CFP: Neomedievalism in film, TV, games (08/31/05;
Kalamazoo, collection, 05/04/06-05/07/06)

Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO) 2
annual sessions, select papers to be included in
collection under contract with Mellen Press.

Session I. The Medieval in Motion: Approaches to
Neomedievalism in Television and Film;

Session II. Neomedievalism in the Digital Age: A
Critical Approach to Video Games (A Workshop)

Contact by email with abstract or workshop
participation proposal by August 31:

CFP: Neomedievalism in film, TV, games (08/31/05;
Kalamazoo, collection, 05/04/06-05/07/06)

Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO) 2
annual sessions, select papers to be included in
collection under contract with Mellen Press.

Session I. The Medieval in Motion: Approaches to
Neomedievalism in Television and Film;

Session II. Neomedievalism in the Digital Age: A
Critical Approach to Video Games (A Workshop)

Contact by email with abstract or workshop
participation proposal by August 31:

CFP: Neomedievalism in film, TV, games (08/31/05;
Kalamazoo, collection, 05/04/06-05/07/06)

Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO) 2
annual sessions, select papers to be included in
collection under contract with Mellen Press.

Session I. The Medieval in Motion: Approaches to
Neomedievalism in Television and Film;

Session II. Neomedievalism in the Digital Age: A
Critical Approach to Video Games (A Workshop)

Contact by email with abstract or workshop
participation proposal by August 31:

NEMLA 2006
March 2-3, Philadelphia
Chair: Shealeen Meaney
Contact: shealeen_at_att.net
 
 
"Like Water going back to itself": Gender, Place and Culture in 20th Century American Fiction
 
The gendering of space and the spatializing of identity are processes of much interest in contemporary culture study. This panel will examine women's representations of place and emplacement in American Women's Literature of the 20th century. From the closing of the frontier at the end of the 19th century to women's continued struggles to escape the domestic sphere at the end of the 20th, American conceptualizations of identity have always been preoccupied with space, fixity, and mobility.
 

Conference Announcement and First Call for Papers for
Crossroads 2006 in Istanbul

We are pleased to announce that the Sixth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, the official meeting of
The Association for Cultural Studies, will be held in Istanbul, sponsored by Istanbul Bilgi University, 20-23 July 2006.

Conference Announcement and First Call for Papers for
Crossroads 2006 in Istanbul

We are pleased to announce that the Sixth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, the official meeting of
The Association for Cultural Studies, will be held in Istanbul, sponsored by Istanbul Bilgi University, 20-23 July 2006.

LIMINA: a journal of historical and cultural studies

Call for Papers, Volume 12
Submissions Deadline 30 September 2005

Limina is a refereed academic journal of historical and cultural studies
based in the Discipline of History at The University of Western Australia.
The journal operates with a special commitment to publishing the work of
research postgraduates and emerging scholars, and encourages creative
methodologies.
Limina provides a lively environment in which diverse work can be published.
  The journal promotes resistance to traditional disciplinary boundaries,
and at the same time demands a rigorous approach to issues of research,
context and theoretical debates.

The Valve (http://www.thevalve.org/go) is a literary weblog dedicated to the
proposition that the function of the little magazine can follow this form.
Beginning July 12th, the contributors to the Valve and a number of prominent
scholars--including Michael Berube, Gerald Graff, Scott McLemee, &c.--will
be discussing Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral's recently published Theory's
Empire: An Anthology of Dissent. This is the first of many planned online
colloquia concerning recently published works of interest to literary and
cultural scholars. Thinkers of all theoretical stripes are welcome to
attend and encouraged to participate in the ongoing conversation. A brief

The Valve (http://www.thevalve.org/go) is a literary weblog dedicated to the
proposition that the function of the little magazine can follow this form.
Beginning July 12th, the contributors to the Valve and a number of prominent
scholars--including Michael Berube, Gerald Graff, Scott McLemee, &c.--will
be discussing Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral's recently published Theory's
Empire: An Anthology of Dissent. This is the first of many planned online
colloquia concerning recently published works of interest to literary and
cultural scholars. Thinkers of all theoretical stripes are welcome to
attend and encouraged to participate in the ongoing conversation. A brief

1337: Essays on Video Game Culture Inside and Outside the Box
 
The editor seeks essays on video game culture, both within the contexts of
games themselves and in the "real" world, for a proposed collection.
Potential topics include:

-Linguistics (with an emphasis on d00dsp34k and/or txt or aim style chat)

-Gender construction within RPGs (e.g. males playing as female characters
and vice versa)

-Gender interaction within games and in the real world (e.g. E3 using "Booth
Babes")

-Economics within games (e.g. crafting systems) and without (e.g. Diablo
II items for sale on Ebay)

Narratives of Community: American Women's "Story Books"

Narratives of Community: American Women's "Story Books"

Call For Papers: Spenser at Kalamazoo

Two open sessions on Edmund Spenser
41st International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

4-7 May 2006

Abstracts may be submitted on any topic dealing with Spenser. As always,
we encourage submissions by newcomers and by established scholars of all
ranks. Papers on Spenser's shorter poems are especially welcome this year.

Seventh International Robert Graves Conference, Mallorca=20

Tuesday 4th July - Saturday 8th July 2006=20

'Robert Graves and the Art of Collaboration'=20

The Robert Graves Society is pleased to announce that the Seventh Internatio=
nal Robert Graves Conference, organised by the Robert Graves Society and the=
 St John's College Robert Graves Trust, will be held in Palma and Dei=E0, Ma=
llorca, Spain, 4th July - 8th July, 2006.=20