The Patient: A Symposium, Bucknell University, October 18 & 19, 2006

Precariously situated between home and hospital,=20
work and bed, life and death, the patient=20
occupies a liminal, unstable position. Charged=20
to identify with her state as with the moral=20
virtue from which she receives her name, the=20
patient also lives in the fear of our=20
indifference and impatience. Although attended=20
by doctors, nurses, family and friends, her=20
condition - particularly if it is chronic - ever=20
threatens to sever her connections with the world=20
and to exile her into that fundamental solitude=20
owned by the sick and suffering.

2005 Boston Faith & Film Festival
"Images of Evil"
February 10-11

Call for Papers

Northeast Modern Language Association: 2-5 March 2006 in Philadelphia

I am now seeking papers for the following panel; please note the deadline has now changed to 23 September 2005.

Paper proposals including but not limited to the following "regions" in
science fiction studies: the feminine, the male gaze, women in media (film, comic
book covers, television), women authors (Joanna Russ, Ursula LeGuin), female
utopias/dystopias.

CFP: Film Sequels (11/30/05; collection)

Film Sequels: New Theories of Remaking and Sequelization

Eds. Carolyn Jess (University of Sunderland, UK) and Constantine
Verevis (Monash University, Australia)

Cultural Studies in an Age of (In)security

3rd Annual Emporia State University Student Literary and Cultural Studies Conference
February 10-11, 2006
Emporia Kansas

Papers of 5-8000 words are requested for a volume on any of the many varied
uses of the voice-over in the cinema. From 'The Voice of God' to an actor's
internal monologue, papers that draw upon established theorists and/or refer
to particular films or practitioners are encouraged. Some provision will be
made for accompanying film stills photography provided permission is
obtained. All contributions will be fully refereed and peer reviewed. Please
send manuscripts to;
Dr. James Barnes
Email; reviewer321_at_hotmail.com

The Drama Specialization and the Performance and Communications Media =20=

Diploma of Memorial University of Newfoundland, in association with =20
the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, will be hosting a theatre =20
conference from June 27th to June 29th, 2006.

The Magnetic Forces theatre conference is being held in conjunction =20
with the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, taking place in St. John=92s, =20=

Newfoundland, Canada between June 28 and July 8, 2006.

CFP: Modern Greece in 20th c. Travel Narratives (11/20/2005; Italy, =
9/7/06-9/9/06)

=20

Conference:

Borders & Crossings VI, the sixth International Conference on Travel =
Writing 7-9 September 2006

University of Palermo, Italy.

=20

Panel Title:

Writing Hellas: Modern Greece in 20th century Travel Narratives

=20

 Panel Chair:=20

Dr Anastasia Logotheti, Deree College, The American College of Greece

=20

CFP: Modern Greece in 20th c. Travel Narratives (11/20/2005; Italy, =
9/7/06-9/9/06)

=20

Conference:

Borders & Crossings VI, the sixth International Conference on Travel =
Writing 7-9 September 2006

University of Palermo, Italy.

=20

Panel Title:

Writing Hellas: Modern Greece in 20th century Travel Narratives

=20

 Panel Chair:=20

Dr Anastasia Logotheti, Deree College, The American College of Greece

=20

Back to the Medieval Future, or, Medieval Performance as the Vision of
Tomorrow
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2006 Conference
Chicago, August 3-6, 2006

Please post
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
 
Western Regional Conference for Christianity and Literature
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
March 10-11, 2006
 
The Word in the World: Christianity's Encounter with Other Cultures
 
Keynote speaker:
Alan Jacobs, Wheaton College, "Nietzsche or St. Basil: Paganism and
Literature"
 
Poetry reading:
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, author of The Orchard, Song, and To the Place of
Trumpets
 
>From the beginning, Christians have encountered cultures whose values they
found alien or even hostile. Yet such cultures are precisely the ones in

Back to the Medieval Future, or, Medieval Performance as the Vision of
Tomorrow
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2006 Conference
Chicago, August 3-6, 2006

Call for Essays: Human Rights & Latin American/U.S. Relations