CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE JULY 30, 2006

"Art in the Age of Technological Seduction"
Fall 2006 issue of NMC media-N: journal of the new media caucus
Guest Editors: Legier Biederman and Joshua Callaghan
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/call.htm

Please note: this is a renewed call for papers, as the deadline for
submissions has been extended to July 31.

CFP - REFRACTORY: A JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA
SPECIAL ISSUE: TRAVERSING NARRATIVE MEDIA

The online journal REFRACTORY is seeking contributions regarding
narrative in cinema, television and new media. We invite a variety of
approaches and topics, but are particularly interested in essays that
explore new areas and objects of narrative study, or offer new
perspectives on existing debates.

Sedimentations: An Art Culture Nature Conference
18th - 20th of May 2007
Conference Site: Kettle Pond Visitor Center in Charlestown, Rhode Island
Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Conference Directors: Ana Flores and Petra Kuppers

This Art Culture Nature conference addresses connections between time,
ecology, human history and the histories of the land.

ACN is an interdisciplinary organization which brings together artists,
environmentalists and educators in the humanities, arts, sciences and
social sciences who are interested in the study of the connections
between the arts and environmental studies.

Sedimentations: An Art Culture Nature Conference
18th - 20th of May 2007
Conference Site: Kettle Pond Visitor Center in Charlestown, Rhode Island
Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Conference Directors: Ana Flores and Petra Kuppers

This Art Culture Nature conference addresses connections between time,
ecology, human history and the histories of the land.

ACN is an interdisciplinary organization which brings together artists,
environmentalists and educators in the humanities, arts, sciences and
social sciences who are interested in the study of the connections
between the arts and environmental studies.

First Call for Papers

Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading
A conference at the University of Birmingham, UK

1 & 2 September 2007

Keynote Speakers:
Janice Radway (Duke University) & Elizabeth Long (Rice University)

Book groups, Lit Blogs, on-line bookstores, book festivals, reader
magazines, 'One Book, One Community,' Reader's Guides, 'Richard & Judy's
Book Club,' Book TV, 'Canada Reads,' the 'Nancy Pearl Action Figure,'
'Tuesday Night Book Club,'... reading is hot!

First Call for Papers

Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading
A conference at the University of Birmingham, UK

1 & 2 September 2007

Keynote Speakers:
Janice Radway (Duke University) & Elizabeth Long (Rice University)

Book groups, Lit Blogs, on-line bookstores, book festivals, reader
magazines, 'One Book, One Community,' Reader's Guides, 'Richard & Judy's
Book Club,' Book TV, 'Canada Reads,' the 'Nancy Pearl Action Figure,'
'Tuesday Night Book Club,'... reading is hot!

The John Donne Society welcomes papers for a sponsored session at the ICMS, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 2007. Please send hard copy of (300 word) abstract and cover sheet as per ICMS form ( http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/42cfp/forms.html <https://webmail.kctcs.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/42cfp/forms.html> ) by/before September 15, 2006 to Scott Vander Ploeg at the address below. Submissions should also be sent by email attachment (MS Word preferred) to Scott's email address.

    ACA/PCA National Conference
  Boston 2007

American Art and Architecture
Call for Papers

The Art and Architecture Area of the American Culture Association
is seeking papers on any aspect of "Visual Culture of the Americas"
  for the annual conference in Boston, April 4 to 7, 2007.

Papers on topics related to questions of
identity, patriotism and nationalism
within the broader categories of
Latino, Native, African American and Canadian art and architecture
will be considered.

We are especially interested in papers which offer
  a cross-disciplinary perspective. Open sessions for papers
  on American arts of a less specific theme are also planned.

    ACA/PCA National Conference
  Boston 2007

American Art and Architecture
Call for Papers

The Art and Architecture Area of the American Culture Association
is seeking papers on any aspect of "Visual Culture of the Americas"
  for the annual conference in Boston, April 4 to 7, 2007.

Papers on topics related to questions of
identity, patriotism and nationalism
within the broader categories of
Latino, Native, African American and Canadian art and architecture
will be considered.

We are especially interested in papers which offer
  a cross-disciplinary perspective. Open sessions for papers
  on American arts of a less specific theme are also planned.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ON DIFFICULTY
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Lowe
Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, San Diego

18th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Organization Conference
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006

CFP: Cultural Cummings, Poetic Resistance, and Modernism (9/15/06; Louisville,
2/22/07-2/24/07)

Call for Papers

2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: Emile de Antonio

"Arguably the most provocative film essayist/documentarian of the last sixty years in American life." Bill Nichols

We invite contributions to the ASECS 2007 seminar

"Genres of Experience and Genres of History: Eighteenth-Century Texts
as Archive, Historiography and Fiction"

ODD WOMEN OUT: SPINSTERS IN THE 20th C. BRITISH NOVEL

Panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, =
Baltimore, 1-4 March 2007

"The position of the unmarried woman--unless, of course, she is =
somebody's mistress, is of no interest whatsoever to the readers of =
modern fiction."
                                    --Barbara Pym, A Very Private Eye, =
1972