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CFP MAPACA November 3-5, 2012 Pittsburgh

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Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 10:19am
Mid Atlantic Popular American Culture Association

The wealth of material found in the Middle Ages and Renaissance continues to attract modern audiences in the form of with new creative works in areas such as fiction, film, and computer games, which make use of medieval and/or early modern themes, characters, or plots. This is a call for papers or panels dealing with any aspect of medieval or Renaissance representation in popular culture. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to the following:

-Modern portrayals of any aspect of Arthurian legends or Shakespeare

-Modern versions or adaptations of any other Medieval or Renaissance writer

-Modern investigations of historical figures such as Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Richards, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scotts

The 2012 World Congress on Electronics and Electrical Engineering, WCEEENG'12

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Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 9:14am
INFOMESR

http://infomesr.org/en/scientific-research/conferences/2012-conferences/...

INFOMESR has the pleasure to organize the 2012 world congress on electronics and electrical engineering in the period December 23 - 27, 2012. In addition to regularly scheduled scientific sessions, separate exhibition and seminars will be devoted to the presentation of latest achievements in electronics and electrical applications.

Motley 2012: Redefining the Dominant Discourse of Popular Culture ***EXTENSION (submissions due July 15th)

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 8:39pm
Motley, An English Studies Journal for Diversity - Students of English Studies Association (SESA) at CSU, Fresno

"Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself."

–Margaret Atwood

The Students of English Studies Association (SESA) of California State University, Fresno, in collaboration with Rasquache, and the Chicano Writers and Artists Association (CWAA), announces its call for papers for the 2011-2012 publication of Motley.

We welcome papers related to the theme:

Diversity/Redefining the Dominant Discourse of Popular Culture

AWP 2013 - Boston, March 6-9 - Poetry and the Academy Today CFP

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 7:30pm
Rebecca van Laer

Seeking presentation proposals for the annual AWP conference in Boston, Massachusetts, March 6-9, 2013.

As first-book contests become increasingly influential in shaping contemporary poetry, this panel explores how these contests and other national poetry awards-- particularly the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the Poet Laureateship-- promote established poetic forms that occlude artists working in more experimental modes. Papers will revolve around the relationship between poets and the academy broadly conceived, in particular how the latter's promotion of an established aesthetic overlooks working-class and non-lyric poets, and how we might imagine a publishing industry more amenable to non-traditional forms.

Pilgrimage, Mission, Spiritual Ascension: Religious Travel in World Literature (SAMLA, 9-11 Nov)

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 5:38pm
J. Stephen Pearson

Religious travel is found in many of the world's greatest literary works, from the pilgrims going to Canterbury to Tripitaka collecting the sacred scrolls in India to Las Casas traveling around the New World to Dante ascending from Hell into Paradise--just to name a few well-known examples.

Presentations on any topic related to literary depictions of religious travel--anything from literal depictions of pilgrimage or mission to metaphorical depictions of spiritual journeying or ascension--are welcome. Source material may come from any religious tradition and geographic region, and genres may include both textual and performed materials (e.g., plays, songs, movies).

[UPDATE]British Poetry of the First World War: Centenary Conference. Wadham College, Oxford. 09/05/2014---09/07/2014

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 1:34pm
The English Association

The English Association's Centenary Conference on British Poetry of the First World War will take place at Wadham College, Oxford University, on 05-07 September 2014. As well as scholars from around the world, many of the relevant specialist poetry societies will be taking part. More details will follow in due course, including information about keynote speakers, accommodation and costs. Please get in touch if you would like to be kept up to date as plans develop.

[UPDATE] Ecologies of Seeing or Seeing Whole: Images and Space, Images within Images conf Sept 27-29, 2012 (proposals due May)

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 10:02am
Nomadikon Centre, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and The College of St. Rose, Albany, NY

The Nomadikon Centre, The University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and The College of St. Rose, Albany, New York, USA invite paper proposals for the 6th Nomadikon Meeting: "Seeing Whole: Images and Space, Images within Images." The Conference will be held Sept. 27-29, 2012 on The College St. Rose campus in Albany, New York. The conference theme reflects an overall interest in the process of seeing itself, with "seeing" suggesting but certainly not limited to physical sight, but inclusive of an embodied "seeing." The conference is interdisciplinary and invites papers on film, painting, photography, performance, music, material culture, and literature.

III International Colloquium of Philosophy of Technology

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 9:37am
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

III International Colloquium of Philosophy of Technology
Technical worlds: ontological, epistemological and normative aspects of artificiality.

27, 28 and 29 September 2012, Cordoba, Argentina.

Place of the meeting: National University of Córdoba.

[UPDATE] 'Routes and Roots': Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 9:27am
Anthony Barker

'Routes and Roots': Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism. 28th and 29th June 2012

Cultural Studies Centre,
University of Aveiro, Portugal.

We see the proposed gathering of scholars and tourism professionals as taking the form of 5 possible subsections, addressing issues in intercultural communication, identity formation, representations of the tourist/traveller, the business side of tourism and patterns of leisure behaviour.

1. Communicating in Tourist Contexts
2. Travelling Identities
3. Representations of Tourist Experience
4. Tourism-biz
5. Conceptualizing the Holiday

International Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Engineering

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 1:32am
Natarajan Sriraam/SSN College of Engineering

The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Engineering (IJBCE) would like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal. The following describes the mission, coverage, and guidelines for submission to IJBCE.
http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-biomedical-clini...
Kindly forward this information to Biomedical research community.

[UPDATE] Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy - deadline May 1, 2012

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 12:35am
Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now accepting submissions of articles, webtexts, or other digital formats that report and reflect on new uses of technology in teaching, learning, or research. Work received by May 1, 2012 will be peer-reviewed for possible publication in our upcoming Fall 2012 issue. In addition, we always welcome contributions to our rolling sections: Teaching FAILs (where you help others learn from your mistakes), Assignments, Book Reviews, and Tool Tips (reviews and advice on applying particular technologies).

Sri Lankan Anglophone Writing (South Asian Review 33.3--August 1, 2012)

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 11:32pm
South Asian Review

South Asian Review, the refereed journal of the South Asian Literary Association, invites submissions for its 2012 special number, Volume 33 Number 3, devoted to Sri Lankan Anglophone literature. The South Asian Review calls for papers that examine Sri Lankan Anglophone fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, and film.

Arthurian Film / TV / Electronic Games Collection (6/1/12)

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 7:59pm
The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages is seeking proposals of 500 words for essays devoted to Arthurian-themed film, television, and/or electronic games. We are particularly interested in approaches that explore issues of transformation and/or diversity in these works.

Please submit proposals and CV by 6/1/12 and note "Are You From Camelot Proposal" in the subject line.

Completed essays should be between 5000 to 8000 words and submitted to the editors by 12/1/12 or earlier.

http://are-you-from-camelot.blogspot.com/

CFP: World Picture Conference November 2012 - ACTION - Sussex (UK)

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 6:54pm
http://worldpicturejournal.com/

World Picture Conference
University of Sussex
Brighton, UK
2-3 November 2012

ACTION

Keynote speakers:

Felix Ensslin, Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart

Alberto Toscano, Goldsmiths College, London

The annual World Picture Conference gathers scholars from a range of different disciplines to address the relation between critical theory, philosophy, and aesthetics. For this year's meeting we welcome papers on questions of action. Such considerations might include (but are in no sense limited to):

UPDATE: Everyday Ethos: Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 13-16, 2012

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 4:14pm
Susanna Engbers

The theme for the CCCC 2013 conference is "The Public Work of Composition," with particular attention to basic writers. An interest in writing as a public work naturally invites consideration of the moral questions inherent in writing for a public audience. (e.g., What is my relationship to my readers? By what means should I persuade? And so on.) The rhetorical concept of ethos should be a natural part of this discussion, given that a rich understanding of ethos leads writers to reflect on the manifestation of their identity in public discourse and the related ethical questions that such presentation entails—among them the age-old question of whether an author must be a "good man," vir bonus, and by what means that goodness may be measured.

[UPDATE] Fashion Panels at 2012 Midwest Pop Culture/American Culture Association Conference

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 3:52pm
Midwest Pop Culture/American Culture Association

Call for Papers:
FASHION
2012 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 12-14, 2012
Columbus, OH
Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel
Deadline: May 30, 2012

Topics can include, but are not limited to the history of fashion, fashion designers, fashion models, fashion in literature, film, or television, fashion choices of celebrities, and fashion trends of the present or past.

Please e-mail 250 word abstract proposals on any aspect of Fashion to Kelli Purcell O'Brien, The University of Memphis, at kobrien1@memphis.edu/

CFP: academic reviews of / responses to Punchdrunk's SLEEP NO MORE (New York City run), due June 23, 2012

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 3:20pm
Borrowers & Lenders, the Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation

CFP

Borrowers & Lenders, The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, is soliciting contributors to a composite (and possibly collaborative) review of Punchdrunk's New York City production of Sleep No More, an ongoing interactive performance project based on Macbeth. Meant in part to accommodate and record the experience of attending this production, this composite review will attempt to capture the dynamic in which each audience member's participation in the performance yields a unique dramatic experience.

Papers are invited in Management, Economics and Social Sciences areas

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 2:30pm
International Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences

International Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences (IJMESS) is a blind peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary international research journal. IJMESS is particularly interested in publishing innovative papers in the areas of management, strategic management, organizational behaviour, organization development and change, innovation management, organizational theories, human resource management, business strategies, management information systems, financial management, marketing management, business policy, economics, economic analysis, econometrics, statistics, organizational politics, social issues, social work, social welfare and women's studies.

A New Look at the Gothic Monster (SAMLA, Durham, North Carolina. Nov. 9-11, 2012)

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 1:45pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association

A New Look at the Gothic Monster

This panel explores the cultural roles that monsters inhabit in Gothic fiction. Since the late-Victorian period, popular fiction has featured a panoply of monsters—vampires, werewolves, ghosts, zombies, mummies, shape-shifters, unknowable, and amorphous "things," and a variety of other undeads. The evolution of monsters, what they represent, and why audiences need them are subjects of interest for this panel. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas: psychology and the monster; the abhuman; the post-human and the monster; the monster in imperial Gothic fiction; popular fiction and the monster; cultural transformations of the monster.

[UPDATE] 2012 PAMLA Special Session "To Sleep: Perchance to Dream" at Seattle University; EXTENDED proposal deadline Sunday 4/22

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 1:16pm
PAMLA (Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association); October 19-20, 2012

This special session for the 2012 PAMLA Conference seeks papers that address constructions, representations, and interpretations of dreams and dreamlike states. What extent do we have control over our dreams? What is the purpose of dreaming, if such purpose exists? What of other, dream-like altered states of consciousness?

This session welcomes papers from across the disciplines. Please use the PAMLA 2012 site to submit a proposal before Sunday, April 22, 2012.

2012 PAMLA Special Session "Marriage à la mode: Marriage in the 20th Century" at Seattle University; Proposal deadline 4/22

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 1:08pm
PAMLA (Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association); October 19-20, 2012

This special session for the 2012 PAMLA Conference seeks papers that address the following:

The CA Prop 8 trial and the 2012 GOP Presidential campaign have highlighted the idea that marriage is not only socially constructed, but also socially productive. Examining texts from the 20th century (and the eleven years of the 21st), how has marriage been defined, depicted, and valued? Moreover, how have "unorthodox" marriages contributed to or hindered society?

This session welcomes papers from across the disciplines. Please use the PAMLA 2012 site to submit a proposal before Sunday, April 22, 2012.

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