The first Optika symposium, which took place in 2005, brought together
people from a variety of artistic, intellectual, and cultural
backgrounds and resulted in a wonderfully stimulating 2 day
conversation about the possibilities of visual narration. It also
resulted in a book on the subject soon to be published by the
University of Puerto Rico Press. When the symposium ended, everyone was
asking when Optika 2 would take place. So we are happy to announce the
second edition of Optika, and invite you to submit your proposals:

Optika 2
A Symposium on Visual Narration
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus

Thursday and Friday January 25th and 26th, 2007

     
  ARTHURIAN LEGENDS
   
  Popular Culture Association
  Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  BostonMarriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  Papers and panel proposals on all popular treatments
  of Arthurian Legend from any period and in any medium--
  print, visual, musical, commercial, electronic--are welcome.
   
  Abstracts should be 250 words max. Panel proposals must
  include abstracts from all session participants. E-mail
  submissions are acceptable. Please submit abstracts and
  proposals in duplicate.
   
   
  Electronic submissions to:
   
  e.sklar_at_wayne.edu and DHof635094_at_aol.com

New Approaches to 19th-century African American Autobiography
NeMLA Board-Sponsored Panel

38th Annual Northeast MLA Convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 1-4, 2007

In honor of NeMLA's return to Maryland, the state of Frederick
Douglass' birth, this board-sponsored panel invites papers that focus
on new approaches to nineteenth-century African American
autobiography. Papers may focus on any text or issue, including (but
not limited to) single-author studies, comparative autobiographical
studies, or larger generic issues within African American autobiography studies

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers or for panels (with three=20
participants) on Ford=E2=80=99s work as a novelist, poet, essayist, propaga=
ndist, critic,=20
biographer, travel writer, historian, or raconteur. The emphasis of the=20
conference is on Ford as a transitional figure spanning various cultural ph=
ases from=20
Victorian to Pre-Raphaelitism, through Impressionism and early Modernism, t=
o=20
post-WW1 Paris and the USA.=20

CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE JULY 30, 2006

"Art in the Age of Technological Seduction"
Fall 2006 issue of NMC media-N: journal of the new media caucus
Guest Editors: Legier Biederman and Joshua Callaghan
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/call.htm

Please note: this is a renewed call for papers, as the deadline for
submissions has been extended to July 31.

CFP - REFRACTORY: A JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA
SPECIAL ISSUE: TRAVERSING NARRATIVE MEDIA

The online journal REFRACTORY is seeking contributions regarding
narrative in cinema, television and new media. We invite a variety of
approaches and topics, but are particularly interested in essays that
explore new areas and objects of narrative study, or offer new
perspectives on existing debates.

Please note: this is a renewed call for papers, as the deadline for
submissions has been extended to July 31.

CFP - REFRACTORY: A JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA
SPECIAL ISSUE: TRAVERSING NARRATIVE MEDIA

The online journal REFRACTORY is seeking contributions regarding
narrative in cinema, television and new media. We invite a variety of
approaches and topics, but are particularly interested in essays that
explore new areas and objects of narrative study, or offer new
perspectives on existing debates.

Sedimentations: An Art Culture Nature Conference
18th - 20th of May 2007
Conference Site: Kettle Pond Visitor Center in Charlestown, Rhode Island
Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Conference Directors: Ana Flores and Petra Kuppers

This Art Culture Nature conference addresses connections between time,
ecology, human history and the histories of the land.

ACN is an interdisciplinary organization which brings together artists,
environmentalists and educators in the humanities, arts, sciences and
social sciences who are interested in the study of the connections
between the arts and environmental studies.

First Call for Papers

Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading
A conference at the University of Birmingham, UK

1 & 2 September 2007

Keynote Speakers:
Janice Radway (Duke University) & Elizabeth Long (Rice University)

Book groups, Lit Blogs, on-line bookstores, book festivals, reader
magazines, 'One Book, One Community,' Reader's Guides, 'Richard & Judy's
Book Club,' Book TV, 'Canada Reads,' the 'Nancy Pearl Action Figure,'
'Tuesday Night Book Club,'... reading is hot!

First Call for Papers

Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading
A conference at the University of Birmingham, UK

1 & 2 September 2007

Keynote Speakers:
Janice Radway (Duke University) & Elizabeth Long (Rice University)

Book groups, Lit Blogs, on-line bookstores, book festivals, reader
magazines, 'One Book, One Community,' Reader's Guides, 'Richard & Judy's
Book Club,' Book TV, 'Canada Reads,' the 'Nancy Pearl Action Figure,'
'Tuesday Night Book Club,'... reading is hot!

The John Donne Society welcomes papers for a sponsored session at the ICMS, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 2007. Please send hard copy of (300 word) abstract and cover sheet as per ICMS form ( http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/42cfp/forms.html <https://webmail.kctcs.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/42cfp/forms.html> ) by/before September 15, 2006 to Scott Vander Ploeg at the address below. Submissions should also be sent by email attachment (MS Word preferred) to Scott's email address.

The John Donne Society welcomes papers for a sponsored session at the ICMS, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 2007. Please send hard copy of (300 word) abstract and cover sheet as per ICMS form ( http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/42cfp/forms.html <https://webmail.kctcs.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/42cfp/forms.html> ) by/before September 15, 2006 to Scott Vander Ploeg at the address below. Submissions should also be sent by email attachment (MS Word preferred) to Scott's email address.

    ACA/PCA National Conference
  Boston 2007

American Art and Architecture
Call for Papers

The Art and Architecture Area of the American Culture Association
is seeking papers on any aspect of "Visual Culture of the Americas"
  for the annual conference in Boston, April 4 to 7, 2007.

Papers on topics related to questions of
identity, patriotism and nationalism
within the broader categories of
Latino, Native, African American and Canadian art and architecture
will be considered.

We are especially interested in papers which offer
  a cross-disciplinary perspective. Open sessions for papers
  on American arts of a less specific theme are also planned.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ON DIFFICULTY
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Lowe
Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, San Diego

18th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Organization Conference
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006