Call for Papers: After Culture: Emergent Anthropologies (9/25/2006)

Papers are sought for the inaugural volume of a new peer-reviewed
journal, "After Culture: Emergent Anthropologies." The first issue is
planned for release in January 2007, and thereafter will be published
semiannually (in January and July) and made available free through the
internet (URL forthcoming).

Call for Papers
The Isle of Man TT Races: Heritage, Place and Spirit
May 28th - 30th, 2007
Villa Marina, Isle of Man

To celebrate 100 years of TT motorcycle road racing at the Isle of Man, we
are organizing a conference during TT practice week, May 28-30, 2007, at the
beautiful Villa Marina in Douglas on the Isle of Man. The conference is
dedicated to documenting and celebrating the legacy of this enduring
motorcycling festival.

CFP: Tolkien at Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo, 9-15-2006; 5-10-13-07)

Tolkien at Kalamazoo is sponsoring seven sessions at the 2007 International
Congress of Medieval Studies.

Proposals that fit any of the following session topics are welcome:

I. Tolkien's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

II. Religion and Tolkien

III. War and Exile in Tolkien

IV. Gender and Ethnicity in Tolkien

V. Music and Language in Tolkien

VI. Style and Re-vision in Tolkien

VII. Tolkien Unbound

The deadline is September 15, 2006.

Dear Colleagues:

I am writing to invite contributions to the Hispanic American Literature Volume. This encyclopedia will be a stand-alone book and will be published by Facts on File in 2007.
The volume is already 3/4 complete.
Facts on File is a New York publisher of reference books for high school and college students (www.factsonfile.com).

Entries are due August 7, 2006 and are peer reviewed. Each essay should be written in a clear and accessible (jargon free) style and amount to 1000 words.

Dear Colleagues:

I am writing to invite contributions to the Hispanic American Literature Volume. This encyclopedia will be a stand-alone book and will be published by Facts on File in 2007.
The volume is already 3/4 complete.
Facts on File is a New York publisher of reference books for high school and college students (www.factsonfile.com).

Entries are due August 7, 2006 and are peer reviewed. Each essay should be written in a clear and accessible (jargon free) style and amount to 1000 words.

China Abroad: Travels, Spaces, Subjects (collection)

CALL FOR ARTICLES

Defining Americanization

The February 2007 issue of Cercles (http://www.cercles.com) proposes to
examine the process and meaning of Americanization.

When Crèvecoeur asked in the eighteenth century "What is an American?"
he had a ready answer: Americans are "the scattered poor of Europe,"
"the persecuted," in short "a new race." But the mysterious process of
Americanization described by Crèvecoeur and later by Frederick Jackson
Turner in his famous but debated Frontier hypothesis is still to a
certain extent indefinable.

CALL FOR ARTICLES

Defining Americanization

The February 2007 issue of Cercles (http://www.cercles.com) proposes to
examine the process and meaning of Americanization.

When Crèvecoeur asked in the eighteenth century "What is an American?"
he had a ready answer: Americans are "the scattered poor of Europe,"
"the persecuted," in short "a new race." But the mysterious process of
Americanization described by Crèvecoeur and later by Frederick Jackson
Turner in his famous but debated Frontier hypothesis is still to a
certain extent indefinable.

Call for Papers

Panel Title: Writing Hunger

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, MD

This panel seeks to explore the multivalent representations of food and
hunger in American literature and culture. Please send abstracts of 250-500
words to Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega at kirstenbart_at_hotmail.com.

    FASHION, APPEARANCE AND CONSUMER IDENTITY
   
  Popular Culture Association
  Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting
   
  April 4-7, 2007
   
  BostonMarriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  Fashion, Appearance and Consumer Identity is concerned
  with the areas of clothing, historical costume, fashion
  aesthetics, fashion and appearance, fashion marketing,
  merchandising, retailing, the psychological/sociological
  aspects of dress, cultural appearances as well as any areas
  relating to consumption and consumer identity. Papers
  from all disciplines are welcome. Innovative and new research
  in the areas of fashion and consumerism are encouraged!

Sites of Asian American Studies: 11/3-11/4, The Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio

Sites of Asian American Studies: 11/3-11/4, The Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio

Antisemitism and English Culture
Advance notice and CALL FOR PAPERS
A major international conference on the histories and cultures of antisemitism in England, from the Middle Ages to the present day. To be held at Birkbeck College, University of London, 9-11 July 2007.

Key questions to be addressed include:

-Can we talk of a distinctly English kind of antisemitism?

-Is antisemitism inherent in Englishness?

-What is, or has been, the relationship between 'high' or intellectual English culture and antisemitism?

-How far can specific English contexts be seen to have engendered antisemitism?

-Is there a meaningful history of English philosemitism, and what is its relationship to antisemitism?

Call for Chapters for the
Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
Editor: Sigrid Kelsey, MLIS
Louisiana State University