How do visual media and performance grab our attention? What role does
the body play in our engagement with media texts? How does our perception
of media texts, forms and institutions influence our readings and
interpretations?
 Second call for papers for Journeys Across Media 2007 postgraduate
conference. Please feel free to forward to any early career researchers
or postgraduate students researching film, theatre, television or new
media.
SEE - HEAR - FEEL: Perception and Engagement in Visual Media & Performance
Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading, Friday 20
April 2007.
Guest Speaker - Yoram Allom, Editorial Director Wallflower Press - 'How to

How do visual media and performance grab our attention? What role does
the body play in our engagement with media texts? How does our perception
of media texts, forms and institutions influence our readings and
interpretations?
 Second call for papers for Journeys Across Media 2007 postgraduate
conference. Please feel free to forward to any early career researchers
or postgraduate students researching film, theatre, television or new
media.
SEE - HEAR - FEEL: Perception and Engagement in Visual Media & Performance
Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading, Friday 20
April 2007.
Guest Speaker - Yoram Allom, Editorial Director Wallflower Press - 'How to

How do visual media and performance grab our attention? What role does
the body play in our engagement with media texts? How does our perception
of media texts, forms and institutions influence our readings and
interpretations?
 Second call for papers for Journeys Across Media 2007 postgraduate
conference. Please feel free to forward to any early career researchers
or postgraduate students researching film, theatre, television or new
media.
SEE - HEAR - FEEL: Perception and Engagement in Visual Media & Performance
Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading, Friday 20
April 2007.
Guest Speaker - Yoram Allom, Editorial Director Wallflower Press - 'How to

Deadline extended:

The Ninth Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group

Moments of Futurity: From Present Conditions to Material(izing)
Horizons
Keynote Speaker: Fredric Jameson
March 29-31 at the University of Florida

Bringing Dolls to School: Theorizing Performing Objects

April 16, 2007
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
New York City.

Abstracts are solicited for An International Word & Image Conference:

Intimacy: Representations in literature and the visual arts

to be held at the University of Paris 7, June 2007.

Bringing Dolls to School: Theorizing Performing Objects

April 16, 2007
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
New York City.

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
    
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

In celebration of the New Year, the Sedgwick Society offers an extended proposal
deadline

***REVISED PROPOSAL DUE DATE: January 26, 2007***

The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society invites submissions
for our 10th anniversary gathering

The Fifth Catharine Maria Sedgwick Symposium
May 31-June 3, 2007
The Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, MA

Journal of Interactive Drama
Immediate Need for Fast-Track Submissions

The current issue of the Journal of Interactive Drama has space for up to two immediate submissions. See http://www.rpg.net/larp/journal/index.html for more information about the journal. The journal considers new submissions at any time but we have an immediate need for pieces for the current issue. Submissions within the next week will be fast-tracked for immediate editorial vetting.

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Journal of Interactive Drama

CFP: Masks and Passing in African American Literature (grad)
(03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Kenneth Florey <floreyk1_at_southernct.edu>

CFP: Masks and Passing in African American Literature (grad)
(03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Kenneth Florey <floreyk1_at_southernct.edu>

CFP: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Idea of Freedom
(grad) (03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Edith A. Kostka <kostkae1_at_southernct.edu>

CFP: Feminism Reframed: Reflections on Art and Difference

Additional 6,000-word contributions are sought for an already formed
edited collection on contemporary feminist approaches to art history
and visual culture. The collection will be published by Cambridge
Scholars Press within 2007.

Art historians, practicing artists, and scholars in visual/cultural
theory are invited to submit abstracts of approx. 500 words and a short
biography to the editor Alexandra Kokoli ( a.kokoli_at_sussex.ac.uk ), by
16th February 2007.

Completed essays will be due in April 2007.