CFP: Fall 2007 Issue of Praxis – Diversity in the Writing Center

Praxis: A Writing Center Journal welcomes submissions for its Fall 2007
issue. We especially encourage submissions on this issue's theme:
Diversity in the Writing Center. Articles on this topic may deal with the
numerous ways in which writing centers foster and accommodate the
diversity of their tutees and tutors. We invite contributors to interpret
the theme broadly; however, some possible applications include

International Confererence on Romanticism 2007
Baltimore, Maryland
October 18-21, 2007
Panel: Abolition and British Romanticism
CONTACT: lmekler_at_jewel.morgan.edu

Due to *multiple* requests, we have extended our deadline an additional week
until April 27, 2007. :) Please feel free to forward this to anyone who
might be interested.

Please email with questions--Barbara L'Eplattenier, bleplatt_at_ualr.edu

Call for Papers

The 2007 Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) conference invites proposals on civic
discourse, feminisms, and rhetorics. The conference draws inspiration from
the 50th anniversary of Little Rock's Central High School integration, the
Clinton Presidential Library, Heifer Project International & the Clinton
School for Public Service.

                       ***FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS***

                             GREAT WRITING
              the International Creative Writing Conference

                            10th Great Year!

Keynote Announced:

The organizers are very pleased to announce that this year's Great Writing
Keynote Speaker will be Lyndall Gordon, the multi-award-winning biographer of
Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Wollstonecraft . . .
www.lyndallgordon.net

Great Writing, the UK's international Creative Writing Conference invites
papers/creative work/panel suggestions for this very special 10th Year
Conference.

Received on Sun Apr 22 2007 - 15:45:51 EDT

CFP: Thinking Globally, Teaching Locally (CCCC 2008)

Teaching a first-year composition course themed on issues of
globalization can be an uphill battle, especially if that course is
taught in one of this country's many rural colleges and universities.
While a rapidly contracting globe makes certain economic, environmental,
and cultural issues imperative, colleges in our nation's hinterlands
often lack significant economic and ethnic diversity. Even well-prepared
students can remain insulated in very local contexts, environments that
can facilitate hasty generalizations or a disempowering relativism.

CFP: A Lacan Primer (5/30/07; collection)

A Lacan Primer: Children's Narrative Through Lacan, Lacan through Children's Narrative

We invite abstracts or complete manuscripts on Lacan and children's literature for a collection that has attracted strong interest from a university press. The collection seeks to provide an introduction to Lacan through children's narratives, to offer
Lacanian readings of children's texts, and to explore the theoretical tensions produced by using psychoanalytic theory to study children's literature.

The Photography Area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/
American Culture Association deadline has been extended to APRIL 30,
2007. Below is the original call.

=20

=20

The Photography Area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association is now
accepting individual performances/papers and panel proposals for this
year's conference. Topics are open, but may include the following
topics:

* Notions of photographic truth in the digital age=20
* Political economy issues concerning the digital image vs.
traditional image=20
* Performances using photography as method and/practice=20
* Ethical issues relating to reproduction=20
* The influence and legacy of Susan Sontag=20

Call for Contributors: I am seeking contributors for Represent Where
I'm 
From: The Greenwood Guide to American Regional Hip Hop, a
two-volume 
reference set under contract with Greenwood Press. This
collection will 
consist of 10,000-word essays on the most important
regional hip hop 
scenes in the US. I have signed several contributors
for the project, but the following regions are still available:

Call for Contributors: I am seeking contributors for Represent Where
I'm 
From: The Greenwood Guide to American Regional Hip Hop, a
two-volume 
reference set under contract with Greenwood Press. This
collection will 
consist of 10,000-word essays on the most important
regional hip hop 
scenes in the US. I have signed several contributors
for the project, but the following regions are still available:

Calls for individual essays in an edited volume on space and society. The
general orientation of the volume is cultural studies. The finished
collection will be published by a minor publishing company. Areas of
interest are:

Eastern and Western concepts of space-ontological, social, architectural;

Discussions of what might constitute literary and cinematic space;

Anthropological explorations of culturally/institutionally specific space;

Gender and space;

Cultural interpretation of physics and space (Virilio);

Ideological formations of space

Thank you. Please direct enquiries to John Wall: john.wall_at_emu.edu.tr

Connecting the Renaissance Senses: Image ­ Space ­ Text ­ Music
 
This interdisciplinary panel or series of panels will consider the
representation of sensory experience in the arts broadly defined. The early
modern experiences of vision and touch have received significant attention
in recent studies, while those of hearing, taste and/or smell, outside
thematic treatments of the five senses or the formalized hierarchy of the
senses, remain to be more fully described. Though our particular interest
is in the sense of hearing and ideas about sound and sounding objects in the
Renaissance, we invite papers that illuminate connections among the senses

Connecting the Renaissance Senses: Image ­ Space ­ Text ­ Music
 
This interdisciplinary panel or series of panels will consider the
representation of sensory experience in the arts broadly defined. The early
modern experiences of vision and touch have received significant attention
in recent studies, while those of hearing, taste and/or smell, outside
thematic treatments of the five senses or the formalized hierarchy of the
senses, remain to be more fully described. Though our particular interest
is in the sense of hearing and ideas about sound and sounding objects in the
Renaissance, we invite papers that illuminate connections among the senses

(Please note the new deadline, April 30)

"In arriving at structuralism, literary studies simply join the
general tendency of contemporary thought. Throughout almost the entire
realm of contemporary scholarship the discovery of the dynamic
relations which pervade its material has proven to be an effective
modus operandi, for example, in the disciplines of the arts and in
general aesthetics, in psychology, sociology, linguistics, economics,
and even in the natural sciences" (J. Mukarovsky, 1934)