cultural studies and historical approaches

American Cultural Studies. Papers welcome on any aspect of American
Cultural Studies from any time period in US history. Particularly relevant
are papers that speak to the conference theme of “fame/infamy.” Papers may
address material culture in the U.S. (automobiles, clothing, toys, etc.),
popular culture (television, movies, music, fashion, etc.), media
(journalism and the internet), and others. Papers may also investigate high
culture through the lens of cultural studies. Please send abstracts and
queries to Elizabeth Klaver, etklaver_at_siu.edu, by April 15, 2008. MMLA
Conference, November 13-16, 2008, Minneapolis.

8th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference
April 11-13, 2008
Objective Witness: Performance, Document, Memory
University of Iowa

Call for Papers and Presentations
Continuities and Innovations: Popular Print Cultures â€" Past and Present,
Local and Global
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
27-30 August 2008

Call for Contributions
Please Distribute Widely
  
“Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Diversions, and Connections”
A special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality
Edited by Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
and Jonathan Alexander, PhD, University of California, Irvine
  
This special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality invites scholarly
and research-oriented essays that explore potential theoretically or
empirically understood connections and intersections between bisexuality
and queer theory.
Queer Theory has emerged in the West as one of the most provocative

Call for papers: Literature, the Peace Corps, and Public Service

This proposed session is for the interdisciplinary conference, “John F.
Kennedy: History, Memory, Legacy” to be held on the University of North
Dakota’s campus September 25-27, 2008.

NATIONAL LITERATURES IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION.
THE ISSUE OF THE CANON

University of Bucharest
Tudor Vianu Research Centre â€" project LIRCO
31 October â€" 1 November 2008
Deadline for submissions: 15th April 2008

Papers are invited for a panel on 'Film Adaptation and the Coming of Sound'
for the 3rd Annual Studies in Literature on Screen Conference, Amsterdam,
26-27 September, 2008. Abstracts to Deborah Cartmell
djc_at_dmu.ac.uk by 6th June, 2008.

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The “Authorship and Auteurism” area of the Midwest Popular Culture
Association/Midwest American Culture Association is now accepting proposals
for its upcoming conference. The MPCA/MACA conference will be held
Friday-Sunday, October 3-5, 2008 at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza
in Cincinnati, OH.

This panel seeks papers that analyze any aspect of auteur theory or
authorship studies. Topics may explore any popular medium or cultural
production from any time period or country. Of particular interest are
papers that focus on film authorship reexamining classical auteurist
frameworks pioneered by the French critics of the Cahiers du cinema.

CALL FOR PAPERS

9th Annual SALA (South Asian Literary Association) Conference
San Francisco, December 26-27, 2008

Conference Theme: “Gender and Sexuality in South Asian Literature and
Culture”

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CFP: Performing Science:
Drama, History, Literature

Friday, 4 July 2008
Department of Drama and Theatre Artsâ€"University of Birmingham
Supported in part by University of Birmingham Dean’s Strategic Initiative
Funding

Increasing intersections between natural philosophy, the history of
science, and spectacle demonstrate that theatre history is intellectual
history.
Individual worldviews are shaped by natural philosophy and science, and
it is impossible to underestimate the degree to which a person’s
worldview shapes their creative output.

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

The Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western
Sydney, Australia presents:

"Missing Persons" - An inter-disciplinary conference to be held on the
Bankstown campus of the University of Western Sydney on Thursday 10 and
Friday 11 July 2008

Call for papers:

Missing Persons seeks to examine and explore issues arising from loss and
displacement, memory and forgetting, disappearance, erasures and caesuras,
death and dying in artistic and creative production.

Mourning and Activism: Memorial Narratives

Proposed Special Session for MLA Convention, San Francisco, Dec 27-30,
2008. deadline 15 March 2008.

250-word (min)abstracts for 20-min papers examining intersections of
commemoration, storytelling, and activism. Consideration of
genre/rhetorical approaches or analysis of specific public-memory
project, monument, campaign, digital archive, fiction, memoir, or
documentary.

Going Cheap?: Female Celebrity in the Tabloid, Reality and Scandal Genres

School of Film and Television Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich, UK
June 25, 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Panel: "Truman Capote"

50th Annual MMLA Convention
2008 Informal Convention Theme: Fame/Infamy
November 13-16, 2008
Minneapolis, Minnesota

This panel seeks to present critical investigations of the literary and
cultural work of Truman Capote (1924-1984).

All methodological approaches are welcome.

Possible thematic topics include:

* Capote’s production of and influence in fiction, reportage, and the
nonfiction novel

* adaptations of Capote's works, biography / bio-pic

* fictional accounts of Capote (inclusive of gossip, rumor and innuendo)