Digital Games (formerly Video Games)
PCA/ACA - National Conference
April 12-15, 2006
Atlanta Marriott Marquis
 
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 1, 2005
 
The Digital Games area of the Popular Culture Association invites
papers/panels on digital games (video games, computer games, arcade games,
etc.) and digital game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American
Culture Association National Conference to be held at the Atlanta Marriott
Marquis Hotel, April 12-15, 2006. All topics related to digital games and
digital game studies will be considered.
 
So that there will be ample time for discussion, each individual paper

Call For Papers: International Medieval Congress 2006, Leeds
Emotional Sin: The Seven Deadly Passions in Medieval Literature
Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 September, 2005

Abstracts are invited for 20 minute papers on the above subject to be
delivered at the Thirteenth International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK,
10-13 July 2006. See www.leeds.ac.uk/imi/imc/imc2006/imc2006.htm for more
information.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

*The Wild, Wild Wiki: Unsettling the Frontiers of Cyberspace, *edited by
Matt Barton and Robert Cummings

The Mind's Eye: Perspectives on Word and Image
University College London English Postgraduate Conference
17 February 2006

The fourth annual postgraduate conference at University College London
seeks papers that address the relationship between the verbal and
visual in literary texts.

The Mind's Eye: Perspectives on Word and Image
University College London English Postgraduate Conference
17 February 2006

The fourth annual postgraduate conference at University College London
seeks papers that address the relationship between the verbal and
visual in literary texts.

DENMARK AND THE BLACK ATLANTIC

Thursday 4 May to Saturday 6 May 2006

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Organised by the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies

Keynote Speakers:

Professor George Hutchinson (Indiana University), author of _The Harlem
Renaissance in Black and White_ (Harvard UP, 1995) and _From the Shadows: A
New Life of Nella Larsen_ (forthcoming, Harvard UP, 2006)

Candace Allen, author of the novel _Valaida_ (Virago, 2004)

Alex Frank Larsen, journalist and director of Danmark Radio 2's television
documentary series _Slavernes Slægt_ (2005)

TBC: Historian of Danish West Indies/Virgin Islands

CALL FOR PAPERS

DENMARK AND THE BLACK ATLANTIC

Thursday 4 May to Saturday 6 May 2006

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Organised by the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies

Keynote Speakers:

Professor George Hutchinson (Indiana University), author of _The Harlem
Renaissance in Black and White_ (Harvard UP, 1995) and _From the Shadows: A
New Life of Nella Larsen_ (forthcoming, Harvard UP, 2006)

Candace Allen, author of the novel _Valaida_ (Virago, 2004)

Alex Frank Larsen, journalist and director of Danmark Radio 2's television
documentary series _Slavernes Slægt_ (2005)

TBC: Historian of Danish West Indies/Virgin Islands

CALL FOR PAPERS

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Northeast Modern Language Association Conference*

*Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*

*March 2-5, 2006*

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Abstracts are invited for the following panel:

CFP: SMFS at Twenty: Teaching (Kzoo 9/15/05; 5/4/06-5/7/06)

CFP: SMFS at Twenty: Teaching (Kzoo 9/15/05; 5/4/06-5/7/06)

Call for 250 word proposals for essays to go into a book entitled
*Fabricating the Body.* Contributors are asked to examine the way the
body is fabricated through methods such as tatooing, clothing, scarring,
surgery, medicine, computer imaging, forensic science, and so on. The
topic is open to any text, genre, media, nation, theoretical approach,
historical time period. Submit proposal and cv by September 1, 2005 to
etklaver_at_siu.edu.

creative/critical/translation call

CFP: Mantis: Poetry and Discipline (07/29/05; journal)

We are seeking:
-previously unpublished critical original poetry, -previously unpublished
critical essays, and -previously unpublished poetry translations for Mantis
5, under the broad theme of "Poetry and Discipline."

Mantis is a journal of contemporary poetry, poetry translation and poetry
criticism. A forum for writers coming from a broad spectrum of intellectual
and aesthetic positions, Mantis is dedicated to publishing new work that
interrogates the relationships among critical writing, creative writing, and
translation.

The Medieval Romance Society invites abstracts on the subject of Health and
Healing in Medieval Romance for presentation at the Forty-first
International Congress on Medieval Studies in May 2006. In the past decade,
scholarship has made significant contributions to the study of medieval
health and medicine. What has yet to be fully explored, however, is how
these concepts are manifested in popular literary works. Where does the
medical concept of the disease of love come into play in the literature?
What is the scientific explanation of "magical healing"? This session seeks
to explore how notions of health and healing inform, or are informed by,

CFP: Politics in a Mediated World

2006 National Popular Culture/American Culture Associations' Annual Conference

Atlanta Marriott Marquis

Atlanta, Georgia

April 12-15, 2006

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2005

The Politics in a Mediated World section of the American Culture

Association is seeking individual papers and/or panels for the

Joint meeting of the American Culture Association and the Popular

Culture Association at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel in Atlanta,

Georgia on April 12-15, 2006.

ACA/PCA is committed to an interdisciplinary approach.