CALL FOR PAPERS

DECADENCE: EXCESS, EROSION, AND TRANSGRESSION
The 2007 UC Irvine Visual Studies Graduate Student Association Conference
March 2-3, 2007

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: DECEMBER 1, 2006

The Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and the Visual Media
http://www.continuumbooks.com/

Opportunities for Chapters on Television/Media Sound and/or Music

Deadline: January 15th 2007

The "Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and the Visual Media", aims to be the
most comprehensive companion available to sound and music in film, media and
new media. It will eventually consist of around 300,000 words by expert
contributors from around the world.

The 2007 Texas Tech Comparative Literature Symposium on "America's Asia,
Asia's America"=20

April 13-14, 2007 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas

Texas Tech University houses the largest Vietnam Archive in the United
States, and West Texas has been home to thousands of Vietnamese/Asian
Americans. Late spring in Lubbock is usually mild and sunny.

Keynote Speakers:

Sheldon Xiao-peng Lu, Comparative Literature Program, UC-Davis;

Rob Wilson, Department of Literature, UC-Santa Cruz;

Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, Asian American Studies Program, UC-Berkeley

Proposal Submission Deadline: January 12, 2007

The 2007 Texas Tech Comparative Literature Symposium on "America's Asia,
Asia's America"=20

April 13-14, 2007 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas

Texas Tech University houses the largest Vietnam Archive in the United
States, and West Texas has been home to thousands of Vietnamese/Asian
Americans. Late spring in Lubbock is usually mild and sunny.

Keynote Speakers:

Sheldon Xiao-peng Lu, Comparative Literature Program, UC-Davis;

Rob Wilson, Department of Literature, UC-Santa Cruz;

Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, Asian American Studies Program, UC-Berkeley

Proposal Submission Deadline: January 12, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

Jamesian Forms

THE MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM announces its twelfth annual conference will be held March 22-24, 2007 in Milwaukee. The theme for the conference will be "WOMEN and CREATIVITY." Suitable topics for twenty-minute presentations that could involve a multitude of disciplinary perspectives (e.g.

Deadline extended:

Hollywood and the Culture Wars: A Study Day
1 March 2007, De Montfort University, UK.=20
Call For Papers.

For a collection of essays on the topic of 'Intermediality,' we are still
looking for essays, in particular on theoretical explorations of the concept
of 'Intermediality' itself, and on the intermedial aspects of comics/graphic
novels.
Some publishers have already expressed interest in this collection, so, if
you would like to be on board, please contact brundlefly_at_web.de -
abstracts and finished papers [or drafts] welcome!
The deadline for finished papers is Jan 30.

THE MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM announces its twelfth annual conference will be held March 22-24, 2007 in Milwaukee. The theme for the conference will be "WOMEN and CREATIVITY." Suitable topics for twenty-minute presentations that could involve a multitude of disciplinary perspectives (e.g.

Reminder:
 

New extended submission deadline - 15 November 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

CULTURAL STUDIES NOW: an international conference

Docklands Campus, University of East London, UK, 19-22 July 2007

Plenary speakers and presenters will include Ien Ang, Rosi Braidotti,
Kuan-Hsing Chen, Jeremy Gilbert, Judith Halberstam, Stuart Hall, Dick
Hebdige, Doreen Massey, Horace Ove, Mitra Tabrizian.

Reminder:
 

New extended submission deadline - 15 November 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

CULTURAL STUDIES NOW: an international conference

Docklands Campus, University of East London, UK, 19-22 July 2007

Plenary speakers and presenters will include Ien Ang, Rosi Braidotti,
Kuan-Hsing Chen, Jeremy Gilbert, Judith Halberstam, Stuart Hall, Dick
Hebdige, Doreen Massey, Horace Ove, Mitra Tabrizian.

Call for Papers

GLBTQ STUDIES STILL MARKED AS DEVIANT IN THE BIBLE
BELT:
WHAT CAN BE DONE?

 (Proposed Panel, SEWSA, UT-Chattanooga, March 22-24,
2007)

POETS & POETRY PANEL

L'ENVERS DU DECOR: A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

L'Envers du décor

47th Annual SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur)
Congress

Avignon, France : 11th, 12th and 13th May 2007

Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse.

What takes place centre-stage starts life behind the scenes. The chaotic
become disciplined, the underground overground, expressions of freedom are
constrained. What are we to make, however, of this flipside and of those
that choose to walk on the wild side?

---IASA 2007 CALL FOR PAPERSINTERNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2007LISBON, September 20-23, 2007*Seminar Title: Interactive Dimensions between Transatlantic andTranspacific American Studies*Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2006*Papers to be Submitted to: tinarita_at_hum.nagoya-cu.ac.jp*Seminar Organizer: Professor Tatsushi Narita, Nagoya City UniversityDescription:¡ÈTranspacific¡É American studies appears to have been marginalized despitean indispensable role it is expected to play. Even the prevalent sphere ofTransatlantic studies would seem needing redirection. This seminar addressesthose issues which underlie both of admirable Transatlantic studies andemerging Transpacific studies.