Is now available at http://www.csi.edu/support/library/ejournals.htm
As a sidenote, there were surprisingly no new and remotely relevant CFPs/Conference Updates available at this times. In fact, there no new posts period after last Friday.
AND WE’RE BACK! After a slower attempt at summer, digests return to their regular content level. Sadly, this week, there is little or no comp. Hopefully, however, there might be OA prompt fodder. (And if you missed out on summer updates, feel free to go back and look at the archive.)
1. Participants are being sought for paper sessions on Sociology and Folklore in the Fantastic for the 30th Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.
[Actually, it’s more about construction of social and cultural legends/myths. Potential.]
2. CALL FOR PAPERS
The Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association will once again be sponsoring a session on CLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN POPULAR CULTURE (formerly entitled “Classical Myths in Recent Literature and Film”) at the 30th Annual meeting to be held February 24-28, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico.
3. Panel for Congress 2009 (May 23-30): Marketing to/for/with Young People The Association for Research in Cultures of Young People invites proposals from scholars and practitioners in all areas for papers that address any aspect of marketing and cultures of young people.
[For those who do Ad analysis essays]
4. PCA/ACA AREA: Medical Humanities: Health and Disease in Culture
POPULAR CULTURE AND AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
New Orleans Marriott
New Orleans, Louisiana
April 8-April 11, 2009
The “Medical Humanities: Health and Disease in Culture” PCA/ACA area examines a wide variety of topics related to the experiences of human beings pursuing health and living with illness.
[A bit broad, but tempting to look at.]
5. Roundtable: Youth, Sexuality, Technology The Association for Research in Cultures of Young People invites proposals from scholars and practitioners in all areas for a roundtable discussion of youth and sexuality.
[Yes, it’s a graphic subject; Not likely OA fodder.]
6. AND FINALLY, AN OFF-BEAT OF THE WEEK: UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 15, 2008
We are searching for three to five additional submissions for a critical collection about the ever-expanding world of national and international trash cinema.
[Good title to start with, anyway.]
Next week, we get back to full entries. This weekend, here are two composition entries:
Education
The following is a call for manuscripts for the Peter Lang Publishing Education and New Literacies list. One of the premier education publishing groups, Peter Lang Publishing is looking for works that understand how new literacies and new ways of seeing education are being invented — as people from all walks of life, in diverse sites, wrestle with new technologies, shifting values, changing institutional forms and processes, and emerging structures characteristic of postmodernity/New Times/the Global Informational Age. These texts aim to explore these emerging domains and to create awareness of key trends and features, translating them into educational consciousness and practice. These texts should explore in depth and from a range of perspectives the extent, nature, and implications of new literacies in global context, challenging familiar ways of framing education, and what it means for education to be powerful, effective, and enabling under current and foreseeable conditions.
We wish to encourage and support new early-career authors as well as established scholars.
We welcome articles which examine and engage with the current concerns of education, educators, students, learning, especially how technology has impacted education. Topics of particular interest are:
* critical pedagogy/ies
* literacy and technology
* education and disability
* the history of schools and schooling
* education and innovation
* education psychology
* multiculturalism, urban schooling
* education and the environment
* theory of play
* gender and education, particularly masculinity and adolescents
To send proposals or for more information and a full list of guidelines, please email:
Rebecca.Shapiro_at_plang.com
Rebecca Shapiro, Ph. D.
Acquisitions Editor
Peter Lang Publishing
29 Broadway, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10006
212.647.7700, ex. 3006
Geometries of Rhetoric
Call for Papers
Special issue of the Nexus Network Journal
Fall 2009
Guest editor, Robert Kirkbride, Ph.D.
Humans apprehend and transform the world through the description of its qualities and delineation of its quantities. Although these modes of analysis and expression are often placed in contrast to one another, for example as the verbal and mathematical arts, products of human ingenuity literally and figuratively embody a weave of alphanumerics. Mythic parables, geometric proofs, memory arts, logarithms, buildings and ities have emerged from the interplay of measure and explication. This call for papers seeks past, present and potential examples of the combination and permutation of “geometries of rhetoric” as demonstrated through the discipline of architecture.
Please send a 500 word abstract and a brief bio or CV to Robert Kirkbride at kirkbrir_at_newschool.edu as Word or pdf attachments by September 30, 2008.
Reviews of appropriate books and exhibits are also welcome.
Submission does not guarantee publication; all submissions will be peer-reviewed before being accepted for publication.
Founded in 1999, the Nexus Network Journal (NNJ) is a peer-reviewed journal for researchers, professionals and students engaged in the study of the application of mathematical principles to architectural design. Its goal is to present the broadest possible consideration of all aspects of the relationships between architecture and mathematics, including landscape architecture and urban design.
Bibliographic Data – First published in 1999 by Kim Williams Books – Editor-in-Chief, Kim Williams kwb_at_kimwilliamsbooks.com – Since 2007 co-published and distributed by Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel – Published electronically and in print, 1 volume per year, 3 issues per volume – Format: 17 x 24 cm – ISSN 1590-5896 (print) – ISSN 1522-4600 (electronic) – Back volumes are available – electronic access for subscribers: http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/mathematics/journal/4
Abstracted/Indexed in: Avery Index of Architectural Publications, Mathematical Reviews, MathSciNet, SCOPUS, ZDM (Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik), Zentralblatt Math
Recent Developments:
1. New issues of College English and CCC are available online.
2. So far, there’s been only one new composition post since I last posted. Here it is:
Call for Papers
Service-learning in the Composition Classroom
Submissions are sought for a professional development book for both new and experienced composition teachers that will focus on the role of service-learning in the composition classroom. The book will be part of the Fountainhead Press X Series for Professional Development. Essays are sought that provide practical ideas for using service-learning pedagogy in the classroom; however, the practical application should build on a pedagogical discussion that frames the teaching/learning activities. In other words, do not only tell how, but also why.
The specific audience includes
• New teaching assistants, adjuncts and instructors teaching composition courses, including technical writing
• Service-learning/Community Literacy personnel
• Writing Program administrators interested in the creation of professional development
courses or programs
• Writing Center personnel
• Writing Across the Curriculum personnel
Possible topics include
• Pedagogical pros and cons of using service-learning in the composition classroom
• Collaborative models for working with community partners
• Management of service-learning projects – planning documents, designating roles for
community partners/teachers/students, designing legal documents to protect student interests and ownership/use of final products, forming/managing work teams, etc.
• Designing course schedules with flexibility, utilizing regular class meetings versus
engagement time with community partners
• Models for working with profit/not-for-profit organizations
• Assessment models/assessment implications/role of community partners in assessment • Strategies for gaining administrative/community support for projects
• Strategies for gearing service-learning approaches to programmatic needs
• Implications of service-learning related to community literacy
• The role of technology in service-learning and the learning opportunities presented
• Implications for the role of teacher in service-learning
• Strategies for dealing with ethical implications of service-learning engagement/products/expectations/responsibilities
• Discussions of end products developed through service-learning activities
• Discussions of student/teacher/programmatic/community partner attitudes about the
reasons for service-learning activities
You are strongly encouraged to provide samples of
• Student writing
• End products
• Forms
• Syllabi
• Assignment descriptions
Submissions written collaboratively with students/administrators/community partners are
especially encouraged. Submissions should be around 5,000 words and should follow MLA style.
Please refer to http://www.fountainheadpress.com/english/xseries.html for series style guide.
Submit essays in digital form (Word/rtf) by October 1, 2008 to susan.garza_at_tamucc.edu.
Yes, I know how long it’s been. With that in mind, here are composition-only entries for the last month:
1. The “Person” in the 21st Century: Personal/Writing in the Contemporary Composition Classroom (9/15/2008; NEMLA, Boston, 2/26 – 3/1/09)
2. Call for Papers:
Economies of Writing: On Language and Value in Composition Studies
3. The English department at Baton Rouge Community College invites
submissions from faculty and graduate students to its spring 2009
annual writing conference, “Writing Matters: An Exploration of the
Diverse Nature of the Composition Classroom.”
4. 40th Annual North East MLA Conference. Boston, MA.
Feb. 26-Mar. 1, 2009.
Board-sponsored panel
Service Learning: Connecting Composition and Community
5. Second Biennial 2008 Writing Critical Thinking Conference
Friday, Nov. 21 to Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008
College of Liberal Arts, Quinnipiac University
Call for Papers
Proposal deadline is July 18.
Notification of acceptance sent by August 15.
“Writing Across a Critical Thinking Continuum”
Hmm. Someone took the week off: there weren’t that many entries submitted, and only one deserved attention. I’ll paste it here.
By the way, the latest edition of College English is available online.
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference
Louisville, KY
November 7-9, 2008
“The Play’s the Thing!” Effectively Using Drama and Role Playing in the Teaching of ESL/EFL
This panel will explore the various ways in which drama and role-playing contribute effectively to the teaching of written and spoken English to non-native speakers. The use of drama and role-playing has proven to be a successful and effective way to assist in the fluency of English speaking, reading and listening comprehension for ESL/ESOL/EFL learners. With the freedom that assuming another identity provides, students are able to become desensitized to feeling self-conscious and shy about accent and
pronunciation, allowing them to learn in a more relaxed manner. Thus, assuming the character portrayed will become an invaluable aid in the mastery of language acquisition. This panel will explore the many and varied ways that this process can be implemented.
By May 15, 2008, please submit a 250-word abstract on a related topic to Myrna J. Santos, Florida Atlantic University, either by post to 3600 NW 82 Drive, Coral Springs, FL 33065, or by email at ESLCARE_at_aol.com, or, msantos2_at_fau.edu.
For more info, visit: http://samla.gsu.edu/convention/convention.htm
Yes, there is a session on creative writing, poetry, reading… but sadly, there are THREE Off-Beats.
1. You are invited to participate in the inaugural Spring 2008 Creative Writing Festival: A Celebration of Teaching and Writing on May 2 and 3 at the Ammerman Campus of Suffolk County Community College in Selden, NY.
2. Essays are sought for a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen’s 1960 seminal anthology, “The New American Poetry,” an anthology that Marjorie Perloff called in a 1995 essay, “[…] the fountainhead of radical American poetics.”
3. Call for Papers
The Richard and Judy Book Club Reader
Edited collection of essays
How are reading habits and preferences formed? Do we read what we discover in education, or read what is recommended to us? Or do we build on random encounters with authors and texts? Increasingly, book clubs and their recommendations, like Richard & Judy’s teatime TV reading selections, advise the general public not only about what to read, but also, that they should be reading something in the first place.
4. IN SHORT JOURNAL
CALL FOR PAPERS
The University of Miami is currently accepting submissions for its new peer reviewed online journal devoted to the study of short moving images.
[This came so close to being an Off-Beat of the Week]
5. OFF-BEAT OF THE WEEK, SECOND RUNNER-UP:
Pasts and Constructing Futures: Time Travel in Film and Television.
Richard Berger - Bournemouth University, UK (Editor).
[Check out the list of shows.]
6. OFF-BEAT OF THE WEEK, FIRST RUNNER-UP:
Contemporary Legend
The Journal of the International Society of Contemporary Legend Research
Proposed Special Issue: “Contemporary Ghostlore”
[Sigh]
7. HANDS-DOWN-WINNER, OFF-BEAT OF THE WEEK:
Lyric and the Resistance to Work
A special session at the International Conference on Romanticism, Oct. 16-19 at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.
NOTE: I could find only three entries of worth this week. I suspect I am grouchy, but I will simply paste the three here. There is one good comp, one good lit, and an interesting Off-Beat.
1. In “Why Johnny Can’t Write, Even Through He Went to Princeton” (2003), Thomas Bartlett describes the increasing trend toward themed sections of freshman composition at Ivy League institutions. Interestingly, while there is evidence that themed sections are popular among not merely liberal arts schools, but some larger universities, there is little published scholarship on this topic.
I am interested in assembling a CCCC panel on the role of themed sections in freshman composition. (Themed sections are alternatively known as “special topics” courses or “topics in writing.”) If you are interested in participating on this panel, please email me a brief abstract at wetzelg_at_mailbox.sc.edu as soon as possible. Or, email me with general ideas we can discuss whether or not this panel would suit your interests.
If interested, please get in touch soon as I plan to submit a full panel proposal this May.
Thanks,
Grace Wetzel
University of South Carolina
2. MILTON 400
7-8 November 2008
Call for Papers
The Department of English at Saint Anselm College plans to mark the fourth centenary of the birth of John Milton with an academic conference on the continuing relevance and importance of his work. Papers of 15-20 minutes’ length are solicited on topics including, but not limited to:
• Interpretations of Milton’s major and minor literary works
• Milton and philosophy, theology or history
• Milton and the fine arts
• Milton and politics
• Milton’s role in popular culture and cyberspace
A panel for undergraduate students will be included.
Keynote address: Barbara K. Lewalski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History and Literature and of English Literature, Harvard University
Please send proposals of 300-500 words* by June 15, 2008, preferably by email to:
Milton400_at_anselm.edu or mail to:
Milton 400 Committee
P.O. Box 1807
Department of English
Saint Anselm College
100 Saint Anselm Drive
Manchester, NH 03102-1310
*Undergraduates should submit completed papers of 10-12 pages.
3. OFF-BEAT OF THE WEEK:
Melancholia as a Central European Discourse in English Literary and Cultural History
An International Conference at the University of Augsburg, 25-28th June 2009
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Martin Middeke and Dr. Christina Wald
Why are all outstanding philosophers, politicians, writers, and artists melancholic?
As the above-quoted passage – which had been ascribed to Aristotle for a long time – shows, melancholia was regarded more than an illness already in ancient times. In 350 B.C., it is understood as an epiphenomenon of, or even as a prerequisite for, outstanding cultural and political achievements and deep philosophical insight. In its age-old history, melancholia has maintained such complex denotation. While medical and psychological discourses tried to examine and define the phenomenon in terms of pathology, melancholia, at the same time, served as a versatile cultural trope. Concerning the history of medicine, melancholia developed from the ancient and early modern definition based on humour theory regarding melancholia as a surplus of bile, via Emil Kraepelin’s studies on dementia praecox (later: schizophrenia) and Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical definition of melancholia as repressed grief to today’s category of depression. The European cultural history of melancholia, however, also covers its nobilitation as a state which opens up an avenue to deeper insight and judiciousness, emblematically captured in Alfred Dürer’s engraving Melencolia I.
In this context, melancholia has been linked to discourses of genius in German and English Romanticism, and, recently, has been associated with the postcolonial heritage of European imperialism in studies like Anne Anlin Cheng’s The Melancholy of Race (2000) and Paul Gilroy’s After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture? (2004) as well as Postcolonial Melancholia (2005). In view of recent discourses centring on melancholia, the relation between melancholia and postmodernism is much-disputed: Is a postmodern relishing in difference and playfulness tantamount to an end of (modernist?) melancholia, or is the present ‘popularity’ of melancholia an indicator for the return of emotion and, quite literally, postmodernism upon the wane? Besides psychological, social, postcolonial, and aesthetic phenomena, melancholia also shapes discourses on the much-debated relation between sex and sexuality in western societies. Melancholia has most often been understood as an inherently masculine phenomenon – as far as it was connoted positively.
Therefore, melancholia is of interest for Gender Studies in two respects: first, as a historic phenomenon that grants insight into the differentiation and hierarchy of the sexes, and second, as an analytical category derived from psychoanalysis, through which the establishment and maintenance of gender identity can be comprehended. Melancholia has recently advanced to an important concept in poststructuralist Gender and Queer Studies. When, for example, Judith Butler conceptualizes the body as a product of a melancholic incorporation, she pleads for a radically new interpretation of ‘melancholic anatomy’ about four hundred years after Robert Burton’s epoch-making Anatomy of Melancholia. The conference, which interlinks with the central concern of the newly established Centre of Excellence at Augsburg university, “Europe: Culture, Education, and Religion between Regionalisation and Globalisation”, aims at throwing a new light on the history of melancholia, with regard to its thematic as well as formal-aesthetical consequences. It particularly intends to examine the interaction between the discourses of medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, literature, art, and philosophy in terms of a European cultural history and its non-European, global connections and effects.
To limit the subject to a manageable size, English literature, the cultural space of Great Britain, and its expansion through colonization, migration and knowledge transfer shall serve as examples to examine European discourses. We invite contributions to the following fields:
(1) How were the European norms of psychic health and illness inherent in definitions of melancholia received and resignified in non-European, transatlantic cultures?
(2) Which regional as well as historical differences between concepts of melancholia existed within the ‘mother country’ England or Great Britain? The cultural encoding of melancholia as a mental state of higher creativity und deeper insight refers already to melancholia’s relevance for issues of culture and education. Here, questions are raised about the way of artists’ self-fashioning as melancholics and the regional as well as historical differences between, for instance, the melancholic craze in Elizabethan England and the characterization of Romantic poets as melancholics, both by themselves and by others.
(3) Can we assume, from a historical perspective, that a wave movement existed, that melancholia was torn between carrying a positive connotation as a creative state of mind (in the English Renaissance and particularly in Romanticism) and being stigmatized as a mental illness (for instance, in the neo-classical 18th century)?
(4) In addition to culture and education, religion kept playing a central role in the cultural discussion of melancholia. The concept of ‘religious melancholia’ includes a large number of psychosomatic symptoms in the England of the 17th and 18th centuries that carry, due to the religious wars in Europe, also political meanings.
We would like to discuss whether and to what extent the current, intensely debated tendencies in postmodern, European societies towards a return to religion – or at least towards a re- or neo-spiritualizing of a formerly completely secularized way of life – can be compared to those historic precursors.
The above-raised questions shall be examined systematically in thematically focused panels. Scheduled panels include:
I. Melancholia and Gender
II. Melancholia and Genius
III. Melancholia and Temporality
IV. Melancholia and Religion
V. Melancholia and Mourning
VI. Melancholia, Politics, and Society
VII. Melancholia and (Post-)Colonial Discourse
VIII. Melancholia and (Post-)Modernism
Each selected paper will be allotted a 40 minutes slot and should allow for 10 minutes of discussion. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted with a short CV either electronically in the body of an email or as an attachment in .doc or .pdf file format.
by June 1, 2008 to
Prof. Dr. phil. Martin Middeke
Dr. Christina Wald
Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
Universität Augsburg
Philologisch-Historische Fakultät
Universitätsstraße 10
86159 Augsburg
Germany
Tel. +49 821 598 2746 (-2611)
Fax +49 821 598 5638
Email: martin.middeke_at_phil.uni-augsburg.de
christina.wald_at_phil.uni-augsburg.de
[I’ve been to Augsburg. Melancholia makes sense for that place….No wonder Durer had a field day there.]
WOW! A good one on composition!
(Okay, there’s also items on Shakespeare, Work, the cultural definition of ‘normal’, James Joyce, and finally, a decent Off-Beat.)
1. Teaching Writing in College:
“But I’m Not an English Major!: Connecting College Writing to the Academic Experience.”
[Sigh. It’s a minor conference, however…..]
2. CALL FOR PAPERS WORKING SHAKESPEARES
OHIO VALLEY SHAKESPEARE CONFERENCE, OCT 2-5 YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY
The Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference is accepting abstracts for its annual conference to be held October 2-5 at Youngstown State University. The theme for this year’s meeting, Working Shakespeares, is meant to solicit a broad range of inquiries into issues of labor and market, class and status, civic and public in both the works of Shakespeare and the profession at large. In our current cultural moment, a time in which the gap between rich and poor widens at an alarming pace and universities are facing shifting market demands, how might we rethink Shakespeare studies from perspectives that address these concerns?
3. Call for proposals: deadline April 7, 2008
Special Session: Women and Work
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
Pomona College, Pomona, California
November 7-8, 2008
[For those who do ‘work’ essays.]
4. Call for Papers
For the Publication
Niet Normaal
Difference on Display
To be published in March 2009, NAI Publishers, on the occasion of the exhibition Niet Normaal ▪ Difference on Display, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam.
Editors: Ine Gevers, Maaike Bleeker, Miriam van Rijsingen and Marjan Slob
Theme of the Exhibition
The exhibition Niet Normaal ▪ Difference on Display reveals how normal it is to be different. In order to assess others we often adopt a point of reference that is based on unspoken assumptions: the norm. Artists, filmmakers and other producers will call into question how norms and difference function in contemporary society. How we construct normality is examined in the context of today’s culture of perfectibility, consumerism and the interdependence of humans and intelligent technology.
[This one screams of OA potential….]
5. Abstracts are sought for a proposed panel for Re-Nascent Joyce, the XXIst International James Joyce Symposium in Université François-Rabelais, Tours on June 15–20, 2008.
[A university named after Rabelais is hosting a conference on Joyce…. Sounds appropriate….]
6. FINALLY, A DECENT CANDIDATE FOR OFF-BEAT OF THE WEEK:
I’m seeking contributors for a GEMCS 2008 panel on gluttony (broadly defined).
[I rode my bike to work this week. Drop the comment.]
Mostly literature and culture…..Entries also include research into blogs and Oprah’s Book Club,
1. New Shakespeares
The Sixteenth Annual
CSU Shakespeare Symposium
April 26, 2008
Sonoma State University
2. Call for Papers MAPACA 2008
Beowulf to Shakespeare: Popular Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Conference October 30-November 2, 2008
Niagra Falls, Ontario
3. Contemporary Women’s Writing is a new journal that critically assesses writing by women authors who have published approximately from 1970 to the present.
4. Web 2.0 (formerly Blogs & Wikis)
MPCA/MACA - Regional Conference
October 3-5, 2008
Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 30, 2008
GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS ON WEB 2.0
[For those of you who thought Blogs were going away…]
5. History of Critical Reception Permanent Section
Righteous Readers: Race, Reception, and Book Club Mania
Midwest Modern Language Association, November 13-16, 2008, Minneapolis, MN
[This is the one on Oprah’s Book Club.]
6. OFF-BEAT OF THE WEEK:
(Proposals due April 15th, 2008)
Call for contributors for Hip Hop Around the World: An Encyclopedia, a two-volume reference set under contract with Greenwood Press.
[An oldie-but-goodie.]