MEDIA-N CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

media-N is the invitational and peer-reviewed online journal of the College Arts Association (CAA)New Media Caucus (NMC). The aim of the journal is to reflect the energy and interests of media arts practitioners, educators and theorists.

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Call for Papers:

Rice University
Humanities Graduate Conference

Face(s) of the Other

Keynote Address by Reda Bensmaia, Brown University

April 6-8, 2006
Rice University, Houston, TX

Global States
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/complit/globalstates

Announcing a conference hosted by the graduate students in the Department
of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, May 5-6, 2006

Featuring a keynote dialogue between Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot
Professor in Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, and
Gayatri Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia
University

ATTENTION: CALL FOR PAPERS

In the City and on the Road: Stasis and Mobility in the Twentieth Century
An Interdisciplinary Conference

http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/20thcenturyconference

Saturday, March 25 - Sunday, March 26, 2006
Department of English
University of South Carolina, Columbia (USA)

The conference deadline has been extended to November
17th, 2005. Please see our website for more
information:

http://english.louisiana.edu/gradconf/index.html

Call for papers

Participants are being sought for paper sessions and a
possible theory panel discussion on Video Game Theory
and Culture for the 27th Annual International
Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.

Who speaks in Melville's poems?
Herman Melville Society Session
American Literature Association, San Francisco
May 25-28, 2006
Hyatt Regency, Embarcadero

UPDATE: Submission deadline now 15 Nov. 2005
 
The Film & History Area of the PCA/ACA Annual Conference invites papers
for the coming conference to be held in Atlanta 12 - 15 April, 2006.

The Area covers a wide range of subject matter and disciplines within the area.

In the recent past, for example, we have had papers on films and the Second

World War, British propaganda shorts during the same conflict, Westerns

and their relationship to American history, early film pioneers in Florida, and

Hollywood's film adaptation of "Death of a Salesman". Also, we have had

excellent papers from panellists working in the gender studies area and in

_Versification: An Electronic Journal of Literary Prosody_ (ISSN 1546-0401),
http://oregonstate.edu/versif, is seeking submissions for its Winter
re-inaugural issue. The editors--Steven J. Willett at the University of
Shizuoka, Hamamatsu Campus and Joseph Tate at Oregon State
University--invite essays on a wide range of topics and poetries--from
classical to contemporary--that draw on diverse approaches.
 
_Versification_ has published essays and reviews and hosted papers by
important scholars in the field including Derek Attridge, Terry V. F.
Brogan, Richard Cureton, Annie Finch, H. T. Kirby-Smith and Reuven Tsur. The

Call for Papers

Portals: A Journal of Comparative Literature is a graduate student journal
published by the Comparative Literature Association of San Francisco State
University.

Portals invites original, critical essay submissions that explore
comparative literary topics across cultural, regional, linguistic, and
temporal boundaries for the Spring 2006 issue.

Submission Guidelines

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on
Fan Art, Fiction, and Culture for the 27th Annual
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.
 

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

POSTCOLONIALITY AND BLACKNESS

Callaloo seeks creative and multi-disciplinary critical submissions for a
special issue on "postcoloniality and blackness." For this issue, we are
interested in looking comparatively at the uneven postcolonial situation of
black peoples and cultures in the 21st century. We seek to explore the
diverse material and political circumstances of black postcolonials, and the
limitations of current postcolonial theorizing for the black experience.

Creative Submissions
Previously unpublished work in all genres, including interviews.

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

POSTCOLONIALITY AND BLACKNESS

Callaloo seeks creative and multi-disciplinary critical submissions for a
special issue on "postcoloniality and blackness." For this issue, we are
interested in looking comparatively at the uneven postcolonial situation of
black peoples and cultures in the 21st century. We seek to explore the
diverse material and political circumstances of black postcolonials, and the
limitations of current postcolonial theorizing for the black experience.

Creative Submissions
Previously unpublished work in all genres, including interviews.

A seminar on "The Idea of the Holocaust and the Human" will be held at the
American Comparative Literature Association meeting at Princeton
University from March 23-26, 2006. The seminar format allows for as many
as a dozen 15-20 minute papers. Abstracts may be submitted at the ACLA
website: http://webscript.princeton.edu/~acla06/site/?page_id=4.
The deadline for submissions is November 30.

Announcement for "The Idea of the Holocaust and the Human":