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Call for Papers
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*Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Conference Mar. 1 -4,
2007, Baltimore, Maryland*

*Panel: The Image of Women in the Films of Hitchcock & Fellini:
Comparison and Contrast*

Explore the images of women in the films of Hitchcock and Fellini:
REBECCA, NOTORIOUS, PSYCHO, THE BIRDS, MARNIE, FRENZY; LA STRADA, LA
DOLCE VITA, NIGHTS OF CABIRIA, JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, CITY OF WOMEN.

Papers may be on one or more films of Hitchcock & Fellini, comparing &
contrasting OR on a single film of one of them, that can be compared or
contrasted during the discussion period.

Call For Papers: PCA/ACA 2007 National Conference
   
  Area: American Culture Association, Music
   
  Conference Name: PCA/ACA 2007 National Conference
   
  Conference Date: April 4-7, 2007
   
  Conference Location: Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
   
  Topic: Contemporary Garage Rock and its Influences
   
  This panel is constructed to discuss the history, literature,
  influences, and other apects of contemporary Garage Rock.
  All papers on these relationships will be considered.
   
  What to send: Abstracts of 150 words will be accepted
  for consideration
   

MODERN DRAMA
Special Issue on Recent Drama from the UK and Ireland

A special issue of MODERN DRAMA (50.3, Fall 2007) considers British and Irish
drama of the last fifteen years. The guest editor, R. Darren Gobert, invites
papers on significant plays from this period, such as those of Marina Carr,
Caryl Churchill, Martin Crimp, Martin McDonagh, Sarah Kane, and Mark Ravenhill.

Villains, Villainy and Justice in Popular Fictional Narrative

Annual Conference For the Association for Research in Popular Fictions

Saturday 18th-Sunday 19th November 2006

Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University

We welcome papers considering popular fiction across any media and historical period.

Strands being convened for this conference are on Victorian fiction, teenage fiction, children's fiction, chicklit and crime.

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract by 30th September to:

Nickianne Moody,
convenor for ARPF,
Liverpool John Moores University,
Dean Walters Building,
St James Road,
Liverpool L1 7BR
UK

Villains, Villainy and Justice in Popular Fictional Narrative

Annual Conference For the Association for Research in Popular Fictions

Saturday 18th-Sunday 19th November 2006

Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University

We welcome papers considering popular fiction across any media and historical period.

Strands being convened for this conference are on Victorian fiction, teenage fiction, children's fiction, chicklit and crime.

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract by 30th September to:

Nickianne Moody,
convenor for ARPF,
Liverpool John Moores University,
Dean Walters Building,
St James Road,
Liverpool L1 7BR
UK

Women and Violence (UK) (9/12/06; Return to Gender, 11/25/06)

Papers are invited for this special panel at 'Return to Gender', the
forthcoming graduate conference at the University of Glasgow on 25th
November, 2006.

Change in deadline:

Change in deadline:

Submissions are sought for the following NEMLA panel.

For information of the conference of the Northeast Modern Language
Association 2007, please visit www.nemla.org.

Teaching the Works of Octavia Butler

CFP: James Baldwin: Work, Life, Legacies (UK) (10/15/06; 6/29/07-6/30/07)

Call for Publication

Contributors are invited for the forthcoming edited
collection of essays Boundaries: Critical, Creative
and Interdisciplinary methods of Making, Breaking, and
Negotiating Boundaries*

The papers presented at the recent 'Boundaries:
Critical and Creative' Postgraduate Conference at
Loughborough University in June 2006 highlighted the
quality of academic research being done which
interrogates, acknowledges and challenges boundaries
in critical and creative literature. This collection
is in part inspired by and, in part, a response to the
success of the conference and the wide range of
high-quality academic discussion that came from it.

Call for Papers: Automobile Culture
  2007 Popular Culture Association/
  American Culture Association
  National Conference
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For additional conference information:
   http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca
   
  Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006.
   
  This is a call for papers for area of Automobile Culture.
  The automobile has had an immense influence upon our
  lives in innumerable ways. This area will seek to provide
  an understanding of this influence within the social and

ETHICS AND THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
(www.filmandhistory.org) (8-12 November, 2006=97Dallas, TX) (deadline: =
9/10/06)

Call for Participants in some lively roundtable discussions of =93Ethics =
in Documentary Film=94 at the Fall, 2006 Film and History League =
Conference on =93The Documentary Tradition.=94 Suggested topics =
include, but are not limited to:

Mid-America Theatre Conference 2007 Pedagogy Symposium and Pedagogy Papers
Call for Papers & Teaching Proposals
Minneapolis, MN
CONFERENCE DATES: MARCH 1-4, 2007
 

Conference Theme: Changing Theatrical Landscapes: Mapping New Directions in
History, Pedagogy and Practice for the 21st Century