THE NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS PRIZE

For the best essay published annually in "Renaissance and
Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme".

The value of the prize is $500 CAD.

This prize honours the contributions of Professor Natalie Zemon Davis to
early modern studies and, in particular, to "Renaissance and
Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme" (with which she was involved at its very
beginning and which is now in its fortieth year).

The winner will be selected by a subcommittee of the editorial board from
among the essays published in each volume. The prize may, in extraordinary
circumstances, be divided among entries judged to be of equal merit.

CFP: War Stories: Gendered Analysis of Media Coverage

Due: March 31, 2005
Length: 1,000 -1,500 words (4-6 pages typed, double-spaced)

CFP: War Stories: Gendered Analysis of Media Coverage

Due: March 31, 2005
Length: 1,000 -1,500 words (4-6 pages typed, double-spaced)

We invite contributions for a projected essay collection on John Cameron Mitchell's rock opera _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_ (Hedwig). We welcome scholarly essays from different fields (literature, film, cultural studies, religious studies, classics, anthropology, biology, educational psychology, speech communication/rhetoric, and others) engaging with _Hedwig_ in a variety of cultural contexts. Topics might include but are not limited to:

"Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme" now has a new editor,
and a reconstituted editorial board which includes notable scholars from the
UK and France, the US and Canada (see below).

Now in its fortieth year, "Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et
Réforme" is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, bilingual quarterly. The
journal publishes articles and reviews on all aspects of the Renaissance,
Reformation, and Early Modern world: literature, geography, history,
religion, art, music, society, and economics.

Call for Papers

RLS2006: Transatlantic Stevenson

Conference web site: http://www3.uta.edu/english/rls2006/main.aspx

Seeking proposals for a collection of essays provisionally titled _Early Modern
Academic Drama: Text, History, Performance_. The editors are looking for four
critical essays to fill out the roughly ten-essay volume: the other essays are
currently at the revision stage and we anticipate shopping the completed ms. by
August 2005. We would therefore prefer proposals on articles that are either
already drafted or in progress.

2005 ALJ: IRCALC Calls for Papers on Eco-Criticism of Literature in Africa

Fashion as Photograph ­ call for papers

A collection of critical essays and commentaries on fashion photography.

Critical interest in fashion has grown in recent years, with scholars and
critics in a variety of fields engaging fashion as a culturally and
historically significant phenomenon, examining it in relation to art, mass
culture, spectacle and self-identity, consumption, performance, politics,
and lifestyle.

NEW NIGERIAN POETRY JOURNAL

Poetry of the Last Two Decades

Following weeks of intensive deliberations and the decision of the IRCALC board to expand the scope and readership of the journal on new Nigerian poetry, the editorial board has approved three broad themes in the upcoming edition of the New Nigerian Poetry journal project.

The project will enjoy the initial sponsorship of Progeny International even as more participants are welcome to join the efforts to sustain the emerging virile national literatures of Africa.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Austin College welcomes abstracts from undergraduates in any field, on =
any topic related to Race and/or Nationalism, especially in the =
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Please contribute your work and join us for this exciting event!

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE OF PACIFIC COAST PHILOLOGY:

LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK

PAMLA's journal, Pacific Coast Philology, will publish a special issue on
literature and the history of the book. Papers are invited on literary
relationships to aspects of print and manuscript culture. Topics include,
but are not limited to, reading practices, relations between writers and
publishers, the material book, publishing practices, authorship, censorship,
textual transmission, relationships between oral culture and the cultures of
writing and print, literature in the electronic age.

Please send inquiries and submissions to

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language
Association, is currently seeking essays addressing pedagogy and/or current
issues in the profession. Essays may address pedagogical theory, practical
teaching strategies, faculty/student collaboration, curriculum development,
information technology, small college/research university dynamics,
institutional politics, graduate and faculty unionization, part-time
faculty, tenure and promotion, the legal reverberations of affirmation
action, academia and the "two-body" problem, and other related topics.
Essays typically range in length from 1250-7000 words. Through 2-28-05, we

Pataphysica announces an upcoming third issue on pataphysical
machines. We will print selected critical and artistic works. We
invite the pataphysical writing of scholars in the following
fields: alchemy, Alfred Jarry, Contraptionalism, cybernetics,
dada, Fernando Pessoa, Flann O'Brien, Gilles Deleuze, Jean
Tinguely, machine-produced art, Marcel Duchamp, Oulipo,
puppetry, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, and such. Contemporary
artists and poets may submit textual machines, diagrams, and
descriptions of works in progress. Articles and works must
directly relate to pataphysics for inclusion. Deadline for
submission: June 20, 2005. Send all proposals to Dr. Cal