CFP-o-Rama

Got a fresh new batch of CFPs (or "calls for papers") in my inbox today. There is some wacky stuff going on out there.

From the highly specialized (English Language Perspectives on Flemish Culture) to the abstruse (the New Queer Historicism) to the wacky (Zombies). There's truly a lid for every pot.

My all-time favorite CFP:

Taking Modernity From Behind:

In Negotiations, Giles Deleuze famously characterizes his history of philosophy as “a sort of buggery,” the practice of “taking an author from behind and giving him a child that would be his own offspring, yet monstrous.” Using this description as an organizing impetus, we invite submissions for a panel on approaching theories of modernity from behind – i.e. from texts retroactively designated as “early modern.” What kinds of “offspring” does such an analysis generate? And to whom would they be monstrous?

Papers should stage a conversation between modernity and early modernity in order to demonstrate not simply the utility of using modern theories to analyze early modern texts, but to demonstrate how a sodomitical reading practice de-familiarizes, hybridizes, and perhaps eroticizes both modernisms and early modernisms.

Ok--but what do you tell your mother when she asks about your work? Moms just don't want to hear "sodomitical." Ever.

Trust me.