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San Antonio 2008
Special Session Call for Papers
The following Special Sessions have been proposed, but not yet approved, for the 2008 SCMLA Convention to be held in San Antonio, Texas, November 6-8. The 2008 theme is "Borders." Send papers or abstracts to the addresses below by the deadline dates listed. Direct questions about these proposed sessions to the session organizers. Complete panels, whether or not they are listed here, must be submitted on an SCMLA Special Session form by February 18, 2008. Forms are available from the SCMLA office; scmla@ou.edu. Proposals related to the convention theme are encouraged but not required. All proposed sessions will be refereed by the Program Committee, and accepted proposals will be notified in March 2008. Please note: Detailed proposals with full descriptions of each paper are strongly encouraged.
Special Session proposals need not be listed in the Call for papers in the Newsletter to be eligible for consideration, and you can still post a Call on our website: print out and return the San Antonio Call Form from the website, or contact scmla@ou.edu for details.
At the Edges of Disaster: Mapping Order and Chaos in American Literature and Culture. Disaster narratives, like dystopian literature in general, situate their territories geographically and politically. That is, they define the borders dividing the doomed from the saved as physical (even if provisional or shifting) phenomena in ways that reveal social hierarchies, governmental ineptitude, and the collision of the natural (i.e., the unavoidable, the unforeseeable) with the political. Abstracts that address the spatiality of disaster in American fiction, nonfiction, and culture by February 1, 2008 to Jacqueline Foertsch, Email: foertsch@unt.edu or Annette Trefzer, Email: atrefzer@olemiss.edu
Borders Between Facts and Fabrication in Modern Drama. Papers or one-page proposals are invited on any aspect of the facts (biography, autobiography, history)-fabrication intersection in modern drama. Suggested approaches: issues in sources, rhetorical invention, interpretation, or ambiguity. Abstracts due by January 31, 2008. Vivian Casper, Dept. of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages, Texas Woman's U. Send to P.O. Box 50272, Denton, TX 76206-0272; Email: vcasper@twu.edu
Centers and Peripheries in Colonial Studies: Culture Texts and the Process of Colonialization. This panel will explore specific cultures texts that present a shifting between a colony emerging as a regional cultural center while also reflecting a distant periphery to the imperial capitals. Abstracts required by February 1, 2008. Jeanne Gillespie, Dept. of Foreign Lanuages and Literatures,U of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39402; Email: gillespie.jeanne@gmail.com
Crossing Boudaries: Women's Voices in Contemporary Francophone Literature. The session will address women's discourse in contemporary Francophone Literature on various historical, social, cultural, and psychological issues of alienation, exclusion, transgression, acculturation, or assimilation. Please send abstracts by February 4, 2008 to Chimegsaikhan Banzar, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Grambling State U, P.O. Box 4235, Grambling, LA 71245. Email: banzarc@gram.edu
Ethnic Borders and/in Cuban Identity: Proposals invited for papers addressing expressions or negotiations of Cuban national identity in terms of race and ethnicity in arts and letters from colonial times through the present day. Interdisciplinary approaches welcomed. Abstracts due by February 12, 2008. Lucy Harney, Dept. Modern Languages, Texas State University-San Marcos. Email: harney@txstate.edu
Filmic Borders: Intersections, Crossings, Demolitions, Evasions. Papers addressing the topic of borderlines in film. How do we read contact, synthesis, line-crossing, or their avoidance, in relation to content, form, genre, theory, national cinemas, or other areas? Abstracts required by January 26, 2008. Daniel Traber, Dept. of General Academics, Texas A&M U-Galveston. Email: traberd@tamug.edu
Re-accessing the Border: Civilization and Barbarism Among Different Worlds/Ideologies. Discussion on literary/filmic works (especially those from the Third World) that carry insights in the question of border between Civilization and Barbarism, and reflect the price for progress in history. 1 page abstracts required by February 8, 2008. Haiqing Sun, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Texas Southern U, 3100 Cleburne, Houston, TX 77004; Email: sunh@tsu.edu
Shifting Borders: Globalization and National Identity
in Spanish Film. This panel invites papers that examine the how
globalization affects representations of race, class, gender, nationality
and ethnicity in Spanish film. Are the real and imaginary borders that
separate Spain from Europe—and the rest of the world—disappearing?
Abstracts required: 250-350 words by February 8, 2008. Katy
B. Ross,
Department of Spanish, Southwestern University. Please send only Word attachments
(not paper copies) of abstracts to rossc@southwestern.edu.
The African in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. Proposals invited for papers about African-British authored texts and papers that explore the various ways in which the African male or female is depicted in British texts of the long eighteenth century. Abstracts or papers required by February 1, 2008. Kamille Stone Stanton, Savannah State U, Dept. of Liberal Arts, P.O. Box 20029, Savannah, GA 31404. Email: stonek@savstate.edu
Cormac McCarthy: Transcending Literary Borders and Boundaries. The session will examine Cormac McCarthy’s novels, focusing on his ability to transcend literary genres. Papers should focus on McCarthy’s novels and their unique literary and artistic merit in contemporary America. Abstracts required by February 11, 2008. John Wegner, Department of English, Angelo State University, Box 10894, ASU Station, San Angelo, TX 76909-0894. Email: john.wegner@angelo.edu
Latin American Women Writers: Nations of Women. This
section welcomes papers addressing works by Latin American women writers
from any time period. Abstracts required by February 16, 2008. Luciana
Namorato, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University-Bloomington,
Ballantine Hall 844, 1020 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN
47405-7103.
Email: lnamorat@indiana.edu