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Slow Media. Abstract Deadline: July 1 2010

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 7:43pm
Transformations Journal of Cultural Studies

Transformations Journal Call for Papers: "Slow Media"

Given the contemporary fascination with and, indeed, addiction to real-time media dispatch and commentary, what would it mean to speak of "slow media"? Dare we even think such a thing when everything around us screams of increased speed, increased bandwidth, and increased convergence? We are 24-7, we are always-on, we are connected; we are locatable, we are X/Y coordinated, we are plotted; we are status updated, we are tweet-fed, we are real-time media junkies and we don't have time to slow down.

Society for Textual Scholarship Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference March 16-18, 2011

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 4:20pm
Society for Textual Scholarship

The Program Chair invites submissions devoted to interdisciplinary discussion of current research into particular aspects of textual work: the discovery, enumeration, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, annotation, and mark-up of texts in disciplines such as literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies, philosophy, art history, legal history, history of science and technology, computer science, library and information science, archives, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography, codicology, cinema studies, new media studies, game studies, theater, linguistics, and textual and literary theory.

[UPDATE] 2010 Shakespeare and Popular Music Conference and Colloquium

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 4:02pm
School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph

2010 Shakespeare and Popular Music Conference and Colloquium
School of English and Theatre Studies
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
September 6, 2010

"If music be the food of love, play on" – William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (I.i.1).

"See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare,
Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here" – Eminem, "Renegade."

[UPDATE] Renaissance penitential poetry; RSA Montreal 2011

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 2:31pm
Chad Engbers / Calvin College

Deadline extended to May 8.

This is a panel for the Renaissance Society of America conference in Montreal, March 2011. Presenters must be members of the RSA by the time of the conference.

The purpose of this panel is to explore poetry that represents repentance. Possible subjects include lyric poetry, devotional songs, paraphrases of the Penitential Psalms, and other versified material.

The Organ in Canada: Visioning 2020. Oct 1 and 2, 2010, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 12:50pm
Calgary Organ Festival and Symposium, hosted by Mount Royal University

Calgary Organ Festival and Symposium, hosted by Mount Royal University, invites proposals for presentations at the upcoming symposium. The symposium seeks to provide a meeting place for the discussion of all topics relating to the role of the organ and the professional activities of organists in the next decade, with particular emphasis on Canada.

A variety of presentation formats and lengths are encouraged, including paper presentations, lectures, workshops, and demonstrations.

Sessions will be broadly grouped into three areas, each considering questions such as the following:

Pedagogy
How many organ students will there be in Canada in 2020 and what will we need to teach them?

"The Language of Resistance" November 11,12,13, 2010

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 12:41pm
Texas A & M University Hispanic Studies Graduate Association

CALL FOR PAPERS
"THE LANGUAGES OF RESISTANCE"
First Annual Texas A&M Department of Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Symposium:
In homage of centenaries of Julio Herrera y Reissig (1875 – 1910), Miguel Hernández (1910 – 1942) and José Lezama Lima (1910 -1976)

"A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words": Effectively Teaching ESL/EFL Through the Use of Imagery and Text (SAMLA, 11/5-11/7/10)

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 11:43am
Myrna Santos, Florida Atlantic University

This panel will discuss the various ways that film, illustration, and visual rhetoric can be used to enhance and enrich the effective teaching of English to non-native speakers. Photography, images, and illustrations are invaluable tools in aiding the English learner to fully comprehend the meaning of denotation, connotation, and vocabulary in context. This panel will explore all related subjects. By June 15, 2010, please submit 250-word abstracts either by e-mail at msantos2@FAU.edu or ESLCARE@aol.com.

UPDATE: "Postcolonial Intimacies" (proposals due April 30)

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 9:40am
Critical Intimacies Reading Group

Just a friendly reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions is approaching. Please circulate widely. Thank you.

Call for Papers: Essays for Journal Special Issue

"Postcolonial Intimacies"

Call for Papers-Deadline June 1, 2010

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 1:43am
Student Journal of Canadian Jewish Studies

The Student Journal of Canadian Jewish Studies seeks articles and book reviews by students relating to the Jewish experience in Canada.

About the Journal:

SJCJS is web-based, peer-reviewed and is supported by the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University, Montreal.

Our goal is to attract a diverse audience and to provide a forum for undergraduate and graduate students to contribute to the field of Canadian Jewish Studies.

Past issues can be found here:
http://web2.concordia.ca/canadianjewishjournal/articles.htm