Due to an increased workload, as well as other logistics and an
international move by the editor, "Graduating Gender: Queer Grad Students
Reading Culture" will remain open to new submissions until Oct 20, 2007. I
am still passionately committed to producing this collection, but it simply
needs more time. The volume, as I have said in other posts, will examine
the unique work of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (or
genderQueer) grad students, looking especially at how this work is
produced--either in cooperation or under duress--within a largely
heterosexual and heteronormative academy.

Submissions might include:

Due to an increased workload, as well as other logistics and an
international move by the editor, "Graduating Gender: Queer Grad Students
Reading Culture" will remain open to new submissions until Oct 20, 2007. I
am still passionately committed to producing this collection, but it simply
needs more time. The volume, as I have said in other posts, will examine
the unique work of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (or
genderQueer) grad students, looking especially at how this work is
produced--either in cooperation or under duress--within a largely
heterosexual and heteronormative academy.

Submissions might include:

New Calls for Submissions

Celebrating UNESCO's Rumi's 600th Anniversary year, the Arabesques
Review is now accepting submissions for two special issues on themes:

Vol 03, Issue 04 Peace & Cultures Dialogue

>>> Submissions Deadline: August 15, 2007

Vol 04, Issue 01 Rumi's Love

>>> Submissions Deadline: September 30, 2007

 We would be very honored to read and consider your contribution for
these upcoming anthologies

To SUBMIT TO THE ARABESQUES REVIEW
<http://www.arabesquespress.org/journal/>

We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the African and
African-American Popular Culture Conference, to be held at Plymouth
State University (Plymouth, New Hampshire) October 5-6, 2007. The
members of the conference committee are seeking contributions that
examine noteworthy forms of African diasporic cultural production,
during any historical era, at the intersection of popular culture.
Participants are encouraged to interpret the conference theme broadly
and innovatively. Individual presentations will be limited to 20
minutes in length.

We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the African and
African-American Popular Culture Conference, to be held at Plymouth
State University (Plymouth, New Hampshire) October 5-6, 2007. The
members of the conference committee are seeking contributions that
examine noteworthy forms of African diasporic cultural production,
during any historical era, at the intersection of popular culture.
Participants are encouraged to interpret the conference theme broadly
and innovatively. Individual presentations will be limited to 20
minutes in length.

    *Please note new E-mail contact for submissions: womenstudies_at_southernct.edu*
   
  Southern Connecticut State University
  Women's Studies Program
   
  Presents
   
  The Seventeenth Annual Women's Studies Conference
   
  "Global & Local Women's Studies: Going on Forty"
  
  To be held on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University
  Friday and Saturday, October 19 and 20, 2007

                                                                                                                     
  Invitation for proposals on interdisciplinary scholarly and creative work
   Submission Deadline: Postmarked by Monday, June 11, 2007

    *Please note new E-mail contact for submissions: womenstudies_at_southernct.edu*
   
  Southern Connecticut State University
  Women's Studies Program
   
  Presents
   
  The Seventeenth Annual Women's Studies Conference
   
  "Global & Local Women's Studies: Going on Forty"
  
  To be held on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University
  Friday and Saturday, October 19 and 20, 2007

                                                                                                                     
  Invitation for proposals on interdisciplinary scholarly and creative work
   Submission Deadline: Postmarked by Monday, June 11, 2007

"A Dragon Wrecked My Prom: Teen Wizards and High School"

'The Dead rose--we should at least have an assembly.'
- Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

High School is difficult enough to negotiate without having to save the
world, but, as a whole genre of teen fiction has explored, teens seem able
to do both. Shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the novels of Diane Duane,
Tanya Huff, and Mercedes Lackey, as well as numerous comics, graphic novels,
and cartoons, all present audiences with teens who wield extraordinary
powers while battling the everyday demons of adolescence.

"A Dragon Wrecked My Prom: Teen Wizards and High School"

'The Dead rose--we should at least have an assembly.'
- Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

High School is difficult enough to negotiate without having to save the
world, but, as a whole genre of teen fiction has explored, teens seem able
to do both. Shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the novels of Diane Duane,
Tanya Huff, and Mercedes Lackey, as well as numerous comics, graphic novels,
and cartoons, all present audiences with teens who wield extraordinary
powers while battling the everyday demons of adolescence.

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE PROMISE OF REASON:
THE NEW RHETORIC AFTER FIFTY YEARS

University of Oregon â€" May 17-20, 2008

Faculty and Graduate Students are invited to submit proposals for papers and panels for this international conference commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca’s Le nouvelle rhétorique: Traité de l‘argumentation (1958), one of the most influential twentieth-century rhetorical works.

Friends and Foes - Friendship and Conflict:
CALL FOR PAPERS

*UPDATE* - To emphasise that this is primarily, but not exclusively, a
conference for postgraduate researchers.

Multi-disciplinary Postgraduate Conference
Queen's University Belfast
16th-17th November 2007

History and life are filled with stories of friendship and conflict, either
in the realm of personal interaction or political engagements. This
postgraduate research conference seeks to explore themes of friendship and
conflict in the modern era.

Friends and Foes - Friendship and Conflict:
CALL FOR PAPERS

*UPDATE* - To emphasise that this is primarily, but not exclusively, a
conference for postgraduate researchers.

Multi-disciplinary Postgraduate Conference
Queen's University Belfast
16th-17th November 2007

History and life are filled with stories of friendship and conflict, either
in the realm of personal interaction or political engagements. This
postgraduate research conference seeks to explore themes of friendship and
conflict in the modern era.

This panel seeks papers that examine the culture growing up around Poser, DAZ Studio, Bryce, Carrara, Vue and other 3D animation software programs. Papers may examine the communities of artists that have developed, virtual worlds like Second Life, the markets that have arisen to create and disseminate new products, any of the various genres that dominate the culture (sci-fi fantasy, horror, erotica), specific websites devoted to Poser Art, the relationship between the consumer/artist and the producer/software developer, etc.

Papers or 150 word abstracts by 6/1 to Andrew Schopp at schoppa_at_ncc.edu
Visit http://www.mapacagazette.net/ for information about the conference.

Call for Proposals - Deadline: October 1, 2007
 
Conference on Education Renewal and School Development in an Era of
Cultural Diversity
Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
 
http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/EdRSD.html
 
May 16 - 19, 2008
 
Sponsored jointly by the Colleges of Education at Georgia Southern
University and Huazhong Normal University
Complete details (including the online submission form) may be found on
the website
 
 
The Conference on Educational Renewal and School Development in an Era
of Cultural Diversity will offer participants* a first hand look at