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Language Association Call for Special Session |
| The following Special Sessions have been proposed, but not yet approved, for the 2005 SCMLA Convention to be held in Houston, Texas, October 27-29. The 2005 theme is "Literary Space(s)." 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 20, 2005. 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 2005. 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 this Newsletter to be eligible for consideration,
and you can still post a Call on our website: print out
and return the
Houston "Call" form
from the website, or contact
Piers Frazier at
scmla@ou.edu
for details. Architectural Spaces and Themed Environments. This panel invites proposals exploring the use of architectural spaces in themed environments, including the use(s) of architecture in corporate or campus settings, theme parks, or in literature as ekphrasis. Send abstract by February 1, 2005 to Jeffrey Cass, Texas A&M International Univ., Dept. of Language & Literature, 5201 University Blvd., Laredo, TX 78041-1900; jcass@tamiu.edu Authors and Authority: Writing the self. This panel welcomes proposals that explore authors’ roles and/or narrative strategies in creating intellectual or emotional spaces for themselves through their literary work. Email 250 word abstract as attachment in WORD by February 15, 2005 to Erika Zettl, Southwestern University, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures; zettle@southwestern.edu Contempary Mexican Literature: Old and New Voices. Papers discussing the work of a Mexican author in the 20th and 21st century in any genre. Send abstract by February 1, 2005 to Cesar Ferreira, Univ. of Oklahoma, Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Norman, OK 73019; ferreira@ou.edu Creative Nonfiction: Creating Literary Space(s) for Self
and Other. This session welcomes papers addressing CNF (strategies,
writers, texts) as emotional, intellectual, and/or temporal space(s),
creative space(s) where the voices and views of self and other merge.
Email 250 word abstract by February 15, 2005 to Stella Thompson,
Prairie View A&M Univ., Dept. of Languages & Communication;
jthompson39@houston.rr.com
Dramatic Space and Women's Identity. This session welcomes proposals that explore the development or suppression of female identity in dramatic space in one-act or full-length plays from the Renaissance to the present. Send 250-word abstract by February 1, 2005 to Amelia Keel, Blinn College, Div. of Humanities, 902 College Avenue, Brenham, TX 77833; amelia.a.keel@nhmccd.edu The Dramatic Text as a Space for Feminine Identity. Papers in Spanish or English dealing with constructing, deconstructing, or representing feminine identity in twentieth century Latin American theater are welcome. Send 350-word abstracts by January 31, 2005 to Maria R. Matz, Angelo State Univ., Dept. of Modern Languages, San Angelo, TX 76909; mmatz@angelo.edu Espacios Literarios en la Narrativa Post-Franquista. This session welcomes papers that explore and/or reevaluate the use of literary spaces (social, cultural, psychological) in the Spanish narrative produced in the last thirty years. Email 250-word abstract by February 1, 2005 to Marisa Herrera Postlewate; mpostlewate@yahoo.com Everything but the Kitchen Sink: Food, Recipes, and Relationships in Contemporary Women's Literature. This session invites proposals that explore the space food and food preparation occupy in contemporary women’s literature, especially the role that food plays in the lives and relationships of women. Send 500-word proposal by February 1, 2005 to Beth Maxfield, Blinn College, Div. of Humanities, 902 College Avenue, Brenham, TX 77833; bmaxfield@blinn.edu Film Festivals: The Cinematic Space. How do film festivals (Cannes, Sundance, WorldFest-Houston, etc.) serve as a space for promoting cinematic art and the film industry? Also, how have film festivals been depicted in movies? Send abstract by January 31, 2005 to Kenneth T. Rivers, Lamar Univ., Dept. of English and Modern Languages, P.O. Box 10023, Beaumont, TX 77710; riverskt@hal.lamar.edu Finishing Someone Else's Work for Them: Non-Authorial Literary Sequels. What drives people to write their own sequels the others' work of fiction, especially classic ones? How does the phenomenon help us understand reader interaction with and reception of literature? Email abstract by February 10, 2005 to Anne Fisher, Univ. of Michigan, Dept. of Slavic Studies; aof@umich.edu From El Prado to the El Cerro San Cristóbal: Landmarks in Hispanic Literature. Oftentimes described as visible spaces that establish physical connections with persons and express the historical and cultural heritage of a particular place, this session invites papers that explore the “literary space(s)” of landmarks. Send abstracts by January 20, 2005 to Laura Senio Blair, Southwestern Univ., Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures, P.O. Box 770, Georgetown, TX 78626; seniobll@southwestern.edu Graham Greene: Whose Man in Havana? This session will explore the multifarious relationship between the British novelist and MI6 agent, Graham Greene, and Cuba. Preference will be given to papers relating directly to Greene’s interest in and writings about Cuba between 1939 and 1960. Send 100-word abstract by February 1, 2005 to John Greene, Univ. of Louisiana-Lafayette, Dept. of English, P.O. Box 44691, Lafayette, LA 70504-4691. jgreene@louisiana.edu It's Always Greener: Utopian Gender Space. This session invites papers that explore the geography of gender in/equality and its socio-spatial implications, particularly in utopian literature. Send abstract by February 15, 2005 to Natasha Whitton, Southeastern Louisiana Univ., Dept. of English, SLU 10861, Hammond, LA 70402; nwhitton@selu.edu Literary Spaces in Francophone Literatures and Drama. This session will explore how physical spaces constitute a significant element of the literary works and impact other spaces in the narration such like emotional, intellectual, political and psychological. Send abstract by February 10, 2005 to Anne V. Cirella-Urrutia, Div. of Liberal Studies, Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, TX 78702; acirella@alumni.utexas.net Magical Spaces in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels. Any topic about Terry Pratchett's Discworld series with special attention to spaces, i.e. Ankh-Morpork, Lancre, magical spaces. Send abstract by February 15, 2004 to Sharon Winn, Northeastern State Univ., Dept. of English, Tahlequah, OK 74464; winn@nsuok.edu Musical Spaces in Literature. This Special Session will explore music and musical spaces (interior and exterior) as a function of the literary text and literary meaning, an interdisciplinary approach that can shed light on these two essential modes of expression as well as their interart relations. Send abstracts by February 20, 2005 to Bruce Boggs, University of Oklahoma, Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, 780 Van Vleet Oval, room 202, Norman, OK 73019-2032. baboggs@ou.edu Natural Spaces in the Works of Willa Cather. In Cather’s works, nature offers a release from the oppressiveness of societal constraints, providing an escape from a stifling existence. Other times, nature isolates, restricting rather than freeing characters from their oppressive spaces. Email abstracts as Word attachments by February 1, 2005 to Beth Jensen, bjensen@gpc.edu Needing its Space: Masculinity and the Strength of Adversity. This panel will question whether the "abrasion" associated with being a man is necessarily bad. Could this suffering to the contrary, actually somehow hone the male experience? Send abstracts by February 15, 2005 to Scott Simpkins, University of North Texas, Dept. of English, P.O Box 311307, Denton, TX 76203-1307; scotts@unt.edu Once Upon a Time...: Marvelous and Magical Spaces in Fairy Tales. This session welcomes papers exploring and questioning the conflicting spaces of reality and marvelous in European fairy tales from the Medieval to the 18th-century. Send abstracts by February 1, 2005 to Bérénice V. Le Marchand, San Francisco State Univ., Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures, HUM 475, 1600 Holloway Street, San Francisco, CA 94132; blemarch@sfsu.edu
Religious Education under Franco Regime. Pedro Almodovar’s “The bad education” (2004) treats a theme ignored until recently in democratic Spain: the youth religious education during Franco regime. Send abstracts/titles on film and literature by February 15, 2005 to Jose L. Morillo, Marshall Univ., Dept. of Modern Languages, Huntington, WV 25755-2652; murillo@marshall.edu
The Scale, The Cloud, and The Fire: Refiguring Rhetoric, Authority, and Identity in Medieval Mystics' Textual Spaces. The texts of medieval mystics constitute unique spaces for challenging authority, refiguring identity, and transforming the subject. Such spaces create opportunities for change in language, literature, and culture. Send abstract by February 1, 2005 to Brad Herzog, Southern Arkansas Univ., Dept. of English & Foreign Langauges, P.O. Box 9345, Magnolia, AR 71754; bdherzog@saumag.edu The Space of Animals in Literature and Film. The session
welcomes papers discussing the presence of animals — dogs, cats, tigers,
pigs, etc. — in film literature. How are they represented, and what
is at stake in the representation? Send abstracts by January 10, 2005
to Eva P. Bueno, St. Mary’s Univ., One Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, TX
78228; ebueno@stmarytx.edu
Spaces of Travel - Imagined or Experienced? Proposals are sought about authors writing in German whose travels – real or imagined – have taken them to spaces and places outside the German-speaking world. Send papers by February 7, 2005 to Karin Schestokat, Oklahoma State Univ., Dept. of Foreign Languages, Stillwater, OK 74078-1054; kschest@okstate.edu Women's Caucus Forum: Are Women's Salaries in the Academy linked to Invisibility? Strategies for becoming visible. Email abstracts by Fenruary 15, 2005 to Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, Univ. of Houston, Dept. of English; ebrown-guillory@uh.edu
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