Call for Papers

LGBT African-Americans: Historical and Sociological Perspectives

Paper proposals are invited for a panel at the annual meeting of the =
Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists, Inc. The conference =
will be held March 21-24, 2007 in Atlanta, GA at the Holiday Inn-Atlanta =
Airport North. The theme for the 2007 ASBS Conference is =93Scholarly =
Activism & Global Thought.=94

Call for Papers

LGBT African-Americans: Historical and Sociological Perspectives

Paper proposals are invited for a panel at the annual meeting of the =
Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists, Inc. The conference =
will be held March 21-24, 2007 in Atlanta, GA at the Holiday Inn-Atlanta =
Airport North. The theme for the 2007 ASBS Conference is =93Scholarly =
Activism & Global Thought.=94

John Rich and the Eighteenth-Century London Stage:
Commerce, Magic and Management, 25-27 January 2008

An Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the
Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn
Fields, London, UK.
www.johnrich2008.com

Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2007. Notice of
acceptance: 14 Oct 2007

Keynote speaker: Robert D. Hume

SLASH 3: THE FINAL CUT
THE 3rd AND LAST DMU FANFICTION STUDY DAY
 =20
Clephan Building,
Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University,=20
Leicester, UK

Monday 25 February 2008
10.00 am =96 6.00 pm

With Slash 3, De Montfort University once again offers a slash-friendly =
forum for discussion of the most exciting developments in fanfic.=20

The main focus will be on slash fiction, a category of fan stories, =
almost exclusively by women, mostly about homoerotic affairs between =
male characters in popular films and TV series. Proposals are invited, =
however, for papers on all fanfic and fan film topics and controversies. =

SLASH 3: THE FINAL CUT
THE 3rd AND LAST DMU FANFICTION STUDY DAY
 =20
Clephan Building,
Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University,=20
Leicester, UK

Monday 25 February 2008
10.00 am =96 6.00 pm

With Slash 3, De Montfort University once again offers a slash-friendly =
forum for discussion of the most exciting developments in fanfic.=20

The main focus will be on slash fiction, a category of fan stories, =
almost exclusively by women, mostly about homoerotic affairs between =
male characters in popular films and TV series. Proposals are invited, =
however, for papers on all fanfic and fan film topics and controversies. =

The Realities of Location: Representations of Race and Place

This panel seeks papers that explore how US authors negotiated the
intersection of race and place in the nineteenth century. Suggested
topics include, but are not limited to, the following: the postbellum
landscape, domestic space, imperial expansion, the work environment
(both pre- and post-emancipation), slave experience, tourism, and
movement between slavery and freedom. Please send abstracts of up to
250 words by April 10 to Eve Rosenbaum at eve-rosenbaum_at_uiowa.edu.

Eve Rosenbaum
University of Iowa
Department of English

IDeoGRAMS Conference 2007: Contemporary Media
University of Leicester, UK
Sept 14th & 15th 2007
Call for Papers

IDeoGRAMS Conference 2007: Contemporary Media
University of Leicester, UK
Sept 14th & 15th 2007
Call for Papers

War

Midwest Popular Culture Association
Friday-Sunday, October 12-14, 2007, Kansas City, MO
Deadline: May 1, 2007

In "How to Tell a True War Story" Tim O'Brien writes, "You can tell a
true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's
say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters,
you've got your answer."

The refereed e-journal Versification (http://www.arsversificandi.net,
ISSN 1546-0401) is looking for essays and reviews on matters to do with
metre and literary prosody. Versification aims to provide an
interdisciplinary forum where scholars, students, critics, writers and
artists from many different fields can explore the role that sound plays
in the poetry of English and other languages. Our aim is to study both
the works of art which poets make out of language and the language out
of which they make such works.

COLONIAL EDUCATION IN AFRICAN LITERATURES

Among other things, the colonial school-whether in Anglophone,
Francophone or Lusophone Africa--led to the creation of new human types
as well as new social structures and interactions. How is colonial
education represented in African literatures? What was (and has been)
its overall impact? In what ways did the colonial school affect human
interactions? How did the colonizer use the educational apparatus? How
did the colonized react to and use the school? What are the contemporary
manifestations or vestiges of the colonial curriculum?

Important Notice: it has come to our attention that some people submitting
abstracts to our mail_at_pnrs.org address have had a hard time getting through
to us. We believe we have corrected the problem. If, however you have not
heard back from us please contact us as soon as possible so that we can fix
this problem. Our apologies for any inconveniences.

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Original call:

  A special volume of The Journal of Lesbian Studies entitled "The Lesbian Image in International Popular Culture" is seeking essays that explore a wide variety of lesbian images in a global context. No more essays on the United States or Spain are needed. Projects dealing with any other nations/cultures will be considered, but submissions that look at lesbian images in India, Africa, and China are of particular interest.

  A special volume of The Journal of Lesbian Studies entitled "The Lesbian Image in International Popular Culture" is seeking essays that explore a wide variety of lesbian images in a global context. No more essays on the United States or Spain are needed. Projects dealing with any other nations/cultures will be considered, but submissions that look at lesbian images in India, Africa, and China are of particular interest.