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Dear Sir/Madam,
I would like to formally announce the forthcoming production of an annual in print and electronic Journal. The Journal title is as follows: Journal of Hellenic Religion (JfHR) and has already acquired its ISSN code. You can visit the homepage here: http://journalofhellenicreligion.atspace.org.
Call for Papers: Religion and Science Fiction & Fantasy Areas, SW/TX PCA/ACA
2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 27th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 8-11, 2006.
The Area Chairs of Religion and of Science Fiction and Fantasy would like to invite paper and panel proposals for a joint session on religion and science fiction and fantasy in literature, film, and television.
Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, and 500 word panel proposals, including full contact info for all participants, to
Ximena Gallardo C.: xgallardo_at_lagcc.cuny.edu
or
CFP: LOTR SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/05; 2/8-11/06)
Call for Papers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Area, SW/TX PCA/ACA
Special Topic: Tolkien's LOTR
2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 27th
Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM,
February 8-11, 2006.
The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to
invite paper and panel proposals for several special sessions on any
aspect of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, and 500 word panel
proposals, including full contact information for all participants, to:
C. Jason Smith
jsmith_at_lagcc.cuny.edu
CFP: LOTR SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/05; 2/8-11/06)
Call for Papers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Area, SW/TX PCA/ACA
Special Topic: Tolkien's LOTR
2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 27th
Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM,
February 8-11, 2006.
The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to
invite paper and panel proposals for several special sessions on any
aspect of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, and 500 word panel
proposals, including full contact information for all participants, to:
C. Jason Smith
jsmith_at_lagcc.cuny.edu
Conceptualizing Multilingualism in England, 800 – 1250
A Worldwide Universities Network
Multilingualism in Medieval Societies Conference
&
The Third York Alcuin Conference
Centre for Medieval Studies – University of York - England
July 14 - 17 2006
Conceptualizing Multilingualism in England, 800 – 1250
A Worldwide Universities Network
Multilingualism in Medieval Societies Conference
&
The Third York Alcuin Conference
Centre for Medieval Studies – University of York - England
July 14 - 17 2006
Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize
Submissions are invited for the 2005 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize.
Literature Compass aims to be the starting point for anyone in an academic setting who needs to find authoritative reference information on a topic, drawn from high-quality published reference works, and the latest thinking on the topic, specially commissioned from leading academics in the field.
There will be a prize awarded for each of the 9 sections on Literature Compass:
American
Eighteenth Century
Medieval
Renaissance
Romanticism
Seventeenth Century
Shakespeare
The Victorians
Twentieth Century
CFP: Whedonverse, SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/05; 2/8-11/06)
Special Call for Papers: Joss Whedon, Science Fiction and Fantasy Area, SW/TX PCA/ACA
2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 27th Annual Conference. The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 8-11, 2006.
The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on the special topic of Joss Whedon's work, including Buffy: TVS, Angel, and Firefly.
Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, and 500 word panel proposals, including full contact info for all participants, to
Alyson Buckman, PhD
abuckman_at_csus.edu
CFP: Textual Culture and the Medieval British Contact Zone
Panel for the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, MI
Submissions are invited for a session sponsored by the Oregon Medieval
English Literature Society on textual culture. "Textual Culture" is
defined broadly, including discussions
of book culture and its formation, the construction of books, orality,
literacy, learning, and the impact of texts on society, among others.
Interdisciplinary papers are welcomed especially.
Likewise, papers on topics from areas throughout Britain and those on
cultures which have contact and/or
conflict with Britain are encouraged.
CFP: Textual Culture and the Medieval British Contact Zone
Panel for the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, MI
Submissions are invited for a session sponsored by the Oregon Medieval
English Literature Society on textual culture. "Textual Culture" is
defined broadly, including discussions
of book culture and its formation, the construction of books, orality,
literacy, learning, and the impact of texts on society, among others.
Interdisciplinary papers are welcomed especially.
Likewise, papers on topics from areas throughout Britain and those on
cultures which have contact and/or
conflict with Britain are encouraged.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Collection of critical essays on trash cinema
DEADLINE: November 1, 2005
We invite submissions for a critical anthology about the ever-expanding =
world of national and international trash cinema.
As fans of trash cinema, while we do like to think of the form as being =
utterly anti- or counter- =93mainstream=94 cinema, in the ways it =
challenges or reworks many of its assumptions, we are amazed at how many =
trash favorites (both personal and more perennial, if such a thing =
exists) have a striking formal similarity to =96 as well as an appeal =
for devotees of =96 the traditional film canon=92s fare.
Shakespeare at Kalamazoo invites paper proposals on Shakespeare and
material culture. Possible topics include but are not limited to props
and costumes; material conditions of theatrical production (past and
present); different forms of Shakespearean production (print editions;
television and film adaptation; comics). Papers that are accepted for
the panel on Shakespeare and material culture will be presented at the
41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
4-7 May 2006.
Send brief abstracts to Melissa Smith by 20 September 2005:
smithmk2_at_gmail.com
or
smithmk2_at_mcmaster.ca
Shakespeare at Kalamazoo invites paper proposals on Shakespeare and
material culture. Possible topics include but are not limited to props
and costumes; material conditions of theatrical production (past and
present); different forms of Shakespearean production (print editions;
television and film adaptation; comics). Papers that are accepted for
the panel on Shakespeare and material culture will be presented at the
41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
4-7 May 2006.
Send brief abstracts to Melissa Smith by 20 September 2005:
smithmk2_at_gmail.com
or
smithmk2_at_mcmaster.ca
New Perspectives on Religion and Theatre: A Debut Panel
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2006 Conference
Chicago, August 3-6, 2006
New Perspectives on Religion and Theatre: A Debut Panel
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2006 Conference
Chicago, August 3-6, 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS
*=20
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
March 2-5, 2006
Abstracts are invited for the following roundtable:
*=20
New Perspectives on Religion and Theatre: A Debut Panel
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2006 Conference
Chicago, August 3-6, 2006
Updated Submission Deadline: September 15, 2005
CFP: Black & South Asian British Women's Comedies
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, 2006
Philadelphia, PA
2-5 March 2006
Convention information: www.nemla.org
(Panelists must be members of NEMLA)
Updated Submission Deadline: September 15, 2005
CFP: Black & South Asian British Women's Comedies
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, 2006
Philadelphia, PA
2-5 March 2006
Convention information: www.nemla.org
(Panelists must be members of NEMLA)
Updated Submission Deadline: September 15, 2005
CFP: Black & South Asian British Women's Comedies
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, 2006
Philadelphia, PA
2-5 March 2006
Convention information: www.nemla.org
(Panelists must be members of NEMLA)
Updated Submission Deadline: September 15, 2005
CFP: Black & South Asian British Women's Comedies
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, 2006
Philadelphia, PA
2-5 March 2006
Convention information: www.nemla.org
(Panelists must be members of NEMLA)
Updated Submission Deadline: September 15, 2005
CFP: Black & South Asian British Women's Comedies
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, 2006
Philadelphia, PA
2-5 March 2006
Convention information: www.nemla.org
(Panelists must be members of NEMLA)
LEON EDEL PRIZE
The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $150, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.
The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published.
Send submissions (in duplicate, produced according to current MLA style, and with return postage enclosed) to
The Early Modern Center at UCSB invites paper proposals for "Straws in the
Wind: Ballads and Broadsides, 1500-1800," an interdisciplinary conference to
be held at UC Santa Barbara on February 24 and 25, 2006.
CFP: Farscape SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/05; 2/8-11/06)
Call for Papers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Area, SW/TX PCA/ACA
Special Topic: Farscape
2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 27th
Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM,
February 8-11, 2006.
The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to
invite paper and panel proposals for several special sessions on any
aspect of the television show Farscape.
Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, and 500 word panel
proposals, including full contact information for all participants, to:
C. Jason Smith
jsmith_at_lagcc.cuny.edu
LEON EDEL PRIZE
The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $150, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.
The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published.
Send submissions (in duplicate, produced according to current MLA style, and with return postage enclosed) to
The Founding Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science
Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited for the founding conference of
the British Society for Literature and Science. The conference will be held
at the University of Glasgow from 24-26 March 2006. Papers may address
topics in the interactions of literature and science in any period and any
languages. Presenters need not be based in UK institutions.
The Founding Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science
Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited for the founding conference of
the British Society for Literature and Science. The conference will be held
at the University of Glasgow from 24-26 March 2006. Papers may address
topics in the interactions of literature and science in any period and any
languages. Presenters need not be based in UK institutions.
The Founding Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science
Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited for the founding conference of
the British Society for Literature and Science. The conference will be held
at the University of Glasgow from 24-26 March 2006. Papers may address
topics in the interactions of literature and science in any period and any
languages. Presenters need not be based in UK institutions.
The Mythology in Contemporary Culture panel of the Popular Culture
Association invites submissions for the 2006 ACA/PCA National Conference, to
be held in Atlanta, Georgia from April 12-16, 2006.
The"Mythology in Contemporary Culture panel is dedicated to exploring
mythological figures and themes in all areas of popular culture-from movies,
video games and television to literature, politics and blogs-and the
significance of these mythological images and motifs in contemporary,
postmodern culture.
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: