My co-editors, Joseph Starr and Dr. Christine Jespersen, and I have received
a contract from McFarland & Company, Inc. for an edited volume of essays on
Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibits. To date, more than 20 million
people have visited von Hagens' Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of
Real Human Bodies in 25 cities and 12 countries across Asia, Europe, and
North America.

Articulations 2007, taking place on October 12 and 13, will experiment with
the act of entrance and attempt to investigate the resulting violence of
intervention. We will grapple with, face, grasp at, take on, and struggle
through the act of entrance at multiple sites scattered throughout the Twin
Cities. Please send a short C.V. (no more than two pages) and a 250-word
statement in which you describe your research interests and how you believe
they correspond to the goals of this conference, as well as any disability
accommodations, to George McConnell at Articulations2007_at_gmail.com by May
30, 2007. **WEBSITE: http://articulations.umn.edu

Articulations 2007, taking place on October 12 and 13, will experiment with
the act of entrance and attempt to investigate the resulting violence of
intervention. We will grapple with, face, grasp at, take on, and struggle
through the act of entrance at multiple sites scattered throughout the Twin
Cities. Please send a short C.V. (no more than two pages) and a 250-word
statement in which you describe your research interests and how you believe
they correspond to the goals of this conference, as well as any disability
accommodations, to George McConnell at Articulations2007_at_gmail.com by May
30, 2007. **WEBSITE: http://articulations.umn.edu

Seventh Portsmouth Translation Conference
  Conference Theme: Translation As Negotiation
  Date: 10 November 2007
  As translators and interpreters we engage in a range of negotiatory activities. We negotiate the frontiers and interfaces between languages and cultures; we negotiate translation issues and problems as we meet them; we negotiate rates, deadlines and briefs with clients. We also engage with the range of expectations and demands made of translators in our diverse cultures and working environments.

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Call for Papers: SHARP @ RSA 2008

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP)
will sponsor several panels at the Renaissance Society of America's
annual meeting in Chicago from 3-5 April 2008. Organized by Steven W.
May, Anne Lake Prescott and Michael Ullyot, SHARP @ RSA links the RSA
with scholars studying the creation, dissemination, and reception of
script and print. Since 2001 we have organized 21 panels at RSA meetings.

We will have two themes in 2008 (although more than two panels), and
invite submissions that consider English and Continental books and
manuscripts from 1350 to 1700 in relation to either of them:

Call for Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
Renaissance Hotel Downtown
Atlanta, GA
November 9 - 11, 2007

Session: "Queer Stages: Theater, Performativity, and Sexuality"

One-page abstracts are being sought for papers that explore and critique
the various roles that sexualities play (and have played) in American
and international drama. Of particular interest will be papers which
offer unique queer readings of canonical plays, as well as those that
introduce conference participants to lesser-known texts.

Call for Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
Renaissance Hotel Downtown
Atlanta, GA
November 9 - 11, 2007

Session: "Queer Stages: Theater, Performativity, and Sexuality"

One-page abstracts are being sought for papers that explore and critique
the various roles that sexualities play (and have played) in American
and international drama. Of particular interest will be papers which
offer unique queer readings of canonical plays, as well as those that
introduce conference participants to lesser-known texts.

Call For Papers:
 
Special Session at the 2007 Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic
Popular/American Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 2-4,
2007
 
 
The Power and Politics of Popular Music: Intermediality and
Institutionality
 
The proposed focus of this special session revolves around
intermediality and institutionality as two main axes relevant to a
contextual analysis of popular music. We would like to invite papers
that examine the representation and/or remediation of popular music in
other media. Papers may as well be concerned with the ways in which
various media appropriate forms and themes of popular music and/or adapt

19th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Organization Conference
Friday, October 26, 2007

CIRCULATION

Keynote address: Professor Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
We are all in the business of circulation: As scholars and educators,
we wrestle with an ever-evolving canon, we work to recover lost texts,
we launch websites and blogs to reach a wider audience. In the
classroom and with our colleagues, we publish, present, and stake our
claims. In short, we traffic in ideas.

19th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Organization Conference
Friday, October 26, 2007

CIRCULATION

Keynote address: Professor Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
We are all in the business of circulation: As scholars and educators,
we wrestle with an ever-evolving canon, we work to recover lost texts,
we launch websites and blogs to reach a wider audience. In the
classroom and with our colleagues, we publish, present, and stake our
claims. In short, we traffic in ideas.

Call for Papers: American Horror Film Today

Most film histories consider Wes Craven's Scream (1996) as either a high-point of American horror cinema, or as a turning-point that marked the steady decline of the genre. Compared to the celebrated "Golden Ages" of American horror cinema?from the "classic" Universal films in the 1930s, to auteurist neo-horror in the 1970s?horror films from the mid-1990s to today seem to be out of ideas, short on political relevance, and incapable of producing texts that promise longevity. Fans of the genre have lamented this slump. Reviewers tend to dismiss recent productions. And scholars have either returned to canonical American horror films or directed their attention toward international cinema.

Call for Papers: American Horror Film Today

Most film histories consider Wes Craven's Scream (1996) as either a high-point of American horror cinema, or as a turning-point that marked the steady decline of the genre. Compared to the celebrated "Golden Ages" of American horror cinema?from the "classic" Universal films in the 1930s, to auteurist neo-horror in the 1970s?horror films from the mid-1990s to today seem to be out of ideas, short on political relevance, and incapable of producing texts that promise longevity. Fans of the genre have lamented this slump. Reviewers tend to dismiss recent productions. And scholars have either returned to canonical American horror films or directed their attention toward international cinema.

Fall 2007 Graduate Student Conference of the UC Berkeley Department of
French

October 11 and 12th, 2007

Paths of Desire: Itineraries as Transgression.

Paths of desire: A term appearing in studies of landscape design as well as
architecture, which refers to the paths we trace when our desires lead us
off the beaten track and a trail forms behind us. This notion both
encompasses the incidental and manifests longing, and brings to light the
importance of both the traverser and the traversal. These figures are key
to the shaping of physical and theoretical topographies. No itinerary is
undertaken without motivation, or without leaving a mark.

Fall 2007 Graduate Student Conference of the UC Berkeley Department of
French

October 11 and 12th, 2007

Paths of Desire: Itineraries as Transgression.

Paths of desire: A term appearing in studies of landscape design as well as
architecture, which refers to the paths we trace when our desires lead us
off the beaten track and a trail forms behind us. This notion both
encompasses the incidental and manifests longing, and brings to light the
importance of both the traverser and the traversal. These figures are key
to the shaping of physical and theoretical topographies. No itinerary is
undertaken without motivation, or without leaving a mark.