CELEBRATING JEWISH IDENTITY
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The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on constructing modern Jewish identities, beginning in the=20
1970s for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April=
 4-7,=20
2007.=20
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Since the 1970s, being Jewish became acceptable and comedians and actors=20
retained their Jewish names. Barbra Streisand, Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Reiser,=
 Robin=20
Williams, Paul Reubens, Adam Sandler, Jon Lovitz, Rob Schneider, Gilda=20
Radner, Adam Goldberg, and Jeff Goldblum are just a few of the many successf=
ul=20

THE KABBALAH AND HOLLYWOOD
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The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on Hollywood celebrities and their interest and study of th=
e=20
Kabbalah for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, Ap=
ril=20
4-7, 2007.
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In recent years study of the Kabbalah has become more and more popular among=
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non-Jewish believers. Specifically, pop singer Madonna and her film directo=
r=20
husband Guy Ritchie, and actress Demi Moore and her actor husband Ashton=20
Kutcher are converts to Kabbalah, making study of Kabbalah the =E2=80=9Cin=
=E2=80=9D thing for many=20
people.
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STEPHEN SPIELBERG
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The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on specifically evaluating Stephen Spielberg for the 2007=20
conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
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Stephen Spielberg is one of the most powerful and most influential directors=
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in Hollywood today. His filmography includes Jaws, Close Encounters of the=20
Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, his Academy Award winning film Schindle=
r=E2=80=99s=20
List, and Saving Private Ryan. He has worked with many of the best creative=
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people in the film industry including actors Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss,=
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JEWISH CLASSICAL MUSICIANS
 
 
 
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at
least one panel on Jewish Classical Musicians for the 2007 conference of the
ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
 
Jewish musicians have influenced classical music almost since its inception.
More modern composers include such masters as Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav
Mahler, Jacques Offenbach, Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Copland. Modern classical
performers include Arthur Rubenstein, Isaac Stern, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir
Horowitz, Wladyslaw Szpilman (The Pianist), Beverly Sills (nee Belle Miriam

JEWISH CLASSICAL MUSICIANS
 
 
 
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at
least one panel on Jewish Classical Musicians for the 2007 conference of the
ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
 
Jewish musicians have influenced classical music almost since its inception.
More modern composers include such masters as Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav
Mahler, Jacques Offenbach, Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Copland. Modern classical
performers include Arthur Rubenstein, Isaac Stern, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir
Horowitz, Wladyslaw Szpilman (The Pianist), Beverly Sills (nee Belle Miriam

JEWISH MYTHOLOGY
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The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on Jewish Mythology for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA i=
n=20
Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
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>From Lillith to the Golem, Jewish mythology has been an important part of=20
Jewish life. The story of the Golem is considered by some to be part of the=
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inspiration for Mary Shelley=E2=80=99s Frankenstein. =20
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Presentation proposals should examine the history and the significance of=20
Jewish mythology on Jewish culture and non-Jewish culture, especially in the=
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United States.
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The fifth annual Conference for Medieval Studies, a graduate student conference
sponsored by Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies group, will be held at
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana on February 23-24, 2007. The theme
for this year's conference is "On the Edge: Representations of Liminality in
Medieval Europe."

Patricia Clare Ingham, Indiana University, Bloomington, will be the plenary
speaker for this year's conference.

Please feel free to forward and cross-post.

CFP: Documentary

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
April 4-7, 2007, Boston, MA
Deadline: 1 November 2006

I am seeking papers, abstracts, and panel proposals for the documentary area
of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference
to be held April 4-7, 2007, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston,
MA.

KIRK DOUGLAS
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The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on specifically evaluating the body of work by the=20
multi-talented Kirk Douglas for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston=
,=20
Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
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Even after his severe stroke, Kirk Douglas has continued to be a force in=20
film and publishing. As an actor, he has starred in such important films as=
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Paths of Glory, Seven Days in May, and Spartacus, and starred on Broadway as=
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Randall McMurphy in the play adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo=E2=80=
=99s Nest. As an=20

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting
April 19-22, 2007
Puebla, Mexico

http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/

The ACLA conference consists in seminars that gather 9 to 12 papers and meet
two or three times during the event. The following seminar invites papers
discussing any region and any literature of the Americas, North, Central, or
South.

When Inter-American Hitchhikers, Naturalized Migrants and Locals
Collide: Literary Intersections between Old and New in the Americas
from 1492 to the 21st Century.

UPDATE: Geography and the Book of Nature: The Natural World in
Transition, 1300-1600

Date correction: the conference will take place on 14-15 July 2007.

Sebastian Sobecki
Geography and the Book of Nature Congress
Department of English
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
Phone: +49 234 32 28 518
book-of-nature-2007_at_rub.de

UPDATE: Geography and the Book of Nature: The Natural World in
Transition, 1300-1600

Date correction: the conference will take place on 14-15 July 2007.

Sebastian Sobecki
Geography and the Book of Nature Congress
Department of English
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
Phone: +49 234 32 28 518
book-of-nature-2007_at_rub.de

The deadline for papers and panel proposals has been extended to September 10, 2006.
   
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  2006 Conference: The Documentary Tradition,
  8 - 12 November, 2006
  Dolce Conference Center, Dallas, TX.
   
  The 2006 Film & History conference on THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION is currently accepting paper abstracts and panel proposals on SOVIET PIONEER FILMMAKERS Dziga Vertov and Esther Shub.
   

Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
(1900-present) invites submissions to its journal Americana: The Journal of
American Popular Culture.

We encourage you to visit the journal at
http://www.americanpopularculture.com to see the kinds of material we are
interested in publishing.
 
If you would like to submit to the journal, send an explanatory email that
includes your institutional affiliation to
editor_at_americanpopularculture.com.

Attach the essay you would like to be considered to that email. Please make
sure your article conforms to the following guidelines: