Welcome!

HAVEN, and UpRoot!, are pleased to be co-hosting the 38th National Conference on Men and Masculinity with NOMAS (The National Organization for Men Against Sexism) this year in Detroit. The theme this year is understanding gender-based violence as a social justice issue, and we are thrilled to share these conversations with activists and advocates from every avenue of social justice work.

The conference will be three full days, and will include the National Men’s Studies Association Meeting.  We’ll also be hosting a couple of star-studded plenary panels-one exploring intersectionality and another on understanding feminism in the context of new media.

Additionally, we’ll have a plenary sponsored by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence on the connection between HIV infections and intimate partner violence (IPV). We’re also planning performances, conversations and lots of opportunities to learn in multiple workshops.

There will also be a healing justice space throughout the conference, to practice self-care, to take a break, and to seek support from folks in community. The space will have yoga, meditation, unstructured time, massages, arts and crafts, and many other things to create respectful and caring community.

We are still accepting workshop proposals, through May 31, and you can do that here.

Here are some more details.

GAMES OF LATE MODERNITY
Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens: 75 Years Later (January 15-17, 2014)

The end of this year will be marked by the 75th anniversary of Johan Huizinga’s classic study of the Homo Ludens. Its main thesis is, as striking as it is simple, well known: Culture is founded on and as a form of play. Huizinga’s aim was to understand play as a ‘totality’. The element of play can be observed in all different aspects of culture, ranging from seemingly innocuous leisure activities to the uttermost serious and advanced systems, such as the financial world or political institutions.

Though, self-evident as Huizinga’s thesis still seems to be, with regard to multiple Huizinga-quotations in various fields of contemporary scholarship, the modern-day situation also raises a pivotal problem: it seems impossible to keep thinking of game and play as a humanistic principle of knowledge, ethics and aesthetics in the exact same sense as Huizinga did. Modern day experiences such as warfare and economical and scientific fraud, wherein every rule of the game is being postponed, force us to revise and amplify Huizinga’s thesis, in order to rediscover Huizinga’s far-reaching significance today. The purpose of this three-day conference is to bring together experts from a number of disciplines to shed light on Huizinga’s thesis. Participants are asked to address at least one of the following issues:

1. Playing after Auschwitz: how is it possible to formulate a theory of play that is able to deal with culture not only in its elegant and innocuous appearances, but in its most cruel and tragic forms as well?

2. To play or being played with: The power of the culture industry tells us that we are playing all of the time, from the first until the very last minute. But one has to come to terms with the fact that this can hardly be the free-play Huizinga has proclaimed.

3. From cultural history to sociology: intellectuals such as Levi-Strauss and Foucault and many more have deployed an idea of game as the structure society. How can they revise and strengthen Huizinga’s concept of game and play?

4. The ethos of play: to play means to play by the rules. But isn’t the disappearance of any rules whatsoever precisely late modernity’s main characteristic? How to deal with those who cheat?

We welcome individual abstracts as well as panel proposals, from every relevant field, such as sociology, anthropology and criminology, history and historiography, economy and management studies, ethics, philosophy, aesthetics and cultural studies, biology and psychology.

Speakers are: Loïc Wacquant, Elena Esposito, Giorgio Agamben (t.b.c.), Dubravka Ugrešić, Thomas Macho, Jos de Mul, Joyce Goggin, and Helmut Lethen.

If you are interested in participating, please submit a 300-words paper proposal and a short résumé of your current research by September 1, 2013 to Léon Hanssen, Professor of Life Writing and Cultural Memory, Tilburg University, email: info@gamesoflatemodernity.org

Participants will be informed of acceptance by September 30, 2013. The conference fee will be €250 and includes: two receptions, lunch and refreshments during all three days of the conference, free admittance to De Pont (museum of contemporary art), access to all artist performances and video screenings.

Together with the keynotes a number of papers will be selected for a book to be published by Amsterdam University Press and an affiliated international academic publishing house.

SAMLA Convention 2013
November 8-10, 2012
Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel
Atlanta, Georgia 2013

“Making Meaning at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Texts”
Chair: Lynne Simpson, Presbyterian College
Affiliated Group: College English Association

As R.E.M., that great band from Athens, Georgia, famously sang, “It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.” What is driving our current American obsession with the apocalypse? Papers that explore imagined endings from environmental disasters to zombie invasions are welcome. What do apocalyptic literature, television, and film mean for us culturally, and what might we discern from these often cautionary tales? Please send abstracts of around 500 words to Lynne Simpson at lsimpson@presby.edu by June 7.

The State of the State of Jefferson

This special edition of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations (HJSR) explores contemporary issues pertinent to communities of northern California and southern Oregon, investigating a range of themes common to the mythical State of Jefferson. The issue welcomes university-affiliated submissions, including those from graduate and undergraduate students, as well as submissions from beyond the Humboldt State University research community. Submissions are due on September 15th, 2013. Proposed topics include the following:
1. The social impacts of economic transition
2. Regional identity and politics
3. Land use policy and environmental issues
4. Open submissions on social, economic, political, and/or cultural issues pertinent to the region

The editor will provide an overview of the State of Jefferson, including a discussion of the changing social and political circumstances that have conditioned how this area of northern California and southern Oregon has been understood and imagined over time, along with a conceptual-theoretical framework within which to consider regions and regionalism.

Authorship: All authors are encouraged to collaborate with others inside or outside academia. Interdisciplinary submissions are welcome.

Manuscript Submission:
1. Manuscripts should be in 12 point font, double spaced, and generally not exceed 8500 words. To facilitate blind review, authors should incorporate a cover page that includes an article title, author contact information, a 75 word or less biographical statement, and a 150 word or less abstract. Format citations, tables, figures, and references using American Psychological Association style.
2. Email hjsr@humboldt.edu with the message subject “HJSR: Jefferson Submission,” and attach your submission in .doc, docx or .rtf format.
3. Via overland mail send a check for $15 made out to “HJSR” including a note with your contact information and the date on which you sent your electronic submission.
4. Submission implies commitment to publish in HJSR. Authors should not simultaneously submit to another journal. Manuscripts should not have been published elsewhere.

Editor
Matthew Derrick
Department of Geography
Humboldt State University

Managing Co-Editors
Rebecca Batzel
Department of Geography
Humboldt State University

Alexis Grant
Department of Sociology
Humboldt State University

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

The session topic coincides with recent renaissance of the interest in trickster, comprehended both as an agent of change and instrument of progress, but also a vehicle of instability, and a driving force of destruction. The growing awareness of this character, which embodies uncertainty at the moment of change, reflects upon the sensation of tumble of well-established categories and time-honored institution of the world as we know it.
The session lays its conceptual roots in the comprehensive monograph by Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes this World, which was first available in 1998, and has recently been republished in 2008, and again in 2010. While recognizing mythological provenience of a trickster, Hyde puts this character in the comparative perspective, and promotes study of a trickster as an archetype, that has constantly reappeared in different forms in culture from antiquity to the modern times. The panel offers to build on the scholarship dedicated to a trickster by critically exploring one particular aspect of this character, i.e. his ability to create alternative worlds with the use of acquired or self-invented skill, and further confuse these constructs with reality.

This Panel will include papers that present modern incarnation of archetypal Trickster, as presented in literature from the 19th till 21st century. Successful articles should be concerned with the creational aspect of the trickster, his/her ability to “make the world,” and to confuse the notion of reality. We are particularly interested in the portrait of the trickster as an architect of alternative/virtual realities, visual illusions, and confusing imagery.

Please submit 300-500 word abstract and brief bio to Joanna Madloch at madlochj@mail.montclair.edu

Deadline: September 30, 2013

Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

The 2014 NeMLA convention continues the Association’s tradition of sharing innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. This capitol city set on the Susquehanna River is known for its vibrant restaurant scene, historical sites, the National Civil War museum, and nearby Amish Country, antique shops and Hershey Park. NeMLA has arranged low hotel rates of $104-$124.

The 2014 event will include guest speakers, literary readings, professional events, and workshops. A reading by George Saunders will open the Convention. His 2013 collection of short fiction, The Tenth of December, has been acclaimed by the New York Times as “the best book you’ll read this year.” The Keynote speaker will be David Staller of Project Shaw.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing has expressed interest in a collection on Margaret Atwood and the theme of the apocalypse (though the collection is not yet under contract).

Please send abstracts of 500-600 words (or completed essays) to Karma Waltonen (kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu) by August 1, 2013.

(The last novel in the MaddAddam series will debut in September. This book focuses primarily on the story of Adam One and Zeb and resolves the problems of painballer and pigoon threats to the surviving humans and Crakers. Abstracts about what you assume will be the lens through which you read this novel/the trilogy will be considered.)

SAMLA Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE ON CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE (SCCL)
Nov. 8-10, 2013
Doubting Faith and Believing Unbelievers (SCCL Special Session)
Issues of religion continue to dominate intellectual, academic, personal, and social environments in the West, particularly in the US. The “New Atheists” (Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris) have an aggressive agenda that calls for ongoing efforts to eradicate religious belief through debate and dissemination of information. Websites exist which provide venues through which ex-Christians (and former adherents of other religions as well) can find support, encouragement, and validation. Interestingly, some, though certainly not all, unbelievers demonstrate the same level of what some observers might term dogmatism as fundamentalist believers do. Writers of novels and poems continue to produce works in which the topic of religion plays a significant role. To what extent has “deconversion” surfaced in literatures of the past and present and to what techniques have debunkers of faith resorted in these literatures? How has the depiction of this phenomenon changed (if at all) since the flurry of Victorian instances of loss of faith? How have the reactions of believers evolved or remained static? To what degree has language reflected this issue? Participants may submit papers which identify and analyze current or past poetic and fictive responses to this ongoing struggle, hopefully in light of the contemporary climate. Papers analyzing the intellectual and emotional tension within both believers and unbelievers might be particularly interesting. Contributors may also explore the various roles television, web sites, social media, radio, newspapers, magazines, online news outlets, literary journals, or other media play in this debate. Papers focusing especially on Southern writers are welcome, since the American South still holds the designation of “Bible Belt.” Presenters must be dues-paying members of Conference on Christianity and Literature by the time of the SAMLA Conference. By June 20, 2013, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to Lawton Brewer, Georgia Northwestern Technical College, at lbrewer@gntc.edu.

Call for Papers
2013 American Literature Association’s Jewish American & Holocaust Literature Symposium
Seeking papers on any aspect of Jewish American and Holocaust Literature for the 19th Annual JAHLIT Symposium at the landmark BETSY Hotel in South Beach,
Florida. The Conference will take place November 17-19, 2003. Send 250 word abstract, registration form, and $150 check for JAHLIT membership and conference fees to Holli Levitsky at hlevitsk@lmu.edu. Mailing address: Holli Levitsky, LMU Department of English, One LMU Drive, Suite 3800, Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659. The deadline for submitting an abstract is August 1, 2013. If you have any questions call Holli Levitsky at 310-338-7664 or Ezra Cappell at 915-747-5739. For more information, registration forms, and conference materials go to our website at: www.jahlit.com

The Literary Legacy of Revelations

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Always a prominent text in Western culture, the book of Revelations has been in the spotlight during the past year in particular due to the 2012 publication of Elaine Pagel’s Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation. Pagel, like many before her, recognizes the largely political nature of Revelations as she considers it from a historical and typological perspective.

This seminar will explore how Revelations has been either commented on or alluded to in works by prominent literary authors coming from a variety of historical and cultural contexts. I want to look at the book of Revelations and its wide-ranging literary legacy with a specific focus on the political or environmental significance of the texts that have made use of it. How have writers altered, adapted, challenged, or capitalized on Revelations?

The influence of Revelations is evident in countless literary works from the Middle Ages to the present day. Writers considered in this seminar might include, but certainly are not limited to, Dante Alighieri, Edmund Spencer, John Milton, the English Romantics, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, D. H. Lawrence, James Baldwin, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, and Tim LaHaye. Ideally, this seminar will include papers representing a variety of writers from different countries, time-periods, ethnicities, and classes; and representing different religious and ideological perspectives.

For the seminar format, participants will submit 10-15 page papers early in 2014. Papers will be circulated and read by all participants. During the two-hour seminar, each presenter will give a five-minute or so presentation—please, no AV. The rest of the seminar will be focused on a structured discussion between all participants.

Please send a 200 word abstract and a one page CV to Todd Williams at williams@kutztown.edu by September 30, 2013.

Deadline: September 30, 2013
Please include with your abstract and CV:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number

The 2014 NeMLA convention continues the Association’s tradition of sharing innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. This capitol city set on the Susquehanna River is known for its vibrant restaurant scene, historical sites, the National Civil War museum, and nearby Amish Country, antique shops and Hershey Park. NeMLA has arranged low hotel rates of $104-$124.

The 2014 event will include guest speakers, literary readings, professional events, and workshops. A reading by George Saunders will open the Convention. His 2013 collection of short fiction, The Tenth of December, has been acclaimed by the New York Times as “the best book you’ll read this year.” The Keynote speaker will be David Staller of Project Shaw.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. http://bit.ly/13IFLWg

Tenth Native American Symposium
Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs

Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma
November 14-15, 2013

Keynote Speaker Dr. Brad Lieb

The Tenth Native American Symposium to be held November 14-15, 2013 at Southeastern Oklahoma State University will focus on the protection and preservation of Native American history, culture, and customs. Papers, presentations, panels, creative projects, and films addressing all aspects of Native American life and studies are welcome, including but not limited to archaeology, history, literature, law, medicine, education, religion, politics, social science, and the fine arts. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Brad Lieb from the Chickasaw Nation’s Division of History and Culture, and currently president of the Mississippi Association of Professional Archaeologists. All papers presented at the symposium will be eligible for inclusion in a peer-reviewed volume of published proceedings, which will also be posted on our new website at http://bit.ly/184xtPk.

Send abstracts of no more than 250 words by July 15, 2013 in either electronic (preferred) or hard-copy form to Dr. Mark B. Spencer, Department of English, Humanities, and Languages, Box 4121, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, 1405 N 4th Ave, Durant, OK 74701-0609, mspencer@se.edu.

Call for Papers
Andrew Marvell Society at the South-Central Renaissance Conference
3-5 April 2014, Tucson, Arizona
Deadline: 15 December 2013

The University of Arizona will host Exploring the Renaissance 2014: An International Conference on 3-5 April, 2014. The conference will be held at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort and Spa; information about the hotel can be accessed at http://bit.ly/184xtyX. The Andrew Marvell Society will be hosting sessions on a variety of topics concerning Marvell’s poetry and prose. Proposals for papers or for sessions are now invited.
Proposals are especially welcomed on the following topics:
• Marvell and Modern Poetry
• Marvell and Translation
• Explorations of “Eyes and Tears”
Full details about the conference will be posted at the SCRC website: http://bit.ly/13IFLFO

Abstracts only (400-500 words; a shorter 100-word abstract for inclusion in the program), for papers of no more than 20 minutes reading time, should be submitted online no later than December 15, 2013 via the SCRC website’s submission abstract form:

http://bit.ly/184xtPg

Sessions should be proposed no later than Dec. 15, 2013.

We also encourage participants to apply for the John M. Wallace award for the best paper on Andrew Marvell by an early career scholar presented at the conference. The award recognizes the signal contribution to Marvell studies of John M. Wallace (1928-93), Professor of English at the University of Chicago and author of the ground-breaking interdisciplinary work, Destiny his Choice: The Loyalism of Andrew Marvell (1968). The award is open to graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty below the rank of associate professor (US, Canada), or equivalent (i.e. within the first five years of a permanent teaching appointment). Applicants should submit full papers to the Executive Secretary of the Andrew Marvell Society by 1 March 2014. Applicants should be ready to read their papers at SCRC, Exploring the Renaissance, 2014, where the award will be presented by the President of SCRC at the closing luncheon.

For further details, please contact Emma Annette Wilson and Joan Faust, Executive Secretary, at andrewmarvellsociety@gmail.com.

Program participants are required to join SCRC and are encouraged to submit publication-length versions of their papers to the SCRC journal, Explorations in Renaissance Culture:

http://bit.ly/13IFLFQ

For more information, please consult Executive Secretary Joan Faust and Emma Annette Wilson (andrewmarvellsociety@gmail.com).

The Andrew Marvell Society

Timothy Raylor, President
Martin Dzelzainis,Vice President
Nigel Smith, Past President
Matthew Augustine, Publications Officer/Webmaster
Joan Faust/Emma Annette Wilson, Executive Secretary

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Ryan Netzley (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) 2013-2016
Nicholas van Maltzahn (University of Ottawa) 2013-2016
Laurent Curelly (Université de Haute-Alsace [Mulhouse, France]) 2011-14
Christopher Orchard (Indiana University of Penn) 2011-14
Emma Annette Wilson (University of Western Ontario) 2012-15
Greg Miller (Millsaps College) 2012-15
Debra Barrett-Graves, California State University, East Bay, ex officio, President SCRC

The manuscript of _De Doctrina Christiana_ was found in the State Paper Office and attributed to Milton in 1823; it was subsequently published by order of King George IV. Although Bishop Thomas Burgess (and others) rejected or doubted the attribution, but editors eventually came to accept the treatise as canonical. In the 1990’s, Professor William Hunter, distinguished editor of the _Milton Encyclopedia_, seconded by Paul Sellin, inaugurated a new phase of the continuing controversy over the attribution of _De Doctrina Christiana_ to John Milton. Hunter’s objections appear in several articles and in _Visitation Unimplor’d: Milton and the Authorship of De Doctrina Christiana_ (Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1998). Scholars like Barbara Lewalski and Christopher Hill maintained the attribution, but the seeds of doubt had been sown, and categorical exponents of Milton’s authorship have made significant concessions. On the one hand, Gordon Campbell, Thomas Corns, John Hale and Fiona Tweedie, in _Milton and the Manuscript of De Doctrina Christiana_ (Oxford: OUP, 2008), defend the attribution and the editors of the new Oxford edition of _De Doctrina Christiana_ [2013], John Hale and Donald Cullington, assume that the controversy is resolved. On the other hand, some reviewers have not been convinced.

We welcome by partisans (or neutrals) in the controversy over John Milton’s disputed authorship of _De Doctrina Christiana_. Essays expressing various points of view on the attribution controversy (and anything that might illuminate it) will be considered for possible inclusion in a collection on the controversy. Please submit abstracts or essays by October 15, 2013.

Hugh F. Wilson (wilsonh@gram.edu)
Professor, Grambling State University

2014 CLA Annual Convention

Catholic Library Association invites the submission of quality proposals for presentation at the 2014 Annual Conference, April 22-24, 2014, in Pittsburgh, PA. CLA meets in conjunction with National Catholic Educational Association during Easter Week each year.

Those attending CLA are librarians serving patrons of all ages primarily in K-12, academic, theological, parish and public libraries. In addition to general topics for these groups, additional sessions focus on archives, information literacy, technical services and preservation of American Catholic materials. Teachers and administrators registered with NCEA may also attend any CLA session. The 2014 convention theme is Leadership, Direction, Service.

Include a description of the topic or title of the program, name of presenter(s) with complete contact information, brief description of the proposed program, audience level and references for prior presentations, if available. Proposals should be submitted before July 15, 2013, by email or regular mail to:

Catholic Library Association
ATTN: Convention Coordinator
205 W. Monroe St., Suite 314
Chicago, IL 60606-5061
Phone: 312-739-1776
Toll Free: 855-739-1776
Email: cla2@cathla.org
Website: http://bit.ly/13IFLFF