Call for papers: Luis Bunuel and "The Documentary Tradition"
(Abstracts/ Proposals due by AUGUST 15)

2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
November 8-12, 2006
Dolce Conference Center
Dallas, Texas

Panels are now forming for presentations on the topic of Luis Bunuel and "The
Documentary Tradition." Presentations may be so narrow as to focus solely on
Land Without Bread (1933), or they may be so broad as to discuss documentary
style across Bunuel's oeuvre. All proposals that in some way consider the
relationship between Bunuel and documentary will be considered. Possible
topics include, but are not limited to:

-LWB as documentary and/or fiction

NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE &
  AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
  2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For more information on the PCA/ACA, please
  go to http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.
   
  DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2006
   
  We are considering proposals for sessions organized around
  a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are
  scheduled in 1½ hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers
  per standard session.
   
  Should you or any of your colleagues be interested in submitting

CALL FOR PAPERS

Words and Notes in the Nineteenth Century (London, 2-3 July 2007)

Focusing on a century that fostered a growth industry in musical writing
of many kinds (musical novels, programme notes, musical poetry, music
appreciation texts, journalism, scientific treatises, biography, etc.),
this conference seeks to address three main questions. How is music
conceptualized in various textual situations/locations between c.1789 and
1914? How can we best approach the relationships between music and texts?
In what ways might comparative study of different languages, genres or
cultural contexts help us explore the workings of word-music
relationships?

CALL FOR PAPERS, 19TH SOUTHERN WRITERS SYMPOSIUM, February 23-24, 2007, METHODIST COLLEGE, FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, FEATURED SPEAKER: TRUDIER HARRIS. The theme of the next Southern Writers Symposium will be NEGLECTED SOUTHERN WRITERS. We invite papers and panels describing the works of little-known southern writers and exploring their relationship to the southern literary canon.

Papers on any aspect of Jack London's life and works are invited for
the 2007 Popular Culture Association Conference. The conference will
be held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts
from 4-7 April. Please submit an abstract of 150-200 words by 1
November 2006 to:

Louise E. Wright
Area Chair, Jack London's Life and Works
3334 Midvale Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19129
lewright_at_dca.net

For further information, please visit the PCA/ACA website at
http://www.popularculture.org

Archives: From Memory to Event

UCL English Postgraduate Conference
March 9th 2007
Institute of English Studies
Senate House
London

THE MERRY WIDOW: RETHINKING WIDOWHOOD IN HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
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Papers and full sessions for a strand on medieval widowhood are =
currently
being sought for a conference hosted by the Centre for Research into =
Gender
in Culture and Society (GENCAS) at the University of Wales, Swansea =
July
7th-9th, 2007.

Keynote Speakers:=20
Veena Talwar Oldenburg, Professor of History, Baruch College, CUNY
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Professor of German Literature, Exeter College,
Oxford
Dr Anneke Mulder-Bakker, Fellow in Medieval History, University of =
Leiden,
Netherlands
Susie Boyt, Novelist

2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Chicago, IL
March 8-11, 2007

I am currently seeking papers for the following panel:

Queer(ing) Melodrama

Recent theories of genre encourage thinking of melodrama not as a singular
generic category, but as a sustained modality in all popular American films
(among other national industries). As such, melodrama would possess a
democratizing potential for personifying social forces within a visual realm, thus
contesting the ideologies and binaries that produce cultural "others."

Call for Papers
38th Convention Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

CFP: Frances E. W. Harper in Context (09/15/06; NEMLA, 03/01/07-
03/04/07)

2007 NEMLA (Northeast MLA) convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 1-4, 2007

Archives: From Memory to Event

UCL English Postgraduate Conference
March 9th 2007
Institute of English Studies
Senate House
London

2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Chicago, IL
March 8-11, 2007

I am currently seeking papers for the following panel:

Queer(ing) Melodrama

Recent theories of genre encourage thinking of melodrama not as a singular
generic category, but as a sustained modality in all popular American films
(among other national industries). As such, melodrama would possess a
democratizing potential for personifying social forces within a visual realm, thus
contesting the ideologies and binaries that produce cultural "others."

Please find the CFP for The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference below, and acknowledge receipt of this submission. If further information is needed, please let me know.
Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Sarah Brennan
__________________________________________________________________
THE AFRICAN PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE ON THE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Dedicated to Nicolás Guillén and Gwendolyn Brooks
November 2006

Paper/Proposal DEADLINE: AUGUST 25, 2006

Please find the CFP for The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference below, and acknowledge receipt of this submission. If further information is needed, please let me know.
Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Sarah Brennan
__________________________________________________________________
THE AFRICAN PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE ON THE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Dedicated to Nicolás Guillén and Gwendolyn Brooks
November 2006

Paper/Proposal DEADLINE: AUGUST 25, 2006