CFP: Resentment In/Of Women's Studies (due 12/31/06; held 2/23/07)

 CFP: Resentment In/Of Women's Studies (due 12/31/06; held 2/23/07)

 CFP: Resentment In/Of Women's Studies (due 12/31/06; held 2/23/07)

Thomas Otway collection
   
  Dr Sandro Jung invites contributions (5000-7000 words) for a collection of essays on the Restoration dramatist Thomas Otway. Textual and contextual studies of the life and works of Otway are welcomed and should reach the editor by 1 March 2007. Please contact the editor for any questions or suggestions for papers. The collection will be published by the end of 2007.
   
Submissions should be made by email in Word or RTF format. Contributions should follow MLA style, using endnotes rather than footnotes
                 
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CRASH CINEMA 6

BRADFORD FILM FESTIVAL

Weds 21 March 2007, Cubby Broccoli Cinema, Free Entry

NATIONAL MUSEUM of PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM and TELEVISION (UK)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals are invited for papers that engage with issues of
representation within film and videographic media: the mainstream
(Hollywood/Bollywood), fine art, cult or the edges of popular
culture. 200 words synopses should be sent by 1 December 2006 to:

Jill Good, MA Visual Culture, Bradford School of Art, Bradford College, Carlton
Street, BD7 1AY. Tel: (+44)1274 431660; email: j.good_at_bradfordcollege.ac.uk

Ask for details of Vols. 1-5, Crash Cinema: The Proceedings (ISSN
1743-4459)

Call for papers

Joking Apart: Gender, Literature and Humour 1850-Present

28th-29th June, 2007
Hosted by the Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Maria DiBattista (Princeton University, author of Fast-Talking Dames,
2001.)
Prof Christopher Reed (Lake Forest College, author of Bloomsbury Rooms,
2004.)

Call for papers

Joking Apart: Gender, Literature and Humour 1850-Present

28th-29th June, 2007
Hosted by the Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Maria DiBattista (Princeton University, author of Fast-Talking Dames,
2001.)
Prof Christopher Reed (Lake Forest College, author of Bloomsbury Rooms,
2004.)

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association

March 1-4, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland

Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University

*Special events in the works:*

  * Welcome Reception, featuring readings by novelist Madison Smartt Bell
and poet Elizabeth Spires;

  * Keynote Speaker Professor Amanda Anderson, Caroline Donovan Professor
of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University,

author of *The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory*;

  * Plenary Speaker Professor Sante Matteo, on the influence of Marco Polo
and the Silk Road;

CALL FOR PAPERS

42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI USA
May 10-13, 2007

Special session: "Reading the Breast: Medieval Writers and Artists."

This session focuses on secular materials, since so much work has already
been done with the breast in religious writing and art. Papers dealing
with one or more texts, visual or written as well as non-fictional secular
records, are welcome.

Presentations examining Medieval women "reading women's breast(s)" are
particularly sought; however, the session also open to papers focused on
secular texts with male or anonymous attribution.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

We are organizing at least one (but hopefully more) panel(s) on BATTLESTAR
GALACTICA for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area of the Popular Culture
Association for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts,
April 4-7, 2007.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (BSG) is one of the most highly acclaimed science
fiction television series ever. A serious use of the future to explore the
present, BSG is regularly praised by mainstream critics as an important
drama not to be missed.

There are several areas within BSG that beg for discussion in a critical
assembly. There are several areas of critical examination available for
scholars, including, but not limited to:

UPDATE: CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 1st OCTOBER 2006 FOR

'Print Culture and the Novel: 1850-1900'

A One-Day Conference, English Faculty, University of Oxford

20th January 2007

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 - Laurel Brake, Professor of Literature and Print Culture, Birkbeck,
University of London

  - Simon Eliot, Professor of History of the Book, IES, University of
London

Exhibition of nineteenth-century print media materials from the Bodleian
Library's John Johnson collection.

Sponsored by the British Association for Victorian Studies

Wine Reception sponsored by Proquest

From Philament <philament_at_arts.usyd.edu.au>
Date 31st August, 2006
CFP: Philament: Cultural Studies and Literary Arts
Deadline: October 31st, 2006 (critique and opinion for online journal)
Publication: June 2007

Philament, the online journal of cultural studies and literary arts
affiliated with the University of Sydney
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament , invites
postgraduate scholars to contribute articles, fictocriticism, reviews,
and opinions for:-

Issue 10: Surveillance

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 31st, 2006
send to: philament_at_arts.usyd.edu.au

CALL FOR PAPERS for a panel on

FEMINIST PHILOSOPHERS OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

Sponsored by the Early Modern Women Interest Group
National Women’s Studies Association
28th Annual Conference
June 28 â€" July 1, 2007
Pheasant Run, St. Charles, Illinois

The "Mythology in Contemporary Culture" panel of the Popular Culture
Association invites submissions for the 2007 ACA/PCA national conference, t=
o
be held in Boston, Massachusetts April 4-7, 2007.

The Mythology in Contemporary Culture area is dedicated to exploring
mythological figures and motifs (from all cultures and historical periods)
in all areas of popular culture=97from movies, video games and television t=
o
novels, politics and blogs=97and the significance of these mythological
figures and motifs in contemporary, postmodern culture.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

=B7 Mythological monsters and the monstrous