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CFP: [Cultural-Historical] International Comic Arts Forum 2008 (5/01/08; 10/09-10/11/08)

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 9:14pm
Cecile Danehy

The Thirteenth Annual INTERNATIONAL COMIC ARTS FORUM (ICAF)

October 9-11, 2008

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (http://www.saic.edu)

The International Comic Arts Forum invites scholarly paper presentations
for its thirteenth annual meeting, to be held at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, from Thursday, October 9,
through Saturday, October 11, 2008. The deadline to submit proposals is May
1, 2008 (see below for proposal guidelines and submission information).
Proposals will be refereed via blind review.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] American Cultural Studies Panel, Midwest Modern Language Association Conference

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 7:15pm
Elizabeth Klaver

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.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Hauntings: Spectres, Spectrality and Spectatorship

updated: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 2:43am
Deirdre Linkiewicz

Philament, the peer-reviewed online journal of the arts and culture
affiliated with the University of Sydney, invites postgraduate scholars
to contribute articles, ficto-criticism, reviews, and opinions for a
special issue produced in conjunction with the convenors of UNSW’s School
of English, Media and Performing Arts Symposium. Revised papers from the
Symposium as well as new submissions are encouraged. Possible themes
include but are not limited to:

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] The Future of Bisexuality

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Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 5:56am
Jonathan Alexander

“The Future of Bisexuality”
A special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality
Edited by Jonathan Alexander, PhD, University of Cincinnati
This special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality will explore the
future of bisexualityâ€"as an identity, as a community grouping, as a flash
point for activism, as a critical way to interrogate and understand hetero-
and mono-sexualities, and as an erotic inspiration for a variety of art
projects. The editor, Dr. Jonathan Alexander, invites scholarly, personal,
and experimental articles that explore what the future of bisexuality might
be in shifting cultural, social, and political climates. Collectively,

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] Bisexuality and Queer Theory

updated: 
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 5:54am
Jonathan Alexander

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

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Literature of the Cold War and the Nuclear Threat

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Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 12:50am
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

Call for papers: Literature of the Cold War and the Nuclear Threat

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.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Literature, the Peace Corps, and Public Service

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Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 12:48am
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

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.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Literature, Media and Presidential Politics

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Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 12:47am
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

Call for papers: Literature, Media and Presidential Politics

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.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Film Adaptation and the Coming of Sound

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 11:22am
Deborah Cartmell

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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CFP: [Cultural-Historical] MSAX panel: Modernism and the Network Narrative

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 3:52am
Wesley Beal

Over the last quarter-century, the fields of critical theory have converged
on a common buzzword, connectivity, which has acted as the linking
mechanism for a constellation of divergent fields converging onto a common
objective. Corresponding to this surge of “connectivity theory” we also
see arise a distinctive “network narrative”â€" a subgenre that represents
human connectedness and its accompanying group formations. Together with
the boom in connectivity theory, these narratives mark a “connectivity
turn” that has defined the theoretical and literary production of the late
1900s and 2000s, with the network narrative exemplified in works like Don

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Authorship and Auteurism (4/30/2008; MPCA/MACA, 10/3/08-10/5/08)

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Monday, March 3, 2008 - 3:23am
Leonard William Scheibel Jr.

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.

CFP: [Cultural–Historical] Call for papers––"Forum on Adorno, Music, and Society"

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Sunday, March 2, 2008 - 3:21am
Franklin Cox

Search is a new, peer-reviewed journal focused on the creative arts and culture. Search will
focus upon sharing information about significant new developments in music and the others
arts. Furthermore, Search will exist as a forum for critical and speculative assessments not only
of the work of individual artists and artistic movements, but also of the state of the art form and
its possible roles and responsibilities in society.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] CFP

updated: 
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 6:18pm
Kara Reilly

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING

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.

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] CFP John Brown Conference

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 3:18pm
Peggy A. Russo

John Brown Remembered: 150th Anniversary of the Raid on Harpers Ferry.
Multi-disciplinary, academic symposium.
Content areas: John Brown's plan, John Brown and Frederick Douglass,
Events leading up to the raid, Individual raiders, Survivors of the raid,
the Secret Six, the trial, Press coverage of the raid, Lincoln's
response, Responses in the North and/or the South, Governor Wise,
Political responses to the raid.
Submissions: 300 word proposals by 15 January 2009.
Conference dates: 13-17 October 2009
Location: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, WV.
Plenary Speakers Include: Dr. David Blight, Dr. Spencer Crew, Dr. Paul
Finkelman.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Final call: Missing Persons

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 2:21am
Rachel Morley

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.

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] Southern Writers, Southern Writing Graduate Conference

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Monday, February 25, 2008 - 11:59pm
Jill E. Anderson

The 14th Annual Southern Writers, Southern Writing is a University of
Mississippi Graduate Student Conference held in conjunction with the
Annual
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.
The Graduate Students in the Departments of English and Southern Studies
invite you to submit abstracts exploring Southern culture. Accepted
submissions will be presented in Oxford, Mississippi, July 17th-19th,
2008.
 The keynote speaker will be John T. Edge, director of the Southern
Foodways Alliance and author of numerous books on Southern cuisine,
including Fried Chicken: An American Story.

Topics for papers or panels are not restricted to literature. They may
include:

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] MLA Special Session: Mourning and Activism

updated: 
Monday, February 25, 2008 - 5:50pm
Sarah Henstra

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.

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] Hungarian Studies: RMMLA, Reno, NV, 10/9-10/11/2008

updated: 
Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 12:36am
Susan Nyikos

CFP: Hungarian Studies: Hungarian Cultures after 1900
Rocky Mountain MLA Convention, Reno, NV, Oct. 9-11, 2008

Proposals for paper presentation are sought in the second year of the
Hungarian Studies Special Topics Session for the RMMLA annual convention.
Papers may explore a wide range of topics pertaining to the Hungarian
cultural arena, within or beyond the borders. Countless contributions
originating from Hungarian artists have enriched world culture and this
panel is dedicated to showcasing papers that elucidate the subtleties and
magnitude of those contributions.

Papers may vary in their specific topics:

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Truman Capote (4/10/08; MMLA 11/13/08-11/16/08)

updated: 
Friday, February 22, 2008 - 4:36am
Douglas Dowland

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)

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Short Moving Images

updated: 
Monday, February 18, 2008 - 9:17pm
Nicole Richter

IN SHORT JOURNAL
CALL FOR PAPERS

The University of Miami is currently accepting submissions for its new
online journal devoted to the study of short moving images. The journal has
been created to construct a scholarly response to recent media developments
in viral videos and forms of “remote controlled viewing.”

We seek submissions on the following topics:

Short films
Music Videos
Commercials
Video Art
You-tube/Online Videos
T.V. episodes
Readings of a single scene from a longer film.

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