Atenea, a multidisciplinary bilingual journal on the humanities and=20
social sciences, features essays, books reviews, and some fiction and=20
poetry.=20
URL: http://www.uprm.edu/atenea=20

The editorial board invites submissions for publication for a special=20
issue (June 2007) on "(Post) Colonialism and (Trans) Nationalism."=20

Submissions in either English or Spanish are welcome (see the guidelines =

below):=20

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

CALL FOR PAPERS
   
  Revisiting the Nineteenth Century: The World, the Body, the Text
  The 14th Annual Conference
  of the R.O.C. English & American Literature Association
   
  National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TAIWAN, The Republic of China
  November 24~25, 2006
   

CALL FOR PAPERS
   
  Revisiting the Nineteenth Century: The World, the Body, the Text
  The 14th Annual Conference
  of the R.O.C. English & American Literature Association
   
  National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TAIWAN, The Republic of China
  November 24~25, 2006
   

CALL FOR PAPERS
   
  Revisiting the Nineteenth Century: The World, the Body, the Text
  The 14th Annual Conference
  of the R.O.C. English & American Literature Association
   
  National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TAIWAN, The Republic of China
  November 24~25, 2006
   

'Taste, Vision, Transcendence: Sublimity 1700-1900' One-Day Conference,
University of Sussex (Brighton, UK), 5th January 2007.

Plenary speakers: Dr. Philip Shaw (University of Leicester) and Professor
Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol).

Papers are invited on any aspect of the sublime in literature, visual
culture or philosophy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Papers
from postgraduates particularly welcome. Send 250 word abstracts to
c.r.stokes_at_sussex.ac.uk by the 17th November 2006. Enquiries about
attending the conference as a non-presenting delegate are also welcome.

Christopher Stokes and Miles Mitchard
University of Sussex.

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

'Taste, Vision, Transcendence: Sublimity 1700-1900' One-Day Conference,
University of Sussex (Brighton, UK), 5th January 2007.

Plenary speakers: Dr. Philip Shaw (University of Leicester) and Professor
Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol).

Papers are invited on any aspect of the sublime in literature, visual
culture or philosophy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Papers
from postgraduates particularly welcome. Send 250 word abstracts to
c.r.stokes_at_sussex.ac.uk by the 17th November 2006. Enquiries about
attending the conference as a non-presenting delegate are also welcome.

Christopher Stokes and Miles Mitchard
University of Sussex.

****CALL FOR PAPERS UPDATE****

The journal MELUS has recently placed a moratorium on submissions. However,
this moratorium DOES NOT apply to the special graphic narrative issue of
MELUS already in progress. In order to account for any misunderstanding and
confusion concerning this matter, the deadline for essay submissions for
this special issue has been pushed back to July 15, 2006. For more details,
go to the special issue website,
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/droyal/melus.htm, or see below:

****CALL FOR PAPERS UPDATE****

The journal MELUS has recently placed a moratorium on submissions. However,
this moratorium DOES NOT apply to the special graphic narrative issue of
MELUS already in progress. In order to account for any misunderstanding and
confusion concerning this matter, the deadline for essay submissions for
this special issue has been pushed back to July 15, 2006. For more details,
go to the special issue website,
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/droyal/melus.htm, or see below:

"UP-TO-DATE WITH A VENGEANCE": NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDIA
APRIL 19-21, 2007, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
22ND ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES CONFERENCE (INCS)

Inspired by Bram Stoker's innovative narrative forms and themes in Dracula-—and in particular by Jonathan Harker's statement in his journal that he is witnessing the "nineteenth-century up-to-date with a vengeance"--this conference will explore the thoroughly modern forms of communication, technological development, and scientific discovery that emerged in the period.

"UP-TO-DATE WITH A VENGEANCE": NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDIA
APRIL 19-21, 2007, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
22ND ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES CONFERENCE (INCS)

Inspired by Bram Stoker's innovative narrative forms and themes in Dracula-—and in particular by Jonathan Harker's statement in his journal that he is witnessing the "nineteenth-century up-to-date with a vengeance"--this conference will explore the thoroughly modern forms of communication, technological development, and scientific discovery that emerged in the period.

Radio and Technology
For the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
Annual Conference
Baltimore, October 27-29, 2006
 
We seek proposals, panels, roundtables, and workshops for sessions on the
cultural impact of radio, telephony, recording, amplification, and related
"smaller technologies" such as headphones, tuning dials, and sliders. Some
possible themes include, but are not limited to literary and artistic uses and
representations of radio and sound technology, histories of sound technologies,
relationships or conflicts between sound and visual culture, regulation, sound
 pedagogy, writing for sound and radio and/or sound technology and everyday
life.