DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO 15 SEPTEMBER

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> 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:

Call for Papers

Computers & Composition: An International Journal invites contributions for a
special issue, Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming

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

Complexity Theory and Cultural Artifacts 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.

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

Complexity Theory and Cultural Artifacts 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.

The CFP deadline for the 14th Triennial Conference of the Association for
Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) of August 17-22,
2007 has been extended to September 30, 2006. Please check the conference
website for more details:
http://ocs.sfu.ca/aclals/

Thanks so much
Ranjini Mendis
Chair, Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
(ACLALS)

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 28th Annual
Conference
Albuquerque, NM, February 14-17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
 
Panels are now forming on topics related to Experimental Writing and
Aesthetics in such areas as the aesthetics of experimental writing in
any genre or in multi-genre/multi-media works including digital and
graphic compositions involving language, the poetics of performance of
experimental compositions, critical studies of experimental writers,
etc.
 
Creative writers interested in the selective creative writing readings

Call for Papers: Music and Tradition

The 28th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA

February 14-17, 2007

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

The SW/TEX PCA/ACA annual conference represents one of the nation's largest gatherings of interdisciplinary scholars, with a particular interest in critical examinations of non-traditional or cross-disciplinary topics.

The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency downtown. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/