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CFP: Stephen Foster (9/15/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:58pm
J. Lightweis-Goff

Call for Proposals: Stephen Foster
  National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations / 2007 Joint Conference. April 4-7, 2007. Boston Marriott Copley Place – Boston, Massachusetts.

For more information on the PCA/ACA, please visit http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.

Deadline: September 1, 2006.

 

 Though prevailing notions of the popular frequently focus on newness,19th century

America provides a rich history of popular texts and music. As in our own historical

moment, first-generation critics responded to these texts from a plethora of political

perspectives. Historical analysis of minstrelsy could easily place Frederick

CFP: Villains, Villainy and Justice in Popular Fictional Narrative (UK) (9/30/06; 11/18/06-11/19/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:58pm
Smith, Eve

Villains, Villainy and Justice in Popular Fictional Narrative

Annual Conference For the Association for Research in Popular Fictions

Saturday 18th-Sunday 19th November 2006

Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University

We welcome papers considering popular fiction across any media and historical period.

Strands being convened for this conference are on Victorian fiction, teenage fiction, children's fiction, chicklit and crime.

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract by 30th September to:

Nickianne Moody,
convenor for ARPF,
Liverpool John Moores University,
Dean Walters Building,
St James Road,
Liverpool L1 7BR
UK

CFP: Villains, Villainy and Justice in Popular Fictional Narrative (UK) (9/30/06; 11/18/06-11/19/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:58pm
Smith, Eve

Villains, Villainy and Justice in Popular Fictional Narrative

Annual Conference For the Association for Research in Popular Fictions

Saturday 18th-Sunday 19th November 2006

Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University

We welcome papers considering popular fiction across any media and historical period.

Strands being convened for this conference are on Victorian fiction, teenage fiction, children's fiction, chicklit and crime.

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract by 30th September to:

Nickianne Moody,
convenor for ARPF,
Liverpool John Moores University,
Dean Walters Building,
St James Road,
Liverpool L1 7BR
UK

CFP: Villains, Villainy and Justice in Popular Fictional Narrative (UK) (9/30/06; 11/18/06-11/19/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:58pm
Smith, Eve

Villains, Villainy and Justice in Popular Fictional Narrative

Annual Conference For the Association for Research in Popular Fictions

Saturday 18th-Sunday 19th November 2006

Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University

We welcome papers considering popular fiction across any media and historical period.

Strands being convened for this conference are on Victorian fiction, teenage fiction, children's fiction, chicklit and crime.

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract by 30th September to:

Nickianne Moody,
convenor for ARPF,
Liverpool John Moores University,
Dean Walters Building,
St James Road,
Liverpool L1 7BR
UK

CFP: Women and Violence (UK) (9/12/06; Return to Gender, 11/25/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:58pm
Marianne Sevachko

Women and Violence (UK) (9/12/06; Return to Gender, 11/25/06)

Papers are invited for this special panel at 'Return to Gender', the
forthcoming graduate conference at the University of Glasgow on 25th
November, 2006.

CFP: Women and Violence (UK) (9/12/06; Return to Gender, 11/25/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:58pm
Marianne Sevachko

Women and Violence (UK) (9/12/06; Return to Gender, 11/25/06)

Papers are invited for this special panel at 'Return to Gender', the
forthcoming graduate conference at the University of Glasgow on 25th
November, 2006.

CFP: Women and Violence (UK) (9/12/06; Return to Gender, 11/25/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:58pm
Marianne Sevachko

Women and Violence (UK) (9/12/06; Return to Gender, 11/25/06)

Papers are invited for this special panel at 'Return to Gender', the
forthcoming graduate conference at the University of Glasgow on 25th
November, 2006.

CFP: Boundaries: Creative/Critical (11/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:58pm
Jennimoth

Call for Publication

Contributors are invited for the forthcoming edited
collection of essays Boundaries: Critical, Creative
and Interdisciplinary methods of Making, Breaking, and
Negotiating Boundaries*

The papers presented at the recent 'Boundaries:
Critical and Creative' Postgraduate Conference at
Loughborough University in June 2006 highlighted the
quality of academic research being done which
interrogates, acknowledges and challenges boundaries
in critical and creative literature. This collection
is in part inspired by and, in part, a response to the
success of the conference and the wide range of
high-quality academic discussion that came from it.

CFP: Boundaries: Creative/Critical (11/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:58pm
Jennimoth

Call for Publication

Contributors are invited for the forthcoming edited
collection of essays Boundaries: Critical, Creative
and Interdisciplinary methods of Making, Breaking, and
Negotiating Boundaries*

The papers presented at the recent 'Boundaries:
Critical and Creative' Postgraduate Conference at
Loughborough University in June 2006 highlighted the
quality of academic research being done which
interrogates, acknowledges and challenges boundaries
in critical and creative literature. This collection
is in part inspired by and, in part, a response to the
success of the conference and the wide range of
high-quality academic discussion that came from it.

CFP: Automobile Culture (11/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/7/07-4/10/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:58pm
Leslie Fife

Call for Papers: Automobile Culture
  2007 Popular Culture Association/
  American Culture Association
  National Conference
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For additional conference information:
   http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca
   
  Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006.
   
  This is a call for papers for area of Automobile Culture.
  The automobile has had an immense influence upon our
  lives in innumerable ways. This area will seek to provide
  an understanding of this influence within the social and

CFP: Automobile Culture (11/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/7/07-4/10/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:58pm
Leslie Fife

Call for Papers: Automobile Culture
  2007 Popular Culture Association/
  American Culture Association
  National Conference
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For additional conference information:
   http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca
   
  Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006.
   
  This is a call for papers for area of Automobile Culture.
  The automobile has had an immense influence upon our
  lives in innumerable ways. This area will seek to provide
  an understanding of this influence within the social and

CFP: Ethics and the Documentary Tradition (9/10/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:58pm
Hamilton, Dotty

ETHICS AND THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
(www.filmandhistory.org) (8-12 November, 2006=97Dallas, TX) (deadline: =
9/10/06)

Call for Participants in some lively roundtable discussions of =93Ethics =
in Documentary Film=94 at the Fall, 2006 Film and History League =
Conference on =93The Documentary Tradition.=94 Suggested topics =
include, but are not limited to:

CFP: Digital Storytelling (9/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:57pm
Kelly McWilliam

Call for Papers: DIGITAL STORYTELLING Edited Collection

Editors: John Hartley and Kelly McWilliam

ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation

Queensland University of Technology

=20

We're seeking a few additional chapters for the above collection, which =
already has a strong international line-up of scholars and practitioners =
on-board.=20

=20

ABOUT THE BOOK:

=20

CFP: Mid America Theatre Conference Pedagogy Symposium (11/21/06; 3/1/07-3/4/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:57pm
MONICA8812_at_aol.com

Mid-America Theatre Conference 2007 Pedagogy Symposium and Pedagogy Papers
Call for Papers & Teaching Proposals
Minneapolis, MN
CONFERENCE DATES: MARCH 1-4, 2007
 

Conference Theme: Changing Theatrical Landscapes: Mapping New Directions in
History, Pedagogy and Practice for the 21st Century

CFP: Digital Storytelling (9/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:57pm
Kelly McWilliam

Call for Papers: DIGITAL STORYTELLING Edited Collection

Editors: John Hartley and Kelly McWilliam

ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation

Queensland University of Technology

=20

We're seeking a few additional chapters for the above collection, which =
already has a strong international line-up of scholars and practitioners =
on-board.=20

=20

ABOUT THE BOOK:

=20

CFP: Mid America Theatre Conference Pedagogy Symposium (11/21/06; 3/1/07-3/4/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:57pm
MONICA8812_at_aol.com

Mid-America Theatre Conference 2007 Pedagogy Symposium and Pedagogy Papers
Call for Papers & Teaching Proposals
Minneapolis, MN
CONFERENCE DATES: MARCH 1-4, 2007
 

Conference Theme: Changing Theatrical Landscapes: Mapping New Directions in
History, Pedagogy and Practice for the 21st Century

CFP: Digital Storytelling (9/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:57pm
Kelly McWilliam

Call for Papers: DIGITAL STORYTELLING Edited Collection

Editors: John Hartley and Kelly McWilliam

ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation

Queensland University of Technology

=20

We're seeking a few additional chapters for the above collection, which =
already has a strong international line-up of scholars and practitioners =
on-board.=20

=20

ABOUT THE BOOK:

=20

CFP: E/Im/Migration and Culture (Turkey) (10/1/06; 9/15/07-9/17/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:57pm
Gonul Pultar

UPDATE

CONF./CFP- E/Im/Migration and Culture, 15-17 Sept. 2007, Istanbul, Turkey

Call for Papers

E/Im/Migration and Culture
15-17 September 2007
Isik University, Sile (Istanbul, Turkey)

Fourth Cultural Studies Conference

Co-organized by the Cultural Studies Association (Turkey) and the
Department of International Relations of Isik University

CFP: E/Im/Migration and Culture (Turkey) (10/1/06; 9/15/07-9/17/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:57pm
Gonul Pultar

UPDATE

CONF./CFP- E/Im/Migration and Culture, 15-17 Sept. 2007, Istanbul, Turkey

Call for Papers

E/Im/Migration and Culture
15-17 September 2007
Isik University, Sile (Istanbul, Turkey)

Fourth Cultural Studies Conference

Co-organized by the Cultural Studies Association (Turkey) and the
Department of International Relations of Isik University

CFP: E/Im/Migration and Culture (Turkey) (10/1/06; 9/15/07-9/17/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:57pm
Gonul Pultar

UPDATE

CONF./CFP- E/Im/Migration and Culture, 15-17 Sept. 2007, Istanbul, Turkey

Call for Papers

E/Im/Migration and Culture
15-17 September 2007
Isik University, Sile (Istanbul, Turkey)

Fourth Cultural Studies Conference

Co-organized by the Cultural Studies Association (Turkey) and the
Department of International Relations of Isik University

CFP: E/Im/Migration and Culture (Turkey) (10/1/06; 9/15/07-9/17/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:57pm
Gonul Pultar

UPDATE

CONF./CFP- E/Im/Migration and Culture, 15-17 Sept. 2007, Istanbul, Turkey

Call for Papers

E/Im/Migration and Culture
15-17 September 2007
Isik University, Sile (Istanbul, Turkey)

Fourth Cultural Studies Conference

Co-organized by the Cultural Studies Association (Turkey) and the
Department of International Relations of Isik University

CFP: Modern Maculinities: A Narrative of Heroes and Failures (grad) (UK) (9/12/06; 11/25/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 11:57pm
Amy Tooth Murphy

Modern Masculinity: A Narrative of Heroism and Failure

Papers are invited for a special panel at ‘Return to Gender’, the forthcoming graduate conference at the University of Glasgow on 25th November, 2006. In a recent news item reviewing the latest ‘Superman’ film, the news anchor asked if the actor playing Superman was a ‘mincing metrosexual’. What does a modern masculine hero look like? Is the often discussed crisis in masculinity empowering or emasculating? Possible topics include:

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