LINGUIST List 21.4502 Wed Nov 10 2010 Calls: Sociolinguistics, Ling & Literature/USA Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Nyssa Bulkes , Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media Message 1: Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media Date: 08-Nov-2010 From: Nyssa Bulkes <nyssabulkesgmail.com> Subject: Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media Short Title: MCLLM Date: 01-Apr-2011 - 02-Apr-2011 Location: DeKalb, IL, USA Contact Person: 2011 MCLLM Committee - Meeting Email: mcllmniu.edu Web Site: http://www.engl.niu.edu/mcllm/ Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics Other Specialty: Media Linguistics Call Deadline: 20-Jan-2011 Meeting Description: The 19th annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM) will be held April 1-2, 2011 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. This year's theme is The Power of the Humanities. Inspired by Dr. Emily Auerbach's keynote address and her work across the humanities, the organizers encourage research that examines the influences of language and literature that have significantly altered those disciplines and people's lives. Dr. Emily Auerbach, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Maestros, Dilettantes, and Philistines (1989) and Searching for Jane Austen (2004); Director of the UW Odyssey Project; and Project Director of the 'Courage to Write' radio series. Call For Papers We invite proposals for fifteen-minute papers from scholars at all stages of their career. Topics related to this year's theme may include, but are not limited to: - the construction of gender and ethnicity, - writing across the curriculum, - how individual authors or works influenced the discipline and/or canon, - the power of literature to change lives, - how people use language to exercise power, - writing literature to exercise power, - reading to exercise power, - literature and its influence on people from underprivileged areas, - efforts in the humanities to enact social and political change, and - the effects of college programs in any discipline designed to encourage the success of students who are underprivileged. MCLLM also welcomes papers on all areas of literature, language, and media studies. Individual or panel (three to four people) proposals are welcome. Proposals (no more than 500 words) by January 20, 2011, (e-mail submissions only, please) to: mcllmniu.edu Deadline for submission: January 20, 2011. CFP categories: Linguistics and literature Film and Media Studies Linguistics Literary Studies Cross-cultural film studies Technical communication Women's studies Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Renaissance African-American Studies Bibliography and history of the book Classical Studies 18th Century American Rhetoric and Composition Postcolonial Medieval Cultural Studies Victorian Women's Studies Education Sociology Literacy Poetry Humanities Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 10-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.