CALL FOR PAPERS

ABUSE AND MISUSE OF SOCIAL AGENTS
Special Issue of Interacting with Computers

CFP: Erotica and its Discontents (04/01/07; 07/14/07)

DoubleTake call for book reviews

"DoubleTake/Points of Entry" continues to accept book reviews on an ongoing basis on narrative/literary journalism and other forms of documentary with aesthetic merit. In order to be considered for the next issue the deadline is April 15, 2007.

Submission guidelines:

CFP: Nancy Mairs (collection)

Abstracts are requested for an edited collection of
new articles on the work of Nancy Mairs, tentatively
titled,

THIS IS WHAT I KNOW IN MY BONES: NEW AND SELECTED
ESSAYS ON NANCY MAIRS

ANIMATED DIALOGUES 2007 CONFERENCE
Melbourne, Australia
June 17-19, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts due April 6, 2007

Animation, described by Paul Wells (2002) as 'the omnipresent pictorial
form of the modern era', is emerging as a significant area of academic
study. Animated Dialogues 2007 aims to bring together scholars from
a range of disciplines whose work brings critical perspectives to bear on
animation industries, texts and audiences.

CFP: Short Film Journal (no deadline).
A new academic internet journal devoted to the short film is coming! The
(Short) Film Journal is calling for contributions for its inaugural internet
issue. Essays of 3000 - 5000 words accompanied by a video of the short film
under discussion (to a maximum of 10 minutes in length, 100MB in size with
the recommended settings: MPEG4 [Divx, Xvid] format, 320 x 240 resolution,
MP3 audio) will be subjected to peer-review. The preferred style for essays
is MLA. All genres of short film are welcome, but the short film in question
must have had a public screening, preferably in an established film
festival. If accepted for publication, evidence of permission from the

Please consider submitting a paper proposal for the Seventh Annual
International Research Conference on Service-Learning and Community
Engagement. Proposals are due by March 15. Here's the URL for the
conference website: http://www.floridacompact.org/irsl/proposals.html
.

The conference this year is sponsored by a consortium of Florida
universities, and will take place October 7-9 in Tampa. I'm happy to
answer any
questions you might have--feel free to email me directly. Also,
please pass this call on to your potentially interested colleagues in
other
disciplines. Graduate students are welcome to submit, too, of course.

Writing Place, Placing Writing

Literature and literary studies have long acknowledged a significant relationship between the construction of narrative and the place in which narrative is constructed. Writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction find both inspiration and limitation, shaping forces, and restrictive forces, in local geography, culture, and environments natural and constructed. To address the complex interrelationship of literature and place, we invite proposals for papers (15-minute presentation limit), for a panel concerned with the relationship between writing/literature and landscape/place/environment.

Proposals are especially encouraged on the following topics.

CFP: Thinking Class: The Adjunct Experience We are seeking narratives det=
ailing experiences with and perceptions of part-time teaching at the univ=
ersity level. We do not have any limitations in terms of word count or ge=
nre; please be as candid, passionate, and opinionated as you feel is nece=
ssary in your contribution. Some of the anthology=E2=80=99s themes will i=
nclude, for example, examinations of part time employment through the len=
s of class, the impact of institutional policies on educational practice,=
 and the rigors of teaching part-time online.

Extended deadline: 7/15/07

The Representation of Social Crisis in Contemporary Arabic Film

Special Session Panel Proposal for the 2007 MLA Convention

Presented by Ken Seigneurie

Lebanese American University - Beirut

Whether the object of direct representation in films such as The Yacoubian

Building or diffracted through popular ideology in others such as Dunia,

social issues find their way into Arabic-language films from Iraq to

Morocco. This panel proposes to look at films produced within the past

twenty years as so many windows (clear, broken, smoked or grimy) onto

social and political crises. Two-page abstracts by 15 March treating any of

BIOCULTURES >science >technology >culture >humanity

Graduate Student Conference
University of Illinois at Chicago
November 16-17, 2007

Keynote speakers:
Judith Halberstam
Lennard J. Davis

BIOCULTURES >science >technology >culture >humanity

Graduate Student Conference
University of Illinois at Chicago
November 16-17, 2007

Keynote speakers:
Judith Halberstam
Lennard J. Davis

Call for Papers
South Central Modern Language Association

2007 Conference in Memphis, Tennessee: November 1-3

The SCMLA Rhetoric panel invites proposals (abstracts or full papers) for
the 2007 conference to be held Nov. 1-3, 2007, in Memphis, Tennessee. This
year's "open topic" panel welcomes proposals on any topic related to
rhetoric, including but not limited to the rhetoric of composition pedagogy,
tutoring rhetoric, the rhetoric of disability, feminist rhetoric, and new
(electronic) media rhetoric.

Papers from graduate students are welcome.

Please email 500-word abstracts by March 16, 2007 to: Lori Rios at
lori.rios_at_tamuk.edu