Hello all,

Spectator, published biannually by the Division of Critical Studies, University of Southern California, is seeking papers on Media Co-productions for its next issue. Please circulate the information to your colleagues and PhD students.

Thank you.

Hyung-Sook Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
Critical Studies
School of Cinema-TV
University of Southern California

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Call for Papers

Topic Title: Hybrid Media, Ambivalent Feelings: Media Co-Productions and Cultural Negotiation
 
Spectator Volume 27, Issue 2 (Fall 2007)

CALL FOR PAPERS, COLLABORATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS: AESTHETICS AND
RADICAL POLITICS
Fri 2nd Feb 2007, University of Manchester

Sponsored by the SGSA
www.sgsa.org.uk

There has always been a strong connection historically between
aesthetics and radical politics, and this is no less true for the
global justice movement's current preoccupation with cultural
approaches to political action. This conference seeks to bring
radical artists, activists, theorists and academics together to
discuss past and present convergences between the theories and
practices of artists and writers and the theories and practices of
movements for radical social change.

CALL FOR PAPERS, COLLABORATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS: AESTHETICS AND
RADICAL POLITICS
Fri 2nd Feb 2007, University of Manchester

Sponsored by the SGSA
www.sgsa.org.uk

There has always been a strong connection historically between
aesthetics and radical politics, and this is no less true for the
global justice movement's current preoccupation with cultural
approaches to political action. This conference seeks to bring
radical artists, activists, theorists and academics together to
discuss past and present convergences between the theories and
practices of artists and writers and the theories and practices of
movements for radical social change.

(LAND)SCAPES & REFLECTIONS
IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD.

An International Conference to be held at the University of Caen
Basse-Normandie - France -
         14 & 15 June 2007 -

    A (land)scape does not just spring up into existence, and is no absolute
either. In it, through it, a certain culture, and desires express
themselves, a subject is speaking, discourses are interwoven and
disseminated. Our conference will endeavour to sketch the many
crisscrossings which happen in a landscape.

Call for Proposals

Society for Disability Studies 20th Annual Conference

Seattle, May 31-June 2, 2007

"Disability & Disability Studies: Works in Progress"

Submission Deadline: 15 November 2006

Call for Papers: Representations of Memory in Film

Terence McSweeney (University of Essex) and Alistair Harvey (University of Winchester) solicit proposals for a collection of essays entitled 'Representations of Memory in Film'.

We invite any academic approach to the term memory and its depiction in the cinematic art including, for example, philosophical, psychological, social psychological, cultural, filmic and personal reflections on the film-going experience.

New Deadline for "Cross Cultural Explorations of Trauma" at the North
East MLA, Baltimore March 1-4.

Despite Cathy Caruth's claim in her landmark collection "Trauma:
Explorations in Memory" that "trauma itself may provide the very link
between cultures," trauma has been infrequently explored from
cross-cultural and non-Western perspectives. This panel seeks to examine
the relationship between trauma and culture, to explore and possibly
critique the Eurocentric perspective of trauma studies, and to
investigate the manner in which trauma reinvigorates psychoanalysis with
the work of cultural critique.

Paper topics might consider the following questions:

Call For Papers: Latino/a Focus Group ATHE

PRODUCTION: Critical Race Analysis and Literary Studies
A Graduate Student Conferece
New York University, 23-24 February 2007
Coordinators at New York University seek abstracts for a two-day
conference on "production" at the intersection of critical race
analysis and literary studies. Organized by the Critical Race
Analysis and Literary Studies Colloquium (CRALS) at NYU, this
conference will provide an opportunity for graduate students to
present work that reflects on the significance of critical race
theories to teaching, research, and writing in departments of English
and other fields related to literary study. Beyond (but including)

PRODUCTION: Critical Race Analysis and Literary Studies
A Graduate Student Conferece
New York University, 23-24 February 2007
Coordinators at New York University seek abstracts for a two-day
conference on "production" at the intersection of critical race
analysis and literary studies. Organized by the Critical Race
Analysis and Literary Studies Colloquium (CRALS) at NYU, this
conference will provide an opportunity for graduate students to
present work that reflects on the significance of critical race
theories to teaching, research, and writing in departments of English
and other fields related to literary study. Beyond (but including)

PRODUCTION: Critical Race Analysis and Literary Studies
A Graduate Student Conferece
New York University, 23-24 February 2007
Coordinators at New York University seek abstracts for a two-day
conference on "production" at the intersection of critical race
analysis and literary studies. Organized by the Critical Race
Analysis and Literary Studies Colloquium (CRALS) at NYU, this
conference will provide an opportunity for graduate students to
present work that reflects on the significance of critical race
theories to teaching, research, and writing in departments of English
and other fields related to literary study. Beyond (but including)

CFP: In Transit; Travel Writing (any period) conference (UK) (12/01/06;
05/12/07)

Call for papers for a one-day conference
At University of Hull, England
Saturday 12 May 2007

Theme: In Transit: Literature on the Move

We invite papers on any aspect of travel literature or on literary
representations of travel from any period.

One of the great literary travellers, Robinson Crusoe, set out from Hull:

"Had I now had the sense to have gone back to Hull, and have gone home, I
had been happy."

CALL FOR PAPERS

Stirring the gumbo pot: French and Francophone Studies, Critical Approaches, and New Directions

Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
March 23rd-24th 2007, Baton Rouge, USA
Keynote Speaker: Professor Peggy Kamuf

CFP: MUSICAL THEATRE
   
  NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
  2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
   
  April 4 – 10, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
   
  For more information on the PCA/ACA, please go
  to: http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.
   
  DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2006
   
  The Musical Theatre Area of the Popular Culture
  Association is calling for papers for the PCA
  Conference, to be held at the Boston Marriott
  Copley Place, April 4 – 10, 2007. I am welcoming
  proposals from anyone interested in any musical
  that has been shown on the stage, in the movies, or