EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 15, 2007

Globalization and Popular Culture
MPCA/MACA - Regional Conference
October 12-14, 2007
Kansas City, Missouri

The Globalization area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association invites
papers/panels on theoretical, historical and practical approaches to the
intersection of cultures, postcolonial studies, national cinema,
international and transnational media studies and any other topic related t=
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popular culture on the global stage. The conference will be held at the
Radisson Hotel & Suites Kansas City in the center of Kansas City, Missouri
the weekend of October 12-14, 2007.

Medieval/Renaissance Conference XXI

The University of Virginia's College at Wise

September 20-22, 2007

The University of Virginia's College at Wise, Medieval-Renaissance Conference
is pleased to announce a call for undergraduate papers for the upcoming
Medieval-Renaissance Conference, September 20-22, 2007.

Papers by undergraduates covering any area of Medieval and Renaissance studies
are welcome. Abstracts for papers should be 250-300 words in length and
should be accompanied by a brief letter of recommendation from a faculty
sponsor.

Abstracts may be submitted electronically or by regular mail by July 1 to:

Medieval/Renaissance Conference XXI

The University of Virginia's College at Wise

September 20-22, 2007

The University of Virginia's College at Wise, Medieval-Renaissance Conference
is pleased to announce a call for undergraduate papers for the upcoming
Medieval-Renaissance Conference, September 20-22, 2007.

Papers by undergraduates covering any area of Medieval and Renaissance studies
are welcome. Abstracts for papers should be 250-300 words in length and
should be accompanied by a brief letter of recommendation from a faculty
sponsor.

Abstracts may be submitted electronically or by regular mail by July 1 to:

Call for papers: Guernica Canadian Writers Series, Maria Campbell.

This panel seeks to interrogate the ways in which Protestant authors
depict Catholicism during the Elizabethan and Jacobean era in
non-propagandistic literature. Papers should reflect on issues that
reveal the complex ways in which the divide between Protestantism and
Catholicism is articulated in drama, prose, or poetry. Were Protestant
authors always critical of their Catholic peers? How do potentially
crypto-Catholic authors like Shakespeare express their Catholic
sympathies to a Protestant audience? What is the significance of nuns
and friars in plays like "Measure for Measure," "Romeo and Juliet," "The
Jew of Malta," and "'Tis Pity She's a Whore"? How do political fears

The multidisciplinary online journal "gender forum"
(http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de) is seeking one more article for
the completion of a special issue on "Gender & Work." We welcome
contributions both from the social sciences and the humanities which
explore, for example, occupational segregation (traditionally male vs.
traditionally female jobs), (in)equality and discrimination in the
workplace, male/female strategies of coping with unemployment, the
(in)compatibility of family and career, or the rendering of such issues
and questions in literature and film.

The multidisciplinary online journal "gender forum"
(http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de) is seeking one more article for
the completion of a special issue on "Gender & Work." We welcome
contributions both from the social sciences and the humanities which
explore, for example, occupational segregation (traditionally male vs.
traditionally female jobs), (in)equality and discrimination in the
workplace, male/female strategies of coping with unemployment, the
(in)compatibility of family and career, or the rendering of such issues
and questions in literature and film.

Announcing a New Journal and CFP
 
The Journal of Surrealism and the Americas focuses on the subject of modern
European and American intellectuals' obsession with the "New World." The
editors would like to announce a call for papers for a general topics issue
on any aspect of visual culture or literature that engages with surrealism
in the Americas, or, that deals with the reception and legacy of the
Surrealist movement in the Americas.
 
Foreign language contributions (in French, German and Spanish) are accepted,
but we require a two-page, double-spaced English language abstract with any
foreign language submission.

Errol Morris=20

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Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris is known for winning the 2004 Academy =
Award for Best Documentary for _The Fog of War_; for his 1998 film _The =
Thin Blue Line_, which both resulted in the release of death-row inmate =
Randall Adams and introduced the now-familiar dramatic reenactment; and =
for his device known as the Interrotron, which allows direct eye contact =
(ostensibly) between the subject and the spectator. He is a leading =
contemporary practitioner in the documentary tradition.

T H E P A S T I N T H E P R E S E N T
History as Practice in Art, Design and Architecture
 
An International Interdisciplinary Conference
Glasgow, 26th-29th October 2007
THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART - DEPT. OF HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
Keynote speakers:
Prof Pat Kirkham, Bard Graduate Center, New York
Prof Richard Dyer, King's College London

C A L L F O R P A P E R S

The Harry Potter area of the Midwest Popular Culture and Midwest American
Culture Association is extending the proposal deadline for its upcoming
conference. I have already received many wonderful submissions, but need
more to even out some panels. The MPCA/MACA conference will be held
Friday-Sunday, October 12-14, 2007 at the Radisson Hotel & Suites Kansas
City-City Center, Kansas City, MO.

Call for Submissions

Kansas English

Volume 91 number 2 Fall 2007

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Theme: Made in Kansas

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Submission deadline September 1, 2007

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While we hope to present the work of Kansas teachers, we look for good
work from all over the U.S. and abroad to address the theme: Made in
Kansas.

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Panel proposal for CCCC, 2008: Like the journey in a fairy tale, the
writing process is a journey into the unknown. Teaching the writing
process can be even more so. This panel is about planning for
serendipity: taking the first step into a dark forest and finding out
what's going to happen at the end when you get there. We are seeking
papers about already-attempted radical changes in teaching method using
technology and what happened when you took the plunge.
 
Please send proposal to organizers Judith Tabron & Ethna Lay at
judith.tabron_at_hofstra.edu by noon on May 1. We will be proposing this
panel for CCCC, "Writing Realities, Changing Realities" at New Orleans,

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