E-journals

QUERY FROM Anna Korczakowska, who studies French Medieval Literature in France. She would like to know what people think about e-journals - "I'm especially curious of whether these journals are peer reviewed or not, what is their credibility, how publishing in such journals is seen in the academic community comparing to regular printed journals."

So, if anyone has thoughts, opinions or experience of e-journals, please leave a comment or email me and I'll post it for you.

Cheers!

CFP: Language Attitudes

ANGUAGE Attitudes

I am looking for papers for a possible publication of collected essays on language attitudes, both historical and contemporary. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

-- historical studies of language and language attitudes, historical incidents and their outcomes/descendents
-- media obsessions with language
-- professional, corporate, or other industry-related language attitudes
-- attitudes towards dialect, code-switching
-- language attitudes and education, including pedagogical approaches
-- attitudes in gendered communication or other sociolinguistic topics
-- attitudes about second language acquisition
-- language attitudes mirrored or explored in literature, pop culture, television, etc
-- attitudes about the effect of technology on language
-- AND? Tell me about your own passion with regard to language attitudes!

Final essays should be between 6500 and 8000 words, including citations.

Please send proposals or completed papers accompanied by abstracts via email attachment (MSWord or RTF) by July 1, 2006. Please include a short curriculum vitae and your contact information.

For more information, feel free to contact me by phone or email.

Patricia Donaher, Ph.D.
Area Chair, PCA Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Assistant Professor of English Dept of English Missouri Western State University
4525 Downs Drive
St. Joseph, MO 64507
816-271-5964
donaher@missouriwestern.edu

CFP: Postgraduate English

OSTGRADUATE English: The University of Durham’s Online Journal
A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English in the UK and Europe

Invites postgraduates studying in the UK and Europe to submit papers of not more than 7000 words on a topic of YOUR CHOICE in the broad range of English Studies for issue 14 (September 2006) of our refereed online journal. Papers must conform to the MLA guidelines for presentation and be received no later than

DEADLINE: JULY 14, 2006.

This journal publishes papers from PhD or any other research students ONLY. Please, when submitting your work, include the following information in the email: name of University, full title of program, title of essay.

IN ADDITION we invite you to send us 1000 word papers on the topic of ‘Research Methods.’ You may wish to describe and discuss different ways of effectively researching an area on the internet and how to browse, locate, and access relevant material and bibliographical information. You may also wish to provide tips on how to organize and group information and select the most scholarly and authoritative material. Papers on all topics surrounding this issue are welcome.

We can also advertise postgraduate conferences in the UK and Europe if requested.

Check out our Journal’s ARTICLES to view previous papers, and take part in our FORUM, which deals with many of the issues facing postgraduates such as jobs, research, conferences, publishing and teaching tutorials, all on our website
at:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate.english/journal1.htm

Papers should be sent to:
pgeng.submissions@durham.ac.uk.

All papers will be refereed and chosen by members of our editorial board.

CFP: Texts and Contexts

EXTS and Contexts

A conference sponsored by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, at Ohio State University 29–30 September 2006.

The conference seeks to investigate the textual traditions of various texts and genres, including texts in classical Latin, mediaeval Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and the vernaculars.

Call for papers: preference will be given to those abstracts which deal with newly discovered texts and their manuscript settings, or which present new perspectives on established textual traditions. Graduate students and newly established scholars are encouraged to submit their work. Deadline for submission is 15 July 2006.

Contact: Frank Coulson, 190 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Rd., Columbus, OH 43210 (coulson.1@osu.edu).

CFP: Teaching Medieval Women

EACHING Medieval Women

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

Papers should address any aspect of teaching medieval women, including teaching the texts and subjects associated with women (female authors, protagonists, subjects, and audiences) in medieval literature, as well as the act of teaching medieval women themselves (issues of literacy and the education of women). Papers should be no longer than twenty minutes in length.
Deadline: September 15, 2006
Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation, Email address, Postal address, Telephone number, A/V requirements (if any)

Contact:
Susannah Chewning
Department of English
Union County College
1033 Springfield Avenue
Cranford, NJ 07016
chewning@ucc.edu

CFP: Secular to Spiritual

ROM THE Secular to the Spiritual
Saturday, February 24, 2007
24th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, University of Connecticut

Plenary Speaker: James Simpson, Harvard University Professor of English and American Literature and Language; Life Fellow, Girton College Cambridge; Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities

Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted on all topics concerning late antiquity through the late Middle Ages. We strongly encourage papers from a variety of disciplines, including:

Anthropology – Archaeology – Art History – Classical Studies – Comparative Literature – Disability Studies – Drama – Gerontology – History – History of Science – Language Studies – Literary Studies – Musicology – Philosophy – Paleography – Religious Studies – Urban Studies – Women’s and Gender Studies

Sponsored sessions will include:
Brown University – TBD
Mystics Quarterly – Medieval Mysticism
New England Saga Society – Norse and Germanic Sagas University of Connecticut Dodd Center – Art History Yale University Medieval Studies Program – Translation as Conversation

We encourage submissions appropriate for these sponsored sessions. If you would like to be considered for one of them, please make a note on your abstract.

Papers are to be no more than 20 minutes long and read in English. Please send proposals of no more than 200 words, with affiliation and contact details, via email (as Word attachment) to Kisha Tracy and Britt Rothauser (uconnnemsc@yahoo.com) by October 1, 2006, or by post to:

Britt Rothauser
University of Connecticut
Department of English, U-Box 4025
215 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, CT 06269, USA

CFP: The Heroic Age

AGHDAD, Byzantium, Aachen, and Winchester: Early Medieval Reforms and Reformers
The Heroic Age Issue 11

The late eighth and ninth centuries saw cultural and intellectual revivals and renaissances that seemed to have proceeded from East to West. All are related in some way to each other, but they are seldom examined in the same context. Harun al-Rachid, Charlemagne, and Alfred all sponsored reforms in their respective socieities, were in contact in some way with one another (or in Alfred's case, with Charlemagne's grandson), and may have influenced one another. In Byzantium c. 800 a renaissance was also occurring during the iconoclast controversies under Empress Irene. The Empress was able to maintain contacts with al-Rachid and Charlemagne.

The Heroic Age invites submissions exploring these rulers, the cultural revivals that occurred under their reigns, the factors leading to those revivals, the long term results, and any possible interplay or influence among them.

This issue will be The Heroic Age's eleventh issue and is planned for March 2007. Submissions will be received at any time, but no later than Nov. 1, 2006. For submission guidelines see http://www.blogger.com/www.heroicage.org. Submissions should be sent to Larry Swain, haediting@yahoo.com

Papers addressing ANY issue or topic of interest within the purview of the journal are encouraged and welcomed at any time; there is no need to adhere to the proposed topic.

CFP: Food

OOD: Representation, Ideology and Politics

Three-Day International Conference, Department of English, Jadavpur University Kolkata, India, 16, 17 and 18 November, 2006.
Food is a central part of our lives. However, in all cultures food has always represented more than just a means of survival. Sharing food, eating salt, breaking bread, raising a toast, picnics in the wild, formal dinners, all have certain ideological, political and social significances. Some foods are taboo, designated filthy or circumscribed. Some foods are endowed with holiness or endow the eater with purity.
Foods have also triggered colonial expansionism. The Spice Route was one of the earliest trade networks.
Revolts and revolutions have been sparked by the absence of food. Marie Antoinette’s famous comment advising the peasants to eat cake began a new era in world history, while wars have been lost because of hungry soldiers.
Globalisation and consumer cultures have added new dimensions to the act of eating in restaurants and the kinds of cuisine available in various parts of the world, while brands like Kentucky Fried Chicken, Coca Cola or Pepsi have often been the targets of anti-imperialist protests in India and elsewhere.
The representation of food, eating practices, last suppers, and other aspects of food culture has also been central to many texts.
Abstracts are invited for this seminar. They should not be longer that 500 words and may be sent by electronic mail to the addresses given below or to

Food: Representation, Ideology And Politics,
CAS Coordinator,
Department of English,
Jadavpur University,
Kolkata 700 032,
India

Themes may include, but are not necessarily limited
to:

# Representations of Food and Eating Practices in Literature # Cross-Cultural Exchanges in the Area of Food # Food as a Marker in Defining Identity # Representation of Political or Social Movements Related to Food # Food in Popular Culture # The Gendering of Food-Related Practices

Nilanjana Gupta nilaguptaju@yahoo.com
Amlan Dasgupta amlan04@gmail.com
Rimi B. Chatterjee rimibchatterjee@yahoo.co.in

CFP: Suffering, Sacred and the Sublime

HROUGH a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred and the Sublime
Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia May 10-12, 2007


Keynote Speakers: David Lyle Jeffrey, Baylor University; Maxine Hancock,
Regent College

Papers are invited on any aspects of the topics of suffering, the sacred, and the sublime in literature from a Christian perspective.
Interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approaches to these topics are encouraged.

Topics may include:

* The sacred spaces of suffering
* Mystical (un)knowing
* The literature of mourning
* Survivor testimonies
* Trauma and the sublime
* The feminine/masculine sublime
* The evolution of the sublime in literature
* Genre and the shape of suffering
* The unrepresentable voice of the victim
* The postmodern sublime

Inquiries are welcomed at any time. Proposals or abstracts should be sent by Dec. 15, 2006 to Dr. Holly Faith Nelson (Holly.Nelson@twu.ca).

Contact the conference chairs at:

Trinity Western University
English Department
7600 Glover Road
Langley, BC V2Y 1Y1
CANADA

CFP: Empires

MPIRES and their contested pasts

28th Irish Conference of Historians
at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
18–20 May 2007

We invite proposals for papers exploring aspects of the general theme of empires and their contested pasts. There is no restriction on chronology, location, or type of empire. Comparative studies and papers examining historiographical debates and/or contestations of race, religion, gender, class, and culture will be welcomed. We particularly invite proposals from postgraduate students.

The conference is preceded by the 2007 Wiles Lectures on 15–18 May, when Professor Christopher Bayly will speak on ‘Empire and liberalism: India and beyond’. Our aim is to build upon the Wiles themes and to explore the complexities, controversies, and contradictions of empires and history more broadly.

Confirmed participants include Christopher Bayly, Richard Drayton, Bill Nasson, Nicholas Canny, Jane Ohlmeyer, and Simon Potter.

300-word proposals should be sent to Dr Robert Blyth (r.blyth@qub.ac.uk), before 31 December 2006. The conference programme will be drawn up by the end of January 2007. General enquiries about the conference can be directed to Robert Blyth, Keith Jeffery (k.jeffery@qub.ac.uk) or Elaine Doyle (edoyle07@qub.ac.uk).

School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN