Women Writers and Visual Culture
12th January, 2007, English Faculty, Oxford

Over the past few years, there have been significant and ground-breaking attempts to assess the visual strategies that have shaped the political, social, and literary designs of women poets, novelists, illustrators, translators, dramatists, artists and actresses, to give just a few examples. Studies have drawn upon a wide range of media including painting, print, textiles, advertising, architecture, sculpture, stage, screen, cyberspace and beyond.

Women Writers and Visual Culture
12th January, 2007, English Faculty, Oxford

Over the past few years, there have been significant and ground-breaking attempts to assess the visual strategies that have shaped the political, social, and literary designs of women poets, novelists, illustrators, translators, dramatists, artists and actresses, to give just a few examples. Studies have drawn upon a wide range of media including painting, print, textiles, advertising, architecture, sculpture, stage, screen, cyberspace and beyond.

    CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SESSIONS, PANELS, PAPERS
   
  NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE &
  AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
  2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For more information on the PCA/ACA, please
  go to http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.
   
  UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 3, 2006
   
  We are considering proposals for sessions organized around
  a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are
  scheduled in 1½ hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers
  per standard session.
   

INTERIORS
Special Issue of /Eighteenth-Century Fiction/ 20:3 (Spring 2008)
Submission deadline: 30 June 2007
We invite articles that analyze, theorize and/or historicize the interior in
eighteenth-century culture and literature. We are interested in articles that
connect the interior with emergent notions of subjectivity. Interdisciplinary
articles that treat "fiction" as an extra-textual (i.e., philosophical,
psychological, or ideological) construct, as well as a literary one, are also
welcome. Possible themes, topics, and artifacts: cabinets, closets, cells,
keyholes, pockets, caves, grottos, carriages, wombs, convents, the camera

Call for Papers

PRODUCTION: Critical Race Analysis and Literary Studies

A Graduate Student Conferece
New York University, 23-24 February 2007

CFP: HEALTH AND DISEASE IN POPULAR CULTURE
   
  POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS CONFERENCE
   
  BOSTON MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE
  Boston, Massachusetts
  April 4-7, 2007
   
  UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 3, 2006.
   
  The "Health and Disease in Popular Culture" PCA/ACA
  area encourages proposals from historical and contemporary
  perspectives.
   
  Topics may include subjects related to health and disease
  in the mass media (e.g., television, film, internet, advertising);
  drugs and pharmaceuticals; alcohol or tobacco; infectious and
  chronic diseases in popular culture; epidemics; mental health;

Prophecy 2007: From Hero to Legend
August 2-5, 2007
Toronto
http://www.prophecy2007.org

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Prophecy 2007 is an academic symposium about the Harry Potter series by J.K.
Rowling. We are seeking proposals for a variety of educational programming,
including presentations, discussion panels, round tables, workshops and
poster sessions addressing topics relevant to the books and/or the fan
community. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Call for Proposals by the Beat Studies Association for a panel on new
scholarship on the Beats at the American Literature Association Annual
Conference to be held in Boston, May 24-27, 2007. Proposals are
requested reflecting new research or forthcoming publications on
individual writers or a broader historical/cultural analysis of the Beat
Generation. Send brief proposals (1-3 pages) by December 1, 2006, to
Dr. Jennie Skerl, 1502 Weatherstone Dr., Paoli, PA, 19301 or
jskerl_at_wcupa.edu.

CALL FOR PAPERS
  POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
  AND
  AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
  ANNUAL MEETING
   
  APRIL 4-7, 2007
   
  BOSTON MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE
  BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
   
   
  AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES
   
  We invite submissions from individuals or organized panels (3 or 4 persons) focusing on any issue relating to American Indian/First Nation/Indigenous peoples' lives and literatures. We especially invite the participation of native scholars and writers.
   
  UPDATED DEADLINE FOR ALL ABSTRACTS: NOVEMBER 3, 2006
   
   
  FOR INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSIONS:
   

We should definitely like to see more new submissions to Philological
Quarterly. We are open to articles on all areas of literature. You can send
articles by attached file to philological-quarterly_at_uiowa.edu or by post to
Philological Quarterly, 308 EPB, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242.

William Kupersmith
Editor

CFP: Documentary
   
  Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
   
  April 4-7, 2007,
  Boston, MA
   
  UPDATED Submission Deadline: 3 November 2006
   
  I am seeking papers, abstracts, and panel proposals for the documentary area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference to be held April 4-7, 2007, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston, MA.
   

2007 Annual National
  Popular Culture/American Culture Associations Conference
   
  Boston, Massachusetts
  4-7 April 2007
   
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  110 Huntington Avenue
  Boston, MA 02116
   
  Local Culture of Boston - American Culture Association
   
  UPDATED Deadline for proposal submissions is
  3 November 2006.
   
   
  http://www.popularculture.org
   
  The Local Culture of Boston section of the Popular Culture
  Association announces a call for papers on Boston and Popular
  Culture. Please submit a proposal for a panel of four presenters

CALL FOR CIRCUS PAPERS
   
  The Thirty-Seventh Annual Convention
  of The Popular Culture Association &
  The American Culture Association will take place
   
  April 4-7, 2007
   
  UPDATED Submission Deadline: 3 November 2006
   
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  110 Huntington Avenue
  Boston, Massachusetts 02116
   
  This will be the eleventh meeting of the Popular Culture
  Association Circuses and Circus Culture interest group.
  We invite papers that explore the past and present of circus
  as art, craft and a unique form of popular culture. Circus,
  a continuously evolving tradition of live entertainment,