Chess in the Schools and Communities: International Conference (CISCCON)

This is a first call for research, policy and practice papers that address
the aims of this conference in the context of the current major themes. We
welcome suggestions for other themes, particularly the exploration of the
cognitive, philosophical and social impact of chess play.

CURRENT MAJOR THEMES:

• THE GAME OF CHESS: HISTORY, EVOLUTION AND ART
• CRITICAL THINKING
• EMOTIONAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• POVERTY AND SOCIAL INCLUSION
• GENDER
• COACHING
• MENTORING
• CULTURAL CAPITAL
• SOCIAL CAPITAL

MP Feminist International Journal is seeking submissions for its Fall 2006
issue on the theme "Religion, Politics and the Great Pumpkin". In the comic
strip "Peanuts", the character Linus once said "There are three things I
have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great
Pumpkin." In this issue, we'd like to talk about the great taboo subjects.
Religion, spirituality, politics, and other taboo subjects, such as women
and money, are welcomed. The most important thing we'll be looking for in
these submissions is that they challenge taboos and explore the subject
intelligently and uniquely. We are primarily seeking academic articles using

The Journal of Humanities East-West (Chinese title: =
=A4H=A4=E5=BE=C7=B3=F8) is a scholarly journal devoted to =
interdisciplinary and comparative investigations of the literature, art, =
philosophy, intellectual history, and critical theory of any and all =
national/cultural/linguistic traditions. We welcome submissions from =
all theoretical perspectives, including post-theoretical, eclectic, or =
otherwise idiosyncratic scholarly approaches, including those which =
reject the notions of "Humanities" or "East-West" as valid analytical =
categories. Articles devoted to obscure historical and textual =
expositions are encouraged, though such submissions should address =

The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (11/1/06; PCA/ACA,
4/4/07-4/7/07)
 
NATIONAL POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE
ASSOCIATIONS 2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
 
 April 4-7, 2007

 Boston Marriott Copley Place
110 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02116
  
 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2006
 
 We welcome papers and presentations on any aspect of the Gothic in
film, literature, or other forms of cultural expression. All critical
approaches are welcome.
 
You can propose an individual paper or a session of three or four
presenters.

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Performing Literatures

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29 June - 1 July 2007

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What are the current relationships and faultlines between text and
performance, in the study and practice of theatre and the theatrical?

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The University of Leeds's new Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in
Theatre and Theatricalities (CIRTT) invites paper and panel proposals
for its first international conference.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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Performing Literatures

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29 June - 1 July 2007

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What are the current relationships and faultlines between text and
performance, in the study and practice of theatre and the theatrical?

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The University of Leeds's new Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in
Theatre and Theatricalities (CIRTT) invites paper and panel proposals
for its first international conference.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: ATHE 2007

July 26-29, 2007

New Orleans, Louisiana

The Black Theatre Association (BTA), a Focus Group of the Association
for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), invites complete panel or
individual paper proposals for ATHE's 2007 conference. In light of the
conference locale and theme, "REGENERATIONS," BTA is particularly
interested in panels/papers that consider the roots, growth, and
continuous resurgence of Black theatre and performance. Possible
panel/paper topics include, but are not limited to the following:

Performing Black America From Congo Square to Canada

Black Performances on the Rise

Black Theatre: A New Generation Speaks

Call for Papers

The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two sessions at the
American Literature Association's 18th Annual Conference, May 24-27, 2007,
in Boston.

Papers on all aspects of Dreiser's writing and life are welcome.

Please submit proposals or papers via e-mail before January 12, 2007, to the
vice president of the Dreiser Society:

Roark Mulligan

International Dreiser Society

105 N. Sulgrave Ct.

Williamsburg, VA 23185

757-229-3697

mulligan_at_cnu.edu

http://www.uncw.edu/dreiser/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Taking a hard look: Gender and visual culture

CONFERENCE HOSTED BY THE
INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES,
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA

21-22 June 2007

Keynote speaker: Prof Amelia Jones

Gender has functioned as an interdisciplinary approach and critical tool to
analyse and investigate several subject fields. As such, gender has
contributed to establishing a much-needed theoretical and practical platform
spanning across many fields of enquiry from where gender practices can
effectively be critiqued and ideally changed.

Call for papers: "Queer Eurovision"
Editors: Mikko Tuhkanen and Annamari Vänskä
Special Fall 2007 Issue of SQS Journal
Abstract deadline December 1st, 2006

 
SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN, a journal for the study of Shakespeare and other
renaissance drama in performance, published by the Johns Hopkins
University Press, is currently looking for theatre reviewers to
contribute to the Summer, Fall, and Winter 2007 issues. Reviews are
assigned by the theatre review editor and generally run 1000-2000 words.

 
Please contact the theatre review editor, Jeremy Lopez, at
jeremy.lopez_at_utoronto.ca, for submission and editorial guidelines.

 
SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN, a journal for the study of Shakespeare and other
renaissance drama in performance, published by the Johns Hopkins
University Press, is currently looking for theatre reviewers to
contribute to the Summer, Fall, and Winter 2007 issues. Reviews are
assigned by the theatre review editor and generally run 1000-2000 words.

 
Please contact the theatre review editor, Jeremy Lopez, at
jeremy.lopez_at_utoronto.ca, for submission and editorial guidelines.

THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Nietzsche, Power & Politics

March 23 - 25, 2007

UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS

CALL FOR PAPERS

Nietzsche's legacy for politics and political thought is profoundly
ambivalent and controversial. A self-declared 'antipolitical' German, he
condemned politics and all things political, yet he also called for a
'grosse Politik'. While a fierce critic of modern democracy, pleased to be
called an 'aristocratic radical', he also acknowledged democracy as the
signature of modernity and valued it as a quarantine against tyranny.

San Antonio College

13th Annual Multicultural Conference

Call for Papers

Fear and Loathing: The Springboards of Modern Culture

April 24-26, 2007

Fear and demonization have been some of the most powerful forces enlisted to
create borders between cultures. The call to build a wall between the US &
Mexico, the terms Islamofascism, and surrender monkies, the glorification of
violence in popular media-all are current expressions of fear and
loathing. In America's past we have seen fear and loathing expressed in
regard to Fascism, the Red Scare, the KKK, Japanese internment camps, the
Reservation system, deportations of foreigners, eradications of languages
other than English.