Local Renaissance CFP

In March, our department will be hosting a one day conference called Reading Medieval And Renaissance English Literature, and the call has gone out to YOU! Papers to be submitted until January 6.

Tsuris and Other Literary Pleasures

TSURIS AND OTHER LITERARY PLEASURES:

AN INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING CONFERENCE

IN HONOR OF ALLEN HOFFMAN’S RETIREMENT

and

The 6th Annual Shaindy Rudoff Memorial Evening

Sunday-Tuesday, May 6-8, 2012, Bar-Ilan University, Beck Auditorium, (unless otherwise


Sunday, May 6 Tsuris and Humor, An Evening with Allen Hoffman and Joseph Skibell

17:15-18:00 Reception in honor of Hoffman’s retirement
18:00-20:00 Readings and Conversation with Allen Hoffman and Joseph Skibell


Monday, May 7 Other Literary Pleasures

9:30-11:00 Panel discussion on Allen Hoffman’s writing, moderated by Michael Kramer

Participants: Sharon Baris, William Kolbrener, and Shira Wolosky. Linda Zisquit will read
comments by Steve Stern, Melvin Bukiet and Sidra Ezrahi.

11:30-12:30 Readings by Hoffman’s students, graduates of the Shaindy Rudoff Program:
Janice Weizman, Sophie Judah, Shantam Zohar and Judy Labensohn

13:45-15:30 Storytelling across cultures , an open writing workshop with Rob Handel
discussion

16:00-17:15 Discussion with Fulbright Visiting Scholar E. Ethelbert Miller and poet Joy Katz

18:30-20:00 Poetry reading with E. Ethelbert Miller and Joy Katz

Tuesday, May 8 More Literary Pleasures

10:00-11:30 Open workshop in creative nonfiction: Joseph Skibell and E. Ethelbert Miller

12:00-13:30 Open workshop in poetry: Linda Zisquit and Joy Katz

14:00-15:30 Open workshop in fiction: Evan Fallenberg and Joan Leegant

16:00-17:30 Reading by Fulbright Scholars in creative writing E. Ethelbert Miller, Robby
Nadler, and Jacob Newberry, moderated by Marcela Sulak

The 6th Annual Shaindy Rudoff Memorial Evening in memory of Founding Director Shaindy Rudoff, z”l

17:45-18:30 Reception

18:30-20:00 Suddenly, A Knock at the Door: Reading by Etgar Keret
in conversation with Evan Fallenberg

Remarks Hedda Rudoff

Closing remarks Allen Hoffman

All events are free and open to the public. No registration necessary.

An eventful may

(As seen on the department website)

Writing Across the Americas - An international conference.
Sunday, May 6th through Monday May 7th, Gilman Building Room 496

Annual Vardi Lecture - Professor Erik Roraback, Charles University, Prague, "The Autopoiesis of Modernity: A Philosophical Baroque"

Thursday, May 10th, 4 PM, Gilman Building Room 496

Reading a Symptom: Literary and Psychoanalytical Perspectives - International Symposium
Monday, May 14th

Literary London 2012

Call for Papers - Literary London 2012

Hosted by: the Institute of English Studies, University of London
Organised by: The Literary London Society
4-6 July 2012

The 11th Annual Literary London conference will be hosted by the Institute of English Studies, University of London, on 4-6 July 2012. The Institute is located in Bloomsbury, at the centre of literary London, and just a few minutes’ walk from such attractions as the British Library, the British Museum, and the clubs, pubs, and restaurants of Soho. It is at the heart of London: one of the world's major cities with a long and rich literary tradition reflecting both its diversity and its significance as a cultural and commercial centre. Literary London 2012 aims to:

• Read literary and dramatic texts in their historical and social context and in relation to theoretical approaches to the study of the metropolis.
• Investigate the changing cultural and historical geography of London.
• Consider the social, political, and spiritual fears, hopes, and perceptions that have inspired representations of London.
• Trace different traditions of representing London and examine how the pluralism of London society is reflected in London literature.
• Celebrate the contribution London and Londoners have made to English literature and drama.

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers, comprised panels, and roundtable sessions, which consider any period or genre of literature about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-Roman times to its imagined futures. While the main focus of the conference will be on literary texts, we actively encourage interdisciplinary contributions relating film, architecture, geography, theories of urban space, etc., to literary representations of London. Papers from postgraduate students are particularly welcome for consideration. While papers on all areas of literary London are welcomed, the conference theme in 2012 is ‘Sports, Games, and Pastimes’. Topics that might be addressed are:

• Sport: participation, spectatorship, and sporting events including the three London Olympics
• Gambling
• Shopping and fashion
• Pubs and coffee houses
• Games and hobbies
• Holidays, downtime, and park-life
• Child’s play
• Reading and writing as pastimes

Please submit all proposals for 20-minute papers, comprised panels, and roundtable sessions using the online forms at http://www.literarylondon.org/conference/
All proposals must be received by the deadline of 1 April 2012

For more information about the conference, please contact the conference organiser, Martin Dines, at conference@literarylondon.org

The full call for papers, online proposals forms, and information about the Literary London Society and the Literary London Journal can be found at the Society’s website:http://www.literarylondon.org

Please circulate this CFP far and wide!

Poetry in Unexpected Places

We're hosting an international academic conference soon, this one organized by Prof. Karen Alkalay-Gut and Nadja Rumjanceva.

Tuesday, March 22nd: Save the date!

For more details, check out the brochure.

A new conference at the University of Kent, Canterbury

A new and interesting conference on apocalyptic images in cinema and literature designed for graduate students.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/film/filmcentre/materials/CFP_The_End_Of_2012.pdf

Conference: Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/visions-of-humanity/

This was a rather extraordinary conference in Oxford Dassi Elber and myself attended in July. Since all the papers presented will be eventually published as an e-book, I won't spend too much time describing our contributions. But the conference clearly attempted to do something else than merely bringing together a lot of hurried researchers, uninterested in anybody's talks but their own. The organisers (the project called InterDisciplinary Net) made sure that everybody stayed in the same place (beautiful Mansfield College in Oxford), ate the same meals (served in the Harry Potter-like setting of the college's dining hall), and talked about the same subjects. There were no parallel sessions, time limits were rigorously enforced, Q&A sessions were long enough to actually have interesting questions and detailed answers, and everybody was treated equally, whether a tenured professor or a graduate student. Since this conference is only a small part of the InterDisciplinary Net's project, I encourage everybody, and especially students, to check their website and to consider applying to one of their conferences. One thing is certain: I have been to very many conferences but seldom have I had this much fun!