Submissions are invited for =93Byron and Modernity=94 an international=20=

conference, sponsored by the University of British Columbia, to be held=20=

in Vancouver at the Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites October 26-28, 2007 . =20=

We welcome papers that explore the way Byron and Byronism have been=20
interpreted since the Romantic period, in Byron=92s reception through =
the=20
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the place of Byronism in=20
fashion, popular, and print culture. But we are especially interested=20=

Green Travel: Texts, Traditions, Tensions

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An Interdisciplinary Colloquium

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23rd-24th March, 2007

St John's College, Oxford

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Green Travel: Texts, Traditions, Tensions

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An Interdisciplinary Colloquium

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23rd-24th March, 2007

St John's College, Oxford

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CFP: Mothering and Popular Culture (collection)

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I am looking for papers for an edited collection, under provisional
contract with McGill-Queen's University Press, tentatively called
Mediated Moms: Mothering and Popular Culture.

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The proposed scholarly volume will examine the topic of mothers,
mothering, and motherhood within and across all forms of twentieth- and
twenty-first century popular cultures. Possible areas to consider
include, but are not limited to, the following:=20

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-TV shows, including talk shows, family dramas, sitcoms, and cartoons;=20

-print and electronic journalism and celebrity rags;=20

-Internet sites including blogs and homepages;=20

CFP: Mothering and Popular Culture (collection)

=20

I am looking for papers for an edited collection, under provisional
contract with McGill-Queen's University Press, tentatively called
Mediated Moms: Mothering and Popular Culture.

=20

The proposed scholarly volume will examine the topic of mothers,
mothering, and motherhood within and across all forms of twentieth- and
twenty-first century popular cultures. Possible areas to consider
include, but are not limited to, the following:=20

=20

-TV shows, including talk shows, family dramas, sitcoms, and cartoons;=20

-print and electronic journalism and celebrity rags;=20

-Internet sites including blogs and homepages;=20

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on
Buying and Selling Science Fiction, Fantasy, and
Horror for the 28th Annual International Conference on
the Fantastic in the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 28 is on gender and sexuality in the
fantastic, and while papers relating to this theme are
encouraged, proposals on any topics are welcome. The
conference will be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
from March 14 - 17, 2007 at the Wyndham Fort
Lauderdale Airport Hotel. For more information and
updates about the conference, please visit
www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the
following topics:

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 Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area

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 Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area

Call For Papers
Visualization and Narrative: A themed issue of Reconstruction

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
<reconstruction.eserver.org> is soliciting papers for a special themed
issue on visualisation and narrative--with special reference to
filmmaking, information design, and computing.

Visualisation consists of the visual representation and analysis of
processes over time, in dynamically changing information spaces.

As filmmaking has moved to digital formats in writing screenplays,
making images and sounds and editing and manipulating those images,
all filmmaking processes are actually or potentially subject to
visualisation.

Call For Papers
Visualization and Narrative: A themed issue of Reconstruction

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
<reconstruction.eserver.org> is soliciting papers for a special themed
issue on visualisation and narrative--with special reference to
filmmaking, information design, and computing.

Visualisation consists of the visual representation and analysis of
processes over time, in dynamically changing information spaces.

As filmmaking has moved to digital formats in writing screenplays,
making images and sounds and editing and manipulating those images,
all filmmaking processes are actually or potentially subject to
visualisation.

Edited Collection on The Pirates of the Caribbean

The Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst will host our annual graduate student conference
on Saturday, November 4, 2006. Graduate students are invited to submit
abstracts for a ten to fifteen minute paper on any range of topics or
approaches, including textual studies, new theoretical applications,
performance history, Renaissance philosophy, print culture, religious
studies, material studies, and Renaissance classicism. The purpose of
the conference is to provide graduate students in the New England area
and beyond with an opportunity to share their work and place it in a
greater context of interests and concerns. The conference is designed

"New York City: Global Village"

The Third Annual Interdisciplinary Conference at the New York Institute of Technology

Keynote Speaker: Professor Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago

March 9, 2007

The New York Institute of Technology announces its third interdisciplinary conference, "New York City: Global Village," which will address the role of New York City as a site of international exchange in culture, technology, tourism and other fields. Scholars from a range of disciplines are invited to present their research at this one-day conference at NYIT's Columbus Circle, Manhattan, campus.

*Call for Papers: "Black People Don't Read": An Exploration into Black
American Literacy, **Reading**, and Writing *

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*Proposals are sought for a new edited collection on reading, writing and
Black culture*

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