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UPDATE: Atenea: Multidisciplinary (1/14/04; journal & website)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 8:31pm
NBatra-Atenea

Update: deadline extended

Atenea is a multidisciplinary bilingual journal on the humanities and
social sciences, published twice a year by the University of Puerto Rico
at Mayaguez. It is indexed by MLA and features essays, books reviews, and
some fiction and
poetry. The editorial board invites submissions in either
English or Spanish are welcome (see the guidelines below):

CFP: States of Emergency (grad) (2/1/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 3:23am
gjcm

c a l l f o r p a p e r s :
S T A T E S O F E M E R G E N C Y

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in
which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a
conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall
clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency.
—Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History

CFP: Digital Storytelling (grad) (deadline and conference dates not noted)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 3:23am
Jessica Pressman

Call for Papers and Works:
http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/gradconf.htmlnarr@tive: Digital
Storytellinga UC Graduate Conference in Digital Cultures:Panel Sessions &
eLiterature Readings / New Media Performances @ UCLAKatherine Hayles(UCLA,
English and Design | Media Arts)Rita Raley(UCSB English)Guest
Graduates:Nick MontfortNoah Wardrip-FruinHow is digital culture
transforming the stories we tell and our modes of telling them?Digital
technology is frequently invoked as a trope of both continuity and rupture
in our time. Digital cultures articulate and are articulated, speak and

CFP: Material Religion (journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 3:23am
Sbrent plate

Material Religion: The Journal of Images, Objects, and Belief
A new journal from Berg Publishers, Oxford

Material Religion seeks to explore how religion happens in material
culture – images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture and
sacred space, works of art and mass-produced artifacts. No less
important than these material forms are the many different practices
that put them to work. Ritual, communication, ceremony, instruction,
meditation, propaganda, pilgrimage, display, magic, liturgy and
interpretation constitute many of the practices whereby religious
material culture constructs the worlds of belief.

CFP: Material Religion (journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 3:23am
Sbrent plate

Material Religion: The Journal of Images, Objects, and Belief
A new journal from Berg Publishers, Oxford

Material Religion seeks to explore how religion happens in material
culture – images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture and
sacred space, works of art and mass-produced artifacts. No less
important than these material forms are the many different practices
that put them to work. Ritual, communication, ceremony, instruction,
meditation, propaganda, pilgrimage, display, magic, liturgy and
interpretation constitute many of the practices whereby religious
material culture constructs the worlds of belief.

CFP: Material Religion (journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 3:23am
Sbrent plate

Material Religion: The Journal of Images, Objects, and Belief
A new journal from Berg Publishers, Oxford

Material Religion seeks to explore how religion happens in material
culture – images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture and
sacred space, works of art and mass-produced artifacts. No less
important than these material forms are the many different practices
that put them to work. Ritual, communication, ceremony, instruction,
meditation, propaganda, pilgrimage, display, magic, liturgy and
interpretation constitute many of the practices whereby religious
material culture constructs the worlds of belief.

CFP: Approaches to Bunyan (12/15/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 3:23am
Ken Simpson

APPROACHES TO BUNYAN

Contributors are sought for a special issue of 1650-1850: Ideas,
Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era that will feature 5-7
essays on John Bunyan. The theme is Approaches to Bunyan, and we hope to
present a broad range of voices, but essays that examine the
International Bunyan (Bunyan's reception throughout the world, Bunyan
and colonialism, Bunyan and reading communities, etc.) will be
especially welcome. Further details follow:

CFP: Approaches to Bunyan (12/15/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 3:23am
Ken Simpson

APPROACHES TO BUNYAN

Contributors are sought for a special issue of 1650-1850: Ideas,
Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era that will feature 5-7
essays on John Bunyan. The theme is Approaches to Bunyan, and we hope to
present a broad range of voices, but essays that examine the
International Bunyan (Bunyan's reception throughout the world, Bunyan
and colonialism, Bunyan and reading communities, etc.) will be
especially welcome. Further details follow:

CFP: Approaches to Bunyan (12/15/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 3:23am
Ken Simpson

APPROACHES TO BUNYAN

Contributors are sought for a special issue of 1650-1850: Ideas,
Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era that will feature 5-7
essays on John Bunyan. The theme is Approaches to Bunyan, and we hope to
present a broad range of voices, but essays that examine the
International Bunyan (Bunyan's reception throughout the world, Bunyan
and colonialism, Bunyan and reading communities, etc.) will be
especially welcome. Further details follow:

CFP: Bollywood Audiences (7/1/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Sam Jay

Call for Papers

Special Issue of "South Asian Popular Culture"

Bollywood Audiences (Fall/October 2005)

Special Issue Co-editors: Jigna Desai (University of
Minnesota), Rajinder Dudrah (University of
Manchester), and Amit Rai (Florida State University). 

“The sense of belonging that Bollywood films foster -
the sheer sense of security and shared joy, … the
commonality of experience despite the geographical
separation of so many thousands of miles - is second
to none. It works more because Bollywood is one of the
things that bind us together as Indians, never mind
where we live.”

Soumya Bhattacharya (Hindustan Times 1/25/03) 

CFP: Bollywood Audiences (7/1/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Sam Jay

Call for Papers

Special Issue of "South Asian Popular Culture"

Bollywood Audiences (Fall/October 2005)

Special Issue Co-editors: Jigna Desai (University of
Minnesota), Rajinder Dudrah (University of
Manchester), and Amit Rai (Florida State University). 

“The sense of belonging that Bollywood films foster -
the sheer sense of security and shared joy, … the
commonality of experience despite the geographical
separation of so many thousands of miles - is second
to none. It works more because Bollywood is one of the
things that bind us together as Indians, never mind
where we live.”

Soumya Bhattacharya (Hindustan Times 1/25/03) 

CFP: Bollywood Audiences (7/1/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Sam Jay

Call for Papers

Special Issue of "South Asian Popular Culture"

Bollywood Audiences (Fall/October 2005)

Special Issue Co-editors: Jigna Desai (University of
Minnesota), Rajinder Dudrah (University of
Manchester), and Amit Rai (Florida State University). 

“The sense of belonging that Bollywood films foster -
the sheer sense of security and shared joy, … the
commonality of experience despite the geographical
separation of so many thousands of miles - is second
to none. It works more because Bollywood is one of the
things that bind us together as Indians, never mind
where we live.”

Soumya Bhattacharya (Hindustan Times 1/25/03) 

CFP: Postfeminist Gothic (3/22/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Stephanie Genz {PG}

Call for Papers

Postfeminist Gothic

Papers are invited on the theme of Postfeminist Gothic for a proposed
special edition of the 'Gothic Studies Journal' (Manchester University
Press).

CFP: Postfeminist Gothic (3/22/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Stephanie Genz {PG}

Call for Papers

Postfeminist Gothic

Papers are invited on the theme of Postfeminist Gothic for a proposed
special edition of the 'Gothic Studies Journal' (Manchester University
Press).

CFP: Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity (1/10/04; conference dates not noted)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Penelope Kelsey

Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity

This session will consider the role of Native American writing systems
and recordkeeping before contact and in post-contact literatures.
Especially welcomed are papers that consider how indigenous literacies
are informed by different worldviews than Eurowestern literacies, how
Native writing is conceived of as a socially-constituted act, and how
early tribal writers invoke and deploy these methods of record as unique
rhetorical strategies. Please send an abstract and one-page vita to
pmkgsl_at_rit.edu by January 10.

CFP: Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity (1/10/04; conference dates not noted)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Penelope Kelsey

Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity

This session will consider the role of Native American writing systems
and recordkeeping before contact and in post-contact literatures.
Especially welcomed are papers that consider how indigenous literacies
are informed by different worldviews than Eurowestern literacies, how
Native writing is conceived of as a socially-constituted act, and how
early tribal writers invoke and deploy these methods of record as unique
rhetorical strategies. Please send an abstract and one-page vita to
pmkgsl_at_rit.edu by January 10.

CFP: Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity (1/10/04; conference dates not noted)

updated: 
Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:14am
Penelope Kelsey

Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity

This session will consider the role of Native American writing systems
and recordkeeping before contact and in post-contact literatures.
Especially welcomed are papers that consider how indigenous literacies
are informed by different worldviews than Eurowestern literacies, how
Native writing is conceived of as a socially-constituted act, and how
early tribal writers invoke and deploy these methods of record as unique
rhetorical strategies. Please send an abstract and one-page vita to
pmkgsl_at_rit.edu by January 10.

CFP: Living Forge 2: Rust Belt, Working Class Lit (4/1/04; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Jonathan William Senchyne

        The editors of Living Forge, the literary and arts journal of the rust
belt, are proud to announce that they are accepting submissions for their
next issue. Living Forge publishes poetry, short fiction, creative
nonfiction, drama, essays, critical works, book reviews, and other artworks
that have life in the rust belt as their focus.

CFP: Living Forge 2: Rust Belt, Working Class Lit (4/1/04; journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Jonathan William Senchyne

        The editors of Living Forge, the literary and arts journal of the rust
belt, are proud to announce that they are accepting submissions for their
next issue. Living Forge publishes poetry, short fiction, creative
nonfiction, drama, essays, critical works, book reviews, and other artworks
that have life in the rust belt as their focus.

CFP: Book Covers (1/30/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Nicole M

call for papers...

Judging a book by its cover:
fans, publishers, designers and the advertising of books
Edited by Nicole Matthews and Nickianne Moody,
Media and Cultural Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Book covers have long been the sole preserve of collectors and art
historians. This collection will draw a new range of disciplinary
perspectives - cultural studies, business and marketing, the history of the
book and literary studies - to make sense of book covers in the wider
context of publishers' publicity and the marketing of books.

CFP: Book Covers (1/30/04; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Nicole M

call for papers...

Judging a book by its cover:
fans, publishers, designers and the advertising of books
Edited by Nicole Matthews and Nickianne Moody,
Media and Cultural Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Book covers have long been the sole preserve of collectors and art
historians. This collection will draw a new range of disciplinary
perspectives - cultural studies, business and marketing, the history of the
book and literary studies - to make sense of book covers in the wider
context of publishers' publicity and the marketing of books.

CFP: Feminist Studies: Within Hostile Borders (2/20/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Olivera Jokic

Please find enclosed the call for papers for next year's issue of Michigan
Feminist Studies. The journal welcomes contributions from all disciplines,
and particularly encourages international scholars and graduate students
to submit.

Please note that this year's call also invites submissions for book and
film reviews, as well as visual materials, related to the topic "Within
Hostile Borders."

CALL FOR PAPERS

Michigan Feminist Studies

Seeks submissions for its 2004 issue:

WITHIN HOSTILE BORDERS

CFP: M/C Journal: 'turf' and other topics (1/19/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Axel Bruns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12 December 2003

                          M/C - Media and Culture
            is calling for contributors to the 'turf' issue of

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

The award-winning 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.

CFP: M/C Journal: 'turf' and other topics (1/19/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Axel Bruns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12 December 2003

                          M/C - Media and Culture
            is calling for contributors to the 'turf' issue of

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

The award-winning 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.

CFP: Style in the Making (1/15/04; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 3:47am
Philippe ROMANSKI

Style in the making
The December 2004 issue of Cercles ( http://www.cercles.com ) proposes
to examine the possible geneses of style in the fields of literature,
art, architecture, music, costume, cinema, criticism and will welcome
interdisciplinary essays.
Style has long been the privileged target of literary analyses dwelling
on the music of prose, the rhythm of cadence, the choice of words, and
any other figures apparently giving identity to the written text. In
these, commentaries abound in qualifiers—like eminent, penetrating,
accurate—which reflect the impact of an author’s style on the reader

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