Conference: Literature and the Cognitive Sciences at University of
Connecticut, Storrs.
Deadline: submit 200-300 word abstract by Sept. 21, 2005
Panel: "Cognitive Approaches to Latino/a Narrative and Image"
Panel Organizer: Frederick Luis Aldama, Professor of English and Comparative
Studies at The Ohio State University.
I invite abstracts for the panel "Cognitive Approaches to Latino/a Narrative
and Image" to present at the Literature and the Cognitive Sciences
conference at the University of Connecticut, Storrs (April 6-9, 2006).
Recent advances in such areas as narrative theory, linguistics, and the
cognitive and neurobiological sciences, offer the opportunity for scholars

Digital Games (formerly Video Games)
PCA/ACA - National Conference
April 12-15, 2006
Atlanta Marriott Marquis
 
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 1, 2005
 
The Digital Games area of the Popular Culture Association invites
papers/panels on digital games (video games, computer games, arcade games,
etc.) and digital game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American
Culture Association National Conference to be held at the Atlanta Marriott
Marquis Hotel, April 12-15, 2006. All topics related to digital games and
digital game studies will be considered.
 
So that there will be ample time for discussion, each individual paper

2006 College English Association (CEA) Conference, San Antonio, Texas
April 6-April 8, 2006
Conference theme: "Reading the Regions | Writing the Regions | Teaching
the Regions"

Call for Papers for a newly formed Special Session:

Chairs and Associate Chairs (and former Chairs and Associate Chairs) of
University, College, and Community College English Departments are
invited to submit paper proposals for a special-session panel entitled:
"Chairing the English Department of the 21rst Century: Critical Issues,
Critical Challenges."

Call For Papers: International Medieval Congress 2006, Leeds
Emotional Sin: The Seven Deadly Passions in Medieval Literature
Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 September, 2005

Abstracts are invited for 20 minute papers on the above subject to be
delivered at the Thirteenth International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK,
10-13 July 2006. See www.leeds.ac.uk/imi/imc/imc2006/imc2006.htm for more
information.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

*The Wild, Wild Wiki: Unsettling the Frontiers of Cyberspace, *edited by
Matt Barton and Robert Cummings

The CFP for the Fourth International Women and the Silent Screen
Conference is now available on our website at
http://www.mujercinemudo.cucsh.udg.mx
<http://www.mujercinemudo.cucsh.udg.mx/>

The Mind's Eye: Perspectives on Word and Image
University College London English Postgraduate Conference
17 February 2006

The fourth annual postgraduate conference at University College London
seeks papers that address the relationship between the verbal and
visual in literary texts.

DENMARK AND THE BLACK ATLANTIC

Thursday 4 May to Saturday 6 May 2006

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Organised by the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies

Keynote Speakers:

Professor George Hutchinson (Indiana University), author of _The Harlem
Renaissance in Black and White_ (Harvard UP, 1995) and _From the Shadows: A
New Life of Nella Larsen_ (forthcoming, Harvard UP, 2006)

Candace Allen, author of the novel _Valaida_ (Virago, 2004)

Alex Frank Larsen, journalist and director of Danmark Radio 2's television
documentary series _Slavernes Slægt_ (2005)

TBC: Historian of Danish West Indies/Virgin Islands

CALL FOR PAPERS

DENMARK AND THE BLACK ATLANTIC

Thursday 4 May to Saturday 6 May 2006

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Organised by the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies

Keynote Speakers:

Professor George Hutchinson (Indiana University), author of _The Harlem
Renaissance in Black and White_ (Harvard UP, 1995) and _From the Shadows: A
New Life of Nella Larsen_ (forthcoming, Harvard UP, 2006)

Candace Allen, author of the novel _Valaida_ (Virago, 2004)

Alex Frank Larsen, journalist and director of Danmark Radio 2's television
documentary series _Slavernes Slægt_ (2005)

TBC: Historian of Danish West Indies/Virgin Islands

CALL FOR PAPERS

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Northeast Modern Language Association Conference*

*Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*

*March 2-5, 2006*

* *

Abstracts are invited for the following panel:

CFP: SMFS at Twenty: Teaching (Kzoo 9/15/05; 5/4/06-5/7/06)

Call for 250 word proposals for essays to go into a book entitled
*Fabricating the Body.* Contributors are asked to examine the way the
body is fabricated through methods such as tatooing, clothing, scarring,
surgery, medicine, computer imaging, forensic science, and so on. The
topic is open to any text, genre, media, nation, theoretical approach,
historical time period. Submit proposal and cv by September 1, 2005 to
etklaver_at_siu.edu.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 29 July 2005

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
           is calling for contributors to the 'review' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal.

The Medieval Romance Society invites abstracts on the subject of Health and
Healing in Medieval Romance for presentation at the Forty-first
International Congress on Medieval Studies in May 2006. In the past decade,
scholarship has made significant contributions to the study of medieval
health and medicine. What has yet to be fully explored, however, is how
these concepts are manifested in popular literary works. Where does the
medical concept of the disease of love come into play in the literature?
What is the scientific explanation of "magical healing"? This session seeks
to explore how notions of health and healing inform, or are informed by,