Announcements
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Northeast Modern Language Association
2010 Annual Convention
Montreal, Quebec; April 7-11, 2010
Experience the lively and intimate exchange that NeMLA offers at its 41st annual convention in downtown Montreal, sponsored by McGill University. Featuring over 320 panels, the 2009 convention in Boston richly represented all subject areas of the modern languages and literatures, covering a broad spectrum of scholarship and advancing innovative approaches to teaching.
Both Montreal (with its Latin quarter, Little Italy, and Chinatown) and its respected university boast a diverse population, mixing the old and the new. Vieux-Montréal offers European charm with its cafés, boutiques, fresh markets, and artists, while the vibrant downtown includes all of the sights and sounds a major city can offer: museums, shopping, pubs, and restaurants.
NeMLA is a member-driven convention, accepting abstract proposals for sessions (panel, roundtable, creative session, seminar) in the following areas:
American
British/Anglophone
Canadian
Caribbean
Comparative Literatures
Composition
Film
French and Francophone
Gay/Lesbian
German
Italian
Pedagogy
Popular Culture
Professional
Spanish/Portuguese
Theory
Women's Studies
World Literatures (non-Western European language)
Please help NeMLA extend the conversation in these areas. The full Call for Papers will be available in June at www.nemla.org; 2010 NeMLA membership is required, and abstract deadline for most sessions is September 30, 2010.
The convention will be held at the Hilton Bonaventure ($159 CN). Don’t forget your passport application.
A Bientot!
www.nemla.org
Going Caribbean: New Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Art
University of Lisbon
November 2 - 3 2009
Download call for papers here
Comma Press are delighted to announce the launch of five new titles in their Imprint for Short Fiction in Translation, beginning with Madinha: City Stories from the Middle East, featuring translations from the Arabic, Hebrew and Turkish (ed. Joumana Haddad) and continuing with Long Days by Maike Wetzel (translated from the German by Lyn Marven). Further information about other forthcoming titles can be found at this link.
