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CFP: Trauma in the Works of Doris Lessing (6/15/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Jeanie E. Warnock

CFP: Trauma in the Works of Doris Lessing (15/06/07; Doris Lessing =
Studies Special Issue)

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Doris Lessing Studies seeks papers studying the representation and =
treatment of trauma in the works of Doris Lessing. Possible approaches =
include:

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-exploration and possible resolution of traumatic experience through =
narrative;

-ethical and artistic challenges in representing trauma;

-autobiographical treatment of trauma in the life of Lessing or her =
father;

 -inter-generational cycles of trauma;

-relationship between healing traumatic experiences and spirituality;

CFP: M/C Journal 'complex' Issue (5/4/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Axel Bruns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 13 March 2007

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
           is calling for contributors to the 'complex' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.

CFP: Tiresian Poetics, Sex Change and Modernism (3/16/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Ed Madden

CFP: Tiresian Poetics, Sex Change and Modernism (3/16/07; MLA '07)
Proposal for Special Session
Tiresian Poetics: Modernism and Sex Change.
Narratives of sexual or gender metamorphosis; sexual dissonance and
artistic power; sexual difference and voice. Sexology and myth.
Transgender rhetorics, poetics, narrative structures.
Abstracts by March 16 (extended deadline); Ed Madden
(edward.madden_at_gmail.com).
Ed Madden

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Dr. Ed Madden
Associate Professor of English
Department of English
University of South Carolina
Columbia SC 29208

emadden_at_sc.edu
803.777.2171
(fax: 803.777.9064

CFP: Tiresian Poetics, Sex Change and Modernism (3/16/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Ed Madden

CFP: Tiresian Poetics, Sex Change and Modernism (3/16/07; MLA '07)
Proposal for Special Session
Tiresian Poetics: Modernism and Sex Change.
Narratives of sexual or gender metamorphosis; sexual dissonance and
artistic power; sexual difference and voice. Sexology and myth.
Transgender rhetorics, poetics, narrative structures.
Abstracts by March 16 (extended deadline); Ed Madden
(edward.madden_at_gmail.com).
Ed Madden

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Dr. Ed Madden
Associate Professor of English
Department of English
University of South Carolina
Columbia SC 29208

emadden_at_sc.edu
803.777.2171
(fax: 803.777.9064

CFP: Romanticism & Transatlantic Contract (3/15/07; KSAA, MLA '07)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Tilar J. Mazzeo

CFP, Keats-Shelley Association, MLA (Chicago) 2007

Title: Romanticism and the Transatlantic Contract

Description: Abstracts invited for papers on the legal, economic, and
representational "agreements" that constituted transatlantic
relations for Romanticism and the (broadly construed) Keats-Shelley
circle. Topics might
include the social contract; trade, finance, and commodity history;
slavery and abolition; piracy; copyright; emigration and the
regulation of national identity. Abstracts by March 15 to Tilar
Mazzeo, Colby College, tjmazzeo_at_colby.edu

CFP: Tiresian Poetics, Sex Change and Modernism (3/16/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Ed Madden

CFP: Tiresian Poetics, Sex Change and Modernism (3/16/07; MLA '07)
Proposal for Special Session
Tiresian Poetics: Modernism and Sex Change.
Narratives of sexual or gender metamorphosis; sexual dissonance and
artistic power; sexual difference and voice. Sexology and myth.
Transgender rhetorics, poetics, narrative structures.
Abstracts by March 16 (extended deadline); Ed Madden
(edward.madden_at_gmail.com).
Ed Madden

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Dr. Ed Madden
Associate Professor of English
Department of English
University of South Carolina
Columbia SC 29208

emadden_at_sc.edu
803.777.2171
(fax: 803.777.9064

CFP: Journal of Creative Work Calls for Submissions, Reviewers and Editorial-Advisory Board Members (no deadline noted; journal

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Journal of Creative Work

Journal of Creative Work Calls for submissions, reviewers and
Editorial-Advisory Board members

Every artist or author deserves a fair consideration to be published.
Scientific Journals International (SJI) provides an efficient forum
for publishing research and creative work from all disciplines. SJI
has assembled an extensive and prestigious Editorial and Advisory
Board (www.scientificjournals.org/editorial_board.htm).

CFP: Foreign Language Linguistics (3/25/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Fify Juliana

Call for Papers
Foreign Language Linguistics Session
2007 RMMLA Convention
Calgary, Alberta, Canada ~ October 4-6, 2007

The 61st Annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association convention will be
held at the Westin in Calgary, Alberta from October 4-6, 2007. We have a full
slate of sessions on a variety of topics relating to language, literature,
film, technical and professional communication, cultural studies and pedagogy.
We hope that you will propose a paper for this convention and join us in
Calgary.

Proposals relating to Foreign Language Linguistics are welcome.

Send you paper proposal by March 25 to:

UPDATE: The Politics of Cultural Programming (4/15/07; 9/28/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Robert Gehl

The deadline for the first Cultural Studies PhD program annual graduate
conference, "The Politics of Cultural Programming," has been extended.
It is now April 15, 2007. Graduate students interested in the topic
(which is explained at http://mason.gmu.edu/~rgehl/pocp) are encouraged
to submit 300 word abstracts to Vicki Watts vwatts_at_gmu.edu. Speakers
scheduled to present at this event include Dr. Sue Taylor (anthropology,
American University) and Matt Borlick, editor of the City Lights section
of the Washington, DC City Paper.

CFP: Medievalism Transformed (grad) (UK) (4/20/07; Medieval Expression, 6/16/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Maggie Parke

Call for Papers

Medievalism Transformed:
Medieval Expression

An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, June 16, 2007, University of
Wales, Bangor. This year's plenary speaker will be Professor Steve Ellis,
from the University of Birmingham.

Inviting abstracts for the third annual Medieval Studies conference, a
two-day interdisciplinary event, at the University of Wales, Bangor. We
will be convening to explore the medieval world and its sustained impact on
subsequent culture and thought.

This year¡¦s theme is Medieval Expression. All topics within the general
scope of the conference will be considered, including:

CFP: Medievalism Transformed (grad) (UK) (4/20/07; Medieval Expression, 6/16/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Maggie Parke

Call for Papers

Medievalism Transformed:
Medieval Expression

An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, June 16, 2007, University of
Wales, Bangor. This year's plenary speaker will be Professor Steve Ellis,
from the University of Birmingham.

Inviting abstracts for the third annual Medieval Studies conference, a
two-day interdisciplinary event, at the University of Wales, Bangor. We
will be convening to explore the medieval world and its sustained impact on
subsequent culture and thought.

This year¡¦s theme is Medieval Expression. All topics within the general
scope of the conference will be considered, including:

CFP: Medievalism Transformed (grad) (UK) (4/20/07; Medieval Expression, 6/16/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Maggie Parke

Call for Papers

Medievalism Transformed:
Medieval Expression

An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, June 16, 2007, University of
Wales, Bangor. This year's plenary speaker will be Professor Steve Ellis,
from the University of Birmingham.

Inviting abstracts for the third annual Medieval Studies conference, a
two-day interdisciplinary event, at the University of Wales, Bangor. We
will be convening to explore the medieval world and its sustained impact on
subsequent culture and thought.

This year¡¦s theme is Medieval Expression. All topics within the general
scope of the conference will be considered, including:

CFP: Intervals (no deadline; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:33am
Delville Michel

Guest editors sought for Interval(le)s (University of Liège, Belgium):

Interval(le)s, the online journal of the Interdisciplinary Center for
Applied Poetics of the University of Liège, Belgium, seeks guest editors
and proposals to develop special issues dedicated to fostering research
across the various disciplines of the humanities. For a full description
of the Interval(le)s project, click here : http://www.cipa.ulg.ac.be

The guest editors will be responsible for the production and dissemination
of a call for papers, for the final selection of manuscripts for
publication, and for writing an introduction to the volume.

CFP: Cultural Containers / Containment Culture (grad) (4/15/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:32am
Jeremy Justus

CFP: Cultural Containers / Containment Culture (Graduate Student Forum),
(4/15/07 SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

In his book Containment Culture, Alan Nadel explores the relationship of
American postmodernism and the pervasive cultural force of Cold War
containment narratives. While the trope of containment continues to
proliferate in contemporary culture, this panel seeks to explore containment
in all of its various historical epochs and cultural manifestations. Some
topics to consider:

CFP: Journal for the Academic Study of Magic (6/21/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:32am
David Green

The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic (JSM)

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Call For Papers for Issue 5, deadline 21-6-2007

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Issue 5 of the JSM, due to appear late in 2007, is now seeking
contributions. Scholarly articles in English about any aspect of
magic/occultism are welcome up to 8000 words in length.=20

=20

Drs. Susan Johnston Graf (Penn State, Mont Alto, USA) and Amy Hale
(University of Maryland University College) are the new co-editors of
the journal.=20

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CFP: Journal for the Academic Study of Magic (6/21/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:32am
David Green

The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic (JSM)

=20

Call For Papers for Issue 5, deadline 21-6-2007

=20

Issue 5 of the JSM, due to appear late in 2007, is now seeking
contributions. Scholarly articles in English about any aspect of
magic/occultism are welcome up to 8000 words in length.=20

=20

Drs. Susan Johnston Graf (Penn State, Mont Alto, USA) and Amy Hale
(University of Maryland University College) are the new co-editors of
the journal.=20

=20

CFP: Cultural Containers / Containment Culture (grad) (4/15/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:32am
Jeremy Justus

CFP: Cultural Containers / Containment Culture (Graduate Student Forum),
(4/15/07 SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

In his book Containment Culture, Alan Nadel explores the relationship of
American postmodernism and the pervasive cultural force of Cold War
containment narratives. While the trope of containment continues to
proliferate in contemporary culture, this panel seeks to explore containment
in all of its various historical epochs and cultural manifestations. Some
topics to consider:

CFP: Cultural Containers / Containment Culture (grad) (4/15/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:32am
Jeremy Justus

CFP: Cultural Containers / Containment Culture (Graduate Student Forum),
(4/15/07 SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

In his book Containment Culture, Alan Nadel explores the relationship of
American postmodernism and the pervasive cultural force of Cold War
containment narratives. While the trope of containment continues to
proliferate in contemporary culture, this panel seeks to explore containment
in all of its various historical epochs and cultural manifestations. Some
topics to consider:

CFP: Anxieties of Reference in Popular Culture (3/31/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 1:00pm
Greg Wright

Popular Culture Panel of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association:

Panel Title: Anxieties of Reference in Popular Culture

This panel seeks to theorize forms of intertextuality based on =
referentiality. The scope extends from literature to media to games to =
hybrid textual forms, looking at how cross-textual inflections create =
dialogical, revisionary spaces dependent upon-yet also outside of-the =
texts involved in the relationship. The panel explores a new =
understanding of textual plurality, on textual lineages as processes =
rather than products.

CFP: Anxieties of Reference in Popular Culture (3/31/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 1:00pm
Greg Wright

Popular Culture Panel of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association:

Panel Title: Anxieties of Reference in Popular Culture

This panel seeks to theorize forms of intertextuality based on =
referentiality. The scope extends from literature to media to games to =
hybrid textual forms, looking at how cross-textual inflections create =
dialogical, revisionary spaces dependent upon-yet also outside of-the =
texts involved in the relationship. The panel explores a new =
understanding of textual plurality, on textual lineages as processes =
rather than products.

CFP: Photography Area (4/16/07; MWPCA/ACA, 10/12/07-10/14/07)

updated: 
Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 12:47pm
Darnell, Amy L.

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

 

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