May 2002
Being
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A monthly page advertising Conference and Journal Calls, of interest or potential interest to Wilde scholars.
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2. The Domestic Interior: 1400 to the Present
3. RSVP
4. The Influence of Children's Literature
7. Literature, Contemporary Scholarship, and the Christian Tradition
9. third space
10. Private Vices, Public Virtues
11. Twenty-Ninth Annual Western Conference on British Studies
13. Gay, lesbian, and queer writing
14. InterSEXions of the 'Others'
15. Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference
16. Ekphrasis, the University of Oxford First Passmore Edwards Symposium
18. Trans/inter-cultural communication--International Symposium on Comparative Literature
19. The 27th Annual European Studies Conference
20. Disruptions & Continuities in Irish Politics, Society & Culture
1. CALL FOR PAPERS: Gothic Studies
Contributions are invited for a special issue of Gothic Studies
dedicated to Oscar Wilde and to be edited by Neil Sammells (author of Wilde
Style: The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde.
Articles should be no more than 4000 words long, submitted in our house
style and should address such issues as:
§ Wilde and the Gothic novel
§ Dandies and vampires
§ Wilde and post-modern Gothic
§ Parodying the Gothic
§ Wilde and the politics of Gothic
§ The Irish Gothic
Contributions should reach the editor by June 2002 for projected publication in 2003.
Contact: Dr Neil Sammells
Dean of Academic Development
E-mail:
n.sammells@bathspa.ac.uk
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.2. CALL FOR PAPERS: The Domestic Interior: 1400 to the Present
Postgraduate Research Day,
This is the first in a series of events which aims to facilitate exchange amongst the community of postgraduates working on the study of the domestic interior. The AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior is committed to interdisciplinary research, and we invite papers from students of culture, art, literature, design and architecture, and also students working from a historical, anthropological or archaeological perspective.
Papers might address one or more of the following issues:
o gender and the domestic interior
o precept and practice
o meanings of the domestic interior
o the domestic interior as a system for the regulation of behaviour
o limitations and possibilities in studying the domestic interior
Contributions will take the form of EITHER a 20-minute research paper OR a 5/10-minute 'problem' panel contribution which considers issues encountered in the course of research relating to sources, methodologies, theories, or historiography issues.
Please send the following information by 1st June: name; affiliation and contact details (preferably including e-mail);title and abstract of thesis; title and abstract of paper (200 words); indication of your choice of EITHER 20-minute research paper OR short panel contribution.
Send materials to Dr Karen Harvey, AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU; e-mail: karen.harvey@rca.ac.uk
Queries to Ann Matchette (Research Coordinator), tel: 020 7590 4183, e-mail: ann.matchette@rca.ac.uk
Participating institutions:
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.3. CALL FOR PAPERS: RSVP
Contributors are needed for the RSVP Bibliography, which is published biennially in Victorian Periodicals Review (VPR).
Contributors monitor assigned journals for articles dealing with periodicals published between 1800-1914 and submit annotated index entries for inclusion in the next Bibliography. Contributors are acknowledged in VPR. We currently have a large number of unassigned journals, and we thus need many new contributors, especially ones with access to Canadian and Scottish periodicals.
If you would like to become an RSVP Bibliography contributor, or if you know anyone else who might be interested, please contact me at the addresses below. I will forward information about available journals and submitting contributions.
Please feel free to forward this information
Dr Solveig C. Robinson
RSVP Bibliographer
Asst. Professor of English and Publishing& Printing Arts
tel: 253-535-7241
E-mail: solveig.robinson@plu.edu
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.4. CALL FOR PAPERS: The Influence of Children's Literature
Submissions are invited for a collection of essays on the influence of children's literature on writers for adults.
Writers for adults are generally acknowledged to be deeply influenced by
their childhood reading, both in theme and technique; I invite proposals
or completed articles that investigate the way in which childhood reading is
internalized and then constantly transformed. (For example, Hemingway
acknowledged a debt to
Send abstracts (with working titles) or completed papers by 30th October to
Betty Greenway
Dept. of English
One
E-mail queries welcome bettygreenway@aol.com
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.5. CALL FOR PAPERS: Cosmopolitanism
"genre" is the annual scholarly and creative journal of the CSULB Comparative Literature and Classics Department. It has published 22 issues since inception (1967) and is referenced in the MLA Bibliography. The theme for this year's journal is "Cosmopolitanism."
Essays might deal with the topic of Cosmopolitanism broadly or within specialized contexts; from ancient antecedents to contemporary events and representations; across borders or within specific national literatures. The journal's emphasis is literary studies, but we welcome submissions that incorporate critical and cultural theory or that are interdisciplinary. Graduate student submissions are encouraged.
Manuscripts should be 3,000-5,000 words, double-spaced.
Deadline for submission: 10th May.
For further information or if you have any questions, contact the editors at cla-genre495@csulb.edu
Send submissions to:
genre
Comparative Literature and Classics
or via attachment to the e-mail address listed above
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.6. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: The Erotic Empire
'The Erotic Empire: Sexuality, Gender and Power in
The AVSJ is an annual interdisciplinary journal. We are now calling for articles on the theme
of 'The Erotic Empire: Sexuality, Gender and Power in
§ race relations and fears of miscegenation
§ bending gender boundaries
§ gender and narrative
§ desire and Orientalism
§ death and the erotic
§ inverts, decadents and obscenity
§ science and racial, gender and sexual categories
§ sexual traffic
We do not, however, wish to restrict your interpretation of the theme, and informative and provocative papers on other topics relating to the designated theme will be considered.
Guidelines for format are available from the editors. Word limit 7000 words.
A short biographical note (no more than three or four lines) should accompany your submission. Please include your full mailing address, email address and phone number.
The Editors AVSJ
Armidale NSW 2351
Australia
E-mail: avsj@metz.une.edu.au
Robert Dingley, Jennifer McDonell and Cathy Waters, Editors, AVSJ
Dr Jennifer McDonell,
Armidale NSW 2351, Australia tel:
+61 (02) 67 73 2517 fax:+61(02) 67 73 2623 Mobile: 0407 466 405
Australasian Victorian Studies Association Journal (AVSJ) Website: http://uq.net.au/avsa/journal.html
All e-mail correspondence pertaining to the journal should be sent to the following address: avsj@metz.une.edu.au
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.7. CALL FOR PAPERS: Literature, Contemporary Scholarship, and the Christian Tradition
Southwest Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature
The theme for the conference is designed to encourage participants to explore the role of the Christian tradition in literature and scholarship. In the past, we assumed an understanding and acceptance of Christian values in literature, but the role of Christian values and the use of Biblical allusions have changed over the years. At one time, writers in the Western world could assume their readers shared their values and understood the Biblical references included in their works; however, over time these values have lost their general acceptance. Christian tradition is questioned and even mocked, and many readers do not even recognize Biblical allusions. CCL participants may want to explore what contemporary writers are doing to reflect the Christian tradition in their literature, how Christian teachers deal with some of the contemporary literature, how overt a Christian teacher can be in addressing current literary scholarship, or how contemporary scholarship ignores Christian concepts in preference to current critical ideas. Papers and presentations may reflect a topic related to this theme or may address other topics relevant to CCL interests.
Our special guest, the poet Li-Young Lee, will be the plenary speaker and will present a reading of his poetry. Winner of many awards for his writing, Lee has published two volumes of poetry, Rose (1986) and The City in Which I Love You (1990), and a prose autobiographical account, The Winged Seed (1995).
Guidelines for Submissions:
One-page proposals or completed papers (7-9 pages, double spaced); creative works (readings no longer than 15 minutes). Deadline: 1st June.
Dr Mark Hall, Program Chair; Dr Kay Meyers, Local Arrangements Chair
English Department
Fax: 918.495.6707
e-mail: mhall@oru.edu, or kmeyers@oru.edu
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.8. CALL FOR PAPERS: Victorian Studies Bulletin
The VSB is beginning to draw together information and copy for the June issue of the Victorian Studies Bulletin.
If anyone would like to submit, for publication, book announcements, news information of interest to the entire Victorian Community, conference reports, CFP's, etc., please notify the Editor at the address below. For more information on the publication or to submit information please contact SusanDara@aol.com. Please use the subject line VSB Submission when e-mailing submissions. The deadline for submissions for the June issue is May 4th, but submissions are always welcome for upcoming issues.
Susan D. Wright SusanDara@aol.com
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.9. CALL FOR PAPERS: thirdspace
The editors of the new electronic graduate feminist journal, thirdspace, invite you to contribute your work. 'Our vision for thirdspace includes creating a community of emerging feminist scholars. chora is about voices, about movement, about finding another space for feminist thought to emerge and flourish.'
We encourage the submission of papers on any topic, in any field, from emerging scholars (graduate students and post-doctoral fellows). The journal is committed to the promotion of feminist work in all areas of study. We aim to produce a quality, refereed journal that demonstrates the range of applications of feminist theory and methodology, as well as gives emerging feminist scholars a venue for their work. All articles are reviewed by a panel of established feminist scholars.
http://www.thirdspace.ca/cfp.htm
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.10. CALL FOR PAPERS Private Vices, Public Virtues
International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture,
Theme: Private Vices, Public Virtues: Gendered Sexualities and Citizenship.
Convenors: Teresa Malafaia &
Carlos A. M. Gouveia.
The purpose of this session is to explore from different perspectives, within different frameworks and diverse theoretical concerns the intersection between issues of gender, sexuality and citizenship, under the general theme of the conference, Language, Communication and Culture.
We welcome papers on topics from any period dealing with, for instance
§ representations of gender & sexuality
§ language & gender
§ homosexuality& power
§ eroticisation of difference
§ notions of desire & sexual practices
§ the (de)construction of othernesses
§ colonial desire & sexualized discourse
§ sexual difference & Orientalism
§ the subversion or reinforcement of traditional gender roles
§ gender & pornography
Deadline for 250-word abstracts(for 20-minutes papers): 30th June
Proposals should be sent to: Teresa Malafaia tvmalafaia@mail.telepac.pt or Carlos A. M. Gouveia carlos.gouveia@mail.doc.fl.ul.pt
Department of English
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
Alameda da Universidade
1600-214 Lisboa
Tel: 351 21 7920000. Fax: 35121 7960063
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.11. CALL FOR PAPERS: Western Conference on British Studies
Double Tree Hotel,
The Western Conference on British Studies announces that it will hold its
Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas on 4th to 5th October, at
the Double Tree Hotel. Accordingly, the
WCBS invites proposals for papers to be delivered at the conference. The WCBS welcomes proposals for individual
papers and complete sessions on all aspects of British Studies and the British
experience, including History, Politics and Government, Literature, Arts, and
Culture. In addition, the WCBS seeks proposals addressing the Empire,
Papers and Presenters: For each proposed paper please provide a brief abstract (200 words) and for each participant please provide a brief (1-2 pages). Complete sessions should have two, or preferably three papers, a chair and a commentator. A c.v. should also be provided for the chair and commentator.
Complete Sessions: For complete session proposals please identify the individual who will serve as the contact between the program chair and the session participants. Further, please provide a full address, including e-mail and fax numbers for the contact persons.
Chairs and Commentators: If you are interested in serving as a session chair or commentator, please submit a notice, a brief c.v., and an indication of areas/topics in which you would interested in providing a comment.
All proposals for papers and sessions should be submitted by 15th May to:-
Professor Karl Ittmann
Program Chair
Department of History
Fax (713) 743-3216
E-mail: Karl.Ittmann@mail.uh.edu
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.12. CALL FOR PAPERS: Art for Life's Sake
A two day symposium on Gender, Class and Victorian Cultural Philanthropy c. 1860-1914
Saturday/Sunday 16th/17th November, Southampton Institute.
Southampton Institute will host an international Art and Design History
conference on 'moral aesthetics' or the Victorian notion that the purpose of
art was to improve or civilize man. The
keynote speaker will be Professor Regenia Gagnier,
Suggestions for contributors:
§ Art as a hobby or employment for women: ceramics, woodcarving, metalwork etc.
§ Art in the Home or interior decorating.
§ Professionalism and Amateurism.
§ Schools of Art, technical education and higher education for women (arts related)
§ Teaching and educating others
§ Charity and class or cross-class relations
§ Settlements, Guilds and communities
§ Rural Industries
§
The Home Arts and Industries Association in
§ Amateur arts societies, clubs and recreational classes; the evening-class movement.
§ Exhibitions and the founding of public art galleries
§ Urban or rural regeneration through the arts.
§ The writings of Ruskin, Morris et al regarding amateur production and the promotion of art as a hobby/rural industry/art as a vocation for women.
§ Women as collectors or benefactors.
§ Individual case studies.
Please send your submission of 200-300 words, to be received by 31st July, by e-mail or post to:
Dr Anne Anderson and Dr Diana Maltz
Faculty of Media, Arts and Society
Southampton Institute
Anne Anderson: 023 80 319484
For more information about Southampton Institute and the conference please go to our web-site at www.solent.ac.uk/artandlife
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.13. CALL FOR PAPERS: Gay, lesbian, and queer writing
For a Special Issue of the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies on postcolonial gay, lesbian, and queer writing.
Essays of between 7,000 and 10,000 words in length are requested. Deadline for complete essays is 15th September. The Journal is devoted to and welcomes scholarly submissions on all aspects of colonial narratives and postcolonial texts and theory: history, language, race, gender, identity, migration and cultural exchange, among others. While the Journal does not presuppose or advocate a particular ideology or specific cultural approach, it prefers that considerations of individual authors and texts be placed in the context of literary, theoretical, sociopolitical, and cultural paradigms.
Please send to:
John C. Hawley
Department of English
500 El Camino
Santa Clara CA 95053
Departmental FAX: 408 554 4837
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.14. CALL FOR PAPERS: InterSEXions of the 'Others'
Bisexuality and Transgender, A special double-issue of The Journal of Bisexuality
Bisexuality and Transgender - the 'other' categories -- are often characterized as simply huddling under the LGBT umbrella together. While some might think of these as mere 'additions' tacked on to lesbian and gay identity politics, we think that bisexuality and transgender (BT) have much to say to - and about -- each other. With this in mind, we solicit essays from numerous fields for a special issue of The Journal of Bisexuality, entitled: 'InterSEXions of the 'Others' : Bisexuality and Transgender.'
Ideally, essays will critically query the intersections of BT experiences and politics. Moreover, far from being 'strange bedfellows', bi- and trans- lives potentially offer theoretical, cultural, social, and political challenges to our collective and individual understandings of desire and how it moves within and among us. Further, BT experiences 'complicate' the representation of desire -- in our individual identities and in the media. What are these challenges and complications? How can they be used – personally and politically? How might BT lives complicate one another? What could be the 'common ground' among BT experiences, and where do divergences 'queery' the assumptions each makes about desire, identity, and sexual politics? More radically, what might intersexuality tell us about bisexuality and transgender? In our societal obsession for explanations of LGBTs, is there a privileging of those who are or claim to be' born that way' as opposed to those who seek to 'sculpt' or 'construct' themselves, whether that be psychologically, physically, or both?
To further this discussion, we invite inquiries and analyses from a number of critical orientations in the humanities, social sciences, biological sciences, and interdisciplinary fields. While we are not soliciting fictional work, studies of literature, film, and the Web are welcome. Some personal pieces will be accepted - given they also contain a critical edge, linking the personal to the political in an insightful and academically provocative way. There may be room for a few poems or cartoons, but inquiries should be made prior to submitting them.
E-mail abstracts or completed manuscripts to both of the editors below. Completed manuscripts due by 31st December.
For further information, contact
Dr Jonathan Alexander
or
Dr Karen Yescavage
Department of Psychology
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.15. CALL FOR PAPERS: Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference
20th to 21st September,
Hosted by the Department of History at CU-Boulder, this annual graduate student conference seeks papers by graduate students from across the various disciplines of the arts, humanities, and social sciences; past participants have hailed from fields as far-ranging as art history, political science, theater, philosophy, and history. Papers should have a historical focus. The interdisciplinary and collegial atmosphere of this conference provides an ideal setting for scholars who have not yet had the opportunity to present their work publicly, and promises opportunities for a dynamic exchange of ideas. For more information, please e-mail the conference organizers atrmihc@ucsub.colorado.eduor visit our website at http://www.colorado.edu/Conferences/RMIHC
Deadline: 30th June
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.16. CALL FOR PAPERS: Ekphrasis, the University
of Oxford
An international conference at
The Passmore Edwards Symposia are dedicated to the study of the interactions
between classical and English literature and culture, and related subject areas
such as art history. The symposia are
supported by the Passmore Edwards Fund of the
Papers on any aspect of the theme of ekphrasis are invited for the first Passmore Edwards symposium. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length.
The conference organisers are:
Dr Jas Elsner (Facultyof Literae Humaniores) jas.elsner@ccc.ox.ac.uk
Dr Helen Moore (Faculty of English) helen.moore@ccc.ox.ac.uk
To offer a paper or for further details, please contact Michael Clark michael.clark@ccc.ox.ac.uk
Please note that the deadline for submissions has been brought forward from 30th June to 30th May.
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.17. CALL FOR PAPERS: Textual Conditions
14th—15th September
Taking its title and inspiration from Jerome J. McGann's study, The
Textual Condition, this international postgraduate conference seeks to
explore the meaning of textuality from the wide variety of perspectives
represented by the
Full papers of 20 minutes in length will be followed by an additional 10 minutes of questions and discussion.
Abstracts should no more than 300 words in length. Please include name,
contact address (preferably email), and university affiliation along with the
title or topic and three descriptive keywords.
The deadline for submissions is
Abstracts can be faxed, emailed, or posted to:
Textual Conditions Conference
University Park NG7 2RD
Fax +44 (0115) 951-5924
englishconference2002@nottingham.ac.uk
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.18. CALL FOR PAPERS: Trans/inter-cultural communication--The Seventh International Symposium on Comparative Literature
Department of English Language and Literature ,
This conference invites dialogue across cultures and traditional disciplinary boundaries. Papers are invited dealing with all aspects of interdisciplinary study, in all Literatures in English and in translation, as well as in the Arts, the Humanities and Sciences. The conference encourages submissions that examine "language" and "text" both within these disciplines and across these disciplines. The aim is to provide studies that help in crossing cultural and language barriers.
Suggested Topic Areas: - Cultural Crossing- Cultural Friction - Crossing Boundaries of Ethnicity - Non-verbal communication(visual and body language) - E-communication - Relationality - Inter-gender communication - New developments - Envisioning north/south cultural relations today - The role of translation - Second language acquisition – Contrastive linguistics - Cross-linguistic / cross-cultural studies
Keynote speakers will include writers on inter-disciplinary studies and cultural communication.
The official languages of the Symposium are Arabic and English. Presentations during the Symposium should not exceed 20 minutes. Registration fee: - L.E. 20 for Egyptians and Foreign Residents- $150 for overseas contributors (including five days accommodation on bed & breakfast basis). - No fee for undergraduate students. Publication Fee for Contributors: All presentations and subsequent papers to be considered for publication should not have been presented elsewhere or previously published. All papers will be refereed for publication. Deadline for submission of abstract 30th June.
Please send both a typewritten hard copy and diskette to:
Chair, Department of English Language and Literature
Faculty of Arts
E-mail to: sympcomlit@egyptgates.com
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.19. CALL FOR PAPERS: The 27th Annual European Studies Conference
This small, friendly, interdisciplinary conference, will take place on 10th to 12th October.
The conference organizers are seeking abstracts of papers on any aspect of European culture, history, economics, or politics - past, present, or future. Sponsored by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the conference meets annually on the attractive UNO campus in Omaha, Nebraska. The conference meets concurrently with the annual Third World Studies Conference. This year, the special plenary speaker will be O. Faruk Logoglu, the Turkish Ambassador to the United States. The deadline for abstracts is 1st June.
Further information on the conference and a registration form can be found at http://www.unomaha.edu/esc. You may also write to european@mail.unomaha.edu.
Send a printed registration form and your abstract to:
European Studies Conference,
ASH 238 Dept. of Foreign Languages
University of Nebraska at Omaha
60th and Dodge
Omaha, NE 68182
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to return to the May 2002 edition main pages.20. FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Disruptions & Continuities in Irish Politics, Society & Culture
British Association for Irish Studies Biennial Conference, Staffordshire University, 6th to 8th September.
Plenary speakers: Declan Kiberd and Maria Luddy. After Dinner Speaker: Terry Eagleton.
From the Flight of the Earls to Partition, from the Famine to the Easter Rising, Irish history and culture has often been presented as a sequence of disruptions and conflicts; a situation summarised in D.P Moran's declaration that Ireland was the location of 'A Battle of Two Civilisations'. However, other readings suggest that continuity has at least as significant a place as disruption, as indicated by the longevity of folk traditions and musical styles, the perpetuation of key literary and theatrical genres, and the still outstanding issues of religion, gender, class, identity, and language. Papers are invited which address these key issues of 'disruption' and 'continuity' from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
We are particularly keen to provide a forum for postgraduate researchers.
Proposals for papers and panels (200 words)by 30th April to:
Shaun Richards
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
PO Box 661
Staffordshire University,
Stoke on Trent, ST4 2XW.
We regret we received notice of this too late for the April issue of THE OSCHOLARS.
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