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CFP: The Holocaust as Screen Memory (1/15/04; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 8:43pm
Weissman, Gary

THE HOLOCAUST AS SCREEN MEMORY.
Proposals/contributions are invited for a collection of original essays
exploring the claim that the Holocaust has served as a screen memory for
other histories, anxieties, and concerns. For example, some scholars in the
United States have suggested that the Holocaust may serve as a screen memory
for events "closer to home" than the Nazi genocide of the European
Jews-particularly the genocide of Native Americans and the perpetration of
American slavery and segregation. Others have identified the Holocaust as a
symbol for vanishing American Jewish identity and community. Still others
link interest in the Holocaust to fears concerning the disappearance of

CFP: The Holocaust as Screen Memory (1/15/04; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 8:43pm
Weissman, Gary

THE HOLOCAUST AS SCREEN MEMORY.
Proposals/contributions are invited for a collection of original essays
exploring the claim that the Holocaust has served as a screen memory for
other histories, anxieties, and concerns. For example, some scholars in the
United States have suggested that the Holocaust may serve as a screen memory
for events "closer to home" than the Nazi genocide of the European
Jews-particularly the genocide of Native Americans and the perpetration of
American slavery and segregation. Others have identified the Holocaust as a
symbol for vanishing American Jewish identity and community. Still others
link interest in the Holocaust to fears concerning the disappearance of

CFP: An Encyclopedia of Beat Culture (no deadline noted; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 6:46am
Lawlor, William

Work is nearly completed on An Encyclopedia of Beat Culture, but various
biographical, thematic, and contextual entries remain to be written.
Persons interested in writing about the Beat Generation and the Age of
Spontaneity should contact William Lawlor, Professor of English,
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (wlawlor_at_uwsp.edu). Please include
a short resume.

UPDATE: Dwelling Places (11/15/03; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 6:20am
monica o'brien

Correction of information for Crossings, a counter-disciplinary journal,
Issue 7, Dwelling Places
New website address:

http://crossings.binghamton.edu/

Please disregard the old address given in the CFP
Questions: contact Dr. Andy Martino
nerval_at_msn.com

Monica O'Brien
Program in Philosophy, Literature and Criticism
Department of Comparative Literature
Binghamton University
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000

UPDATE: Dwelling Places (11/15/03; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 6:20am
monica o'brien

Correction of information for Crossings, a counter-disciplinary journal,
Issue 7, Dwelling Places
New website address:

http://crossings.binghamton.edu/

Please disregard the old address given in the CFP
Questions: contact Dr. Andy Martino
nerval_at_msn.com

Monica O'Brien
Program in Philosophy, Literature and Criticism
Department of Comparative Literature
Binghamton University
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000

CFP: Narrative Emotion (12/15/03; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 6:03am
Jeffrey Pence

CALL FOR PAPERS

Narrative Emotion: Feeling Form and Function

Special Issue of JNT: The Journal of Narrative Theory

Issue Editors: Ingrid Geerken and Jeffrey Pence

Deadline: December 15, 2003

CFP: Theatre Arts Journal: Studies in Scenography and Performance (2/29/04; journal)

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 6:00am
Irene Eynat-Confino

Call for Papers

Theatre Arts Journal: Studies in Scenography and Performance, published by
the Gordon Craig Society for Theatre Research and Tel-Aviv University, is a
semi-annual scholarly peer-reviewed journal, devoted to exploring current
issues in scenography in performing arts. The journal encourages original
scholarly research that examines the visual and audial aspects of
performance – stage, costume, lighting and sound design, theatre
architecture, masks, puppets, and movement as a sensorial element -- and
their contribution to the construction of meaning.

Theatre Arts Journal is pleased to announce the first call for papers in
the following subject areas:

CFP: Theatre Arts Journal: Studies in Scenography and Performance (2/29/04; journal)

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 6:00am
Irene Eynat-Confino

Call for Papers

Theatre Arts Journal: Studies in Scenography and Performance, published by
the Gordon Craig Society for Theatre Research and Tel-Aviv University, is a
semi-annual scholarly peer-reviewed journal, devoted to exploring current
issues in scenography in performing arts. The journal encourages original
scholarly research that examines the visual and audial aspects of
performance – stage, costume, lighting and sound design, theatre
architecture, masks, puppets, and movement as a sensorial element -- and
their contribution to the construction of meaning.

Theatre Arts Journal is pleased to announce the first call for papers in
the following subject areas:

CFP: Reality Television: Fairy Tale or Feminist Nightmare? (12/1/03; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 5:53am
Sujata Moorti

Thanks for alerting me to this issue. Here it is:

CFP: Reality Television: Fairy Tale or Feminist Nightmare?
Feminist Media Studies 4(1) Criticism and Commentary Section

Deadline: December 1, 2003
Length: 1,000-1,500 words (5-6 pages typed, double-spaced)

?Big Brother,? ?Survivor,? ?Temptation Island,? ?Joe Millionaire,? ?For
Love or Money,? ?Pop Idol,? ?The Bachelor,? ?Fear Factor,? ?Married by
America,? ?

CFP: Reality Television: Fairy Tale or Feminist Nightmare? (12/1/03; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 5:53am
Sujata Moorti

Thanks for alerting me to this issue. Here it is:

CFP: Reality Television: Fairy Tale or Feminist Nightmare?
Feminist Media Studies 4(1) Criticism and Commentary Section

Deadline: December 1, 2003
Length: 1,000-1,500 words (5-6 pages typed, double-spaced)

?Big Brother,? ?Survivor,? ?Temptation Island,? ?Joe Millionaire,? ?For
Love or Money,? ?Pop Idol,? ?The Bachelor,? ?Fear Factor,? ?Married by
America,? ?

CFP: Literature and Ethics (12/15/03; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 12:14am
Anna Fahraeus

"Literature and Ethics: This is an open call for submission proposals
focusing on any of the sub-topics of literature and ethics presented
below for a collection to be published in the fall of 2004. The
objective of the proposed study is to reassess the place of ethics in
literary studies and present and differentiate the many different
issues currently being addressed under the broadly conceived rubric of

Literature and Ethics.

Ethics and historical approaches to literature
The ethos of the text
Ethics and the reader
Literary criticism and ethics
Postcolonial studies and ethics
Cultural studies and ethics

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