Currently seeking papers for the following special session for the 42nd
International Congress in Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 10-13, 2007):

All the (Medieval) World's a Stage: Renaissance England's Staging of the
Middle Ages

CFP: Radical Media In Chicago ( Society for Cinema and Media Studies =
Conference, Chicago, IL, 3/8-3/11/07)
>From progressive magazine In These Times to the radical radio show This is =
Hell, from the thriving Chicago IndyMedia website to the cable access TV =
show Labor Beat and political documentaries by Kartemquin films, Chicago =
is home a wealth of radical and alternative media. Yet, such challenges =
from below to the hegemony of the corporate media rarely receive the =
attention they deserve from media scholars. This panel invites papers that =
examine the politics and/or economics of radical media making in Chicago =

UPDATE: the deadline for submissions has been extended to Aug. 10, 2006.
   
  * * *
   
  2006 Conference: The Documentary Tradition,
  8 - 12 November, 2006
  Dolce Conference Center, Dallas, TX.
   
  The 2006 Film & History conference on THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION is currently accepting paper abstracts and panel proposals on SOVIET PIONEER FILMMAKERS Dziga Vertov and Esther Shub.
   

CALL FOR PAPERS

_genre: An International Journal of Literature and the
Arts_

_genre_ is the annual scholarly journal of the California
State University, Long Beach, Comparative Literature and
Classics Department. It has published 25 issues since the
first volume in 1967. The theme for this year's journal is

ANCIENT AND MODERN NARRATIVE:
INTERSECTIONS, INTERACTIONS AND INTERSTICES

2007 Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, March 8-11Chicago,
Illinois Panel: Narratives of National Identity in the Aftermath of U.S.
Occupation Discussions of contemporary globalization, which have for so
long been preoccupied with the question of Americanization, become even
more salient in the wake of U.S. occupation and nation building in Iraq
and Afghanistan. Yet, these aren't the only domains of occupation: the
Philippines, Japan, Germany, and Korea have also been subject to direct
U.S. occupation. We invite papers that examine the artifacts of
occupation in all SCMS-applicable forms. Papers might engage questions

2007 Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, March 8-11Chicago,
Illinois Panel: Narratives of National Identity in the Aftermath of U.S.
Occupation Discussions of contemporary globalization, which have for so
long been preoccupied with the question of Americanization, become even
more salient in the wake of U.S. occupation and nation building in Iraq
and Afghanistan. Yet, these aren't the only domains of occupation: the
Philippines, Japan, Germany, and Korea have also been subject to direct
U.S. occupation. We invite papers that examine the artifacts of
occupation in all SCMS-applicable forms. Papers might engage questions

Call for Papers
Panel Title: Plantation America

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, MD

This panel invites papers concerned with any aspect of plantation and post-plantation literatures from the Caribbean to South America to the American South. Papers that address the legacy and significance of the plantation (as a mode of production, model of labor or racial relations, apparatus of colonial domination, site of creolization, scene of historical trauma, etc.) or that explore Plantation America as a model for transnational or hemispheric studies are especially welcome.

Send abstracts in body of email by September 15, 2006 to lessigm_at_cortland.edu

*Call for Proposals*
*Oregon**'s 15th Annual Conference on Rhetoric and Composition*
&
*The First Annual Conference on Multiwriting, Alternative
Composition/Rhetoric, and Community Service Learning*

*Friday and Saturday, October 20-21, 2006*
Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Oregon

*"Building a Mystery: Rediscovering and Rebuilding a World Across the
Boundaries of Genres, Disciplines, Cultures and Media"*

Scientific and medical films: Last call for proposals

Join us at Dallas this November

I am finalising the Scientific and medical films area for the 2006
Documentary Tradition Conference, 8-12 November 2006 at the Dolce Conference
Center, Dallas

 
<http://www.h-net.org/~filmhis/conference_events/2006_conference_rubrics.htm
l> http://www.h-net.org/~filmhis/conference_events/index.htm

Currently we have the following confirmed speakers and topics:

The New England Saga Society (NESS) is sponsoring the following two panels at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held at Kalamazoo, MI from May 10th through May 13th, 2007.

CFP Update: "An Inconvenient Truth"

We are seeking presentations or roundtable discussion groups on "An
Inconvenient Truth" for the Nature and the Environment in Film and Television
Documentaries Area of the 2006 Film & History Conference on the “The Documentary
Tradition.”
 
8-12 November 2006 at the Dolce Conference Center â€" Dallas, TX.

New Deadline: August 15

Visit the web site for complete conference details <filmandhistory.org>

Panels are also forming on "Grizzly Man" and "The March of the Penguins," as
well as other documentaries dealing with nature and the environment.
Proposals for both film and television productions are welcome.

The Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) is a new
online, scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. JMMS is
currently seeking papers and reviews: submissions received by EARLY
OCTOBER will be considered for the first issue, scheduled to go online
in January 2007.

PMC: Postmodern Culture
Call for Reviews
Deadline 1 Sept. 2006.

REPLY TO: pmc_at_jefferson.village.virginia.edu

Postmodern Culture is looking for reviews of recent books, films, CDs,
plays, TV shows, concerts, sporting events, performances, exhibitions,
conferences and conventions, happenings, and so forth, for our next issue.
Reviews should be approximately 2000-3500 words long and should follow the
journal's format guidelines below. Submissions should be sent as email
attachments, preferably in Word format. Rich text (.rtf) or .pdf files are
also acceptable.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ON DIFFICULTY

18th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Organization Conference
Friday, October 20, 2006

Keynote Speaker: Lisa Lowe
Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, San Diego

EXTENDED DEADLINE: July 31, 2006