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Crossings: A Counter-Disciplinary Journal
Issue #9
Deadline: October 30, 2006
Killing Time: Inscribing Chaos in the Narrative of History
Call for Papers:
College English Association of Ohio – Fall Conference
CEAO Fall Conference
When: Friday, October 27, 2006
Where: Bowling Green State University
Theme: (Re)Inventing English Studies
Keynote Speech provided by Dr. Dickie Selfe, Ohio State University
Call for Papers: Contemporary Southern Literature
PCA
*April 4 - 7, 2007*
*Conference location: Boston Marriott Copley Place,* * Boston,
Massachusetts*
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
38th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, 22-25 March, 2007
The Ecocritical Eighteenth Century
Crossings: A Counter-Disciplinary Journal
Issue #9
Deadline: October 30, 2006
Killing Time: Inscribing Chaos in the Narrative of History
Call for Papers:
College English Association of Ohio – Fall Conference
CEAO Fall Conference
When: Friday, October 27, 2006
Where: Bowling Green State University
Theme: (Re)Inventing English Studies
Keynote Speech provided by Dr. Dickie Selfe, Ohio State University
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
38th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, 22-25 March, 2007
The Ecocritical Eighteenth Century
<BODY>"Post-Millennial Queer Pop Culture and the Construction of Community"<BR>A Panel at the 2007 NEMLA Convention in Baltimore Maryland, March 1-4 2007<BR><BR>This panel seeks papers that explore recent queer pop culture (including tv, film, art, comics, porn, music, theater, the internet) and how this pop culture cultivates and/or constructs community. To what extent do these pop culture products make and/or perpetuate assumptions about queer community? To what extent do they reflect the evolution of a queer community? Papers may examine representations of queer life in mainstream popular culture as long as the papers focus on the depiction of queer community.
<BODY>"Post-Millennial Queer Pop Culture and the Construction of Community"<BR>A Panel at the 2007 NEMLA Convention in Baltimore Maryland, March 1-4 2007<BR><BR>This panel seeks papers that explore recent queer pop culture (including tv, film, art, comics, porn, music, theater, the internet) and how this pop culture cultivates and/or constructs community. To what extent do these pop culture products make and/or perpetuate assumptions about queer community? To what extent do they reflect the evolution of a queer community? Papers may examine representations of queer life in mainstream popular culture as long as the papers focus on the depiction of queer community.
Call for Papers:
College English Association of Ohio – Fall Conference
CEAO Fall Conference
When: Friday, October 27, 2006
Where: Bowling Green State University
Theme: (Re)Inventing English Studies
Keynote Speech provided by Dr. Dickie Selfe, Ohio State University
<BODY>"Post-Millennial Queer Pop Culture and the Construction of Community"<BR>A Panel at the 2007 NEMLA Convention in Baltimore Maryland, March 1-4 2007<BR><BR>This panel seeks papers that explore recent queer pop culture (including tv, film, art, comics, porn, music, theater, the internet) and how this pop culture cultivates and/or constructs community. To what extent do these pop culture products make and/or perpetuate assumptions about queer community? To what extent do they reflect the evolution of a queer community? Papers may examine representations of queer life in mainstream popular culture as long as the papers focus on the depiction of queer community.
Identity Theory (IdentityTheory.com), a literary/cultural web journal, is
developing a film section and is now seeking reviewers to cover theatrical
releases and new DVDs. IDT also plans to include reviews of older titles, as
long as some context (historical or genre-related) is provided and the
overdone classics are avoided. Reviews of older films newly appearing on
DVD, as well as literary-related films and rediscovered classics, are highly
desired. Send a pitch of your idea, your resume, and a writing sample to
Matthew Sorrento at film_at_identitytheory.com.
Call for Papers: Contemporary Southern Literature
PCA
*April 4 - 7, 2007*
*Conference location: Boston Marriott Copley Place,* * Boston,
Massachusetts*
Identity Theory (IdentityTheory.com), a literary/cultural web journal, is
developing a film section and is now seeking reviewers to cover theatrical
releases and new DVDs. IDT also plans to include reviews of older titles, as
long as some context (historical or genre-related) is provided and the
overdone classics are avoided. Reviews of older films newly appearing on
DVD, as well as literary-related films and rediscovered classics, are highly
desired. Send a pitch of your idea, your resume, and a writing sample to
Matthew Sorrento at film_at_identitytheory.com.
Call for Papers
Area: World War II: England
2006 Film & History Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
8-12 November, 2006
Dolce Conference Center - Dallas, TX
www.filmandhistory.org
FOUNDING PARENTS: JEWISH COMEDIANS
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at
least one panel on Jewish comedians who created the comic structure for the
mid-20th century to the present for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston,
Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
Among those Jewish entertainers who greatly influenced nightclub
entertaining, films, early television, and Broadway are Fannie Brice, Smith and Dale,
Jerry Lewis, Alan King, Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, Totie Fields,
Jack Klugman, Tony Randall, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, and Lenny Bruce.
FOUNDING PARENTS: JEWISH COMEDIANS
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at
least one panel on Jewish comedians who created the comic structure for the
mid-20th century to the present for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston,
Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
Among those Jewish entertainers who greatly influenced nightclub
entertaining, films, early television, and Broadway are Fannie Brice, Smith and Dale,
Jerry Lewis, Alan King, Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, Totie Fields,
Jack Klugman, Tony Randall, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, and Lenny Bruce.
FOUNDING PARENTS: JEWISH COMEDIANS
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at
least one panel on Jewish comedians who created the comic structure for the
mid-20th century to the present for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston,
Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
Among those Jewish entertainers who greatly influenced nightclub
entertaining, films, early television, and Broadway are Fannie Brice, Smith and Dale,
Jerry Lewis, Alan King, Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, Totie Fields,
Jack Klugman, Tony Randall, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, and Lenny Bruce.
FOUNDING PARENTS: JEWISH COMEDIANS
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at
least one panel on Jewish comedians who created the comic structure for the
mid-20th century to the present for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston,
Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
Among those Jewish entertainers who greatly influenced nightclub
entertaining, films, early television, and Broadway are Fannie Brice, Smith and Dale,
Jerry Lewis, Alan King, Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, Totie Fields,
Jack Klugman, Tony Randall, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, and Lenny Bruce.
JEWISH HOLLYWOOD
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least one panel on specifically evaluating the major influence of Jewish stu=
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the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
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nessmen who=20
became de facto film moguls. Among them were Samuel Goldwyn, David O. Selzn=
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JEWISH HOLLYWOOD
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The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on specifically evaluating the major influence of Jewish stu=
dio=20
executives, producers, and directors in Hollywood for the 2007 conference of=
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the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
=20
Many of the =E2=80=9Cfounding fathers=E2=80=9D of Hollywood were Jewish busi=
nessmen who=20
became de facto film moguls. Among them were Samuel Goldwyn, David O. Selzn=
ick,=20
Louis B. Mayer, and the four Warner brothers -- Samuel, Albert, Harry, and (=
the=20
JEWISH HOLLYWOOD
=20
=20
=20
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on specifically evaluating the major influence of Jewish stu=
dio=20
executives, producers, and directors in Hollywood for the 2007 conference of=
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the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
=20
Many of the =E2=80=9Cfounding fathers=E2=80=9D of Hollywood were Jewish busi=
nessmen who=20
became de facto film moguls. Among them were Samuel Goldwyn, David O. Selzn=
ick,=20
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the=20
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM
April 5-7, 2007
MANY VOICES, ONE CENTER
Call for Proposals
DEADLINE: October 25, 2006
With literature as a crossroads where many forms of knowledge meet—art, history,
politics, science, religion—we welcome once again spirited participation on all
aspects of Native American studies. We invite proposals for individual papers,
panel discussions, readings, exhibits, demonstrations, and workshops.
This year we are pleased to announce two new awards to be made in 2007:
The Beatrice Medicine for Scholarship in American Indian Studies and
The Morning Star Award for Creative Writing
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM
April 5-7, 2007
MANY VOICES, ONE CENTER
Call for Proposals
DEADLINE: October 25, 2006
With literature as a crossroads where many forms of knowledge meet—art, history,
politics, science, religion—we welcome once again spirited participation on all
aspects of Native American studies. We invite proposals for individual papers,
panel discussions, readings, exhibits, demonstrations, and workshops.
This year we are pleased to announce two new awards to be made in 2007:
The Beatrice Medicine for Scholarship in American Indian Studies and
The Morning Star Award for Creative Writing
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM
April 5-7, 2007
MANY VOICES, ONE CENTER
Call for Proposals
DEADLINE: October 25, 2006
With literature as a crossroads where many forms of knowledge meet—art, history,
politics, science, religion—we welcome once again spirited participation on all
aspects of Native American studies. We invite proposals for individual papers,
panel discussions, readings, exhibits, demonstrations, and workshops.
This year we are pleased to announce two new awards to be made in 2007:
The Beatrice Medicine for Scholarship in American Indian Studies and
The Morning Star Award for Creative Writing
JEWISH POPULAR MUSICIANS
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=20
=20
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on Jewish Popular Musicians, beginning in the 1970s for the=20
2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
=20
Jewish musicians have influenced popular music since George and Ira Gershwin=
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reinvented jazz for Broadway. Since then, other Jewish musicians have=20
continued to influence modern popular music: Irving Berlin, Benny Goodman,=20=
Bob=20
Dylan, Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Kinky Friedman and the=20=
Texas=20
Jewboys, The Ramones, They Might be Giants, The Klezmatics, and =E2=80=9CYid=
JEWISH POPULAR MUSICIANS
=20
=20
=20
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on Jewish Popular Musicians, beginning in the 1970s for the=20
2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
=20
Jewish musicians have influenced popular music since George and Ira Gershwin=
=20
reinvented jazz for Broadway. Since then, other Jewish musicians have=20
continued to influence modern popular music: Irving Berlin, Benny Goodman,=20=
Bob=20
Dylan, Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Kinky Friedman and the=20=
Texas=20
Jewboys, The Ramones, They Might be Giants, The Klezmatics, and =E2=80=9CYid=
JEWISH POPULAR MUSICIANS
=20
=20
=20
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on Jewish Popular Musicians, beginning in the 1970s for the=20
2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
=20
Jewish musicians have influenced popular music since George and Ira Gershwin=
=20
reinvented jazz for Broadway. Since then, other Jewish musicians have=20
continued to influence modern popular music: Irving Berlin, Benny Goodman,=20=
Bob=20
Dylan, Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Kinky Friedman and the=20=
Texas=20
Jewboys, The Ramones, They Might be Giants, The Klezmatics, and =E2=80=9CYid=
EARLY JEWISH VAUDEVILLIANS AND COMIC ENTERTAINERS
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=20
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on early 20th century vaudevillians and comic actors for the=
=20
2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007. =20
=20
Eddie Cantor, Fannie Brice, Smith and Dale, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, George=
=20
Burns and Gracie Allen, The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp=20
Howard [replaced by Curly Howard]), The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo=
,=20
Zeppo, Gummo), Henny Youngman, and Mae West are the most famous of a long l=
ine of=20
EARLY JEWISH VAUDEVILLIANS AND COMIC ENTERTAINERS
=20
=20
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on early 20th century vaudevillians and comic actors for the=
=20
2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007. =20
=20
Eddie Cantor, Fannie Brice, Smith and Dale, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, George=
=20
Burns and Gracie Allen, The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp=20
Howard [replaced by Curly Howard]), The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo=
,=20
Zeppo, Gummo), Henny Youngman, and Mae West are the most famous of a long l=
ine of=20