Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatre in Britain

Critics are invited to write chapters for a critical study of contemporary
British post-war queer theatre. The focus is on bi, trans, gay, lesbian
identities as represented on the British stage. Keeping in mind that queer
identities are fluid and always in a state of flux, defying definitions and
binary oppositions, articles are invited which examine these identities
as represented in British drama since 1950.

_The Looking Glass_ invites scholarly submissions for the following
special topic to be highlighted in "Alice's Academy", its scholarly
refereed section:

Central and South American Children's Literature
Deadline for Submissions: 1 September 2006
Publication Date: January 2007

_The Looking Glass_ invites scholarly submissions for the following
special topic to be highlighted in "Alice's Academy", its scholarly
refereed section:

Central and South American Children's Literature
Deadline for Submissions: 1 September 2006
Publication Date: January 2007

Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatre in Britain

Critics are invited to write chapters for a critical study of contemporary
British post-war queer theatre. The focus is on bi, trans, gay, lesbian
identities as represented on the British stage. Keeping in mind that queer
identities are fluid and always in a state of flux, defying definitions and
binary oppositions, articles are invited which examine these identities
as represented in British drama since 1950.

The Bible in the Nineteenth Century: the Word and its Re-Wordings in Bristish Literature and Thought:

The Bible has played a significant part in British culture since the Reformation. It has been a major reference not only in the field of religious experience but also, more broadly, in artistic expression and intellectual reflection. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Evangelical Revival thus placed the Scriptures at the heart of religious practices and certain Romantics reasserted the importance of the Bible in renewing its reading.

The Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic, is pleased to announce an

International conference:

 Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries

Call for Papers

Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance

Volume 3.1, Spring 2006

"Harmonies of the Soul"

Submissions are sought for a volume on Gendered Violence in the Media to be edited by Sujata Moorti and Lisa Cuklanz. Femininst/women's studies approaches are preferred. Topics may include but are not limited to: representations of sexual assault, rape, harassment and verbal abuse in genres of television and film; news coverage of issues, persons, trials, or cases related to gendered violence; shifts in the landscape of media representation of these issues; global topics including trafficking, slavery, and rape in war; other understandings of gendered violence such as pornography, sexual objectification, and graphic humor.

Submissions are sought for a volume on Gendered Violence in the Media to be edited by Sujata Moorti and Lisa Cuklanz. Femininst/women's studies approaches are preferred. Topics may include but are not limited to: representations of sexual assault, rape, harassment and verbal abuse in genres of television and film; news coverage of issues, persons, trials, or cases related to gendered violence; shifts in the landscape of media representation of these issues; global topics including trafficking, slavery, and rape in war; other understandings of gendered violence such as pornography, sexual objectification, and graphic humor.

CFP: Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhine:
                 German – Indian Cross-Cultural Relations
                 University of Toronto, Canada
                 May 24 – 26, 2006

Keynote Speakers: Anil Bhatti, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
                   Kamakshi Murti, Middlebury College

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts – July 31, 2005

CFP: Thomas Browne and Seventeenth Century Intellectual Culture (1/7/05;
8/4/06 UK)

Call for Papers

Thomas Browne and Seventeenth Century Intellectual Culture

The Thomas Browne Seminar

Representing Reading in Early Modern England

Proposals are invited for a panel at RSA 2006 in San Francisco (23-25 March)
exploring the representation of reading and readers in Early Modern England.
Although there has been an increasing amount of work dedicated to material
reading practices, little attempt has been made to understand the complex and,
at times, even contradictory ways in which these practices were being
reproduced in the written and visual arts. How did reading signify in Early
Modern England?

By 5 May 2005, please email abstracts (150 words max) to panel organizer, Kevin
Curran (kevin.curran_at_mcgill.ca)

Participants must be RSA members or pay membership at time of submitting.

Call For Abstracts: Anthology on Sex and Disability

           Disability and sex come together in multiple ways. In the
popular imagination, however, the terms "sex" and "disability" are, if not
antithetical, then certainly incongruous. To many, the idea of people with
disabilities as sexual or sexy remains largely unthinkable. We are
soliciting proposals for a cultural studies anthology of essays that will
challenge such conceptions, examining, revising, and extending the myriad
ways that disability and sex intersect.

_The Looking Glass_, an online children's literature journal, invites
submissions to all columns and sections for the special issue on
Indigenous Peoples.
     
Deadline for Submissions: 1 October 2006
Publication Date: April 2007
     
Critical and informative articles are welcome on indigenous peoples of the
world, such as the Aborigine, Ainu, Native Americans, and First Nations.
Topics should include indigenous peoples' cultures and literatures,
storytelling practices, stories and tales, childrearing practices and
coming-of-age rituals, how indigenous peoples are portrayed in dominant
cultures' children's literature historically and in contemporary times,