Perhaps more than other children's literature and film, preschool books
and television programs tend to be rooted in teaching the very young
something or other -- letters, numbers, colours, music, sports, values.

What is not clear is just what sort of research on cognitive and emotional
development supports these pedagogic efforts.

Are some books and television shows better than others at promoting
development and acuity in small children, and, if so, why?

What does research in developmental and behavioural paediatrics and in
social learning tell us about optimizng infant development, about the role
of observational learning, about how to promote moral reasoning and
language development?

Call for Abstracts

Essay Collection Geomodernisms: 'Race,' Modernism, Modernity
This collection seeks a select group of essays that interpret modernism as
one phenomenon of an uneven modernity, that is, a modernism emerging at
different times and places within such contradictory forces as technology,
diaspora, global capitalism, nationalism, and poly-lingualism. We are
especially seeking essays that probe the interlocking of cultural
aesthetics and geo-politics, taking into consideration the local and global
dimensions of a particular modernism.

Call for Abstracts

Essay Collection Geomodernisms: 'Race,' Modernism, Modernity
This collection seeks a select group of essays that interpret modernism as
one phenomenon of an uneven modernity, that is, a modernism emerging at
different times and places within such contradictory forces as technology,
diaspora, global capitalism, nationalism, and poly-lingualism. We are
especially seeking essays that probe the interlocking of cultural
aesthetics and geo-politics, taking into consideration the local and global
dimensions of a particular modernism.

Call for Submissions

The American Journal of Print seeks articles, essays, interviews on all
topics, provided they are explorations of the topics themselves and not
personal essays about why you are interested in Topic A, B, C, and so on.
This is a relatively new journal (Volume One was released in May 2001), and
editions are published sporadically (although the aim is quarterly). Our
website has more information, and is updated with new content bi-weekly.
Please see www.ajprint.net.

Call for Papers at Trickster's Way

 an online journal dedicated to trickster research. It is a peer-reviewed
publication which seeks to extend the scholarship about the trickster figure
to its interdisciplinary and intellectual limits. Although trickster, of
course, will resist such cultural ambitions, this journal and the essays it
publishes will try to respect the delicate balance between fixing trickster
and killing trickster. We wish to keep him/her alive and well and living in
the shadow of our hearts.

AMERICANA is a peer reviewd e-journal dedicated to American Cultural
and Literary Studies. It accepts submissions from all research fields
related with American Literature, Culture, Society and History.

AMERICANA hopes to provide an intellectual canvas where the cultural
spaces and experiences of American Studies are theorized and rigorously
explored within both global and local contingencies of the present and
past.

The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society is accepting submissions for possible
publication in the Society journal. Submissions may include critical papers,
notes, creative writing, or any material of interest to readers of Beddoes.

Send hard copy submissions to:
Shelley Rees
Department of English
University of North Texas
P.O. Box 311307
Denton, TX 76203-1307

Send electronic submissions (as MS Word attachments, please) to:
ssg0001_at_unt.edu

Receipt of materials acknowledged electronically--please provide an e-mail
address.

Beethoven Forum: Call for Papers and Reviews

The editors of Beethoven Forum, the leading journal of Beethoven
scholarship, are pleased to announce that the journal will now be
published twice a year by the University of Illinois Press. Our first
issue, volume 9, number 1, will appear in April, 2002.

_In Medias Res: An Electronic Journal for the Public Intellectual_
<http://www.inmediasresjournal.com/) provides a forum for intellectuals,
academics and artists alike, to comment on influential issues and important
events in the world as they happen.

The editors are seeking brief considered pieces from a variety of
perspectives and disciplines, as well as reviews of recently published
books, art exhibits, theatrical performances, musical recordings, films and
so on. The editors are especially interested to receive articles and
reviews on, but not limited to, the following topics:

Scope (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film) is a fully refereed online journal
of film studies edited by staff and research students at the University of
Nottingham's Institute of Film Studies. We are seeking conference reports of
around 1000-1500 words to be included in forthcoming issues, particularly
from the events listed below. We also welcome reports from other film, media
and cultural studies conferences.

Please send all submissions and queries to Rayna Denison, Conference Reports
Editor; rayna_nottingham_at_hotmail.com

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Conference (02/13-17/02,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA)

CONTEMPORARY BRITISH WRITERS

NEW CALL FOR PROPOSAL

Due to phenomenal interest, Manchester University Press invites further
proposals for the Contemporary British Writers Series. The Editor and
Press continue to welcome proposals for monographs (50-85,000 words) on
the following writers:

Beryl Bainbridge Iain Banks

Pat Barker Anthony Burgess

A.S. Byatt Ian McEwan

Brian Moore Irvine Welsh

(Deadline for proposals on the above - 31st January 2002)

In addition we encourage proposals on the following authors:

Peter Ackroyd Martin Amis

J.G. Ballard Angela Carter

CALL FOR PAPERS

LITERATURE AND MEDICINE is a journal devoted to exploring interfaces between
literary and medical knowledge and understanding. Issues of illness,
health, medical science, violence, and the body are examined through
literary and cultural texts. Our readership includes scholars of
literature, history, and critical theory, as well as health professionals.

IMPULSO is a quarterly journal published by the Methodist University of
Piracicaba - UNIMEP (Sao Paulo, Brazil). It features scholarly articles,
analytical studies and book reviews on the humanities, society and
culture in general. Each issue is dedicated to a general theme and the
last editions have been dedicated to themes such as Social Exclusion,
Freud, Culture and Communication, Nietzsche, Modernity and
Postmodernity.

The next issues will deal with the following themes:

- Political-Economic Integration: New continental Blocks
  Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2002

- Law and Globalization
  Deadline for submissions: February 11, 2002