Conferences

Aboriginal Discourses and the State (1/5/03; 5/2/03-5/5/03): This theme in "Culture and the State: Past, Present, and Future" examines the ways in which Aboriginal discourses, written and oral, both determine and are determined by State definitions of identity.
Accented Cultures (Netherlands) (10/1/02; 6/18/03-6/20/03): This conference wants to challenge and contribute to the ongoing debates on multiple cultural identities in a globalizing society.
Active Feminist Pedagogies (4/15/03; MMLA, 11/7/03-11/9/03): The Department of English and Women's Studies seeks papers that examine feminist practices in the classroom and the issues confronting feminist teachers on campuses today.
African American Film and the Legacy of Violence (1/4/03; ASA, 10/16/03-10/19/03): This panel session will consider the ways in which African American film has been effected and inflected by either specific acts of brutality or more pervasive institutional violence over history.
African American Literature and Culture Society (1/15/03; ALA, 5/22/03-5/25/03)
Aged Bodies/Aged Selves (11/18/02; NWSA, 6/19/03-6/22/03): The Aging and Ageism Caucus of the NWSA invites potential panelists to submit abstracts.
American White Women Composing Race, Gender, and Sexuality (12/15/02; SSAWW, 9/24/03-9/27/03): We welcome papers that analyze the literary relationship between nineteenth- and twentieth-century white women writers and the Other.
The Americas: Postnational, Transnational, and Hemispheric Perspectives (Netherlands) (9/15/02; 5/22/03-5/24/03): A conference on the Americas from a postnational, transnational, and hemispheric perspective. Open to scholars in the humanities (history, literature, cultural studies, political science).
Anti-ageist Dialogue Across Generations (11/18/02; NWSA, 6/19/03-6/22/03): The Aging and Ageism Caucus of the NWSA invites potential panelists to submit abstracts.
Arthurian Imagery in Women's Fiction (3/31/03; SAMLA, 11/14/03-11/16/03): This panel encourages exploration of influences in fiction by women.
Asian Literature (3/24/03; 7/24/03-7/28/03 & journal issue): Organizing panels and seeking papers for them on Asian literature, including Asian film, for the 9th International Conference on Intercultural Communication.
Asian Queer Studies (Singapore) (9/15/02; 8/19/03-8/22/03): From 19 - 22 August 2003 the third International Convention of Asia Scholars' conference is being held in Singapore. We would like to encourage scholars working on queer topics and issues in the Asian region to participate in this event.
Border Lines and Border Lands (France) (1/31/03; 6/26/03-6/27/03): The two notions of border lines and border lands may be associated with the question of a 'no man's land', this fluctuating space between two ill-defined scenes whose frontiers/boundaries are often undecipherable.
The Canadian Modernists Meet (7/31/02; 5/9/03-5/10/03): Paper proposals are welcome on any issue related to modernism and Canadian literature from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century -- whether case studies of specific texts and authors, literary and cultural histories, theoretical applications, discussions of editorial problems and methods, or intermedia approaches.
Caste, Culture, and the State - Dalit Cause (12/31/02; 5/2/03-5/5/03): This conference intends to explore the origin of caste and untouchabilty; the social, religious, and economic reforms to counter castism in India.
Chicks Rock: Women in the Face of Rock and Roll (4/1/03; MMLA, 11/7/03-11/9/03): The caucus seeks papers that explore the influences-positive and negative-women and their rock music have had on culture, gender stereotypes, women's opportunities and challenges in the business, and other aspects of music making.
Children's Literature Association Conference (1/31/03; 6/8/03-6/10/03): Papers are solicited for conference sessions focusing on multicultural and international authors and illustrators, bilingual books, reflections on the changing nature of childhood, and other topics relevant to the conference theme.
Christianity and Literature (3/31/03; SAMLA, 11/7/03-11/9/03): The Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature welcomes papers on any topic demonstrating the relationship between imaginative literature and the Christian faith.
Claude McKay and the New Black Transnationalism (12/31/02; ASA, 10/16/03-10/19/03): Papers may address any aspect of McKay studies, though the aim of the panel is not only to present new approaches to McKay, but new approaches that use McKay to consider how recent visions of the Black Atlantic/Black transnationalism might themselves be rethought.
Community Action School Conference: The Community Action School is a national training for community leaders, union activists, grassroots organizers, youth workers, candidates for public office, members of community organizations, and student activists.
Computers and Writing 2003: Discovering Digital Dimensions (10/28/02; 5/22/03- 5/25/03): I'm pleased to let you know that "Proposal Season" has opened for the Computers and Writing 2003 on-site conference, "Discovering Digital Dimensions" (3-D at Purdue, May 22-25 2003).
Conflict Studies Conference: A conference dealing with conflict studies.
The Conquest of America (9/15/02; ASECS/ISECS, 8/3/03-8/10/03): This interdisciplinary panel will discuss interpretations of the conquest of America during the long eighteenth century, and their political and ideological function.
Disability and Academic Labor: Seeking proposals for an MLA session that tackles the issues of reading academic labor through a disability studies lens.
Cultural and Political Landscape (1/5/03; 5/2/03-5/5/03): We seeks papers that creatively address any aspect of its topic and especially those that bring more than one discipline into focus.
Culture and the State in Africa (12/31/02; 5/2/03-5/5/03): The theme "Culture and the State in Africa" intends to explore the notions of culture, nation and state as they pertain specifically to Africa--both historically and in the present.
Culture and the State (2/1/03; 5/2/03-5/5/03): The Edmonton Conference on "Culture and the State: Past, present, and Future" will address all these issues, and more. Organized around a set of flexible themes, the conference will consider the role of culture variously defined -- high and low, elite and popular, local and global, historical and contemporary -- in the creation, maintenance, transformation, and demise of states.
Culture and the Welsh State (1/15/03; 5/2/03-5/5/03): This theme in "Culture and the State, Past, Present, and Future," explores the varied experience of a "nation" and a "state" that continually reinvented itself/themselves throughout centuries of conquest and exploitation, and throughout a modern era of rapid industrialization and equally rapid deindustrialization.
Cultures' Constructions of Age (11/18/02; NWSA, 6/19/03-6/22/03): The Aging and Ageism Caucus of the NWSA invites potential panelists to submit abstracts.
Cultures of Turkey/Cultures of Turks (Turkey) (10/31/02; 9/3/03-9/5/03): The Group for Cultural Studies in Turkey and Yuzuncu Yil University invite proposals for a cultural studies conference they are co-organizing on 3-5 September 2003 in Van (Turkey).
Digital Technology and Culture (Sweden) (1/15/03; 5/7/03-5/9/03): NEXT 2.0 will bring together for a second time in Karlstad an international field of practitioners and scholars engaged in the work of making digital technology meaningful for contemporary culture.
Disability in the Borderlands (3/1/03; MLA '03): The Disability Studies Discussion Group is interested in papers that attend to the divergences and convergences of disability studies and Latino/a studies specifically, or disability studies and "border theory" more generally.
Early American Lesbian Narrative (12/15/02; 9/24/03-9/27/03): Papers sought for a proposed panel on Early American Lesbian Narrative for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
The Enlightenment Cyborg (9/15/02; ISECS, 8/3/03-8/10/03): The important early-modern questions about the man-machine comprised materialist debates over such issues as production, reproduction, the soul, and individual autonomy, and these have provided historical antecedents for the "postmodern" cyborg as a highly politicised trope for feminist, socialist, and conservative agendas alike. This panel invites proposals which examine the ways in which these coordinates originate in the early Modern period.
Environment and Class (12/1/02; ASLE, 6/3/03-6/7/03): We invite proposals from all literatures and periods, but especially in relation to eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain and America, including proposals that take a transatlantic perspective.
Feminism, Modernism and the Avant-Garde: Lorine Niedecker (1/15/03; SSAWW, 9/24/03-9/27/03): This panel seeks a wide range of papers dealing with the poetry, plays and critical writings of Lorine Niedecker.
Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) (2/1/03; 10/23/03-10/25/03): We invite proposals that explore critical intersections of rhetorics and feminist discourse.
Feminist Science Fiction (3/16/03; 5/23/03-5/26/03): We invite papers and presentations on science fiction and fantasy, with an emphasis on issues of feminism, gender, race, and class.
The Fourth Biennial Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference: The Rhetoric and Composition Program of the Department of English at Ohio State University is looking for proposals that explore critical intersections of rhetorics and feminist discourse.
The Future of Asian American Literary Studies (3/5/03; MLA '03): MLA Conference Session: The Future of Asian American Literary Studies
Geographies of Raced and Gendered Sexuality (1/10/03; ASA, 10/16/03-10/19/03): This session will explore historical and literary/filmic instances of patriotic and potentially treasonous sex and sexualities at the same time that it considers the usefulness of rubrics of the national and transnational in understanding the sexual, broadly conceived.
GLBT/Q Studies: Activism and Cultural Resistance (1/20/03; 3/21/03-3/22/03): Explorations of queer pedagogy, curricula, and campus activism are welcome.
Global Media Monopoly (8/15/02; SCS, 3/6/03-3/9/03): Proposals are invited for a panel that focuses radically on media's relation to (mal)developments in global capitalism, including the internet sex work industry, critical turns within film/tv theory and analysis, academic publishing trends toward standardized textbooks, institutional-commercial "synergies" within film/media studies programs, media (mis)representation of 9-11 and the extenuating "Operation Enduring Freedom," the cultural politics of digitality and identity, etc.
Globalizing Eighteenth-Century Studies (9/1/02; ASECS, 8/3/03-8/10/03): The Graduate Student Caucus of ASECS seeks papers on globalizing eighteenth-century studies for the upcoming joint-meeting of ASECS and ISECS in Los Angeles, August 3-10, 2003.
Hispanic Literature in the U.S.: Papers on any aspect and period of Hispanic Literature in the U.S. considered for a SCMLA panel.
Holocaust in Literature and Film (2/14/03; SAMLA, 11/14/03-11/16/03)
The Homoerotics of Lynching (2/1/03; SCMLA, 10/30/03-11/1/03): For a proposed Special Session at SCMLA '03 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, we are seeking papers that explore the intersection of homoeroticism and lynching.
"Human Variety" and "Hair" (9/15/02; ASECS/ISECS, 8/3/03-8/10/03): Two Seperate sessions; See details by clicking link.
Immigrant/Emigrant Experience and German Culture (12/15/02; 5/2/03-5/5/03): Paper proposals are invited for panels pertaining to the Immigrant/Emigrant Experience and German Culture.
Inaugural Cultural Studies Association Mtg. (2/15/03; 6/5/03-6/8/03): The CSA will be a multicultural and multidisciplinary professional organization bringing together scholars, teachers, and writers interested in the study of culture.
Incorporating Old Age into the Curriculum (11/18/02; NWSA, 6/19/03-6/22/03): The Aging and Ageism Caucus of the NWSA invites potential panelists to submit abstracts.
International Comic Arts Fest 2003 (2/28/03; 10/30/03-11/1/03): All proposals should address the history, aesthetics, cultural significance or critical reception of comic art (including comic books, albums, graphic novels, comic strips, panel cartoons, caricature, or comics in electronic media).
Intersections of History, Culture, and Science Fiction (10/8/02; SFRA, 6/26/03-6/29/03): The focus of SFRA 2003 is on the intersections between history and speculative fiction.
The Intertextual Hemingway (12/15/02; ALA, 5/22/02-5/25/02): This panel will consist of papers that examine intertextualities among Hemingway's texts and those of other writers, visual artists, and composers (artists whose influence he admitted and those he did not).
Introducing Ecofeminism / Working Against Stereotypes (11/15/02; ASLE, 5/3/03-5/7/03): Are you looking for an opportunity for genuine dialogue about your teaching and research?
Japanese American and Japanese Canadian Literature of the Internment (1/13/03; MCLLM, 3/28/03-3/29/03): We invite proposals for a panel devoted to exploring literature about Japanese and Japanese American/Japanese Canadian internment experiences in the US and/or Canada during WWII.
"The Jew" in Edwardian Culture (UK) (2/28/03; 7/28/03-7/29/03): The organisers are particularly interested in interdisciplinary papers that explore the cross-exchanges between Jewishness and Englishness, between metropole and Empire, and between Zionism and colonialism.
Jewish Libraries (11/15/02; 6/15/03-6/18/03): The AJL is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Judaica librarianship as it pertains to the libraries, archives and museums of schools, synagogues, and other instituitions.
Multicultural Borders - Cosmopolitan Crossings (1/13/03; SCMLA, 10/30/03-11/1/03): This session will offer literary, political, and/or historical analyses of how multicultural differences, borders, and communities help, hinder, and/or clarify a cosmoplitan world citizenship.
Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet (UK) (1/1/03; 7/21/03-7/23/03): This conference is the culmination of an AHRB project investigating the continuities between nineteenth-century optical recreations and subsequent screen technologies.
Narratology beyond Literary Criticism (Germany) (1/15/03; 11/21/03-11/22/03)
New Directions in Latin American & Caribbean Studies (grad) (1/24/03; 4/25/03): The goal of this conference is to consider from many sides and many positions the past, present and future of the Americas.
"Lesbian and Gay Literature" Panel: The "Lesbian and Gay Literature" Panel at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association is seeking 20 minute conference papers.
New Technologies, Old Texts (UK) (12/31/02; 7/7/03-7/9/03): Proposals are invited for the submission of complete panels or individual papers devoted to the interdisciplinary implications of the applications of new technologies to the editing and study of texts.
Nuns and Lay Religious Women in Early America (11/15/02; 9/24/03-9/27/03): Proposals and papers are sought for a proposed panel on nuns and religious lay women in early America.
Pairing Empires: Britain and America, 1857-1947: A link to the official conference website.
The Poetics of Exile (New Zealand) (1/31/03; 7/17/03-7/19/03): An international conference, The Poetics of Exile, to be held at the University of Auckland, 17th-19th July 2003, will bring together poets, critics, and scholars in fields as diverse as classical literature, indigenous and postcolonial writing, trauma studies, and the contemporary avantgarde, to present and discuss creative responses to the condition of exile.
Politics of Postcolonial Reconciliation (11/1/02; 5/29/03-5/31/03): We solicit proposals on a wide range of issues related to the topic of collective reconciliation.
The Postcolonial and the Global (3/15/03; MLA '03): Papers are sought for theoretical intersections between discourses of globalization and postcolonialism; elaborations or contestations of theoretical claims in the light of specific material contexts in diverse locations.
Psychoanalysis, Culture, and the State (12/15/02; 5/2/03-5/5/03): We invite proposals that examine the impact that psychoanalytic ideas and classifications have had on culture and the state as well as critical dissections of the discursive formations of psychoanalysis, culture and the state, and their prohibitions.
Queer Mysticism (9/15/02; Kalamazoo, 5/8/03-5/11/03): Queer and feminist theory have opened up the way in which we read and interpret various texts from the middle ages. We encourage papers that examine medieval mystics, mysticism and mystical texts from these perspectives.
Queer Theory & Theology (1/31/03; 8/14/03-8/17/03): Witness our Welcome (WOW) is an ecumenical gathering of sexually and gender inclusive Christians from Canada and the U.S. who support the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons in our congregations and ministries.
Questioning Globalisation (grad) (Turkey) (2/14/03; 5/7/03-5/9/03): This conference aims to discuss the issue of globalisation and its meanings, connotations, and consequences from the perspective of young scholars of undergraduate and graduate levels.
Race, Ethnicity and American Studies (Finland) (3/15/03; 6/6/03-6/8/03): We invite papers for this international conference exploring new directions in American Studies: literature, history, cultural studies, sociology, film, art, music, linguistics etc.
Race and Sexuality (12/15/02; 5/31/03-6/2/03): This year's conference theme is "Conflict and Cooperation."
Race in America (10/15/02 negotiable; 9/11/03-9/14/03): The conference will focus on the changing nature of race in America, given the social, demographic, political, and economic changes that the US has undergone since the Civil Rights Movement.
Races, Ethnicities and Nationalisms (North Cyprus) (10/30/02; 5/30/03-6/1/03): We invite submissions for a Panel Discussion exploring how conceptions of race, ethnicity and nationalism enter into social, cultural, economic, political, and legal constructions/deconstructions of identity at our turn of the century.
Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Writers on the Internet (1/5/03; SSAWW, 9/24/03-9/27/03): This session will explore these efforts to recover and disseminate women's writing via digital technologies and the effect on the canon, research, and pedagogy.
The Red Tent and Women's Studies (11/15/02; NWSA, 6/19/03-6/23/03): This panel seeks to explore interdisciplinary studies of The Red Tent and to discuss the text as it acts as a bridge between women's studies in general and a wider audience of readers.
Reflections on Mixed Race Identity (2/12/03; CSA, 6/5/03-6/8/03): The Cultural Studies Association Founding Conference is seeking papers that use personal experiences to reflect critically on the ways in which current conceptions of racial identity fail to account for the complexities of multi-racial identity.
Revisiting the Activist Impulse in Ethnic Studies (12/15/02; Spring '03): This conference seeks to re-examine Ethnic Studies' connection to activism, bridging the growing gap between theoretical and applied work, and between scholars and our various "communities."
Science and Womanhood in 19th & Early 20th C. (11/1/02; SSAWW, 9/24/03-9/27/03): The Society for the Study of American Women Writer's Conference in Fort Worth, TX will explore women writers' responses to and representations of scientific treatments,...
September 11th & Discourses of Immigration, Security, Race, etc. (12/15/02; 6/1/03-6/4/03): In the aftermath of September 11th there have been significant shifts in the ways in which immigration has been understood.
The Social Justice Training Institute: "The Social Justice Training Institute provides a forum for the professional and personal development of social justice educators to expand and refine their skills and competencies in designing and facilitating diversity awareness experiences."
Thomas McGrath and Social Class (no deadline noted; ALA, 5/22/03-5/25/03): Papers sought that investigate the poetry of Thomas McGrath (1916-1990), with particular reference to class.
Trash Film (1/3/03; 5/9/03-5/11/03): This three-day international conference will return in May 2003 to join scholars, film makers, and industry specialists of "trash cinema" from any decade or genre.
White Privilege Conference: A conference with topics concerning White privilege.
Women in Mamet's Plays & Film (12/30/02; ALA, 5/22/03-5/25/03): Of particular interest would be how female voices/identities manifest themselves within decidedly masculinized worlds; how women confront, overcome, or succumb to their (enforced) marginality; and how Mamet's female characters have (or have not) evolved over nearly three decades worth of plays and films.
Women in U. S. Race Riots (1/10/03; ASA, 10/16/03-10/19/03): This panel seeks to explore other ways U. S. women participated in race riots.
Women's "Private" Writing and the American Civil War (11/15/02; 9/24/03-9/27/03): Proposals and papers are sought for a panel on women's "private" writing and the American Civil War.
Women's Spirituality (10/30/02; 5/2/03-5/4/03): Academic and creative papers in women's spirituality, women's studies, literary, visual and performance art, short films, music performance, workshop leaders exploring themes including Our Bodies, Healing, Lesbian Feminism, the Arts, Archaeomythology, Technology (including internet), Making a Living, Education and Teaching, Eco-Feminism, Religion and Spiritual Practices, Community, Race/Ethnic/Gender Experiences, Leadership, Power and Activism.
Women's Writing in Britain 1660-1830 (UK) (10/31/02; 7/15/03-7/17/03): The conference will reflect on---and debate---new directions for research in the field.
World Literature / World Film: Intersections and Challenges (12/16/02; 4/25/03-4/27/03): While we are particularly interested in proposals that address the conference theme, papers on all aspects of world literature, global culture, and postcolonial studies will be considered.
Cum Nulla: The British Province of Carmelites in conjunction with the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, is holding an academic symposium in York on Carmelite culture, history and spirituality.
"The University": The MMLA is soliciting session proposals on "The University," or any other subject of interest.
Annual Conference of the English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU): The English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU) is holding their annual conference at West Chester University in West Chester, PA, on October 23-24, 2003, co-hosted by WCU and Cheney University. Proposals are sought in a variety of different subjects.
John Edgar Wideman Society International Conference: The John Edgar Wideman Society will be holding its first international conference at the University of Pennsylvania Conference Center on 10-11 October 2003. Proposals are requested on a variety of topics.