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CFP: Visual Archives and Embodied Practice (4/15/06; MSA, 10/19/06-10/22/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Max Brzezinski

CFP: Visual Archives and Embodied Practice

This panel looks to the archive as a motivating device for intervention, rather
than as an inert repository of empirical data. In other words, we're interested
in discussing how archival research becomes embodied in practices, and would
like to reconsider the agents and institutions mediating these embodiments.

CFP: Urban Disaster in Charles Brockden Brown (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Goudie, Sean X

This CFP is for a special session to be proposed for the 2006 MLA conference:

Urban Disaster in Charles Brockden Brown. Intersection with issues like
crises in environment, emergency response, or democracy; the nexus between
race, violence and poverty; treatments of immigrants or refugees; 500-word
abstracts, vitae, by March 15; Sean X. Goudie (sean.x.goudie_at_vanderbilt.edu).
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Goudie, Sean X
Vanderbilt University
Email: sean.x.goudie_at_Vanderbilt.Edu

CFP: Urban Disaster in Charles Brockden Brown (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Goudie, Sean X

This CFP is for a special session to be proposed for the 2006 MLA conference:

Urban Disaster in Charles Brockden Brown. Intersection with issues like
crises in environment, emergency response, or democracy; the nexus between
race, violence and poverty; treatments of immigrants or refugees; 500-word
abstracts, vitae, by March 15; Sean X. Goudie (sean.x.goudie_at_vanderbilt.edu).
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Goudie, Sean X
Vanderbilt University
Email: sean.x.goudie_at_Vanderbilt.Edu

UPDATE: Responding to Molly in Irish Literature (3/20/06; SCMLA, 10/26/06-10/28/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Danizete Martínez

Hello,
I would like to update my abstract deadline for my CFP:
Responding to Molly in Irish Literature for the 2006 SCMLA
in Fort Worth in October. The new abstract deadline is
March 20th.
Thank you,
Danizete

Danizete Martínez
University of New Mexico
Department of English
MSC03-2170
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
(505) 615-3984

UPDATE: Responding to Molly in Irish Literature (3/20/06; SCMLA, 10/26/06-10/28/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Danizete Martínez

Hello,
I would like to update my abstract deadline for my CFP:
Responding to Molly in Irish Literature for the 2006 SCMLA
in Fort Worth in October. The new abstract deadline is
March 20th.
Thank you,
Danizete

Danizete Martínez
University of New Mexico
Department of English
MSC03-2170
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
(505) 615-3984

UPDATE: Responding to Molly in Irish Literature (3/20/06; SCMLA, 10/26/06-10/28/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Danizete Martínez

Hello,
I would like to update my abstract deadline for my CFP:
Responding to Molly in Irish Literature for the 2006 SCMLA
in Fort Worth in October. The new abstract deadline is
March 20th.
Thank you,
Danizete

Danizete Martínez
University of New Mexico
Department of English
MSC03-2170
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
(505) 615-3984

UPDATE: Renaissance Drama in Action (4/30/06; 11/8/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Jeremy Lopez

Shakespeare Bulletin, a journal for the study of renaissance drama in
performance, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, is pleased
to announce workshop titles for the RENAISSANCE DRAMA IN ACTION
conference, to be held November 8-12, 2006 on the University of Toronto
campus.
 
RENAISSANCE DRAMA IN ACTION will give scholars interested in performance
an opportunity to grapple with the practical realities of moving from
the page to the stage. Conference participants will sign up for a
rehearsal-and-performance workshop. Each workshop will focus on a
single scene from a play, one which exemplifies particular problems,
challenges, and/or rewards involved in staging renaissance drama.

UPDATE: Renaissance Drama in Action (4/30/06; 11/8/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Jeremy Lopez

Shakespeare Bulletin, a journal for the study of renaissance drama in
performance, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, is pleased
to announce workshop titles for the RENAISSANCE DRAMA IN ACTION
conference, to be held November 8-12, 2006 on the University of Toronto
campus.
 
RENAISSANCE DRAMA IN ACTION will give scholars interested in performance
an opportunity to grapple with the practical realities of moving from
the page to the stage. Conference participants will sign up for a
rehearsal-and-performance workshop. Each workshop will focus on a
single scene from a play, one which exemplifies particular problems,
challenges, and/or rewards involved in staging renaissance drama.

CFP: Romanticism and the Environment (4/1/06; SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
englitgirl

Title: Romanticism and the Environment
   
  Chair: Chantelle MacPhee, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
   
  The Romantics have a unique relationship with nature and the environment. The Prelude and other major works reflect on nature, our relationship with it, and the elements. This session will explore the environment and discuss the Romantics' role in it. Was their view of nature radical for the 18th and 19th centuries? This session is open to all areas of Romanticism: British, German, American.........
   

CFP: Romanticism and the Environment (4/1/06; SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
englitgirl

Title: Romanticism and the Environment
   
  Chair: Chantelle MacPhee, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
   
  The Romantics have a unique relationship with nature and the environment. The Prelude and other major works reflect on nature, our relationship with it, and the elements. This session will explore the environment and discuss the Romantics' role in it. Was their view of nature radical for the 18th and 19th centuries? This session is open to all areas of Romanticism: British, German, American.........
   

CFP: Social Memory/Cultural Amnesia (3/15/06; PAMLA, 11/10/06-11/11/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
svonkco_at_netzero.net

Call For Papers: Social Memory/ Cultural Amnesia
(3/15/06; PAMLA 11/10-11, 2006)

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference 2006
November 10-11, 2006
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006

Paper proposals are requested for a panel of the PAMLA conference.

CFP: Social Memory/Cultural Amnesia (3/15/06; PAMLA, 11/10/06-11/11/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
svonkco_at_netzero.net

Call For Papers: Social Memory/ Cultural Amnesia
(3/15/06; PAMLA 11/10-11, 2006)

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference 2006
November 10-11, 2006
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006

Paper proposals are requested for a panel of the PAMLA conference.

CFP: Flaherty and the Documentary Tradition (7/30/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Jared Green

CALL FOR PAPERS
2006 Film and History League Conference: "The Documentary Tradition"
8-12 November, 2006
Dolce Conference Center
Dallas, TX

AREA: Robert J. Flaherty

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Robert J. Flaherty=92s Nanook of the North (1922) has both an iconic =
and=A0
problematic status in contemporary studies of non-fiction film.=A0=A0=20
Flaherty himself has been a figure similarly revered and reviled in=20
equal measure for his genre-defying mixture of observational=20
documentation and romantic reconstruction. As a flashpoint for debates=20=

about documentary film ethics and ethnographic representation, as well=20=

CFP: Social Memory/Cultural Amnesia (3/15/06; PAMLA, 11/10/06-11/11/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
svonkco_at_netzero.net

Call For Papers: Social Memory/ Cultural Amnesia
(3/15/06; PAMLA 11/10-11, 2006)

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference 2006
November 10-11, 2006
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006

Paper proposals are requested for a panel of the PAMLA conference.

CFP: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film (7/30/05; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Pat Wheeler

Imaginary Places: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film
(McFarland, 2006)

Proposals and contributions are being sought for a chapter on dystopian
film in a commissioned edited collection of essays on dystopian literature
and film.

Abstracts are required for a chapter on film provisionally called
'Nightmare Visions and Unaccountable Corporations: The Dystopian Sprawl of
Cyberpunk Dystopias'.

If you would like to be considered for this collection send a 250 word
abstract to the editor, p.a.wheeler_at_herts.ac.uk by March 31st 2005.
Completed chapters will be required by October 2006.

Dr Pat Wheeler
Senior Lecturer in Literature
Programme Tutor for Humanities

CFP: The Brock Review (5/15/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
sscott_at_brocku.ca

The Brock Review is a blind peer-reviewed, scholarly, interdisciplinary
humanities journal that publishes annual themed issues. We at the Review are
currently accepting articles 4000-7000 words in length on the theme of
authenticity, widely conceived, in Western culture.

Possible topics may, but need not, include the following:

CFP: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film (7/30/05; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Pat Wheeler

Imaginary Places: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film
(McFarland, 2006)

Proposals and contributions are being sought for a chapter on dystopian
film in a commissioned edited collection of essays on dystopian literature
and film.

Abstracts are required for a chapter on film provisionally called
'Nightmare Visions and Unaccountable Corporations: The Dystopian Sprawl of
Cyberpunk Dystopias'.

If you would like to be considered for this collection send a 250 word
abstract to the editor, p.a.wheeler_at_herts.ac.uk by March 31st 2005.
Completed chapters will be required by October 2006.

Dr Pat Wheeler
Senior Lecturer in Literature
Programme Tutor for Humanities

CFP: Speaking of Women: Womanhood in Literary Culture (4/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
BoatswainB_at_aol.com

Submissions are invited for a collection of essays on women's literary
culture in 19th and 20th century literature. This book will pay specific attention
to the various ways in which women writers "speak" by confronting, connecting,
embracing, challenging, and defining identities of womanhood. Special
considerations include, but are not limited to: domesticity, mothering, sexuality,
representations of historical women, women of color, displaced women,
mythological and/or ideological representations of womanhood, communities of women
writers, the literary marketplace.

CFP: Speaking of Women: Womanhood in Literary Culture (4/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
BoatswainB_at_aol.com

Submissions are invited for a collection of essays on women's literary
culture in 19th and 20th century literature. This book will pay specific attention
to the various ways in which women writers "speak" by confronting, connecting,
embracing, challenging, and defining identities of womanhood. Special
considerations include, but are not limited to: domesticity, mothering, sexuality,
representations of historical women, women of color, displaced women,
mythological and/or ideological representations of womanhood, communities of women
writers, the literary marketplace.

CFP: Globalization as Culture? (grad) (3/20/06; 4/28/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
spgrconf_at_ucla.edu

Globalization as Culture?

The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Literature and
Linguistics is proud to announce its 3rd Annual Graduate Student
Conference: "Globalization as
Culture?" to be held all day Friday, April 28, 2006 in Royce Hall 306,
UCLA. The distinguished keynote speaker will be Prof. Francine R.
Masiello from University of California Berkeley.

CFP: Globalization as Culture? (grad) (3/20/06; 4/28/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
spgrconf_at_ucla.edu

Globalization as Culture?

The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Literature and
Linguistics is proud to announce its 3rd Annual Graduate Student
Conference: "Globalization as
Culture?" to be held all day Friday, April 28, 2006 in Royce Hall 306,
UCLA. The distinguished keynote speaker will be Prof. Francine R.
Masiello from University of California Berkeley.

CFP: The Brock Review (5/15/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
sscott_at_brocku.ca

The Brock Review is a blind peer-reviewed, scholarly, interdisciplinary
humanities journal that publishes annual themed issues. We at the Review are
currently accepting articles 4000-7000 words in length on the theme of
authenticity, widely conceived, in Western culture.

Possible topics may, but need not, include the following:

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