Call for papers FORUM, the University of Edinburgh postgraduate =20
journal of Culture and the Arts issue 5:

Apocalypse Now?

One day the day will come when the day will not come.
Paul Virilio

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary =20
horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is =20
being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.
Susan Sontag.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The =20
pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

 =46rom Ragnarok to Revelations, AIDS to Armageddon. How has the end of =20=

Call for Papers

Darwin & the Evolution/"Intelligent Design" Aftermath AREA

2008 Film & History Conference

"Film& Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond"

October 30 -November 2, 2008

Chicago, IL

 <http://www.filmandhistory.org/> www.filmandhistory.org

First-Round Deadline: November 1, 2007

AREA: Darwin & the Evolution/"Intelligent Design" Aftermath

H. G. Wells, Science and Philosophy

The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference, Imperial College/Conway Hall,
London, 28-29 September 2007

Proposals for 20-minute papers, or for panels of 2-3 papers, are invited
for this year's H. G. Wells Society Annual conference. The conference
will be hosted by both Imperial College, London (on the 28 September)
and by Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London (on the 29 September). The
first day of the event will include a plenary lecture by the science
fiction writer, Stephen Baxter.

H. G. Wells, Science and Philosophy

The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference, Imperial College/Conway Hall,
London, 28-29 September 2007

Proposals for 20-minute papers, or for panels of 2-3 papers, are invited
for this year's H. G. Wells Society Annual conference. The conference
will be hosted by both Imperial College, London (on the 28 September)
and by Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London (on the 29 September). The
first day of the event will include a plenary lecture by the science
fiction writer, Stephen Baxter.

Dulia et Latria (roughly translated as service to man and service to
God) is an online journal dedicated to exploring dulia and latria
within the Christian faith. In his late 14th century Tractatus de
Mandatis Divinis, John Wycliffe, writing against iconic idolatry within
the Catholic church, defined dulia as the reverence men and women owe
to each other and latria as the reverence a man or woman owes only to
God. He was interested in developing a taxonomy for and an analysis of
duties involved in the horizontal relationship between created beings
themselves and the vertical relationship between the created and the
creator, and so are we. With our journal we wish to showcase current and

Proposals and abstracts for papers and sessions in the
field of Fat Studies are sought for the Midwest
Popular Culture Association annual convention, to be
held Oct. 12-14 2007 in Kansas City, MO.

Send proposals, abstracts and requests for further
information to Sarah Boslaugh at sboslaugh_at_yahoo.com.

Fat Studies is a fast-growing, interdisciplinary field
and proposals from any field of study are welcome. At
MPCA 2006 we had three full panels, with presentations
on widely varied topics including Ben Jonson's poetry,
comic book villains, celebrity exercise videos, BMI
testing in schools, eating disorders in prisons, and
the relationship between obesity and academic
achievement.

This panel for the Midwest Modern Language Association conference seeks
papers on English literature and its intersections with science and
medicine prior to 1800 for the annual meeting to be held in Cleveland,
Ohio (November 8, 2007 -November 11, 2007). "Renaissance Drama in
Performance: Early Modern Realities, Modern Productions" invites papers
that explore modern stage and film enactments of early modern dramatic
texts, both Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean. How do these
productions broaden and/or limit our understandings of playtexts and
their meanings? How do today's performances influence our perceptions of
the realities governing the contexts in which early modern plays were

 CFP: Post-Colonial Transformations in the New Literatures in English
(Slovakia) (6/05/07; 6/8/07-6/9/07)

Department of English Language and Literature

Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences

University of Pre¹ov at Pre¹ov, Slovakia

European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
(EACLALS)

International Conference (and Post-Graduate Seminar) on

POST-COLONIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Pre¹ov, Slovakia, June 8-9, 2007

 Keynote Lectures: Pétér Szaffkó, University of Debrecen, Hungary
                                David Callahan, University of Aveiro,
Portugal

 CFP: Post-Colonial Transformations in the New Literatures in English
(Slovakia) (6/05/07; 6/8/07-6/9/07)

Department of English Language and Literature

Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences

University of Pre¹ov at Pre¹ov, Slovakia

European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
(EACLALS)

International Conference (and Post-Graduate Seminar) on

POST-COLONIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Pre¹ov, Slovakia, June 8-9, 2007

 Keynote Lectures: Pétér Szaffkó, University of Debrecen, Hungary
                                David Callahan, University of Aveiro,
Portugal

NB: The deadline for submission of proposals for this particular MLA
panel is March 15 as indicated in the subject line, and not May 15, as
the body of the CFP indicated. Sorry for any confusion that may have
been caused by the two different dates.

COLONIAL EDUCATION IN AFRICAN LITERATURES

The 38th Annual Mythopoeic Conference
Mythcon XXXVIII

Theme: Becoming Adept: The Journey to Mastery
Clark Kerr Conference Center
Berkeley, California
August 3-6, 2007

Guests of Honor: Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman

Call for Papers

Seeking one essay addressing diaspora and Jewish culture (broadly
conceived), and one essay addressing diaspora and Arab culture (broadly
conceived), for a collection of essays entitled Transforming Diaspora.
We wish to receive queries/proposal from interested scholars by April 6,
2007. The full CFP for the essay collection follows. Send email
submissions to robinfield_at_kings.edu.
Transforming Diaspora (Book Collection)=20
=20
Eds. Parmita Kapadia and Robin Field=20
=20
Cultural studies has generated a re-evaluation of the long established
tropes governing the diasporic condition. The emergence of various
diasporas prompts a rethinking of the field to include the experiences=20

1st Global Conference
Fear, Horror and Terror

Monday 10th September - Wednesday 12th September 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to
examine and explore issues which lie at the interface of fear, horror
and terror. In particular the project is interested in investigating
the various contexts of fear, horror and terror, and assessing issues
surrounding the artistic, cinematic, literary, moral, social,
(geo)political, philosophical, psychological and religious
significance of them, both individually and together.

1st Global Conference
Fear, Horror and Terror

Monday 10th September - Wednesday 12th September 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to
examine and explore issues which lie at the interface of fear, horror
and terror. In particular the project is interested in investigating
the various contexts of fear, horror and terror, and assessing issues
surrounding the artistic, cinematic, literary, moral, social,
(geo)political, philosophical, psychological and religious
significance of them, both individually and together.