>From Snoopy to Star Wars
American Popular Imagination of the First World War

Panel proposal for
The First World War and Popular Culture Conference
http://literaryconferences.britishcouncil.org/results/?id=453
31 March - 2 April 2006(3/31/6-4/2/6)
University of Newcastle (UK)

"New Voices in African American Fiction"
Panel to be held at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
Philadelphia, PA
3/2/06-3/5/06
www.nemla.org
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Panel description:

For the 2006 NeMLA convention in Philadelphia, March 2-5.

Please submit abstracts for possible paper presentations
electronically to eef2106_at_columbia.edu by SEPTEMBER 15, 2005.

Visit www.nemla.org for membership and other information.

Panel description:

postamble call for journal submissions!

Call for journal submissions

March 2006: Open Issue
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2005
postamble is a postgraduate journal of the University of Cape Town located in
the Centre for African Studies and published bi-annually online. postamble is
committed to featuring original post graduate student work of a high academic
standard which is of value to the promotion of multi-disciplinary study of
Africa within the university environment.

"How Art Wore Khaki and went into action":
Propaganda, Popular Culture and the Great War

Panel proposal for
The First World War and Popular Culture Conference
http://literaryconferences.britishcouncil.org/results/?id=453
31 March - 2 April 2006 (3/31/6-4/2/6)
University of Newcastle (UK)

Call for Papers

Life, the Universe, and Everything XXIV: The Marion K. "Doc" Smith
Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held February 16–18,
2006, on the Provo campus of Brigham Young University.

We are especially interested in papers in the following areas:
    • Literary criticism/analysis of sf&f and related literature
(medieval, renaissance, mythology, magic realism, etc.)
    • Science and technology (especially new or unusual)
    • Analysis of sf&f relating to poetry and/or theatre
    • Mormon culture, literature, and society in relation to sf&f
    • Serious analysis of sf&f in cinema, television, radio and other
media

Call for Papers

Charming and Crafty: Witchcraft and Paganism in Contemporary Media
May 18-21, 2006
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Keynote Speaker: Stephen Mitchell, Chair, Folklore and Mythology, Harvard
University

This conference aims to examine representations of Wtchcraft and Paganism in
film, television and other media (1900--present day), and explore a variety of
topics in an interdisciplinary format. Proposals for panels are welcome;
sessions will generally comprise three speakers for twenty minutes each. Suggested
topics include but are not limited to:

Call for Papers

Charming and Crafty: Witchcraft and Paganism in Contemporary Media
May 18-21, 2006
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Keynote Speaker: Stephen Mitchell, Chair, Folklore and Mythology, Harvard
University

This conference aims to examine representations of Wtchcraft and Paganism in
film, television and other media (1900--present day), and explore a variety of
topics in an interdisciplinary format. Proposals for panels are welcome;
sessions will generally comprise three speakers for twenty minutes each. Suggested
topics include but are not limited to:

Signifying Loss in Contemporary African American Literature

The Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
March 2-5, 2006

Call for Abstracts

Writing Centers and Disability

Deadline: October 1, 2005

Abstracts (approximately 500 words) for potential contributions are
invited for a new edited collection tentatively titled Writing Centers
and Disability. This collection will investigate the vital, but often
ignored intersection of Writing Center Studies and Disability Studies.

Contributions will ultimately fall into three general categories:

* Research on tutoring writers with disabilities,

* Research and narratives of experience of making the writing center
space accessible, and

SYNOPTIQUE, the online journal of film and film studies, is seeking
contributions for Edition 10, Summer 2005. Synoptique 10 will be devoted to a
range of issues in contemporary Asian cinema and media: the following list
represents suggested topics only. Additional proposals for essays, interviews,
festival reports and other journalistic content related to film are always
welcome. Submissions and proposals should be sent to Owen Livermore at
editor_at_synoptique.ca

"The Machine and the Modern Subject"

Conference: The Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 2006 Conference
Deadline for submitting proposal: 9/15/05

"The Machine and the Modern Subject"

Conference: The Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 2006 Conference
Deadline for submitting proposal: 9/15/05

Submissions are invited for a session on Censorship and Academic Freedom
at the 2006 NEMLA conference in Philadelphia, PA., March 02 - March 05,
2006.

>From the Ward Churchill controversy to the Patriot Act and the Academic
Bill of Rights, college campuses and classrooms have increasingly become
the focus of the censorship debate. This panel will examine the various
ways in which that debate is being played out and explore faculty
responses to the issues, both within and beyond their classes. Are
there certain subjects that should be avoided or ignored or should
colleges entertain even the most offensive possibilities in the name of
free speech?