Through the generosity of the Mellon Foundation

							THATCamp is an interdisciplinary "unconference" where humanists and technologists meet to work
together for the common good. Through the generosity of the Mellon Foundation, the Council on Library and
Information Resources, and the Kress Foundation, $500 (USD) fellowships are available to academics in the
humanities, librarians and archivists, and art museum professionals of all ranks and fields to encourage
humanists to begin acquiring skills such as text encoding, data visualization and mapping, website
development, and other digital skills that can help further the study of the humanities.

Applications are continually accepted to THATCamps all across the United States, Europe, and Australia; graduate
students are particularly encouraged to apply. Read more and apply at http://thatcamp.org/fellowships.

The College English Association invites papers on any aspect of the short story, preferably with reference to
the conference's theme "Fortunes." Money, luck, friendship, health, a warm place to sleep. In a world staggered
by economic decline and natural catastrophes, what are the new boundaries of success and misfortune? How do art,
literature, and the classroom respond to the Rota Fortunae? For our 2011 meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida, CEA
invites papers and panels that explore Fortune as both a daunting challenge and an elusive ideal. For more
information, please see the full Call For Papers at http://cea-web.org/


Papers relating to the short story--from any country, in any language, from any period--are welcome. Submit
abstracts by Nov. 1, 2010 to Dean Baldwin, dxb11@psu.edu

The Third International Conference on Doris Lessing
Conference Theme: Doris Lessing: Freedom
Dates: May 14, 2010 – May 16, 2010
Location: Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
Deadline for Proposals: Dec. 1, 2010
Submit proposals to: lessingconference@nku.edu

Since the publication of her first novel in 1950, Nobel Prize winning author Doris Lessing has demonstrated an
intense concern with what it means to be a free subject in the world. Over the course of her career, in 28 novels as
well as in short stories, non-fiction, and interviews, she has considered the characteristics of freedom, who has
freedom, and what jeopardizes freedom. Please consider proposing a paper, panel, workshop, or roundtable that
examines Lessing’s exploration of freedom in her writing. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Feminism and “free women”
• Terrorism and threats to freedom
• The politics of freedom/liberation
• Freedom in the context of colonialism/postcolonialism
• Madness as freedom
• Freedom and race/ethnity
• Freedom and aging
• Freedom and authorship/writing
• Teaching Freedom in Lessing’s works
• Nature, ecology and the possibilities for freedom
• Lessing and other authors: comparing approaches to/representations of freedom

Proposals are due Dec. 1, 2010. For paper proposals, please send a 250-word abstract as a Word attachment. For
panel, workshop, or roundtable proposals, please submit a title and 250-word description of the session as well as a
brief description of what each participant will contribute, including individual paper titles if applicable. As this is a
blind submission process, please do not include your name on your abstract. In your email, please include your
name(s), institutional affiliation (if any), paper title(s), and contact information. Submit proposals to
lessingconference@nku.edu.
The Doris Lessing Society is an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association, and it sponsors the
journal Doris Lessing Studies. For more information about the Doris Lessing Society, please visit the website,
http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/raschke/doris_lessing_society/about-us.htm.

The Wallace Stevens Society invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 39th annual Louisville Conference
on Literature & Culture since 1900, to be held at the University of Louisville, February 24-26, 2011
(www.thelouisvilleconference.com).

Anne Carson has observed “The poet is someone who feasts at the same table as other people -- But at a certain
point he feels a lack ... he is provoked by a perception of absence within what others regard as a full and satisfactory
present.” We seek papers that explore some of the many ways in which Stevens’ writings define such a lack or seek
to compensate for it through alternative forms of community, be they real or imagined, personal or poetic, local or
global, epistolary or direct.

Those interested should send a 300-word abstract to Anna Boyagoda (aboyagoda@hotmail.com) by September 27,
2010. Please include your name, e-mail address, telephone number, academic affiliation (if applicable), and the title
of paper as you would like it to appear in the program.

Faulkner's Narrator's - SAMLA 2010
South Atlantic MLA
Victoria.M.Bryan@gmail.com

The ambiguity behind Faulkner’s narrators can be astounding and confusing – and wonderfully ripe for analysis.
This session welcomes 250 to 300 word abstracts that seek to elucidate the vagueness the colors any aspect of
Faulkner’s narrators. Abstracts that incorporate this year’s convention theme of “The Interplay between Text and
Image” are welcome but not required. Please send abstracts and current CVs to Victoria.M.Bryan@gmail.com by
September 30, 2010.

ASEBL Journal, http://www.stfranciscollege.edu/academics/Publications/ASEBL , is looking for short,
critical, analytical (possibly reflective) essays for upcoming issues.

Mission of ASEBL: To engage in the study, analysis, explanation, and public discussion of ethical behavior, as
it is manifested, particularly, in literature. This is a serious but modest, online journal: we are not trying to
compete with the major academic journals. To see what has been published, best to go to the website and view past
issues. If requested, arrangements can be made to have your submission peer-reviewed.

How to Submit:
Critical writing of an analytical nature, approximately 1,000 to 2,000 words. (Word count is relative.)

No creative writing.

Send your essay as a MS-Word attachment to Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D. at gtague@stfrancsicollege.edu

In the subject line write: ASEBL submission. (Without such tag email is deleted).

In the body of your email, please include your name, contact information, and a brief (65 words) biography.

Submissions are reviewed; the best will be published. If you have questions, please ask. Submissions subject to
editorial changes.

Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D.
Professor of English
St. Francis College
180 Remsen Street
Brooklyn, NY 11209
gtague@stfranciscollege.edu

http://www.stfranciscollege.edu/academics/Publications/ASEBL

Rubric is an online interdisciplinary journal centred around creative writing. It is a space in which to explore
the nexus of text and subject, and critically consider the definition of these terms. We welcome contributions
of fiction / poetry / fictocriticism / electronic literature / writing and critical theory / practice-based research
and as yet undiscovered modes in-between.

As of this issue, all submissions will be double peer-reviewed by our editorial board: this is an exciting opportunity
for contributors to help shape the future direction of the journal. We welcome international contributions.

Submissions close October 1st. For more information and submission guidelines, please visit us at
http://rubric.org.au or email us at rubric@unsw.edu.au.

Academic Exchange Quarterly
Summer 2011, Volume 15, Issue 2
Expanded issue up to 400+ pages.
Articles on various topics plus the following special sections.
Games and simulations in education
Feature Editor:
Maria Mavrommati, PhD candidate- Instructor, Department of Applied Informatics
University of Macedonia, Greece
Email: mmavrom@uom.gr or mariamavrommath@gmail.com
Focus:
The proposed issue will focus on the use of games and simulations in education, secondary and tertiary. Specific
interest on theoretical and practical research on the field, its purposes, functions, potentials and limitations.

Who May Submit:
Submissions by academic and independent researchers, graduate students, teachers, games and simulations industry
etc. Please identify your submission with keyword: GAMES

Article submission deadline:
end of February 2011 See details for other deadline options like early, regular, and short.
Early submission offers an opportunity to be considered for Editors' Choice

Submission Procedure:
http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm

Questions can be addressed to
Maria Mavrommati, Feature Editor at mariamavrommath@gmail.com

Email: mariamavrommath@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/games.htm

Call for Papers: “Refractions of Bob Dylan - Cultural Appropriations of an American Icon”
Conference at the University of Vienna, May 19-21, 2011

This conference, which almost directly coincides with the seventieth birthday of the US-American artist, invites you
to investigate various aspects of ‘metamorphoses’ of Dylan. What about the ways in which Dylan’s texts and the
text “Dylan” have been translated, adapted and re/constructed? How and to what ends were they appropriated, and
how did they become relevant for cultural, political or social productions mainly in non-American cultures? A strand
of the conference is especially interested in topics concerning Dylan and Austria.
Dylan’s cultural production in the second half of the 20th century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-
fashionings have informed and productively re/shaped certain images of America from outside and within. The
conference wants to look at cultural appropriations of ‘Dylan’ in different cultural, regional, and political contexts. It
is thus interested in the political function and appropriation of popular culture, and in the broad field of
Americanization. It might be helpful to envision Americanization here not predominantly as cultural imperialism but
also as a “liberating form of expression” (Kooijman) for other cultures, and as active cultural appropriation. Along
Robert Kroes’s lines who argues that “the only culture Europeans had in common in the late twentieth century was
American culture”, investigations of ‘Dylan translations’ in any (European) regional or national cultures are
welcome.
This is a call for papers and also for whole panels. It invites topics from the fields of cultural studies, literary studies
(American, German, Comparative), history, the Arts, film studies, music and musicology studies, and folk studies to
look at adaptations of lyrics and songs, but also of self-constructions and stage personae or of trans-lations of certain
“structures of feelings” (Williams) into divergent cultural settings. I would like to encourage topics that not only
focus on Dylan’s songs and lyrics and their adaptations, but on aspects of cultural appropriations of Dylan’s
persona/e, his own work in film or films about him (e.g. Masked and Anonymous, I’m Not There), his creative
writing and life writing (e.g. Tarantula or Chronicles Vol. 1), or his paintings. It might also be interesting to discuss
cultural appropriations of other US American popular icons in a contrastive way.
The conference will also take a fresh approach to the tradition of academic gatherings. It will, for instance, include a
singer/songwriter session in which (Austrian) musicians talk about and sing out their influences and translations of
the “Song and Dance Man”.

Possible Clusters

• Dylan and/in Austria; Dylan and/in Europe; Reception of Dylan in …
• America/Dylan and trans/regional youth cultures (in Europe)
• Globalizing Dylan – Localizing Dylan
• Metamorphoses of Dylan

• Transformative powers of Dylan and “Dylan”
• Dylan performing – Performing Dylan
• Hegemonic appropriations of Dylan
• Dylan “performing” America
• Fan cultures

Please send your proposals for panels and/or papers (200-400 words) to
eugen.banauch@univie.ac.at
Dr Eugen Banauch Department of English and American Studies – University of Vienna. Deadline: Nov 07, 2010