Please feel free to forward to other lists or individuals who may be
interested. My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call!

The Science Fiction Literature & Theory Division of the International
Association of the Fantastic in the Arts would like to invite paper and
session proposals for the 27th Annual International Conference in Florida.

The 2006 theme is "Drawn by the Fantastic: Comics, Graphic Novels, Art &
Literature"

The SF Division focuses on all aspects of science fiction literature,
history, and theory. Archival, historical, critical, and theoretical
approaches are equally welcome.

American Art and Architecture Call for Papers

PCA/ACA National Convention

Atlanta 2006

The Art and Architecture Area of the American Culture Association

is seeking proposals for papers for the PCA/ACA Annual Conference

in Atlanta, April 12 to 15, 2006.

Any aspect of American Visual Culture will be considered. Open Sessions are

scheduled along with Theme Sessions.

Proposals for papers for three and four person panels on any topic related to Art and Architecture in North America may be submitted by e-mail to either the A&A Area Chair or to the Theme Session Chairs noted below.

We are very pleased that the Society for the Study of the History of the English Language (SSHEL) will be sponsoring two sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo next year (May 4-7, 2006).

1. Regular Session: "Multilingualism: Linguistic, Historical, Cultural, and Literary Approaches." This session aims to explore links between multilingualism, cultural practices, and social identities in medieval England. We invite papers that combine methods in linguistics or language studies with methods in literary theory or cultural studies in order to investigate multilingualism and its links to gender/sexuality, community or nation in medieval England.

We are very pleased that the Society for the Study of the History of the English Language (SSHEL) will be sponsoring two sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo next year (May 4-7, 2006).

1. Regular Session: "Multilingualism: Linguistic, Historical, Cultural, and Literary Approaches." This session aims to explore links between multilingualism, cultural practices, and social identities in medieval England. We invite papers that combine methods in linguistics or language studies with methods in literary theory or cultural studies in order to investigate multilingualism and its links to gender/sexuality, community or nation in medieval England.

We are seeking submission for a workshop on Asian American literature to be=
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held during the next EAAS Conference (European Association for American=20
Studies), 7-10 April 2006, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Please, send a 150-200 abstract by August 31st to emarino_at_hurricane.it and=
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patrycja.renard_at_wanadoo.fr

What follows is the abstract of the workshop

The Problem of Double Allegiance in the Literary Production of Asian=20
Americans (1985 =96 2005)

We are seeking submission for a workshop on Asian American literature to be=
=20
held during the next EAAS Conference (European Association for American=20
Studies), 7-10 April 2006, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Please, send a 150-200 abstract by August 31st to emarino_at_hurricane.it and=
=20
patrycja.renard_at_wanadoo.fr

What follows is the abstract of the workshop

The Problem of Double Allegiance in the Literary Production of Asian=20
Americans (1985 =96 2005)

We are seeking submission for a workshop on Asian American literature to be=
=20
held during the next EAAS Conference (European Association for American=20
Studies), 7-10 April 2006, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Please, send a 150-200 abstract by August 31st to emarino_at_hurricane.it and=
=20
patrycja.renard_at_wanadoo.fr

What follows is the abstract of the workshop

The Problem of Double Allegiance in the Literary Production of Asian=20
Americans (1985 =96 2005)

AC:COLLABORATIVE
www.artcircles.org

AC:Collaborative is looking for journal contributions.

AC:Collaborative is an online journal that was started a little more=20
than a year ago. Several months ago, AC changed its mission to=20
investigate, analyze, present, and discuss collaborative art. Even to=20
ask the question of what is collaborative art? What is the process?

AC wants to connect and work together with artists, critics, curators,=20=

and everyone else who is interested in any aspect of collaborative art=20=

projects, from any field.
Visit our website www.artcircles.org

IRCALC editors invite papers for the 2006 edition of Africa Literary Journal, ALJ. Tagged 'Re-Imagining African Literature (2), this 2006 edition, which pursues the 2003 theme edited by Charles Smith, is expected to complement the scholarly essays that appeared in that volume.

Seeking abstracts for panel(s) to be proposed for the Society for Cinema
and Media Studies Conference (Vancouver, BC, March 2-5 2006) on the
topic "Media Studies and Recent Developments in Critical Theory."

Deadline for receipt of proposals: August 15th 2005.

Please send paper proposal and brief bio by email to Rich Cante,
Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, The Univeristy of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "rcante_at_email.unc.edu."

All interesting proposals are welcome--whatever media, concepts, or
"methods" they deal with.

Call For Papers: Entertainment TV After 9/11
 
Society for Cinema And Media Studies Conference (SCMS)
Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia
March 2-5, 2006

RETHINKING THE PAST: EXPERIMENTAL HISTORIES IN THE ARTS

University of Technology Sydney: July 28-29, 2006.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Laura U. Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture Studies, Simon Fraser
University, Canada

Andrew Benjamin
Professor of Critical Theory in Architecture and Design, University of
Technology Sydney

Ross Gibson
Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Technology Sydney

Conference Theme:

We are seeking previously unpublished critical original poetry for Mantis 5,
under the broad theme of "Poetry and Discipline."

Mantis is a journal of contemporary poetry, poetry translation and poetry
criticism. A forum for writers coming from a broad spectrum of intellectual
and aesthetic positions, Mantis is dedicated to publishing new work that
interrogates the relationships among critical writing, creative writing, and
translation.

This panel will explore the ways in which the logic of contract and the
rhetoric of promise permeate and organize British culture in the eighteenth
century. Victoria Kahn's Wayward Contracts is one of the more noteworthy
recent studies that interpret the ways in which this logic and rhetoric
contribute to cultural formation. Her formulation of contract as a "new
poetics of the subject" is one of many possible engagements with this
theme.
In the past decade the cultural, marriage, mimetic, sociable, social and
racial contracts have received comment and analysis.
This panel welcomes one to two page proposals that address the history and