cfp-12th International Cultural Studies Symposium

EGE UNIVERSITY
12th INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL STUDIES SYMPOSIUM
April 29-May 1, 2009
Departments of English Language and Literature
&
American Culture and Literature
Izmir, TURKEY

Redefining
Modernism & Postmodernism

This conference invites reconsideration of modernity, modernism and postmodernism from literary, cultural and a wide range of interdisciplinary aspects, aiming to broaden the current debates.

Panel proposals chaired by colleagues from different universities are especially welcome, along with individual papers, roundtables, workshops and performances either in English or Turkish. Please note that there will be no translations during the conference.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

Modernities / Postmodernities
From tradition to innovation / modernism, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, postmodernism
Ethics of (post)modernity
Dialectics of enlightenment
Eradication, redemption or reconstruction of myths
Mechanism of (dis)belief
Aspects and limits of certainty
Primitivity and (post)modernity
‘Biophilia’ and biopolitics
(Post)modernity and (meta)narratives
(Post)modernity and time
Modernity and secularism
Aesthetics of modernity
Historical relativism
Modernity and the Body
Crisis in representation

The deadline for proposals: December 19, 2008.
 

Please send a 250 word abstract for a 20 minute paper and a short bio in the form of an email ‘word’ attachment to the coordinator at:
css2009ege@gmail.com

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şebnem Toplu
Dept. English Language & Literature
Faculty of Letters
Ege University,
35100-Bornova, Izmir
Turkey
Fax: +90 (232) 388 11 02

Selected papers will be published in the forthcoming proceedings. 
 
For further information the Symposium website will be online shortly at:
http://css.ege.edu.tr

cfp- Experiencing Gender

EXPERIENCING GENDER
IV International Interdisciplinary Conference

Universidad de Huelva, Spain

6-7-8 May 2009

After the success of the three international conferences on gender studies held in 1998, 2001 and 2005, the Women’s Studies Centre at the University of Huelva invites proposals for papers on experiencing gender. We would like to share experiences of gender across time, space, and bodies. Is this an ex-gender era, i.e., has gender stopped being a necessary category for understanding human experiences? Or is it still crucial to understand the ways in which we relate to each other in society as well as to promote a more egalitarian one? Related topics may include:

· the role of (women’s/ feminist) associations and institutions in the construction of gender;

· discourses on gender: life writing, confessional discourse, autobiography, auto/ethnography, non-sexist language, genderlects, rhetorics of gender;

· staging gender, gendering the stage; gender in the visual arts; gender in films and media; gendered iconographies;

· experiencing the body as the seat of sexed/gendered identity: transsexuality, trasvestism, gay rights, genital mutilation;

· consciousness-raising events and experiences; women’s gatherings, support and therapy groups, self-help books, and their impact on gender;

· teaching and research on women’s studies and gender studies: current and future agendas;

· marketing gender: the commodififcation of gender in western society;

· gendering ecology: gender and sustainable development;

· experiencing spirituality and gender: is feminism compatible with religion?

· biological motherhood, adoption, new family structures;

· the “feminized” professions: redefining the disciplines from a feminist perspective;

· the legal structuring of gender: does the law help expand the concept of gender or otherwise?

· gendering war and terrorism;

· masculinity and gender violence: how can men stop violence against women?

· new and old classroom approaches to gender;

· the politics of health and care: pregnancy, childbirth, women and androcentrism in medical research;

· new cultures of travel: gender and tourism;

· Living multiculturalism: gender, ethnicity and race; globalization and its discontents.

Deadline for abstracts (300-500 words in either English or Spanish): 15 December 2008. Acceptance of papers will be notified around 15 February 2009. Papers should not exceed 10 pages (2,500-3,000 words, 20 minutes’ delivery) and they can be presented in either language. A selection of the conference papers will be considered for publication.

More information will be available soon on:

http://www.uhu.es/dfing/exgen

Please send your abstract by e-mail to:

EXGEN@DFING.UHU.ES

IMPORTANT: Three bursaries covering accommodation and board during the conference will be awarded to graduate students or independent scholars in need of financial assistance; unfortunately, travel costs CANNOT be funded. If interested, please attach your CV and an expression of interest in a bursary when you e-mail your abstract.

Organized by:

Women’s Studies Centre, University of Huelva

Organising Committee:

Pilar Cuder, Mar Gallego, Sonia Villegas, Beatriz Dominguez, Auxi Perez and Rocío Carrasco.

With the assistance of:

María Hierro, Lorena Laureano, Ana Maldonado, Yolanda Morató y Diana Rodríguez.

The British Scholar Journal – Call for Papers

We invite you to submit your papers to the British Scholar journal for publication
consideration. The British Scholar journal will be published biannually by the British
Scholar Society beginning in September of 2008 British Scholar is a journal of
modern British history. The editors invite research articles and review essays from
historians of all ages and ranks on the ways in which Britain has interacted with other
societies since 1688. The journal is sponsored by the British Scholar Society and the
British Studies program at the University of Texas.

Submissions for publication should be made electronically in Word format to
journal@britishscholar.org. We ask that all submissions use footnotes for citations
rather than endnotes. Additional information on the citation style for submissions can be
found on the British Scholar journal website at www.britishscholar.org/journal.

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact the Editor of the
British Scholar journal, Professor Gregory Barton, at gabarton@britishscholar.com.

Call for Papers – 2009 British Scholar Annual

This serves as a call for papers for the second annual British Scholar Conference. The
conference will be held in Austin, Texas on Friday February 20th and Saturday February
21st, 2009 on the University of Texas campus. The conference, which is organized by
the British Scholar Society and British Studies at the University of Texas, focuses on
British history from 1688 to the present. The purpose of the British Scholar Conference,
just like the forthcoming British Scholar journal, is to highlight the importance of British
history from varied perspectives. Established scholars, scholars at the beginning of
their careers, and graduate students are welcome to apply and present at the
conference.

We are proud to announce that the distinguished historian Linda Colley will serve as the
keynote speaker for the 2009 British Scholar Annual Conference. Linda Colley?s works
include: The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History and Britons:
Forging the Nation 1707-1837. Amongst her many accolades, Professor Colley
delivered the Prime Minister’s Millennium Lecture at 10 Downing Street in 1999.

The conference accepts both individual paper and complete panel submissions.
Submissions of individual papers should include an abstract of 150-300 words as well
as a few descriptive keywords. Panels are expected to consist of three to five papers
and should be submitted by the person willing to serve as both chair and respondent. In
addition to abstracts for each individual paper, the panel chair should also include a
brief 100-150 word introduction describing the panel’s main theme. The conference
does not discriminate between panels and individual paper submissions.

All submissions for inclusion in the British Scholar Annual Conference must be received
by Sunday, June 1, 2008. Decisions on inclusion will be made by August 25, 2008.
Submissions should be made electronically to conference@britishscholar.org. Updates
regarding the conference will be periodically posted to the British Scholar website at
www.britishscholar.org. It is hoped that participants will be able to call upon their
departments for hotel and transportation expenses.

Information on hotel accommodation and conference registration will be forthcoming. It
should be noted that becoming a member of the British Scholar Society entitles you to a
discounted registration rate. Membership in the British Scholar Society is available by
subscribing to the British Scholar journal, which will be launched in September 2008.
More information on the British Scholar journal is available by visiting the journal
website at www.britishscholar.org/journal.

CFP: MASCULINITY AND THEATER

CFP: MASCULINITY AND THEATER (4/15/08; MMLA Minneapolis 11/13/08-11/16/08)
Papers welcome for the permanent panel Gender Studies: Male, on the theme of “Masculinity and
Theater,” held during the Midwest Modern Language Association conference in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, Nov. 13-16. Deadline: April 15.

From the all-male public stages of Greek and Elizabethan drama to contemporary depictions of
male identity in the plays of Neil LaBute and David Mamet, representations of men and masculinity
on the Western stage have reflected, celebrated, and critiqued social constructions of manhood.
This panel seeks papers on the representation of male identity and masculinity in theater, drama,
and performance, including plays, solo performance, musical theater, dance, opera, experimental
theater, and other theatrical forms, from any period and/or traditions. Topics and approaches may
include, but are not limited to, historical and/or theoretical treatments of men and misogyny, race
and masculinity, queer masculinities, etc.
Please send your 250-word abstract by April 15, 2008 to chair, Samuel Park, Columbia Coll.
Chicago, spark@colum.edu; please cc abstracts to secretary, Josep M. Armengol, SUNY Stony
Brook, jose.armengol@sunysb.edu.