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UPDATE: Film & History (12/1/05; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/8/06-2/11/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:18pm
RollinsPC_at_aol.com

Deadline extended:
 
Tempus Fuget: CALL FOR PAPERS

Film & History
at
Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA in Albuquerque

The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association
invites papers examining all aspects of Film & History
for its annual conference to be held February 8-11, 2006
at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Last year, this area was very popular and brought
like-minded scholars together on a topic of common interest.

Possible Areas for consideration include,
but are not limited to:

UPDATE: Film & History (12/1/05; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/8/06-2/11/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:18pm
RollinsPC_at_aol.com

Deadline extended:
 
Tempus Fuget: CALL FOR PAPERS

Film & History
at
Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA in Albuquerque

The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association
invites papers examining all aspects of Film & History
for its annual conference to be held February 8-11, 2006
at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Last year, this area was very popular and brought
like-minded scholars together on a topic of common interest.

Possible Areas for consideration include,
but are not limited to:

CFP: The Upstart Crow: Shakespeare Across the Arts (2/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:18pm
Elizabeth Rivlin

THE UPSTART CROW: A SHAKESPEARE JOURNAL

Call for Papers: "SHAKESPEARE ACROSS THE ARTS"

THE UPSTART CROW is currently accepting submissions for Volume XXV (2005),
on "Shakespeare Across the Arts." Diverse critical approaches to this
subject are welcome, especially performance-based, historical, and
theoretical methodologies.

Papers might investigate interdisciplinary contexts for the study of
Shakespeare, including visual and performance arts; film and other media;
and scientific and practical arts. Submissions focusing on the thematizing
of the arts in Shakespeare's writings, as well as those focusing on
adaptations / appropriations of Shakespeare across the arts, are
encouraged.

CFP: The Upstart Crow: Shakespeare Across the Arts (2/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:18pm
Elizabeth Rivlin

THE UPSTART CROW: A SHAKESPEARE JOURNAL

Call for Papers: "SHAKESPEARE ACROSS THE ARTS"

THE UPSTART CROW is currently accepting submissions for Volume XXV (2005),
on "Shakespeare Across the Arts." Diverse critical approaches to this
subject are welcome, especially performance-based, historical, and
theoretical methodologies.

Papers might investigate interdisciplinary contexts for the study of
Shakespeare, including visual and performance arts; film and other media;
and scientific and practical arts. Submissions focusing on the thematizing
of the arts in Shakespeare's writings, as well as those focusing on
adaptations / appropriations of Shakespeare across the arts, are
encouraged.

CFP: Atenea: Humanities and Social Sciences (2/12/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:18pm
Nandita Batra

Atenea is a multidisciplinary bilingual journal on the humanities and social
sciences published twice a year by the University of Puerto Rico at
Mayaguez. It features essays, books reviews, and some fiction and poetry.
ISSN 0885-6079
Indexed by MLA.
The editorial board invites submissions in either English or Spanish (see
the guidelines below):

UPDATE: Medieval Children 1200-1500 (UK) (12/31/05; 6/17/06-6/18/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:18pm
Li Ju Tsai

(Please help circulate this email.)

Dear Colleagues,

The Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies, University of Kent =
at Canterbury, UK, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference: Medieval =
Children 1200-1500, on 17-18 June 2006. Keynote and featured speakers =
include Prof. Nicholas Orme (History, Exeter, UK), and Prof. Peter =
Beidler (English, Lehigh, US).

UPDATE: Medieval Children 1200-1500 (UK) (12/31/05; 6/17/06-6/18/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:18pm
Li Ju Tsai

(Please help circulate this email.)

Dear Colleagues,

The Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies, University of Kent =
at Canterbury, UK, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference: Medieval =
Children 1200-1500, on 17-18 June 2006. Keynote and featured speakers =
include Prof. Nicholas Orme (History, Exeter, UK), and Prof. Peter =
Beidler (English, Lehigh, US).

UPDATE: Medieval Children 1200-1500 (UK) (12/31/05; 6/17/06-6/18/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:18pm
Li Ju Tsai

(Please help circulate this email.)

Dear Colleagues,

The Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies, University of Kent =
at Canterbury, UK, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference: Medieval =
Children 1200-1500, on 17-18 June 2006. Keynote and featured speakers =
include Prof. Nicholas Orme (History, Exeter, UK), and Prof. Peter =
Beidler (English, Lehigh, US).

CFP: Physicality in Edith Wharton's Writing and Life (1/5/06; ALA, 5/25/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
HilHllr_at_aol.com

Panel sponsored by the Edith Wharton society

Physicality in Edith Wharton's Writing and Life

Papers on all aspects of physicality (eroticism, food, pain, pleasure,
addiction, smell, temperature etc.) are welcome.
Please send 300-400 word abstracts by January 5, 2006 to:

Prof. Hildegard Hoeller
Associate Professor of English
College of Staten Island--City University of New York
e-mail: hilhllr_at_aol.com
mail: 29 Gail Court, Staten Island NY 10306

CFP: Physicality in Edith Wharton's Writing and Life (1/5/06; ALA, 5/25/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
HilHllr_at_aol.com

Panel sponsored by the Edith Wharton society

Physicality in Edith Wharton's Writing and Life

Papers on all aspects of physicality (eroticism, food, pain, pleasure,
addiction, smell, temperature etc.) are welcome.
Please send 300-400 word abstracts by January 5, 2006 to:

Prof. Hildegard Hoeller
Associate Professor of English
College of Staten Island--City University of New York
e-mail: hilhllr_at_aol.com
mail: 29 Gail Court, Staten Island NY 10306

CFP: Creation and Reality in the French Idiom (12/31/05; 3/24/06-3/25/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
SPFFA Colloque 2006

THE SOCIETE DES PROFESSEURS FRANÇAIS ET FRANCOPHONES D'AMERIQUE
                                                                    (SPFFA)

                            Announces its Eighth International Colloquium

                                  "Creation and Reality in the French Idiom
                                                                 and
                                    The Centennial of Léopold Sédar Senghor"

CFP: Race and Faith in African American Literature (1/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
Tracey Michae'l Lewis

CHARCOAL CANONS

Race and Faith in African American Literature

 

Call for Submissions

 

As chords of a song are composed of very specific notes that create a
recognizable sound to those who are familiar with music, so has most forms
of African American literature, even the most diametrically opposed works,
created similar "sounds" in their discourse on race and faith.

 

CFP: Creation and Reality in the French Idiom (12/31/05; 3/24/06-3/25/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
SPFFA Colloque 2006

THE SOCIETE DES PROFESSEURS FRANÇAIS ET FRANCOPHONES D'AMERIQUE
                                                                    (SPFFA)

                            Announces its Eighth International Colloquium

                                  "Creation and Reality in the French Idiom
                                                                 and
                                    The Centennial of Léopold Sédar Senghor"

CFP: Race and Faith in African American Literature (1/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
Tracey Michae'l Lewis

CHARCOAL CANONS

Race and Faith in African American Literature

 

Call for Submissions

 

As chords of a song are composed of very specific notes that create a
recognizable sound to those who are familiar with music, so has most forms
of African American literature, even the most diametrically opposed works,
created similar "sounds" in their discourse on race and faith.

 

CFP: Race and Faith in African American Literature (1/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
Tracey Michae'l Lewis

CHARCOAL CANONS

Race and Faith in African American Literature

 

Call for Submissions

 

As chords of a song are composed of very specific notes that create a
recognizable sound to those who are familiar with music, so has most forms
of African American literature, even the most diametrically opposed works,
created similar "sounds" in their discourse on race and faith.

 

CFP: Creation and Reality in the French Idiom (12/31/05; 3/24/06-3/25/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
SPFFA Colloque 2006

THE SOCIETE DES PROFESSEURS FRANÇAIS ET FRANCOPHONES D'AMERIQUE
                                                                    (SPFFA)

                            Announces its Eighth International Colloquium

                                  "Creation and Reality in the French Idiom
                                                                 and
                                    The Centennial of Léopold Sédar Senghor"

CFP: The Relevances of Raymond Williams (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
Keith O'Regan

Paper proposals are invited for the following seminar at the American
Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference in Princeton, NJ,
23-26 March, 2006:

The Relevances of Raymond Williams
Seminar Organizer: Keith O'Regan, York University, koregan_at_yorku.ca

CFP: Creation and Reality in the French Idiom (12/31/05; 3/24/06-3/25/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
SPFFA Colloque 2006

THE SOCIETE DES PROFESSEURS FRANÇAIS ET FRANCOPHONES D'AMERIQUE
                                                                    (SPFFA)

                            Announces its Eighth International Colloquium

                                  "Creation and Reality in the French Idiom
                                                                 and
                                    The Centennial of Léopold Sédar Senghor"

CFP: The Relevances of Raymond Williams (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
Keith O'Regan

Paper proposals are invited for the following seminar at the American
Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference in Princeton, NJ,
23-26 March, 2006:

The Relevances of Raymond Williams
Seminar Organizer: Keith O'Regan, York University, koregan_at_yorku.ca

CFP: Race and Faith in African American Literature (1/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
Tracey Michae'l Lewis

CHARCOAL CANONS

Race and Faith in African American Literature

 

Call for Submissions

 

As chords of a song are composed of very specific notes that create a
recognizable sound to those who are familiar with music, so has most forms
of African American literature, even the most diametrically opposed works,
created similar "sounds" in their discourse on race and faith.

 

CFP: Creation and Reality in the French Idiom (12/31/05; 3/24/06-3/25/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
SPFFA Colloque 2006

THE SOCIETE DES PROFESSEURS FRANÇAIS ET FRANCOPHONES D'AMERIQUE
                                                                    (SPFFA)

                            Announces its Eighth International Colloquium

                                  "Creation and Reality in the French Idiom
                                                                 and
                                    The Centennial of Léopold Sédar Senghor"

CFP: Race and Faith in African American Literature (1/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
Tracey Michae'l Lewis

CHARCOAL CANONS

Race and Faith in African American Literature

 

Call for Submissions

 

As chords of a song are composed of very specific notes that create a
recognizable sound to those who are familiar with music, so has most forms
of African American literature, even the most diametrically opposed works,
created similar "sounds" in their discourse on race and faith.

 

CFP: Postcolonial Detective Fiction (3/1/05; collection)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
ncpearson_at_bellsouth.net

We invite submissions to a collection of essays (already in progress)
entitled Anomalous Eyes: Postcoloniality and the Detective. Essays should
address such questions as: In what ways do societies in the throes of
decolonization or postcoloniality resist or transform the epistemological
"truth quest" conventionalized in the structure of the detective narrative?
Can the detective novel operate independently of national, imperial, or
global ideologies? How have authors worked with the figure of the detective
in ways that complicate the narrative or ideological stances typically
associated with modernism and postmodernism? And what happens when authors

CFP: Postcolonial Detective Fiction (3/1/05; collection)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
ncpearson_at_bellsouth.net

We invite submissions to a collection of essays (already in progress)
entitled Anomalous Eyes: Postcoloniality and the Detective. Essays should
address such questions as: In what ways do societies in the throes of
decolonization or postcoloniality resist or transform the epistemological
"truth quest" conventionalized in the structure of the detective narrative?
Can the detective novel operate independently of national, imperial, or
global ideologies? How have authors worked with the figure of the detective
in ways that complicate the narrative or ideological stances typically
associated with modernism and postmodernism? And what happens when authors

UPDATE: Poetry as Theory, Theory as Poetry (12/1/05; NJCEA, 3/18/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 1:47pm
Burt Kimmelman

There are still open slots on a panel whose title is "Poetry as Theory,
Theory as Poetry," which will be a part of the annual conference of the New
Jersey College English Association, to be held at Seton Hall University in
South Orange, NJ on March 18, 2006 (see entire conference Call for Papers
here: http://faculty.ucc.edu/english-chewning/cfp.htm). Abstracts for the
"Poetry as Theory, Theory as Poetry" panel should be e-mailed to Burt
Kimmelman at kimmelman_at_njit.edu, by December 1, 2005. To learn more about
the New Jersey College English Association go to: http://njcea.org.

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