should not submit to multiple
divisions. If you are uncertain as to which Division you should submit
November 1, 2011 - 21st Annual
British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
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February 17-18, 2012 at the Hilton DeSoto in Savannah, Georgia and hosted
by the Department of Literature and Philosophy at Georgia Southern University.
Click here to submit your proposal:
We invite
proposals in the following thematic and geographic areas:
Bioethics,
Ecology, and Ecocriticism
Migration,
Diaspora, Hybridity, and Borders
Region,
Religion, Politics, and Culture
Literature,
Arts, and the Media
History
and Historiography
War and Terrorism
Race,
Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
Ethics,
Economics, and Globalization
Pedagogy
and the Disciplines
The
Americas (North America, Latin America, Native America, Ethnic America)
Europe
(Fortress Europe, Eurabia, Londonistan)
South Asia
(Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka)
Southeast
Asia (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)
Africa
(Nigeria, South Africa, Black Atlantic)
The Middle
East
Australia
and Oceania
U.S. Hegemony
and Chinese Neocolonialism
Or any
other aspect of the British Commonwealth of nations, or of countries formerly
colonized by other European powers
November 4, 2011 – Ethics, Evil, and the State
·
Prague, Czech Republic; Sunday 6th May – Tuesday
8th May 2012
Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues relating,
but not restricted to the following themes:
Is the state a necessary construction?
Is the state necessarily evil? Is the state a power for good?
The legitimisation of authority.
The state and elitism.
The state and policing.
Is federalism the answer to the dissolution of the nation-state?
Anarchism as a viable solution.
Legitimate and illegitimate protest.
Rioting, looting and banking
The state and oppression
Alternative forms of government.
The ‘Arab Spring’
Real communities.
The state and violence.
Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts
should be submitted by Friday 4th November 2011. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 9th March
2012.
Click
Here for more information.
November 15, 2011 – “So What? Exploring the Importance of
Humanities Studies in the 21st
Century” North Carolina State University February 24-25, 2012
We encourage graduate students
from all areas of the humanities to submit and share their research. We welcome
submissions that reframe existing and emerging research to interrogate the
significance of humanities studies, and the possible trajectories of the fields
that comprise the humanities in the coming decades.
·
Potential topics might include:
- The role of technology in the
academy
- New modes of scholarship
- How language shapes research in
all fields
- Ways of knowing
- Communication between academic
and popular readers
- Changing boundaries of “text”
- Engaged scholarship
- Reconciling historical
perspectives with emerging trends
- Examining the function of
humanities scholarship in society at large
We welcome submissions from disciplines across the humanities: English
studies, literature, linguistics, film studies, creative writing,
scientific/technical writing, rhetoric & composition, cultural studies,
interdisciplinary studies, and others.
Email your submissions to aegs.conference@gmail.com
no later than November 15, 2011. Abstracts should be approximately 300
words. Include your name, institution,
and course of study in the body of your email.
Please remove all identifying markers on the abstract itself. We
will send confirmations upon the receipt of your proposal. Additional
information available at cfp.english.upenn.edu
November
2011: International Journal of Humanities
and Social Science (IJHSS)
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS) is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed
international journal published by Centre
for Promoting Ideas, USA. The main
objective of IJHSS is to provide an intellectual platform for the international
scholars. IJHSS aims to promote interdisciplinary studies in humanities and
social science and become the leading journal in humanities and social science
in the world.
·
The journal publishes research papers in the
fields of humanities and social science such as anthropology, business studies, communication studies, corporate governance, criminology, cross-cultural
studies ,demography, development
studies, economics, education, ethics, geography, history,
industrial relations, information
science, international relations, law, linguistics, library
science, media
studies, methodology, philosophy, political
science, population Studies, psychology, public administration, sociology, social welfare, linguistics ,literature,
paralegal, performing arts (music, theatre & dance), religious studies,
visual arts, women studies and so on.
The
journal is published in both print
and online versions. The journal is
now indexed with and included in Cabell’s, Ulrich’s, DOAJ, Index
Copernicus International, EBSCO and Gale. Moreover the journal is under the
indexing process with ISI, ERIC, Econlit, Scopus and Journalseek.
IJHSS publishes original papers, review papers,
conceptual framework, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical
research, technical notes, and book reviews.
·
Central European University, Budapest, 21-22 May
2012
It is
therefore the aim of the proposed conference to explore how ‘living together in diversity’ is imagined, narrated, organized,
justified, and practiced within contemporary national societies. With the
stress on ‘in’ rather than ‘with’ diversity we want to move away from reifying
the dominant ‘majority’ society perspective, which assumes diversity as
something ‘carried’ solely by immigrants and something that the ‘native’
society has to cope with. Some of the questions that we are interested in are:
- What
makes multicultural societies circumscribed by state borders cohere together?
- What are
the ways in which the nation becomes re-signified to accommodate the
ethno-cultural diversity of its populace?
- How do
migrants position themselves in national narratives and political structures?
- What
alternative modes and models of belonging are at work within present national
societies?
- In which
ways does the national continue to feature as a site of attachment?
- Is it necessary
to have some form of common identification at the national scale to have
functioning states in the first place?
Although
we acknowledge that these questions are inescapably normative in character, we
particularly welcome empirically-informed work. The privileged level of
analysis we are interested in is the national scale, but papers focusing on
sub-national and supra-national scales can also be welcomed inasmuch as they
can offer insights regarding how living together in diversity works at the national
scale. Regionally, the conference will focus on Europe, but contributions
discussing other geographical contexts are also welcomed.
All
potential participants are invited to submit an abstract (250-300 words) to
Tatiana Matejskova (MatejskovaT@ceu.hu) by
December 31st, 2011. By January 31st, 2012
participants will be informed about the acceptance of their papers.
Confirmation of participation and payment of the conference fee will be due on
February 28th, 2012. The conference fee of 60 Euros will cover refreshments,
lunches and conference materials.
·
University of Wyoming April
12-14, 2012
Possible Topics:
How does the role of first person narrative change in video games? What does the reader experience while
actively undergoing the events of the narrative, vs. passively experiencing
them?
What does the ability of choice in a narrative do for the experience of
reading the text? Is the player more
connected to the characters by choosing the actions and outcomes of that
character? Or is a specific, single
narrative path that allows all players to experience it in a similar way a
better kind of narrative?
How is sexuality dealt with in video games? How is sex depicted, and what happens when
controversy arises? How does this differ
from more traditional narrative forms?
What about games with all characters being unrealistically bisexual?
How is feminism handled in video games?
What, if anything, establishes characters like Samus as feminist
characters? Is there a double standard
with women with exaggerated female characteristics, like Lara Croft, being
attacked as problematic from women, while exaggerated male characteristics in
characters, such as Marcus Fenix, are not?
What impact does race have on games?
Why are so many player characters white; what does that do to the
narrative? How could/should race be
used? Why are games like Resident Evil 5 criticized because the
villains are black?
What is the difference between reading an evil character and actively
playing one? How does that change the
experience of the text?
Why are video games so oriented towards violence? What about the textual form of video games
makes violence such a common choice in game play? Is this healthy for the medium? How does this affect games in the larger
culture?
Please submit your 200-300 words abstracts before January 15
via
www.uwplayology.com.
We will let you know no later than February
15.
Please include contact information,
your institutional affiliation, and any audio/visual requirements.
Any questions can be answered by contacting
the conference organizers using the website or emailing the conference
organizers at uwplayology@gmail.com.
