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Participants are being sought for paper sessions on
Buying and Selling Science Fiction, Fantasy, and
Horror for the 28th Annual International Conference on
the Fantastic in the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 28 is on gender and sexuality in the
fantastic, and while papers relating to this theme are
encouraged, proposals on any topics are welcome. The
conference will be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
from March 14 - 17, 2007 at the Wyndham Fort
Lauderdale Airport Hotel. For more information and
updates about the conference, please visit
www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the
following topics:

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Call For Papers
Visualization and Narrative: A themed issue of Reconstruction

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
<reconstruction.eserver.org> is soliciting papers for a special themed
issue on visualisation and narrative--with special reference to
filmmaking, information design, and computing.

Visualisation consists of the visual representation and analysis of
processes over time, in dynamically changing information spaces.

As filmmaking has moved to digital formats in writing screenplays,
making images and sounds and editing and manipulating those images,
all filmmaking processes are actually or potentially subject to
visualisation.

Call For Papers
Visualization and Narrative: A themed issue of Reconstruction

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
<reconstruction.eserver.org> is soliciting papers for a special themed
issue on visualisation and narrative--with special reference to
filmmaking, information design, and computing.

Visualisation consists of the visual representation and analysis of
processes over time, in dynamically changing information spaces.

As filmmaking has moved to digital formats in writing screenplays,
making images and sounds and editing and manipulating those images,
all filmmaking processes are actually or potentially subject to
visualisation.

Edited Collection on The Pirates of the Caribbean

The Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst will host our annual graduate student conference
on Saturday, November 4, 2006. Graduate students are invited to submit
abstracts for a ten to fifteen minute paper on any range of topics or
approaches, including textual studies, new theoretical applications,
performance history, Renaissance philosophy, print culture, religious
studies, material studies, and Renaissance classicism. The purpose of
the conference is to provide graduate students in the New England area
and beyond with an opportunity to share their work and place it in a
greater context of interests and concerns. The conference is designed

"New York City: Global Village"

The Third Annual Interdisciplinary Conference at the New York Institute of Technology

Keynote Speaker: Professor Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago

March 9, 2007

The New York Institute of Technology announces its third interdisciplinary conference, "New York City: Global Village," which will address the role of New York City as a site of international exchange in culture, technology, tourism and other fields. Scholars from a range of disciplines are invited to present their research at this one-day conference at NYIT's Columbus Circle, Manhattan, campus.

"New York City: Global Village"

The Third Annual Interdisciplinary Conference at the New York Institute of Technology

Keynote Speaker: Professor Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago

March 9, 2007

The New York Institute of Technology announces its third interdisciplinary conference, "New York City: Global Village," which will address the role of New York City as a site of international exchange in culture, technology, tourism and other fields. Scholars from a range of disciplines are invited to present their research at this one-day conference at NYIT's Columbus Circle, Manhattan, campus.

*Call for Papers: "Black People Don't Read": An Exploration into Black
American Literacy, **Reading**, and Writing *

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*Proposals are sought for a new edited collection on reading, writing and
Black culture*

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Call for Papers: Contemporary Southern Literature
PCA
*April 4 - 7, 2007*

*Conference location: Boston Marriott Copley Place,* * Boston,
Massachusetts*

The Faculties of the Humanities of the University of Geneva and of the
University of Lausanne are pleased to invite you to the XIIth International
Convention of the International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS) to be held

29 July to 4 August 2007
in the two Lemanic cities (Lausanne 29.07-31.07, Geneva 01.08-04.08)

Call for Papers=20
The English department at Baton Rouge Community College invites
submissions from faculty and graduate students to its annual spring
writing conference, "Writing Matters: An Exploration of the Diverse
Nature of the Composition Classroom." Papers and panel discussions are
welcome in all areas relating to the composition classroom, including
technology, cultural diversity, teaching methodology, interdisciplinary
approaches, and writing across the curriculum. Deadline for submissions,
which should be a maximum of 200 words, is Monday, January 15, 2007.
Selected participants will be notified no later than Wednesday, January
31, 2007.=20

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Contributors are sought for a new book on 'A History of Sexual =
Perversion
1650-1850'. We specifically seek articles within the boundaries of =
history of sexuality which examine so-called sexual 'perversions'; this =
might include any sexual behaviour which was considered perverse or =
'abnormal' for its time and would include certain heterosexual, =
homosexual, lesbian, transgender, transvestite etc. practices; and why =
was such behaviour was seen as 'abnormal', 'perverse' or threatening; =
subjects for discussion might be considered include bestiality, =
flagellation, sex with children, fetishes, sado-masochism etc.=20

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