Society For Cinema and Media Studies

Vancouver

March 2-5, 2006

Reconciliation and Unification: Cinematic Reponses to E.U. Expansion

"Shakespeare and the Haunted Spaces of Modernity"

A session to be held at "Space, Haunting, Discourse," an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the
Department of English at Karlstad University, Sweden, June 15-18, 2006.

Session Description:

Shakespeare's plays have been a near constant reference for definitions of modernity. They are also crucial to
conceptions of haunting. How can we articulate these two strands?

"Shakespeare and the Haunted Spaces of Modernity"

A session to be held at "Space, Haunting, Discourse," an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the
Department of English at Karlstad University, Sweden, June 15-18, 2006.

Session Description:

Shakespeare's plays have been a near constant reference for definitions of modernity. They are also crucial to
conceptions of haunting. How can we articulate these two strands?

2006 NEMLA Women's Caucus Best Essay Award

Call for Papers:
Women's Caucus Best Essay in Women's Language and Literature Award
Given for a 20-25 page essay, based on a paper presented at 2005 NEMLA
Convention in Boston, using women's centered approaches (concentrating
on women characters or women authors, using feminist analysis). The
essay may not be submitted to another journal for the duration of the
award's deliberation.

Deadline 11/15/05

Submissions to:

Oneida Sanchez

osanchez_at_bmcc.cuny.edu

or mail to:
132-40 Sanford Ave., Apt.4-D, Flushing, NY 11355
 

The author's name, address, and academic affiliation should appear only
on a separate cover sheet.

This session, entitled "Parallel Universes in Chrétien de Troyes" seeks to foster a lively discussion on different approaches to the works of Chrétien de Troyes: e.g., literary analysis, codicological studies, text/ image relations. Topics which explore comparisons and contrasts within Chrétien's romances (sacred/ profane; masculine/ feminine; lyric/narrative; etc.) will also be welcome. Depending on number of submissions, a second session may be organized. Send proposals by the end of August, 2005 to: SJ_Murray_at_baylor.edu. (Sessions organized by Sarah-Jane Murray, Baylor U., and Paul Creamer, Columbia U.)
 
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS:

Third International Conference on Cultural Diversity

in English-speaking Countries (3-ICCD)

10th - 12th May 2006

A Coru=F1a, Spain.

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The Department of English Philology at the University of A Coru=F1a, =
Spain, is organising the Third International Conference on Cultural =
Diversity in English-speaking Countries, to be held from 10th - 12th May =
2006 at the Faculty of Philology, Campus da Zapateira, A Coru=F1a.=20

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Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Annual Convention

Philadelphia, PA

March 2-5, 2006

Call for Papers:

Panel: "The Memory of the Body in Asian American Diasporic Literature"

Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Annual Convention

Philadelphia, PA

March 2-5, 2006

Call for Papers:

Panel: "The Memory of the Body in Asian American Diasporic Literature"

Abstracts are invited for a sponsored session, "SMFS at 20: Archives," at
the 41st Annual Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo (May 4-7, 2006). This
panel, one of several celebrating 20 years of the Society for Medieval
Feminist Scholarship, is interested in answering the questions: How do we
find the women in the Middle Ages? How do we find the primary sources
with which to research them? Papers dealing with feminist research in
wills, legal and court records, letters, etc. are invited. Please send
abstracts by September 15 via email to jbrown_at_hartford.edu. Snail mail
can be sent to: Dr. Jennifer Brown, English Department, University of
Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117.

Society for Cinema and Media Studies
March 2-5, 2006
Vancouver, Canada
http://www.cmstudies.org/conference_index.html

The SCMS Caucus on Class ( http://terri1.home.mindspring.com ) is sponsoring
the following call for papers. Please send 150-word proposal, plus brief
bibliography and bio statement, by August 20, 2005.

Papers are invited that examine the various ways in which domestic violence was conceived, discussed, represented, punished, hidden, or enabled during the long eighteenth century.
 
250-word abstracts by 15 September 2005 (email preferred) to:
 
Judith Broome Mesa-Pelly
Department of Languages & Literature
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville TN 37044
931-221-7892
mesapellyj_at_apsu.edu
 
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The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe
(http://www.heroicage.org) is inviting paper submissions for the 41st
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Our first session is:

The Spread of Christianity in Early Medieval Northern Europe

International Medieval Congress
[Kalamazoo] 2006 Special Session:

"Anglo-Saxon Representation of the Human Form"

Cinema and Cultural Geography

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