RMMLA - Affiliate Conventions

Affiliate Conventions

The following affiliate organizations have requested that RMMLA post announcements of their conventions. We post these in alphabetical order as we receive them. We do not guarantee the timeliness of an entry, nor do we participate in any way in the organization of these conventions.

"Poetic Ecologies" Conference, Brussels

Call for Papers: "Poetic Ecologies: Nature as Text and Text as Nature in English-Language Verse" /Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), 14-17 May 2008
Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2007
Within the framework of an ecocritical paradigm that is still constructing itself, this international conference will explore the multiple and changing forms of ecological and ecocritical consciousness in English-language verse. The full text of the CFP can be viewed at: http://www.francabellarsi.tk/ or http://www.ulb.ac.be/philo/langlitt/FB/FB.html

WIF: Women in French is organizing two sessions for the December 2008 MLA Conference in San Francisco
One sessions is:Le Roman noir au féminin.
More and more women writers are choosing this genre because it is a literary field in which the masculine cannon has not been as strictly established as in other genres. It is therefore possible to study how Roman Noir written by women is different from/similar to Roman Noir written by men as far are the following areas are concerned: themes, narrative techniques, language, and discourse. Such a study can be conducted as a genre that is parallel to Roman Noir written by men without using it as a point of reference.
Please send a 250 word abstract in French or English to Monique Manopoulos:
manomoni@isu.edu by March 15, 2008