CFP, Counterterrorism: From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Volumes I and II

March 7, 2010

I saw this call for contributors on H-Net yesterday. It is for a two volume series on Counterterrorism ranging from the Cold War to the present. If you’re interested in contributing, send an email to Dr. Shanty below.

We are looking for contributors (subject experts, professors, graduate students) for the 2-volume, illustrated, Counterterrorism: From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Volumes I and II to be published by ABC-CLIO in 2011. Comprehensive in scope and written by top scholars in the field, Counterterrorism: From the Cold War to the War on Terror will address counterterrorism from the days of the Cold War to the current global campaign.

Volume I consists of six chapters (sections). Section 1 is devoted largely to definitional issues and serves as a foundation for further discussion in subsequent sections on the 21st century terrorist threat. Section 2 addresses the evolution and effectiveness of select nation-state counterterrorism policy. Sections 3 and 4 address key issues which impact counterterrorism strategy and the post-9/11 global counterterrorism campaign respectively. Regional counterterrorism efforts and an agenda for future research are discussed in sections 5 and 6. Volume 2 provides a section containing articles on some of the world’s elite counterterrorism forces and a chronology of major global counterterrorism operations. Volume 2 also includes a compilation of national and international treaties, laws, conventions, agreements, and protocols which have been implemented in an attempt to counter this ongoing threat to public safety and international security. Volume 2 concludes with a glossary containing organizational and individual profiles and a comprehensive bibliography.

Articles will run between 3 and 10 manuscript pages (500-2000 words) in length, depending on the subject. A small honorarium will be paid and/or hard copies of the full encyclopedia set (depending on word count) will be offered. Additionally, each contributor will receive access to the e-book. Contributors may write more than one entry. Full authorial credit including name and affiliation will be cited on the contributor’s page. The deadline for submission is July 15, 2010 for articles containing 500-1500 words. Articles containing 2000 words have a deadline of August 15, 2010. These deadlines refer to total word counts. If an author wishes to contribute more than one entry the due dates will be determined by the above guidelines. Given the scope and present relevance of this project it is our desire to attract as many knowledgeable scholars as possible. With this in mind certain exceptions to the above will be made on a case-by-case basis.

If you are interested in contributing to this exciting and important project, we would be happy to email you a prospectus with a full description of the project, including a list of available entries. Contact us at: cobra141 [at] prodigy.net If you cannot contribute, perhaps you can forward names and email addresses of qualified individuals who might be interested to the above cited address, or forward this announcement to them. All writers selected for this project will need to provide a short CV and a writing sample

Sincerely,
Frank Shanty, Ph.D.
General Editor
Counterterrorism: From the Cold War to the War on Terror
EMAIL: cobra141 [at] prodigy.net

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CFP, Changing the Climate, Utopia, Dystopia, and Catastrophe 2010 Conference

February 22, 2010

Leslie Kay Swigart send the following conference cfp to the SFRA email list. It’s for a conference that takes place just before WorldCon and both are in Australia. It sounds like the perfect excuse for an extended stay in the land down under. Read on for the details and the outstanding guest lineup–John Clute, Kim Stanley Robinson, Tom Moylan, and others:

CALL FOR PAPERS

CHANGING THE CLIMATE: UTOPIA, DYSTOPIA AND CATASTROPHE
The Fourth Australian Conference on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction

30th August =96 1st September 2010

Monash University Conference Centre
30 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia

A conference organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and
Cultural Studies at Monash University

WEBSITE: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/cclcs/conferences/utopias/4/index.ph=
p

In December 2001 the University of Tasmania hosted a successful
conference around the theme of Antipodean Utopias. In December 2005,
Monash University hosted a second conference, around that of Imagining
the Future, to mark the long-awaited publication of Fredric Jameson=92s
book Archaeologies of the Future. A third conference, Demanding the
Impossible, followed in December 2007, again at Monash. Despite the
apparent optimism of all three conference themes, dystopia remained a
recurrent preoccupation in their discussions. This fourth conference
will directly address the questions of dystopia and catastrophe with
special reference to a problem that increasingly haunts our imaginings
of the future, that of actual or possible environmental catastrophe. As
Jameson himself wrote in The Seeds of Time: It seems easier for us
today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of
nature than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps that is due to
some weakness in our imaginations=92.Hopefully, this conference will play
some small part in changing that particular climate of opinion.

The conference invites papers from scholars, writers and others
interested in the interplay between ecology and ecocriticism, utopia,
dystopia and science fiction.

OPENING ADDRESS

The opening address will be given by Kate Rigby, Founding President of
the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment,
Australia-New Zealand, and author of Topographies of the Sacred: The
Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (2004).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

John Clute
Science fiction writer, Director of the Department of Story Future in
the Centre for the Future at Slavonice and co-author of The Encyclopedia
of Science Fiction (1993) and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997).

Tom Moylan
Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the Ralahine Center for
Utopian Studies, University of Limerick, author of Demand the Impossible
(1986) and Scraps of the Untainted Sky (2000) and co-editor of Dark
Horizons (2003).

Kim Stanley Robinson
Distinguished science fiction writer, winner of two Hugo Awards and
author of the Orange Country Trilogy, the Mars Trilogy, Antarctica, The
Years of Rice and Salt and the Science in the Capital Trilogy.

Deborah Bird Rose
Professor of Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, author of Dingo
Makes Us Human (2000), Reports from a Wild Country (2004) and Wild Dog
Dreaming: Love and Extinction (in press).

Linda Williams
Associate Professor in Art History at RMIT University, curator of The
Idea of the Animal exhibition (2004) and the HEAT: Art and Climate
Change exhibition (2008).

The conference invites papers from scholars, writers and others
interested in the interplay between ecology and ecocriticism, utopia,
dystopia and science fiction.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

Abstracts (approx. 100-150 words) should be sent by 30 June 2010 by
e-mail to:

<Utopias@arts.monash.edu.au>

or by post to:

Utopias4 Conference
Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
School of English, Communications and Performasnce Studies
Clayton campus
Monash University
Victoria 3800
Australia

REGISTRATION

The conference will take place over three days.

Full registration for the three days costs $A280, with a concessional
price for students and the non-employed of $A140.

Registration for one day only costs $A110, with a concessional price of
$A55. All prices are GST inclusive.

Registration is due by 31 July 2010.

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CFP, Worldcon 2010 in Australia Academic Programming

February 21, 2010

Alice Pullin sent the following cfp for the next Worldcon’s academic programming to the SFRA email list. It would be great to meet KSR, since I didn’t get to meet him at Georgia Tech when he was there awhile back–though Lisa did get me his autograph, but I don’t know how I could afford a trip to Australia. I guess I should follow some of these money making schemes here. Read below for the details:

Call for papers: World Science Fiction Convention Academic Programming
Aussiecon 4: 68th World Science Fiction Convention
September 2nd – 6th, 2010
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia

The many uses of science fiction

Why do we study science fiction (SF)? Why do we read it, write about it?
What uses do we put these readings and writings to?  As the critical fields
intersecting with science fiction grow ever broader, SF is called on to
perform all kinds of cultural and theoretical work.  It is claimed as an
ideal source for reading cultural histories of western technoscience, of
thinking through the sociological and philosophical challenges of science
studies, and as revealing of the destabilising of humanism emerging in
animal studies and the Śposthumanitiesą more generally. What does all this
work mean for critical theory in the twenty first century, and our
understanding of the place of science fiction studies within more canonical
fields of cultural enquiry?  And what, if any are the implications for SF as
a genre, marketing category, and as a community of readers?

The theme of Aussiecon 4’s Academic Program is the study of SF, broadly
framed: why and how we read it as critics, academics and fans and what use/s
we put these readings to.  We invite papers reflecting on science fiction
studies and its relation to other critical fields, including (but not
limited to) cultural studies, media studies, fan studies, science and
literature studies, ecocriticism, science communication and animal studies.
We welcome analyses of the political implications of race, gender,
sexuality, and class on such criticism and its intersection with questions
of social democracy, ethics, and environmental politics.   Also of interest
is the impact of such work on popular and mainstream conceptions of science
fiction, and on its potential (and future) audience.

Please send Abstracts by May 31st 2010

Submissions and enquires should be directed to the Academic co-conveners, Dr
Helen Merrick & Professor Andrew Milner at academic@aussiecon4.org.au

Submissions should include:
* title of paper;
* name & affiliation;
* email address;
* 150 word abstract;
* short biographical statement;
* AV requirements

More information about Aussiecon 4, including membership rates can be found
at: http://www.aussiecon4.org.au/

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CFP, Science Fiction Film and Television Special Issues on Remakes and Biopolitics

November 23, 2009

Sherryl Vint sent out the following CFP for the journal Science Fiction Film and Television. I have a BSG essay that I’m definitely going to send to SFFTV. You should send them something, too!

Science Fiction Film and Television is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal published by Liverpool University Press. Edited by Mark Bould (UWE) and Sherryl Vint (Brock University), with an international board of advisory editors, it encourages dialogue among the scholarly and intellectual communities of film studies, sf studies and television studies.

We invite submissions on all areas of sf film and television. We publish articles, book and DVD reviews and review essays, as well as archive entries on theorists (which introduce the work of key and emergent figures in sf studies, television or film studies) and texts (which describe and analyse little-known or unduly neglected films or television series).

We invite submissions in particular for two special issues:

REMAKES, REVISIONS, REBOOTS: Why is the 21st century fascinated by returning to previous sf franchises? Is this nostalgia? Archive fever? Retrofuturism? What economic and cultural forces inform this recent fascination with return and renewal?

BIOPOLITICS: How do biopolitial theories of theorists such as Foucault, Hardt and Negri, Esposito and Agamben inform readings of sf? What can sf contribute to ongoing discussions of biopolitial governance? What can sf visions of posthumanism tell us about life under biopolitical capitalism?

Submissions should be made via our website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lup-sfftv. If you have an idea for a contribution to the archives section, please contact the editors to discuss your proposal.

Advisory Editorial Board: Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading), Catherine Constable (University of Warwick), Susan A. George (University of California, Berkeley), Elyce Rae Helford (Middle Tennessee State University), Matt Hills (Cardiff University), Brooks Landon (University of Iowa), Rob Latham (UC-Riverside), Susan Napier (Tufts University), Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia), Wendy Pearson (University of Western Ontario), David Seed (University of Liverpool), Steve Shaviro (Wayne State University), Vivian Sobchack (University of California, Los Angeles) and JP Telotte (Georgia Institute of Technology)

 

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Call for Experts, Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary Monsters

September 9, 2009

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The following project announcement, which seeks literary monster experts, came across my IAFA inbox today. The photo above is of Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein of the Misfits, and the original can be found here.

I have recently agreed to serve as general editor for the Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary Monsters and am now looking for subject area experts to assist in its completion.

The aim of the Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary Monsters is to provide scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative  “A-Z” of literary monsters.  It will be a high-quality, hard-back volume marketed primary to academic and public libraries.  The encyclopedia will include entries on specific monsters, as well as a limited number of more general themes.

Although the volume will emphasize monsters in English language and literatures, it will also include entries on famous or significant monsters in other literary traditions.  As such, I am looking for a number of subject area experts who can make recommendations about appropriate monsters for inclusion and help to solicit authors for the entries.

Subject area experts are sought in the following areas:

  • Monsters in British literature
  • Monsters in Australian and New Zealand literature
  • Monsters in Literatures written in French
  • Monsters in Literatures written in Italian
  • Monsters in Literatures written in German
  • Monsters in Literatures written in Russian
  • Monsters in South Asian literature
  • Monsters in Chinese literature
  • Monsters in Japanese literature
  • Monsters in African literatures
  • Monsters in Middle Eastern literatures

Subject area experts will receive a copy of the finished volume, credit as a subject area expert in the volume, and preference as authors for entries in the volume.

Inquiries may be directed to Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock <Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu>.  Forwarding of this announcement to parties for whom it may hold interest is greatly appreciated as are suggestions concerning appropriate persons to contact.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Ph.D.

Professor of English and Graduate Program Coordinator

Associate Editor, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

Central Michigan University

100 W. Preston Road, Anspach Hall 205

Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859-0001

(989) 774-3101

Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu

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CFP, North American Jules Verne Society Meeting May 2010

September 9, 2009

429px-Félix_Nadar_1820-1910_portraits_Jules_Verne

I saw the following cfp for the North American Jules Verne Society conference come across the SF-LIT email list recently. The above portrait of Jules Verne is by Félix Nadar and can be found here.

Scholars! Scientists! Collectors! Hobbyists! Verne lovers everywhere!

We ask just TWO things of you:

A. Mark your calendars!

B. Put on your thinking caps!

The 2010 Conference of the North American Jules Verne Society is slated
for next Spring, May 19 – May 23 . . . and we’re looking for talks,
papers, presentations, and show-and-tells of all kinds!

NAJVS welcomes Vernians of every bent – educators,
collectors, researchers, hobbyists, translators, and explorers . . . not
to mention renowned scientists and literary figures who say they couldn’t
have done it without Verne! They’ll all be on hand at the 2010 NAJVS
Conference in Bethesda, Maryland:

ARRIVE: Wed., May 19.

PROGRAMMING: Thurs. – Sat., May 20-22.

DEPART: Sun., May 23.

This unique Vernian venture will climax at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre,
one of the leading professional companies in the D.C. area: On Sat. we’ll
attend the Area premiere of Mark Brown’s recent off-broadway hit, Around
the World in 80 Days. It’s a madcap adaptation in which, thanks to
dazzlingly fast reflexes, five actors do the work of fifty! This show, as
the Orlando Sentinel observes, “moves at the speed of a roller coaster.
Writer Mark Brown has taken Jules Verne’s century-old comic novel and made
it gallop across the stage. If this show doesn’t make you laugh, you’ll
have to look hard for something that will!”

Since nearly a fourth of this all-time favorite takes place in North
America, we’ll be featuring a Yankee motif next Spring:  ”VOYAGING TO
AMERICA WITH VERNE.” But, needless to say, every Vernian topic is of
interest . . . and Vernians of every nationality! Just ask me to reserve a
slot for you . . .  presentations are to be 20 minutes in length.

All audio, video, and other electronic requirements should be doable.
We’ll be tweaking the technical and thematic specifics with you early next
year. But in the meantime, please let me know that you’d like to
participate . . . and start laying your plans for the North American Jules
Verne Society’s BETHESDA BONANZA!

Warmest regards,

Rick

Rick Walter

Trustee

North American Jules Verne Society

(505) 821-5678

rick1walter@comcast.net

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CFP: Gender, Bodies, and Technology Conference at Virginia Tech

September 5, 2009

I saw this CFP for an interesting conference in my SFRA inbox today. Proposals are due in just over a week, so send them something if you’re able to make the conference. Thanks, Neil!

“Gender, Bodies and Technology”
http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/

Proposals are invited for an Interdisciplinary Conference
April 22-24, 2010
Roanoke, Virginia
Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech

Proposal Deadline:  September 15, 2009

We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, visual and performing arts, engineering and technology for papers, panels, new media art and performance pieces that explore: the technological production of gendered and racialized bodies, historical and contemporary feminist appropriations of technology in aesthetics and representations of embodiment, and the gendered implications of technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to workplaces to the Internet. We construe technology broadly to include material culture and the apparatus of daily life, such as writing, books and the built environment.

Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:
-Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and gendered bodies
-Work, healthcare, education and activities of daily life as produced through technologies
-Performance, new media and other creative expressions as sites for engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of embodiment and technology
-Biopolitics and medical engineering of reproduction, sexual identity and gender
-Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing
-Surveillance, containment, in/security and militarization
-Identity and technological design, production and use; gender, race, age, class and sexuality in SET (sciences, engineering and technology) fields
-New media art and feminist aesthetics
-Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism
-Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological citizenship

As an assemblage of people and technologies we see the conference itself as enacting the conference theme. We welcome innovative uses of technology and creative session formats, including performance and interactive presentations, as well as traditional paper presentations. Using the form attached, please submit a proposal of up to 300 words for each individual presentation, including not only the scholarship you will engage but also the format that you wish to use. For panels, include an abstract for each presentation. Please specify in your proposal any special requirements for technology or space that you anticipate. Proposals will be reviewed by Virginia Tech Women’s and Gender Studies faculty/affiliates with appropriate expertise and notification of the outcome will be made no later than October 15, 2009.

Proposals should be submitted via our website at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/. If that is not possible, or if you have questions, please contact:

Sharon Elber
GBT Conference Co-Planner
STS/Women’s and Gender Studies (0227)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
selber@vt.edu

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CFP: 41st Annual SFRA Conference, June 24-27, 2010

August 8, 2009

You can find out all the details about the Science Fiction Research Association’s 2010 meeting in Carefree, Arizona on the official site here. However, here’s a run down of the important bits including the call for papers. See you there next year!

41st Annual Science Fiction Research Association Conference

June 24-27, 2010

Carefree, Arizona

Far Stars and Tin Stars: Science Fiction on the Frontier

The 2010 Science Fiction Research Association conference theme, “Far Stars and Tin Stars: Science Fiction and the Frontier,” reflects the conference’s venue in the high desert of Carefree, Arizona, north of Phoenix. The frontier, the borderland between what is known and what is unknown, the settled and the wild, the mapped and the unexplored, is as central to science fiction as it is to the mythology of the American West.

Submissions are invited for individual papers (15-20 minutes), full paper panels (3 papers), roundtables (80 minute sessions), and other presentations that explore the study and teaching of science fiction in any medium. Preference will be given to proposals that engage the conference theme.

Paper and other session proposals should be 200-300 words. Paper panel proposals should include the proposals of all three papers and a brief statement of their unifying principle. Include all text of the proposal in the body of the email (not as an attachment). Please be sure to include full contact information for all panel members and to make all AV requests within each proposal. E-mail submissions by March 15, 2010 to Craig Jacobsen: jacobsen at mesacc dot edu.

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CFP: ICFA 31, Race and the Fantastic, March 17-21, 2010

August 8, 2009

Graham J. Murphy, IAFA Public Information Coordinator, is currently at WorldCon, but he sent out the following preliminary CFP for the 31st International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Read below for the details:

The 31st International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Race and the Fantastic
March 17-21, 2010 (awards banquet on the evening of the 20th)

Guest of Honor: Nalo Hopkinson, award-winning author of Blackheart Man, Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, Skin Folk, The New Moon’s Arms; editor/co-editor of Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Tesseracts 9, and So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy

Guest of Honor: Laurence Yep, award-wining author of Sweetwater,
Hiroshima, Dragonwings, Child of the Owl, Sea Glass, Dragon Steel, The Rainbow People, Dragon’s Gate, Dream Soul, The Junior Thunder Lord; co-editor of American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices

Guest Scholar: Takayuki Tatsumi, author of Full Metal Apache:
Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America, Cyberpunk America, Japanese SF Controversies: 1957-1997; co-editor of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime

As always, we also welcome proposals for individual papers and for
academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any
media.  The deadline for paper proposals is October 31, 2009.

We encourage work from institutionally-affiliated scholars, independent
scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than
English, graduate students, and undergraduate students.

Please visit www.iafa.org for more details and a listing of Division
Heads.

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CFP: German Fantastic Conference by Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, 30 Sept-03 Oct, 2010

August 8, 2009

Read on for the announcement for the first conference for the newly formed Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung or GFF (Association for Research in the Fantastic) at the University of Hamburg, Germany. German SF studies has been had the turbopumps running for a number of years, but I believe a conference like this will really light that candle!

Call for Papers

1st annual and founding conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung
(GFF)(Association for Research in the Fantastic)

Fremde Welten – Wege und Räume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert
(Strange Worlds – Paths and Spaces of the Fantastic in the 21st Century)

University of Hamburg, Germany – 30. September – 03. October 2010

The success of Joanne K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, the Wachowskis’ Matrix-trilogy and Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings has put a worldwide spotlight on themes of the fantastic, forcing academics to reevaluate the genres and to grant them prominent position in literary or cultural criticism. The overwhelming appeal of the fantastic – in any of its facets – has not gone unnoticed by the media and has led to intensified academic negotiations of the genres. In Anglo-American culture this popularity met with existing structures, such as the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) or
the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), which in turn welcomed the newfound public and academic interest.

In German culture, on the other hand, academics involved with the fantastic are without networks, orga ni zation or affiliation. It therefore seems the ideal moment to establish an Association for Research in the Fantastic [Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF)] as a basis for linking German language scholarship in the fantastic with its international counterparts and thereby making this scholar ship more visible and accessible, and allowing for international exchange. To this end, in October 2010 the University of Hamburg will hold the first annual and founding conference of the GFF. The conference, “Fremde Welten – Wege und Räume der Fantas tik im 21. Jahr hundert” (“Strange Worlds – Paths and Spaces of the Fantastic in the 21st Century”), is emphatically conceptualized as international and interdisciplinary. It conceives of the fantastic in its broadest definition as an umbrella term for all fantastic genres, such as fantasy, horror, gothic, science fiction, speculative fiction, as well as fairy tales, fables and myth. The interdisciplinary approach of the GFF includes research interests from fields such as literature, film, tv, culture, art, new media, architecture and music as well as incorporating impulses from sociology, anthropology, historical science or philosophy. The
international approach is guaranteed by the bifocal orientation of the
association as well as the conference. On the one hand, it reaches out to German speaking scholars working in the field, but on the other expressly encourages membership by international scholars working on German language fantastic.

The conference emphasizes the fantastic in its importance and relation to popular culture and understands it as a reflection of power relations and conflicts of interest. The popular anticipates these conflicts and expresses it before other social discourses can. By definition, the fantastic is able to negotiate alternative worlds and transgressive experiences of time and space, and thus represents a paradigmatic field of inquiry for cultural spaces. With historically specific developments of the 21st century in mind, the fantastic allows us to reveal social changes as no other genre does. What is the popular appeal of the fantastic grounded on? What alternatives does this cultural production offer?

The conference “Fremde Welten – Wege und Räume der Fantas tik im 21.
Jahr hundert” aims for a re view of the status quo in German language
scholarship of the fantastic, as well as open up a dia logue with international research done in this field. It intends to unite researchers and scho lars and to initiate an exchange of ideas. In reference to the conference title we therefore ask con ference contributors to consider the following questions (among many possible others): What paths have led the fantastic to its position today and which ones lie ahead? Which spaces has the fantastic entered or perhaps established?

The organizers call for proposals to be handed in by April 1st 2010. Proposals are possible as paper presentations (paper sessions of up to 3 presenters, 20 min each), panel discussions (moderated, with 3-5 panelists) or author readings from all areas of the fantastic, either in German or English. Please send your proposals of no more than 250 words, with a short biographical note and contact data per email to: lars.schmeink [at] uni-hamburg.de Any further information can be acquired at the same address.

Organization:
Lars Schmeink
Universität Hamburg
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Von-Melle-Park 6
D-20146 Hamburg

Prof. Dr. Astrid Böger
Universität Hamburg
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Von-Melle-Park 6
D-20146 Hamburg

Prof. Dr. em. H.-H. Müller
Universität Hamburg
Institut für Germanistik II
Von-Melle-Park 6
D-20146 Hamburg

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