CFP Roberto Benigni and Shaping Forces

Dear Colleagues,

For Edited Volume

I'm particularly looking for essays that explore the complex =
relationship between Benigni's films , the major forces that shaped his =
"art," (such asd History, Dante, Commedia Dell'Arte and Hollywood iconic =
comedians) and his appropriation (and occasional misappropriation) of =
these forces.

Completed essays should be about 7,000 wds. They can be in English, =
Italian or French.

To submit a completed essay, an abstract of 250 wds. minimum, or to get =
further information, please contact:

Gracerbullaro_at_Msn.com

Deadline for abstracts: Oct. 10, 2003.

Due to some administrative difficulties could anyone who had responded Roy
Sellars call for papers on the work of Harold Bloom, dating back to January
1998, please forward their abstracts or contributions to me, Chris
Hamilton-Emery at cemery_at_saltpublishing.com.

Best wishes
Chris
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Chris Hamilton-Emery
Editor
Salt Publishing
PO Box 937, Great Wilbraham PDO
Cambridge, CB1 5JX, UK

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CFP: Companion to 19th C. British Poetry (no dealine; book)

CFP: Companion to 19th C. British Poetry (no dealine; book)

The deadline for submissions for the CFP below has now been extended to =
the 20th of October, 2003. We are also hoping to run in this issue a =
special mini-feature on media coverage of the war in Iraq (and after), =
from CNN to Al-Jazeera. All contributions welcome.

Dear academics/ writers/ thinkers/ journalists/ polemicists,

    Please see below the latest call for papers for Situation Analysis, =
an exciting new journal which provides a forum for the interface between =
critical thought and international current affairs. We encourage an =
examination of the relation between theory and world events, soliciting =
passionate responses to the most urgent themes of our time.

Call for Papers (Edited Collection)

Research and Publication Centre at the National College of Arts, Lahore,

Pakistan, invites research papers for publication in a peer-reviewed
collection. The aim of the book is to examine the relationship between
education and colonialism. Therefore, the papers should examine the
pedagogical practices, institutions and British colonialism in the
subcontinent, especially with reference to contemporary Pakistan. The
editors would eagerly welcome those papers that employ theoretical
innovation with rigorous scholarship in order to analyze the nexus of
education and the legacies of imperialism in South Asia.

Possible areas of investigation can include:

Call for chapter proposals:

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

The Editor of this international volume is looking for chapters on key film, TV
and 'other media' composers. . . .

Chapters are likely to be 5,000 words in length, but suggestions for shorter or
longer contributions are welcome.

When complete, the book will be a comprehensive work on sound in film, TV and
multi-media, and will be suitable for researchers and as a general u/graduate
reference work.

This is an already contracted book with a major publisher and chapter authors
will also be given individual contracts.

Call for Papers

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative
Writing

The editors invite submissions of critical articles and/or creative work for
the forthcoming issue.

The journal is interested in the best creative work from university and college
programmes worldwide (staff and/or student), as well as articles concerned
with:

Creative writing pedagogy and creative writing research;
The art/s of writing;
The histories and cultures of creative writing;
The aesthetics, styles, forms and conditions of writing;
Writers and writing techniques

. . . to name a few areas.

Conference reports and writer interviews will be considered.

CFP: Travel and place in literature; submission deadline 1
December 2003

Contributors are needed to write short essays on these topics:

"John Cage" (500 words)
"Martin Espada" (500 words)
"Barbara Guest" (500 words)
"Langston Hughes" (1000-1500 words)
"James Weldon Johnson" (500 words)
"Yusef Komunyakaa" (500 words)
"Al Purdy" (500 words)
"Anne Waldman" (500 words)
"John Wheelwright" (500 words)
"Gunslinger" by Ed Dorn (1000 words).

The essays are for a volume entitled A Companion to Twentieth-Century
American Poetry (to be published by Facts on File, Inc., a publisher that
enjoys very wide distribution in libraries, colleges and high schools, as
well as bookstores).

Call for Papers

Articles are invited for a forthcoming anthology of writings on
‘migration’ within and out of South Asia in the 20th century.

The volume, tentatively titled "To Cities, Countries, Continents," will be
divided into three thematic sections. The first will focus on texts that
portray migration of rural populations to colonial and postcolonial urban
centers. The focus of the second section will be on texts that address the
migrations across national borders in 1947, 1971 and later. The third
section will analyze texts on the migrational experience of expatriate
South Asians (including indentured laborers) in Africa, Europe and the
Americas.

SOCIAL SEMIOTICS: Special Symposium: 'What is Media Theory?' - 19/12/03
(for Vol 14 (2) 2004)

General Editor: Professor Terry Threadgold, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

Co-Editor: Dr Radhika Mohanram, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

Associate Editor, Australia: Dr Joseph Pugliese, Macquarie University, NSW,
Australia

Associate Editor, USA: Dr Toby Miller, New York University, USA

Book Review Editors: Dr Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
Rebecca Farley, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

Editorial Assistant: Judith Pryor, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

    The ASSESSING JAMES PURDY Conference will take place October 25, 2003 in
Bartlett Hall of the university of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. All Purdy
enthusiasts are cordially invited, as are all fans of the best late twentieth
century fiction. There will be no registration fee.
    Essays are also solicited for the volume of essays that will follow up
the conference. The editor seeks essays on all aspects of Purdy's work, but is
especially interested in essays on the later stories, the plays and the poetry.
Send proposals for essays to Prof. Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., Department of
English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003 or by email to: <
skerrett_at_english.umass.edu>.

CALL FOR PAPERS

ACADEMIC EXCHANGE EXTRA
http://asstudents.unco.edu/students/AE-Extra/index.html
A MONTHLY PEER-REVIEWED ON-LINE FORUM

Submissions are invited from undergraduates, graduates, and educators for
Academic Exchange Extra (Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Haller). Extra presents
ideas, research methods, and pedagogical theories leading to effective
instruction and learning regardless of level, subject or context. We also
seek cogent essays, poetry and fiction.