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CALL FOR PAPERS: Culture of Reading, past and present
APPROVED PANEL IN THE LITERATURE & SOCIETY SECTION and possible collection of essays for publication
FOR THE AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
PCA/ACA ANNUAL MEETING, April 12th-15th, 2006
ATLANTA MARRIOTT MARQUIS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
DEADLINE: OCT 21, 2005.
The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee is seeking submissions for a two-day graduate student
conference focusing on the theme "Archival Bodies" to be held on February
10-11, 2006, in conjunction with the Center for 21st Century Studies and its
2005-06 research theme "States of Autonomy."
Call for Papers: International Medieval Congress
Leeds, 10th-13th July, 2006
Special Thematic Strand: Emotion and Gesture
Proposals are invited for the following session:
Text Formatting as Written Gesture in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
On Miracle Ground XIV
Durrell and the Archive: The Modernist Milieu
June 25-29, 2006
http://www.lawrencedurrell.org/omg14.htm
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Initial deadline for abstracts: 3/31/06=20
Initial deadline for submissions: 9/30/06=20
CEA invites proposals for presentations on book history, bibliography, textual
criticism, readership, authorship, print culture, and (especially) book history
pedagogy. We're meeting at the historic Saint Anthony's Hotel in San
Antonio, April 6-8, 2006.
Panels in book history and book history pedagogy are sponsored by Terry
Belanger and Rare Book School.
Since 1939, the College English Association has been a vibrant association of
scholar-teachers, committed to excellence in teaching and professional
development with 20 regional affiliates. Last year's conference with over 500
presentations in total, offered 5 panels on book history & textual criticism.
"The Publishing Contexts of Eighteenth-Century Exploration Narratives"
Roxanne Kent-Drury, Literature & Language Dept., Northern Kentucky U., LA
543, Highland Heights, KY 41099; Tel: 859/572-6636; Fax: 859/572-6093;
E-mail: rkdrury_at_nku.edu
This panel would provide a forum for book history research pertaining to
eighteenth century exploration narratives. Book history research continues
to be concerned with the physical properties of books and the material
conditions of their production, yet the field has expanded in recent years
to embrace the entire range of social conditions that may have influenced
the conception, writing, publication, and distribution of books. Recent
Dear colleagues:
Please see below a call for papers
(with apologies for cross-posting).
Thank you,
Susan Imbarrato
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"EARLY AMERICAN CARTOGRAPHIES"
March 2-4, 2006, at the Newberry Library:
A conference sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists; the
Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies, Hermon Dunlap Smith
Center for the History of Cartography, D'Arcy McNickle Center for
American Indian History, and Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family
and Community History; and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal
Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame.
WORD AND IMAGE (ASECS, March 30-April 2, 2006)
This panel seeks to investigate the interaction between verbal and visual
languages in the art and literature of eighteenth-century Europe. Approaches
may draw upon such diverse fields as art history and image theory, cultural
studies, literary theory, visual semiotics, book history and print culture.
Some possible topics include: portraits in the text, engraving, illustrated
narratives and cartography, verbal description, and film adaptations of
eighteenth-century works. The objective is to engage in a stimulating dialogue
on the mutual collaboration of these two very rich forms of expression.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Online Publishing
Computer Culture Area
2006 SWTexas Popular Culture Assoc./American Culture Assoc.
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/
Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 8-11, 2006
We are seeking individual paper proposals as well as panel proposals
(panels of three or four presenters) on aspects of online publishing. We
would welcome proposals by scholars (including graduate students),
publishers, editors, writers, and artists.
Possible topics include:
Abstracts are being accepted for a special session at the 41st
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan:
"Text and Context in Bodleian Library MS Laud Misc 108"
Call for Papers for the 41st Int'l Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, MI, May 4-7 2006:
"Framing, Training and Constraining: Creating an Ideal Reader in the
Later Middle Ages"
Recent meetings of the International Congress have featured panels on
diagrams and codicological devices on the one hand, and on specific
sites and modes of reading on the other. This panel aims to bring
these two strands into a productive tension. We welcome submissions
on the development and transmission of institutional reading
practices as well as papers on the way individual books, circulating
without or beyond institutional support, sought to create ideal
readers more or less on the spot.
_Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens_ is inviting contributions for its 64th
issue of October 2006 devoted to the interactions between text(s) and
image(s)in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. The deadline for
submissions is 30 December 2005._Cahiers Victoriens et Edouadiens_ is a peer-reviewed academic journal
established at the University of Montpellier, France since 1973. It is the
leading French journal in Victorian studies and it publishes articles in
French and English. All submissions should conform to the notes for
CFP: Textual Culture and the Medieval British Contact Zone
Panel for the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, MI
Submissions are invited for a session sponsored by the Oregon Medieval
English Literature Society on textual culture. "Textual Culture" is
defined broadly, including discussions
of book culture and its formation, the construction of books, orality,
literacy, learning, and the impact of texts on society, among others.
Interdisciplinary papers are welcomed especially.
Likewise, papers on topics from areas throughout Britain and those on
cultures which have contact and/or
conflict with Britain are encouraged.
CALL FOR PAPERS
For an edition of scholarly essays on The Politics of British Literary Collections
Deadline for abstracts: December 1, 2005
Editors:
John Pruitt, University of Wisconsin-Marshfield
Sarah Pogell, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Interested Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press
CALL FOR PAPERS:
LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND POPULAR CULTURE RESEARCH AREA
POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION 2006
The Popular Culture Association will be holding its annual joint meeting
with the American Culture Association April 12-15, 2006 at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia. Scholars from numerous disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.
Call for Contributors:
NOW CALLING FOR CONTRIBUTORS TO PREVIOUSLY UNADVERTISED CHAPTER OF The =
Cultural History of Reading (2 vol. series forthcoming from Greenwood =
Press, 2007).
The Editors seek contributors for the following subsections of the =
Europe and Britain chapter of the World Literature volume: =20
CALL FOR PAPERS: Many Floridas: Women Envisioning Change
A Conference Hosted by the Florida Consortium for Women's Studies
April 6-8, 2006
Tampa, Florida
Contributors Sought
Project Overview
The Cultural History of Reading (forthcoming from Greenwood Press, 2007)
examines written documents (books, pamphlets, treatises, plays, poems,
essays etc.) that shaped, and were shaped by, crucial cultural events
throughout the world and in the United States.
Temple Poetics Group
Call for Papers
Unbinding the Book, Bound Edition
Soliciting essays, poems, short stories, and other written
and/or creative works
for
THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL DEBARTOLO CONFERENCE ON=20
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
~ CALL FOR PAPERS ~
THE BOOK
February 16-18, 2006 Tampa, Florida
With the 20th Anniversary in 2006, the DeBartolo Conference on
Eighteenth-century Studies will reach the conclusion of its long,
successful run. Our finale celebration will feature keynote lectures by
distinguished scholars Robert C. Darnton, Margaret J.M. Ezell, and David
D. Hall. Other honored participants include Paula Backscheider,
Alistair Duckworth, J. Paul Hunter, Jessica Munns, James Raven, and Pat
Rogers.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 1 March 2005
M/C - Media and Culture
http://www.media-culture.org.au/
is calling for contributors to the 'print' issue of
M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/
M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
MARGINALIA
A new, interdisciplinary graduate journal of the Middle Ages
'MARGINS'
The theme of the first issue of *Marginalia* is 'margins'. We welcome
innovative and original interpretations and responses to this theme -- from
all areas of medieval studies -- by graduate students. Articles might
address the following themes:
- marginal annotation or illustration of manuscripts
- marginal social groups or marginalized themes and persons in literary
sources
- little-known, under-studied or under-utilized texts, art-historical
sources etc.
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
Following a successful first series of Book History seminars held in London to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the First World War, the organisers would like to invite contributions to a planned edited collection to be ready for submission to publishers in DECEMBER 2005. Essays from scholars working in any aspect of print culture relating to the First World War are wlecome, but we would particularly like to hear from those working on the publishing industries, reading communities and distribution networks of countries outside the United Kingdom.
CFP: Visual Culture in the Literature Classroom: Essays in Pedagogy
and Practice
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Submissions are sought for a proposed volume of essays presently titled
Visual Culture in the Literature Classroom: Essays in Pedagogy and
Practice.
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UPDATE...
A number of potential contributors have requested time past the=20
original deadline to submit an abstract to the "Teaching Bibliography=20
and Book History" collection. Therefore, it only seems fair to offer=20
the same opportunity to others as well.
If you were interested in submitting a proposal but missed the deadline=20=
due to other obligations, please contact me and we'll set up a new=20
deadline.
Thanks to all those who submitted proposals--I will be sending those=20
along to the editorial board in the next week.
I've appended the original call below my signature.
Ann Hawkins
For a special issue of Library Quarterly (University of Chicago Press)
that we are editing, we are seeking papers on the theme of the "Library as
Place." The journal is interested in publishing papers that relate to the
historical and/or contemporary place of the library within its community
of interest, the role of the library as an important locus within the
public sphere, the influence of the library as a public or civic space
within contemporary urban or rural landscapes, and the uses made of
library spaces by various clienteles and the public in general. In
particular, we would encourage submission of papers that discuss the
meaning(s) of the library in the lives of its users and user groups, and
Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History
400-word proposals due by April 1st.
Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History will offer a=20=
variety of approaches to incorporating discussions of book history or=20
print culture into graduate and undergraduate classrooms. TBH will=20
consider the book as a literary, historical, cultural, and aesthetic=20
object.
TBH will offer discussions on book history pedagogy by a variety of=20
scholars who teach bibliography, textual criticism, or book history in=20=
a range of courses, departments, and settings.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The editors of American Periodicals
invite contributions for a special issue planned for 2004 on the "state=20=
of the field" for periodical studies. Topics might include:
=95 theoretical approaches and interventions in periodical studies
=95 new archives, technologies and research methods
=95 visions of the future of the field
=95 periodical studies and book studies
=95 survey of current and recent dissertations in the field