CFP: media in transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration
in the
digital age

April 27-29, 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CALL FOR PAPERS (submission deadline: Jan. 5, 2007)

Live Comedy and Its Audiences

Seeking contributions for an anthology that explores live comedy audiences.=
 The book will include contributions by both scholars and comedians, and wi=
ll focus on the dynamics of audience behaviour. The anthology will cover th=
emes including: cultural and historical differences in comedy audience prac=
tice; the architecture of the audience; the reception of 'low' versus 'high=
' and live versus televised comedy; the subjectivity of audience members an=
d the spread of affect; the two-way relationship between joker and listener=
; and the comedy club as a distinct spatial and emotional environment. Addi=
tional topics also welcome.=20

Live Comedy and Its Audiences

Seeking contributions for an anthology that explores live comedy audiences.=
 The book will include contributions by both scholars and comedians, and wi=
ll focus on the dynamics of audience behaviour. The anthology will cover th=
emes including: cultural and historical differences in comedy audience prac=
tice; the architecture of the audience; the reception of 'low' versus 'high=
' and live versus televised comedy; the subjectivity of audience members an=
d the spread of affect; the two-way relationship between joker and listener=
; and the comedy club as a distinct spatial and emotional environment. Addi=
tional topics also welcome.=20

Animals and Agency

(MLA panel arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature
and the Environment)

Proposals are invited for presentations that explore literary
representations of animality, especially those that deal with the
agency and subjectivity of animals.

How do representations of animals undermine or complicate the
boundary that supposedly differentiates animals from humans?

How are animals constructed, and how do they undo those constructions?

Submit 300-word abstracts by March 1, 2007 to Sarah McFarland at
mcfarlands_at_nsula.edu.

Questions are welcome!

Animals and Agency

(MLA panel arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature
and the Environment)

Proposals are invited for presentations that explore literary
representations of animality, especially those that deal with the
agency and subjectivity of animals.

How do representations of animals undermine or complicate the
boundary that supposedly differentiates animals from humans?

How are animals constructed, and how do they undo those constructions?

Submit 300-word abstracts by March 1, 2007 to Sarah McFarland at
mcfarlands_at_nsula.edu.

Questions are welcome!

CFP: Imagination: Public or Private? (2/12/07; 5/17/07 - 5/18/07)

University of Washington Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies/
in conjunction with an interdisciplinary faculty conference "Inventions of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Imaginary since Romanticism"

May 17-18, 2007
Keynote Speaker: David Clark (English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University)

CFP: Imagination: Public or Private? (2/12/07; 5/17/07 - 5/18/07)

University of Washington Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies/
in conjunction with an interdisciplinary faculty conference "Inventions of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Imaginary since Romanticism"

May 17-18, 2007
Keynote Speaker: David Clark (English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University)

UPDATE: C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Native American Literature Symposium, March 8 â€" March 10, 2007
Deadline â€" November 27, 2006

One of the participants in this roundtable had to drop out due to the change in dates for the symposium. We are seeking one or two replacements.

The host facility for the symposium will be the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort,
operated by the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan.

Roundtable on Teaching American Indian Film

UPDATE: C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Native American Literature Symposium, March 8 â€" March 10, 2007
Deadline â€" November 27, 2006

One of the participants in this roundtable had to drop out due to the change in dates for the symposium. We are seeking one or two replacements.

The host facility for the symposium will be the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort,
operated by the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan.

Roundtable on Teaching American Indian Film

CFP: The Role of Religious Performance in Rebuilding Communities—Past and
Present (opening roundtable)

"Sore Spots": The 2007 Religion and Theatre Preconference
New Orleans, July 24-25, 2007

ATHE's Religion and Theatre Focus Group will open its preconference with a
roundtable entitled "The Role of Religious Performance in Rebuilding
Communities—Past and Present." Participants will offer a 5-10 minute
presentation on a particular instance when religious performance played a
role in rebuilding or regenerating community. Participants will then engage
in a moderate discussion and Q&A with all preconference attendees.

CFP: Pre-cinema and 'Cinematicity' / 1895: Before and After
March 24 - March 25, 2007
British Comparative Literature Association and the Centre for Film
Studies, University of Essex (UK)
Keynote Speakers: Ian Christie (Birkbeck); Tom Gunning (Chicago);
Marina Warner (Essex)
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars interested in
exploring the history of pre- and early film: the previsions of cinema
as both technology and cultural form, and early cinema's influence on
twentieth-century art, literature and culture.=20
Proposals for papers of 20 minutes are invited on these and similar
topics:
* prehistory of film in the arts
* literary anticipations of the cinema

American Popular Culture, 9/11 and=20

the So-Called Global War on Terror

American Popular Culture, 9/11 and=20

the So-Called Global War on Terror

CALL OR PAPERS for an International Symposium on History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, University of Arizona, May 3-6, 2007 (literature, art history, history, sociology, etc.)

Organized by Dr. Albrecht Classen, University Distinguished Professor.

Selected papers will be published by de Gruyter (Berlin and New York).

Submit an abstract, or for further information, please send an abstract by Jan. 31, 2007 to: