CALL FOR PAPERS:

Second Annual Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Cultural and Social
Anthropology
The Anthropology of Global Productions
Friday, April 7, and Saturday, April 8, 2006
Deadline for abstracts: 100-150 words abstracts, no later than 5:00 p.m.
January 1, 2006
Webpage: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthroCASA/globalproductions/

CALL FOR PAPERS: APOCALYPTIC SHAKESPEARE FILMS
2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
27th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM
 
The 2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Conference will be held in beautiful Albuquerque, NM, February 8-11, 2006 at
the Hyatt Regency downtown. Further details regarding the conference
(listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca
 
Proposals are being accepted for a panel on "Apocalyptic Shakespeare Films,"
in the Shakespeare on Film and Television Area of the PCA. (See below for

Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association; Oakland, California; October 12-15, 2006: "The United States from Inside and Out: Transnational American Studies."

Panel: Transnational Regionalisms (12/15/05; ASA, 10/12/06 – 10/15/06)

"S(e)oul to Soul: The novels of Susan Choi and the Politics of
Representation" (10/7/05; 3/22-26/06)

Mobility/Stasis/Modernity in the Space Between, 1914-1945
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Submissions are invited for the eighth annual conference of The Space=20
Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, at Bucknell University,=20
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, June 8-11, 2005.

Acceleration, terminal velocity, downward-spiral, displacement,=20
paralysis, collision, modernity. The years 1914-1945 were marked by=20
wars colliding with peace movements, by the formation of new nations,=20
the dissolution of old empires, and the voluntary and forced movement=20
of people from ancient homelands to modern and nascent nation-states. =20=

CFP: Black British Aesthetics Today: The 2006 Howard University Symposium
(12/02/2005-4/08/2006)

The Graduate Film Studies Journal (GFSJ) is a new online film journal tha=
t is devoted solely to the publication of film essays written by exceptio=
nal graduate students from around the globe. Currently, we are looking f=
or intelligent essays on any subject of film for our inaugural issue. Pl=
ease send your essays to dm8600_at_albany.edu. All works should be sent as =
MSWord attachments, should be seven to ten pages in length, and should fo=
llow proper MLA format. Our goal is to, in a small and concentrated way,=
 prove that graduate work is an integral part in what has become a vast c=
olligate whole; that the work of graduate students can, in fact, shape or=

Border Crossings and Boundary Definitions
Postgraduate Conference, University of New Hampshire
Sponsored by the English Graduate Organization
March 31-April 1, 2006

Featured Speakers:
Donald E. Pease Jr., Professor of English, and Avalon Chair of the Humanities at
Dartmouth College
J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Professor, English & Comparative Literature at
the University of California, Irvine
Janet Aikins Yount, Professor and Chair of the Department of English, University
of New Hampshire

Chester, Grace, and Dreiser: The Birth of An American Tragedy
A Special 100th Anniversary Conference in Herkimer, NY

June 22-24, 2006

Call for Papers

Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Iranian American Literature
We are inviting proposals for a special issue on IranianAmerican
Literature, projected for publication in 2008.

The Expatriate Indian Writing in English : A Call for Papers

We have just concluded a National Seminar on Expatriate Indian Writing in English (Sep 22-23) at the Department of English, Kakatiya University, A.P., India. Some of the key participants were Prof. Jasbir Jain (Jaipur), Prof. Manju Jaidka (Punjab), Dr. Somdatta Mandal (Santiniketan), Prof. Vijayasree (Osmania), Prof. Gopal Rao (Osmania), and Prof. Vinoda (Kakatiya).

Papers On February 23rd - 25th, 2006, the Center for the Study of the Korean War will hold its 7th Annual Conference on War and Media at the Hilton Garden Inn of Independence, Missouri. Each year Graceland University sponsors the conference as an opportunity for scholars, students, veterans, and anyone interested to gather and share information, questions, stories, and academic papers concerning the reporting of war. Papers focus on issues relating to war in general, with at least one session on the Korean War. The theme for the upcoming conference is War and Propaganda.

Proposals for papers to be presented at the 7th Annual Conference can be sent by email to:
gedwards_at_graceland.edu

or by mail to:

Papers On February 23rd - 25th, 2006, the Center for the Study of the Korean War will hold its 7th Annual Conference on War and Media at the Hilton Garden Inn of Independence, Missouri. Each year Graceland University sponsors the conference as an opportunity for scholars, students, veterans, and anyone interested to gather and share information, questions, stories, and academic papers concerning the reporting of war. Papers focus on issues relating to war in general, with at least one session on the Korean War. The theme for the upcoming conference is War and Propaganda.

Proposals for papers to be presented at the 7th Annual Conference can be sent by email to:
gedwards_at_graceland.edu

or by mail to:

CRASH CINEMA 5
BRADFORD FILM FESTIVAL
NATIONAL MUSEUM of PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM and TELEVISION (UK)

Weds 15 March 2006, Cubby Broccoli Cinema

CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals are invited for papers that engage with issues of
representation within film and videographic media: the mainstream
(Hollywood / Bollywood), fine art, cult or the edges of popular culture.

200 words synopses should be sent by 30 November 2005 to:

Jill Good, MA Visual Culture, Bradford School of Art
Bradford College, Great Horton Road, Bradford BD7 1AY
Tel: (+0044)1274 431660; email: j.good_at_bradfordcollege.ac.uk

Ask for details of Vols. 1-4, Crash Cinema: The Proceedings (ISSN 1743-4459)