UMBR(a) 2005:

On Religion

Psychoanalysis has acknowledged the foolishness of any so-called "turn to
religion," reminding us that the religious has always been in the air.
Rather than defensively insist on religion?s spectrality, psychoanalysis
breaks with modernity?s political anxiety in exposing the material truth of
what is at stake: belief as such. To what extent does the well-trodden
intersection of psychoanalysis and religion, the unconscious and faith,
demand a radical break from the politics of resignation that has of late
dominated our political landscape?

Call for Papers: "Steinbeck and His Contemporaries" Conference, 22-25
March 2006, Sun Valley, Idaho. The New Steinbeck Society of America
invites literary scholars in general-and Western American literature
critics in particular-to offer a critical view on John Steinbeck in
relation to any of his contemporaries-Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald,
Cather, Anderson, Wright, Dos Passos, Miller, Hurston, Pound, Hughes,
Lewis, and others. Comparative studies are also invited on select
authors who have had a direct literary influence on Steinbeck-Twain,
Mallory, Shakespeare-as well as on contemporary and fellow western
writers who share common thematic and stylistic elements-Terry Tempest

In James's epistolary short story "A Bundle of Letters" the German and the
French characters write their letters in English just like the native
speakers of English. Essays are invited that address this striking lack of
linguistic mimetism (with subtle forms of compensation), as well as
questions such as:
. what is the language used "in reality" by the various American,
Italian, Parisian... characters in James's fictional worlds and how is their
communication reported textually (e.g. direct discourse in English or in
another language, with or without traces of linguistic interference
[code-blending, code-switching], or indirect discourse, translated or not,

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies seeks original essays, review essays,
and reviews for our Spring 2005 special issue, "Comics and
Culture," co-edited by Corey Creekmur and Thomas Keegan.

Call For Papers: 'Sights Unseen: Unfinished British Films' (Essay Collection)

UPDATE: Deadline for Proposals Extended to 1st November 2004

CFP: Representing the other (11/30/04; journal issue)
Litteralis: Studies and debates in literature, linguistics and arts
seeks submissions for a special issue devoted to the representation of the
other.

Who is the "other"? In general terms, simply the one whose existence is
separated from one´s self. Even when thought in such simplistic terms,
the other is crucial in the construction of the concept of the self, both
defining one´s location in the world and being a reference in the
formulation of what constitutes normalcy.

Open Call: Agora 4.1 (2005)

:: http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/agora/
:: http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/agora/

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STORIES THRU THEORIES/THEORIES THRU STORIES :

NATIVE AMERICAN STORYTELLING AND CRITIQUE

Papers are invited for a volume on the creative relationship between =
Native American storytelling and literary critique.=20

 Storytelling, Self, Society:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies

Call for Proposals

Subject CFP: Medieval Electronic Media Organization
CALL FOR PAPERS – KALAMAZOO 2005 (and edited
collection)

We are still looking for participants for the Medieval
Congress at Kalamazoo in 2005. Selected papers in the
two sessions are expected to be published in books
forthcoming by editing members of MEMO (MEDIEVAL
ELECTRONIC MEDIA ORGANIAZATION).
The Rountable Discussion is open to others who are
publishing on this very exciting topic.

I. The Medieval in Motion: Negotiating
Definitions of "Neomedievalism"
II. Video Game Pedagogy: Theory and Cases
III. Book Publishing in a Neomedieval Universe: A
Roundtable Discussion

Announcing a new series from Ashgate Publishing

Studies in Childhood: 1700 to the Present

Series Editor: Claudia Nelson, Texas A&M University

Announcing a new series from Ashgate Publishing

Studies in Childhood: 1700 to the Present

Series Editor: Claudia Nelson, Texas A&M University

The online repository of invention exercises for composition and creative
writing classes being compiled by the University of Nevada, Reno Core Writing
Program is now up and running. The project as well as updated submission
guidelines can be found at the following link:
http://www.unr.edu/cla/engl/cwp/InventionProject/index.html. Please contact
Steven Stewart at stevenj1_at_unr.edu with any questions.

Theorizing Fan Fiction and Fan Communities (edited volume; completed papers
due 4/1/05)

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