We would like to announce a new peer-reviewed, online journal--Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies--and invite submissions for the inaugural issue.

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture. The journal is a collaborative effort that brings together advanced graduate students and scholars from a variety of universities to create a unique voice in the field. We endorse a broad definition of gender studies and welcome submissions that consider gender and sexuality in conjunction with race, class, place and nationality.

FILM ADAPTATION CALL FOR PAPERS for the 2006 Popular Culture Association =
(PCA)/ American Culture Association (ACA) conference in Atlanta, Georgia =
from April 12th to April 16th:

This panel will explore connections between mapping, cartographic =
discourse, and the production of British national identity during the =
long eighteenth century. A substantial and useful body of work in this =
area is available within Renaissance studies, initiated, in large =
measure, by Richard Helgerson's now seminal Forms of Nationhood. =
According to Helgerson, the production of the national body is =
dependent, to an extent, on cartographic representation in that it =
allows both commoner and courtesan to visualize the nation spatially =
and, more importantly, to imaginatively project a space in which they =
may realize themselves as subjects of the nation. However, does this =

CFP: Neomedievalism in film, TV, games (08/31/05;
Kalamazoo, collection, 05/04/06-05/07/06)

Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO) 2
annual sessions, select papers to be included in
collection under contract with Mellen Press.

Session I. The Medieval in Motion: Approaches to
Neomedievalism in Television and Film;

Session II. Neomedievalism in the Digital Age: A
Critical Approach to Video Games (A Workshop)

Contact by email with abstract or workshop
participation proposal by August 31:

CFP: Neomedievalism in film, TV, games (08/31/05;
Kalamazoo, collection, 05/04/06-05/07/06)

Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO) 2
annual sessions, select papers to be included in
collection under contract with Mellen Press.

Session I. The Medieval in Motion: Approaches to
Neomedievalism in Television and Film;

Session II. Neomedievalism in the Digital Age: A
Critical Approach to Video Games (A Workshop)

Contact by email with abstract or workshop
participation proposal by August 31:

NEMLA 2006
March 2-3, Philadelphia
Chair: Shealeen Meaney
Contact: shealeen_at_att.net
 
 
"Like Water going back to itself": Gender, Place and Culture in 20th Century American Fiction
 
The gendering of space and the spatializing of identity are processes of much interest in contemporary culture study. This panel will examine women's representations of place and emplacement in American Women's Literature of the 20th century. From the closing of the frontier at the end of the 19th century to women's continued struggles to escape the domestic sphere at the end of the 20th, American conceptualizations of identity have always been preoccupied with space, fixity, and mobility.
 

NEMLA 2006
March 2-3, Philadelphia
Chair: Shealeen Meaney
Contact: shealeen_at_att.net
 
 
"Like Water going back to itself": Gender, Place and Culture in 20th Century American Fiction
 
The gendering of space and the spatializing of identity are processes of much interest in contemporary culture study. This panel will examine women's representations of place and emplacement in American Women's Literature of the 20th century. From the closing of the frontier at the end of the 19th century to women's continued struggles to escape the domestic sphere at the end of the 20th, American conceptualizations of identity have always been preoccupied with space, fixity, and mobility.
 

Conference Announcement and First Call for Papers for
Crossroads 2006 in Istanbul

We are pleased to announce that the Sixth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, the official meeting of
The Association for Cultural Studies, will be held in Istanbul, sponsored by Istanbul Bilgi University, 20-23 July 2006.

The Cultural Studies Caucus welcomes proposal for this year's
panel discussion at ASECS in Montreal, March 30-April 2, 2006,
"Visualizing Culture."

Call for Papers
41st International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
May 4-7, 2006

The UC Davis Medieval Research Consortium invites abstracts of 20-minute
papers for the following sponsored sessions:

Potions and Charms: Artifice and Manipulation - addresses the role of
magical implements by exploring their manipulation as both a rhetorical
and a creative force in medieval texts.

Bedroom Culture: Intimacy, Incest and Redemption - focuses not only on
the issue of incest but raises the question of the redemptive quality of
love in medieval Romances.

The Valve (http://www.thevalve.org/go) is a literary weblog dedicated to the
proposition that the function of the little magazine can follow this form.
Beginning July 12th, the contributors to the Valve and a number of prominent
scholars--including Michael Berube, Gerald Graff, Scott McLemee, &c.--will
be discussing Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral's recently published Theory's
Empire: An Anthology of Dissent. This is the first of many planned online
colloquia concerning recently published works of interest to literary and
cultural scholars. Thinkers of all theoretical stripes are welcome to
attend and encouraged to participate in the ongoing conversation. A brief

antiTHESIS vol 16 (2006),
Call for Papers

Following the success of our recent annual postgraduate symposium, The
Event, Culture and Contingency, the antiTHESIS editorial collective
would like to re-issue the current CFP to remind all those intending to
contribute to the next edition that submissions close on Friday, 11
August.

antiTHESIS volume 16 (2006), "in the event …"

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.
Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its
verifying itself, its veri-fication. – William James

The Brut, a history of Britain, beginning with the settlement of the island by Brutus, was produced in several languages over several centuries. Strictly speaking, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae is a Brut, as is Caxton's Chronicles of England. Other notable texts in between are Wace's Roman de Brut, Lawman's Brut, The Anglo-Norman Prose Brut, and the Middle English Prose Brut. Even Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has occasionally been referred to as a Brut because of the reference to Brutus and the history of Britain in its introduction.

Narratives of Community: American Women's "Story Books"