The Journal of the International Digital Media and Arts Association is
currently seeking submissions for a special themed issue on History and
Changing Paradigms: the Role of Digital Media and Arts in How We View our
World. The Journal of The International Digital Media and Arts Association is
a quarterly seeking to respond to the rapidly developing field of digital
media and arts in a variety of settings—academic, educational, artistic,
political, and social. The editorial board invites original submissions that
consider the development, application, and understanding of digital media and
arts; the purpose of the journal is promote awareness of this growing field

Call for Papers

2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition" Dallas 8-12 November, 2006
www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: Auteur Documentary Dabblers: Documentary Moments in the Films of
Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, and Others

Auteur filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, and
others have worked extensively in both fictional and documentary films.
  However, most of the critical attention devoted to such filmmakers
has focused almost entirely on their fictional works. What are the
larger implications of this critical blind spot?

GET REAL: DOCUMENTARY THEATRE PAST AND PRESENT
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The Israel Association for Renaissance Studies is looking for papers
for an
official session at the next meeting of the RSA in Miami in 2007.
Presentations should deal with some aspect of ways
in which Christians made use of Kabbalistic ideas, themes and
traditions in
the context of works that deal with philosophy, theosophy, literature
and/or art. Please send me a title with a 300 word abstract as well as a
short c.v.by May 20.
Prof. Noam Flinker
Dept. of English
University of Haifa
Mt. Carmel, Haifa 31905 Israel

flinker_at_research.haifa.ac.il

The Israel Association for Renaissance Studies is looking for papers
for an
official session at the next meeting of the RSA in Miami in 2007.
Presentations should deal with some aspect of ways
in which Christians made use of Kabbalistic ideas, themes and
traditions in
the context of works that deal with philosophy, theosophy, literature
and/or art. Please send me a title with a 300 word abstract as well as a
short c.v.by May 20.
Prof. Noam Flinker
Dept. of English
University of Haifa
Mt. Carmel, Haifa 31905 Israel

flinker_at_research.haifa.ac.il

Contributors sought to write remaining unassigned entries on poets and topics for the forthcoming Companion to Twentieth Century British poetry, a reference book for high school and college students. The book involves about 400 entries, varying in length from 300-2000 words per entry. All entries will carry the author's name. Remaining entries include poems by Eavan Boland, Ted Hughes, and D.H. Lawrence. If you are interested in writing for this book and would like to see the list of available entries, please contact Rob Watson, Associate Professor of English at Grnad Valley State University, at watsonr_at_gvsu.edu.

The Horror area of the Mid Atlantic American/Popular Culture Conference, October 27-29, 2006 in Baltimore MD welcomes proposals for papers dealing with all aspects of horror and the supernatural in various genres, such as literature, film, television, music and as part of popular culture (fashion, artifacts, attitudes, etc.)

If you are interested in proposing a paper, please contact L.M. Miller or A. Schopp at the addresses below. ALL PROPOSALS ARE DUE BY JUNE 15, 2006. Proposals should be 250-300 word abstracts. Please indicate if you are proposing papers to more than one are. MAPACA rules stipulate that you may only present one paper at the conference.

L.M. Miller
118 Third Place
Brooklyn, NY 11231

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Call for Papers

UPDATE

2006 ALSC Conference, Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, California,
October 13-15 2006

May 12, 2006

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) has extended the
submissions deadline for its seminar on "Pleasures of the Imagination in
Science Fiction," which is part of the 2006 ALSC Conference Program.

The submissions deadline for this seminar has been extended to June30.

Additional prospective members and current members alike are heartily
invited to apply.

Please see below for details.

Seminars

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CEA 2007 CFP -- Special Sessions

College English Association National Conference: "Empathy and Ethics,"
New Orleans, LA, March 29-31, 2007

Deadline for all proposals: October 15, 2006

I am coordinating a set of panels on the topic of "Self and Other:
Defining, Constructing, and Representing Relationships through Empathy
and Ethics," for the 2007 National College English Association Annual
Conference. We welcome individual and panel presentation proposals that
address the ways in which relationships build on, negotiate, and/or lack
a framework of empathy and ethics between oneself and others.

CEA 2007 CFP -- Special Sessions

College English Association National Conference: "Empathy and Ethics,"
New Orleans, LA, March 29-31, 2007

Deadline for all proposals: October 15, 2006

I am coordinating a set of panels on the topic of "Self and Other:
Defining, Constructing, and Representing Relationships through Empathy
and Ethics," for the 2007 National College English Association Annual
Conference. We welcome individual and panel presentation proposals that
address the ways in which relationships build on, negotiate, and/or lack
a framework of empathy and ethics between oneself and others.

Deadline extension for submission of abstracts/proposals: 15 July 2006.

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Call for Papers

Critical Survey: Special Edition on 'Nineteenth-Century Literary Masculinities'

Submissions are required for a special edition of the journal Critical
Survey on 'Nineteenth-Century Literary Masculinities' to be published
Winter 2007. Contributors many consider any aspect of nineteenth-century
masculinity as it is represented in literary works, including:

Romantic Masculinities
The Byronic hero
Masculinity and industrialisation
The gentleman figure
Education
The dandy figure
Masculinity and war
Masculinity and imperialism
Masculinity and class
Sexuality