CFP: Edith Wharton and the Material Cultures of the Book edited collection:
deadlines extended (abstracts, 1 October 2006; contributions, 1 April 2007).

Contributors are encouraged to interpret the idea of the material culture of
the book as widely as they wish, drawing upon research from sociology,
economic and social history, literary theory, bibliography, book history,
philosophy and anthropology. I would particularly welcome contributors seeking to
examine Wharton’s publication, production, dissemination and place in book
history and material culture outside of an American context. Some topics that you
might wish to discuss include:

The Ninth International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference will
be held in London, from 8 through 14 July 2007. Senate
House, near Russell Square in Bloomsbury, will be the
conference center where panels and plenary sessions will be
held.

Proposals are invited on any aspect of Fitzgerald studies.
We would, however, particularly welcome such subjects as
Fitzgerald’s reputation in England, the influence of British
writers on his work, including Keats, Conrad, and the
Victorian novelists, and British writers of the 1920s whom
Fitzgerald admired.

One-paragraph proposals should be sent to Kirk Curnutt, via
email attachment, at kcurnutt_at_troy.edu.

CFP: Conspiracy Theories & Claims for the Paranormal
   
  2007 PCA/ACA National Conference
   
  April 4-7, 2007
   
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  Submission deadline: November 1, 2006
   
  We welcome papers on various subjects pertaining to conspiracy theories, to pseudoscience, and to claims for the paranormal. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
   
  --The Political Conspiracy and its Representations
  --"Bulls--t, Mythbusting and other Skeptics in Popular Culture"
  --The Da Vinci Code
  --Conspiracies and Claims for the Paranormal in New Religious Movements

CFP: Conspiracy Theories & Claims for the Paranormal
   
  2007 PCA/ACA National Conference
   
  April 4-7, 2007
   
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  Submission deadline: November 1, 2006
   
  We welcome papers on various subjects pertaining to conspiracy theories, to pseudoscience, and to claims for the paranormal. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
   
  --The Political Conspiracy and its Representations
  --"Bulls--t, Mythbusting and other Skeptics in Popular Culture"
  --The Da Vinci Code
  --Conspiracies and Claims for the Paranormal in New Religious Movements

The Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Thomas Wolfe Society will take place
from June 8-10, 2007, in Paris, France. Please send inquiries or paper
proposals to Shawn Holliday, English Department, Alice Lloyd College, Pippa Passes,
KY 41844. (606) 368-6099; fax (606) 368-6218; ShawnHolliday_at_alc.edu. For
more information, see _http://www.thomaswolfe.org/_ (http://www.thomaswolfe.org/)
.

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
March 8-11, 2007
Chicago, IL

=93Complexity Theory and Cultural Artifacts=94

Papers are sought which apply scholarship from the growing field of =
Complexity Studies (dealing with emergence, cultural complexity, =
protocol, control, information, technology, network theory) in their =
analysis of mediated texts. Of particular interest are papers which =
address the role of complexity and cultural artifacts in relation to =
multiculturalism, nationalism, transnationalism, postcolonialism, or =
identity politics, as manifest withinin (or in relation to) the public =
sphere.

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
March 8-11, 2007
Chicago, IL

=93Complexity Theory and Cultural Artifacts=94

Papers are sought which apply scholarship from the growing field of =
Complexity Studies (dealing with emergence, cultural complexity, =
protocol, control, information, technology, network theory) in their =
analysis of mediated texts. Of particular interest are papers which =
address the role of complexity and cultural artifacts in relation to =
multiculturalism, nationalism, transnationalism, postcolonialism, or =
identity politics, as manifest withinin (or in relation to) the public =
sphere.

UPDATE: CALL FOR PAPERS

We have extended the deadline for papers for the volume Crossing Borders:
Women and Communities of Letters, 1500-1700 to April 15, 2007. We would
like to receive proposals by December 31, 2006.

Crossing Borders: Women and Communities of Letters, 1500-1700

We welcome submissions for a volume of essays that addresses issues
discussed in the two-part panel sessions called Crossing Borders: Learned
Women and Communities of Letters presented at the Sixteenth-Century Studies
Conference in 2005.

UPDATE: CALL FOR PAPERS

We have extended the deadline for papers for the volume Crossing Borders:
Women and Communities of Letters, 1500-1700 to April 15, 2007. We would
like to receive proposals by December 31, 2006.

Crossing Borders: Women and Communities of Letters, 1500-1700

We welcome submissions for a volume of essays that addresses issues
discussed in the two-part panel sessions called Crossing Borders: Learned
Women and Communities of Letters presented at the Sixteenth-Century Studies
Conference in 2005.

  CFP: Television
  THE POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE
  ASSOCIATIONS' NATIONAL MEETING, 2007
   
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  April 4-7, 2007
   
  Conference Information available at:
  http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca
   
  I encourage you to consider submitting a proposal
  for the Television area. Our area was one of the
  largest in terms of sections and number of papers
  in Atlanta (the 2006 conference), and I see no reason
  not to shoot for # 1 in Boston (there is no prize, however!).
   
  Last year saw a significant number of papers dealing

**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****
   
  Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
  Joint Annual Conference
   
  Boston Marriot Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts - April 4-7, 2007
   
  The PCA Dime Novels, Pulps, and Juvenile Series Books division invites interested parties to submit papers for presentation. Papers may cover (but are not limited to) any aspect of the following topics: authors, major characters, themes, readership, bibliography or research methods, social commentary, early genre forms, special collections, and matters of gender, race, class, image or attitude.
   

**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****
   
  Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
  Joint Annual Conference
   
  Boston Marriot Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts - April 4-7, 2007
   
  The PCA Dime Novels, Pulps, and Juvenile Series Books division invites interested parties to submit papers for presentation. Papers may cover (but are not limited to) any aspect of the following topics: authors, major characters, themes, readership, bibliography or research methods, social commentary, early genre forms, special collections, and matters of gender, race, class, image or attitude.
   

Call for Papers: International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, MI, 10-13 May 2007

Classical Ladies, Medieval Texts: Translating Gender in(to) the Middle Ages

Deadline extended:

Call for Papers
 
2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
www.filmandhistory.org
 
AREA: Emile de Antonio
 
"Arguably the most provocative film essayist/documentarian of the last sixty years in American life." Bill Nichols