“Transnationality in the Luso-Hispanic World”
VII Annual Graduate Student Conference
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of California, Los Angeles
April 29-30, 2010
The Conference Committee invites proposals for single papers or complete session panels from scholars of all levels related to transnationality across a broad range of time periods and geographical regions.
Topics of exploration might include, but are not limited to:
Anthropological and Historical perspectives
Manifestations across various Media and the Arts
Constructs of Identity in the Diaspora and Exile
Imagined Communities and the Global City
Gender Roles across Cultural Contexts
Theoretical and/or Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Dialect change
Development of New Speech Communities
Language Maintenance or Loss
Diglossia, Bilingualism and/or Multilingualism
Papers on a variety of other related topics that adhere to the conference theme are welcome.
Each presenter will be allotted twenty (20) minutes for his or her presentation, inclusive of any audio-visual set-up necessary. We will also be publishing the Proceedings of the Conference via the on-line academic journal server eScholarship.
The deadline for proposals is January 31, 2010. Respond via email to ucla.spanport.conference@gmail.com. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, title, email address, proposed paper title and a 250-word abstract. Please put “Conference Proposal” in your subject line. The conference paper itself should have a transnational focus and be a maximum of ten pages in length, not including endnotes and/or bibliography. Presentations will be limited to twenty minutes, inclusive of any time needed for audio-visual setup.
Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies at Princeton University
“Ghosts: Ethereal and Material”
10 April 2010
The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University invites submissions for its seventeenth annual graduate conference. We are pleased to announce this year's keynote speaker, Nancy Caciola, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.
This conference invites participants to consider the idea of ghosts in its broadest sense. We encourage papers not only on ghosts as 'ethereal' beings, but also submissions that play with the metaphor of ghosts as it relates to things like memory and the material remains of the medieval past. Thus, one successful proposal might deal with apparitions as they appear in monastic literature. Others might make the "ghost" of the Middle Ages in contemporary film or the 'ghostly' ruins of Cistercian monasteries in France their subject of inquiry. In keeping with the Program's aim to promote interdisciplinary exchange among medievalists, we encourage proposals from a variety of chronologies, geographies, and disciplines.
Topics might include but are not limited to:
The Liturgy of the Dead
Spirit possessions and exorcisms
Medieval near death experiences and otherworldly journeys
Ghosts in monastic literature and exempla
Ghosts in vernacular literature (epic, romance, sagas, etc.)
Saints' lives and hagiography
Medieval modes of remembrance
Ruins in Medieval Europe
The "ghost" of the Middle Ages today
In order to support participation of speakers from outside the northeastern United States, we are offering a limited number of modest subsidies to help offset the cost of travel to Princeton. Financial assistance may not be available for every participant; funding priority goes to those who have the furthest to travel. Every speaker will have the option of staying with a resident graduate student as an alternative to paying for a hotel room. Papers should take no more than twenty minutes to deliver. Please submit a 250-word abstract of your project by 15 February 2010 to Troy Tice(ttice@princeton.edu) or Andrew Lemons (alemons@princeton.edu).
Marginalia, an interdisciplinary graduate journal of the Middle Ages, invites submissions for its 2010 Issue on the theme of “Apocalypse”. Papers might address the idea of 'Apocalypse' in terms of:
visions and revelation
social and political crises
millennial anxiety
beasts
death and judgement
living the good life
the Ages of the World
literatures of pessimism and optimism
endings
We invite submissions in the form of long articles (approximately 5,000 words) and shorter Notes and Queries style articles (approximately 1,000 words). Please see our website www.marginalia.co.uk for further details.
Proposals for papers should be sent via email, no later than 31 January 2010, to Aisling Byrne (anb36@cam.ac.uk). We will be happy to answer queries before the deadline. The editors of Marginalia are graduate students, advised by a board of academics, from the University of Cambridge.
“Saints, Sinners, and Scribes in the Celtic World”
2010 National Meeting, Celtic Studies Association of North America
University of Notre Dame
April 9-11, 2010
The Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA) embraces all aspects of Celtic Studies and provides an academic and scholarly forum unavailable in any other discipline. The 2010 CSANA Annual Meeting convenes at the University of Notre Dame to discuss papers related to the conference theme: ‘Saints, Sinners and Scribes in the Celtic World.’ We invite proposals from faculty and graduate students in particular for individual 20 minute papers that address the conference theme or any aspect of the languages, literature, history, folklore, music, art and archaeology of ancient, medieval and modern Celtic cultures. Potential presenters should send a 200-250 word abstract suitable for reproduction, plus a brief biographical sketch (one-half page max., not a full CV) before 1 February 2010 to csana2010@gmail.com .
Keynote speakers:
Professor Catherine McKenna (Harvard University); Professor Máirín Nic Eoin (St Patrick's College, Drumcondra); Professor Edgar Slotkin (University of Cincinnati); Professor Dan M. Wiley (Southern Illinois University Carbondale).
2010 Seminar Text: The Dream of the Emperor Macsen / Breudwyt Maxen Wledic
Seminar Leader: Joseph Nagy (UCLA)
Graduate Award: Graduate students are encouraged to present at the conference and the 2010 CSANA Graduate Prize will be awarded to the best graduate paper presented at the conference (membership required).
For further information on joining the Celtic Studies Association of North America, see http://www.csub.edu/~cmacquarrie/csaa/ .
Registration fee: $35 (faculty), $20 (graduate students), Optional banquet $40 You may register online at http://cce.nd.edu/attend.shtml
Conference Organizer: Brian Ó Conchubhair, Dept. of Irish Language & Literature, 412 Flanner Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA Tel 1-574-631-1721
Fax 574-631-3620
Studia Celtica Fennica VII (2010)
Papers are invited for the forthcoming theme issue of Studia Celtica Fennica, the peer-reviewed annual publication of the Finnish Society for Celtic Studies SFKS ry. The theme of volume VII (2010) will be "Irish Texts and Their Transmission". We welcome submissions of articles and book reviews written in all major European languages and Celtic languages as well as Finnish and Swedish. The deadline for articles is May 31, 2010.
For further information and submission guidelines please contact the editors
Katja Ritari & Alexandra Bergholm
Department of Comparative Religion
P.O.Box 59
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
e-mail: katja.ritari(at)helsinki.fi, alexandra.bergholm(at)helsinki.fi
The North American Conference on British Studies
NACBS Undergraduate Essay Contest
The North American Conference on British Studies essay contest in British Studies for undergraduates enrolled at United States universities and colleges awards six prizes of $100 each, according to the following guidelines:
The essay must have been written while the author was a degree-seeking undergraduate at a U.S. college or university. Essays written for courses, or as theses are acceptable.
Each essay must be nominated by a member of the NACBS. No individual may nominate more than one essay in any one year.
Essays in any field of British Studies are welcome.
Essays should be between 10 and 25 pages, excluding citations and references.
Please submit a letter of nomination (including the permanent mailing address and email contact information for the student) along with an electronic or three hard copies of the essay by June 1, 2010 to Professor Peter Hoffenberg, Department of History, University of Hawaii, 2530 Dole Street, Sakamaki Hall A203, Honolulu, HI 96822-2283. For further information please feel free to contact Prof. Hoffenberg: peterh@hawaii.edu.
Seventh Australian Conference of Celtic Studies
The University of Sydney
29 September–2 October 2010
The Seventh Australian Conference of Celtic Studies will take place at the University of Sydney, from September 29 to October 2, 2010. Submissions are invited for scholarly papers (of twenty-five minutes’ duration) on any aspect of Celtic Studies. Send abstracts by Friday 7 May 2010. Acceptances will be announced May 31, 2010. Abstracts of 200–300 words should be sent to Anders Ahlqvist, at this address: ahlqvist@usyd.edu.au. He will also do what he can to answer queries that prospective delegates may have at any time before the conference. Further information about the conference will also be made available, from time to time, on the Celtic Studies website of the University of Sydney: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/celticstudies/.
The Review of English Studies engages in the historical study of English Literature and the English Language, encouraging fresh interpretations and the comparative study of historical texts. It is the leading scholarly journal of English literature and the English language from the earliest period to the present. Submission of papers focusing on the literature and language of the medieval period are especially welcome.
Fons Luminis: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies
We are pleased to announce the launch of Fons Luminis, a semi-annual, peer-reviewed journal for Medieval Studies. We are seeking submissions of articles from all areas, especially those with an interdisciplinary emphasis. Junior faculty and graduate students are particularly encouraged to submit.
The deadline for submissions for the Autumn issue is 15 July; the deadline for the Spring issue is 15 January. Articles should be around 8000 words, and should follow the Speculum stylesheet. Electronic submissions are preferred. For more information, please see our website at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/fonsluminis/index.php.
Early Modern Women: an Interdisciplinary Journal (http://www.emwjournal.umd.edu) is now accepting submissions for Volume 2. We will accept submissions of essays related to women and gender covering the years 1400 to 1700. We especially encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary boundaries. Essays may consider art history, cultural studies, history, history of philosophy, history of science, literature, music, politics, religion, theater, and any global region. Newer and interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome.
Five paper copies and one electronic copy of each manuscript should be sent to: Editors
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
0139 Taliaferro Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7727
USA
All manuscripts must be printed double-spaced (including documentation) on one side of letter-size paper, and should not exceed 35 pages (8750 words) including notes. Documentation should appear as endnotes, and MUST follow Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (2003), chs. 16 and 17 (NOT author-date style). All manuscripts are subject to editorial modification with authorial approval. Editors will accept submissions on a continuous basis. Queries and electronic copies may be addressed to emwjournal@umd.edu.
