The Death in American Culture area of the Mid Atlantic American/Popular Culture Conference, October 27-29, 2006 in Baltimore MD is soliciting paper proposals.

Papers are welcome on any aspect of American cultural responses to death. Paper proposals may be from any appropriate discipline and cover any historical period. General topic areas include but are not limited to the following:

1. Attitudes toward and practices relating to death, including the medicalization of death, the social construction of death, death in art and literature, funeral customs, the evolution of the funeral business and the cemetery, changing attitudes toward the dead body and its disposal, and burial and mourning practices.

ASTR 2006 CONFERENCE

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF ASTR
Hotel Allegro, Chicago - November 16-19, 2006

AMERICA: SOCIETY: THEATRE: RESEARCH

Call for contributions to Seminar:
The Stakes of Performance Research - Local Situations and Global Forces

A Storied Life: The Apocryphal Biography and Autobiography is a session of
the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Pop/Am Culture Association annual conference. The
dates are 10/27-29/06 in lovely Baltimore, MD. Registration fees apply. For
more information, please go to <http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/>.

Bridges or Fences: Diversity on the American Stage
(A One-Day Symposium Re-engaging the Wilson-Brustein Debates)

Saturday June 24, 2006
Pittsburgh, Pa

Bridges or Fences: Diversity on the American Stage
(A One-Day Symposium Re-engaging the Wilson-Brustein Debates)

Saturday June 24, 2006
Pittsburgh, Pa

Paper proposals are invited for a conference entitled "Living Together,
Working Together: African-American Miners and the Coal Culture of
Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1870-1970." The conference is sponsored by the
Coal and Coke Heritage Center at The Pennsylvania State University's
Fayette Campus and is supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical
and Museum Commission. It will be held March 16, 2007. We have funding to
publish selected papers in a conference proceedings.

The National Association for Humanities Education (NAHE) invites =
250-word proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops for =
inclusion in the program of its 2007 conference, "The Golden Gateways of =
the Humanities: Transgressions/Transformation, Dissonance/Harmony," to =
be held at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway in San Francisco, CA from =
February 28 to March 3, 2007. Papers should be planned for twenty =
minutes; panels, roundtables, and workshops should be planned for an =
hour and thirty minutes.

The National Association for Humanities Education (NAHE) invites =
250-word proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops for =
inclusion in the program of its 2007 conference, "The Golden Gateways of =
the Humanities: Transgressions/Transformation, Dissonance/Harmony," to =
be held at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway in San Francisco, CA from =
February 28 to March 3, 2007. Papers should be planned for twenty =
minutes; panels, roundtables, and workshops should be planned for an =
hour and thirty minutes.

The Departments of English & Comparative Literature and Rhetoric & Writing
Studies are proud to present the 14th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate
Student Conference: San Diego State University
Crisis Carnival 2006

aesthetic INVASIONS / articulate EVASIONS

An interdisciplinary discussion of the humanities
Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Scholars from all fields are invited to submit: papers, poetry, fiction,
artwork & films

The Journal of the International Digital Media and Arts Association is
currently seeking submissions for a special themed issue on History and
Changing Paradigms: the Role of Digital Media and Arts in How We View our
World. The Journal of The International Digital Media and Arts Association is
a quarterly seeking to respond to the rapidly developing field of digital
media and arts in a variety of settings—academic, educational, artistic,
political, and social. The editorial board invites original submissions that
consider the development, application, and understanding of digital media and
arts; the purpose of the journal is promote awareness of this growing field

The Journal of the International Digital Media and Arts Association is
currently seeking submissions for a special themed issue on History and
Changing Paradigms: the Role of Digital Media and Arts in How We View our
World. The Journal of The International Digital Media and Arts Association is
a quarterly seeking to respond to the rapidly developing field of digital
media and arts in a variety of settings—academic, educational, artistic,
political, and social. The editorial board invites original submissions that
consider the development, application, and understanding of digital media and
arts; the purpose of the journal is promote awareness of this growing field

Call for Papers

2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition" Dallas 8-12 November, 2006
www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: Auteur Documentary Dabblers: Documentary Moments in the Films of
Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, and Others

Auteur filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, and
others have worked extensively in both fictional and documentary films.
  However, most of the critical attention devoted to such filmmakers
has focused almost entirely on their fictional works. What are the
larger implications of this critical blind spot?

GET REAL: DOCUMENTARY THEATRE PAST AND PRESENT
(edited by Chris Megson and Alison Forsyth)=20

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The Israel Association for Renaissance Studies is looking for papers
for an
official session at the next meeting of the RSA in Miami in 2007.
Presentations should deal with some aspect of ways
in which Christians made use of Kabbalistic ideas, themes and
traditions in
the context of works that deal with philosophy, theosophy, literature
and/or art. Please send me a title with a 300 word abstract as well as a
short c.v.by May 20.
Prof. Noam Flinker
Dept. of English
University of Haifa
Mt. Carmel, Haifa 31905 Israel

flinker_at_research.haifa.ac.il