cultural studies and historical approaches

****CALL FOR PAPERS UPDATE****

The journal MELUS has recently placed a moratorium on submissions. However,
this moratorium DOES NOT apply to the special graphic narrative issue of
MELUS already in progress. In order to account for any misunderstanding and
confusion concerning this matter, the deadline for essay submissions for
this special issue has been pushed back to July 15, 2006. For more details,
go to the special issue website,
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/droyal/melus.htm, or see below:

Radio and Technology
For the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
Annual Conference
Baltimore, October 27-29, 2006
 
We seek proposals, panels, roundtables, and workshops for sessions on the
cultural impact of radio, telephony, recording, amplification, and related
"smaller technologies" such as headphones, tuning dials, and sliders. Some
possible themes include, but are not limited to literary and artistic uses and
representations of radio and sound technology, histories of sound technologies,
relationships or conflicts between sound and visual culture, regulation, sound
 pedagogy, writing for sound and radio and/or sound technology and everyday
life.
 

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  CALL FOR ARTICLES

***deadline extended****

The Irish Studies area of the Midwest Popular Culture and American Culture
Association is extending its deadline for proposals for its upcoming
conference. Papers dealing with Irish culture, literature, emigrants,
history, "Diaspora," or any aspect that would fall under the umbrella of
Irish studies will be considered. The MPCA/MACA conference will be held
Friday-Sunday, October 27-29, 2006 at the Sheraton Indianapolis Hotel &
Suites in Indianapolis, IN.

***deadline extended--new deadline: June 30, 2006***

CALL-FOR-SUBMISSIONS: CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, Volume Four

DISPLAY: THE PLACES AND SPACES OF FASHION

Call for Papers

"Don't You Have Anything Better To Do?":
Work, Play, Comedy and Humor in English Studies

The Department of English at Ohio University invites writers, teachers, and
scholars in English Studies to Athens, Ohio, Saturday, October 14, 2006 for a
one-day conference on the negotiation between work and play in our professional
and public lives. We are interested in how this space is mediated in
classrooms, literature, theory, and art. We encourage the submission of papers,
presentations, creative writings, and panels from all aspects of the discipline-
creative writing, critical theory, cultural studies, literature, rhetoric and
composition, linguisitics, etc.

The Fletcher Lecture Series Committee of Nicholls State University is
pleased to announce the First Fletcher Lecture Series Conference,
featuring a keynote address by 2006 Fletcher Lecturer Henry Louis Gates,
Jr. The conference will be held November 9-11, 2006, on the campus of
Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana, located in the Bayou
Region of South Louisiana (1 hr. from New Orleans or Baton Rouge; 1 1/2
hours from Lafayette).

General Subject: "Crossings: Assimilation and Acculturation"

Submission deadline: July 1, 2006

CFP: Paris as World Influence (6/15/06); 11/2/06-11/4/06) RENEWED CALL =
FOR PAPERS: =93From Paris to the World=94 Dates: 2-4 November 2006Locale: =
Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MissouriProposal Deadline: 15 =
June 2006 As part of a state-mandated International Mission, Missouri =
Southern State University will be hosting a conference in conjunction with =
the university=92s semester-long study of France and its culture. The =
theme of our conference will be =93From Paris to the World,=94 and will =
focus upon the historical and current role of Paris as a cultural, =
artistic, economic, and scientific crucible*one in which ideas, movements, =

MATC (Mid-America Theatre Conference)=20
Changing Theatrical Landscapes:
Mapping New Directions in History, Pedagogy and Practice
For the 21st Century
=20
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Minneapolis, Minnesota
March 1-4, 2007
=20
CALL FOR PAPERS: Theatre History Symposium
=20
TRUE NORTH: A line from any point on the earth's surface to the north
pole. All lines of longitude are true north lines. True north is usually
represented by a star.
=20
In order to measure something, there must always be a starting point or
zero measurement. To express direction as a unit of angular measure,
there must be a starting point or zero measure and a point of reference

Please find below a website link for the Call for Papers for 'Mind and =
Body', a one day conference to be held at the University of Reading in =
July 2007.

http://www.rdg.ac.uk/english/events/body.htm

I would be most grateful if you could pass this on to any interested =
faculty or postgraduate students at your institution.

Mrs Jan Cox
Postgraduate/Conference Secretary
School of English and American Literature
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
University of Reading
Whiteknights
P O Box 218
Reading RG6 6AA
Tel: 0118 378 8362
Fax: 0118 378 6561
E-mail: j.f.cox_at_reading.ac.uk

CFP Comedy, Identity, Health and Well-Being (12/08/06); (7/17/06 - 7/18/06)
United Kingdom

Comedy, Identity, Health & Well-Being

This dual conference on Comedy and Identity and Comedy and Health has been
organized by Liverpool Hope University and the Liverpool Comedy Trust to
coincide with the Liverpool Comedy Festival in July 2006. The intention is
to stimulate multi- and interdisciplinary debate, controversy and
publication on the themes of humour, laughter and the comic in its various
aspects as they pertain to all permutations of human identity, and as they
contribute to well being and health.

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.

PLASTIC

Visual arts and popular Music
France - USA - Great Britain

Universit=E9 Paul Val=E9ry, Montpellier III, France.

PLASTIC is a new refereed, free, on-line, multidisciplinary journal, =20
which covers all aspects of the relationship between popular music =20
and the visual arts (painting, photography, sculpture, installations, =20=