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, 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

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).

Call for Papers

THE ATOMIC AGE Area

2008 Film & History Conference

"Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond"

October 30-November 2, 2008

Chicago, Illinois

www.filmandhistory.org <http://www.filmandhistory.org/> =20

First-Round Deadline: November 1, 2007

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AREA: The Atomic Age =20

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CFP: Approaches to Teaching Early African American Poetry (1700-1900) (4/15/07; 11/8/07-11/11/07)

Proposed Special Session Topic Panel: M/MLA 2007 Annual Convention, November 8-11, Cleveland, Ohio

for the second Interdisciplinary Conference of the Atlantic Alliance of =
Universities (NUI Galway, UL, UCC) Crime Genre Research Group on

The Scene of the Crime: Setting in Modern Crime Fiction

to be held at the=20

University of Limerick, 15-16 June 2007

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:

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:

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: 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:

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

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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: 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:

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.

CALL FOR PAPERS – PROPOSED PANEL ON "Creative Communities: The
Interactive Actualization of Utopian Worlds" (4/10/07;
10/4/07-10/7/07)

Society for Utopian Studies; 32nd annual meeting; Toronto, CA, October
4-7, 2007.