Conferences & Funding

CALL FOR PAPERS The Geis Student Research on Women Conference invites submissions by students attending institutions in the Greater Philadelphia Women's Studies Consortium who have done research on women or gender issues. To Submit a Paper: Send cover sheet, self-addressed envelope, and paper to: Geis Student Research on Women Conference Women's Studies Program 34 W. Delaware Ave. University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 or fax to: 302 831-4341 Please include a cover sheet with the following information:  your name  the title of your paper  the academic area of your paper (humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences)  your division (undergraduate or graduate) at the time the paper was completed  your contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email address)  institution in which you are currently enrolled (you must still be a student)  name of the faculty member for whose class you wrote the paper or who advised you during your research and his/her conta...

This is a Graduate Conference hosted by the Department of English at University of Rhode Island on Saturday, April 24, 2010. The Keynote Speaker is Dr. Rey Chow, Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, and author of several books, including Woman and Chinese Modernity (1991), Writing Diaspora (1993), Ethics After Idealism (1998), and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films (2007) The phrase “carried across” constructs a picture that requires several elements: the Act of transference, conveyance, or carriage itself; the agent of this action(the carrier); the Subject or Object of this action (the carried); and the Medium or Threshold across which this act occurs, succeeds, or fails. How might consideration of “translations,” “temporalities,” and “trajectories” aid in investigating these interactive elements? How might this assemblage of concepts help us plot our own courses and our own researches of and across tim...

The Radical Philosophy Association Conference Program Committee invites submissions of talks, papers, workshops, roundtables discussions, posters and other kinds of conference contributions, for its ninth biennial conference, to be held at University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon on November 11-14, 2010. We invite submissions that answer questions about the nature of violence and its role in our social world. What is violence? What kinds of violence are there? How do systems of oppression perpetuate or institute violence? What role does violence play in human psychology and social structures? How do we represent violence and what do these representations make possible or impossible? Is non-violence a form of violence? Is revolutionary violence legitimate? Under what conditions is it legitimate? Does the recourse to violence for political ends perpetuate the cycles of violence? What are the differences between violence and political power? Does the birth of the new social order require ...

Faulkner and Print Culture: Papers exploring print culture’s impact on Faulkner and/or his impact on it. Aspects of the editing, design, production, publication, marketing, and reception of Faulkner’s writings. Faulkner’s place in the history of the book, the magazine, the book club. Inquiries, 300-500-word abstracts, or panel proposals to Jay Watson (jwatson@olemiss.edu) by 1 March 2010. Imagining the Animal in Faulkner: Papers exploring the environmental, social, cultural, economic, political, or narrative significance of nonhuman animals in Faulkner’s works. Questions of agency, subjectivity, power, violence, wildness, domestication, consumption, ethics, justice, rights. Interactions between and within nonhuman species. Inquiries, 300-500-word abstracts, or panel proposals to Jay Watson (jwatson@olemiss.edu) by 1 March 2010.

Summer fellowships to support graduate student research and scholarship are available every year from the Dean of Graduate Studies. Graduate students in any program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are eligible to apply for this fellowship. Awards of summer stipends for $1000 (1 month) or $2000 (two months) are granted on a competitive basis. The deadline for applications is January 15 for research or other scholarly activity to take place during June/July/August. If you have a scholarly project for which you would like summer support, please discuss this with a faculty member in your program who will be willing to formally sponsor your effort.