Deadline extended to 06/12/2006 submit to: jtdawson_at_andrew.cmu.edu

The English Department at Carnegie Mellon University and Unseam'd
Shakespeare Company (Pittsburgh, Pa) with the participation of the August
Wilson Center for African American Culture invite academics, artists and
graduate students to participate in a day-long symposium:

Bridges or Fences: Diversity on the American Stage
(Re-engaging the Wilson-Brustein Debates)

June 24, 2006
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pa

CALL FOR POSTERS=20

Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

October 19-21, 2006=20

The Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future Symposium Planning =
Committee is issuing a call for posters that highlight digital =
humanities projects, tools or techniques or work in progress. We also =
encourage any college or university digital humanities program, center =
or group to present a poster that overviews their program. Posters may =
include a demonstration, traditional printed poster, or a combination of =
both. Wireless internet access will be available at the poster venue.

CALL FOR POSTERS=20

Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

October 19-21, 2006=20

The Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future Symposium Planning =
Committee is issuing a call for posters that highlight digital =
humanities projects, tools or techniques or work in progress. We also =
encourage any college or university digital humanities program, center =
or group to present a poster that overviews their program. Posters may =
include a demonstration, traditional printed poster, or a combination of =
both. Wireless internet access will be available at the poster venue.

Call for Papers:
Compulsory Screening: Australian Cinema and the Question of Borders

The Westerly Centre at the University of Western Australia invites
abstracts for an edited collection of essays addressing Australian
cinematic experience in the light recent debates concerning
immigration, border security, refugees and the detention of asylum
seekers. We are interested in how these events have helped
precipitate a new understanding of nation and how this in turn might
have affected cinematic expression, changed the kind of films that
are produced, or made earlier films ring with new resonances.

'evolutions': a two-day international conference hosted by the School
of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh,
22-23 September 2006

CFP Panel: Unfolding Selves: Evolution and the Rites of Passage

 From the birth of a child to the death of a parent, entering university
to finishing schooling, childhood to adulthood through a myriad of
milestones, life is full of markers of change.

    * What can be said about losing one's virginity, shaving for the
first time, or the onset of menstruation?
    * What is the significance of confirmation or circumcision?
    * What greater privileges come in the gaining of a driver's licence
or the right to vote?

Call for papers

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Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Methodologies, Imagining Alternatives

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The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) invites proposals for =
an=20
international workshop, INSIDE KNOWLEDGE, to be held at the University =
of Amsterdam on March 28-30, 2007.

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We welcome proposals from a range of disciplines, including (but not =
limited to) art history and theory, literary studies, cultural studies, =
film and media studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, =
philosophy, history, gender studies, queer theory, art and design, =
musicology, anthropology, sociology, political science, geography, =
religion studies, and linguistics.

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"Tropes in the Gender Discourse of Modern East Asian Literature, Film and Other
Cultural Works"
A panel at the 2007 convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association,
March 1-3, Baltimore MD.

Call for papers

=20

Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Methodologies, Imagining Alternatives

=20

The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) invites proposals for =
an=20
international workshop, INSIDE KNOWLEDGE, to be held at the University =
of Amsterdam on March 28-30, 2007.

=20

We welcome proposals from a range of disciplines, including (but not =
limited to) art history and theory, literary studies, cultural studies, =
film and media studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, =
philosophy, history, gender studies, queer theory, art and design, =
musicology, anthropology, sociology, political science, geography, =
religion studies, and linguistics.

=20

"Beyond Ground Zero": 9/11 and the Futures of Critical Thought

Saturday, October 21, 2006

McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

PLEASE NOTE: OUR DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS HAS CHANGED. The new
deadline is Sunday, July 16, 2006.

Call for Papers
Panel: Women Writers of Color, Womanist/Feminist Activism, and
Personal Healing
38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

This panel focuses on the connections between women authors, personal
healing, and the search for global justice. What is the relationship
between women's personal empowerment and their political action,
particularly in literature by women of color in the last half of the
20th and the first years of the 21st century? The panel will invoke
some of these questions:

'Wandering with Spinoza'

www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/spinoza/

The Conference will be held at the Victorian College of the Arts, =
Melbourne, Australia from 13 =96 15 September 2006.

The conference aims to bring together philosophers, theorists and visual =
and performing artists to celebrate this most influential of =
philosophers.

Keynote Speakers include Alain Badiou, Mieke Bal, Thomas Hirschhorn, =
Genevieve Lloyd, and Christopher Norris=20

Call for Papers
Panel: Women Writers of Color, Womanist/Feminist Activism, and
Personal Healing
38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

This panel focuses on the connections between women authors, personal
healing, and the search for global justice. What is the relationship
between women's personal empowerment and their political action,
particularly in literature by women of color in the last half of the
20th and the first years of the 21st century? The panel will invoke
some of these questions:

Reframing Nella Larsen: Panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Baltimore, March 1-4, 2007.
 

> Bisexuality in Music: A Call for Papers
> For much of its history, bisexuality has barely been recognized as
> a legitimate topic for historical or theoretical
> discourse of any sort. Indeed, for many, bisexuality has often
> seemed little more than a question, at best.
> "Does bisexuality really even exist?" Only within the last decade
> or so has scholarship in the humanities begun
> to acknowledge, theorize and historicize this seemingly liminal