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CFP: After Culture: Emergent Anthropologies (3/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
After Culture Emergent Anthropologies

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 September 2006, and thereafter will be
published semiannually (in March and September) and made available
free through the internet (URL forthcoming).

CFP: After Culture: Emergent Anthropologies (3/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
After Culture Emergent Anthropologies

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 September 2006, and thereafter will be
published semiannually (in March and September) and made available
free through the internet (URL forthcoming).

CFP: Doris Lessing Society Panel at MLA '06 (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
Alice Ridout

          This is a cfp from the Doris Lessing Society for one of their two sponsored panels at this year's MLA Convention in Philadelphia from 27-30 December. Please send proposals by 15 March. Papers may address other authors alongside Lessing. Presenters must be members of the MLA and of the Doris Lessing Society ($16 US; for details visit website: http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/raschke/doris_lessing_society/).
   
  Panel Title: Trauma and the Works of Doris Lessing
   

UPDATE: Literary Consumption (grad) (2/1/06; 3/17/06-3/18/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
Equinoxes

 
Deadline extension/nouvelle date limite

Equinoxes 2006
 Call For Conference Papers
 "La consommation littéraire / Literary Consumption"
     
 "Je ne sacrifie que a moy (aux dieux poinct) et a cestuy mon Ventre le plus grand de tous les Dieux." – Rabelais, Le Quart Livre.

 The Department of French Studies at Brown University announces its 14th annual Graduate Conference

 March 17-18, 2006

UPDATE: Literary Consumption (grad) (2/1/06; 3/17/06-3/18/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
Equinoxes

 
Deadline extension/nouvelle date limite

Equinoxes 2006
 Call For Conference Papers
 "La consommation littéraire / Literary Consumption"
     
 "Je ne sacrifie que a moy (aux dieux poinct) et a cestuy mon Ventre le plus grand de tous les Dieux." – Rabelais, Le Quart Livre.

 The Department of French Studies at Brown University announces its 14th annual Graduate Conference

 March 17-18, 2006

UPDATE: Literary Consumption (grad) (2/1/06; 3/17/06-3/18/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
Equinoxes

 
Deadline extension/nouvelle date limite

Equinoxes 2006
 Call For Conference Papers
 "La consommation littéraire / Literary Consumption"
     
 "Je ne sacrifie que a moy (aux dieux poinct) et a cestuy mon Ventre le plus grand de tous les Dieux." – Rabelais, Le Quart Livre.

 The Department of French Studies at Brown University announces its 14th annual Graduate Conference

 March 17-18, 2006

UPDATE: Mester XXV (2006) General Issue (2/15/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
Mester Literary Journal

M E S T E R
2006 Call for Papers, General Issue
Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department
of Spanish and
Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its upcoming 35th anniversary
issue to be
published in June 2006.

Our new volume will be open to any topic related to the scope of the
journal. Mester publishes critical articles, interviews, and book
reviews in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish-American,
Brazilian, Chicano, and Latina/o literatures and linguistics. Mester
also welcomes articles in other disciplines such as Comparative
Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Articles may be
written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.

UPDATE: Mester XXV (2006) General Issue (2/15/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
Mester Literary Journal

M E S T E R
2006 Call for Papers, General Issue
Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department
of Spanish and
Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its upcoming 35th anniversary
issue to be
published in June 2006.

Our new volume will be open to any topic related to the scope of the
journal. Mester publishes critical articles, interviews, and book
reviews in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish-American,
Brazilian, Chicano, and Latina/o literatures and linguistics. Mester
also welcomes articles in other disciplines such as Comparative
Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Articles may be
written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.

UPDATE: Mester XXV (2006) General Issue (2/15/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
Mester Literary Journal

M E S T E R
2006 Call for Papers, General Issue
Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department
of Spanish and
Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its upcoming 35th anniversary
issue to be
published in June 2006.

Our new volume will be open to any topic related to the scope of the
journal. Mester publishes critical articles, interviews, and book
reviews in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish-American,
Brazilian, Chicano, and Latina/o literatures and linguistics. Mester
also welcomes articles in other disciplines such as Comparative
Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Articles may be
written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.

CFP: Southwestern Literature Session (3/15/06; SCMLA, 10/26/06-10/28/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
Heather Salter

            The 2006 SCMLA Conference Southwestern Literature session
welcomes 250-500 word abstracts on the theme of cultural roundup in the
Southwestern literature genre or in literature set in the Southwest.
Email abstracts to salterh_at_nsula.edu or mail them to Heather Salter,
Department of Languages and Communication, Northwestern State
University, Natchitoches, Louisiana, 71497, by March 15, 2006.

CFP: Pain and Disability (3/1/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
Aerfen_at_aol.com

Call for Proposals for MLA 06, Division of Disability Studies Session:

Pain and Disability. Pain and problems of representation, pain and
theories of embodiment, pain and disability studies models. Abstract
and short biography by March 1st to Petra Kuppers (pkuppers_at_bryant.edu).

Petra Kuppers
>From September 2006: Associate Professor, English Department, Faculty Associate, Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Until then, on leave:
Associate Professor of Performance Studies
Bryant University

Artistic Director of The Olimpias Performance Research Projects
www.olimpias.net

CFP: Pain and Disability (3/1/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
Aerfen_at_aol.com

Call for Proposals for MLA 06, Division of Disability Studies Session:

Pain and Disability. Pain and problems of representation, pain and
theories of embodiment, pain and disability studies models. Abstract
and short biography by March 1st to Petra Kuppers (pkuppers_at_bryant.edu).

Petra Kuppers
>From September 2006: Associate Professor, English Department, Faculty Associate, Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Until then, on leave:
Associate Professor of Performance Studies
Bryant University

Artistic Director of The Olimpias Performance Research Projects
www.olimpias.net

CFP: The Influence of Feminism on the Arts in Britain (4/30/06; collection)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
DimpleGodiwala_at_aol.com

 
BOOK
Call for chapters on the influence of second wave feminism on the arts in
Britain.
Editor Dimple Godiwala
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Press
Deadline for chapters 30 April 2006
Feminism in Britain has permeated every art form, from drama, dance and
music to the so-called 'low-brow' culture: popular culture. It is seen as a
transgressive force and has influenced culture immeasurably since the second wave
of 60s feminism. Are women equal in the fields of art? Do they still have to
struggle for recognition within the matrix of the various institutions? Who
wields the power in British drama for example? How different is it in the

CFP: The Influence of Feminism on the Arts in Britain (4/30/06; collection)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
DimpleGodiwala_at_aol.com

 
BOOK
Call for chapters on the influence of second wave feminism on the arts in
Britain.
Editor Dimple Godiwala
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Press
Deadline for chapters 30 April 2006
Feminism in Britain has permeated every art form, from drama, dance and
music to the so-called 'low-brow' culture: popular culture. It is seen as a
transgressive force and has influenced culture immeasurably since the second wave
of 60s feminism. Are women equal in the fields of art? Do they still have to
struggle for recognition within the matrix of the various institutions? Who
wields the power in British drama for example? How different is it in the

CFP: The Influence of Feminism on the Arts in Britain (4/30/06; collection)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
DimpleGodiwala_at_aol.com

 
BOOK
Call for chapters on the influence of second wave feminism on the arts in
Britain.
Editor Dimple Godiwala
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Press
Deadline for chapters 30 April 2006
Feminism in Britain has permeated every art form, from drama, dance and
music to the so-called 'low-brow' culture: popular culture. It is seen as a
transgressive force and has influenced culture immeasurably since the second wave
of 60s feminism. Are women equal in the fields of art? Do they still have to
struggle for recognition within the matrix of the various institutions? Who
wields the power in British drama for example? How different is it in the

UPDATE: Reading Traditions, Appropriating Cultures (grad) (1/31/06; 4/21/06-4/22/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
aaroncerny_at_ou.edu

Update: We have extended the abstract submission deadline to February 28th.

Reading Traditions, Appropriating Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference in Rhetorical, Literary,
and Cultural Studies

The University of Oklahoma

April 21-22, 2006

Keynote Speaker: Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins University

UPDATE: Reading Traditions, Appropriating Cultures (grad) (1/31/06; 4/21/06-4/22/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
aaroncerny_at_ou.edu

Update: We have extended the abstract submission deadline to February 28th.

Reading Traditions, Appropriating Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference in Rhetorical, Literary,
and Cultural Studies

The University of Oklahoma

April 21-22, 2006

Keynote Speaker: Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins University

UPDATE: Reading Traditions, Appropriating Cultures (grad) (1/31/06; 4/21/06-4/22/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
aaroncerny_at_ou.edu

Update: We have extended the abstract submission deadline to February 28th.

Reading Traditions, Appropriating Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference in Rhetorical, Literary,
and Cultural Studies

The University of Oklahoma

April 21-22, 2006

Keynote Speaker: Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins University

UPDATE: Reading Traditions, Appropriating Cultures (grad) (1/31/06; 4/21/06-4/22/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:46pm
aaroncerny_at_ou.edu

Update: We have extended the abstract submission deadline to February 28th.

Reading Traditions, Appropriating Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference in Rhetorical, Literary,
and Cultural Studies

The University of Oklahoma

April 21-22, 2006

Keynote Speaker: Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins University

CFP: Encyclopedia of American Literature, 1945-1970 (no deadline; book)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:45pm
Jeff Soloway

> CFP: Encyclopedia of American Literature, 1945-1970 (no deadline;
> book)
>=20
> Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for schools and
> libraries, is seeking a scholar to serve as general editor of a
> one-volume encyclopedia of American Literature from 1945 to 1970,
> marketed particularly to high school students. The ideal general
> editor will be an expert on standards for the teaching of literature

CFP: Encyclopedia of American Literature, 1945-1970 (no deadline; book)

updated: 
Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:45pm
Jeff Soloway

> CFP: Encyclopedia of American Literature, 1945-1970 (no deadline;
> book)
>=20
> Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for schools and
> libraries, is seeking a scholar to serve as general editor of a
> one-volume encyclopedia of American Literature from 1945 to 1970,
> marketed particularly to high school students. The ideal general
> editor will be an expert on standards for the teaching of literature

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