Call for Papers:

Emerging Scholars Symposium
2006 Mid-America Theatre Conference
Allerton-Crowne Plaza Hotel, Chicago
March 2-5, 2006

Two Emerging Scholar Debut Panels: One Graduate and One Undergraduate

ASECS Panel, Montreal 2006
"Eighteenth-Century Multitudes"
        
        
Current developments in our field force us to rethink widely accepted
paradigms in eighteenth-century studies. Dror Wahrman's The Making of
the Modern Self, for example, fundamentally revises our assumptions
about the singularity of modern forms of identity. Recent theorizing
about 'multitude' by Toni Negri, Michael Hardt, Paolo Virno and others
has widened the possibilities for reimagining agency and identity
further. This panel wants to take advantage of these developments and
explore the role of the plural, the multiple, and the collective in
eighteenth-century culture and history. If the philosophical concern

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo invites paper proposals for a panel on
?Romantic Shakespeare?. Broadly considered, Romantic Shakespeare may
refer to Shakespeare?s use of medieval romance; Shakespearean love (and
lust); or even the Romantic period?s reception of Shakespeare. Papers
that are accepted for this panel will be presented at the 41st
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 4-7
May 2006.

Send brief abstracts to Melissa Smith by 20 September 2005:
smithmk2_at_gmail.com
or
smithmk2_at_mcmaster.ca

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo invites paper proposals for a panel on
?Romantic Shakespeare?. Broadly considered, Romantic Shakespeare may
refer to Shakespeare?s use of medieval romance; Shakespearean love (and
lust); or even the Romantic period?s reception of Shakespeare. Papers
that are accepted for this panel will be presented at the 41st
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 4-7
May 2006.

Send brief abstracts to Melissa Smith by 20 September 2005:
smithmk2_at_gmail.com
or
smithmk2_at_mcmaster.ca

                 Icons and Iconoclasts: the Long Seventeenth Century,
1603-1714

        A Conference at The Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of
Aberdeen

                 Icons and Iconoclasts: the Long Seventeenth Century,
1603-1714

        A Conference at The Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of
Aberdeen

Call for Papers: Religion and Science Fiction & Fantasy Areas, SW/TX PCA/ACA

2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 27th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 8-11, 2006.

The Area Chairs of Religion and of Science Fiction and Fantasy would like to invite paper and panel proposals for a joint session on religion and science fiction and fantasy in literature, film, and television.

Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, and 500 word panel proposals, including full contact info for all participants, to

Ximena Gallardo C.: xgallardo_at_lagcc.cuny.edu

or

Dear Sir/Madam,

I would like to formally announce the forthcoming production of an annual in print and electronic Journal. The Journal title is as follows: Journal of Hellenic Religion (JfHR) and has already acquired its ISSN code. You can visit the homepage here: http://journalofhellenicreligion.atspace.org.

CFP: LOTR SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/05; 2/8-11/06)
Call for Papers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Area, SW/TX PCA/ACA
Special Topic: Tolkien's LOTR

2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 27th
Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM,
February 8-11, 2006.

The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to
invite paper and panel proposals for several special sessions on any
aspect of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, and 500 word panel
proposals, including full contact information for all participants, to:

C. Jason Smith
jsmith_at_lagcc.cuny.edu

Conceptualizing Multilingualism in England, 800 – 1250

A Worldwide Universities Network
Multilingualism in Medieval Societies Conference
&
The Third York Alcuin Conference

Centre for Medieval Studies – University of York - England
July 14 - 17 2006

Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize

Submissions are invited for the 2005 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize.

Literature Compass aims to be the starting point for anyone in an academic setting who needs to find authoritative reference information on a topic, drawn from high-quality published reference works, and the latest thinking on the topic, specially commissioned from leading academics in the field.

There will be a prize awarded for each of the 9 sections on Literature Compass:

American
Eighteenth Century
Medieval
Renaissance
Romanticism
Seventeenth Century
Shakespeare
The Victorians
Twentieth Century

CFP: Textual Culture and the Medieval British Contact Zone
Panel for the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, MI

Submissions are invited for a session sponsored by the Oregon Medieval
English Literature Society on textual culture. "Textual Culture" is
defined broadly, including discussions
of book culture and its formation, the construction of books, orality,
literacy, learning, and the impact of texts on society, among others.
Interdisciplinary papers are welcomed especially.

Likewise, papers on topics from areas throughout Britain and those on
cultures which have contact and/or
conflict with Britain are encouraged.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Collection of critical essays on trash cinema

DEADLINE: November 1, 2005

We invite submissions for a critical anthology about the ever-expanding =
world of national and international trash cinema.

As fans of trash cinema, while we do like to think of the form as being =
utterly anti- or counter- =93mainstream=94 cinema, in the ways it =
challenges or reworks many of its assumptions, we are amazed at how many =
trash favorites (both personal and more perennial, if such a thing =
exists) have a striking formal similarity to =96 as well as an appeal =
for devotees of =96 the traditional film canon=92s fare.

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo invites paper proposals on Shakespeare and
material culture. Possible topics include but are not limited to props
and costumes; material conditions of theatrical production (past and
present); different forms of Shakespearean production (print editions;
television and film adaptation; comics). Papers that are accepted for
the panel on Shakespeare and material culture will be presented at the
41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
4-7 May 2006.

Send brief abstracts to Melissa Smith by 20 September 2005:
smithmk2_at_gmail.com
 or
smithmk2_at_mcmaster.ca