MEN AND MADNESS: Representing Male Psychopathology, Mental Disorder and
Deviancy in Modern and Contemporary Culture

English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

28 - 30 June 2007

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Susan Bordo, University of Kentucky
Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich
Richard Collier, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mark Micale, University of Illnois
Sally Shuttleworth, University of Oxford

Call for Paper Abstracts, proposal deadline: September 15

Session:
Sex with God: monotheism and the eroticized framing of the human-
divine relation
Sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
May 10-13, 2007

Sex with God: monotheism and the eroticized framing of the human-
divine relation (9/15/06; Kalamazoo, SMFS, 5/10/07-5/13/07)
This panel will explore the ways in which the human-divine
relationship is imagined through the gendered, transgendered, and
sexualized human body, and the cultural currents and contradictions
informing this relation.

CFP: Proposed Panel for the 2007 Society for Cinema & Media Studies
(SCMS) Conference: Chicago, IL, March 8-11, 2007

==Videogame Mechanics==

In keeping with the Society for Cinema & Media Studies' growing
incorporation of game studies among its proceedings, we seek papers
for a panel tentatively entitled "Videogame Mechanics."

4th International 'Language, Communication, Culture' Conference
Lisbon, Lusofona University, November 28-30, 2006

http://lcc.ulusofona.pt/

An organisation of the staff, students and associates of the 'Culture
and Society' Postgraduate Programme (University of Lisbon), of the staff
of the Department of Communication, Arts and Information Technology
(Lusofona University), and of Best Travel Agency.

Keynote Speakers:

Vikki Bell (Goldsmith's College, University of London)
Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University)

The conference will be structured around three topics:

1 - Media, media-making and the politics of news production

4th International 'Language, Communication, Culture' Conference
Lisbon, Lusofona University, November 28-30, 2006

http://lcc.ulusofona.pt/

An organisation of the staff, students and associates of the 'Culture
and Society' Postgraduate Programme (University of Lisbon), of the staff
of the Department of Communication, Arts and Information Technology
(Lusofona University), and of Best Travel Agency.

Keynote Speakers:

Vikki Bell (Goldsmith's College, University of London)
Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University)

The conference will be structured around three topics:

1 - Media, media-making and the politics of news production

Dear Colleagues:

I am writing to invite contributions to the Hispanic American Literature Volume.

This encyclopedia will be a stand-alone book and will be published by Facts on File in 2007.
The volume is already 4/5 complete. I am looking for contributors for the remaining entries below.

Facts on File is a New York publisher of reference books for high school and college students (www.factsonfile.com).

Entries are due September 1, 2006 and are peer reviewed (I have a peer review email list for contributors to use).

 Deadline for proposals extended!

College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Fall 2006 Conference: 10-11 November 2006
"Our Watery World: Humans and the Sea"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

Dear Colleagues:

I am writing to invite contributions to the Hispanic American Literature Volume.

This encyclopedia will be a stand-alone book and will be published by Facts on File in 2007.
The volume is already 4/5 complete. I am looking for contributors for the remaining entries below.

Facts on File is a New York publisher of reference books for high school and college students (www.factsonfile.com).

Entries are due September 1, 2006 and are peer reviewed (I have a peer review email list for contributors to use).

Call for Papers

"The Social Spectacle": The 28th annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
at Plymouth State University, April 27th and 28th, 2007.

Sessions not necessarily limited to the central topic. Proposals for
papers/sessions due Jan. 15, 2007.

For full information, call for papers, registration, see
http://www.plymouth.edu/medieval

and/or contact
Dr. Naomi Kline
Art Department MSC 21,
Plymouth State University,
Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264

or e-mail: nkline_at_mail.plymouth.edu.

________

Dr. Karolyn Kinane
Department of English
MSC 40
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH 03264

CALL FOR PAPERS:
CONTEMPORARY MEDIATED MASCULINITIES

Call for Papers - UPDATE
2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition" Dallas 8-12 November, 2006
www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: Auteur Documentary Dabblers: Documentary Moments in the Films of
Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, and Others

UPDATED CFP: Change of Conference DATE and Submission Deadline Extension

Proposals due 15 November

The 28th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA
February 14–17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Send proposals to:
Cher Holt-Fortin
holtfort_at_oswego.edu

Call for Proposalsâ€"Edited Collection
Advance(d) Composition:
Undergraduate Majors and the Future of the Discipline

Greg Giberson, Ph.D., Salisbury University
Tom Moriarty, Ph.D., Salisbury University