UPDATE: Deadline extended to February 28, 2005 / new mailing address.

Conrad and the Orient

Edited by Amar Acheraiou and Nursel Icoz

The Eastern and Western Perspectives series devotes a volume to _Joseph
Conrad and the Orient_. We are seeking innovative and challenging essays
addressing topics relating to Conrad and the Oriental world in its
geographical breadth and cultural diversity. Comparative and
interdisciplinary approaches are welcome.

Subjects include (but are not limited to):

- Representation of the Orientals (the Arabs, Chinese, Malays.) and Conrad's
relation to the discourse of Barbarism

Space, Haunting, Discourse

15-18 June, 2006

The department of English at Karlstad University, Sweden, invites session
organizers and topics for an international, multidisciplinary conference
with a focus on different relationships between space, haunting and
discourse. With this first call for papers we encourage researchers,
teachers and students in different disciplines to help us shape this
conference by sending in proposals for sessions, problem areas and topics
that explore discourses on space in different disciplines.

Internationalism and the Arts:
Cultural Exchange between Britain and Europe at the Fin de Siècle

4-5 July 2006, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 June 2005

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original works and critical studies of Caribbean literature, theater, film, art, and culture by writers and scholars worldwide exclusively in electronic form. The journal promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on Caribbean literature and culture and offers a mixture of critical essays, cultural studies, interviews, fiction, poetry, plays and visual art. Book reviews and bibliographies, special thematic issues and original art and photography are some of the features of this international journal of Caribbean arts and letters.

Call for Papers=20
INDISCRETIONS: AT THE INTERSECTION OF POSTCOLONIAL AND QUEER THEORY

Editor: Murat Aydemir
Book Series: Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex, and 'Race'
Publisher: Rodopi (Amsterdam/New York)
Series Editor: Ernst van Alphen
Deadline for Proposals: April 1, 2005

CFP: Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics (6/1/05; journal issue)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Deadlines: 15 March 2005 for proposals; 1 June 2005 for finished essays

Guest Editors: Barbara Cole and Lori Emerson

CORRECTION: _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_, was co-written by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask.

We invite contributions for a projected essay collection on John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's rock opera _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_ (Hedwig). We welcome scholarly essays from different fields (literature, film, cultural studies, religious studies, classics, anthropology, biology, educational psychology, speech communication/rhetoric, and others) engaging with _Hedwig_ in a variety of cultural contexts. Topics might include but are not limited to:

Call for Papers---_Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative_

The peer-reviewed journal _Storytelling_ is dedicated to analyses of popular narratives in the widest sense of the phrase and as evidenced in the media and all aspects of culture. Although past essays have focused on children's literature, comics, detective/crime fiction, film, horror/gothic, popular music, romance, science fiction, and television, submissions are by no means confined to these areas.

Executive Editors: Bonnie Plummer and Charlie Sweet, Eastern Kentucky University

THE NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS PRIZE

For the best essay published annually in "Renaissance and
Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme".

The value of the prize is $500 CAD.

This prize honours the contributions of Professor Natalie Zemon Davis to
early modern studies and, in particular, to "Renaissance and
Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme" (with which she was involved at its very
beginning and which is now in its fortieth year).

The winner will be selected by a subcommittee of the editorial board from
among the essays published in each volume. The prize may, in extraordinary
circumstances, be divided among entries judged to be of equal merit.

CFP: War Stories: Gendered Analysis of Media Coverage

Due: March 31, 2005
Length: 1,000 -1,500 words (4-6 pages typed, double-spaced)

We invite contributions for a projected essay collection on John Cameron Mitchell's rock opera _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_ (Hedwig). We welcome scholarly essays from different fields (literature, film, cultural studies, religious studies, classics, anthropology, biology, educational psychology, speech communication/rhetoric, and others) engaging with _Hedwig_ in a variety of cultural contexts. Topics might include but are not limited to:

"Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme" now has a new editor,
and a reconstituted editorial board which includes notable scholars from the
UK and France, the US and Canada (see below).

Now in its fortieth year, "Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et
Réforme" is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, bilingual quarterly. The
journal publishes articles and reviews on all aspects of the Renaissance,
Reformation, and Early Modern world: literature, geography, history,
religion, art, music, society, and economics.

The New ELN Announces Its Inaugural Issue:

"Literary History and the Religious Turn"

Seeking proposals for a collection of essays provisionally titled _Early Modern
Academic Drama: Text, History, Performance_. The editors are looking for four
critical essays to fill out the roughly ten-essay volume: the other essays are
currently at the revision stage and we anticipate shopping the completed ms. by
August 2005. We would therefore prefer proposals on articles that are either
already drafted or in progress.