CALL FOR PAPERS

"Literary Odysseys"
Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference: February 23 and 24, 2007
Website: Colorado.edu/comparativeliterature/literaryodysseys

Plenary Speakers:
Daniel Schwarz (Cornell University)
Helmut Müller-Sievers (Northwestern University)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The graduate students of the University of Colorado at Boulder's Department of
Comparative Literature and Humanities invite paper proposals on the topic of
"Literary Odysseys."

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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Call for Papers

"Left/Out: 'Texts' and their 'Ur-texts'"

International Conference

18 - 19 mars 2007

Université Nancy 2, France

Call for Papers

"Left/Out: 'Texts' and their 'Ur-texts'"

International Conference

18 - 19 mars 2007

Université Nancy 2, France

For a book collection of essays, The Body in Medical Culture, please
send the abstract of completed essays of about 25 pages on any aspect of
the medicalized body in the 18th or 19th centuries. Europe, Britain or
North America considered. 250 word abstract due by June 15. Send to
etklaver_at_siu.edu.

Call for Journal Submissions

The Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, 2006 edition.

The Australian Journal of Jewish Studies is a peer-reviewed publication
devoted to the study of Jewish culture, history, politics, literature,
religion, philopshy and thought in all aspects and periods. It is published
annually.

The editors are inviting additional submissions for its 2006 edition.

*The AJJS normally will accept contributions of 15,000 words (including
quotations).

*Please include a short bio and an abstract of 150 words.

*Submissions should be sent as email attachments in a PC-readable format
(preferably MS Word, HTML or RTF).

All submission and enquires to:

For a book collection of essays, The Body in Medical Culture, please
send the abstract of completed essays of about 25 pages on any aspect of
the medicalized body in the 18th or 19th centuries. Europe, Britain or
North America considered. 250 word abstract due by June 15. Send to
etklaver_at_siu.edu.

Call for Journal Submissions

The Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, 2006 edition.

The Australian Journal of Jewish Studies is a peer-reviewed publication
devoted to the study of Jewish culture, history, politics, literature,
religion, philopshy and thought in all aspects and periods. It is published
annually.

The editors are inviting additional submissions for its 2006 edition.

*The AJJS normally will accept contributions of 15,000 words (including
quotations).

*Please include a short bio and an abstract of 150 words.

*Submissions should be sent as email attachments in a PC-readable format
(preferably MS Word, HTML or RTF).

All submission and enquires to:

Please forward widely...

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Call for Papers: Special theme issue of 'Reconstruction'

'Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture' is an open access,
electronic,
peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing cultural studies work from
emerging
and established scholars worldwide.

We now invite submissions for our special-theme issue tentatively titled,
'Threatening Bodies: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race.'

Please forward widely...

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Call for Papers: Special theme issue of 'Reconstruction'

'Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture' is an open access,
electronic,
peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing cultural studies work from
emerging
and established scholars worldwide.

We now invite submissions for our special-theme issue tentatively titled,
'Threatening Bodies: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race.'

The book, provisionally titled (In)fusion Approach,
Interdisciplinarity and Salman Rushdie, is nearly
complete. It focuses on what I propose as (In)fusion
theory. The first section has several essays that
critique (In)fusion theory in relation to aesthetics,
postmodernism, translation theories, environmental
ethics, communication theory among other theoretical
paradigms.
The second section of the book focuses on the use of
this theory and the reading of the fictional works of
Salman Rushdie. It is for this section that I would
like to consider abstracts on Rushdie's novels Fury
and Shalimar the Clown.
The abstracts need to focus on the following things:

Call For Papers

Words Into Pictures
E. E. Cummings' Art Across Borders

Jiri Flajsar and Zeno Vernyik eds.

Call for Papers and Sessions
THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION
November 8-12, 2006 (Dallas, TX)
www.filmandhistory.org
 
CFP: The Documentary Tradition on Television
 
The cable, satellite, and digital delivery revolutions have fundamentally
altered the landscape of television and of television documentary. The new
multichannel environment has created a boom in TV documentary not seen since
the heady days of the Cold War and the so-called "Golden Age" of television.
Boutique informational networks like Discovery and The Learning Channel have
enabled a wealth of new original documentary production while other such

For a collection on the fear of sexual difference/otherness in the
Gothic, under contract. The essay should consider moments in which
Gothic horror is generated by a frightening male figure, rather than by
the supernatural. Essays that consider non-canonical texts are welcome.

Please submit 500 word abstract by June 20 to:
ruth.anolik_at_villanova.edu