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Call for Papers: Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Fiction

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention 2012 Rochester, NY March 15-18, 2012

Deadline: September 30, 2011

This panel seeks papers that explore gender and sexuality in contemporary Asian American Fiction. How do gender and sexuality affect experiences of racialization and national belonging? Topics may include (but are not limited to): femininity, masculinity, transnational [...]

Queering Paradigms: Call For Papers

Call For Papers – Queering Paradigms IV

Character of the conference and contributions:

Following the success of the three international, interdisciplinary Queering Paradigms conferences held thus far on three continents, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the Graduate Program in Social Memory at the [...]

CFP – Kristeva Circle

Call for Abstracts

THE KRISTEVA CIRCLE Inaugural Meeting, October 12-13, 2012, Siena College, Loudonville, New York

Keynote Speakers:

Noëlle McAfee, Emory University Maria Margaroni, University of Cyprus

Please submit abstracts (500-750 words) on any topic related to the work of Julia Kristeva, to kristevacircle(at)gmail.com. We welcome submissions from across all disciplines. Abstracts should be [...]

Post a Call For Papers: 3R: Response, Re/Action, and Revolt

The Culture Club: Cultural Studies Scholar’s Organization at Bowling Green State University is pleased to announce the seventh annual Battleground States Conference. Battleground States is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at bringing together scholars, artists, and activists to present their work in an intellectually stimulating environment. The title for this year ‘s conference is 3R: [...]

CFP: Youth, Gender and Sexuality: Contemporary Debates

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Youth, Gender and Sexuality: Contemporary Debates Wednesday 25 January 2012 09:00-18:00 East Midlands Conference Centre University of Nottingham, UK

Organisers:

Dr. Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, University of Nottingham, UK http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/stafflookup/andrew.yip

Dr. Sarah-Jane Page, Durham University, UK http://www.dur.ac.uk/theology.religion/staff/profile/?id=9274

Aim:

This conference aims to bring together scholars in the social sciences [...]

Call for Papers Women’s Studies Quarterly Special Issue: Enchantment

Call for Papers Women’s Studies Quarterly Special Issue: Enchantment Special Editors: Ann Burlein & Jackie Orr

This issue of WSQ attempts to intervene in the present moment by conjuring the power and seductions of enchantment. How to find and create places of allure when things seem impossible, when the world seems impassable, when survival [...]

Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania

MELLON POSTDOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS In the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences 2012-2014

The School of Arts and Sciences invites applicants for four two-year postdoctoral teaching fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Fellows will teach one course per term. Eligibility is limited to applicants who will have received their Ph.D. within two years [...]

Call for Papers: LGBTQ Focus Group of Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)

CALL FOR PAPERS LGBTQ Focus Group Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference August 2-5, 2012, Hyatt Regency (Capitol Hill), Washington, DC

Submission Deadlines:

Individual Papers or Presentations: October 15 (send to conference planner Nick Salvato, ngs9[at]cornell.edu)

Complete Sessions: November 1 (submit online directly to ATHE at www.athe.org)

The LGBTQ Focus Group of [...]

Call for Papers: Masculinity in superhero comic books and films

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) March 15 to 18, 2012 Rochester, NY Deadline: September 30, 2011

http://www.nemla.org/community/caucuses/womens.html http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/41605

With comic books becoming more mainstream, thanks to numerous summer blockbuster films focusing on superheroes—2011 bringing audiences Super, Thor, The Green Hornet, Captain America, X-Men: First Class, and Green Lantern—this session welcomes all papers looking [...]

Sex Crimes Against Black Girls Anthology-Call for Submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Sex Crimes against Black Girls: The Anthology Edited by: Shantrelle P. Lewis & Yaba A. Blay http://www.sexcrimesagainstblackgirls.com/anthology

About the Anthology:

Historically regarded as matters private to our community, those, that if put in plain sight, might inadvertently corroborate White supremacist imaginations of Black pathology, sex crimes against Black girls are the [...]