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Announcements for the week ending: 31 October 2008

Reminder: Final paper submission deadline for CISSE 2008

Reminder that the extended and final paper submission deadline for the on-line International E-Conference on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering [CISSE 2008] (http://www.cisse2008online.org/) is in one week (October 28, 2008). The Conference organizing committee has decided to extend the paper submission deadline due to numerous deadline extension requests from potential CISSE 2008 authors.

CISSE 2008 has received more than 450 paper submissions so far from over 70 countries and we are looking forward to your quality paper contributions.

Please note that this is a hard deadline, so that the technical committees can perform their paper reviewing duties in a timely manner.

You are invited to submit full papers electronically through the website of the conference at http://www.cisse2008online.org

Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the authors. To submit your paper, visit http://www.cisse2008online.org. The full conference call for papers including all the details about the on-line submission and virtual presentation of the papers is enclosed in this e-mail.

Paper submission Deadline: October 28, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: November 9, 2008 Final Manuscript and Registration: November 26, 2008

Please do not reply to this message. If you need to contact us please email us at info@cisse2008online.org mailto:info@cisse2008online.org

Looking forward to your participation in CISSE 2008.

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Call for Papers: *Borders and Border Crossings*

Call for papers for the Second Annual UBCO FCCS/IGS graduate student conference taking place *March 13-14, 2009* in Kelowna, British Columbia. This is a conference created for graduate students by graduate students in an attempt to create a supportive academic environment for up and coming research.

*Borders and Border Crossings:* *An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on Liminality, Hybridity, Mediation, Exchange and Everything In-Between* At the University of British Columbia Okanagan March 13 & 14, 2009 in Kelowna B.C., Canada

The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Department at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna invites you to attend our Second Annual Graduate Student Conference. This conference seeks to examine "in-between" texts through the utilization of creative and critical perspectives. Although this conference focuses on Studies in English, Languages, Culture, Multi-media Arts, and Creative Writing, we encourage submissions from across graduate disciplines.

Proposals for both academic papers and creative work will be considered, and all presentations will be 15 minutes in length. Proposals should be no longer than 500 words, bear no identifying information, and be accompanied by a covering letter that includes the applicant's name and contact information. Please submit proposals to ubco.igsa@gmail.ca mailto:ubco.igsa@gmail.ca as email attachments in .pdf, .rtf, or .doc format by January 1, 2009.

Graduate students and independent scholars are encouraged to apply to one of the following panels:

*Theorizing Sites of Liminality: *This panel invites submissions that interrogate popular theories of liminal spaces/places, bodies and structures. Areas of interest may include unique readings of theory in Bakhtin's Carnivalesque, Turner's Ritual, Butler's Performance, and Mollenkopf's "Contested City."

*Representations of Gender and Sexuality: *This panel invites submissions that interrogate representations of gender and sexuality against the complexities of identity, performance and classification. Possible areas of interest include deviance and hegemony, queer discourse, feminine masculinities/masculine femininities, the performance of gender and the cross-dressed tongue.

*Children's Literature and Folkloric Texts:* This panel invites submissions on any aspect of fairy tales, folk tales and children's literature. Areas of interest may include critical and creative approaches to myth and morality, as well as interrogations of in-between places (ie. towers, forests, fairy kingdoms, etc), events (puberty, the quest, etc) and/or characters (shapeshifters, witches, monsters, mythohistorical figures, teenagers, etc).

*Pop Culture:* This panel invites submissions that explore popular culture through its text and reception. Areas of interest include television, cinema, music, graphic novels, popular fiction and videogames.

*Gothic Texts:* This panel invites submissions on any aspect of eighteenth century and modern Gothic texts. Possible areas of interest include the abject, postcolonial hauntings, telepathy, phantasmagoria, supernatural literature or film, the Uncanny and liminal creatures (ie. ghosts, vampires, shapeshifters, the undead, etc).

*Narratives of Trauma: *This panel invites submissions on texts that explore trauma through (inter)personal, literary or historical discourse. Possible areas of interest include holocaust literature, illness/disability narratives and historical/cultural traumas which could include themes of disability, torture, transmission of trauma, (false) memory, normalization and mortality.

*Postcolonial Discourse:* This panel invites submissions that explore post-colonial theory through historical and literary contexts. Areas of interest may include critical or creative approaches to repression, genocide, slavery and imperialism within Aboriginal Canadian discourse, Indigenous texts and "Minor" literature.

*Historical (Mis)Representations: *This panel invites submissions on the representation and/or misrepresentation of historical events and figures in literature, film, or television. Areas of interest may include author(ity) and authenticity, (his)story, the "medieval" period, oral history and historical fallacy.**

*Genres of Writing: *This panel invites submissions that interrogate* *forms and classification of writing with specific attention to overlaps in fiction and nonfiction. ** Areas of interest may include creative nonfiction, fictional (auto)biography, autobiographical fiction, and historical fiction.**

*Transnational and Diasporic Trends in Canadian Texts:* This panel invites submissions that explore ethnicity, nationality and identity within Canadian discourse. Areas of interest may include hybridity, immigration, cosmopolitanism, tourism and symbols of (dis)connection (ie. "/," "-" and "&").

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