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.

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.

The Graduate Film Studies Group of the University of
Florida has extended the deadline for submissions to
its October 20th symposium to August 11, 2006. Please
visit the Reel Fear webpage for more information:

http://www.english.ufl.edu/gfsg/reelfear06/reel.shtml

The new date is also listed in the CFP below:

The Graduate Film Studies Group of the University of
Florida seeks proposals for Reel Fear: Horror,
Suspense, and Anxiety in Postmodern Film. This
symposium will be held at the University of Florida on
October 20th, 2006.

**** 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

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

  CPF: TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
   
  NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE &
  AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
  2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For more information on the PCA/ACA, please
  go to http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.
   
  DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2006
   
  We are considering proposals for sessions in
  Technical Communication organized around a theme,
  special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are
  scheduled in 1½ hour slots, ideally with four papers
  or speakers per standard session.
   

CALL FOR PAPERS
THE CHILD AND THE BOOK
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: LOST IN TRANSLATION
30 MARCH – 1 APRIL 2007, BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL, TURKEY

Papers are invited for the fourth annual The Child and the Book conference
to be held at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, from March 30 - April
1, 2007.

CALL FOR PAPERS
THE CHILD AND THE BOOK
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: LOST IN TRANSLATION
30 MARCH – 1 APRIL 2007, BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL, TURKEY

Papers are invited for the fourth annual The Child and the Book conference
to be held at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, from March 30 - April
1, 2007.