UCLA Queer Studies Conference--DEADLINE EXTENDED

Queer Fashion(s)
UCLA's 13th Annual Queer Studies Conference
October 14-15, 2011

Call for Papers

Deadline Extended June 6, 2011

UCLA's LGBTS Program is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its upcoming Queer Studies Conference featuring presentations by graduate students as well as faculty and advanced undergraduates.

This year's conference will explore and exploit issues of fashion queerly construed. We wish to invite a wide range of questions and panels on subject topics as drag, female masculinities, male femininities, queer self-fashioning, cloning and styling, and, of course, the culture and politics of the fashion industry itself.  Questions of class, economics, history, ethnicity, race, geography, exploitation, desire, style and sublimation are at the forefront of our query.  We seek to know what might be a new analytic or interdisciplinary methodology through which to attend to multiple registers of queer fashion.

Keynote Speakers:
Michael Bronski, Jack Halberstam, Monica Miller,
Mignon R. Moore, Karen Tongson, and Deborah R. Vargas

Closing Performance:
"Queerture: A night of rocket science and fashion design"
with artistic director Tania Hammidi

Proposals for individual papers should take the form of abstracts; panel proposals should also include both a list of participants and paper abstracts.  CVs must accompany all abstracts.  Submissions from undergraduates should be accompanied by a brief letter from a faculty member highlighting the strengths of both the student and the student's proposal.

Deadline for abstracts and CVs: June 6, 2011
Send abstracts and CVs to lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu>
Contact: Catharine McGraw (310) 206-1145  &  
lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu>

CFP: The Digital Futures of Marxism

The Marxist Literary Group
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention
November  4-6
Atlanta, GA

This panel will consider the force of digitization and new social media on Marxist theory and practice as well as, conversely, the force of Marxism on digital media theory and practice.   What are the challenges, opportunities, and limits of the new social media in transforming the revolutionary subjects and sites of recent social movements, emergent multitudes, and virtual communities that gather strength from and part company with Marxism?   How do digital archives, digital scholarship, and digital aesthetic practices in the age of hyper-capitalism advance and constrain the promise of a Marxist future to come?

By June 29, 2011, please send 250- to 300-word abstracts to Walter Kalaidjian, Emory University, wkalaid@emory.edu

The deadline may be extended.  Email for details.

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Graduate & Professional Schools Recruitment Fair

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is pleased to announce its inaugural Graduate & Professional Schools Recruitment Fair in conjunction with its 80th Grand Chapter Meeting. 


Free to all interested in learning more about graduate and professional education, the Graduate & Professional Schools Fair will be held on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.  

You will find the most up-to-date information on Kappa's 80th Grand Chapter Meeting via the centennial celebration website at <http://www.kappaalphapsi2011.com>.  


The webpage specific to the recruitment fair can be found here<http://kappaalphapsi2011.com/recruitment-fair/graduate-and-professional-schools.html> and will include the most accurate listing of participating institutions.

The 10th annual Bloomington 18th-Century Studies Workshop on "The Eighteenth Century and the Unconscious"

The 10th annual Bloomington 18th-Century Studies Workshop on "The Eighteenth Century and the Unconscious" will begin next Wednesday, May 11 and run through Friday May 13. All are welcome to attend. A schedule of panels and lectures is posted below. Because most of the papers for the Workshop are pre-circulated, you will need to register now online in order to receive the packet of papers. You can register via our website at: http://www.indiana.edu/~voltaire/workshop.html
If you have any questions about the Workshop, please feel free to contact Mary Favret (favretm@indiana.edu) or Barbara Truesdell (VOLTAIRE@indiana.edu)

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The Tenth Annual Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Workshop, 11-13 May 2011: The Eighteenth Century and the Unconscious

Distinguished Alumni Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Wednesday May 11

2:00 Welcome


2:30-4:00    Panel I

Nima Bassiri (Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities)
"The Unconscious Dimensions of the Sensorium Commune: Material Subjectivity and the Eighteenth-Century Nervous System"

Fritz Breithaupt (IU Bloomington-Germanic Studies)
"The Rise of Conscience (and its Alternatives)"

Commentator: Tobias Menely (Miami University-Ohio -- English)

4:30-6:00 Panel II

Nathan Gorelick (Utah Valley University English)
"Origin and Repetition: The Early Novel and the Logic of Fantasy."

Saul Anton (The New School Literary Studies)
"The Historical Unconscious in Diderot"

Commentator: Hall Bjornstad (IU Bloomington?French and Italian)

7:30 Festive Dinner at the home of Oscar Kenshur and Margot Gray

Thursday May 12

9-10:30   Lecture

David Bates (UC Berkeley?Rhetoric)
"The Nature of Insight"

Moderator: Sarah Knott (IU Bloomington?History)

10:45-12:45:  Panel III
Thomas Dodman (University of Chicago History)
"Guerriers sensibles: fatal nostalgia and the late eighteenth-century unconscious"

Michael Drexler(Bucknell University English)
"The Four Discourses of Arthur Mervyn"

Helen Thompson(Northwestern University English)
"[I]t was impossible to know these People":  Secondary Qualities and the Form of Character in Defoe?s A Journal of the Plague Year

Commentator: Johannes Turk (IU Bloomington-Germanic Studies)

12:45-2:15 Lunch break (on your own)

2:30-4:00   Panel IV
Anne Pollok (Stanford University Philosophy)
"Building Personae: Moses Mendelssohn and the Unconscious"

Kevin Chua (Texas Tech University Art History)
"Chardin's Leibnizian Unconscious"

Commentator: Richard Nash (IU Bloomington?English)


4:15 -5:45 Lecture
Rebecca Spang, (IU Bloomington History)
"The Purloined Assignat: Contract, Signatures, and the Monetary Unconscious in Revolutionary France"

Moderator: Mary Favret (IU Bloomington English)


7:30 p.m. Banquet (Le Petit Café)

Friday May 13

9:30 -11:00 Panel V

Laura Mandell (University of Miami-Ohio English)
"Print Subjectivity, or History in the Case"

Heidi Schlipphake (Old Dominion University German)
"Reading the Surface: Polygamy and the German Enlightenment"

Commentator: Jonathan Elmer (IU Bloomington-English)

11:15-12:30 Wrap-up session, led by Dror Wahrman (IU Bloomington - History) and Mary Favret (IU Bloomington- English)