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CALL FOR PAPERS for a panel on
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHERS OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Sponsored by the Early Modern Women Interest Group
National Women’s Studies Association
28th Annual Conference
June 28 â€" July 1, 2007
Pheasant Run, St. Charles, Illinois
CALL FOR PAPERS for a panel on
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHERS OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Sponsored by the Early Modern Women Interest Group
National Women’s Studies Association
28th Annual Conference
June 28 â€" July 1, 2007
Pheasant Run, St. Charles, Illinois
The "Mythology in Contemporary Culture" panel of the Popular Culture
Association invites submissions for the 2007 ACA/PCA national conference, t=
o
be held in Boston, Massachusetts April 4-7, 2007.
The Mythology in Contemporary Culture area is dedicated to exploring
mythological figures and motifs (from all cultures and historical periods)
in all areas of popular culture=97from movies, video games and television t=
o
novels, politics and blogs=97and the significance of these mythological
figures and motifs in contemporary, postmodern culture.
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
=B7 Mythological monsters and the monstrous
The "Mythology in Contemporary Culture" panel of the Popular Culture
Association invites submissions for the 2007 ACA/PCA national conference, t=
o
be held in Boston, Massachusetts April 4-7, 2007.
The Mythology in Contemporary Culture area is dedicated to exploring
mythological figures and motifs (from all cultures and historical periods)
in all areas of popular culture=97from movies, video games and television t=
o
novels, politics and blogs=97and the significance of these mythological
figures and motifs in contemporary, postmodern culture.
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
=B7 Mythological monsters and the monstrous
The T. S. Eliot Society invites proposals for 20-minute papers for presentation at the Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture meeting in Louisville, KY, February 22-24, 2007. If response warrants, the society will arrange a special session on Eliot and Auden (who was born in February 1907).
Proposals should include presenter’s name, home address, E-mail address, telephone number, academic affiliation (if applicable), title of paper, and personal biographical note (100-50 words).
Please send proposals and questions to William Harmon (wharmon03_at_mindspring.com).
Dred Scott 150 Years Later: Interrogating Citizenship, Identity, and
Race in the Afircan Diaspora
Call for Papers: American History and Culture area
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture / American Culture Associations
28th Annual Conference, February 14-17, 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in vibrant downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, just steps from historic Route 66. Further details about the conference are available at
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca.
Call for Papers: American History and Culture area
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture / American Culture Associations
28th Annual Conference, February 14-17, 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in vibrant downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, just steps from historic Route 66. Further details about the conference are available at
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca.
Call for Papers: American History and Culture area
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture / American Culture Associations
28th Annual Conference, February 14-17, 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in vibrant downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, just steps from historic Route 66. Further details about the conference are available at
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca.
Dred Scott 150 Years Later: Interrogating Citizenship, Identity, and
Race in the Afircan Diaspora
The T. S. Eliot Society invites proposals for 20-minute papers for presentation at the Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture meeting in Louisville, KY, February 22-24, 2007. If response warrants, the society will arrange a special session on Eliot and Auden (who was born in February 1907).
Proposals should include presenter’s name, home address, E-mail address, telephone number, academic affiliation (if applicable), title of paper, and personal biographical note (100-50 words).
Please send proposals and questions to William Harmon (wharmon03_at_mindspring.com).
This panel invites papers investigating the slippery boundary between
Romanticism and popular gothic fiction from the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries. Possible papers could examine gothic dramas
by seminal figures in Romantic poetry (Coleridge's /Osorio/,
Wordsworth's /Borderers/), the use of gothic motifs in Romantic poetry,
the appearance of Romantic poetry within gothic prose (in Radcliffe's or
Smith's novels), reception history and Romantic poets' self-positioning
in relation to gothic writing, the gendering of these two simultaneous
movements, and personal relationships among these writers (Matthew
Lewis's friendships with Scott and Byron). Papers with an inter-generic
This panel invites papers investigating the slippery boundary between
Romanticism and popular gothic fiction from the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries. Possible papers could examine gothic dramas
by seminal figures in Romantic poetry (Coleridge's /Osorio/,
Wordsworth's /Borderers/), the use of gothic motifs in Romantic poetry,
the appearance of Romantic poetry within gothic prose (in Radcliffe's or
Smith's novels), reception history and Romantic poets' self-positioning
in relation to gothic writing, the gendering of these two simultaneous
movements, and personal relationships among these writers (Matthew
Lewis's friendships with Scott and Byron). Papers with an inter-generic
Submission Guidelines: email attachment only to
ikerlee_at_unm.edu; Chicago manual style w/limited endnotes;
full guidelines at www.femtap.com
Submission Guidelines: email attachment only to
ikerlee_at_unm.edu; Chicago manual style w/limited endnotes;
full guidelines at www.femtap.com
Submission Guidelines: email attachment only to
ikerlee_at_unm.edu; Chicago manual style w/limited endnotes;
full guidelines at www.femtap.com
Submission Guidelines: email attachment only to
ikerlee_at_unm.edu; Chicago manual style w/limited endnotes;
full guidelines at www.femtap.com
Medieval Association of the Pacific - Call for Papers
The Medieval Association of the Pacific is now accepting proposals
for the 41st annual MAP Conference to be held 2-3 March 2007 at the
University of California, Los Angeles, under the auspices of the UCLA
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. We welcome proposals for
individual 20-minute papers in any area of medieval studies, as well
as organized sessions of three 20-minute papers. In the latter
category, we strongly encourage the submission of interdisciplinary
proposals with presenters from more than one institution.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Documentation, Demonstration, Dematerialization:
American Art and Cinema of the Late 1960s and 1970s
November 17 - 18, 2006
University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by the Graduate Film Working Group, UC Berkeley
The late 1960s and 1970s mark a period of dramatic change in the visual
culture of the United States, from avant-garde art and filmmaking
practices to documentary, Hollywood cinema, and the dissemination of
video. This is, after all, the period when:
* Modernist painting gives way to pop, minimalism, and the language-,
photography-, process-, and performance-based activities of conceptual art
CALL FOR PAPERS
Documentation, Demonstration, Dematerialization:
American Art and Cinema of the Late 1960s and 1970s
November 17 - 18, 2006
University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by the Graduate Film Working Group, UC Berkeley
The late 1960s and 1970s mark a period of dramatic change in the visual
culture of the United States, from avant-garde art and filmmaking
practices to documentary, Hollywood cinema, and the dissemination of
video. This is, after all, the period when:
* Modernist painting gives way to pop, minimalism, and the language-,
photography-, process-, and performance-based activities of conceptual art
Deadline extended to October 15, 2006.
Composition, Copyright, and IP Law (edited collection)
Eds. Steve Westbrook, Ph.D. & Timothy Hodge, Esq.
We are seeking 500-word proposals for an interdisciplinary collection of
articles that examines the relationship between copyright law and the
activities of writing, researching, teaching, and learning. Regardless
of the particular activity or combination of activities under
discussion, we are concerned primarily with the legal, questionably
legal, and illegal production and distribution of texts, which we define
broadly to include verbal, print, auditory, visual, and new media, as
well as computer code.
Deadline extended to October 15, 2006.
Composition, Copyright, and IP Law (edited collection)
Eds. Steve Westbrook, Ph.D. & Timothy Hodge, Esq.
We are seeking 500-word proposals for an interdisciplinary collection of
articles that examines the relationship between copyright law and the
activities of writing, researching, teaching, and learning. Regardless
of the particular activity or combination of activities under
discussion, we are concerned primarily with the legal, questionably
legal, and illegal production and distribution of texts, which we define
broadly to include verbal, print, auditory, visual, and new media, as
well as computer code.
Deadline extended to October 15, 2006.
Composition, Copyright, and IP Law (edited collection)
Eds. Steve Westbrook, Ph.D. & Timothy Hodge, Esq.
We are seeking 500-word proposals for an interdisciplinary collection of
articles that examines the relationship between copyright law and the
activities of writing, researching, teaching, and learning. Regardless
of the particular activity or combination of activities under
discussion, we are concerned primarily with the legal, questionably
legal, and illegal production and distribution of texts, which we define
broadly to include verbal, print, auditory, visual, and new media, as
well as computer code.
14th International Medieval Congress, Leeds (9-12 July 2007)
Special sessions sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of
Wales, Bangor
Session titles: 'Popular romance: Cities and Merchants' and 'Arthurian cities'
Paper proposals on all aspects, literary, historical, cultural are welcome for
the above sessions. It is envisaged that 'Arthurian cities' might become a Round
Table and thus would accommodate shorter presentations on suitable topics.
Abstracts should be 250 words max. E-mail submissions are acceptable.
Electronic
submissions to: r.radulescu_at_bangor.ac.uk
Deadline: 15 September 2006.
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Update: "DoubleTake/Points of Entry" call for book reviews on narrative/literary journalism and documentary
The recent announcement seeking book reviews for the journal "DoubleTake/Points of Entry" listed the wrong date for when reviews are due for the next issue. The correct deadline date is October 7, 2006.
Submission guidelines:
Psycho-Traumatology and 19th Century Authorship: 38th Annual NEMLA =
Convention, March 1-4, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland. This panel proposes to =
examine the connection between the real-life trauma of nineteenth =
century authors and their body of work. In what ways did their childhood =
and/or adolescent traumas inform and shape 19th century writings? How =
much narrative distance is there between the traumatized author and =
his/her work? What are the various traumas that serve to influence =
writers of the nineteenth century? Possible trauma topics include: Death =
and/or Suicide and/or Murder; Poverty; Incest; Physical and/or Emotional =
Psycho-Traumatology and 19th Century Authorship: 38th Annual NEMLA =
Convention, March 1-4, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland. This panel proposes to =
examine the connection between the real-life trauma of nineteenth =
century authors and their body of work. In what ways did their childhood =
and/or adolescent traumas inform and shape 19th century writings? How =
much narrative distance is there between the traumatized author and =
his/her work? What are the various traumas that serve to influence =
writers of the nineteenth century? Possible trauma topics include: Death =
and/or Suicide and/or Murder; Poverty; Incest; Physical and/or Emotional =
Psycho-Traumatology and 19th Century Authorship: 38th Annual NEMLA =
Convention, March 1-4, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland. This panel proposes to =
examine the connection between the real-life trauma of nineteenth =
century authors and their body of work. In what ways did their childhood =
and/or adolescent traumas inform and shape 19th century writings? How =
much narrative distance is there between the traumatized author and =
his/her work? What are the various traumas that serve to influence =
writers of the nineteenth century? Possible trauma topics include: Death =
and/or Suicide and/or Murder; Poverty; Incest; Physical and/or Emotional =
Psycho-Traumatology and 19th Century Authorship: 38th Annual NEMLA =
Convention, March 1-4, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland. This panel proposes to =
examine the connection between the real-life trauma of nineteenth =
century authors and their body of work. In what ways did their childhood =
and/or adolescent traumas inform and shape 19th century writings? How =
much narrative distance is there between the traumatized author and =
his/her work? What are the various traumas that serve to influence =
writers of the nineteenth century? Possible trauma topics include: Death =
and/or Suicide and/or Murder; Poverty; Incest; Physical and/or Emotional =
Final call for submissions for the following panel of the annual Northeast Modern Language Association conference:
Cultural Exchange in Native and European American Literatures
How have Native and European American writers negotiated the contact zone? Papers from all periods and genres in American literature are invited. Possible topics might include transculturation, assimilation, hybridity and cultural difference; accounts of captivity, colonization and sovereignty; examples of performing identity and "playing Indian;" sites of translation and cultural (mis)representation; issues of redaction, voice, authority and textual mediation.