Call for Papers and Participation

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COMICS ARTS CONFERENCE-WONDER CON

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The Comics Arts Conference is expanding! Abstracts for papers, panels, =
poster sessions, and slide talks are being accepted for a for a joint =
meeting of scholars and professionals during=20

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Wonder Con

San Francisco, California March 2-4, 2007.

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We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical =
perspectives, and welcome the participation of academic, independent, =
and fan scholars. We welcome professionals from all areas of the comics =
industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, =
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Call for Papers: Apocalypse Now? Media and the End of the World Conference

We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the "Apocalypse Now?
Media and the End of the World Conference," to be held at Plymouth
State University (Plymouth, New Hampshire) April 13-14, 2007.

The members of the conference committee are seeking contributions that
explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations and themes, in
various media forms, pertaining to the longstanding idea of the end of
the world. Participants are encouraged to interpret the conference
theme broadly and innovatively. Individual presentations will be
limited to 20 minutes in length.

Call for Papers: Apocalypse Now? Media and the End of the World Conference

We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the "Apocalypse Now?
Media and the End of the World Conference," to be held at Plymouth
State University (Plymouth, New Hampshire) April 13-14, 2007.

The members of the conference committee are seeking contributions that
explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations and themes, in
various media forms, pertaining to the longstanding idea of the end of
the world. Participants are encouraged to interpret the conference
theme broadly and innovatively. Individual presentations will be
limited to 20 minutes in length.

CFP: Video Games, Other Electronic Media and Neomedievalism at Kalamazoo
(Deadline 9/15/06)

Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Long Story: The Art of Long-Arc Dramatic-Narrative Series in Contemporary US Television

A conference to be held at DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, March 2-4, 2007.

Victorian Binaries: The Beautiful and The Ugly

Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminar

Postgraduate Conference

In association with the Birmingham Midlands Institute;

Sponsored by British Association for Victorian Studies & University
of Birmingham, School of Humanities

21 October 2006

Keynote speaker: Professor Barrie Bullen

The Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminars are held
regularly in Birmingham, UK as a research forum for academics working
in the Victorian period. This study day will be a special session of
MIVSS at which we invite the postgraduate community to explore
notions of beauty and ugliness in Victorian culture.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO 15 SEPTEMBER

=93Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th Century Book in Britain, France, =
and=20
Beyond=94

The Bibliographical Society of America invites proposals for papers to=20=

be delivered at =93Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th Century Book in=20
Britain, France, and Beyond,=94 a conference on book history to be held=20=

in New York on 29-31 March 2007.

The nineteenth century saw enormous changes in the world of books. The=20=

rise of a mass readership, the invention of machine-driven=20
technologies, new reproduction methods, and an astonishing variation in=20=

literature, authorship, publishing, periodicals, printing, typography,=20=

> Abstracts are now being accepted for a session at the 2007
> International
> Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan:
>
> Sacred Space in Medieval Romance
>
> Although romance may initially conjure images of secular locii –
> the noble castle, the wild forest – the use of sacred space, both
> material and metaphorical, is integral to an understanding of this

Call for Papers
UPDATED Deadline: September 10, 2006
2006 Film and History League Conference
“The Documentary Tradition”
www.filmandhistory.org
AREA: Music and Performance
The interaction between film and music provides a rich opportunity from
which to
examine the political and cultural realities of popular music forms and the
interplay between these forms. Considering the conference’s title,
“The Documentary Tradition,” research that is able, within a documentary
film form, to make sense of musical practice in culture and potentially
everyday life will be considered for the “Music and Performance”

Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture is
dedicated to publishing exceptional American Studies scholarship and
American creative writing.

With this second mission in mind, we invite submissions to our literary
publication, Review Americana.

Please visit the review at http://www.americanpopularculture.com to see the
kind of material we are interested in publishing.

If you would like to submit to Review Americana: A Literary Journal, send an
explanatory email that includes your name, contact information, and
pertinent biographical details to editor_at_americanpopularculture.com. Attach
your submission to that email.

Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture is
dedicated to publishing exceptional American Studies scholarship and
American creative writing.

With this second mission in mind, we invite submissions to our literary
publication, Review Americana.

Please visit the review at http://www.americanpopularculture.com to see the
kind of material we are interested in publishing.

If you would like to submit to Review Americana: A Literary Journal, send an
explanatory email that includes your name, contact information, and
pertinent biographical details to editor_at_americanpopularculture.com. Attach
your submission to that email.

Abstracts are now being accepted for a session at the 2007 International
Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan:

Domestic Space in Medieval Romance

Investigating the Middlebrow
One-Day Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, 23rd June 2007

middlebrow, n. and a.
colloq. Freq. derogatory.

CFP: DoubleTake/Points of Entry call for book reviews on narrative/literary journalism and documentary
 

The recently merged journal DoubleTake/Points of Entry seeks book reviews on an ongoing basis.

Submission guidelines: