Call for Fiction, Poetry, Art Submissions: Hans Christian Andersen at NonBinary Review

Call for Submissions

NBR #14: The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Ends on July 31, 2017

NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue's theme. We invite authors to explore each theme in any way that speaks to them: re-write a familiar story from a new point of view, mash genres together, give us a personal essay about some aspect of our theme that has haunted you all your life. We also invite art that will accompany the literature and be featured on our cover. All submissions must have a clear and obvious relationship to some specific aspect of the source text (a character, episode, or setting). Submissions only related by a vague, general, thematic similarity are unlikely to be accepted.

We are open to submissions which relate to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. We encourage you to explore Project Gutenberg for reference, and suggest Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, First Series, and Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, Second Series as your source of inspiration (and accuracy.)

(Heidi's insert: Feel free to check out SurLaLune, too! See Hans Christian Andersen or many of his annotated tales on the site.)

Submissions which do not tie into the plots or make use of characters/settings from the stories WILL NOT be considered--there needs to be a clear connection to the source material.

We want language that makes us reach for a dictionary or a tissue or both. Words in combinations and patterns that leave the faint of heart a little dizzy.

FICTION, CREATIVE NON-FICTION, FLASH & HYBRID/EXPERIMENTAL
NonBinary Review accepts fiction and creative non-fiction of up to 5,000 words in length, although shorter is probably better. Fiction should be double spaced, 12-point type, in Times New Roman or similar font in a Word document or text file. Authors may submit up to 5 pieces of flash fiction, no more than 1000 words each, in this category. Please upload each piece as a separate document on this submission. Flash (fiction or CNF) is the ONLY category where multiple pieces related to the same theme may be selected for publication.

POETRY
NonBinary Review accepts poetry of up to 3 pages in length. Poetry should be single spaced, 12-point type, in Times New Roman or similar font in a Word document or text file. You may submit up to five files with this submission, but each poem must be submitted as a separate document.

VISUAL ART
We prefer high-resolution images in JPEG, PDF, TIFF, GIF or PNG format. Visual art must be related to each issue's theme and please attach only one file at a time. Each file must be accompanied by the artist's bio and an artist's statement, which should be submitted as a Word document or text file, double spaced, 12-point type, in Times New Roman or similar font.

ALL SUBMISSIONS
Your 50-word bio should be included in your cover letter. If your bio is longer than 50 words, it WILL be edited for length if your piece is selected. You may submit more than one piece, but each piece must be submitted as a separate document.

PAYMENT
NonBinary Review pays 1 cent per word for fiction and nonfiction, and a flat fee of $10 for poetry (singular poems or a suite) and $25 per piece of visual art, payable upon receipt of the signed publication contract. In return, we ask for worldwide serial rights and electronic publishing rights. NonBinary Review accepts previously published work as long as the original publication is clearly credited. All contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the issue in which their work appears.

ALPHANUMERIC
If you are interested in your work appearing online, please indicate on your submission that you would like to be considered for our weekly online feature, Alphanumeric. Alphanumeric pays a flat fee of $10 per piece regardless of genre or length, and adheres to the same theme and style conventions as the current reading period for NonBinary Review. Alphanumeric pieces will be published online for the 3 active months per each issue, after which, these pieces will be published as a compendium to the issue in which they were published. All contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the issue in which their work appears.

Authors and artists should state in their cover letters for which issue their submission is intended. Submissions not related to an upcoming issue's theme will be deleted unread.

see https://nonbinaryreview.submittable.com/submit/73086/nbr-14-the-tales-of-hans-christian-andersen

Call for Papers: Thinking with Stories in Times of Conflict: A Conference in Fairy-Tale Studies

Conflict can give rise to violence but also to creativity. In the 1690s, French fairy-tale writers imagined through their fairy tales ideal resolutions to political conflict (Louis XIV’s absolutism), as well as conflict in conceptions of gender and marriage practices. The German tale tradition was transformed by the migration of French Huguenots to Germanic territories after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which prohibited the practice of Protestantism in France. The German Grimm Brothers drew from the tale tradition to create a cohesive notion of Germanic traditions and to contest French domination in the nineteenth century. Postcolonial writers such as Salman Rushdie, Patrick Chamoiseau, Nalo Hopkinson, and Sofia Samatar draw from wonder tale traditions in ways that disrupt Western narrative traditions. And multimedia storytelling that dips both into history and the fantastic has advanced decolonial and social justice projects. These are only a few examples of the ways in which authors think with stories in times of conflict.

With this conference we hope to bring fairy-tale scholars together to reflect upon the genre in relation to questions that include but are not limited to: migrants and migration in different geographical locations and historical periods; political and social upheaval; and transformations with an eye to alternative futures. One of our goals is to encourage a dialogue between creative and scholarly thinking with wonder tales in times of conflict.

The conference will consist of plenary talks, workshops, panels with papers, and roundtables.

This conference will take place at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, August 2-5, 2017.

Plenary Speakers and Workshop Leaders include Pauline Greenhill, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Veronica Schanoes, Kay Turner, Jack Zipes, and more to be confirmed.

Deadline for Abstracts: January 10, 2017.

Papers for panels: Please send us a 300-word abstract along with your institutional affiliation for papers of no more than 20 minutes.

Roundtables: If you would like to propose a roundtable, please include a 150-word abstract of the topic and a list of participants with their institutional affiliations; each presentation by roundtable participants should be no more than 10 minutes.

Please send abstracts to: Cristina Bacchilega (cbacchi at hawaii dot edu) and Anne Duggan (a dot duggan at wayne dot edu)

Acceptances by February 15, 2017.

Call for Papers: International Conference of Mythology and Folklore

CFP: International Conference of Mythology and Folklore

The 3rd International Conference of Mythology and Folklore will take place October 15-16, 2016, in Bucharest, Romania.

The series of specialized conferences of mythology and folklore continues in Bucharest this year as well, under the patronage of The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

The conference organizers propose the following themes:

• Ancient mythology and its reverberations in modernity
• Folklore and authored literature
• The actuality of myths

The abstracts should contain the titles of the presentations, written in English (max. 200 words), followed by 5 keywords, a bio-note of approx. 7-8 lines, and an email address. Abstracts must be sent no later than October 1, 2016, to mythology.folklore16 at gmail com.

The languages of the conference are: Romanian, English and French.

If approved by the scientific committee, you will be notified no later than October 5th.

In extenso papers (max. 10 p.) will be sent to the email address of the scientific board by July 1, 2017. These will be published in the conference volume.

The participation fees are the following:

• Professors, associate professors, CSI, CSII: 20 euro;
• Lecturers, assistants, CSIII, research assistants, PhD holders, pre-university teachers: 15 euro;
• M.A. students and PhD students: 10 euro.

Information concerning payment, as well as the board of the scientific committee will be communicated in the second call for papers which will be sent after September 25, 2016.

The style sheet will be communicated to the participants after October 16, 2016.

Organizing committee:

President:

Lector univ. dr. Maria-Luiza DUMITRU OANCEA

Vice-president:

Prof. univ. dr. Ramona MIHĂILĂ

Programme administrators:

Prof. univ dr. Ana-Cristina HALICHIAS
Prof. univ. dr. habil. Ileana MIHĂILĂ

Secretaries:

Drd. Nicolae-Andrei POPA
Dr. Mihai SALVAN

CFP for the 37th annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Wonder Tales

Hello all, it appears I will be attending the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in March 2016 after receiving an invitation from Christy A. Williams to join a panel she is developing. There is still time to submit your own oaper or panel ideas or at least plan to attend. I am pasting info about how to do so below. I hope to see you there!

CFP for the 37th annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Wonder Tales

March 16-20, 2016

Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel

Please join us for ICFA 37, March 16-20, 2016, when our theme will be “Wonder Tales.” Folklorists often use this term to refer to the stories commonly known as “fairy tales” due to the genre’s emphasis on the marvelous and its invocation of wonder, but what is wonder and where can it be found? Many events, characters, or objects generate a response of wonder transformations and resurrections — but wonder also may be generated in technological advances and from the “sense of wonder” in science fiction. Papers might explore wonder tales and their modern incarnations, readers’ responses of wonder to fantastic texts, uses of wonder within fantastic texts, how wonder is invoked across media and genres, and the relationship between wondering (marveling) and wondering (questioning). We welcome papers on the work of our guests: Guest of Honor Terri Windling (author and editor, winner of nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Solstice Award), Guest of Honor Holly Black (author of The Spiderwick Chronicles, and winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in Children’s Literature and a Newberry Honor book for Doll Bones), and Guest Scholar Cristina Bacchilega (author of Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies and Fairy Tales Transformed: 21st-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder). 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 proposals is October 31, 2015. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, and graduate students.

Guest of Honor, Terri Windling
Terri Windling is a writer, editor, and artist specializing in fantasy literature and mythic arts. She has published over forty books, winning nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and placing on the short lists for the Tiptree and Shirley Jackson Awards. She received the S.F.W.A. Solstice Award in 2010. Her work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Russian, Turkish, Korean, and Japanese. She has served on the boards of the Interstitial Arts Foundation and the Mythic Imagination Institute (U.S.), and is currently a member of the advisory board for the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Fantasy at the University of Chichester (U.K.).

Guest of Honor, Holly Black
Holly Black is the author of bestselling contemporary fantasy books for kids and teens. Some of her series titles include The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), The Modern Faerie Tale series, the Curse Workers series, Doll Bones, andThe Coldest Girl in Coldtown. She has been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award and for an Eisner Award, and the recipient of both an Andre Norton Award and a Newbery Honor. Her new books are The Darkest Part of the Forest, a return to faerie fiction, and The Iron Trial, the first book in a middle grade fantasy series, Magisterium, co-authored by Cassandra Clare.

Guest Scholar, Cristina Bacchilega
Christina Bacchilega is a Professor and Director of the Graduate Program at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. The author of Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies (1997) and the co-editor of Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale, Bacchilega has published essays on Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Italo Calvino, Robert Coover, Nalo Hopkinson, Maxine Hong Kingston, Dacia Maraini, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, and fairy tales in Hawai’i. Her most recent book, Fairy Tales Transformed: 21st-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, came out in the Fall of 2013. Bacchilega serves as the co-editor of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies.

To Attend the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Some important steps:

1. Send in a paper proposal by going to http://fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/ (see the Call for Papers, above).
2. Register or renew as a member of IAFA: http://fantastic-arts.org/membership/.
(Note: If you received an email about the new membership system in the last few months, use your receiving email address and click on “forgot password” to set up a password for yourself. )
3. Register to attend the ICFA.
(Note: Conference registration will open soon. However the new membership system is up and running.)
4. Book accommodation with the conference hotel. Read the ICFA-37 Hotel Information and look at some pictures from the hotel and vicinity. Note that the hotel operates a complimentary airport shuttle service from Orlando Airport. Should you prefer taxi, the estimated fee (one way) is USD 10.
If you are new to the conference, you might want to check out affiliated organizations.
Membership or registration questions can be directed to IAFA Membership & Registration Coordinator, Valorie Ebert through the Contact Page.

Call for Papers: American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore

For any of you who are knowledgeable in American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales, this is a great project. True story, my first published writing credit while in grad school was contributing to The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia. I had studied Alcott on  my own and volunteered to pick up some of the entries, namely Dress Reform, some of the short stories, and Alcott's book, Eight Cousins. A lovely experience...that was filled with stress looking for resources that are so more readily available now thanks to the internet.

CFP: American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore

ABC-CLIO is publishing a three-volume reference collection titled American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore in early 2016. The editors seek contributors from fields of literature, history, anthropology, sociology, folklore, and allied subjects to write entries ranging from 750-2500 words on a wide range of topics. The purpose of the encyclopedia is to introduce students and general readers to the key myths and legends in North American culture, and to provide extensive, easily accessible coverage of the multifaceted American folklore tradition.

ABC-CLIO intends to offer an up-to-date, attractive resource based on current scholarship in the field, including useful illustrations, selections from primary texts, informative sidebars, and references for further reading and research. Entries will provide coverage of diverse traditions within the genre of folklore and mythology, including Native American traditions, and include treatment of newer traditions such as urban legends and UFO stories.

Contributors will receive publication credit in the encyclopedia and may choose from several options for compensation. The editors will send information about compensation upon request.

Writers should contact the editors to request a list of available entries. Send name, title, institutional affiliation (if applicable), mailing address, email address and a current CV to:

Jeffrey B. Webb
Edwina Patton Chair in the Arts & Sciences and
Professor, Department of History
Huntington University
2303 College Avenue
Huntington, Indiana 46750
USA
email: jwebb@huntington.edu

An International Seminaron Fairy-tale Therapy

This arrived in my inbox:

An International Seminaron Fairy-tale Therapy

10-13 March 2015

Venue: Hotel Tivoli Sintra, Portugal

Organization: Moonluza, Unipessoal Lda.

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale”

Hans Christian Andersen

Story-telling is one of the most ancient and beautiful traditions. It allows “travelling with one’s mind” and opens up new worlds. It has great therapeutic potential: it can change our moods; develop our imagination; deepen our understanding of everyday life; and help us control or face our emotions. The benefits of stories and tales are numerous, dating back millennia: even in the time of Pharaoh
Rameses the library was called “the house of healing for the soul.”

The Seminar in Sintra aims to highlight and delve more deeply into Fairy-tale Therapy, a method gaining more and more recognition
worldwide. We will bring together international scholars, experts, enthusiasts and those who use this therapy in their varying fields.

Sintra will be a stage for exchanging experiences, ideas, research, points of view and of inspiration.

This location was chosen especially because of its truly fairy-tale charm. For Hans Christian Andersen it was “the most beautiful place in Portugal” and Lord Byron called it his “Glorious Eden”.

We invite proposals for papers/presentations on fairy-tale and story-telling therapy.

Together we can contribute to the development of using Fairy-tales in many fields of life!
Proposal forms should be submitted by 15 January 2015 to the following email address: conferences@moonluza.pt

Proposals and presentations must be in English.

Components of the Proposal:

Title and author

Short summary

Keyword Set

Font: Calibri 11

We also offer the possibility of attending the seminar as an audience member.

Participation is confirmed immediately after payment of the registration fee.

For more information please contact:

info@moonluza.pt or conferences@moonluza.pt
Tel. (+351)969.792.262

Preliminary Programme

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

16h00-18h00 Registration and Welcome Desk
Hotel Tivoli Sintra

20h00 – 22h30 Opening Dinner at Hotel Tivoli Sintra

Wednesday, 11 March 2015

9h30 -11h00 Seminar opening: keynote speeches

11h00-11h15 Coffee break

11h15-12h15 Session one

12h15-12h30 Questions and answers

12h30-14h30 Free time

14h30-16h30 Session two

16h30-17h00 Questions and answers

Thursday, 12 March 2015

10h00-12h15 Session three

12h15-12h30 Questions and answers

12h30-14h30 Free time

14h30-16h30 Session four

16h30-16h45 Questions and answers

16h45-17h30 Coffee break

17h30-18h45 Visit to the National Palace of Sintra

20h30 -22h30 Gala Dinner at the historic Hotel Palácio Seteais in Sintra

Friday, 13 March 2015

9h30 – 11h00 Session Five

11h00- 12h00 Closing Session

12h00 – 12h30 Coffee break

Friday, 13 March 2015(from 12h30) – Sunday, 15 March 2015

Touristic Programme

Call for Papers: Proposed Book Project on Fairy Tales on TV

The deadline for submissions has passed on this one, but I wanted to share since it is very relevant to this audience and gives us something to hopefully look forward to being published. The biggest regret is that full seasons of Once Upon a Time and Grimm won't be finished, or just barely, by the time the papers are due.

Call for Papers: Proposed Book Project on Fairy Tales on TV
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Posted by: Lorraine Cashman

Pauline Greenhill and Jill Rudy are soliciting proposals for a book project, tentatively titled Supernaturally Grimm: Fairy Tales on TV, which will gather new, original, previously unpublished essays covering a range of aspects of fairy tales on television. Submissions may address such areas as: specific series, like the current Grimm and Once Upon a Time shows or Nickelodeon’s animated Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics, which use fairy tales as organizing themes; fairy-tale themed episodes in series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Muppet Babies, and Rocky and Bullwinkle’s "Fractured Fairy Tales;” made-for-television feature-length fairy tale adaptations, like Catherine Breillat’s Bluebeard; uses in made-for-television films of fairy tale images and themes as in the Red Riding trilogy; television auteurs who often use fairy tales like Joss Whedon or Rob Tapert; fairy tale television fandom; themes in fairy tale television including crime and vampirism; fairy-tale premised reality television shows like the Canadian LGBT Fairy Tale; made-for-television mini-series like The 10th Kingdom; specials, like holiday presentations of The Nutcracker; and other topics. We are interested in live-action and animated material for children and adults and will be happy to consider additional ideas not specified here. Anticipating a wide readership, we prefer projects that would be accessible, yet challenging, for an upper-level undergraduate audience as well as graduate students and specialists in a variety of fields.

Please send a 250-500 word (strict limit) abstract with title to both Jill Rudy and Pauline Greenhill by January 15, 2012. Please also send a 1-2 page c.v., with current position and relevant publications. Please send as an email attachment in Word. Decisions will be made by January 31, 2012 and confirmations sent shortly thereafter. Quality drafts of 8-10,000 words including notes and bibliography (Chicago online author-date style) will be expected for May 31, 2012.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us both.

Pauline Greenhill: p.greenhill (a) uwinnipeg.ca

Jill Rudy: jill_rudy (a) byu.edu

Call for Papers: The Fairy Tale Vanguard Conference

I received this late last week in an email and wanted to share. At my last count, that makes 5 conferences in Europe this year with a fairy tale emphasis!

Dear lovers, students and scholars of the fairy tale,

We are happy to report that the preparations for “The Fairy Tale Vanguard” conference (August 20-22, Ghent) are coming along nicely. We have just put the registration form on our website http://www.fairytale.ugent.be/ (“Registration”). Those who wish to enroll, are best to do so before 1 May if they want to benefit from an early bookers discount.

Furthermore, we would also like to announce that we have entered into a cooperation with the Ghent municipal theatre NTGent, organizing a literary evening open to all conference goers, as well as the larger public. Our guests will include celebrated author Rikki Ducornet and a number of members of the NTGent who have been actively working with fairy tales in the recent past, both rewriting them and adapting them for the stage. An update will be posted on our site (“Pleasant Nights”).

We hope to see many of you here in Ghent this summer!

Kind regards,

Stijn Praet and Vanessa Joosen

And here's the call for papers:

During the past decades, a lot has changed in the field of fairy tale studies: moving away from typological, structuralist and hermeneutically essentialist approaches, scholars today have again come to appreciate the specificity of individual fairy tale texts, the historical context in which they originated, and the many ways in which they have functioned. This general turn to history has brought about a variety of interesting new approaches, many of them focusing on questions of a social, political or ideological nature.

However, when it comes to the fairy tale's functioning as a literary art form , i.e. as partaking in the dynamics of larger literary fields, research interests have been much more moderate. During the upcoming conference, we intend to re-examine the fairy tale in ways that will shed light on the genre's position within the conservative and innovative forces that make up for the historical development of literatures. More specifically, we will take off from the idea that throughout its history, the fairy tale has provided authors with a space in which they could engage in literary experimentation and self-consciously reflect on contemporary trends in the literary field. As a result, it was often tied up with or even constituted literary vanguard impulses. Examples of this are plenty, perhaps most obviously in postmodernist writings, but also in the Grimms' careful construction of a national Natur/Volkspoesie, the exploration of mondain préciosité by the French salon writers, the Baroque textual games of Basile's Pentamerone , etc. When we go back further into the genre's prehistory, we encounter even more texts, both in "sacred" and vernacular languages, which display this same propensity for reflection and innovation.

We can at least partially explain this phenomenon by considering the general traits of the genre itself: as fantastic narrative par excellence, the fairy tale has tended to ostentatiously distance itself from more realistic modes of experience and representation. Though often engaged with very tangible historical realities, its general discourse is not so much characterized by faithful mimetic description as it is by creative fabulation - by the act of weaving language into unconventional textures. The tale's relatively short format only aids to heighten our awareness of its (sometimes intricate) architectural construction as a textual artifact - as Angela Carter once said: "The short story is not minimalist, it is rococo. I feel in absolute control. It is like writing chamber music rather than symphonies" (The Bloody Chamber, Vintage 2006, xix). It is exactly this kind of textual control which far exceeds the boundaries of more conventional mimesis that makes the fairy tale into a world of words, at least as much as of things. Not surprisingly then, authors have used this little world of words as a laboratory in which they could experiment with the art of literature, self-consciously explore its subjects, forms, aims and boundaries and comment on other literary forms and cultural debates (both in meaning and in form).

We welcome any proposals for papers regarding these ideas. Possible topics include:

•Theoretical and historical reflections on the literary discourse of the fairy tale genre
•The metaliterary use of fairy tales
•The programmatic paratextual framing of fairy tale collections
•Literary experimentation in fairy tales
•Fairy tales and the formation of national literatures
•The fairy tale's response to and impact on developments within the larger literary field, e.g. its active participation in literary vanguards and movements, its shifting properties in globalized literature, its response to the introduction of new media

A three hundred word abstract and five line biography should be submitted to fairytale@ugent.be.

Abstract deadline: 1 March 2012
Notification of acceptance: April 2012

Call for Papers: Cinderella Conference in Rome

Okay, this is one I really want to attend. Especially after slaving over Cinderella Tales From Around the World the last few years, which will be coming out soon. But on to the real topic of this post:

CFP: Cinderella Conference in Rome

Cinderella as a Text of Culture

International Conference

University of Rome, “La Sapienza”

November, 8-10th 2012

Cinderella is one of the most beloved and well-known tales in Western culture. Invariably popular among the audience of children and adults alike, translated, adapted and reinvented in sometimes dramatically different versions, the story of Cinderella has been told again and again, in literature, music, theatre, film and other arts. It has also been the object of extensive scholarly research, beginning with Marian Roalfe Cox’s pioneering compendium compiled in the nineteenth century. Folklorists have recognized hundreds of distinct forms of Cinderella-related plots and subtypes throughout the Western World, and they have analysed the form and typology of the tale, as well as its development through time. Many methodological approaches have been applied to Cinderella, such as ritual, structural, anthropological, sociological and, more recently, feminist interpretations, alongside the influential psychoanalytical account of the significance of the tale in Bruno Bettelheim’s The Uses of Enchantment.

However while mainstream research tends to emphasise the universal values and meanings of the tale, we would like to propose a different approach by considering Cinderella in its textual nature in relation to a given geo-cultural, historical, literary and mediatic ec(h)o-system. We are particularly interested in contributions that focus on Cinderella neither as an item of folklore nor as a universal story, but rather on the many Cinderellas that have populated Western culture past and present, and in different cultural and national areas. In order to investigate these phenomena, we invite you to discuss Cinderella’s various textual metamorphoses and account for significant differences in their textual, iconographic and mediatic realisations.

Topics and questions that may be addressed include: Giambattista Basile – Charles Perrault – Grimm brothers: textual interconnections and interactions;

Grimm’s Aschenputtel versus Perrault’s Cendrillon as literary texts: affinities and differences, reception and legacy;

What is the status of Cinderella among other fairy tales? How can we account for its particular appeal? Is it somehow different from other, or similar, rise- or restoration tales?

Travelling stories and intercultural canon formation: to what extent is Cinderella a “canonical” fairy tale? Is there an international fairy tale canon?

Translatio / translation

The circulation of the tale in European culture: audience typologies and reception, manipulation and ideology, cultural translatio;

Domestication: national identity and “nationalisations” of Cinderella vs. intercultural communication through fairy tale adaptations;

Iconological and imagological interpretations of Cinderella: diachronic and synchronic aspects of the tale’s visual representations;

The literary canon and medial adaptations (Cinema, Theatre, Music, etc.);

The colloquium is international in scope and attendance. The official conference languages will be English and Italian.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Ruth Bottigheimer (Stony Brook University)

Andrea Andermann (director and producer, Rada Film-RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana)

The conference is hosted by the University of Roma “La Sapienza” Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies

Organization
Scientific Committee

- Francesca Bernardini (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)

- Johanna Borek (University of Wien)

- Ruth Bottigheimer (Stony Brook University)

- Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère (University of Lausanne)

- Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp)

- Gillian Lathey (Roehampton University, London)

- Jan Van Coillie (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel)

- Monika Wozniak (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)

Local Organizing Committee
Camilla Miglio, Martine van Geetruyden, Monika Wozniak (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
Deadlines
February 28th, 2012
Deadline for the proposal of conference papers, with the submission of a 300-400 word abstract (in English) and a short bionote including the following information:
1. Postal address
2. E-mail address
3. Academic affiliation
The abstracts should be sent to the following e-mail address: cinderella.roma2012 (at) gmail.com

Enquiries

Monika Wozniak monika.wozniak (at) uniroma1.it
or
Camilla Miglio camilla.miglio (at) uniroma1.it

Web page: http://www.cinderellaroma2012.wordpress.com/

March 30th, 2012

The notification of admission will be sent to participants.

Fairy Tales at Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association

I just learned about this one today, so hopefully if you are interested in the topic and have a proposal to submit, you already have since the deadline is December 1. However, registration and attendance are still open, too. This one sounds interesting especially considering the conference's wider theme of "Foods & Culture(s) in a Global Context." The PDF for the fairy tale specific paper call is copied below. The main is at Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association.

Myth and Fairy Tale Call for Papers


Abstract/Proposals Due: 1 December 2011

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Association’s 33rd Annual Conference
Albuquerque, NM February 8-11 2012

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710

Panels now forming on topics related to all areas of myth and fairy tale and their connections to popular culture. To participate in this area, you do not need to present on both myths and fairy tales (one or the other is perfectly fine), but we have seen that bringing both genre categories into conversation has led to extremely valuable and stimulating conversations.

Papers relating to the 2012 Conference Theme: “Celebrating Foods and Culture(s) in a Global Context” will be given special consideration, and might be as variable as (though certainly not limited to):

--Eating and Devouring in “Little Red Riding Hood”

--Magical Fruits in Classical Mythology

--Food and Entrapment in “Hansel and Gretel”

--Rituals and Eating in Hindu Mythology

--Fairy Tale Poetry: Food and Seduction (Olga Broumas, Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, etc.)

--Food, Ritual, and Folklore (Joseph Campbell, James Frazer, etc.)

--Disney Heroines and Food Preparation (Rapunzel, Snow White, Frog Princess, etc.)

--Music, Food, and Myth in the Cherokee Tradition

-- Storytelling as an Act of Feeding the Soul: Scheherazade Narratives

--Picture Books: Illustrating of Fairy Tale Foods

Additional areas of interest might include:

--Where Fairy Tales and Myth Overlap

--Non-Western Myths and Fairy Tales

--Fairy Tales in/as “Children’s Literature”

--Disney

--Urban Fairy Tales

--Ethnic Myths and Fairy Tales

--Gendered Readings of Myths and Fairy Tales

--Postcolonial Myths and Fairy Tales

--Myths and Fairy Tales in Advertising Culture

--Reading Myths and Fairy Tales in the Popular Culture of Past Centuries

--Performing Myths and Fairy Tales: Drama and/or Ritual

--Genres of Myths and/or Fairy Tales: Film, Television, Poetry, Novels, Music, Comic Books, Picture Books, Short Stories, or Graphic Novels

Scholars, teachers, professionals, and others interested in Myths And Fairy Tales are all heartily encouraged to participate. Graduate students are particularly welcome, and should consider submitting their conference papers for one of the Graduate Writing Awards, especially the Kenneth Davis Award for Folklore Studies, which recognizes “an outstanding graduate essay in the field of folklore studies.” (full papers due January 15, 2012) http://swtxpca.org/documents/112.html#KennethDavisAward_Bookmark.

If you wish to form your own Myth or Fairy Tale-focused panel, I would be glad to facilitate (panels focused on one particular tale are especially encouraged). If your work does not focus on Myth or Fairy Tale but fits within the broad range of areas designated for the upcoming conference on American & Popular culture, I strongly encourage you explore the long list of areas http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/123.html. And please do pass along this call to any friends and colleagues who work with myths and fairy tales. We’ve had some wonderful and wonderfully diverse panels over the last few years, and I look forward to seeing that tradition continue in 2012.

Please submit 200 word abstracts and 600-800 word proposals for panels by 1 December 2011, and please note that all presenters must be registered for the conference by 31 December 2011.

Abstracts must be uploaded to the SW/TX PCA/ACA database at: http://conference2012.swtxpca.org

But if you have any additional questions about the “Myths and Fairy Tales” area, please feel free to contact:

Jacquilyn Weeks: jweeks@nd.edu
College of Arts and Letters Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Notre Dame
Department of English
356 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

General information and online registration http://www.swtxpca.org/ (updated regularly)

Call for Papers: How Do Our Views About Hair Affect Children?

This one is quite intriguing and I do hope at least one Rapunzel article makes it into the final collection! I know Rapunzel intrigued me with her hair as a child and now several new generations will get Disney's take on it, too, to influence them.

How Do Our Views About Hair Affect Children?

From Barbie, Britney and Rapunzel to Pocahontas and Beyoncé, matters related to hair can be quite complicated when it comes to race, gender and class. A special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn will look at how hair affects the politics of identity in children's literature and for children generally. Submit essays of 15-20 pages (4,500-6,000 words) and a 250-word abstract by noon July 1, 2012, to editor Neal A. Lester, Dean of Humanities and Professor of English at Arizona State University.

Catwoman to Katniss Conference 2012

I think I will have to drive 30 minutes down the road to this one since I can. I'm in Murfreesboro at least a few times a month anyway. :) And that makes three conference posts in one day. Good since there won't be one next Thursday since it will be Thanksgiving here in the states. And if there are any readers out there interested in submitting fairy tale related papers to this one, a round table would be interesting and I could be there...

From the Catwoman to Katniss Conference 2012 site:

Catwoman to Katniss Conference 2012

March 15-16, 2012 • Murfreesboro, TN

Middle Tennessee State University

Catwoman to Katniss is an interdisciplinary conference examining female images in electronic, graphic, and textual media within the science fiction and fantasy genres. Featured in this conference are keynote speakers C.S. Friedman and Dr. Rhonda Wilcox. Friedman is the bestselling science fiction and fantasy author of such works as In Conquest Born, and The Coldfire and Magister Trilogies as well as many other novels and short works. Dr. Wilcox is a professor of English at Gordon College, a founding editor of Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies in Small Screen Fiction, Editor of Studies in Popular Culture and Coeditor of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association.

While women have occupied many roles in science fiction and fantasy text and media, the last several years have produced a wealth of images of women as both heroine and villainess, offering a new and unique view of the female body and image. This conference seeks to interrogate these representations of the female form, and how they contrastingly strengthen or challenge prevailing ideas of gender, class, and power. We wish to examine the extent to which such female figures exercise agency, or whether they merely appear to, within their fantasy and science fiction milieu. This conference welcomes papers on all aspects of female representations of “good” and “evil” within an imaginative context, including but not limited to:

• Folktales
• Epic Fantasy
• Children’s and young adult fiction
• Television and film
• Graphic novels / comics
• Traditional fiction and literature
• Video games
• Manga and Anime
• Robot, cyborg and psychically enhanced female figures
• Myth / Legend
• Classical female figures (goddesses, etc.) in twenty-first century narratives

Additionally, papers and presentations interrogating the below topics, artists and authors are strongly encouraged:

• Women in film and television: Sucker Punch, Marvel films, Game of Thrones, V, The Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, etc. While Twilight and Harry Potter would certainly fall within the grasp of this conference, only original approaches to these topics will be considered.
• Heroines and Villainesses in graphic novels, comics and manga
• Treatment of women in epic fantasy by both male and female authors.
• Depictions of women by male authors: Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, Terry Goodkind, etc.
• Women in the works of Anne Rice, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey, Sherri Tepper, Octavia Butler, Ursula LeGuin, Kelley Armstrong, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison and Mercedes Lackey
• We strongly encourage participants to propose panels and/or roundtables for discussions of any of the above, or other, topics.

Please send 300 – 500 word abstracts by December 1, 2011, to Conference Organization Committee, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of English, catwomankatniss@gmail.com.

Thanks again to Valerie Frankel for sharing...

PCA/ACA National Conference 2012: Fairy Tales in Popular Culture

2011 and 2012 are strong years for studying fairy tales in popular culture with the flood of new interpretations across medias. The PCA/ACA (Popular Culture and American Culture Associations) National Conference in 2012 has an entire section devoted to fairy tales (and many other related topics such as children's literature tracks). But I will focus on the fairy tales section and the dates for submitting materials if you are interested in presenting or just attending.

From the website:

Fairy Tales

The Fairy Tales Area of the Popular Culture Association invites submissions on any topic involving fairy tales for the 2012 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, to be held April 11 - April 14 in Boston.

While our interests are broad and inclusive, we are particularly interested in papers that discuss fairy tales in contemporary popular culture (tv shows, movies, graphic novels, advertising, toys, video games, popular literature, etc), revisions and adaptations of fairy tales, and pedagogical uses of and approaches to fairy tales. Still, we are interested in as wide an array of papers as possible, so please do not hesitate to send a submission on any fairy tale related subject.

Please send a 250-word abstract, with title and contact information included, via email to both holland-toll@moc.edu and rnicks@utk.edu. Please email submissions as a Word attachment. The deadline for submission is December 15, 2011.

Linda J. Holland-Toll
Area Chair, Fairy Tales
Department of Language and Literature
Mount Olive College
919-658-7845
lholland-toll@moc.edu

Robin Gray Nicks
Area chair, Fairy Tales
Department of English
311 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee--Knoxville
Knoxville, TN 3996-0430
rnicks@utk.edu

Dates:

Boston 2012
April 11 - 14, 2012
Note: This is a week later than we have traditionally held it in the past.

Deadlines
Registration:

Paper Proposals Due December 15, 2011

Proposals Due for Endowment January 7, 2012

Tentative Program on Web January 28, 2012

Early Bird Registration Ends January 31, 2012

Regular Registration Begins February 1, 2012

Regular Registration Ends March 31, 2012

Late Registration Begins April 1, 2012

Last Day for a Refund February 15, 2012

You can read more about proposal submissions here.

Thanks again to Valerie Frankel for sending this to me.

After Grimm: Fairy Tales and the Art of Story Telling

This is a follow-up to a conference I posted about previously. Here's the most up-to-date info.

AFTER GRIMM: FAIRY TALES AND THE ART OF STORY TELLING
6th – 8th September 2012


Call for Papers

2012 is the bicentenary of the publication of the first volume of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen [Children’s and Household Tales] by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. As this groundbreaking collection moves into its third century, this conference explores the trajectory of the Grimm phenomenon in Britain and the English-speaking world. Examining the varied and colourful reception history of this collection of tales, this conference will discuss the most recent fairy- tale scholarship, as well as looking forward to possible future developments. The Grimm bicentenary will also be celebrated through story-telling events, readings, a creative writing prize, and an exhibition of illustrations.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Donald Haase, Neil Philip, and Professor Jack Zipes

Previously this conference was billed as two distinct events. Now Kingston University and The Sussex Centre for Folklore Fairy Tales and Fantasy at The University of Chichester are delighted to announce that they will be collaborating on a single event. Proposals for conference papers are invited on any aspect of fairy tale and storytelling over the last two-hundred years, but particularly in the following subjects:

The Oral Tradition within Grimms’ Tales a The literary origins of the Grimms’ ‘folktales’ a Translations of Grimms’ tales into English a The influence of Grimm upon British collectors of fairy tales a The impact of Grimms’ tales upon world literatures in English a Uses of Grimms’ tales in English-language visual media a Grimms’ tales and Romanticism a Grimms’ tales in Victorian Britain a Grimms’ tales in colonial and post-colonial contexts a Illustrations and art works relating to Grimms’ tales a Grimms’ tales in the electronic age a Memes, Tropes and Unchanging Elements a Telling Stories with Pictures a Songs as Stories a Reading Aloud a Performing Grimm a Packaging Grimm (illustrations, book covers, merchandising etc) a Fairy tales in (popular) culture a Retellings, Revisions and Reworkings a Adapting to New Audiences a New Fairy Tales a Fairy Tales on Stage and on Screen a Gossip, Slander, Rumour and News

This multi-disciplinary conference will welcome contributions from any disciplinary perspective including proposals to read creative work, screen films, mount performances and exhibit visual work.


Abstract submission

Please submit an abstract of approximately 300 words, and a brief contributor’s bio online at:
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/conferences/abstracts/

Deadline: January 31st 2012.
Enquiries:

Prof Bill Gray (Sussex Centre for Folklore Fairy Tales and Fantasy, University of Chichester) e: bgray@chi.ac.uk

Dr Andrew Teverson (Kingston University) e: fass-conferences@kingston.ac.uk

Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prizes: Call for Submissions 2011

Call for Submissions 2011
Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prizes
American Folklore Society Women’s Section

Each year, the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society awards
two prizes in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda. The
prizes recognize superior work on women’s traditional, vernacular, or
local culture and/or feminist theory and folklore.

Student Prize
· for an undergraduate or graduate student paper (up to 30 pages in length)
· entrants must either be currently enrolled in a degree program as
of the submission deadline or have been enrolled in one during the
2010-2011 academic year
· carries an award of $100
· submission deadline is September 30, 2011
· may be submitted as email attachment (preferred) or as hard copy


Professional/Non-Student Prize
· eligible work includes: publications, films, videos, exhibitions
or exhibition catalogues, or sound recordings
· materials should have been published/produced no more than two
years prior to the submission deadline
· carries an award of $250
· submission deadline (postmarked) is September 26, 2011
· please submit three copies of books, videos, etc.


The awards will be announced at the American Folklore Society Annual
Meeting in Bloomington, IN, October 13 – 16, 2011. Prize recipients
need not be members of the Society.

Please direct all submissions and questions to:
Jennifer Spitulnik-Hughes
University of Missouri
Department of English
114 Tate Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
jspitulnik (a) gmail dot com

About Elli Köngäs-Maranda
Internationally renowned feminist folklorist Elli Kaija Köngäs-Maranda
was born in Finland in 1932. She studied Finnish folklore at the
University of Helsinki and did her doctoral dissertation at Indiana
University (1963) on Finnish-American folklore. She held various
research positions, and taught at the University of British Columbia
(1970-1976) and at Laval University from 1976 until her premature
death in 1982. She was elected a Fellow of the American Folklore
Society in 1978. Academically, she was known for her structural
analysis of traditional culture, demonstrating precision and
mathematical intellect, but also for her eloquent writing. She
published extensively and in English, French, Finnish, German, and
Russian. Her feminism was particularly evident in her research and
writing on the Lau people, based on fieldwork conducted between 1966
and 1976. In 1983, the American Folklore Society Women’s section
inaugurated two prizes in her memory, one for student work and one for
professional work, funded by highly successful auctions, T-shirt
sales, the making and raffling of a quilt, and, most recently, the
sale of note cards commemorating that quilt.

Barbro Klein’s obituary gives the most personal feminist view of Elli (see Folklore Women’s Communication, fall-winter 1983 (30-31):4-7). For an example of Elli’s work, see "The Roots of the Two Ethnologies, and Ethnilogy.” Folklore Forum 15 #1 (1982):51-58, at http://hdl.handle.net/2022/ 1765. See also Felix J. Oinas, "Elli Kaija Köngäs Maranda: In Memoriam.” Folklore Forum 15 #2 (1982):115-123, at http://hdl.handle.net/ 2022/1778. A full bibliography of her work in French and English (as well as several example studies, a longer biography, and an introduction to her contributions to folkloristics) is in Travaux et Inédits de Elli Kaija Köngäs Maranda, Cahiers du CELAT 1, 1983. A later consideration of Elli’s intellectual contributions, particularly her unusual uniting of fieldwork and structural analysis, can be found in Leila K. Virtanen, "Folklorist Elli Kaija Köngäs Maranda: A Passionate Rationalist in the Field.” The Folklore Historian 17 (2000):34-41.

The Fairy Tale Vanguard Conference Call for Papers

The Fairy Tale Vanguard

Conference Call for Papers

Ghent University, in collaboration with the University of Antwerp.

Saint Peter’s abbey, Ghent (Belgium), 20 – 22 August 2012.

Confirmed keynote speakers: Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota) – Ute Heidmann (University of Lausanne, European Institute of the University of Geneva) – Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawai`i)

During the past decades, a lot has changed in the field of fairy tale studies: moving away from typological, structuralist and hermeneutically essentialist approaches, scholars today have again come to appreciate the specificity of individual fairy tale texts, the historical context in which they originated, and the many ways in which they have functioned. This general turn to history has brought about a variety of interesting new approaches, many of them focusing on questions of a social, political or ideological nature.

However, when it comes to the fairy tale’s functioning as a literary art form, i.e. as partaking in the dynamics of larger literary fields, research interests have been much more moderate. During the upcoming conference, we intend to re-examine the fairy tale in ways that will shed light on the genre’s position within the conservative and innovative forces that make up for the historical development of literatures. More specifically, we will take off from the idea that throughout its history, the fairy tale has provided authors with a space in which they could engage in literary experimentation and self-consciously reflect on contemporary trends in the literary field. As a result, it was often tied up with or even constituted literary vanguard impulses.

Examples of this are plenty, perhaps most obviously in postmodernist writings, but also in the Grimms’ careful construction of a national Natur/Volkspoesie, the exploration of mondain préciosité by the French salon writers, the Baroque textual games of Basile’s Pentamerone, etc. When we go back further into the genre’s prehistory, we encounter even more texts, both in “sacred” and vernacular languages, which display this same propensity for reflection and innovation.

We can at least partially explain this phenomenon by considering the general traits of the genre itself: as fantastic narrative par excellence, the fairy tale has tended to ostentatiously distance itself from more realistic modes of experience and representation. Though often engaged with very tangible historical realities, its general discourse is not so much characterized by faithful mimetic description as it is by creative fabulation – by the act of weaving language into unconventional textures.

The tale’s relatively short format only aids to heighten our awareness of its (sometimes intricate) architectural construction as a textual artifact – as Angela Carter once said: “The short story is not minimalist, it is rococo. I feel in absolute control. It is like writing chamber music rather than symphonies” (The Bloody Chamber, Vintage 2006, xix). It is exactly this kind of textual control which far exceeds the boundaries of more conventional mimesis that makes the fairy tale into a world of words, at least as much as of things. Not surprisingly then, authors have used this little world of words as a laboratory in which they could experiment with the art of literature, self-consciously explore its subjects, forms, aims and boundaries and comment on other literary forms and cultural debates (both in meaning and in form).

We welcome any proposals for papers regarding these ideas. Possible topics include:

• Theoretical and historical reflections on the literary discourse of the fairy tale genre
• The metaliterary use of fairy tales
• The programmatic paratextual framing of fairy tale collections
• Literary experimentation in fairy tales
• Fairy tales and the formation of national literatures
•The fairy tale’s response to and impact on developments within the larger literary field, e.g. its active participation in literary vanguards and movements, its shifting properties in globalized literature, its response to the introduction of new media

A three hundred word abstract and five line biography should be submitted to fairytale (a) ugent.be.

Abstract deadline: 1 March 2012

Notification of acceptance: April 2012

Organization:

Stijn Praet (°1986) is an FWO-funded doctoral researcher at Ghent University. He holds a BA in Latin and English, an MA in Comparative Modern Literature and a specialized MA in Literary Studies. He has recently published in Anti-Tales: The Uses of Disenchantment (Cambridge Scholars 2011) and is currently preparing his doctoral thesis on the Latin prehistory of the fairy tale genre. stijn.praet (a) ugent.be

Vanessa Joosen (°1977) is an FWO-funded postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp. She is the author of Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales (Wayne State UP 2011) and has published in a.o. Marvels and Tales, The Greenwood Companion to Fairy Tales and Children’s Literature in Education. vanessa.joosen (a) ua.ac.be

Conference in India: FOLK TALES AND AFTER: THEORY & PRAXIS IN STORYTELLING

Children’s Literature Association of India’s [CLAI] 5th International Conference

FOLK TALES AND AFTER: THEORY & PRAXIS IN STORYTELLING

Place: Pune, Venue : to be announced

Date: 25th to 27th November 2011.

“A folktale is a poetic text that carries some of its cultural contexts within it; it is also a travelling metaphor that finds a new meaning with every telling” – A.K. Ramanujan.

The above comment by one of the prominent folktale scholars of India embodies the essence of both theory and praxis of folktales and storytelling.
As literacy grew and the art of printing made books more accessible, storytelling began to die out. Worried that these folktales would fade from memory and disappear, collectors of folktales published them in books. Has the excessive presence of modern technological media almost eliminated the fashion of storytelling? Or viewed differently, are the hypnotic appeal of mass entertainment in television, music, video, films etc. just telling us stories in which we see ourselves, sometimes as we are, sometimes as we would like to be, sometimes as we hope we will never be? Then, as Julius Lester, the great African American children’s writer tells, “Story is who we are.” Folktales and After: Theory & Praxis in Storytelling is an academically worth mental exercise to explore into our own identity and it will be greatly exciting to be involved in this venture in the great central city of education in India, Pune, where cultural artefacts of east and west meet in a unique proportion and balance.

Traditionally, folktales taught the adults and children of a region how to live; it set a pattern for right living, directing almost a moral code of behaviour for a group of people. These tales were passed from one generation to the next and framed a set of rules for emulation. Today, the oral tradition has been replaced by mass media and children’s books have become the conservators of the oral tradition. Hence, the topic for the conference is a wide one that encompasses the total sphere of folktales, storytelling, and oral tradition, the whole gamut of tales and narration of children’s literature.

Folktales and storytelling are inseparable. This conference proposes to invite an international band of scholars in children’s literature to engage in various deliberations and themes associated with folktales and story telling. Discussions may be based on defining folktales, as folktales are often confused with fairy tales, myths, legends, fables, and other terms. Defining the realm of folktales in theory and praxis is essential to the critical evaluation of folktales study. Or, further explorations can be based on common characteristics of folktales. The themes of topics may vary as concerned with the setting, characters, plot, presence of animals, presence of tricksters, etc. in folktales. Another perspective may direct scholars to present papers on the structural aspects of folktales, especially on the Mnemonic devices used in folktales such as stock or set openings and closings in the narration of folktales, various formula and set descriptions in narration, etc.

Indian scholars, we suggest, may, perhaps, make a theoretical as well as performing effects of folktales narrated from different regions of the country and represent in papers topics such as themes, motifs, narrative structures peculiar to the folktales of the subcontinent. Or, for the more serious scholars, we propose a postcolonial study of folktales! British colonial officials, writers, missionaries, and their helpers collected a number of Indian folktales during colonization. Rich in local cultural details, these collections of tales contain elaborate prefaces and explanatory notes that often reveal how these colonial collectors of folktales delineated the other and dwelt with subjectivity while themselves experiencing shifting subaltern positions.

Other scholars can be more incisive in their criticism of folktales as for example by interrogating the presence of outmoded values of an earlier time preserved in ancient folktales or even by probing into their suitability as literature for children today. You may even go to the extend of breaking all norms of submissiveness questioning certain tales that might be communicating attitudes we no longer consider appropriate for children.

For the more serene scholars, we also put forward topics more child-centred like folktales and their contemporary impact on children, or characteristics of oral literature for children as exposed in certain examples of folktales of your choice.

We promise it to be an exciting experience in Pune – a unique instance of academic collaboration in children’s literature with Bhaasha, an NGO actively working for children. The local organizers of the conference in Pune require immediate email messages of confirmation in participation. Please send a message to Ms. Swati J. Raje as early as possible.

The abstracts of your paper presentations as word attached file in Times New Roman 12 point font, with double spacing, and the words limited to a maximum of 250. The abstract should reach Children’s Literature Association of India in the email address antoct@yahoo.co.in on or before 30 August 2011.


For further details of the conference venue and other requirements including accommodation and local hospitality, please contact:

Ms. Swati J Raje, Children’s Writer, Pune, India.

Phone: 91-9822401876

Mail to: swatijraje@hotmail.com

swatijraje@gmail.com

“Grimm Legacies,” February 3 & 4, 2012 at Harvard University



Here's the first conference/symposium devoted to the Grimms being held in the U.S. next year that I know about. I've already posted about three in Europe, specifically in Germany, England and Portugal.

The site for the Harvard symposium is a little design challenged at the moment, making it nearly impossible to read half of the text, but here's what I have been able to copy and paste here. The deadline for papers is October 1, 2011. Maria Tatar and Holly Hutchison are organizing.

“Grimm Legacies”

February 3 & 4, 2012

Thompson Room, Barker Center, Harvard University

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of the tales collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University will host a symposium to be held on February 3 and 4, 2012.

“Grimm Legacies” takes as its premise a line (“pasted on for eternity”) from Anne Sexton’s poem “Cinderella” and adds a question mark to the phrase to interrogate the seemingly timeless and universal hold of the cultural stories collected by the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, will deliver the keynote address.

Panel discussions will cover a range of topics:


• Fairy Tales and Antiquity

• Migrations into New Media

• Copyright, Translation, and Transculturation

• Beasts and Steeping Beauties

• Violence, Excess, and the Dark Side

To inquire about submitting paper proposals. please contact Folklore & Mythology chair Maria Tatar and administrator Holly Hutchison. The deadline for proposals will be October 1, 2011.

(I'm not including hot email links which are on the symposium site to spare their email spam filters...)

Children's Literature Symposium, February 3-4, 2012

Children's Literature Symposium, February 3-4, 2012 in Florida will be of interest to many readers here since fairy tales are included in the theme and call for papers. The call doesn't have a due date so perhaps it has already passed. I didn't see one on the website at childrensliteraturesymposium.org. It's a somewhat clunky site set up in Flash so it will have difficulty on some iPads and such and will take a bit to load for others of you, so I am sharing the pertinent information below, too:

Call for Papers

"The Same Text but Different: Variants in Children’s Media"

Children's Literature Symposium, February 3-4, 2012

This year, the CLS Steering and Planning Committees invite proposals from scholars, critics, researchers, librarians, educators, children's book authors and illustrators, and graduate students for presentations that address the topic of “variants” in children’s and young adult literature: books with plots built upon folklore or other previously written tales. Interest in variants is hardly new, and ultimately, all texts build upon one another. However, recent increases in the publication of picturebooks, novels, and releases of other media (such as film and video games) with plots or structures that draw on folklore (e.g., Gidwitz’s [2010] A Tale Dark and Grimm, Weston’s [2010] Dust City), the work of authors like William Shakespeare (e.g., Dionne’s [2010] The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, Stone’s [2011] The Romeo and Juliet Code, Ray’s [2011] Falling for Hamlet), Henry James (e.g., Griffin’s [2011] Tighter), or Jules Verne (e.g., Blackwood’s [2010] “sort of sequel,” Around the World in 100 Days), or composers like Vivaldi (e.g., Zalben’s [2011] Four Seasons: A Novel in Four Movements) suggest a renewed cultural fascination with texts that “play” with other texts. In addition, single texts have been adapted across media: Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (2002), for example, has been released as both a 2009 feature film and as a 2008 graphic novel (adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell).

Through this year’s symposium, we seek to further discussions and enrich understandings of both historical and contemporary children’s and young adult literature and media that lean on, contradict, or extend other texts—privileging some at the expense of others. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

•Literary lore, fractured fairy tales, and the authorial use (and/or abuse) of folklore
•Cultural literacy and cultural capital
•Reinscribing and disrupting media Canons
•Shifting audiences: retellings or the appropriation of children’s texts for adults (or “adult” texts being retold or appropriated by/for children)
•Variants as/in translation
•Fanfiction, slash fiction, and other reader-created retellings
•Re-writing of “mainstream” texts by traditionally marginalized populations (i.e., people of color, queer sexualities)
•Theories of variation in narrative and poetic structures (generally—and in texts for young people explicitly)

We invite 250-500 word abstracts for both individual paper presentations or virtual papers. While all proposals will be considered, preference will be given to those which focus on most clearly on the conference theme.

About the CLS:

Established in 2007, the Children's Literature Symposium at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee is an annual conference sponsored by the College of Education. Children's Literature Symposium conferences center on issues related to the study of children’s and young adult literature. The overarching goal of these symposia is to critically explore genres of children’s and young adult literature through scholarship, research, and criticism. As opposed to focusing on the pedagogical uses of children's texts, the Children's Literature Symposium treats "children's literature" and "young adult literature" as genres, as opposed to indicators of readership. By bringing together scholars, critics, and researchers in literary analysis, education, and library and information sciences, the Children's Literature Symposium seeks to engage participants in critical discussions about children's and young adult literature.

Each year, the Children's Literature Symposium provides a program through which participants engage with critical and theoretical perspectives on children’s and young adult literature through presentations that address contemporary issues and trends that affect children’s and young adult literature, media, and culture. With a primary audience of professionals in English, education, library/media science (as well as community members and others with an interest in this body of literature), the Children's Literature Symposium aims to engage participants in scholarly discussions about children’s and young adult literature.

Grimm in Lisbon 2012 Conference (Grimm and You in Lisbon 2012)

So far, I know of three conferences dedicated to the 2012 Grimm Bicentennial. I posted about the one at Kingston University in London yesterday. I will post about the other two today including one in Kassel, Germany. This post is for the Grimm in Lisbon 2012 Conference scheduled for June 2012 in Lisbon (obviously).

Here is the call for papers which are due by September 4, 2011:

The Grimm Brothers Today

Kinder- und Hausmärchen and Its Legacy, 200 Years After

Since 1812 the Grimm Brothers’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen (KHM), translated in dozens of languages and read by children and adults everywhere, became the quintessential book of fairy tales. It also provided an enduring, if controversial, paradigm for folktale studies. As the bicentenary of the publication of KHM approaches, we invite scholars to appraise its significance today. We call for papers on all aspects of the Grimms’ tales and their legacy, from a number of distinct perspectives. The symposium comprises the following panels:

Brothers Grimm and their European contemporaries (convened by Sadhana Naithani, Associate Professor, Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi);

Fairy tale and genre in a post-Grimm era (convened by Donald Haase, Associate Dean and Professor of German, Wayne State University, Detroit);

Filmic adaptations of the Grimm fairy tales (convened by Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota);

KHM at the intersection of learned tradition and popular literature, art and folk narrative (convened by Christine Shojaei Kawan, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen and Arbeitsstelle Enzyklopädie des Märchens);

Metamorphosis as metaphor: Transformative magic in the Grimms' KHM (convened by Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University);

Who owns the fairy tales? Heritage, copyright, and the Grimm legacy (convened by Valdimar Hafstein, Associate Professor of Folkloristics, University of Iceland).

Other panel proposals are welcome. The deadline for panel and paper submissions is September 4, 2011. The acceptance of submissions will be announced by October 31, 2011. We expect to send out a second circular, containing an outline of the program and further details, by December 15, 2011. The meeting will take place in June 21–23, 2012.

For instructions on submissions, check here.

Looking forward to seeing you in Lisbon!

Francisco Vaz da Silva
Organizing Committee