Title: 20th-Century Literature & Culture Conference, University of
Louisville, KY
Date: 02/23-25/06
Deadline for submissions: 09/15/05
URL: www.louisville.edu/a-s/cml/xxconf
About the Conf: An international Conf now in its thirty-fourth year.
Reading committees select the best critical & creative works; the papers
are grouped for presentation at sectional meetings. Open Topic. Creative
writers are also welcome. Submissions accepted in English, French, German,
Italian or Spanish.
Director: Danielle Day
Enquiries: dlday_at_louisville.edu
Thank you

Turning the Century: Josephine Preston Peabody and Amy Lowell

Papers are invited for a panel at the 2006 Society for the Study of
American Women Writers Meeting. These essays should explore the plays,
criticism, or poetry of either or both authors, focusing on anti-war
sentiment, women's rights, social activism, lesbianism, imagism,
environmentalism, "Boston Marriages," etc. Submissions might also
examine their friendship, letters, and/or mutual mentoring. Please send
abstracts to Susan Stone, Loras College, (Susan.Stone_at_loras.edu), by
January 12th, 2006.

Turning the Century: Josephine Preston Peabody and Amy Lowell

Papers are invited for a panel at the 2006 Society for the Study of
American Women Writers Meeting. These essays should explore the plays,
criticism, or poetry of either or both authors, focusing on anti-war
sentiment, women's rights, social activism, lesbianism, imagism,
environmentalism, "Boston Marriages," etc. Submissions might also
examine their friendship, letters, and/or mutual mentoring. Please send
abstracts to Susan Stone, Loras College, (Susan.Stone_at_loras.edu), by
January 12th, 2006.

Papers on any aspect of Jack London's life and works are invited for
the 2006 Popular Culture Association Conference. The conference will
be held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia from 12-16
April. Please submit an abstract of 150-200 words by 1 November 2005
to:

Louise E. Wright
Area Chair, Jack London's Life and Works
3334 Midvale Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19129
lewright_at_dca.net

For further information, please visit the PCA/ACA website at
http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca

CFP: Science and Literature at the RSA, 2006

Janus Head. A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Continental Philosophy,
Literature, Phenomenological Psychology and the Arts

www.janushead.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

JANUS HEAD 9.2 (Winter 2006/2007) - Special Issue

TOPIC: The situated body

Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2006.

Guest Editor: Shaun Gallagher (University of Central Florida)

General Issue:

HyperRhiz, the peer-reviewed new media satellite site of Rhizomes:
Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledges, is seeking web-based
multimedia contributions for its first issue. HyperRhiz affirms and
extends the mandate of Rhizomes, which is to publish peer-reviewed
works based on or responding to Deleuzian analyses of culture.

The format of contributions may include:

hypertextual presentations/interpretations of critical theory
interactive web installations
rich media documentation of electronic projects
web-based interactive games
animated/code poetry/fiction
web-enabled video documentary

CFP: Decadence in English Literature Vol. 2 (9/1/2005;

collection)

Please send abstracts for a scholarly collection to be

published by Ibidem Press in their Studies in English

Literatures series. The theme of this volume will be

Decadence exterior to the period 1870-1910 and is

expected to contain essays upon periods in English

Literature from Anglo-Saxon to contemporary. Any

essay exploring the philosophical, historical or

aesthetic tendencies of Decadence literarily presented

in Britain are encouraged. Some suggested topics are:

the literary implications of atrophy; decadence in

formal practice: literary dandyism, euphuism, purple

Signs of the Times
http://www.signsofthetimes.org.uk/

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Signs of the Times is an independent, self-financed collective which
exists to provide a space for the free circulation and exchange of
ideas on the left, outside the confines of the academy and not limited
by party loyalties or sectarian ideologies.

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE SIXTIES

April 12 - 16, 2006 Atlanta, Georgia. The national PCA/ACA conference will
be held at the beautiful Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel.
 
Deadline for Paper/Panel Proposals: November 1, 2005.

The 1960s was one of the most tumultuous decades of the Twentieth Century,
introducing new forms of American Culture, as well as changing existing
forms. This area welcomes explorations of any aspect of the decade, from
civil rights to platform shoes. Contributions from interdisciplinary fields
as well as single disciplines are encouraged.

Please send 100-150 word abstracts in WORD by email to

South Park and Popular Culture. Contributions are invited for a collection
of academic essays on the animated program, South Park. Possible topics
include, but are not limited to, South Park and historical, political, and
televisual context; representations of race, gender, sexual orientation,
class, or disability; constructions of childhood and parenthood; viewership
practices; indecency and pornography; the carnivalesque; South Park and the
academy; South Park and youth culture. 400-word proposals and C.V.s should
be submitted by Nov. 1, 2005 to the editor, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock,
Department of English, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
(Jeffrey.Weinstock_at_cmich.edu).

CFP: TV Shorts, online at Critical Studies in Television
(www.criticalstudiesintelevision.com)
Deadline: open

---Call for SubmissionsRe-Thinking Ephemera in the Classroom and BeyondSeeking proposals for a volume of essays tentatively entitled Re-ThinkingEphemera in the Classroom and Beyond. The editors are looking for 5-6,000word manuscripts to fill the roughly ten-essay volume. By presenting a widerange of definitions and theoretical perspectives as well as a variety ofpedagogical strategies and approaches for teaching and exploring notions ofearly modern ephemera, contributors will seek to address the following kindsof questions.· What do we mean by ephemera?

We invite submissions for a forthcoming book entitled "Multicultural
Literature and the New Educational Accountability: Challenges and
Opportunities." This book will highlight ways in which classroom teachers
and teacher educators continue to utilize multicultural children's and
young adult literature while addressing local, state and national
standards. Moreover, contributors to the volume will examine how teachers
balance the pressure for accountability (i.e., success on high-stakes
tests) with students' needs for culturally responsive pedagogy.