All travel and registration links on our website have now been updated for
2007.
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html

New Area Added: A panel on Metatheatrical Shakespeare, to includes films in
which the characters put on a Shakespeare play. Examples include: A Double
Life (1947), To Be or Not To Be (1942), Kiss Me Kate (1953), Shakespeare
Walla (1965), Theatre of Blood (1973), Renaissance Man (1994), Dead Poets
Society (1989), A Midwinter's Tale (1995), Shakespeare in Love (1998), The
King is Alive (2000), Get Over It! (2001), and Stage Beauty (2004).

The Puerto Rican/Latin American Studies Department at John Jay College
of Criminal Justice is currently soliciting papers and presentations for
its international conference on "Dominican Haitians Representations:
Migrations, Citizenship and Human Rights" to take place from February
22-23, 2007 in New York City. Currently, an estimated 500,000 Haitian
immigrants and Dominican-Haitians are living in the Dominican Republic
without any form of identification, which leave them exposed to summary
deportation to Haiti. The Dominican Republic and Haiti share an island
in the Caribbean Sea; with a legacy of colonialism, foreign
interventions, migrations and long history of political and social

The Puerto Rican/Latin American Studies Department at John Jay College
of Criminal Justice is currently soliciting papers and presentations for
its international conference on "Dominican Haitians Representations:
Migrations, Citizenship and Human Rights" to take place from February
22-23, 2007 in New York City. Currently, an estimated 500,000 Haitian
immigrants and Dominican-Haitians are living in the Dominican Republic
without any form of identification, which leave them exposed to summary
deportation to Haiti. The Dominican Republic and Haiti share an island
in the Caribbean Sea; with a legacy of colonialism, foreign
interventions, migrations and long history of political and social

The Graduate Studies Film Journal is currently looking for submissions. =
We are looking for well-written 7-10 page articles, in proper MLA format,=
 on any cinema studies subject. Submit your work to dm8600_at_albany.edu. =
We are only looking for work from current graduate students (MA, MFA, DA,=
 PhD., etc). To learn more about our journal, go to www.albany.edu/~dm86=
00.
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The Graduate Studies Film Journal is currently looking for submissions. =
We are looking for well-written 7-10 page articles, in proper MLA format,=
 on any cinema studies subject. Submit your work to dm8600_at_albany.edu. =
We are only looking for work from current graduate students (MA, MFA, DA,=
 PhD., etc). To learn more about our journal, go to www.albany.edu/~dm86=
00.
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                        CFP_at_english.upenn.edu
                         Full Information at

Call for Papers
 
Editors are seeking articles for a scholarly book on hunting and fishing
traditions and the resulting interactions between animals and humans
tentatively slated to be published by the University of Tennessee Press.
Submissions are welcome from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives
including but not limited to folklore, sociology, popular culture studies,
philosophy, and ecology. Articles should be informed by the author¹s own
discipline but written with a generally educated audience in mind.
 
Please send a 150-250 word abstract along with a CV on or before December
1st, 2006 via email to:
 
Dr. Dennis Cutchins
dennis_cutchins_at_byu.edu
 
Or

Call for Papers

Note the deadline has been extended to December 15th, 2006!

Special Issue on Visual Culture. In celebration of its 30th =20
anniversary and its commitment to exploring the intersection of =20
literary and visual art, Callaloo will publish an issue that focuses =20
on visual culture and collaboration in the African American context. =20
This special visual culture issue will feature visual and written =20
works that examine the important crossroads=97where literary and visual =20=

art meet=97that Callaloo provides. We seek, then, creative responses, =20=

Call for Papers

Note the deadline has been extended to December 15th, 2006!

Special Issue on Visual Culture. In celebration of its 30th =20
anniversary and its commitment to exploring the intersection of =20
literary and visual art, Callaloo will publish an issue that focuses =20
on visual culture and collaboration in the African American context. =20
This special visual culture issue will feature visual and written =20
works that examine the important crossroads=97where literary and visual =20=

art meet=97that Callaloo provides. We seek, then, creative responses, =20=

Call for Papers

Note the deadline has been extended to December 15th, 2006!

Special Issue on Visual Culture. In celebration of its 30th =20
anniversary and its commitment to exploring the intersection of =20
literary and visual art, Callaloo will publish an issue that focuses =20
on visual culture and collaboration in the African American context. =20
This special visual culture issue will feature visual and written =20
works that examine the important crossroads=97where literary and visual =20=

art meet=97that Callaloo provides. We seek, then, creative responses, =20=

CALL FOR PAPERS - 'Medieval Worlds'

13th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference
16th-17th February 2007
University of Bristol, UK

We are pleased to invite papers from postgraduate medievalists of any
discipline on the theme of Medieval Worlds.

We welcome papers that interpret this broad theme in any illuminating way,
such as (but not limited to) the following:

UPDATE: Our keynote/plenary speaker for the Colloquium will be Professor Bruce
Holsinger (University of Virginia, Departments of English and Music).

Dissent and Dissonance

North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Duke University

Friday-Saturday, February 16-17, 2007

Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) invites
submissions for the spring 2007 edition of the journal published at
http://www.americanpopularculture.com

Attach submissions and email to editor_at_americanpopularculture.com

Deadline: 1 May 2007

GUIDELINES

 1. Articles must be attached to a brief cover letter in the email text
(containing the author's name, institutional affiliation, and contact
information). Please format in Microsoft Word.

Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) invites
submissions for the spring 2007 edition of the journal published at
http://www.americanpopularculture.com

Attach submissions and email to editor_at_americanpopularculture.com

Deadline: 1 May 2007

GUIDELINES

 1. Articles must be attached to a brief cover letter in the email text
(containing the author's name, institutional affiliation, and contact
information). Please format in Microsoft Word.

Poe and Periodical Culture. This panel is calling for papers having
to do with any aspect of Poe's work with newspapers and magazines,
esp. papers engaging with recent scholarship that has addressed such
areas as authorship, literary nationalism, the culture of reprints,
copyright, mass production, marginalia, etc.

Send 250-word abstracts to Stephen Rachman
<mailto:rachman_at_msu.edu>rachman_at_msu.edu or Marcy J. Dinius
<mailto:dinius_at_english.udel.edu>dinius_at_english.udel.edu by March 1, 2007.