NEWSLETTER Nº 25 WINTER 2006/2007

 

EDITORIAL

Dear colleagues,

As I address you this time, 2007 is close at hand, and we are also approaching the end of the term of office of the current Board of APEAA. All associates are therefore reminded that an election for the next term will take place at the next General Assembly and the current Board strongly appeals to a significant attendance. Unfortunately the scarce number of associates present at the last few assemblies has reflected a generalised lack of interest and involvement. It’s certainly the time to take the opportunity to reflect on these symptoms and on the goals and achievements of our Association.

As all fellow members will know, our colleagues at the University of Évora are preparing the 28^th Meeting of APEAA, to take place from the 19th to the 20th of April under the general theme “(Ex)changing Voices, Expanding Boundaries” and the call for papers is still open until the 19^th of February. The organising committee as well as the Board hope that as many members as possible may attend it to the best success of the event.

And last but not least we take this occasion to wish all fellow members a peaceful and productive 2007.

Isabel Caldeira, Chair

 

OP. CIT.

Op.Cit. 7 is now ready to send out and will be posted at the beginning of January so as to avoid the Christmas rush and the threatened postal strike. Op.Cit. 8 is in preparation and should go to the printer in February or March.

Contributions (articles, reviews and abstracts) for Op.Cit. 9 will be accepted until March 2007. I am also accepting names for the new look editorial board.

Stephen Wilson,
Director

APEAA BOARD NOTICE

Dear colleagues,

the APEAA Board would like to remind those of you who work in the area of American Studies that the Board is collaborating with the EAAS in collecting references of books in English published over the last 20 years by Portuguese Americanists, which shall be placed on the EJAS site to constitute the ‘European Library of American Studies’.

Please send this information no later than January 14^th, 2007, to mjc254@nyu.edu.

28th APEAA CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

“(Ex)changing Voices, Expanding Boundaries”

19-20^thApril 2007, University of Évora, Portugal

Call for Papers

It is an undisputable fact that the world is undergoing enormous changes. The truth in Art, Literature, Language and Culture has gradually been altered into novel conceptualisations that include a constant reassessment of individual and social constructions of reality and the creative self. The diversity and profusion of these modifications also include an expansion in the dynamics of the self and the other(s) that influence various spheres of psychological, biological and social identities. The 28^th APEAA (Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies) Meeting will be held at the University of Évora on the 19^th and the 20^th of April 2007, under the sign of change and expansion.

Bearing in mind the various dialogues that coexist in this global village this conference aims at promoting a fruitful and unbiased discussion on the voices that participate in these interactions. 

Accepting 20 minute-papers, we are looking forward to creating the opportunity and the intellectual environment to examine, review and critically engage with arguments and developments in the following areas:

Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; Media Studies; Religious Studies; Literary Studies; Literature and Arts; Post-Colonial Literatures; New Englishes; Language and Linguistics; English Studies (Language/ Literature/Culture) in the Curricula; Discourse Analysis and Translation Studies.

Deadline: Paper proposals (200-word abstracts): February, 19, 2007
Conference fees: Early bird (February, 19, 2007)
Members: Euro75
Non-members: Euro100
Graduate students (official certificate required): Euro 40
Late registrations: an added value of  Euro 15

Registration
Registration will only be accepted upon receipt of registration form and full payment by means of:
cheque, made payable to Olga Gonçalves
Bank-to-bank transfer to
IBAN: PT50003502970007326860019
BIC/SWIFT CODE: CGDIPTPL

All transfer charges, bank collection fees and financial charges are the responsibility of the participant.
Kindly note that registration will not be processed until receipt of copy of the transfer document 
Fax : 00 351  266 759356

INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS

Report on the ESSE Board Meeting, London, 28-29 August 2006

These are some of the most relevant issues discussed and voted for at the Board Meeting:

1. Election of the new President

There were three candidates, who introduced themselves and their projects: Prof. Fernando Galván, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, Prof. Maurizio Gotti, University of Bergamo, Italy, and Prof. Dieter Kastovsky, University of Vienna, Austria.
After voting by Board members, Prof. Fernando Galván was elected the new ESSE President.

2. Editor of The Messenger
Dr John Stotesbury (University of Joensuu, Finland) was reelected for a second term as Editor of The Messenger

3. The ESSE Book Award
Three first prizes were awarded in the following categories:

Cultural Studies: Stavros Stavrou Karayanni (Nicosia). Dancing, Fear & Desire. Race, Sexuality & Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2004, reprinted 2005. ISBN: 0-88920-454-3.

Linguistics:John Holm (Coimbra). Languages in Context. The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. ISBN: 0-521-43051-8.

Literature:Derek Attridge (York). The Singularity of Literature. London: Routledge, 2004. ISBN: 0-415-33593-0.

The deadline for submission of books for the next book award is 1 February 2008. The winners will be announced during ESSE/9 in Aarhus. In order to be considered, the books will have had to be published in 2006 or 2007.
Three new evaluation committees will be elected at the 2007 Board meeting.

4. The ESSE website
Jacques Ramel will continue to be the ESSE site webmaster, having been asked by the new President elect, Fernando Galván, to continue performing that function.

5. Fees
Due to expenditure exceeding income in 2004 and 2005, it was decided in the Kraków meeting to raise the annual fee in 2007 to €9 per member, in order to insure ESSE’s financial stability.

6. New National Association
Since the Kraków meeting the Association for the Study of English in Malta (ASEM) has been set up and applied for membership to ESSE. After the ESSE Board analysed the ASEM Constitution, the application was put to the vote and ASEM was accepted as an ESSE member.
The Latvian association, however, failed to respond to repeated enquiries about its present state and was suspended. The total number of current membership of ESSE thus continues to be 33.

7. ESSE/ 9, 2008, Aarhus
Dominic Rainsford, the organizer of ESSE/ 9, 2008, in Aarhus, provided a report on the main aspects of the Conference organization, including a draft outline of the conference programme. The conference will run from Friday, 22 August to Tuesday, 26 August 2008.

8. Election of a Nominations Committee (for Secretary and Treasurer)
An Election for a Nominations Committee (for Secretary and Treasurer) was held, the following members having been chosen: Fritz Neumann (Chair), Marina Bondi and Martin Procházka.

9. Election of a Bursary Committee
An election was also held for a new Bursary Committee for 2006, with the result being the decision that the same committee should stay on.

10. Report by the Conference Format Committee
The Conference Format committee (Elisabeth Jay, Liliane Louvel, Dominic Rainsford, Irma Taavitsainen), chaired by Celestino Deleyto, reported on their conclusions and made a list of suggestions to be implemented in future Conferences.

11. Board Meeting 2007
It was decided that the next Board meeting will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 7-8 September 2007.

12.  Bids for ESSE/10, 2010
The Board voted that the following ESSE Conference, ESSE/10, will take place in Torino, 24 – 28 August 2010.

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES & CALLS FOR PAPERS

*Novas Leituras de Tennessee Williams*

25-26 May 2007
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

 CALL FOR PAPERS

A dramaturgia de Tennessee Williams continua a exercer uma poderosa influência no teatro norte-americano contemporâneo e a gerar um corpo de análise crítica em constante evolução. No ano em que se celebra o sexagésimo aniversário da primeira representação de A Streetcar Named Desire, a conferência NOVAS LEITURAS DE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS propõe-se reler a sua obra à luz de uma pluralidade de abordagens envolvendo disciplinas tão variadas como estudos literários, estudos de teatro, estudos de género e estudos de cinema, revisitando o cânone crítico mais recente. Para além de avaliar a herança duradoura de Williams no panorama do teatro norte-americano, e o carácter singular da sua colaboração no processo da adaptação cinematográficas de muita da sua obra, a conferência convida também comunicações centradas na sua dimensão internacional, nomeadamente relacionadas com a tradução, produção e recepção das sua peças fora dos Estados Unidos, bem como explorações do impacto de Williams em dramaturgias nacionais específicas.

Propostas de comunicações (em português ou inglês)a enviar para ao Secretariado da Comissão Organizadora até 15 de Abril, acompanhadas de um resumo de cerca de 200 palavras e de uma breve nota biográfica, para: ricardo.marques@fcsh.unl.pt (o mesmo contacto para pedidos de informação).

Programa disponível em: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/english/Docs/twilliams.pdf

* ‘Taking and Giving Offence’ *
21^st and 22^nd June 2007
Dept. of Language and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Recent events suggest that we live in an ever more offendable world. Images of the Prophet, of Christ, of ourselves; words of the Pope, of the Hungarian Prime Minister, the words and images of Mel Gibson, the world-view of Borat, to mention just the most recent. Just as offence can be advertently or inadvertently given, so it can be genuinely or strategically taken.  When it is given and taken deliberately it is part of an explicit process of relations of power. When it is inadvertently given and taken, it is part of social or cultural misunderstanding (or implicit relations of power).  This conference is deeply interested in both processes.  If outrage comes from “tasting an impotence of which being-named is the sign” (J.M. Coetzee) where can we go in a world where there is no escape from the naming by others?

We are told we live in a world of global communication, yet the tools of communication, both technological and linguistic, are unevenly distributed and unevenly mastered.  Lacking extensive knowledge of one another both as individuals and as members of different national, cultural and speech communities, we operate within unequal and non-transparent fields.  Breakdowns, when they occur, can easily assume an overheated emotional character.  This is especially the case if there is a history of misunderstanding or disagreement.

The conference invites papers which examine the mechanics and outcomes of giving and taking offence in cultural processes of all types, especially at the points where interfaces occur between nations, cultures, ethnicities, generations and the sexes: from current affairs to art, from bioethics to language and pragmatics, from body politics to popular music.

Fees: 80 euros.

Deadlines: proposals of up to 250 words for 20 minute papers (English or Portugues)e, on aspects of the Conference theme are invited in any of the subject areas mentioned above, not later than March 31^st 2007, by e-mail attachment, to: abarker@dlc.ua.pt or directly to the organiser:

Dr Anthony Barker,
Deptº de Línguas e Culturas,
Universidade de Aveiro,
3810-193 Aveiro

*Congresso Internacional e Interdisciplinar Comemorativo da Guerra Peninsular*
7th, 8th and 9th November 2007
Centro de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, Lisbon, Portugal

The Congress celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Napoleonic Invasions in Portugal. Official languages: Spanish, French, English and Portuguese. o espanhol, o francês, o inglês e o português. Venue: Academia Portuguesa da História, Palácio dos Lilazes, Alameda das Linhas de Torres, Lisboa. Contacts: Tel: (351) 21 795 88 48; E-mail: ceap@fcsh.unl.pt

The Congress celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Napoleonic Invasions in Portugal.

Official languages: Spanish, French, English and Portuguese. o espanhol, o francês, o inglês e o português.
Venue: Academia Portuguesa da História, Palácio dos Lilazes, Alameda das Linhas de Torres, Lisboa.
Contacts: Tel: (351) 21 795 88 48; E-mail: ceap@fcsh.unl.pt

 

 CALLS FOR PAPERS

                                                       
We welcome comparative papers apropos of the congress title that explore themes across national geographies in the Americas, across the Atlantic and Pacific spaces of intercontinental contact, or across language traditions in the Americas. We also welcome papers focused on particular nationalities, including the United States, that help to illuminate the effects and ramifications of a modernity fostered by exploration, conquest, settlement, and globalization. The aim of the congress is to address, among others, the following questions: What kind of entity called “America” is it we study when approached across national, oceanic, or language boundaries? How do we reconcile the liberating potential of hybridity, creolization, or other forms of transculturation in light of the histories of forced transplantation and migration and oppression that characterize much American experience? What are the future prospects for an American culture considered in this broad context? What is the role of a globalized American culture produced by the United States thwarting or unwittingly enabling the emergence of new cultural forms? How have the modern media, modern means of transportation, and other means of intercultural communication shifted the meaning of “America” since early colonial contacts? What characterizes sites of resistance to the homogenizing effects of a globalized American culture?

As an interdisciplinary organization, IASA welcomes papers and workshops that address these and related questions in the context of analyses of cultural, historical, political, and theoretical material.

Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon
Deadline:
- 300-word abstracts and proposals for thematic workshops to be submitted no later than 31 December 2006.
- Notifications of acceptance will be sent out no later than 28 February 2007.
Official languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Congress URL: www.iasa2007.eu
E-mail address: iasa2007@fl.ul.pt
Phone: +351 217920085 // Fax: +351 217960063
Local Organizing Committee: João Ferreira Duarte, Helena C. Buescu, Maria Teresa Alves, Maria Teresa Cid and Alexandra Assis Rosa

*Spaces of Utopia*
The editors of Spaces of Utopia are currently accepting article submissions for the Summer 2007 issue. Spaces of Utopia is a refereed international e-journal of scholarly research in the field of Utopian Studies. It is published in English three times a year (Spring, Summer and Autumn-Winter) as part of the Digital Library of the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP), Portugal.

Main topic in the Summer 07 issue: utopia and space. Contributions are accepted in a variety of fields, such as visual arts, architecture, urbanism, literature, film studies, sociology, are welcome. Abstracts should be sent to: Isabel Donas Botto (isabotto@hotmail.com) until 20 January 2007.

Deadline for the submission of articles is 5 March 2007.

For further details please go to the journal’s webpage:
http://ler.letras.up.pt/site_uk/default.aspx?qry=id05id174&sum=sim.

*To honor Professor Maria Helena da Paiva Correia*

Org.:  Departamento de Estudos Anglísticos, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

Deadline: 31 July 2007.

ARTICLES:

Capinha, Graça. Preface in the Portuguese edition of Cyro de Mattos. Vinte Poemas do Rio. Viseu: Palimage, 2006
 ——.  “ ‘Os Pés na Terra’: Para uma Mitopoética Genética e Ecológica do Conhecimento”. In ‘Cultura e Desenvolvimento’, thematic issue of Biblos - Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra  2.III (December 2005)
——.  “A Inspiração do Corpo da Poesia”. Revista comTextos XI.43 (December 2005)
Lima, Maria Antónia. “Monstros Intelectuais: uma monstruosidade oculta”. In ‘Monstros’, thematic issue of Textos & Pretextos 8. Lisboa: Faculdade de Letras, 2006
——. “A Metáfora da Peste na Obra de Charles Brockden Brown". In: Estudos em Homenagem a Margarida Losa. Eds. Ana Luísa Amaral and Gualter Cunha. Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2006, 251-259
——.  “The Expression of Terror: Abstract Expressionism and American Gothic Fiction”. In Discursos. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Universidade Aberta, 2005
——.  “ ‘The Oval Portrait’: Retrato de um Artista Perverso”. Viagens pela Palavra - Miscelânea de Textos em Homenagem à Prof.ª Laura Bettencourt Pires. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta, 2005, 185-194
——.  “The Art of Terror : some artistic references in Gothic Literature”. In Olhares e Escritas – Ensaios sobre a Palavra e a Imagem. Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2005
Mancelos, João de. “Mestiçagem, Linhagem e Sexo nos Romances de Rudolfo Anaya”. Estudos em Homenagem a Margarida Losa. Eds. Ana Luísa Amaral and Gualter Cunha. Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2006, 267-273
——.  “O Escritor Convida o Leitor para uma Dança: A Arte de Elaborar Parágrafos Iniciais numa Narrativa Ficcional.” Máthesis, #15 (2006): 155-168
——.  “Primeiro Amor, Últimos Ritos, de Ian MacEwan.” Máthesis, 15 (2006): 337-338
——.  “Real Power is in Compassion: An Unpublished Interview with Joy Harjo.” BAS: British and American Studies. Vol. XII. Timişoara, Romania: Editura Universitaţii de Vest, 2006, 205-208
Martins, Adriana Alves de Paula. “Entre o poder da palavra e a palavra do poder: A importância da imprensa na ficção histórica pós-moderna.” In: Estudos em Homenagem a Margarida Losa. Eds. Ana Luísa Amaral and Gualter Cunha. Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2006, 285-292
——.  “Quotation and Memory in Gore Vidal’s Burr and José Saramago’s The History of the Siege of Lisbon”. In Dialogue with José Saramago: Essays in Comparative Literature (co-edited with Mark Sabine), Manchester: Manchester Spanish & Portuguese Series 18, 2006, 163-175
——.  “J. M. Coetzee’s Foe or Memory and Language at the Crossroads of Colonial and Post-Colonial Discourse.” Dedalus 10 (2005): 465- 472
——. “O Cinema Americano e a Mentira da Guerra em Hollywood de Gore Vidal.” Máthesis 15 (2006):1-9
——.   “Imagined Englishness in A Passage to India”. In Identity, Self & Symbolism 1, 1 (2006). (http://web.mac.com/theorists/iWeb/IISE/Official%20Journal.html)
——.  “Imperial Scars: Colonialism and Trauma in Lídia Jorge's The Murmuring Coast and J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians”. Memory, Haunting, Discourse. Eds. Maria Holmgren Troy and Elisabeth Wennö. Karlstad: Karlstad University Press, 2005: 265-273
——. . “O Verso e o Reverso da Medalha em Lincoln de Gore Vidal.” Máthesis 14 (2005): 255-268.
——.  ed.. Building Bridges: European Awareness & Intercomprehension. Viseu: Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2005
Varandas, Angélica. “A Idade Média e o Bestiário.” In Medievalista (on-line magazine of the Centro de Estudos Medievais da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa) http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/iem/medievalista/.

The Board considers announcing books/articles for in the Newsletter according to the following criteria: APEAA membership  (author, co-author, editor, co-editor) and subject matter in Anglo-American Studies. We would also like to encourage other forms to be announced here, such as translation, interviews and book reviews.

NEWSLETTER Nº 24 SUMMER 2006

 

EDITORIAL

Dear colleagues,

Another school year reaches its end. In the current state of affairs it was certainly for all of us a very demanding one. The pressure we have lived under to prepare our schools for the implementation of the Bologna Model, the menacing effects of the demographic break, the desperate marketing strategies to attract candidates and the scarce funding for our research, among all other troubles and misgivings, have called for every resource of energy and creativity. We well deserve a peaceful holiday.

Our annual conference, the 27^th, was a big success. It took place at Carcavelos, organized by our colleagues of the New University of Lisbon. An appealing academic programme and the opportunity for informal social interaction had the benefit of the pleasant environment of the Hotel Riviera near the beautiful and peaceful seaside. A more detailed overview of the Conference by a young associate is available in this Newsletter. Our most sincere thanks to the organization and to the New University of Lisbon.

 Our colleagues from the University of Évora have readily and generously offered to host the 2007 meeting. We shall be looking forward to the opportunity of visiting the beautiful capital of Alto Alentejo. The call for papers will be soon available in our webpage. We should all feel challenged to participate and contribute to the success of our next conference.

 In this time of crisis and challenge for the Humanities, the interchange of ideas and experiences can be supportive and stimulating for our community of teachers and scholars. The Board invites all Associates to use the forum of discussion in our website to share their thoughts and experiences on the Bolonha Agreement. Let us make the effort to activate the forum and expand its meaning and dynamics.

 

The Board takes this occasion to wish all fellow members a restful summer.

 

Isabel Caldeira, Chair

 

OP. CIT.

 Op.Cit. #7 is finally almost ready for the printers and will appear over the summer. Once again I have to apologise for the fact that its appearance has been so long delayed. Personal circumstances and the pressure of other commitments have made things extremely difficult but these problems are now resolved and, as I said at the APEAA Conference at Carcavelos, I expect that # 8 and # 9 will follow in short order (in autumn 2006 and early 2007 respectively).

 Also at Carcavelos, I proposed, and the APEAA General Assembly approved, changes in the editorial structure of the journal. Essentially, what I proposed was that the existing editorial board be replaced by a larger board constituted by specialists from the various areas of our discipline. Essays submitted for publication would then be sent not to the entire board but to the specialist (s) in the relevant area. I gave my reason for this in Carcavelos and they need not be repeated here. What I would like to do is to invite members to put their names, also indicating their area(s) of specialisation, forward for inclusion on the new board. All areas of specialisation are welcome but at this point I perceive a particular need in the following areas: Linguistics, Womens’s writing/Women’s Studies, Shakespeare/Renaissance and Post-colonial writing.

Application for #9 (and even #8 if it arrives before the end of September) are still being accepted. They should be sent by email and hard copy to me or to João Paulo Moreira:

Stephen  Wilson swilson@mail.telepac.pt

João Paulo Moreira  jprm@fl.uc.pt

Stephen Wilson,
Director

CONFERENCE REPORT

27th CONFERENCE of the APEAA

This year’s APEAA Conference was an unquestionable success with the submission of more than 90 papers! The theme of this international conference was “Crossroads of History and Culture”, a useful starting point to approach matters of intersection and cooperation within literary, historical, cultural and social theoretical fields. Scholars who attended these vibrant two-day meeting participated in a larger debate about politics, identity, literary innovations, cultural conventions and transgressions, contradictory discourses, representation and performance, ethics, history and myth, education and creation, using materials as diverse as travel books, editorial blogs, cinema, novels, poetry, textbooks, short stories, detective fiction, women’s magazines, fantastic literature and utopias.

From the beginning to the last minute of this conference, participants were engaged in a variety of sessions which gathered multi-disciplinary groups of scholars and sometimes enabled a challenging link between the themes of several papers and a broader discussion on a specific area of research.

This year, the conference began on the 27^th April 2006 with a plenary session conducted by a British scholar of international renown, Terry Eagleton. The prolific author presented an essay called “Literary Criticism and the Public Sphere”. Before the afternoon sessions, we had also the opportunity to listen to professor Luísa Leal de Faria in the second plenary session with a timing paper on “The Exile of the Scholars”. After a busy day of simultaneous sessions, the APEAA held its general assembly and later on the participants had the chance to enjoy a relaxing dinner at Hotel Riviera, Carcavelos and also a Mozart Concert at Cascais Cultural Centre.

The following day, 28^th April 2006, was dedicated to many interesting panel sessions and a final plenary session in which Dr. Andrew Pepper shared his views on “State Power Matters: Power, the State and Political Struggle in the post-war American Novel”.

When one considers the amount of papers presented at this particular conference, we can argue that the role of social sciences in general and the study of literature and history in particular are in good shape, despite today’s haunting scenarios about the future of the humanities.

As a first-time participant in an international conference, please allow me to greet the organization of this event for being able to maintain the tight schedule of numerous panel presentations and provide every participant with a stimulating environment to celebrate knowledge and also to strengthen relationships of collegiality and friendship!

Licínia Pereira

28th APEAA CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

“(Ex)changing Voices, Expanding Boundaries”

19-20^thApril 2007, University of Évora, Portugal

    INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES and CALLS FOR PAPERS

*ESSE 8*

29^th Aug.-2^nd Sept. 2006,

Institute of English Studies (IES), University of London, UK

 *1^st John Dos Passos International Conference*
 

12-14^th October 2006
Centro Cultural John dos Passos, Direcção Regional dos Assuntos Culturais
Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal

The aim of this Conference is to bring together scholars interested in the life and works of John Dos Passos, a North-American writer of Madeiran descent, as well as to promote the Centro Cultural John Dos Passos (John Dos Passos Cultural Centre), at National and International levels.

Enquiries e-mail: 1DosPassosConference@sapo.pt
Website address: http://johndospassosconf.sc14.info/
CFP closed

*Plural Beckett Pluriel*
A Centenary Celebration | Une célébration centenaire

23-24th November | Novembre 2006
Faculty of Letters, University of Oporto, Portugal
For submissions, registration, or further queries please contact:
 

Instituto de Estudos Ingleses
Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
Via Panorâmica, s/n
4150-564 PORTO – PORTUGAL
Phone / Fax: +351-22-6077183
E-mail: beckett06@letras.up.pt

*VIII AUTUMN COLLOQUIUM CEHUM*

“O Poder das Narrativas/As Narrativas do Poder”  

23-25^th November 2006
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Colloquium format: plenary sessions by invited scholars; a special commemorative session on Hannah Arendt; a workshop on “Contemporary Narratives” and parallel sessions on the following subthemes:

a) Language and Discourses of Power
b) Cultural Translation and Manipulation
c) Post-colonialism, Gender and Discursive Rhetorics

Deadline for paper proposals: 15th September 2006, to: alice@ilch.uminho.pt

*30th AEDEAN Conference*

14-16^th December 2006

Universidad de Huelva, Spain

Scholars planning to attend the conference are invited to send their queries to: aedean30@dfing.uhu.es

*HELAAS Graduate Student International Conference Inaugural*

“Ex-centric Narratives, Identity and Multivocality in Anglo-American Cultures”
March 15-18th, 2007

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Abstract Details: Abstracts of 250-300 words for a 20 minute presentation with a provisional title and a short bio should be submitted by October 31, 2006 to any of the addresses below.

E-mail to: ex-centric@enl.auth.gr or yemene@enl.auth.gr
Or post to: “Ex-centric Narratives”, 2007 HELAAS Graduate Conference,
School of English, Department of American Literature and Culture,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece, 54 124

More information on: <http://www.enl.auth.gr/ex-centric/main.html>

*Twelfth International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Congress*

“Samuel Johnson’s Early Reception in Europe” (Roundtable)

8-15^th July 2007
Montpellier, France

Recent work on Johnson’s reception in Francophone and Hispanic cultures of the mid-eighteenth century has raised questions about the diffusion, translation, and criticism of his writings on the Continent, as well as the disciplinary causes (in both the Anglophone world and beyond) for Johnson’s European reception to have been long neglected. The focus of this panel will be the histories of Johnson’s reception as both event and historiographic lacuna, and the convergence of the two. How were Johnson’s essays and fictions adapted to target cultures, and what made them attractive to particular readerships? What comment did they generate? In translation, how was Johnson’s prose perceived? What institutional frameworks and social networks provided readers for, and shaped the reception of, projects such as Johnson’s Shakespeare edition or the Lives of the Poets? And how was Johnson written into narratives of critical and literary history?
Although the roundtable should centre on the long eighteenth-century, papers considering reception over a longer period are welcome.

Abstracts should be sent to john.stone@ub.edu by 6 January 2007.

*INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AASE – 2*
“Language and Literature in the Contemporary Paradigm of Scientific Knowledge”
16^th - 19th October, 2007

Armenian Association for the Study of English, Yerevan, Armenia
The plenary and sub-plenary lectures and panel sessions may cover issues on contemporary approaches to traditional linguistic problems, as well as questions of interdisciplinary character. Working languages: English, Russian, Armenian.
Proposals should be mailed directly to romano@xter.net for approval by the Academic
Programme Committee.

The full text of the best papers will be published after the Conference.
Deadline for submission of abstracts (300 words): January 31, 2007.
Further details of the conference can be found at http://www.synergy.ysu.am

 

*EAAS 2008 CONFERENCE *

“E Pluribus Unum” or “E Pluribus Plura”?

9-12^th May

Oslo, Norway

The motto “E Pluribus Unum” mostly subsumes an institutional and political will.  But, from all historical data and possibly even more from contemporary dissensions, it appears that the social and cultural realities of America might well illustrate the possibility for an “E Pluribus Plura” version of the formula.  How does the United States negotiate the inner tensions that, because of its constitutive diversity, might threaten its unity?  How do traditions (political, artistic, literary…), modes of consensus building (from myth to national icons and patriotic assertions of exceptionalism), the feeling of a wished-for common good counteract potential strife and the tensions of particular interests and particular groups, make up for the aporias of nationhood and communitarian feeling, of ideological consensus and a tradition of dissent?  Could it be that there are indeed several “Americas”?  Is being an American necessarily being in many ways double?  Can the politically unifying, centripetal power of the State, hidden under the neutral Unum, accommodate the centrifugal forces that might generate a societal and cultural “plura” out of the hallowed political and territorial “pluribus”?  Do diversities imply, for their survival and development, a “middle ground”, a “mainstream”, a “tradition” – some kind of American norm?  Seen in light of the various subdisciplines of our fields, these are some of the questions that might generate the wished-for contributions to this Conference.

Deadlines:

January 31, 2007: Deadline for submission of proposals and one-page abstracts for parallel lectures and workshop sessions, to include a ½ page c.v. of workshop chairs and individual lecturers.
Please do not submit proposals for individual workshop papers at this time. These will be sent to selected workshop chairs who will be announced in the May 2007 issue of ASE.

September 15, 2007: Deadline for sending the tentative list of speakers and titles of workshop papers to be included in the October 2007 issue of ASE.

December 1, 2007: Deadline for submitting FINAL titles of papers and names and addresses of speakers.

January 10, 2008: Deadline for information to be included in the 2008 biennial conference program.

Please send all information via e-mail to the EAAS Secretary General, Jenel Virden, at virden@eaas.info

*EJAS Special Issue: Reading/Misreading 'America'*

Deadline: October 15, 2006
As part of its goal to broaden American Studies and to foster a transEuropean 'academic space' for discussing the United States, EJAS would like to devote an issue to investigating the many representations of 'America', and how and why they are used in particular contexts. 

Narratives and images of the United States and what is 'American' have so multiplied and become globalised that they have become detached from the country itself. It is no longer a question of what 'America' is, but of what people do with the many available 'Americas'. Narratives of America are used and abused for specific political, cultural, and social purposes, each one related in some way to a piece of reality that is the United States but each one also possessing a life and a power of its own. Readings (both literary and visual) have been created and claimed even by those who have had little or no contact with the USA. They have differed wildly between historical periods, generations, nations, and political perspectives, and have been as much empowering (freedom, individualism) as denigrating (inequality, violence) in their intent. Such narratives are inseparable from power relations and social hierarchies, but these relations play out in different ways and can be equally enabling and debilitating.

EJAS invites articles from all disciplines and approaches to examine the causes and consequences of these readings/interpretations of America:
- How have narratives and images of the USA been used in Europe in support of particular (political/cultural/social) causes - including US foreign policy itself?
- How have Americans mis-read their own country - and themselves?
- Why are certain readings of 'America' particularly attractive in particular European countries, and what are the consequences?
- Is it possible to 'misread' America when its identities are so fluid and multifaceted?
- Translating America: How have cultural preferences in Europe affected the adoption / translation of particular US literary canons and specific authors?
Submission guidelines posted on the EJAS website will be considered for publication.

NEW PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS

ARTICLES:

Ermida, Isabel. “Linguistic mechanisms of power in Nineteen Eighty-Four: Applying Politeness theory to Orwell’s world”, Journal of Pragmatics, 38.6 (June 2006): 842-862.

On this article, see: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2005.05.008

 Holm, John and Dominika Swolkien. “The vernaculars of São Vicente (Cape Verde) and Brazil: demographics and degrees of restructuring”, Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana IV:1 (2006): 71-86.

 Mancelos, João de. “The Construction, Destruction and Reconfiguration of a Community in Toni Morrison's Sula”. Narrating the Other: Cultures and Perspectives. Eds. Wojciech Kalaga and Marzena Kubisz. Częstochowa, Poland: Wydawnictwo Wyzszej Szkoły Lingwistycznej, 2005. 115-122.

 Mancelos, João de. “Rudolfo Anaya, O génio do lugar” [Preface]. Abençoa-me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya. Transl. de Nuno Batalha. Lisboa: Nova Vega, 2005. 7-13.

 Ramalho, Maria Irene. “All the Names. Saramago and Lyric Poetry”, in In Dialogue with Saramago. Essays in Comparative Literature. Ed. Adriana Martins and Mark Sabine (Manchester Spanish and Portuguese Studies). Manchester: The University of Manchester Press, 2006.

 Tavares, Teresa. “Atlantic Entanglements: Narratives of Self and Other at the Turn of the 20th Century.” Oficina do CES 236 (September 2005): 26 pp.

 Tavares, Teresa. “New Women, New Men, or What You Will in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree.” Edith Wharton Review 21.1 (Spring 2005): 1-15.

 Varandas, Angélica. “A Profanação do Corpo: Imagens da Hiena nos Bestiários Medievais Ingleses”. Actas do Encontro ‘O Corpo e o Gesto na Civilização
Medieval’. Eds. Ana Isabel Buescu, João Silva de Sousa and Maria
Adelaide Miranda. Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2006. 315-327.

newsletter Nº 23 WINTER 2005-2006

 

EDITORIAL

 

Dear colleagues,

As another year reaches its end it is certainly the proper occasion to appeal to all associates for a general reflection on the goals and achievements of an association like ours. 

It is a time of crisis for the Humanities, a period of great challenges for all our Schools and of overwhelming doubts and insecurity for all of us. A general lack of interest and involvement among our associates may be read along the same lines. But I believe it also means a bigger responsibility for the Boards as well as for each one of us as members. I am certain we can find new energies and sources of creativity in each other’s stimulus and support.

This Board would therefore appreciate the cooperation of all of you in bringing together the group of present and past associates in each one of your Schools and trying to raise questions and suggestions that may contribute to a renewal of our Association. Without your cooperation the APEAA will be nothing but the organizer of an annual Conference. If that is not all you expect from your Association, please help us make APEAA meet your greater demands and deeper expectations.

The APEAA webpage is online once again and accessible at http://www.malhatlantica.pt/apeaa/. The debate is open. We shall be looking forward to your contributions, which should be mailed to us at apeaa@fl.uc.pt. Let us all take advantage of the symbolism of a New Year.

As all fellow members will know, our colleagues at Universidade Nova are preparing our annual conference, to take place at Hotel Riviera, Carcavelos, Cascais (27-29 April 2006). The general theme is “Crossroads of History and Culture” and the call for papers is still open until the 15^th of February. The organising committee and the current Board hope that as many members as possible may attend to the best success of the event.

And last but not least we take this occasion to wish all fellow members a peaceful and productive 2006.

Isabel Caldeira, Chair

OP. CIT.

We feel we must present a justification for the non-appearance of Op. Cit. Due to the Director’s unexpected health problems and forced absence from the country, the efforts to compensate for the recent delays in publication have been temporarily compromised. Still we are pleased to confirm on the Director’s behalf, that the submissions received thus far are extremely promising in terms both of quality and quantity. In fact, the next issue of Op. Cit, to be published in early 2006, will most certainly be a double issue (#7-8), and will include, aside from the usual variety of articles, reviews and abstracts, a lengthy interview with Ciaron Carson.

We are sure you’ll all join us in wishing Stephen Wilson a speedy recovery.

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES and CALLS FOR PAPERS

VI International Conference of

The Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI)

University of Valladolid (Spain)

25-27 May 2006

Imaginary/Real Ireland

The theme of the 2006 AEDEI Conference is Imaginary/Real Ireland. Few places have been imagined and dreamed of as Ireland has. Ireland's multi-faceted, shifting reality  down through history can be viewed from a variety of angles: the magical and visionary traditions, the nostalgic Ireland(s) of the diasporic memory, the sense of bilocation derived from imagined/real frontiers, the post-colonial reversal of stereotypical roles or the preference of story-telling to history. Where does the real Ireland lie hidden in the new hybrid, multicultural Irish society, both north and south of the Border? Is there a real Ireland at all? Contributions are invited to explore these two separate yet intermixed levels of the real and the imaginary in Ireland from an interdisciplinary point of view, involving the social sciences, the media, the visual arts, music, history or literary and film studies.

Official language: English is the official language of the Conference, but papers in Spanish will also be accepted.

Length: Papers should not exceed 2,500-3,000 words / 20 minutes’ delivery.

Publication: Complete texts must be submitted before the conference. Two hard copies of your contribution — which must conform to the AEDEI style sheet:
(http://aedei.en.eresmas.com/aedei1024/home.htm) — and a disk in Word format should be sent to the address below. A selection of papers will be considered for publication.

Please send your paper proposal (300-500 words) as a Word attachment to aedei06@fyl.uva.es by 10 February 2006.

Looking forward to seeing you in Valladolid,
María José Carrera de la Red
On behalf of the Organizing Committee
VI International Conference of AEDEI
Departamento de Filología Inglesa
Fac. Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Valladolid
Plaza del Campus s/n
47011 Valladolid
Spain

Fax: +34 983 423774   Tel.: +34 983 423000  # 6746

Views from the Edge: the Short Story Revisited

9th International Conference on the Short Story in English

June 21-25, 2006

University of Lisbon, Portugal

Views from the Edge: the Short Story Revisited

Portugal, and particularly Lisbon, situated at the edge of a vast territorial mass overlooking the Ocean (the westernmost point of continental Europe is just around the corner from Lisbon), has offered over time a privileged standpoint from which to reflect upon matters of cultural spatiality, the cartographing of the world (the physical or the imaginary one), and the implications of being at the edge, culturally and otherwise. As a metaphor, the edge also finds compelling resonance both with short story writers, intent on pushing the art of storytelling to the very edge of fiction, and with short story readers, challenged by new and unconventional ways of storytelling.

Deadline and mailing address

Proposals should be sent by January 30th, 2006, to the local co-Directors, Teresa F. A. Alves and Teresa Cid ( shortstory2006@fl.ul.pt / Fax: +351 21 796 00 63), and a copy sent to the Conference Director, Maurice A. Lee ( MauriceL@uca.edu / Fax: +1 501 450 5185)

Conference website: http://www.fl.ul.pt/eventos/short_story/main.htm

*ACT 15*

Teatro e Tradução: Palcos de Encontro/ Theatre and Translation: Contact Stages

23 and 24th March 2006

Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, Portugal

The Centre for Comparative Studies and the Centre for Theatre Studies are jointly organizing the International Colloquium “ACT 15, Theatre and Translation: Contact Stages”, which will take place on 23-24 March 2006.

The role of translation in the construction of cultural identity and the notion that a written playtext is incomplete without its performance or “concretization” on stage has led scholars to understand theatre translation as an “intercultural process”, which raises fundamental questions concerning the relationship between a playtext and its translation, either interlinguistic or intersemiotic.

The Colloquium ACT 15 will address this intersection of perspectives, interests and methodologies from the perspectives of Translation and Theatre Studies, inviting contributions from specialists in these areas, as well as translators and theatre directors.

Call for papers: If you wish to present a paper at the Colloquium, please send an abstract (c.200 words) and brief curriculum vitae to the address below. The closing date for submission is 31 December. The registration fee of €30 should only be paid once applicants have been notified that their abstract has been accepted, by 30 January 2006.

Contacts:

Tel. 21 792 00 85

Fax 21 796 00 63

e-mail: palcosdeencontro@fl.ul.pt

*XVII SEDERI Conference*

Sociedad Española de Estudios Renascentistas Ingleses / Spanish and Portuguese Association for English Renaissance Studies / Sociedade espanhola e portuguesa de Estudos Renascentistas Ingleses

April 5th-7th, 2006,

University of Extremadura (Cáceres, Spain)

Call for papers: a 200 word abstract including complete affiliation of author(s) —including their full name(s), department, university, ordinary and e-mail addresses, phone and fax numbers, together with the paper title— should be electronically submitted to sederi17@unex.es before January 31st, 2006. Submissions reaching the organisers before this date will be greatly appreciated. Please do not forget to indicate if you will need any facilities for your presentation, such as an overhead projector, VHS, DVD, computer.  The Conference Academic Committee will make a selection of papers and inform authors by e-mail of their acceptance or refusal by February 20th, 2006.

Proposals on Culture, Language, Linguistics and Literature of the Renaissance period in Europe and Early American Literature and Culture are welcome, either a paper (20' presentation + 10' discussion) or a seminar/workshop (time allotted depending on panellists).

Please notice that English is the official language of the Conference.

Contacts:

*“Interpreting the Nuevo Milenio”*

V International Conference on Chicano Literature

22-25 May 2006

Institute for North American Studies-University of Alcalá, Spain

Call for papers:

Proposals should be 300-500 words and should be sent by January 30^th, 2006, to Rosa María García-Barroso (congreso.chicanos@iuien-uah.net) or by fax (34) 91 885 5285.

Deadline: January 30th, 2006.

Both individual proposals and organized panels are welcome. Presentations should be limited to 15-20 minutes. Selected papers will be published. Notification of accepted proposals will be made 20 days after the proposal is received. Definite acceptance hinges on registration. Participants registering after February 20^th, are not guaranteed a slot on a panel.

The languages of the conference are English and Spanish.

Required information: Name; Organization; Street Address/P.O.Box; City; State/ Province/ZIP; Day Phone/Fax; email; I will need audiovisual equipment for my presentation (yes/no); Indicate which; Do you need an invitation letter? (yes/no).

Send this information with proposal to congreso.chicanos@iuien-uah.net or by fax to

34 91 885 52 85

The Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies

 “Transatlantic Conflict and Consensus: Culture, History, and Politics”, will be held October 25-28, 2006, on the campus of Teikyo University Holland, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

The organizers welcome submissions covering the gamut of transatlantic conflict and consensus from the fields of literature, sociology, history political science, journalism, cultural studies, and others. The conference organizers hope to engender a multidisciplinary discussion of transatlantic relations.

Submit proposals in English online at:
www.transatlanticstudies.org.
Each submission should include a 500-word proposal of the paper that is to be considered for presentation and a 200-word biographical sketch of the author(s), along with other relevant information requested on submission form.

The deadline for submitting proposals is 1 February 2006. Rolling acceptance will be practiced, but authors will be notified the status of their proposal no later that 1 April 2006. Update information, including registration details, will be available on the website. The lingua franca of the conference is English.

Along with presentation of accepted papers, the conference will feature speakers representing the American view of transatlantic relations, a continental European view of transatlantic relations, and an academic overview of the discussion.

Contact Dr. Neil Wynn at nwynn@glos.ac.uk or Dr. Tim Schorn at tschorn@usd.edu, or see the conference website, for additional information. http://www.transatlanticstudies.org

AWARDS

The ESSE Book Award is fully described on the Book Award page of the ESSE Website http://www.essenglish.org. The two important things  to stress are:

 

1) The first prizes (for Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies) will be awarded in London, during the course of the next ESSE Conference, 29 August-2 September 2006. The deadline for the submission of books (publ. between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2005) is 1 February 2006.

2) The three review copies of the  book are to be sent to me at my Home address (Adolphe Haberer 1, route de Saint-Antoine, 69380 Chazay d'Azergues, France).

Authors who have no review copies to spare and who might be deterred by the expense may well try to ask their publishers to send the three copies directly to me – some have already accepted.

 

Adolphe Haberer
Emeritus Professor, Université Lumière-Lyon 2
86, rue Pasteur, F-69007 Lyon
President of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English)
http://www.essenglish.org

 

ARTICLES:

Ana Gonçalves Matos “Literary texts: a passage to intercultural reading in foreign language education”. Language & Intercultural Communication Vol. 5 No 1, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2005.

The full text of  the article is available to subscribers online and table of contents and abstracts of the journal are freely available at: www.multilingual-matters.net

 

The APEAA Board strongly encourages members to send information about their recent publications (books/book chapters), to be announced in the July issue of the Newsletter.

newsletter Nº 22 Summer 2005

 

EDITORIAL

Dear colleagues,

This is the first newsletter to be issued by the Board elected last April in Braga. It is therefore the occasion for a special greeting to all members, a few words of reflection on the last few months and a sharing of ideas and proposals for the near future.

Our annual conference, the 26^th, which took place at the University of Minho last April took as its theme “Intertextual Dialogues: Travels and Routes/Diálogos Intertextuais: Viagens e Rotas”. The appealing academic programme and the opportunity for informal social interaction in the highly pleasant environment of the UMinho all contributed for the success of the event. The following bare statistics offer an overview of the very full two and a half days of the conference and convey some sense of their intensity: 4 plenary lectures, 84 papers presented at no less than 27 sessions, a book launch (a homage to our dear colleague Hélio Osvaldo Alves), a tribute to Susan Sontag and an evening session of poetry and music. Besides the presence of colleagues from other European associations, it is also worth mentioning that some 30 papers were presented by scholars from abroad, which is a clear sign of the growing internationalization of these meetings. Our most sincere thanks to the organization and to the University of Minho.

Our colleagues from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa have readily and generously offered to host the 2006 meeting, which will take place in Carcavelos, at the Hotel Riviera (more information bellow). The programme is taking shape in a most promising way and the call for papers has already gone out. We should all feel challenged to participate and contribute to its success. Both the organizing committee and the current Board are looking forward to it.

This is a time of crisis and the Humanities have not escaped its damaging effects. We are all aware of the urgency of the demands on us to make changes, implement reforms and respond to the new challenges with creativity and daring. Let us make the most of this Association as a forum for discussion, interchange and internationalization. Thanks to the initiative of our former Board at the University of Oporto, a forum of discussion was inaugurated to improve and expand the possibilities opened by our website (thank you, Álvaro Pina for making the first, unfortunately the only, submission). Let us make the effort to activate the forum and expand its meaning and dynamics.

Among the purposes of our Association the most important at present is to promote the internationalization of our activities. This goal can only be achieved through the expansion of communication. In an effort to resume previous attempts by former Boards to collect information about all members’ publications and fields of research as well as events and other initiatives promoted in their institutions, we are investing in the communicative potential of our website. So we call your attention to the appeals bellow. The Board commits itself to regularly updating the site but we need the encouragement of your response.

 However, as you may already have noticed the malhatlantica server has had a serious hardware malfunction and all our contents may be lost – ironic though it may be at this point! But the problem is being dealt with and we hope to have it back soon.

One final reminder regarding membership fees. Our Treasurer may already have reached you through an e-mail message calling your attention to the need to honour your dues. It is our duty to remind you all that the financial stability of APEAA depends on your unfailing cooperation, as membership fees barely cover annual expenses. Besides all members have the benefit of ESSE and EAAS memberships as long as their dues are honoured. Every autumn both associations request confirmation of the number of members, and it is based on this number that their respective fees are to be paid.

The Board takes this occasion to wish all fellow members a restful and peaceful summer.

Isabel Caldeira, Chair.
 

 

OP. CIT.

Unfortunately, despite the appearance of OpCit #6 earlier this year, our journal remains over a year in arrears. The response to calls for papers for # 7 and # 8 has been good and there is sufficient material (articles, reviews, abstracts and interviws) to produce two strong numbers of the journal (even so I will continue to accept submissions for #8 until 22 September 2005). The problems that have held up publication are being solved and I hope and expect that two issues, or perhaps a double issue, will appear towards the end of this year or early in 2006. A call for papers for OpCit #9 will be made later this year. Once again my apologies for the non-appearance of OpCit #7 and #8.

Stephen Wilson,
Director.

 

27th CONFERENCE of the APEAA

 

“Crossroads of History and Culture”,

Hotel Riviera, Carcavelos, Cascais, Portugal, 27-29^th April, 2006.

 

Confirmed Guest Speakers:

Terry Eagleton, Ziauddin Sardar and Suhayl Saadi.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Suggested topics and sub-areas for discussion:

Anglo-Portuguese Studies; Art History and Theory; British Culture; British History; Communication & Hypermedia; Comparative Studies; Critical Theories; Cultural Approaches to Education; Cultural Studies; Culture & Canon Wars; Cultures in Translation; Empire, Race & Culture; Gender and Culture; History of the English-Speaking Peoples; Literature and History;  North-American Culture; North-American History; Popular/Mass Culture Studies; Science, Technology and Culture.

Abstracts (200-250 words, for 20 minute presentations, until 15 March 2006)

E-mail for all information and contacts: apeaa2006@fcsh.unl.pt

Information in our web site: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/english/apeaa2006.htm

 

 

Treasurer’s reminder

The treasurer reminds APEAA members that the Association fees up to 2005 are to be paid now. Lack of payment implies that you lose access to the benefits of EAAS and ESSE membership. Also according to the new regulation, three years behind in fees excludes you from APEAA membership.

Your cheque, payable to APEAA, should reach the treasurer in the beginning of September.

 

 

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES

*Two-Day Conference on Cinema and Literature*

20-21st October, 2005

Institute of American Culture,

Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, Portugal

The event is articulated with the Post-Graduation Program in American Studies. Besides FLUL professors, speakers include Michael Hönisch (on film documentary; F.U. Berlin) and Shelley Fisher Fishkin (on Huckleberry Finn: Twain’s text and its cinematographic adaptations; Stanford University).

 

*International Forum on English language Teaching II*

“Culture, Content, Communication”

Faculty of Letters, University of Oporto, Portugal, 11-14^th November, 2005 Speakers from Britain:

Mike Byram (Durham), Richard Fay (Manchester), Adrian Halliday (Canterbury), John Holmes (Leeds).

For further information, please e-mail: nrhurst@letras.up.pt

 

*ASAT 2005 Annual Conference*

“American Studies: Past, Present and Future”

Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 29 -Dec 2, 2005

 The ASAT 2005 Annual Conference on American Studies: Past, Present and Future to be held at Kadir Has University in Istanbul on Nov 29 -Dec 2, 2005 will consist of panels and roundtables. Issues to be debated include Curriculum, Teaching, and Research Related Issues and American Studies from European Perspective, to mention but a few.

 

*EAAS Biennial Conference*

“Conformism, Non-Conformism, and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States”, Cyprus, April 7-10, 2006.

 

 

CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

*V International Conference on Chicano Literature*

May 22-25th, 2006

Institute for North American Studies of the University of Alcalá, Spain.

For further information, please visit the web page at:

www.iuien-uah.net

 

*The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)*
 York University, Toronto, Canada, October 20-23, 2005

Invites submission of abstracts for the 9th annual conference on: Mothering, Race, Ethnicity, Culture and Class

This conference will explore, from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, the topic of mothering, race, ethnicity, culture and class. We welcome submissions from students, activists, scholars, artists and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We encourage a variety types of submissions including academic papers, workshops, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts and other alternative formats.

If you are interested in being considered as a presenter, please send a 250-word abstract and a 50-word bio by September 15, 2005 to:
Association for Research on Mothering
726 Atkinson, York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3
Email us at arm@yorku.ca or visit our website at www.yorku.ca/crm
One must be a member of ARM to submit an abstract.

 

 

NEW PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS

Following APEAA Conferences 22^nd, 23^rd and 24^th, three publicationss have been issued.

	Novas Histórias Literárias/New Literary Histories. Coord. Isabel Caldeira et al. Coimbra: MinervaCoimbra, 2004. (Includes CD-Rom). 20€. “New research practices have in the past few decades reconceptualized literary signification and literary history. Areas such as cultural studies, feminist studies, ethnic studies, especially Afro-American studies, postcolonial studies, the history of the book or translation studies, to mention but a few, have all contributed to these transformations. . . . The title New Literary Histories refers to the range of methodological practices which are specific to the above mentioned areas, as well as to their contribution to the rewriting and pluralization of literary histories.” Would you be interested in acquiring this title, please send your request, together with a check payable to A.P.E.A.A., to the current Direction.
	What Now? Notes towards the Definition of Culture, Identity and Literature in the twentieth-first century. XXII Annual Conference. Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, 22-24th March 2001. Org. Bruce Bird et al. Universidade do Algarve. (CD-Rom and book of abstracts). “Now . . .  that the very notions of definition, as a basic tool of a theory, seem to have become questionable in the light of Post-modernism . . . those less informed or less critical about their own age may as well say that Theory has led them to a sort of dead-end, from which no salvation is to be devised in the years to come. Others, however, may regard this apparent stall as the spring-board for further theory-driven adventures into the realms of literature, culture and language.” Would you be interested in acquiring this title, please contact the Organizers: António Bernardo Lopes <alopes@ualg.pt>; Ana Isabel Soares <asoares@ualg.pt>; Merja Parreira <mparrei@ualg.pt>
	Landscapes of Memory. Paisagens da Memória. Org. Isabel Capeloa Gil et al. Lisboa: Universidade Católica Editora, 2004. 24th Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies. “The way our culture perceives time and observes the past is far from being natural or given, and it is precisely in the interaction between innovation and tradition, between the urge to recollect and the need to forget that our ‘imagination of the past’ is dis-membered and re-membered anew. Landscapes of Memory. Envisaging the Past / Remembering the Future maps the geography of cultural memory in key accounts of English and American Studies, by favourig a revision of past narratives that prefigue a re-memoration of the future.” Would you be interested in acquiring this title, please send your request, together with a check of € 19,50 payable to UCEditora, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Palma de Cima, 1649-023 LISBOA or by email: uce@uceditora.ucp.pt

The APEAA Board strongly encourages members to send information about their recent publications (books/book chapters), to be announced in the December nr of the Newsletter.

 

OTHER INFORMATION

Marc Chénetier, President of EAAS is preparing the first issue of EJAS,  an electronic journal of the Association on the basis of a brief article per country describing the principal lines of the activities there conducted in American Studies. All collaboration from the Americanists in Portugal would be welcome to help us gather the most complete collection of materials that may give a faithful image of research conducted in our country.

We would need to have this information by September 1st to be able to compose a text to be sent to Marc Chénetier by September 15th.

newsletter Nº 21 WINTER 2004-2005

 

EDITORIAL

 

Dear colleagues,

As I write these lines 2005 is at hand, and with it the closing months of the term of office of the current Board of APEAA. The change that will occur with the election due to take place at our next AGM, coinciding with our 26^th annual conference, will chronologically mark the moment when this association graduates from its first quarter of a century – and it does so with a degree of experience and of institutional stability, but not without a few misgivings.

The latter are certainly due, to some extent, to the challenges currently faced by higher education in Portugal, as the pressure for change increases under the combined effect of the Bologna Agreement, of the demographic break; and of an impending new format in the system that regulates funding for our research. This situation, which in some areas of the Humanities and in some departments has taken on a critical tinge, was given considerable attention in the course of discussions held at our 2004 annual conference, and will most probably continue to deserve our attention in Braga next April. But some of the misgivings which the Board experiences concern the Association itself, and not just the overall context of the profession. After nearly two years, our perception remains that, for a number of reasons (only some of which we can promptly identify), it proves surprisingly hard to generate a higher level of commitment in the membership, beyond the dynamics proper to the annual conference and to the publication of our journal. Response to our requests for comments and suggestions has been little more than symbolic; our files suffer persistently from lack of updated information – wrong addresses, electronic or otherwise, continue to limit our efficiency when attempting to contact members; and, last but certainly not least, payment of membership fees has in the past year hardly been up to our expectations, despite our Treasurer’s regular reminders.

Nonetheless, good prospects on the two fronts where the Association most visibly has something to offer its members encourage the Board to sound a note of optimism. On the one hand, our journal, Op Cit, promises to resume the regularity of its publication: issue no.6 has recently been mailed to all members, and according to our editor, issue no.7 is forthcoming; besides, both the outgoing and the current editor tell me that submissions of papers on the part of our members has been on the increase – a development which the Board very warmly welcomes. On the other hand, our colleagues in Braga have let me know that preparations for our conference next April are proceeding as expected, and the list of confirmed guest speakers (see p.2 below) certainly promises a stimulating event, well deserving of a large turnout of members and non-members: the Board strongly encourages members who may not have registered yet to do so – the deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 January.

The Board thus looks forward to bringing its term to a close in a promising context, that will prove favourable to an enhanced sense of common designs and common goals. This is certainly also the mood in which we take the occasion to wish all fellow members an excellent 2005.

Rui Carvalho Homem, Chair

 

APEAA – Conselho Directivo
Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
Faculdade de Letras – Univ. Porto
Via Panorâmica s/nº
4150 – 564 Porto – Portugal
Phone/Fax: +351 22 60 77 183
E-mail: apeaa@letras.up.pt

 
 

 

1. Our annual conference

APEAA 26

CALL FOR PAPERS
26^th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
21-23 April 2005
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

INTERTEXTUAL DIALOGUES: TRAVELS AND ROUTES

The aim of this conference is to provide an interdisciplinary forum of discussion of a broad range of issues bearing on the concept of travel and its metaphoric, intertextual and multicultural implications. At a time when physical borders are no longer active within Europe, but when nationalist and ethnocentric radicalism continues to plague the world, we invite contributions from literary, cultural and linguistic standpoints to question this and other paradoxes.

We also welcome papers not directly included in this thematic framework.

Confirmed guest speakers:
Maria Helena Serôdio (Univ. of Lisbon)
Martin Kayman (Cardiff University)
Jean Aitchinson (Univ. Cambridge)
David Amram (composer, musician and author; USA)

Other names to be confirmed.

Abstracts (200-250 words, for 20-minute presentations) by 15 January 2005 to: apeaa@ilch.uminho.pt Notifications of acceptance will be given by 28 Feb. 2005.

Registration fees (until 15 January 2005):
Members: 75 Euros. Students: 55. Non-Members:100.
Late registration (after 15 Jan): + 15 Euros in each category.

Please endorse your cheque to “XXVI Encontro da APEAA” and send it to:

            Comissão Organizadora do XXVI Encontro da APEAA
            a/c Dra. Lillian Santos Reis
            Departamento de Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos, 
            Universidade do Minho, Largo do Paço, 
            4704-553 Braga, PORTUGAL

 

 

2. Our journal

Op. Cit. A Journal of Anglo-American Studies

The journal is now calling for papers for the 2005 issue (#8).

Papers of up to 7000-8000 words on any aspect of Anglo-American Studies should be submitted on diskette or email attachment AND in hard copy by 31 March 2005. As the essays submitted are sent out to be anonymously evaluated the author’s name should appear only on the title page. Manuscripts should conform to the latest edition of the MLA handbook. Reviews of recent books are also welcome.

Colleagues who have been awarded MAs or doctorates since the last issue appeared are invited to submit a short abstract of their dissertation for inclusion in OP.Cit. # 8.

Contributions should be sent to

Stephen Wilson, Instituto de Estudos Norte-Americanos,
Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-530 Coimbra, Portugal.
e-mail: opcit@ci.uc.pt or swilson@ci.uc.pt

 

 

3. International contacts and commitments

ESSE

Our representative on the Board of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English), Prof Aline Seabra Ferreira, took part in the Board meeting held in Zaragoza last September, coinciding with the Seventh Conference of ESSE. Her report highlights the following points:

1. Three new associations have been admitted as members of ESSE, representing Slovakia, Switzerland, and Turkey. Armenia had already had a favourable vote in the previous Board meeting in Oxford, September 2003, conditional to the introduction of a few changes in its constitution.

2. The Treasurer, Prof Lachlan Mackenzie, described the financial situation of ESSE as very positive, requiring no increase in the annual fees currently paid by the membership.
3. The European Journal of English Studies (EJES), published until now by Swets & Zeitlinger, will henceforth be published by Taylor & Francis. Prof Martin Kayman has accepted to become one of the journal’s new editors.

4. Prof Lachlan Mackenzie and Prof Hortensia Parlog were reelected for another three-year term respectively as Treasurer and Secretary of ESSE.

5. The new editor of The European English Messenger, Prof John Stotesbury, renewed his call for contributions from ESSE members for the coming issues of the Messenger.
6. Prof. Warwick Gould, who chairs the organising committee of the next conference of ESSE, to be held at the University of London (29 August - 2 September 2006), presented a preliminary report on various aspects of the preparations for ESSE 8.

7. The Board considered proposals for the organisation of ESSE 9 (in August 2008) and voted in favour of the proposal submitted by the University of Aarhus, in Denmark.

8. The next meeting of the Board of ESSE will take place in Cracow, 26-27 August 2005.

 

EAAS

The latest issue (no.53) of the newsletter of the European Association for American Studies is available on the association’s website, at http://www.eaas.info/

EAAS also strongly recommends that members take an active interest in its distribution list, EAAS L. As described on the website, “EAAS-L is a mailing list for American Studies in Europe, moderated on behalf of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS). The purpose of this mailing list is to distribute information about American Studies in Europe. Through this list you will receive calls-for-papers and information about activities pertaining to the field of American Studies, and related fields, such as American history, American literature, American culture, and American society. This list will also serve to disseminate information from the EAAS and member associations in Europe. In addition, we encourage you to use this list to communicate other information that might be useful to American Studies scholars in Europe”.

For further information on these or other matters regarding EAAS, please visit the website, or contact our representative, Prof. Carlos Azevedo, at cazevedo@letras.up.pt

 

Other Associations

APEAA was represented by our Secretary at the Anglistentag 2004, the annual conference of the Deutscher Anglistenverband (Aachen, 26-29 September); and by the Chair at the annual conference of AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos), held in Valencia (16-18 December 2004). As on earlier occasions, attending the conferences of two of the largest sister associations in Europe has helped strengthen our international ties and has enhanced our understanding of the concerns and rationale behind these annual meetings of organisations which share our goals.

 

4. FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES

(the following announcements were submitted, with a request for inclusion in this newsletter, by members of APEAA or of fellow associations; the Board encourages and welcomes submissions – all the more so since it is not our current policy actively to compile and organise, on our own initiative, lists of events for circulation in this format)

Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
On the 16th March 2005 the symposium Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury will be held at Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto to commemorate the centenary of the Bloomsbury Group and of Virginia Woolf's literary life.

The symposium will open at 9.45, and will comprise contributions on the life and work of the members of the Bloomsbury Group, with special emphasis on their pioneering ideas and their attitude towards life. A detailed programme of the event, together with a registration form, will be circulated in January next.

For further information please write to: Colóquio "Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury", Instituto de Estudos Ingleses, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Via Panorâmica, 4150-564 Porto; you may also contact zamith@letras.up.pt or hqueiros@letras.up.pt

 

Television, Aesthetics and Reality
Deptº de Línguas e Culturas, University of Aveiro, Portugal 30^th June - 1^st July 2005

The Conference theme will be approached in three inter-related sub-sections:

1.       ‘Showing Reality’ – Structuring the Public World
This section deals with all aspects of television news and current affairs.

2.       ‘Reality Shows’ – The Private as Public
This section deals with all forms of television entertainment and the techniques by which reality is simulated.

3.       ‘Real People’ – Generating Television Personality
This section looks at the way television shapes and/or distorts human nature in the act of bringing it to the television screen.

We invite abstracts (maximum of 250 words) for papers of up to 20 minutes duration in one of the above-mentioned subsections, to be received before 15^th February 2005.  Papers (and abstracts) must be presented in either English or Portuguese; notification of acceptance will be made by the end of March 2005.  The names of keynote speakers will be announced shortly.

Prof. Anthony Barker (abarker@dlc.ua.pt )
Prof. David Callahan   (callahan@mail.ua.pt )
Department of Languages and Cultures,
University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
Dept. fax:  00 351 234 370940 Dept. tel:  00 351 234 370358. e-mail: sec@dlc.ua.pt

 

(Re)Constructing Pain and Joy in Language, Literature, and Culture
Hellenic Association for the Study of English
6^th International Conference | October 20-23, 2005 | Athens, Greece

Abstracts should be sent electronically to: atzanne@enl.uoa.gr

Applicants who have no access to e-mail facilities should fax their abstracts to: +30 210 7277020 or mail them to:

Angeliki Tzanne
Faculty of English Studies
School of Philosophy
University of Athens
Panepistimioupoli Zographou
Athens 157 84
Greece

For further information, please visit the conference website: http://www.cc.uoa.gr/english/P&J/P&J1.htm

 

newsletter Nº 20 SUMMER 2004

 

EDITORIAL

 

Dear colleagues,

As envisaged in newsletter no.19, our annual conference last April at UTAD, in Vila Real, had a special characteristic: besides offering an attractive academic programme and affording the opportunity (as usual) for members to meet formally and informally and discuss matters of common interest, the organisers and the board made joint efforts to ensure that members and other participants would not miss the fact that this conference indeed marked and celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of APEAA. This was signalled, in particular, by the inclusion in the programme of a discussion panel, participated by former Presidents of APEAA and by the audience, which explicitly marked the anniversary and combined the retrospective sense of a celebration with a prospective concern with the options and challenges faced by the association and by all those who are active in the academic area(s) it represents.

An awareness of impending changes and challenges in Portuguese higher education and research indeed marked several moments in the course of the conference: the general members’ meeting passed a vote of concern about the reform of the system which regulates and funds academic research. That vote was forwarded to the relevant government authorities and (through the intervention of one of our founding members) led to a meeting with the President of FCT (as reported below).

The general meeting in Vila Real also made decisions that concern more directly the internal life of the association, one of these involving our ‘visual identity’ – or rather, the creation of a definitive logo for APEAA. The Board is currently considering options and hopes to be able to have further news after the summer.

A particularly important decision concerns the venue for next year’s conference: our colleagues from the Universidade do Minho have kindly accepted to convene our 2005 meeting, which will therefore take place in Braga, on a date to be soon announced.

Members will be aware that, besides their obvious advantages for the association’s internal sense of itself, our annual conferences have consistently offered opportunities for international contacts – through our guest speakers and through the increasing participation (on their initiative) of foreign colleagues, as well as through the presence of institutional guests, namely board members of sister associations. The current Board has made efforts to secure the continuity and reciprocity of such contacts, and therefore accepted the invitation to attend the annual conferences of two of our sister associations (see below).

One final reminder, regarding membership dues. As members will know, the financial situation of APEAA is balanced but nonetheless precarious, to the extent that membership fees barely cover annual expenses. We thus renew our request that all members who have not done so please abide by the 15 September deadline to pay their dues.
 

The Board takes this occasion to wish all fellow members an excellent summer.
 

Rui Carvalho Homem, Chair

 

Membership fees 2004

Membership fees (€35) are to be sent to the following address:

APEAA – Conselho Directivo
Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
Faculdade de Letras – Univ. Porto
Via Panorâmica s/ nº
4150 – 564 Porto – Portugal
Phone / Fax: + 351 22 60 77 183
E-mail: apeaa@letras.up.pt  

Email and contact addresses

Please make sure that your current email address is on our files – so that we can forward the newsletter and contact you more easily. The same request applies to your contact address.

 

 

Government Policy for the Regulation and Funding of Research

 

At the Assembleia Geral held in Vila Real, on the 22nd April, a vote was taken expressing the concern of this Association about imminent changes in the policies that regulate and determine the funding of scholarly research in Portugal. The manifestation of that concern was forwarded both to the Ministra da Ciência e do Ensino Superior and to the President of FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia). Following that initiative, and the personal intervention of one of our founding members, a meeting took place on the 14th June of 2004 in Lisbon, in the course of which the Board of APEAA (represented by its Chair and its Secretary) had the opportunity  to explain to the President of FCT, in greater detail, the grounds for our concern. Prof. Ramoa Ribeiro kindly informed us that a few changes had already been introduced in the original proposal, so as to take into account some of the specificities of research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. It was understood, though, that several implications of the renewed system will only become fully apparent when it starts being put into practice. It is the Board’s understanding that the importance of the issue deserves further discussion, and encourages members to take an active interest in it.

 

 

 International contacts

ESSE

APEAA was represented, through its Chair, at the annual conferences of AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos) – held in Salamanca (17-20 December 2003) – and of SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur) – which took place in Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines (13-16 May 2004). Attending the conferences of the two largest sister associations in Europe created signal opportunities for strengthening our international ties and for acquaintance with the varying forms of understanding and organising the annual meetings of associations with a common rationale.

 

EAAS Newsletter
The newsletter of the European Association for American Studies will henceforth be available only on-line at www.eaas.info

 

CONFERENCES 

(the following announcements were submitted, with a request for inclusion in this newsletter, by members of APEAA or of fellow associations; the Board encourages and welcomes submissions – all the more so since it is not our current policy actively to compile and organise, on our own initiative, lists of events for circulation in this format)

 

2-5 September 2004 - Cardiff University
Projecting Australia
‘The Land of Gold’, ‘Hell on Earth’, ‘The Lucky Country’ ... Ideas, images, clichés and stereotypes of what Australia is, has been, and could be, have been plentiful and widely available for internal and external consumption. Who are, and have been, the producers of these representations? What are, and have been, the mechanisms they have adopted to disseminate their constructions of Australia and how have media and messages shaped and interacted with each other? The conference will explore how agencies - e.g. governments, public bodies, voluntary organisations, political parties, film, television and radio, the press, academic study, creative writing, art  - have projected Australia, and seeks to evaluate their reception in, and impact on, the continent itself and the wider world.  

Papers that take up the broad conference theme are invited in relation to history, fine art, ecology, politics, mythology, literature, film studies, media studies, anthropology, architecture, law, popular culture, religious studies, economics, women's studies, war studies, education, migration studies, multiculturalism, technology and society, sociology, geography, sports studies and photography.

Abstracts not exceeding 200 words should be submitted by the end of December 2003. Conference papers will comprise a maximum of 25 minutes in delivery followed by time for questions and discussion. Papers from postgraduates will be especially welcome. Notification of acceptance of papers will be sent out in early February 2004. It is expected that a conference issue of BASA’s journal, Australian Studies, will publish a selection of the papers.

Please direct abstracts and correspondence to:

Dr Bill Jones, President, BASA
School of History and Archaeology,
Cardiff University,
PO Box 909,
Cardiff CF10 3XU
Tel. (+44) (0)29 2087 6104; Fax (+44) (0)29 2087 4929
E-mail: joneswd@cardiff.ac.uk

8-12 September 2004
ZARAGOZA, ESSE/7

See http://www.essenglish.org/   for information on deadlines, programme, registration, etc.

26-29 September 2004
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES
4TH CONGRESS – Faculty of Letters – University of Lisbon
TRANSLATION STUDIES: DOUBTS AND DIRECTIONS
Keynote speakers: Geert Hofstede (Groningen University); Alexandre Castro Caldas (University of Lisbon).
For information about the congress please check the  WebPage of the conference at www.fl.ul.pt/est2004.

11-14 November 2004 – Atlanta, Ga - USA
2004 American Studies Association Annual Meeting
Atlanta
proposal deadline: Jan.26, 2004
CROSSROADS OF CULTURES
The city of Atlanta – founded as a rail terminus in the 19th century and a hub of air travel today – is an apt setting for exploring the theme for the 2004 annual meeting of the American Studies Association: "Crossroads of Cultures."
We invite presentations about a wide range of subjects that include consideration of the transnational, technological, triumphalist, expansionist, multiracial, multiethnic, and multilingual dimensions of "American culture" in the U.S. and around the world from the nation's prehistory to the present.

More details at www.theasa.net

15-18 December 2004
African American and Diasporic Research in Europe
The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research of Harvard University and the Cercle d'Etudes Afro-Américaines (CEAA) are organizing a conference in honor of Michel and Geneviève Fabre titled African American and Diasporic Research in Europe: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches. The conference will be held at the Sorbonne in Paris between Wednesday evening 15 December 2004 and Saturday 18 December 2004.
The conference will examine the salient features of African American Research in Europe and encourage comparative approaches to the diverse aspects of the field as defined and practiced in Europe, as well as to the studies and critical works done in the United States and in other parts of the Diaspora. Attached is a full description of the conference and of the specific topics to be addressed in the six sessions.
Anyone wishing to make a presentation at the conference should send a short synopsis of your subject and its tentative title to the conference organizer for Europe, Professor Arlette Frund, at frunda@aol.com or at the following address: 13, rue Albert Sorel, 75014 Paris, France
9 July 2004 is the deadline for submitting your paper synopsis and title.
To register for the conference, please fill out the attached form and return it to the following address:

W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
Harvard University
Attn.: Karen C. C. Dalton
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fax: 617.496.2871

To register online go to http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~du_bois/; click on "Paris Conference." If you have any questions or wish to receive additional information, please contact either Arlette Frund at the address given above or Karen C. C. Dalton, Assistant Director of the Du Bois Institute at kcdalton@fas.harvard.edu.
 

16^th-18^th DECEMBER, 2004
28^th AEDEAN CONFERENCE
Valencia
First Announcement
The 28th International Conference of AEDEAN will be held in Valencia from December 16^th to 18^th 2004, hosted by the Department de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya of the Universitat de València. The Local Organising Committee and the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN) have the greatest pleasure in inviting you to participate.
The following academics have already confirmed their participation as plenary speakers:
· Prof. Pilar Abad (U. Valladolid)
· Prof. Janose Cenoz (U. Pais Vasco)
· Prof. Bruce Fraser (Boston University)
· Prof. Barbara Godard (York University)
· Prof. Peter Trudgill (Université de Fribourg)

The main venue of the conference will be the building of the Facultat de Filologia on Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 32, a fifteen-minute walk from the city centre. The nearest underground station is Facultats (line 3 to Palmaret/ Rafelbunyol) [see maps[. Additional rooms will be located at the Aulario V (corner of c/ Gascó Oliag and c/ Menéndez Pelayo), a three-minute walk from the Facultat [see maps].

The conference programme will run from 9.00 on Thursday 16th until 21.00 on Saturday 18th.

The social programme will include a reception with a concert of ancient music followed by “vino español” on Thursday afternoon, and the conference banquet on Friday evening. Tours and visits to the city’s main attractions are being negotiated.

There will be an exhibition of recent publications during the conference.

There is an agreement with the travel agency Barceló Viajes through Manolo Ferriol (reference AEDEAN 2004). They can be reached at c/ Poeta Más y Ros, 33, E-46022 Valencia. Phone number: 963.56.20.30. Fax number: 963.56.22.20. E-mail: vlc-poeta@barceloviajes.com

For further information, you can contact the Local Organising Committee at:
e-mail address calvojj@uv.es
telephone: 963864262
website: http://www.uv.es/aedean04/
We are looking forward to meeting you all in Valencia.

14-17 April 2005
BAAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Robinson College, Cambridge University

We are now calling for papers for the 2005 BAAS conference. Papers can be presented on any subject relating to the study of the United States of America. Poster sessions will also be held and proposals for these are positively encouraged and welcomed.

Proposals for 20-minute papers should be a maximum of 250 words with a provisional title. These will be arranged into panel groups. Panel proposals by two or more people, sharing a common theme, are also invited. Postgraduates, as well as senior scholars, are encouraged to submit proposals. Proposals should be submitted by 31st October 2004 to

Mrs Ann Holton,
Secretary to the Mellon Professor,
Cambridge University
History Faculty
West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9EF

Tel +44 01223 335317
Fax +44 01223 335968
E-mail: agh21@cam.ac.uk

Enquiries, suggestions and comments about the conference should be made to
Dr Sarah Meer,
Selwyn College,
Cambridge
CB3 9DQ
Tel +44 01223 335828
E-mail: sm10003@cam.ac.uk

20-23 October 2005
Hellenic Association for the Study of English
6^th International Conference
(Re)Constructing Pain and Joy in Language, Literature, and Culture

Conference site: http://www.cc.uoa.gr/english/P&J/P&J1.htm

The 6^th HASΕ conference aims at addressing the special theme of Pain and Joy which have been explored as experiences combining physical, psychological, private, public, conceptual and cultural dimensions. To investigate how these multi-faceted and subjective domains of human experience are construed and constrained, prospective participants are invited to contribute studies in the fields of linguistics, literature and cultural theory from autonomous or interdisciplinary perspectives. Hence, links between different areas within and across these fields are particularly encouraged. Drawing upon the debate on representing vs. (re)constructing reality through language and literature, the conference is meant to explore views in relation to the treatment of ‘joy’ and ‘pain’. Furthermore, it fosters work that addresses the question of the extent to which pain/joy may be seen as agents of either the inhibition or the stimulation of creativity.

Paper presentation format: 20-minute speaker presentation, followed by 10-minute discussion
Abstracts should be sent electronically to: atzanne@enl.uoa.gr
Applicants who have no access to e-mail facilities should fax their abstracts to: +30 210 7277020 or mail them to:
Angeliki Tzanne
Faculty of English Studies
School of Philosophy
University of Athens
Panepistimioupoli Zographou
Athens 157 84
Greece
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10 January 2005
Notification of acceptance: 21 March 2005