The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic (JSM)
  Call For Papers for Issue 4, deadline 1st August 2006
   
      Note the extended deadline for submissions.
   
  Issue 4 of the JSM, due to appear late in 2006, is now seeking contributions. Scholarly articles in English about any aspect of magic/occultism are welcome up to 8000 words in length.
   
  Submission to the journal is in English, by Email attachment, in Rich Text Format documents using Harvard Citation Style. Full submission details, an outline style guide can be found here :
    http://www.sasm.co.uk/styleguide.html
   

Call for papers

French and Francophone Literature & History

=AB Visible et invisible : lutte de femmes =BB

Edited Collection

We invite scholars to submit abstracts of articles for publication on =20=

the topic of women=92s visibility and women=92s bodily representation in =
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French and Francophone Literature and History.

This collection, =93Visible et invisible: lutte de femmes,=94 seeks to =20=

Deadline extended:

Deadline extended:

I invite you to contribute to a book that will examine the way
physical disability is shown and used in children's fiction. Although
the material concerned is fiction written for children, the book is a
critique of fiction where disability is featured, and *is not* a
series of short stories.

I invite you to contribute to a book that will examine the way
physical disability is shown and used in children's fiction. Although
the material concerned is fiction written for children, the book is a
critique of fiction where disability is featured, and *is not* a
series of short stories.

*>> Call for Contributors << *

REEL WIZARDS: REPRESENTATIONS OF MAGIC AND MAGIC USERS IN FILM
Deadline for Proposals: September 15, 2006

In J. R. R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS, the Hobbits are warned, "Do no=
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meddle in the affairs of wizards"; yet, few readers today, in a time when
the wizard features so prominently in both popular culture and scholarship,
would choose to follow this admonition. Accepting this as a given, proposal=
s
are now being accepted for an essay collection investigating the
representation of magic-wielding figures in electronic multimedia.

Call for Papers

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International Anchoritic Society sessions

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42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

May 10-13, 2007

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The International Anchoritic Society will organize three sessions for
the 42nd Congress:

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1. Claire of Assisi: In cooperation with the producers of the
series of short films, Mystic Women of the Middle Ages, we will show one
of their films, 24-minutes in length, devoted to Claire of Assisi, and
present three papers on the subject of Claire and her relationship to
the anchoritic and mystic tradition. =20

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Call for Papers

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International Anchoritic Society sessions

=20

42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

May 10-13, 2007

=20

The International Anchoritic Society will organize three sessions for
the 42nd Congress:

=20

1. Claire of Assisi: In cooperation with the producers of the
series of short films, Mystic Women of the Middle Ages, we will show one
of their films, 24-minutes in length, devoted to Claire of Assisi, and
present three papers on the subject of Claire and her relationship to
the anchoritic and mystic tradition. =20

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Illusions of Identity: resisting (beyond) identity politics
An interdisciplinary graduate conference hosted by the Centre for the
Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, Canada

October 14-15, 2006

Illusions of Identity: resisting (beyond) identity politics
An interdisciplinary graduate conference hosted by the Centre for the
Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, Canada

October 14-15, 2006

CFP: Mommy Lit and Gender Prescriptions (9/15/06; NeMLA 3/1/06 –
3/4/06)

Call for Papers

Mommy Lit: Product Placement, "Friendly" Competition, and Gender
Prescriptions for the Thinking Mother

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

CFP: Mommy Lit and Gender Prescriptions (9/15/06; NeMLA 3/1/06 –
3/4/06)

Call for Papers

Mommy Lit: Product Placement, "Friendly" Competition, and Gender
Prescriptions for the Thinking Mother

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

CFP: Before the Foucaultian Divide: Queer Cultures, 1780-1870 (9/15/06; =
NeMLA, 3/1/07-3/4/07)

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38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

March 1-4, 2007

Baltimore, Maryland

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Despite the increasing acceptance of LBGT/Q studies within academia, =
much of the research within this field centers on late Victorian society =
and post-Wildean articulations of gender and sexuality. However, =
scholars in earlier periods (Bray, Halperin, Trumbach, Haggerty, =
Elfenbein, Lacquer) have begun to identify alternative sexual =
communities before what may be loosely termed the Foucaultian divide. =20

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