Call For Papers for a special issue of RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW (89)

"Our Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings" eds. Sandhya Shukla and
Heidi Tinsman

Call For Papers for a special issue of RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW (89)

"Our Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings" eds. Sandhya Shukla and
Heidi Tinsman

From

Loretta Collins
Associate Professor
English Department
Humanities Faculty
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

CALL FOR PAPERS

Seeking essays for a collection on the connections between Caribbean/US or
Caribbean/Canadian poetry, performance poetry, music, and sound.

Abstracts by March 20th, to:
Dr. Loretta Collins, Associate Profesor, English Department, Humanities
Faculty, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
lcollins_at_rrpac.upr.edu.clu

From

Loretta Collins
Associate Professor
English Department
Humanities Faculty
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

CALL FOR PAPERS

Seeking essays for a collection on the connections between Caribbean/US or
Caribbean/Canadian poetry, performance poetry, music, and sound.

Abstracts by March 20th, to:
Dr. Loretta Collins, Associate Profesor, English Department, Humanities
Faculty, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
lcollins_at_rrpac.upr.edu.clu

X-posted from melus-list_at_marshall.edu

This is a call for papers to contribute to a collection on African American
Confinement Literature:

African American Confinement Literature

 STUDIES ABOUT LANGUAGES (No 3) is now available at http://www.kalbos.lt

The journal aims at bringing together the researchers interested in =
theoretical studies, various aspects of language functioning within a =
society, computational linguistics, problems of language learning and =
teaching, etc. Welcome to the Web site! =20
We kindly invite you to contribute for future issues. Guidelines for =
submission are at http://www.kalbos.lt
Also, we should be grateful if you could pass the information to your =
colleagues who might be interested in contributing to the journal.=20

Sincerely,

Original essays are invited for a collection of essays tentatively
entitled The Productivity of Pain. For long, pain has been coded as a
means to salvation and knowledge, and as a stimulus to writing. Or else
it has been objectified as the truth´s negative, something that far from
ennobling human beings distances them from their affects. The logic is
not hard to stomach. Pain poses a threat to identity by making the body
alien. Sartre, in fact, confessed that illness deprived him of himself.
But, within the same movement, pain confers identity to the individual
because nobody can suffer for you, instead of you, just as nobody can
die for you. Physical suffering is thus one of the most private of

'Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine' (to be published 2004)

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Editors of the book 'Signs of Life:
Cinema and Medicine' will be requiring a first rate chapter on the
representation of nurses and nursing in film -- delivered later this year.

This chapter will be 6000 words in length. The contributor will receive a
small fee and a contribution toward collection of images (if being used).

Call for Papers
Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness
Open Issue (July 2003)
ISSN: 1471-5597

Deadline for submissions is April30, 2003. (Note date change.)

_Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness_ is an interdisciplinary
ejournal which publishes work from academic, professional, vocational,
and religious contexts relating to classifying, defining, and probing
different aspects of evil. It aims to shed light on the origins,
sources, and manifestations of evil as well as on the diverse angles
from which humans can understand, tackle, surmount, or come to terms
with it.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

AEQ: Academic Exchange Quarterly
Spring 2004, Volume 8, Issue 1
Expanded issue up to 400+ pages.
Articles on various topics plus the following special section

SPECIAL TOPIC: Media Literacy

Focus:

To: cfp_at_english.upenn.edu
From: Jared Gardner <gardner.236_at_osu.edu>

AMERICAN PERIODICALS: a Journal of History, Criticism, & Bibliography

Call for Submissions

AMERICAN PERIODICALS has moved to the Ohio State University Press,
under the joint editorship of Susan Williams, Steven Fink, and Jared
Gardner. The 2003 issue will continue in an annual format; beginning in
2004 the journal will move to a bi-annual publication schedule. The
editors are seeking essays on history, criticism and bibliography on
all aspects of American periodicals, from the 18th century through the
present day. The deadline for submissions for the 2003 issue is June
30th.

Popular Cultures/Cultures of the Popular: 1870-1945
 From the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century critical
judgements about popular culture remained extremely diverse; theorists both
celebrated the emergence and preservation of popular cultural forms and
lamented the rise of new market-driven cultural commodities. Perhaps
because of such diversity, there are areas in which a thorough assessment
of the relationships within and between these positions remains to be
done. Popular culture was itself extremely diverse and developments in
critical studies have helped to produce a more detailed picture of the
forms that popular culture took at that time. Recent work in nineteenth

Popular Cultures/Cultures of the Popular: 1870-1945
 From the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century critical
judgements about popular culture remained extremely diverse; theorists both
celebrated the emergence and preservation of popular cultural forms and
lamented the rise of new market-driven cultural commodities. Perhaps
because of such diversity, there are areas in which a thorough assessment
of the relationships within and between these positions remains to be
done. Popular culture was itself extremely diverse and developments in
critical studies have helped to produce a more detailed picture of the
forms that popular culture took at that time. Recent work in nineteenth

CFP: White Male Embodiment and Cultural Identity (4/27/03; collection)