The First International Making Books, Shaping Readers Conference
University College, Cork, April 18th - 20th 2007
http://www.ucc.ie/en/mbsr

Theme: "Making an Audience"

This conference encourages a broad interpretation of the notion of an
audience in keeping with the etymology of the word. (The term audience,
which derives from the Latin audenita, "a hearing, listening", from awis,
"to perceive physically, to grasp", and from the nineteenth century
transformation of the sense of the word to "readers of a book", reflects the
way in which technologies of the word have changed throughout history, from
oral, to manuscript, to print).

  Call for Papers: Robert A. Heinlein Studies
   
  Robert A. Heinlein Studies
An Area of the Popular Culture Association
National PCA/ACA Conference
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  April 7-10, 2007
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  2007 marks the 100th anniversary of Robert A. Heinlein's birth. Centennial events and celebrations will take place throughout the year. Select papers presented at the 2007 PCA/ACA conference will be published in special Centennial issues of the Heinlein Journal.
   

CFP

NEMLA ANNUAL CONVENTION

Baltimore, Maryland

March 1-4 2007

Topic: Writing the Wilderness The panel invites papers that examine how Early American authors like Franklin, Crevecoeur, Jefferson, Brockden Brown wrote the wilderness as part of nation building. Send abstracts to Timothy Strode, Nassau Community College: strodet_at_ncc.edu

Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2006(unless otherwise noted)

Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation / Email address / Postal address / Telephone number / A/V requirements (if any)

Panel Title: The End of Tolerance?

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland

As the new century began, 'tolerance' was supposed to pour healing oil on
American waters and enable some ground for a universal moral commitment. In
Europe, it was believed that the emergence of the European Union and the
"European Dream" would enable a culture of tolerance and a kindly
integration of The Other.

Panel Title: The End of Tolerance?

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland

As the new century began, 'tolerance' was supposed to pour healing oil on
American waters and enable some ground for a universal moral commitment. In
Europe, it was believed that the emergence of the European Union and the
"European Dream" would enable a culture of tolerance and a kindly
integration of The Other.

Representing Self and Other: Gender and Sexuality in the Fantastic
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 28
March 14-28, 2007
Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Representing Self and Other: Gender and Sexuality in the Fantastic
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 28
March 14-28, 2007
Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS) =

Chicago Hilton=2C Chicago=2C IL
March 8-11=2C 2007 =

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=93Extreme=94 East Asian Cinema and Cult Film Canons
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CFP: Edith Wharton and the Material Cultures of the Book edited collection:
deadlines extended (abstracts, 1 October 2006; contributions, 1 April 2007).

Contributors are encouraged to interpret the idea of the material culture of
the book as widely as they wish, drawing upon research from sociology,
economic and social history, literary theory, bibliography, book history,
philosophy and anthropology. I would particularly welcome contributors seeking to
examine Wharton’s publication, production, dissemination and place in book
history and material culture outside of an American context. Some topics that you
might wish to discuss include:

CFP: Edith Wharton and the Material Cultures of the Book edited collection:
deadlines extended (abstracts, 1 October 2006; contributions, 1 April 2007).

Contributors are encouraged to interpret the idea of the material culture of
the book as widely as they wish, drawing upon research from sociology,
economic and social history, literary theory, bibliography, book history,
philosophy and anthropology. I would particularly welcome contributors seeking to
examine Wharton’s publication, production, dissemination and place in book
history and material culture outside of an American context. Some topics that you
might wish to discuss include:

The Ninth International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference will
be held in London, from 8 through 14 July 2007. Senate
House, near Russell Square in Bloomsbury, will be the
conference center where panels and plenary sessions will be
held.

Proposals are invited on any aspect of Fitzgerald studies.
We would, however, particularly welcome such subjects as
Fitzgerald’s reputation in England, the influence of British
writers on his work, including Keats, Conrad, and the
Victorian novelists, and British writers of the 1920s whom
Fitzgerald admired.

One-paragraph proposals should be sent to Kirk Curnutt, via
email attachment, at kcurnutt_at_troy.edu.

CFP: Conspiracy Theories & Claims for the Paranormal
   
  2007 PCA/ACA National Conference
   
  April 4-7, 2007
   
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  Submission deadline: November 1, 2006
   
  We welcome papers on various subjects pertaining to conspiracy theories, to pseudoscience, and to claims for the paranormal. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
   
  --The Political Conspiracy and its Representations
  --"Bulls--t, Mythbusting and other Skeptics in Popular Culture"
  --The Da Vinci Code
  --Conspiracies and Claims for the Paranormal in New Religious Movements

The Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Thomas Wolfe Society will take place
from June 8-10, 2007, in Paris, France. Please send inquiries or paper
proposals to Shawn Holliday, English Department, Alice Lloyd College, Pippa Passes,
KY 41844. (606) 368-6099; fax (606) 368-6218; ShawnHolliday_at_alc.edu. For
more information, see _http://www.thomaswolfe.org/_ (http://www.thomaswolfe.org/)
.

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
March 8-11, 2007
Chicago, IL

=93Complexity Theory and Cultural Artifacts=94

Papers are sought which apply scholarship from the growing field of =
Complexity Studies (dealing with emergence, cultural complexity, =
protocol, control, information, technology, network theory) in their =
analysis of mediated texts. Of particular interest are papers which =
address the role of complexity and cultural artifacts in relation to =
multiculturalism, nationalism, transnationalism, postcolonialism, or =
identity politics, as manifest withinin (or in relation to) the public =
sphere.