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UPDATE: Taiwan Literature and Culture (3/30/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:32pm
B Lei

Special Session: Mimicry, Parody, Hybridity: Contemporary Taiwan Literature
and Culture

2006 MLA Convention

Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2006

Deadline Extended: March 30, 2006

UPDATE: Taiwan Literature and Culture (3/30/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:32pm
B Lei

Special Session: Mimicry, Parody, Hybridity: Contemporary Taiwan Literature
and Culture

2006 MLA Convention

Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2006

Deadline Extended: March 30, 2006

UPDATE: Taiwan Literature and Culture (3/30/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:32pm
B Lei

Special Session: Mimicry, Parody, Hybridity: Contemporary Taiwan Literature
and Culture

2006 MLA Convention

Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2006

Deadline Extended: March 30, 2006

UPDATE: European Film Theory (4/20/06; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:32pm
Trifonova, Temenuga

UPDATE: European Film Theory (4/20/06; collection)

Notification of accepted abstracts: May 15, 2006

Deadline for completed papers: June 30, 2006

Submissions are sought for an edited collection on European film theory. Possible topics
include, but are not limited to, the following:

- philosophical and/or historical origins of European film theory (e.g. Kantian
idealism, Husserl's transcendental phenomenology, Brecht's theory of epic theatre, the
Frankfurt school's critique of the culture industries, the aesthetic theories of
Kracauer, Arnheim, Balazs, Adorno, Marcuse)

- realism and theatricality in European film theory

- classical vs contemporary European film theory

UPDATE: European Film Theory (4/20/06; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:32pm
Trifonova, Temenuga

UPDATE: European Film Theory (4/20/06; collection)

Notification of accepted abstracts: May 15, 2006

Deadline for completed papers: June 30, 2006

Submissions are sought for an edited collection on European film theory. Possible topics
include, but are not limited to, the following:

- philosophical and/or historical origins of European film theory (e.g. Kantian
idealism, Husserl's transcendental phenomenology, Brecht's theory of epic theatre, the
Frankfurt school's critique of the culture industries, the aesthetic theories of
Kracauer, Arnheim, Balazs, Adorno, Marcuse)

- realism and theatricality in European film theory

- classical vs contemporary European film theory

CFP: Arab American Entries for Encyclopedia (5/1/06; encyclopedia)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Dr. Seiwoong Oh

Call for Contributions

Arab American Entries in Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature

Scholars of Arab American literature are invited to contribute articles to
be included in the Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, a 5-volume
set in which Arab American entries will become part of the Asian American
volume. The Encyclopedia will be published in late 2006 by Facts On File,
a New York publisher of reference books for high school and college
students (www.factsonfile.com).

CFP: Arab American Entries for Encyclopedia (5/1/06; encyclopedia)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Dr. Seiwoong Oh

Call for Contributions

Arab American Entries in Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature

Scholars of Arab American literature are invited to contribute articles to
be included in the Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, a 5-volume
set in which Arab American entries will become part of the Asian American
volume. The Encyclopedia will be published in late 2006 by Facts On File,
a New York publisher of reference books for high school and college
students (www.factsonfile.com).

CFP: Arab American Entries for Encyclopedia (5/1/06; encyclopedia)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Dr. Seiwoong Oh

Call for Contributions

Arab American Entries in Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature

Scholars of Arab American literature are invited to contribute articles to
be included in the Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, a 5-volume
set in which Arab American entries will become part of the Asian American
volume. The Encyclopedia will be published in late 2006 by Facts On File,
a New York publisher of reference books for high school and college
students (www.factsonfile.com).

CFP: Arab American Entries for Encyclopedia (5/1/06; encyclopedia)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Dr. Seiwoong Oh

Call for Contributions

Arab American Entries in Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature

Scholars of Arab American literature are invited to contribute articles to
be included in the Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, a 5-volume
set in which Arab American entries will become part of the Asian American
volume. The Encyclopedia will be published in late 2006 by Facts On File,
a New York publisher of reference books for high school and college
students (www.factsonfile.com).

CFP: Mary Shelley and Her Contemporaries (7/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Lamar Adam Mekler

Submissions are requested for a collection of essays focusing on the work of
Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. This collection is developing out of a
very successful panel from this year's NEMLA conference, and there is a
publisher interested in possibly producing the collection.

CFP: Mary Shelley and Her Contemporaries (7/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Lamar Adam Mekler

Submissions are requested for a collection of essays focusing on the work of
Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. This collection is developing out of a
very successful panel from this year's NEMLA conference, and there is a
publisher interested in possibly producing the collection.

CFP: Teaching Ethnic Am/Postcolonial Literature of Trauma (4/1/06; USACLALS, 10/27/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Robin E. Field

Papers are sought for a panel examining the pedagogical
strategies we use to teach the literature of trauma in the
undergraduate classroom. I wish to examine Ethnic American
and Postcolonial literature in particular. Papers should
reference at least one piece of literature commonly taught,
and provide specific examples of teaching methodologies,
practices, and theories. Papers should run 15-18 minutes.

This panel will be held at the USACLALS conference at Santa
Clara University. Information about the conference follows.

Please send 250 word abstracts and a brief CV by April 1,
2006 to:

Robin Field
ref4u_at_virginia.edu

Conference info:

CFP: Teaching Ethnic Am/Postcolonial Literature of Trauma (4/1/06; USACLALS, 10/27/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Robin E. Field

Papers are sought for a panel examining the pedagogical
strategies we use to teach the literature of trauma in the
undergraduate classroom. I wish to examine Ethnic American
and Postcolonial literature in particular. Papers should
reference at least one piece of literature commonly taught,
and provide specific examples of teaching methodologies,
practices, and theories. Papers should run 15-18 minutes.

This panel will be held at the USACLALS conference at Santa
Clara University. Information about the conference follows.

Please send 250 word abstracts and a brief CV by April 1,
2006 to:

Robin Field
ref4u_at_virginia.edu

Conference info:

CFP: Teaching Ethnic Am/Postcolonial Literature of Trauma (4/1/06; USACLALS, 10/27/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Robin E. Field

Papers are sought for a panel examining the pedagogical
strategies we use to teach the literature of trauma in the
undergraduate classroom. I wish to examine Ethnic American
and Postcolonial literature in particular. Papers should
reference at least one piece of literature commonly taught,
and provide specific examples of teaching methodologies,
practices, and theories. Papers should run 15-18 minutes.

This panel will be held at the USACLALS conference at Santa
Clara University. Information about the conference follows.

Please send 250 word abstracts and a brief CV by April 1,
2006 to:

Robin Field
ref4u_at_virginia.edu

Conference info:

CFP: Teaching Ethnic Am/Postcolonial Literature of Trauma (4/1/06; USACLALS, 10/27/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Robin E. Field

Papers are sought for a panel examining the pedagogical
strategies we use to teach the literature of trauma in the
undergraduate classroom. I wish to examine Ethnic American
and Postcolonial literature in particular. Papers should
reference at least one piece of literature commonly taught,
and provide specific examples of teaching methodologies,
practices, and theories. Papers should run 15-18 minutes.

This panel will be held at the USACLALS conference at Santa
Clara University. Information about the conference follows.

Please send 250 word abstracts and a brief CV by April 1,
2006 to:

Robin Field
ref4u_at_virginia.edu

Conference info:

UPDATE: Close Relations: the Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre (Australia) (4/10/06; 9/20/06-9/23/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Paul Monaghan

UPDATE - CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline extended to April 10, 2006

CLOSE RELATIONS: THE =91SPACES=92 OF GREEK AND ROMAN THEATRE

An international, multi-disciplinary conference linking theatre and=20
performance studies, archaeology, classical studies and reception=20
studies

www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/close

September 20-23, 2006 at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Convenors: Prof. Frank Sear, Paul Monaghan, Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Proposals for presentations of 20 or 40 minutes duration, including=20
title and abstract of up to 200 words must be received by April 10,=20
2006

UPDATE: Close Relations: the Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre (Australia) (4/10/06; 9/20/06-9/23/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Paul Monaghan

UPDATE - CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline extended to April 10, 2006

CLOSE RELATIONS: THE =91SPACES=92 OF GREEK AND ROMAN THEATRE

An international, multi-disciplinary conference linking theatre and=20
performance studies, archaeology, classical studies and reception=20
studies

www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/close

September 20-23, 2006 at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Convenors: Prof. Frank Sear, Paul Monaghan, Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Proposals for presentations of 20 or 40 minutes duration, including=20
title and abstract of up to 200 words must be received by April 10,=20
2006

UPDATE: Close Relations: the Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre (Australia) (4/10/06; 9/20/06-9/23/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:31pm
Paul Monaghan

UPDATE - CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline extended to April 10, 2006

CLOSE RELATIONS: THE =91SPACES=92 OF GREEK AND ROMAN THEATRE

An international, multi-disciplinary conference linking theatre and=20
performance studies, archaeology, classical studies and reception=20
studies

www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/close

September 20-23, 2006 at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Convenors: Prof. Frank Sear, Paul Monaghan, Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Proposals for presentations of 20 or 40 minutes duration, including=20
title and abstract of up to 200 words must be received by April 10,=20
2006

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