CFP: High & Low Culture (Midwest Modern Language Association)
The Midwest Modern Language Association is soliciting essay submissions for the Fall 2007 issue of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. The topic for this issue will be "High & Low / Culture." The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2007.
To ensure that the Journal is accessible to the broad membership, essays should be written in English and, when text in other language is quoted, translations in English should be provided. Submissions should not exceed 8,000 words.
Possible topics might include:
Bridging "The Great Divide"
Camp consumption and queer performativity
Art and craft/s
Histories of high and low culture
Novel to film, film to novel
Cultural Studies
Rhetoric and poetics
The Aesthetic of ordinary life
Jazz, hip hop, rock & roll, and literature
Feminist Popular Culture
Slang, spanglish, and other variants in literature
Vulgarity
High middle ages, low middle ages
Between high and low
Filming the canon
What's lower than low?
Fan cultures
Merchant & Ivory, Barnes & Noble, Oprah & Faulkner
The wisdom of popular genres
Strange bedfellows
Cultural and subcultural capital
Cultural gatekeeping
Contact zones
Shifting technologies
Cosmopolitanism
Issues of access
Sensationalism
Alternative public spheres
Please send three copies of each essay (two formatted for anonymous reading) to:
Kevin J.H. Dettmar, President
Midwest Modern Language Association
302 English-Philosophy Building
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1408
More details are available online at http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla.
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Monday, February 26, 2007
CFP: Archive Trouble - Society for Textual Scholarshop program at Modern Langugage Association
CFP: Archive Trouble - Society for Textual Scholarshop program at Modern Langugage Association
The Society for Textual Scholarship (www.textual.org) is organizing the following panel at the 2007 MLA Convention in Chicago:
ARCHIVE TROUBLE
The archive (broadly conceived, specifically rendered) as a site of loss, overspill, forgery, chaos, and anxiety -- in any period -- and the consequences for scholarship, editing, cultural practice, and textual theory. Email proposals to Andrew Stauffer (astauff@bu.edu) by March 6.
Andrew Stauffer
Department of English
Boston University
The Society for Textual Scholarship (www.textual.org) is organizing the following panel at the 2007 MLA Convention in Chicago:
ARCHIVE TROUBLE
The archive (broadly conceived, specifically rendered) as a site of loss, overspill, forgery, chaos, and anxiety -- in any period -- and the consequences for scholarship, editing, cultural practice, and textual theory. Email proposals to Andrew Stauffer (astauff@bu.edu) by March 6.
Andrew Stauffer
Department of English
Boston University
Sunday, February 25, 2007
CFP: Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature (South Atlantic Modern Language Association)
CFP: Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature (South Atlantic Modern Language Association)
Children's Literature Discussion Circle — Call For Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
November 9-11, 2007
Atlanta, Georgia
Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown.
In order to examine children's literature through the lens of nostalgia, possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following options:
*Updating comics, cartoons, or toys for a new generation of children
*Children's literature and/or cultural objects as souvenirs
*Nostalgic longing for aspects of childhood
*Recapturing or re-imagining childhood
*Historical toys/books translated into new mediums
*Selective cultural memory and amnesia
*Ascribing value to collected objects, children's museums, the role of the collector
Please submit questions, one-page abstracts, or eight-page papers by
March 13, 2007 to Julie A. Sinn at julie.sinn@gmail.com.
SAMLA Website: http://www.samla.org/convention/convention.htm
Children's Literature Discussion Circle — Call For Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
November 9-11, 2007
Atlanta, Georgia
Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown.
In order to examine children's literature through the lens of nostalgia, possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following options:
*Updating comics, cartoons, or toys for a new generation of children
*Children's literature and/or cultural objects as souvenirs
*Nostalgic longing for aspects of childhood
*Recapturing or re-imagining childhood
*Historical toys/books translated into new mediums
*Selective cultural memory and amnesia
*Ascribing value to collected objects, children's museums, the role of the collector
Please submit questions, one-page abstracts, or eight-page papers by
March 13, 2007 to Julie A. Sinn at julie.sinn@gmail.com.
SAMLA Website: http://www.samla.org/convention/convention.htm
CFP: From Babbitt to Rabbit: Sports in American Literature (Midwest Modern Language Association)
CFP: From Babbitt to Rabbit: Sports in American Literature (Midwest Modern Language Association)
Midwest MLA – Cleveland, OH – November 8-11, 2007
In an America saturated with professional and amateur sporting events, the utilization of sports as a cultural metaphor in literature has a long history. Mark Twain, for instance, once declared that “baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible struggle of the raging, tearing,
booming nineteenth century.” This panel is interested in these types of intersections: from football in Fitzgerald to wrestling in John Irving, from golf as a refuge for misogynistic business practices to baseball as a key cultural symbol of coming integration in the 1940s. How have sports been employed as a valuable tool in American literature? 300 word abstracts to Joe Webb, Saint Louis University, by March 15, 2007 (jwebb16@slu.edu).
For the complete call for papers visit: www.uiowa.edu/~mmla
Midwest MLA – Cleveland, OH – November 8-11, 2007
In an America saturated with professional and amateur sporting events, the utilization of sports as a cultural metaphor in literature has a long history. Mark Twain, for instance, once declared that “baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible struggle of the raging, tearing,
booming nineteenth century.” This panel is interested in these types of intersections: from football in Fitzgerald to wrestling in John Irving, from golf as a refuge for misogynistic business practices to baseball as a key cultural symbol of coming integration in the 1940s. How have sports been employed as a valuable tool in American literature? 300 word abstracts to Joe Webb, Saint Louis University, by March 15, 2007 (jwebb16@slu.edu).
For the complete call for papers visit: www.uiowa.edu/~mmla
Sunday, January 28, 2007
CFP: Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature
CFP: Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature
Deadline: March 13, 2007
Children's Literature Discussion Circle Call For Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
November 2007
Atlanta, Georgia
In order to examine children's literature through the lens of nostalgia, possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following options:
*Updating comics, cartoons, or toys for a new generation of children
*Children's literature and/or cultural objects as souvenirs
*Nostalgic longing for aspects of childhood
*Recapturing or re-imagining childhood
*Historical toys/books translated into new mediums
*Selective cultural memory and amnesia
*Ascribing value to collected objects, children's museums, the role of the collector
Please submit questions, one-page abstracts, or eight-page papers by March 13, 2007 to Julie A. Sinn at julie.sinn@gmail.com.
Deadline: March 13, 2007
Children's Literature Discussion Circle Call For Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
November 2007
Atlanta, Georgia
In order to examine children's literature through the lens of nostalgia, possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following options:
*Updating comics, cartoons, or toys for a new generation of children
*Children's literature and/or cultural objects as souvenirs
*Nostalgic longing for aspects of childhood
*Recapturing or re-imagining childhood
*Historical toys/books translated into new mediums
*Selective cultural memory and amnesia
*Ascribing value to collected objects, children's museums, the role of the collector
Please submit questions, one-page abstracts, or eight-page papers by March 13, 2007 to Julie A. Sinn at julie.sinn@gmail.com.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
CFP: Technical Writing panel of South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)
CFP: Technical Writing panel of South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)
The Technical Writing panel of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) seeks papers for the 2007 annual convention.
The topic is open. We are, however, particularly interested in presentations that address questions of documentation and sourcing in technical and professional communication. Submissions from newer scholars are also especially welcome.
Please email 500 word abstracts to Dr. Stephen E. Severn at ssevern@mail.wtamu.edu by 1March 2007. If desired, hard copies may be mailed to
Dr. Stephen E. Severn
Department of English, Philosophy and Modern Languages
West Texas A&M University
CC-413A
Canyon, TX 79106
The 2007 SCMLA Annual Conference will take place in Memphis, TN from November 1st through November 3rd. Please visit
http://www.ou.edu/scmla/memphisinfo.htm for details.
The Technical Writing panel of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) seeks papers for the 2007 annual convention.
The topic is open. We are, however, particularly interested in presentations that address questions of documentation and sourcing in technical and professional communication. Submissions from newer scholars are also especially welcome.
Please email 500 word abstracts to Dr. Stephen E. Severn at ssevern@mail.wtamu.edu by 1March 2007. If desired, hard copies may be mailed to
Dr. Stephen E. Severn
Department of English, Philosophy and Modern Languages
West Texas A&M University
CC-413A
Canyon, TX 79106
The 2007 SCMLA Annual Conference will take place in Memphis, TN from November 1st through November 3rd. Please visit
http://www.ou.edu/scmla/memphisinfo.htm for details.
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