<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font><br>From: <a href="mailto:H-Announce@hnet.msu.edu">H-Announce@hnet.msu.edu</a><br><br>Limning the Contemporary in Postwar Japanese Fiction and Film<br>Location:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>New Mexico, United States<br>Call for Papers Deadline:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2010-03-01<br>Date Submitted:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2009-12-13<br>Announcement ID:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>172650<br><br>Call for Papers: "Limning the Contemporary in Postwar Japanese Fiction and Film" panel at RMMLA Oct. 2010<br><br>This panel is designed to appeal to a wide spectrum of approaches from scholars of modern Japan. Although conceived of as "area-focused," the issue of the nature and timing of "the contemporary" in modern Japan resonates with debates on the nature of postmodernity in the West. Proposals for papers concerning the nature of "the contemporary" and/or of "modernity" and its relationship to "postmodernity" in Japan as it relates to literature, film or criticism are welcome.<br><br>The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference takes place October 14-16, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For information on the conference, please see <a href="http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/conf10Albuquerque/default.asp">http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/conf10Albuquerque/default.asp</a><br><br>In order to present their papers, all panel members must be members of the RMMLA by April 1, 2010. Please see <a href="http://rmmla.wsu.edu/member/join-renew.asp">http://rmmla.wsu.edu/member/join-renew.asp</a> for details.<br><br>The deadline for proposal submissions is March 1, 2010. Please include the following in your proposal:<br><br>name<br>institutional affiliation<br>area of study<br>e-mail contact<br>paper title<br>abstract of 250-500 words<br>AV requirements<br><br>Peter Tillack<br>Assistant Professor of Japanese<br>Department of Modern Languages and Literatures<br>Montana State University<br>(406)994-6441<br>Email: <a href="mailto:tillack@montana.edu">tillack@montana.edu</a><br>Visit the website at <a href="http://rmmla.wsu.edu/call/default.asp">http://rmmla.wsu.edu/call/default.asp</a><br><br>********************************************************<br>H-Japan encourages authors to append a summary of their<br>message in Japanese when writing in English and in English<br>when writing in Japanese.<br>********************************************************<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>