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call for papers and creative writing

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Monday, October 1, 2012 - 5:17am
the quint: an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north

Catalogued at the National Library in Ottawa, Canada, the quint: an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north is now in its fifth year of publication. Publishing top quality academic articles, poetry, fiction, reviews, and art, the quint welcomes a diversity of disciplines and methodologies from the humanities and social sciences. The quint's seventeenth issue is issuing a call for theoretically informed and historically grounded submissions of scholarly interest—as well as creative writing, original art, interviews, and reviews of books. The deadline for this call is 15th November 2012—but please note that we accept manu/digi-scripts at any time. Links to the quint are accessible at www.ucn.ca.

IJESET-2012

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Monday, October 1, 2012 - 2:11am
International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Emerging Technologies

International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Emerging Technologies (IJESET) is a reputable venue for publishing novel ideas, state-of-the-art research results and fundamental advances in all aspects of emerging technologies in sciences and engineering Systems.
IJESET is a scholarly open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, bi-monthly and fully refereed international journal focusing on to provide the academic and industrial community a medium for presenting original research and applications related to recent developments in the field of Engineering Sciences and Emerging Technologies. All submitted articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical, and will be peer-reviewed.

SWTX PCA/ACA Conference celebrating "Popular/American Culture(s) in a Global Context, Area: Poetry (Critical)

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Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 4:43pm
Southwest Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

CFP: Poetry and Poetics (Critical)
Abstract/Proposals by 16 November 2012

For the SWTX PCA/ACA 34th Annual Conference celebrating "Popular/American Culture(s) in a Global Context."

February 13 - 16, 2013

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras Ave NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
1-888-421-1442 / 1-888-421-1442
Fax: (505) 843-2710

[UPDATE] Shakespeare's Tongue (deadline extended)

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Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 3:57pm
French Shakespeare Society

(Our email was unavailable for a few days, so we have decided to extend the deadline until October 15.)

« Shakespeare's tongue » – Call for papers for the 2013 French Shakespeare Society Congress (SFS)
Rationale by Jean-Michel Déprats and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

The 2013 Conference of the French Shakespeare Society will take place in Paris in March 21-23, 2013.

Enter Shakespeare, painted full of tongues…

[UPDATE] You Can't Be Serious (John Douglas Taylor Conference) Deadline Extended October 15th

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Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 3:28pm
Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University

CFP Deadline extended to October 15th

Call for Papers: You Can't Be Serious
An Exploration of the Idea, Importance and Influence of Seriousness
and Nonseriousness in the Contemporary Humanities

The 2013 John Douglas Taylor Conference
May 15-17, 2013
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario

Confirmed Keynotes: Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London), Julie Rak (University of Alberta).

Empire-building and Region-building in the Baltic, North and Black seas areas

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Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 2:22pm
Empire-building and Region-building in the Baltic, North and Black seas areas. The Fourth International Conference on Nordic and Baltic Studies of The Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies, 24-26 May 2013, Constanta, Romania / The Romanian As

Conference background

Call for Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Photography, Art, Interviews, Book Reviews, etc.

updated: 
Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 12:59pm
The Black Market Review

The Black Market Review, Edge Hill University's international literary e-journal, invites submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, art, photography, translations, scripts and book reviews for its fifth issue. Our reading period is October 1 to December 1. Unsolicited work outside those dates will not be read. No previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as 
we are notified of acceptance elsewhere. Please visit our website for submission guidelines: www.blackmarketreview.com.

Recent contributors have included Jeremy Dyson, Tim Atkins, Kimberly Johnson, Ken Edwards, Robert Graham, and Rubert Loydell,

Future Generation Communication Technologies

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Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 11:19am
Ezendu Ariwa- London Metropolitan University

//Apology for cross-posting//

The First International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies (FGCT 2012)
December 12-14, 2012
British Computer Society, London, UK
(http://www.socio.org.uk/fgct)

Proceedings will be published and indexed in IEEE Xplore and many other databases

Call for Papers

Gender Questions - New Journal - 22 February 2013

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Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 10:37am
Institute for Gender Studies, University of South Africa, Tshwane (Pretoria)

Gender Questions is a newly launched interdisciplinary academic journal that will be published bi-annually by UNISA Press. The journal will serve as a forum for scholarly research on all aspects of gender studies, including feminist research, studies in masculinities, LGBT and queer studies. Preference will be given to manuscripts with a solid base in gender theory which is coherently applied.

We invite original submissions in the following categories:
• Research articles: 6000 to 8000 words. Please include an abstract of approximately 200 words as well as 4 to 6 keywords
• Book reviews: 1000 to 1500 words

The Work of Return (edited collection)

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Saturday, September 29, 2012 - 7:02pm
Nadine Attewell (McMaster University); Sarah Trimble (University of Toronto)

The Work of Return (edited collection)

[UPDATE] NeMLA 2013 - Theorizing Tension in Television Drama

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Saturday, September 29, 2012 - 6:28pm
NeMLA

NeMLA 2013 - Theorizing Tension in Television Drama
full name / name of organization:
Roderick Cooke, Columbia University
contact email:
rpc2108@columbia.edu
Recent years have seen the rise of TV dramas (Mad Men, Luck) that downplay tension in favour of atmosphere and characterization: yet tense dramas like True Blood and 24 have also thrived. What can theoretical readings reveal about these diverse series? Papers on all current and recent televised drama series welcomed. Possible approaches include, but are not limited to, psychoanalytic, chronotopic, formalist and ecocritical.

This Rough Magic [UPDATE] - Teaching Medieval and Renaissance Lit. - 11/16/12

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Saturday, September 29, 2012 - 11:10am
This Rough Magic (www.thisroughmagic.org)

This Rough Magic (www.thisroughmagic.org) is a journal dedicated to the art of teaching Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

We are seeking academic, teachable articles that focus on, but are not limited to, the following categories:

•Authorship
•Genre Issues
•Narrative Structure
•Poetry
•Drama
•Epic
•Nation/Empire/Class
•Economics
•History
•Religion
•Superstition
•Philosophy and Rhetoric
•Race/Ethnicity
•Multi-Culturalism
•Gender
•Sexuality
•Art

Call for Papers for Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology

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Saturday, September 29, 2012 - 1:01am
Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology

Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology

Vol. X, No.1/2013 – "The islamic axiology"

Islamic axiology or the value system in Islam has not received due recognition from the community of scholars. This special issue aims to publish papers on the general theme: Islamic Axiology. The following are some sub-themes that can be used as guides:

Axiology from Islamic and Christian perspectives;

Islamic axiolgy and development;

Islamic axiology and environment;

Islamic axiology vis-à-vis secularism and democracy;

Effect of axiology on education;

This special issue will be published in June, 2013.

Deadline for paper submissions: February 28, 2013.

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