"Trash Talking" Meeting

For those of you interested in attending the pop culture conference in Regina in March, Margaret Sweatman has arranged a meeting for Tuesday, January 29th at 5:30 pm. in her office (2A35).

Trash Talking: New Directions in Popular Culture and Creative Writing

An interdisciplinary conference for undergraduate and graduate students

on popular culture and creative writing, hosted by students of the

University of Regina, March 8th and 9th, 2013.

The fifth annual Trash Talking conference presents an opportunity to

discuss popular culture in a serious academic environment, including any

topic that isn't studied in your ordinary classes or academic field.

Trash Talking invites scholarly and creative work that explores,

celebrates, and interrogates the intersections between popular culture

and academic discourse.

 

You know that paper you always wanted to write about Lady Gaga and

Jacques Lacan? Well this conference is a perfect forum for you to

discuss your ideas in front an engaged, enthusiastic audience of

academics.

 

Scholarly papers, creative writing, visual art, and film, from students

of all disciplines, from any theoretical or methodological perspective,

on any aspect of popular culture, will be considered.

Past conferences have included presentations on a variety of subjects,

including:

Harry Potter

Autism and The Big Bang Theory

Inglorious Bastards and Captain America

Futurama and Faith

Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan LeFanu, and H. P. Lovecraft

Postmodern Civic Architecture

Heidegger, Game Theory, and Dungeons and Dragons

Homosexuality in Supernatural

 

Submissions should be no longer than 20 minutes (approximately 8-10

double spaced pages). Papers must also be included for any formal visual

arts presentation. Film submissions must include a complete copy of the

film to be presented.

 

If you wish to form a panel, organizers of that panel must include

complete papers or presentations as part of their proposal.

 

Multimedia presentations are encouraged. All papers, panels, and

presentations will be refereed.

 

Submissions must be received by January 31, 2013, via email or hard

copy:

 

Email to:

sinkathryn@gmail.com

Marcel.decoste@uregina.ca

 

Mail to:

Trash Talking Conference â„… ESA

Department of English

University of Regina

3737 Wascana Parkway

Open Mic

Hi ELSA members! 

For any English and Creative Writing students who are interested in sharing some of their work with an audience, or those who would like to hear other people's work, here is an announcement for another Open Mic event, hosted by Margaret Sweatman:

OPEN MIC NIGHT

ALL WRITERS

OF ALL STRIPES

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7^TH AT 6:30 P.M. – 9:00

ROOM 2M70

EVERYONE IS WELCOME

FEEL FREE TO BRING FRIENDS, GUITAR, HARMONICA, BANJO.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO READ IF

YOU’RE SHY.

Gregory Scofield Inaugural Poetry Reading

Wed. Jan. 16th at 12:30 in room 1M33 at the University of Winnipeg.
Gregory Scofield, UW's 2013 Carol Shields Writer-in-Residence, will present his inaugural poetry reading.
Free and open to the public!

Scofield, author of Thunder Through My Veins and Louis: The Heretic Poems, is known for his unique and dynamic reading style that blends oral storytelling, song, spoken word and the Cree language. For more information, go to:
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/english-writer-residence

Sponsored by the University of Winnipeg,
the Friends of Carol Shields,
and The Canada Council for the Arts

The Killam Undergraduate Fellowships for Canadians

Interested in taking a semester in the States?

From the website:

The Killam Fellowships Program provides an opportunity for exceptional undergraduate students from universities in Canada to spend either one semester or a full academic year as an exchange student in the United States. Students may participate in the program either as a direct exchange student (registering at their home university, paying their home fees, and attending the host university as an exchange visitor) or as a self-placed visiting student (registering at the host university and paying host tuition fees).

The 2013-14 competition is now open!

The deadline for the open competition for the 2013-14 Killam Fellowships competition will be January 31, 2013!  If you are a student at one of our  partner institutions and you are planning to apply to the  direct exchange program , contact a study abroad advisor at your institution to identify the date in which your institution's internal competition ends.

For more information on the program, visit http://www.killamfellowships.com/programs/canadians/about-the-award-c.html

ELSA Meeting

The first ELSA meeting of the new year is next Monday, Jan. 21st and 12:30 pm.
Hope to see you there!

MGS Scholarship

Students who are applying to do their MA at either U of W or U of M next year should definitely check out the Manitoba Graduate Scholarship. The deadline to apply is February 1st.

For additional information on this award, please visit the Graduate Studies Website:
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/grad‐studies‐int‐awards
Or email: d.england@uwinnipeg.ca

Call for Proposals: Red River Graduate Student Conference

Hi all,

Some of you may be interested in submitting a proposal for the Red River Graduate Student Conference in April. The information can be found below:

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS                                                

A Decade of Branching Out
Red River Graduate Student Conference
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
April 5 and 6, 2013
*Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kirk St. Amant, East Carolina University

The English Graduate Organization at North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND is inviting you to consider, explore, and present diverse issues rooted in the field of English as we celebrate our 10th anniversary of the Red River Graduate Student Conference.  We encourage submissions from the following branches of English studies: literature, rhetoric, linguistics, writing studies, cultural studies, and communication studies.  Other topics related to language, writing, and culture are also welcome.

In the interest of bringing students from across the country to our campus in order to share our common experiences with English scholarship, to network, and to work together as developing professionals, we branch out this year to additionally include undergraduate panels and individual participants in the conference proceedings.

The Red River Graduate Student Conference will be held Friday, April 5th, and Saturday, April 6th, 2013 in Fargo at the NDSU Memorial Union.  Both panel and individual submissions are welcome. More information may be found at http://english.ndsu.edu/rrgsc.  

Some of the areas of English studies that we hope to solicit papers on are listed here, but we welcome papers on all topics and areas and especially encourage panel submissions and/or groupings of topics and/or cross-disciplinary approaches:



- Business & Technical Communication
- Comedy and Humor Studies
- Communication and Global Politics
- Comparative Literature
- Computers and Writing
- Creative Writing
- English Pedagogy 
- English Education
- ESL
- Film and Television Studies
- Genre Fiction
- Genre Studies
- Horror Studies
- Intellectual Ownership
- New Media
- Scientific Rhetorics
- Sociolinguistics
- Sonic Rhetorics
- Video Game Studies



Submissions: 
Please send panel proposals for 3-4 participants (1000 words max) and/or individual abstracts (500 words max) via e-mail attachment (.doc, .docx, or PDFs only, please) to ndsu.rrgsc@ndsu.edu, by March 1, 2013. Please specify technology needs at the bottom of your proposal. 

There is a registration fee of $20.00 for conference participation. This registration fee includes conference materials and Saturday's lunch. Payment information will be communicated via email upon receipt of submission.

Important conference updates will be periodically sent to presenters via email. Any other questions (lodging, transportation, etc.) can be directed to ndsu.rrgsc@ndsu.edu.

* Kirk St. Amant is a Professor of Technical and Professional Communication and of International Studies at East Carolina University. His research focuses on international and intercultural communication as it relates to online media and includes international virtual workplaces, international outsourcing/offshoring, and the effects of globalization on online education. Kirk is a senior member and an Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), and serves on the editorial board for the STC journal Technical Communication. 

Key Thinkers, Key Texts Lecture

Hi ELSA members and friends,

Thanks to everyone who came to the mixer last Friday! We had a pretty good turnout (despite the snowstorm) and it was nice to see a mix of familiar and new faces.

Here is an event, coming up at the U of W, which may interest ELSA members and English Students:

At the urging of current grad students in U of W's MA in Cultural Studies, there will be a series of talks and discussions about critical and cultural theories hosted by the Cultural Studies Graduate Program Committee. The first lecture in the series on Key Thinkers, Key Texts being, by Dr. Andrew Burke of the English Department, is entitled "Notes on Jameson," and is scheduled for Wednesday, January 23, from 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. in Room 5L24, and takes as its point of departure Jameson's 1979 article, "Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture." 

The article can be found through JStor in the UW Library at this link: http://www.jstor.org/stable/466409.

Thanks and hope to see you there!

ELSA Student & Faculty Mixer

Hey hey,

ELSA is hosting a Student/Faculty Mixer for U of W's English Department this Friday, January 11. It will be cocktail hour so drop by any time between 5:30 and 7:30 pm in room 2M70 to have a glass of wine and say hello. We'd love to see you there and spread the word!

Happy New Year from ELSA! We hope everyone's holidays were relaxing and fun-filled.

Cheers,

Hilary and Melissa