CSCA MEDIA STUDIES INTEREST GROUP
CALL FOR PAPERS
2006 Central States Communication Association
Convention
April 5 – 9, 2006, Indianapolis, Indiana

The Media Studies Interest Group invites submissions
of competitive papers and thematic panels on all
aspects of media studies, including mass
communication, media technology, media and culture,
and other studies of media and mass communication for
the 2006 Central States Communication Association
Convention. In addition, we are soliciting original
video submissions for screening at the convention.

CFP: Exploring the Multiverse: A Study of the Works of Michael Moorcock
  (Collection). Editor: Thomas Fortenberry.

Submissions are invited for a new collection of essays studying the
writings of British author Michael Moorcock. Moorcock has had a long
and amazingly successful career as both editor and author. Winner of
numerous awards (including the British Fantasy Award, World Fantasy
Award, and being shortlisted for the Whitbread [Mother London]), he is
most famous for having created a vast and fantastic multiverse of
interconnected realities centered around the concept of a recurrent
Eternal Champion.

>From Snoopy to Star Wars
American Popular Imagination of the First World War

Panel proposal for
The First World War and Popular Culture Conference
http://literaryconferences.britishcouncil.org/results/?id=453
31 March - 2 April 2006(3/31/6-4/2/6)
University of Newcastle (UK)

"New Voices in African American Fiction"
Panel to be held at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
Philadelphia, PA
3/2/06-3/5/06
www.nemla.org
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Panel description:

For the 2006 NeMLA convention in Philadelphia, March 2-5.

Please submit abstracts for possible paper presentations
electronically to eef2106_at_columbia.edu by SEPTEMBER 15, 2005.

Visit www.nemla.org for membership and other information.

Panel description:

postamble call for journal submissions!

Call for journal submissions

March 2006: Open Issue
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2005
postamble is a postgraduate journal of the University of Cape Town located in
the Centre for African Studies and published bi-annually online. postamble is
committed to featuring original post graduate student work of a high academic
standard which is of value to the promotion of multi-disciplinary study of
Africa within the university environment.

Call for Papers

Life, the Universe, and Everything XXIV: The Marion K. "Doc" Smith
Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held February 16–18,
2006, on the Provo campus of Brigham Young University.

We are especially interested in papers in the following areas:
    • Literary criticism/analysis of sf&f and related literature
(medieval, renaissance, mythology, magic realism, etc.)
    • Science and technology (especially new or unusual)
    • Analysis of sf&f relating to poetry and/or theatre
    • Mormon culture, literature, and society in relation to sf&f
    • Serious analysis of sf&f in cinema, television, radio and other
media

Call for Papers

Life, the Universe, and Everything XXIV: The Marion K. "Doc" Smith
Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held February 16–18,
2006, on the Provo campus of Brigham Young University.

We are especially interested in papers in the following areas:
    • Literary criticism/analysis of sf&f and related literature
(medieval, renaissance, mythology, magic realism, etc.)
    • Science and technology (especially new or unusual)
    • Analysis of sf&f relating to poetry and/or theatre
    • Mormon culture, literature, and society in relation to sf&f
    • Serious analysis of sf&f in cinema, television, radio and other
media

Call for Papers

Charming and Crafty: Witchcraft and Paganism in Contemporary Media
May 18-21, 2006
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Keynote Speaker: Stephen Mitchell, Chair, Folklore and Mythology, Harvard
University

This conference aims to examine representations of Wtchcraft and Paganism in
film, television and other media (1900--present day), and explore a variety of
topics in an interdisciplinary format. Proposals for panels are welcome;
sessions will generally comprise three speakers for twenty minutes each. Suggested
topics include but are not limited to:

Call for Papers

Charming and Crafty: Witchcraft and Paganism in Contemporary Media
May 18-21, 2006
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Keynote Speaker: Stephen Mitchell, Chair, Folklore and Mythology, Harvard
University

This conference aims to examine representations of Wtchcraft and Paganism in
film, television and other media (1900--present day), and explore a variety of
topics in an interdisciplinary format. Proposals for panels are welcome;
sessions will generally comprise three speakers for twenty minutes each. Suggested
topics include but are not limited to:

Signifying Loss in Contemporary African American Literature

The Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
March 2-5, 2006

SYNOPTIQUE, the online journal of film and film studies, is seeking
contributions for Edition 10, Summer 2005. Synoptique 10 will be devoted to a
range of issues in contemporary Asian cinema and media: the following list
represents suggested topics only. Additional proposals for essays, interviews,
festival reports and other journalistic content related to film are always
welcome. Submissions and proposals should be sent to Owen Livermore at
editor_at_synoptique.ca

07/22/05

VERB, a new publication of the Humanities Center at Lehigh University,
is currently seeking short (< 3000 word) essays, articles, and creative
pieces on the subject of "waste," broadly defined. Potential topics
include:

        * Conspicuous consumption (including branding, planned obsolescence,
prestige economies, etc.,)

        * Approaches to the abject (including cross-cultural attitudes to
abject material, such as garbage or sewage, as well as exclusionary
practices related to abject objects, groups, or individuals).

        * Leisure (including readings of activities or programs conventionally
understood as wasteful).

"The Machine and the Modern Subject"

Conference: The Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 2006 Conference
Deadline for submitting proposal: 9/15/05