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UPDATE: Octavia Hill Society Journal (11/15/03; journal issue)

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Saturday, May 3, 2003 - 4:33am
Tina Hummel

CFP -- The Acorn, Journal of The Octavia Hill Society

Deadline November 15, 2003

The third issue of the Acorn, the Journal of the Octavia Hill Society =
has room for several papers of 3,000 to 6,000 words. We publish papers =
on a range of topics touching upon the work of Octavia Hill and her =
fellow workers. For more information address email inquiries to Tina =
Hummel, Editor at england_at_boo.net.

Please see our website at http://www.octaviahillmuseum.org.uk

CFP: Rocky Horror and Popular Culture (12/20/03; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 3, 2003 - 4:23am
Jeffrey Weinstock

Contributions are invited for a collection of academic essays on The Rocky
Horror Picture Show and popular culture with appropriate publishing house
interest. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

        RHPC and cult films
        RHPC fandom, performance, and viewing practices
        RHPC and youth culture
        RHPC and the Gothic
        RHPC and other cinematic genres, including the horror film and the musical
        RHPC and popular music
        RHPC and pornography
        RHPC in the context of 1970s American and world culture
        RHPC's current popularity and significance
        Queer and feminist approaches to RHPC
        RHPC on Broadway

UPDATE: Sound in Film and Visual Media (5/30/03; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 3, 2003 - 4:23am
G.E.Harper

Call for Chapters

'The Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and the Visual Media'

General Editor: Graeme Harper, Director, Centre for Advanced Development in
the Creative Industries, University of Wales (Bangor)

This international volume contracted by Continuum Books
(www.continuumbooks.com) requires chapters by keen experts on various
aspects of the above topic.

Some chapters have been contracted; however, various suggested areas
(below), and suggestions for others, are open. The volume aims to offer a
definitive look at sound in film and the visual media, and will be used by
researchers and students alike.

CFP: Rocky Horror and Popular Culture (12/20/03; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 3, 2003 - 4:23am
Jeffrey Weinstock

Contributions are invited for a collection of academic essays on The Rocky
Horror Picture Show and popular culture with appropriate publishing house
interest. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

        RHPC and cult films
        RHPC fandom, performance, and viewing practices
        RHPC and youth culture
        RHPC and the Gothic
        RHPC and other cinematic genres, including the horror film and the musical
        RHPC and popular music
        RHPC and pornography
        RHPC in the context of 1970s American and world culture
        RHPC's current popularity and significance
        Queer and feminist approaches to RHPC
        RHPC on Broadway

UPDATE: Sound in Film and Visual Media (5/30/03; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, May 3, 2003 - 4:23am
G.E.Harper

Call for Chapters

'The Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and the Visual Media'

General Editor: Graeme Harper, Director, Centre for Advanced Development in
the Creative Industries, University of Wales (Bangor)

This international volume contracted by Continuum Books
(www.continuumbooks.com) requires chapters by keen experts on various
aspects of the above topic.

Some chapters have been contracted; however, various suggested areas
(below), and suggestions for others, are open. The volume aims to offer a
definitive look at sound in film and the visual media, and will be used by
researchers and students alike.

CFP: Green Letters: Science and Environment (UK) (10/1/03; journal)

updated: 
Saturday, May 3, 2003 - 4:23am
M S Phillips

CALL FOR PAPERS

Green Letters

Deadline: 1 October 2003

Green Letters, the journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of
Literature and Environment, UK Branch), is devoted to exploring
interdisciplinary interfaces between humans and the natural environment.

CFP: Green Letters: Science and Environment (UK) (10/1/03; journal)

updated: 
Saturday, May 3, 2003 - 4:23am
M S Phillips

CALL FOR PAPERS

Green Letters

Deadline: 1 October 2003

Green Letters, the journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of
Literature and Environment, UK Branch), is devoted to exploring
interdisciplinary interfaces between humans and the natural environment.

CFP: Transdisciplinary Work on Economics, etc. (12/1/03; e-journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 2:21am
afshin hafizi

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - The Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence

SDA Bocconi Business School (Milan, Italy) announces the forthcoming online
publication of the first issue of "The transdisciplinary journal of
emergence" (www.sdabocconi.it). TJE is an English-language on-line journal
that will be published semi-annually starting from September 2003. We are
seeking contributions for the second (Spring 2004) issue, to be sent by
December 1st, 2003.

CFP: Polish-Jewish Relations after Shoah (6/5/03; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 2:17am
Joanna Zylinska

CALL FOR PAPERS

Contributions are sought to a collection of essays on the subject of
Polish-Jewish relations in the aftermath of the Shoah. We are
particularly interested in including texts that mobilize a wide range of
theoretical vocabularies, including philosophical, psychoanalytic, and
literary approaches (e.g. post-structuralism and deconstruction;
Levinas-inspired ethics; Freudian and post-Freudian approaches to
trauma, mourning, witnessing etc.; cultural studies work on race,
national identity and ethnicity, to name but a few).

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

CFP: Polish-Jewish Relations after Shoah (6/5/03; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 2:17am
Joanna Zylinska

CALL FOR PAPERS

Contributions are sought to a collection of essays on the subject of
Polish-Jewish relations in the aftermath of the Shoah. We are
particularly interested in including texts that mobilize a wide range of
theoretical vocabularies, including philosophical, psychoanalytic, and
literary approaches (e.g. post-structuralism and deconstruction;
Levinas-inspired ethics; Freudian and post-Freudian approaches to
trauma, mourning, witnessing etc.; cultural studies work on race,
national identity and ethnicity, to name but a few).

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

CFP: Americana: the Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900-present (10/15/03; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 2:13am
Editor_at_AmericanPopularCulture

Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) invites
submissions for the fall 2003 edition of its peer reviewed e-journal.

Please see the call for papers link at
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/index.htm
for the guidelines and more information.

Submissions and queries to editor_at_americanpopularculture.com.

Deadline 15 October 2003.

CFP: Americana: the Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900-present (10/15/03; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 2:13am
Editor_at_AmericanPopularCulture

Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) invites
submissions for the fall 2003 edition of its peer reviewed e-journal.

Please see the call for papers link at
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/index.htm
for the guidelines and more information.

Submissions and queries to editor_at_americanpopularculture.com.

Deadline 15 October 2003.

CFP: Psalms in the Early Modern World (2/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 10:21pm
Kari McBride

Psalms in the Early Modern World

Proposals are invited for a volume on Psalms in the Early Modern World.
We seek essays from a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary
approaches that examine the uses and effects of Psalms throughout the
early modern world, including (but not limited to):

CFP: Psalms in the Early Modern World (2/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 10:21pm
Kari McBride

Psalms in the Early Modern World

Proposals are invited for a volume on Psalms in the Early Modern World.
We seek essays from a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary
approaches that examine the uses and effects of Psalms throughout the
early modern world, including (but not limited to):

CFP: Psalms in the Early Modern World (2/1/04; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 10:21pm
Kari McBride

Psalms in the Early Modern World

Proposals are invited for a volume on Psalms in the Early Modern World.
We seek essays from a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary
approaches that examine the uses and effects of Psalms throughout the
early modern world, including (but not limited to):

UPDATE: Contemporary British Detective Fiction (6/15/03; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 10:11pm
Julie H. Kim

Please note that the deadline for abstracts (300-500 words) for the
collection Murder and the Other has been changed to June 15 (originally
5/15). Also note that I am only asking for abstracts at this point and
that full-length essays will be required after I have contacted presses
with possible table of contents, etc.

Thanks,

Julie H. Kim
Associate Professor
English Department
Northeastern Illinois University
(773) 442-5825

CFP: Teaching Johnson in the 21st Century (5/10/03; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 10:11pm
Priscilla Gilman

The editors of the newly revived Johnsonian News Letter solicit short
articles (maximum 1500 words) on teaching Johnson in the 21st century.
Possible approaches to the topic include but are not limited to: discussions
of how to integrate Johnson into survey courses on 18th C literature,
descriptions of courses devoted mostly or solely to the study of Johnson,
reflections on Johnson's relevance to the broader college or university
curriculum, accounts of students' reactions to and engagement with Johnson,
reflections on once popular courses titles such as "The Age of Johnson" or
"Johnson and his Circle," and considerations of Johnson's place in secondary

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