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CFP: Turn to Religion in Literary Studies (3/15/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:56pm
Susan Felch

Seminar papers are invited that explore ways in which Christian scholars can participate in the "turn to religion" by strengthening a critical sensibility that weighs the delicate registers of belief and unbelief; by developing more vigorous theoretical paradigms that take religion seriously; and by demonstrating that Christian commitments can lead to greater interpretive clarity.

500 word abstracts to Susan M. Felch (felch_at_calvin.edu) by March 15, 2007.

CFP: Turn to Religion in Literary Studies (3/15/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:56pm
Susan Felch

Seminar papers are invited that explore ways in which Christian scholars can participate in the "turn to religion" by strengthening a critical sensibility that weighs the delicate registers of belief and unbelief; by developing more vigorous theoretical paradigms that take religion seriously; and by demonstrating that Christian commitments can lead to greater interpretive clarity.

500 word abstracts to Susan M. Felch (felch_at_calvin.edu) by March 15, 2007.

CFP: Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism (no deadline noted; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:56pm
Kate Frost

Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism solicits scholarly articles on
all aspects of Hermetic studies for upcoming issues.
Interdisciplinary work is especially welcome from fields such as
history, music, art history, philosophy, history of science,
religious studies, and literature. In addition, we welcome book/
journal announcements and books for review, announcements of
forthcoming conferences, and relevant notices of interest (such as
informative Web sites). Inquiries should be sent to
editor_at_caudapavonis.net.

CFP: Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism (no deadline noted; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:56pm
Kate Frost

Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism solicits scholarly articles on
all aspects of Hermetic studies for upcoming issues.
Interdisciplinary work is especially welcome from fields such as
history, music, art history, philosophy, history of science,
religious studies, and literature. In addition, we welcome book/
journal announcements and books for review, announcements of
forthcoming conferences, and relevant notices of interest (such as
informative Web sites). Inquiries should be sent to
editor_at_caudapavonis.net.

CFP: Anthropology Review Database (no deadline; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:56pm
Aaron Ogletree

Call for Book Reviewers
   
  If there is a book that you are interested in reviewing contact the Anthropology Review Database (ARD). The ARD is an academic journal dedicated to promoting anthropological literature, and is innovative in adopting a totally electronic mode of publication. The purpose of the ARD is to improve the level of access of anthropologists to recent scholarship by making them more aware of what is being published and helping them to evaluate its relevance to their own interests. We welcome writers from diverse backgrounds that can and are willing to provide fresh insight into recently published books. Please, note that the ARD welcome reviews on anthropology, politics, ethics, sociology, archaeology, and economics.

CFP: Anthropology Review Database (no deadline; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:56pm
Aaron Ogletree

Call for Book Reviewers
   
  If there is a book that you are interested in reviewing contact the Anthropology Review Database (ARD). The ARD is an academic journal dedicated to promoting anthropological literature, and is innovative in adopting a totally electronic mode of publication. The purpose of the ARD is to improve the level of access of anthropologists to recent scholarship by making them more aware of what is being published and helping them to evaluate its relevance to their own interests. We welcome writers from diverse backgrounds that can and are willing to provide fresh insight into recently published books. Please, note that the ARD welcome reviews on anthropology, politics, ethics, sociology, archaeology, and economics.

CFP: Deja Vu (10/2/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:56pm
Michael Jason Dieter

CFP: ‘Deja Vu’ - antiTHESIS Journal, Volume 17 (2007).

antiTHESIS, one of Australia’s longest running postgraduate
interdisciplinary journals, now invites creative, scholarly and visual
contributions for Volume 17, ‘Deja Vu.’

“What lies before me is my past” - Oscar Wilde.

CFP: Deja Vu (10/2/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:56pm
Michael Jason Dieter

CFP: ‘Deja Vu’ - antiTHESIS Journal, Volume 17 (2007).

antiTHESIS, one of Australia’s longest running postgraduate
interdisciplinary journals, now invites creative, scholarly and visual
contributions for Volume 17, ‘Deja Vu.’

“What lies before me is my past” - Oscar Wilde.

CFP: Doing Gender History: Methods and Models (Ireland) (8/25/06; 11/17/06-11/18/06)

updated: 
Friday, August 11, 2006 - 9:16pm
Aoife O'Driscoll

Call for Papers

Women's History Association Ireland
Annual Meeting
Friday Evening, November 17
and
Saturday, 18 November, 2006
Trinity College, Dublin

Hosted by
The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies

Theme: Doing Gender History: Methods and Models

This conference will explore the shape and content of gender history – moving
beyond men's history (traditional ) history and women's history to develop a
new holistic paradigm that includes and values the actions/experiences and
ideas of both men and women. We ask: How do we do gender history? What would
it look like? Do we have specific examples of doing gender history?

CFP: Doing Gender History: Methods and Models (Ireland) (8/25/06; 11/17/06-11/18/06)

updated: 
Friday, August 11, 2006 - 9:16pm
Aoife O'Driscoll

Call for Papers

Women's History Association Ireland
Annual Meeting
Friday Evening, November 17
and
Saturday, 18 November, 2006
Trinity College, Dublin

Hosted by
The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies

Theme: Doing Gender History: Methods and Models

This conference will explore the shape and content of gender history – moving
beyond men's history (traditional ) history and women's history to develop a
new holistic paradigm that includes and values the actions/experiences and
ideas of both men and women. We ask: How do we do gender history? What would
it look like? Do we have specific examples of doing gender history?

CFP: Doing Gender History: Methods and Models (Ireland) (8/25/06; 11/17/06-11/18/06)

updated: 
Friday, August 11, 2006 - 9:16pm
Aoife O'Driscoll

Call for Papers

Women's History Association Ireland
Annual Meeting
Friday Evening, November 17
and
Saturday, 18 November, 2006
Trinity College, Dublin

Hosted by
The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies

Theme: Doing Gender History: Methods and Models

This conference will explore the shape and content of gender history – moving
beyond men's history (traditional ) history and women's history to develop a
new holistic paradigm that includes and values the actions/experiences and
ideas of both men and women. We ask: How do we do gender history? What would
it look like? Do we have specific examples of doing gender history?

CFP: Doing Gender History: Methods and Models (Ireland) (8/25/06; 11/17/06-11/18/06)

updated: 
Friday, August 11, 2006 - 9:16pm
Aoife O'Driscoll

Call for Papers

Women's History Association Ireland
Annual Meeting
Friday Evening, November 17
and
Saturday, 18 November, 2006
Trinity College, Dublin

Hosted by
The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies

Theme: Doing Gender History: Methods and Models

This conference will explore the shape and content of gender history – moving
beyond men's history (traditional ) history and women's history to develop a
new holistic paradigm that includes and values the actions/experiences and
ideas of both men and women. We ask: How do we do gender history? What would
it look like? Do we have specific examples of doing gender history?

CFP: Romantic and Victorian Entertainments (grad) (12/1/06; 3/23/07-3/24/07)

updated: 
Friday, August 11, 2006 - 9:15pm
Melissa Edmundson

Romantic and Victorian Entertainments

Graduate Student Literature Conference
University of South Carolina, Columbia

March 23-24, 2007

>From the Grand Tour to gambling, and grand balls to opium dens, nineteenth-century authors represented entertainment in various ways. The virtues and vices of nineteenth-century amusements and leisure activities were themes in both British and American literature of the period, and these areas of life reflected and defined the historical, social, and literary climate of the century.

CFP: Romantic and Victorian Entertainments (grad) (12/1/06; 3/23/07-3/24/07)

updated: 
Friday, August 11, 2006 - 9:15pm
Melissa Edmundson

Romantic and Victorian Entertainments

Graduate Student Literature Conference
University of South Carolina, Columbia

March 23-24, 2007

>From the Grand Tour to gambling, and grand balls to opium dens, nineteenth-century authors represented entertainment in various ways. The virtues and vices of nineteenth-century amusements and leisure activities were themes in both British and American literature of the period, and these areas of life reflected and defined the historical, social, and literary climate of the century.

CFP: Romantic and Victorian Entertainments (grad) (12/1/06; 3/23/07-3/24/07)

updated: 
Friday, August 11, 2006 - 9:15pm
Melissa Edmundson

Romantic and Victorian Entertainments

Graduate Student Literature Conference
University of South Carolina, Columbia

March 23-24, 2007

>From the Grand Tour to gambling, and grand balls to opium dens, nineteenth-century authors represented entertainment in various ways. The virtues and vices of nineteenth-century amusements and leisure activities were themes in both British and American literature of the period, and these areas of life reflected and defined the historical, social, and literary climate of the century.

UPDATE: Exhibition (8/15/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Friday, August 11, 2006 - 9:15pm
Ross Melnick

Deadline Extended to 15 August 2006

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CALL FOR PAPERS (Update)

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2006 Film and History League Conference

"The Documentary Tradition" Dallas 8-12 November 2006
<http://www.filmandhistory.org <http://www.filmandhistory.org/> >

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AREA: Exhibition

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While much has been written about the documentary, we still know
comparatively little about where many were shown, the context(s) of =
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reception, and the venues and exhibitors that booked them.=20

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UPDATE: The Violence of the Photographic Image and its Legacies (9/1/06; NEMLA, 3/1/07-3/4/07)

updated: 
Friday, August 11, 2006 - 9:15pm
Masha C Mimran (mmimran_at_Princeton.EDU)

NEMLA 2007 =

Call for Papers
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Panel=3A The Violence of the Photographic Image and its Legacies=3A
30 Years After Susan Sontag=92s On Photography

38th Convention=2C Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4=2C 2007
Baltimore=2C Maryland =

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Contact=3A Marcelline Block=2C mblock=40princeton=2Eedu and Masha Mimran=
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Deadline for Paper Proposals=3A September 1st=2C 2006

CFP: Classical Representation in Popular Culture (11/15/06; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/14/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Friday, August 11, 2006 - 9:15pm
Kirsten Day

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
The Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/
American Culture Association will once again be
sponsoring a session on CLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN
POPULAR CULTURE (formerly entitled "Classical Myths in
Recent Literature and Film") at the 28th Annual
meeting to be held February 14-17, 2007 at the Hyatt
Regency Conference Hotel in downtown Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
  
Papers on any aspect of Greek and Roman antiquity in
contemporary culture are eligible for consideration.
Papers focused on the following themes are
particularly welcome:

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