How do visual media and performance grab our attention? What role does
the body play in our engagement with media texts? How does our perception
of media texts, forms and institutions influence our readings and
interpretations?
 Second call for papers for Journeys Across Media 2007 postgraduate
conference. Please feel free to forward to any early career researchers
or postgraduate students researching film, theatre, television or new
media.
SEE - HEAR - FEEL: Perception and Engagement in Visual Media & Performance
Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading, Friday 20
April 2007.
Guest Speaker - Yoram Allom, Editorial Director Wallflower Press - 'How to

How do visual media and performance grab our attention? What role does
the body play in our engagement with media texts? How does our perception
of media texts, forms and institutions influence our readings and
interpretations?
 Second call for papers for Journeys Across Media 2007 postgraduate
conference. Please feel free to forward to any early career researchers
or postgraduate students researching film, theatre, television or new
media.
SEE - HEAR - FEEL: Perception and Engagement in Visual Media & Performance
Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading, Friday 20
April 2007.
Guest Speaker - Yoram Allom, Editorial Director Wallflower Press - 'How to

How do visual media and performance grab our attention? What role does
the body play in our engagement with media texts? How does our perception
of media texts, forms and institutions influence our readings and
interpretations?
 Second call for papers for Journeys Across Media 2007 postgraduate
conference. Please feel free to forward to any early career researchers
or postgraduate students researching film, theatre, television or new
media.
SEE - HEAR - FEEL: Perception and Engagement in Visual Media & Performance
Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading, Friday 20
April 2007.
Guest Speaker - Yoram Allom, Editorial Director Wallflower Press - 'How to

Deadline extended:

The Ninth Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group

Moments of Futurity: From Present Conditions to Material(izing)
Horizons
Keynote Speaker: Fredric Jameson
March 29-31 at the University of Florida

Bringing Dolls to School: Theorizing Performing Objects

April 16, 2007
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
New York City.

Bringing Dolls to School: Theorizing Performing Objects

April 16, 2007
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
New York City.

Abstracts are solicited for An International Word & Image Conference:

Intimacy: Representations in literature and the visual arts

to be held at the University of Paris 7, June 2007.

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
    
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

In celebration of the New Year, the Sedgwick Society offers an extended proposal
deadline

***REVISED PROPOSAL DUE DATE: January 26, 2007***

The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society invites submissions
for our 10th anniversary gathering

The Fifth Catharine Maria Sedgwick Symposium
May 31-June 3, 2007
The Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, MA

Journal of Interactive Drama
Immediate Need for Fast-Track Submissions

The current issue of the Journal of Interactive Drama has space for up to two immediate submissions. See http://www.rpg.net/larp/journal/index.html for more information about the journal. The journal considers new submissions at any time but we have an immediate need for pieces for the current issue. Submissions within the next week will be fast-tracked for immediate editorial vetting.

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Journal of Interactive Drama

CFP: Masks and Passing in African American Literature (grad)
(03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Kenneth Florey <floreyk1_at_southernct.edu>

CFP: Masks and Passing in African American Literature (grad)
(03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Kenneth Florey <floreyk1_at_southernct.edu>

CFP: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Idea of Freedom
(grad) (03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Edith A. Kostka <kostkae1_at_southernct.edu>

Call for papers: the Sixth Biennial Conference in London of Symbiosis: A
Journal of Anglo-American Conference American Literary and Cultural
Studies
    
A Three-Day International Conference on All Areas of Anglo-American
Literary and Cultural Studies.

Venue: Brunel University, West London
Dates: 12th – 15th July 2007

Headline Theme: 'Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of
Influence?' All Other Areas Welcome.

Keynote: Ian Bell (Keele University). Other significant keynote speakers
to be announced shortly.