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CFP: Social Memory/Cultural Amnesia (3/15/06; PAMLA, 11/10/06-11/11/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
svonkco_at_netzero.net

Call For Papers: Social Memory/ Cultural Amnesia
(3/15/06; PAMLA 11/10-11, 2006)

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference 2006
November 10-11, 2006
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006

Paper proposals are requested for a panel of the PAMLA conference.

CFP: Globalization as Culture? (grad) (3/20/06; 4/28/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
spgrconf_at_ucla.edu

Globalization as Culture?

The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Literature and
Linguistics is proud to announce its 3rd Annual Graduate Student
Conference: "Globalization as
Culture?" to be held all day Friday, April 28, 2006 in Royce Hall 306,
UCLA. The distinguished keynote speaker will be Prof. Francine R.
Masiello from University of California Berkeley.

CFP: Folk Performance (UK) (3/31/06; 6/2/06-6/3/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
ArtandDemo_at_aol.com

“Here we come/ Dyma ni’n diwad”-
Traditional and contemporary folk performances in Britain’

A two-day symposium hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Wales Aberystwyth in collaboration with Aberystwyth Arts Centre

2 + 3 June, 2006

with: Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane (Folk Archive); Doc Rowe and other guests.

http://users.aber.ac.uk/hhp/

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CFP: Globalization as Culture? (grad) (3/20/06; 4/28/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
spgrconf_at_ucla.edu

Globalization as Culture?

The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Literature and
Linguistics is proud to announce its 3rd Annual Graduate Student
Conference: "Globalization as
Culture?" to be held all day Friday, April 28, 2006 in Royce Hall 306,
UCLA. The distinguished keynote speaker will be Prof. Francine R.
Masiello from University of California Berkeley.

CFP: Speaking of Women: Womanhood in Literary Culture (4/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
BoatswainB_at_aol.com

Submissions are invited for a collection of essays on women's literary
culture in 19th and 20th century literature. This book will pay specific attention
to the various ways in which women writers "speak" by confronting, connecting,
embracing, challenging, and defining identities of womanhood. Special
considerations include, but are not limited to: domesticity, mothering, sexuality,
representations of historical women, women of color, displaced women,
mythological and/or ideological representations of womanhood, communities of women
writers, the literary marketplace.

CFP: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film (7/30/05; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Pat Wheeler

Imaginary Places: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film
(McFarland, 2006)

Proposals and contributions are being sought for a chapter on dystopian
film in a commissioned edited collection of essays on dystopian literature
and film.

Abstracts are required for a chapter on film provisionally called
'Nightmare Visions and Unaccountable Corporations: The Dystopian Sprawl of
Cyberpunk Dystopias'.

If you would like to be considered for this collection send a 250 word
abstract to the editor, p.a.wheeler_at_herts.ac.uk by March 31st 2005.
Completed chapters will be required by October 2006.

Dr Pat Wheeler
Senior Lecturer in Literature
Programme Tutor for Humanities

CFP: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film (7/30/05; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Pat Wheeler

Imaginary Places: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film
(McFarland, 2006)

Proposals and contributions are being sought for a chapter on dystopian
film in a commissioned edited collection of essays on dystopian literature
and film.

Abstracts are required for a chapter on film provisionally called
'Nightmare Visions and Unaccountable Corporations: The Dystopian Sprawl of
Cyberpunk Dystopias'.

If you would like to be considered for this collection send a 250 word
abstract to the editor, p.a.wheeler_at_herts.ac.uk by March 31st 2005.
Completed chapters will be required by October 2006.

Dr Pat Wheeler
Senior Lecturer in Literature
Programme Tutor for Humanities

CFP: The Brock Review (5/15/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
sscott_at_brocku.ca

The Brock Review is a blind peer-reviewed, scholarly, interdisciplinary
humanities journal that publishes annual themed issues. We at the Review are
currently accepting articles 4000-7000 words in length on the theme of
authenticity, widely conceived, in Western culture.

Possible topics may, but need not, include the following:

CFP: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film (7/30/05; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Pat Wheeler

Imaginary Places: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film
(McFarland, 2006)

Proposals and contributions are being sought for a chapter on dystopian
film in a commissioned edited collection of essays on dystopian literature
and film.

Abstracts are required for a chapter on film provisionally called
'Nightmare Visions and Unaccountable Corporations: The Dystopian Sprawl of
Cyberpunk Dystopias'.

If you would like to be considered for this collection send a 250 word
abstract to the editor, p.a.wheeler_at_herts.ac.uk by March 31st 2005.
Completed chapters will be required by October 2006.

Dr Pat Wheeler
Senior Lecturer in Literature
Programme Tutor for Humanities

CFP: Speaking of Women: Womanhood in Literary Culture (4/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
BoatswainB_at_aol.com

Submissions are invited for a collection of essays on women's literary
culture in 19th and 20th century literature. This book will pay specific attention
to the various ways in which women writers "speak" by confronting, connecting,
embracing, challenging, and defining identities of womanhood. Special
considerations include, but are not limited to: domesticity, mothering, sexuality,
representations of historical women, women of color, displaced women,
mythological and/or ideological representations of womanhood, communities of women
writers, the literary marketplace.

CFP: Speaking of Women: Womanhood in Literary Culture (4/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
BoatswainB_at_aol.com

Submissions are invited for a collection of essays on women's literary
culture in 19th and 20th century literature. This book will pay specific attention
to the various ways in which women writers "speak" by confronting, connecting,
embracing, challenging, and defining identities of womanhood. Special
considerations include, but are not limited to: domesticity, mothering, sexuality,
representations of historical women, women of color, displaced women,
mythological and/or ideological representations of womanhood, communities of women
writers, the literary marketplace.

CFP: Globalization as Culture? (grad) (3/20/06; 4/28/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
spgrconf_at_ucla.edu

Globalization as Culture?

The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Literature and
Linguistics is proud to announce its 3rd Annual Graduate Student
Conference: "Globalization as
Culture?" to be held all day Friday, April 28, 2006 in Royce Hall 306,
UCLA. The distinguished keynote speaker will be Prof. Francine R.
Masiello from University of California Berkeley.

CFP: Globalization as Culture? (grad) (3/20/06; 4/28/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
spgrconf_at_ucla.edu

Globalization as Culture?

The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Literature and
Linguistics is proud to announce its 3rd Annual Graduate Student
Conference: "Globalization as
Culture?" to be held all day Friday, April 28, 2006 in Royce Hall 306,
UCLA. The distinguished keynote speaker will be Prof. Francine R.
Masiello from University of California Berkeley.

CFP: The Brock Review (5/15/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
sscott_at_brocku.ca

The Brock Review is a blind peer-reviewed, scholarly, interdisciplinary
humanities journal that publishes annual themed issues. We at the Review are
currently accepting articles 4000-7000 words in length on the theme of
authenticity, widely conceived, in Western culture.

Possible topics may, but need not, include the following:

CFP: Speaking of Women: Womanhood in Literary Culture (4/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
BoatswainB_at_aol.com

Submissions are invited for a collection of essays on women's literary
culture in 19th and 20th century literature. This book will pay specific attention
to the various ways in which women writers "speak" by confronting, connecting,
embracing, challenging, and defining identities of womanhood. Special
considerations include, but are not limited to: domesticity, mothering, sexuality,
representations of historical women, women of color, displaced women,
mythological and/or ideological representations of womanhood, communities of women
writers, the literary marketplace.

CFP: Folk Performance (UK) (3/31/06; 6/2/06-6/3/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
ArtandDemo_at_aol.com

“Here we come/ Dyma ni’n diwad”-
Traditional and contemporary folk performances in Britain’

A two-day symposium hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Wales Aberystwyth in collaboration with Aberystwyth Arts Centre

2 + 3 June, 2006

with: Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane (Folk Archive); Doc Rowe and other guests.

http://users.aber.ac.uk/hhp/

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CFP: Time: Limits and Constraints (6/30/06; 7/28/07-8/3/07)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
Harris, Dr. Paul

Time: Limits and Constraints
Interdisciplinary, International Conference
Monterey, California, USA 7/28 - 8/3/07
 
The International Society for the Study of Time (ISST) invites proposals for papers and panels for its 13th triennial conference on the theme of Time: Limits and Constraints, to be held at the Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, California, from July 28 - August 3, 2007. Since 1966, the ISST has held uniquely collegial, international and interdisciplinary conferences in historic locations. Selected conference papers are published in a series of volumes under the title _The Study of Time_.
 

CFP: Folk Performance (UK) (3/31/06; 6/2/06-6/3/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
ArtandDemo_at_aol.com

“Here we come/ Dyma ni’n diwad”-
Traditional and contemporary folk performances in Britain’

A two-day symposium hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Wales Aberystwyth in collaboration with Aberystwyth Arts Centre

2 + 3 June, 2006

with: Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane (Folk Archive); Doc Rowe and other guests.

http://users.aber.ac.uk/hhp/

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CFP: Speaking of Women: Womanhood in Literary Culture (4/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
BoatswainB_at_aol.com

Submissions are invited for a collection of essays on women's literary
culture in 19th and 20th century literature. This book will pay specific attention
to the various ways in which women writers "speak" by confronting, connecting,
embracing, challenging, and defining identities of womanhood. Special
considerations include, but are not limited to: domesticity, mothering, sexuality,
representations of historical women, women of color, displaced women,
mythological and/or ideological representations of womanhood, communities of women
writers, the literary marketplace.

CFP: Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity (Australia) (4/30/06; 8/17/06-8/19/06)

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2006 - 5:20pm
Tara Forrest

Centre for Social Theory and Design

Conference

Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity

August 17-19 2006

Call for Papers

Walter Benjamin=92s work remains central to discussions of modernity =20
within the Humanities, Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. This =20
conference will bring together scholars working on all aspects of =20
Benjamin=92s work as well as those who deploy the insights of that work =20=

in developing projects of their own.

Abstracts, which will be subject to a refereeing process, should be =20
sent to walterbenjamin_at_uts.edu.au by April 30 2006.

Confirmed Key Note Speakers:

Carol Jacobs (Yale University)

CFP: Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity (Australia) (4/30/06; 8/17/06-8/19/06)

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2006 - 5:20pm
Tara Forrest

Centre for Social Theory and Design

Conference

Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity

August 17-19 2006

Call for Papers

Walter Benjamin=92s work remains central to discussions of modernity =20
within the Humanities, Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. This =20
conference will bring together scholars working on all aspects of =20
Benjamin=92s work as well as those who deploy the insights of that work =20=

in developing projects of their own.

Abstracts, which will be subject to a refereeing process, should be =20
sent to walterbenjamin_at_uts.edu.au by April 30 2006.

Confirmed Key Note Speakers:

Carol Jacobs (Yale University)

CFP: Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity (Australia) (4/30/06; 8/17/06-8/19/06)

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2006 - 5:20pm
Tara Forrest

Centre for Social Theory and Design

Conference

Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity

August 17-19 2006

Call for Papers

Walter Benjamin=92s work remains central to discussions of modernity =20
within the Humanities, Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. This =20
conference will bring together scholars working on all aspects of =20
Benjamin=92s work as well as those who deploy the insights of that work =20=

in developing projects of their own.

Abstracts, which will be subject to a refereeing process, should be =20
sent to walterbenjamin_at_uts.edu.au by April 30 2006.

Confirmed Key Note Speakers:

Carol Jacobs (Yale University)

CFP: Epistemologies of Imperialism and Domesticity in the Americas (grad) (3/15/06; 4/7/06-4/8/06)

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2006 - 5:19pm
NESRINE M CHAHINE

CFP: Americanist Conference 7-8 April 2006, The Pennsylvania State University

Call for Papers: PSU Americanists Graduate Student Conference 7–9 April 2006

"What's Wrong with Belonging?: Epistemologies of Imperialism and
Domesticity in the Americas"

                        Keynote Speakers:

Coco Fusco (Columbia University) and Cyril Dabydeen (University of Ottawa)

CFP: Flaherty and the Documentary Tradition (7/30/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2006 - 5:19pm
Jared Green

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

Traditionally considered to be documentary cinema=92s defining text,=A0
Robert J. Flaherty=92s Nanook of the North (1922) has both an iconic =
and=A0
problematic status in contemporary studies of non-fiction film.=A0=A0=20
Flaherty himself has been a figure similarly revered and reviled in=20
equal measure for his genre-defying mixture of observational=20
documentation and romantic reconstruction. As a flashpoint for debates=20=

about documentary film ethics and ethnographic representation, as well=20=

CFP: Epistemologies of Imperialism and Domesticity in the Americas (grad) (3/15/06; 4/7/06-4/8/06)

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2006 - 5:19pm
NESRINE M CHAHINE

CFP: Americanist Conference 7-8 April 2006, The Pennsylvania State University

Call for Papers: PSU Americanists Graduate Student Conference 7–9 April 2006

"What's Wrong with Belonging?: Epistemologies of Imperialism and
Domesticity in the Americas"

                        Keynote Speakers:

Coco Fusco (Columbia University) and Cyril Dabydeen (University of Ottawa)

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