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CFP: Our Watery World: Humans and the Sea (1/6/07; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:56am
CEA-CC

The Caribbean Chapter of the College English Association (CEA-CC) plans
to
publish the proceedings of its Fall 2006 conference on "Our Watery
World: Humans and the Sea."
We are seeking an additional 5-7 papers to supplement this volume.
We are particularly interested in papers that address the following
topics:
a.. The Sea in History
a.. The Life Aquatic: Amphibian and Aquatic Animals
a.. Monsters and Monstrosities of the Sea
a.. Ecocriticism: The Endangered Sea
a.. The Sea as Frontier
a.. Empire and the Sea

CFP: J.G. Ballard Conference (UK) (2/1/07; 5/5/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:55am
Jeannette Baxter

"From Shanghai to Shepperton": An International Conference on J.G. Ballard.

University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Saturday 5th May 2007

Guest Speakers Include:

Toby Litt
Dr Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck)
Professor Philip Tew (Brunel)
David Pringle
Professor Jon Cook
Professor Mark Currie
Professor Vic Sage

CFP: J.G. Ballard Conference (UK) (2/1/07; 5/5/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:55am
Jeannette Baxter

"From Shanghai to Shepperton": An International Conference on J.G. Ballard.

University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Saturday 5th May 2007

Guest Speakers Include:

Toby Litt
Dr Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck)
Professor Philip Tew (Brunel)
David Pringle
Professor Jon Cook
Professor Mark Currie
Professor Vic Sage

UPDATE: Star Wars––All Media (12/1/06; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/14/07–2/17/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:55am
C. Jason Smith

Deadline Extended: 1 December 2006

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 28th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM,
February 14-17, 2007.

The Area Co-Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on any aspect of the Star Wars franchise. Topics could include, but are not limited to the following:

• Core Films
• Novelizations (including graphic novels)
• Fan Fiction
• Slash Fiction
• Video Games (as narrative)
• Miniature Games (as narrative)
• Card Games (as narrative)

UPDATE: Star Wars––All Media (12/1/06; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/14/07–2/17/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:55am
C. Jason Smith

Deadline Extended: 1 December 2006

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 28th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM,
February 14-17, 2007.

The Area Co-Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on any aspect of the Star Wars franchise. Topics could include, but are not limited to the following:

• Core Films
• Novelizations (including graphic novels)
• Fan Fiction
• Slash Fiction
• Video Games (as narrative)
• Miniature Games (as narrative)
• Card Games (as narrative)

UPDATE: Stargate (12/1/06; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/14/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:55am
C. Jason Smith

Deadline extended: December 1, 2006.

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 28th
Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM,
February 14-17, 2007.

The Area Co-Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to

invite paper and panel proposals on any aspect of the Stargate
franchise.

Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, and 500 word panel
proposals, including full contact info for all participants, to
C. Jason Smith
jsmith_at_lagcc.cuny.edu

UPDATE: Reality Television Panel (12/1/06; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/14/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
James Bell

CFP Deadline Extended to December 1, 2006

Reality Television

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 28th Annual
Conference
February 14-17, 2007

Albuquerque, NM =20
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710

The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
will hold their annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February
14-17, 2007. Proposals are now being accepted for panels on Reality
Television.=20

UPDATE: Special Panel on Children's and Young Adult Literature (11/30/06; CEA, 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
Kraver, Jeraldine

SPECIAL PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE

=20

Please consider joining us at the COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION ANNUAL
MEETING in New Orleans this April 12-14.

=20

Our conference theme this year--so appropriate to our location--is
"Empathy and Ethics."=20

=20

You might consider in terms of the following broad issues:

How do we respond to difficult circumstances? Do we always act in right
ways-according to some ethical imperative or ideal? Do we care if we do?

We encourage consideration of these and other questions related to the
conference theme:

=20

UPDATE: Special Panel on Children's and Young Adult Literature (11/30/06; CEA, 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
Kraver, Jeraldine

SPECIAL PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE

=20

Please consider joining us at the COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION ANNUAL
MEETING in New Orleans this April 12-14.

=20

Our conference theme this year--so appropriate to our location--is
"Empathy and Ethics."=20

=20

You might consider in terms of the following broad issues:

How do we respond to difficult circumstances? Do we always act in right
ways-according to some ethical imperative or ideal? Do we care if we do?

We encourage consideration of these and other questions related to the
conference theme:

=20

UPDATE: Film Adaptation (12/1/06; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 214/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
Lynnea King Andrew Tash

Extended Deadline: 12/1

Call for Papers: Film Area: Film Adaptation.

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 27th Annual
Conf., in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Join us February 14-17, 2007, at The
Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, downtown ABQ.

We welcome any aspect of film adaptation studies; prospective topics
include:

FILM ADAPTATION:
*adaptation theory
*novel to film adaptation
*film to film adaptation
*stage to screen adaptation (excluding Shakespeare)
*video games, songs, cartoons, and even Disney rides to film adaptation

UPDATE: Race and Citizenship (12/8/06; 3/1/07-3/4/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
Petra Lina Orloff

The CFP deadline has been extended to 12/8/06.

The Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State University announces its
fourth annual Conference in Citizenship Studies. The conference will be held on
March 1-4, 2007 and will focus on the Center’s theme for this academic year:
Race and Citizenship.

This year’s conference is divided into three different formats. Conference
attendees will attend all formats.

I. Plenary Addresses
In selecting plenary speakers we paid particular attention to scholars whose
work places them on the cutting edge of Citizenship Studies and as authors of
path breaking work on race and citizenship. We are extremely proud of our
line-up of speakers:

UPDATE: Race and Citizenship (12/8/06; 3/1/07-3/4/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
Petra Lina Orloff

The CFP deadline has been extended to 12/8/06.

The Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State University announces its
fourth annual Conference in Citizenship Studies. The conference will be held on
March 1-4, 2007 and will focus on the Center’s theme for this academic year:
Race and Citizenship.

This year’s conference is divided into three different formats. Conference
attendees will attend all formats.

I. Plenary Addresses
In selecting plenary speakers we paid particular attention to scholars whose
work places them on the cutting edge of Citizenship Studies and as authors of
path breaking work on race and citizenship. We are extremely proud of our
line-up of speakers:

UPDATE: Race and Citizenship (12/8/06; 3/1/07-3/4/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
Petra Lina Orloff

The CFP deadline has been extended to 12/8/06.

The Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State University announces its
fourth annual Conference in Citizenship Studies. The conference will be held on
March 1-4, 2007 and will focus on the Center’s theme for this academic year:
Race and Citizenship.

This year’s conference is divided into three different formats. Conference
attendees will attend all formats.

I. Plenary Addresses
In selecting plenary speakers we paid particular attention to scholars whose
work places them on the cutting edge of Citizenship Studies and as authors of
path breaking work on race and citizenship. We are extremely proud of our
line-up of speakers:

UPDATE: Battlestar Galactica (12/1/06; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/14/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
C. Jason Smith

Deadline extended: December 1, 2006.

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 28th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM,
February 14-17, 2007.

The Area Co-Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on any aspect of the Battlestar Gallactica franchise. Topics could include, but are not limited to the following:

• Core Series
• Novelizations (including graphic novels)
• Fan Fiction
• Card Game (particularly as narrative)

UPDATE: M/C Journal issues in 2007 (multiple deadlines; journal issues)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
M/C - Media and Culture

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 20 November 2006

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
            is calling for contributors to the 2007 issues of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.

UPDATE: M/C Journal issues in 2007 (multiple deadlines; journal issues)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
M/C - Media and Culture

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 20 November 2006

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
            is calling for contributors to the 2007 issues of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.

UPDATE: M/C Journal issues in 2007 (multiple deadlines; journal issues)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
M/C - Media and Culture

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 20 November 2006

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
            is calling for contributors to the 2007 issues of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.

CFP: "Race and Coalition" Issue, Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
ethnoscapesjournal_at_kirwaninstitute.org

Call for Papers

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
Global Context

Issue One, Fall 2007
"Race and Coalition"

The editorial staff of the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
invites submissions for its inaugural issue on the subject of "Race and
Coalition." Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the
field of race and ethnic studies by using a "classic" piece as a point of
departure for a reconsideration of critical issues within the contemporary
economic, political, and cultural terrain.

CFP: "Race and Coalition" Issue, Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
ethnoscapesjournal_at_kirwaninstitute.org

Call for Papers

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
Global Context

Issue One, Fall 2007
"Race and Coalition"

The editorial staff of the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
invites submissions for its inaugural issue on the subject of "Race and
Coalition." Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the
field of race and ethnic studies by using a "classic" piece as a point of
departure for a reconsideration of critical issues within the contemporary
economic, political, and cultural terrain.

CFP: "Race and Coalition" Issue, Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
ethnoscapesjournal_at_kirwaninstitute.org

Call for Papers

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
Global Context

Issue One, Fall 2007
"Race and Coalition"

The editorial staff of the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
invites submissions for its inaugural issue on the subject of "Race and
Coalition." Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the
field of race and ethnic studies by using a "classic" piece as a point of
departure for a reconsideration of critical issues within the contemporary
economic, political, and cultural terrain.

UPDATE: Romance Fiction: Rumpled Sheets (12/1/06; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/14/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
UdonLover_at_aol.com

 
CALL FOR PAPERS
Romance Fiction: Rumpled Sheets
Romance Writers & Writing
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Annual Regional Conference
February 14-17, 2007
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Conference Hotel:
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1-505-842-1234
Fax: 1-505-766-6710
Individual presenters and panelists are invited to examine the popular
culture of romance writers & romance writing for the association's annual regional
conference. This conference will provide you with a wonderful opportunity to
share scholarly interests and to gain insights into romance fiction with

UPDATE: Romance Fiction: Rumpled Sheets (12/1/06; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/14/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
UdonLover_at_aol.com

 
CALL FOR PAPERS
Romance Fiction: Rumpled Sheets
Romance Writers & Writing
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Annual Regional Conference
February 14-17, 2007
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Conference Hotel:
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1-505-842-1234
Fax: 1-505-766-6710
Individual presenters and panelists are invited to examine the popular
culture of romance writers & romance writing for the association's annual regional
conference. This conference will provide you with a wonderful opportunity to
share scholarly interests and to gain insights into romance fiction with

UPDATE: Star Trek (12/1/06; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/14/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
C. Jason Smith

Deadline extended: December 1, 2006.

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 28th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 14-17, 2007.

The Area Co-Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on any aspect of the Star Trek franchise. Topics could include, but are not limited to the following:

• Core Films
• Novelizations (including graphic novels)
• Fan Fiction
• Slash Fiction
• Video Games (as narrative)
• Miniature Games (as narrative)
• Card Games (as narrative)

CFP: Don West as Metaphor for Change in Appalachia (4/1/07; anthology)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
Bonnie Robinson

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

University Press of North Georgia(Mission Statement below)

North Georgia College & State University

The University Press of North Georgia is devoting its second publication
to topics exploring transformation of communities and community members
in the Southern Appalachia region and is seeking submissions for
publication. We invite you to submit scholarly articles and essays,
poetry, artwork, or interviews for scholarly review. Recognizing the
work of native Georgian, Don West, the editors of this book will pay
tribute to his life work, developing it as a metaphor for transformation
of the Southern Appalachian community.

CFP: Don West as Metaphor for Change in Appalachia (4/1/07; anthology)

updated: 
Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 1:54am
Bonnie Robinson

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

University Press of North Georgia(Mission Statement below)

North Georgia College & State University

The University Press of North Georgia is devoting its second publication
to topics exploring transformation of communities and community members
in the Southern Appalachia region and is seeking submissions for
publication. We invite you to submit scholarly articles and essays,
poetry, artwork, or interviews for scholarly review. Recognizing the
work of native Georgian, Don West, the editors of this book will pay
tribute to his life work, developing it as a metaphor for transformation
of the Southern Appalachian community.

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