Medieval Academy of America
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CALL FOR PANELLISTS
Across the Pond: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Job Market

Call for Papers

Computers & Writing/Composition/Rhetoric (Composition and Rhetoric Area)

Popular Culture Assocation/American Culture Association Conference

Atlanta, GA
April 12-15, 2006

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The conference 'Technologies of Memory in the Arts' focuses on art as a
cultural and technological practice to process and construct the past in
the present. Central questions to this conference are: How do art and
artistic practices function as technologies of memory? How are cultural
artefacts implicated in complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of
recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesia?

W/ apologies for cross postings.

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The conference 'Technologies of Memory in the Arts' focuses on art as a
cultural and technological practice to process and construct the past in
the present. Central questions to this conference are: How do art and
artistic practices function as technologies of memory? How are cultural
artefacts implicated in complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of
recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesia?

Call for Papers:
ASECS 2006 (30 March - 2 April, 2006), Montreal

CALL FOR PAPERS: Online Publishing

Computer Culture Area
2006 SWTexas Popular Culture Assoc./American Culture Assoc.
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/
Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 8-11, 2006

We are seeking individual paper proposals as well as panel proposals
(panels of three or four presenters) on aspects of online publishing. We
would welcome proposals by scholars (including graduate students),
publishers, editors, writers, and artists.

Possible topics include:

Abstracts are being accepted for a special session at the 41st
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan:

"Text and Context in Bodleian Library MS Laud Misc 108"

Association for Research in Popular Fictions

Lads in popular fiction: a colloquium on contemporary masculinity
Saturday 18th February 2006
Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Association for Research in Popular Fictions

Lads in popular fiction: a colloquium on contemporary masculinity
Saturday 18th February 2006
Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Call for papers for a sponsored session at the annual Medieval Congree at Western Michigan University. The panel is sponsored by the Society for Popular Culture and the Middle Ages <http://popularcultureandthemiddleages.org>.

Contact information:

Carl James Grindley
CUNY–Hostos College
500 Grand Concourse
Bronx, NY 10451

Phone: (wk) 718-319-7907; (hm) 203-467-6230
Fax: 718-518-6623
Email: cgrindley_at_hostos.cuny.edu

The Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) of the Association for Theatre in
Higher Education (ATHE) invites proposals for panels, seminars, roundtable
discussions, performances, workshops, and other innovative session formats
for the annual ATHE meeting, which will be held at the Palmer House Hilton
Hotel in Chicago from August 3-6, 2006.
 
This conference marks the twentieth anniversary of ATHE, and will be based
around the theme "Theatrical Milestones: Past Legacies, Present
Possibilities, Future Strategies." We encourage submissions that directly
relate to this particular theme, as well as submissions that engage with
this specific theme to expand and interrogate a wide range of projects. We

Call for Papers

Composition and Rhetoric Area

Popular Culture Assocation/American Culture Association Conference

Atlanta, GA
April 12-15, 2006

The Composition and Rhetoric Area of the PCA/ACA seeks papers addressing the
intersection of Popular Culture with Composition studies and/or Rhetoric, as
each of these terms can be most broadly construed. We are interested in
popular representations of writing, rhetoric, and instruction in both, as
well as the composed or rhetorical nature of culture as expressed in popular
artifacts. Topics include, but are not limited to:

UPDATE: Deadline for submissions extended to October 1, 2005. Polygraph
is also currently seeking book reviews for this or future issues, which
should be sent to William Knight and Eric Owens, our reviews editors, at
wpknight_at_duke.edu <mailto:wpknight_at_duke.edu>.

POLYGRAPH 18: Biopolitics, Narrative, Temporality

Science and Technology in the Medieval Romance
(a session at the 2006 International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan)