CFP: MELUS 2011 Conference

For those of you who are interested, MELUS has moved their deadline up significantly from last year so proposals are now due by November 15. The following information was taken directly from the official MELUS website.

25th Annual MELUS Conference
April 7 – 10, 2011
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

THEME: Ethnic Canons in Global Contexts
As an ongoing and vital process through which societies and cultures have become integrated through a globe-spanning network of communications, economics, and politics, globalization addresses the transnational circulation of ideas and languages. Its impact on literature is manifold, with both positive and negative associations, wherein cultures receiving outside influences ignore some, adopt others as they are, and then immediately start to transform others. Certain aspects of globalization – such as hybridity and multi-rootedness – are increasingly present in literary texts as we witness ways in which they shape new literary forms, interrogate existing canons, and explore the emergence of ethnic canons.

We invite paper abstracts and complete panels, workshops, and roundtable proposals on all aspects of the multi-ethnic literatures of the United States and elsewhere. We are particularly interested in proposals that explore globalization in terms of its influence on ethnic canons, and vice versa, and encourage presentations on all global frameworks of analysis, such as Atlantic studies, global feminisms, pan-Africanism, postcolonialism, transnationalism, global indigenous studies, etc. Submissions should detail requests for specific audiovisual equipment, if needed. We also ask that a proposal for a complete panel, roundtable, or workshop include a short description of the central topic, supplemented by brief abstracts of individual speakers’ contributions.

Deadline for abstracts and proposals (250 words in Word or rtf format): NOVEMBER 15, 2010

OSU Asian American Studies Workshop Series

The OSU Asian American Studies Program

announces

The 2010-2011 Workshop Series

If you are interested in presenting works in progress or participating in discussions about Asian American Studies topics, please contact Prof. J. Wu (wu.287, 2-9331).  The workshop series is open to all (faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as staff both at OSU and elsewhere).  Information about our first workshop will be sent to those who respond before November 5. 

http://asianamericanstudies.osu.edu/

CIC-AISC Grad Student Conference CFP

Twelfth Annual 
CIC-American Indian Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference
February 4 – 5, 2011
Detroit Institute of Art

Graduate students at any stage of graduate study and in any academic discipline in or related to American Indian Studies are invited to submit papers for the annual graduate student conference to be held at the DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART February 4-5, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan. For the CFP and more details, visit the CIC-AISC Graduate Student Conference page.

Deadline for Paper Titles and Abstracts: DECEMBER 10, 2010