cultural studies and historical approaches

Over the twentieth century, a number of key works of cultural theory,
social and biological science have effectively exposed and challenged
domination on the basis of race, gender, class, age, and national
difference, as social and discursive constructs that suit the needs of the
political status quo But what about species differences? For the hundreds
of thoughtful essays, books, collections on race, gender, nationality, age
and other bases for domination, the academy has been reluctant to raise
similar questions about what we presuppose to be the differences, real or
imagined, between human and non-human animals. Although the scientific and

In our digital media saturated lives, where we spend increasing amounts of
time in “virtual worlds” such as Second Life or online on blogs and video
sites, it can be easy to forget about public spaces. Unlike content in
virtual worlds, cultural programs in public spaces are events that are
lived and experienced bodily and sensuously. Museum exhibits, public music
performances, sports, art festivals â€" these events are truly immediate,
which is to say that they are lived bodily by those that participate in and
produce them. The editors are seeking contributions of approximately 5,000
words to a new book, already under contract, which examines the peculiar

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
November 7-8, 2008
Pomona College
Claremont, California

"The History of American Literary Criticism 1900-50's."

Paper proposals sought for an approved special-session panel on the history
of American literary criticism from around 1900 through the 1950's.
Proposals may address the theory, practice, and institutional / pedagogical
impact of any movement or group active during the era specified:
philological and historical critics, New Critics, Marxist critics, Chicago
School, New York Intellectuals, myth critics, etc.

Asian and Asian American Literature Panel-PAMLA 2008 (4/15/08; PAMLA,
11/7/08-11/8/08)
Proposals for individual presentations are invited for the Asian and Asian
American Literature panel at the 2008 meeting of the Pacific Ancient and
Modern Language Association (PAMLA). The panel topic is open, but I am
especially interested in papers that explore relationships between Asian
American experiences, writing, identity, and so on and the larger Asian
diaspora and even postcolonial study of Asian and Asian American
experience. These relationships might include, but are not limited to

Call for Papers: FAN STUDIES
2008 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 3-5, 2008
Cincinnati OH
http://www.mpcaaca.org
Deadline: April 30, 2008

New Radical Subjectivities: Re-thinking Agency for the 21st Century

The University of Nottingham, UK
Friday, September 19th, 2008

Keynote Speaker â€" Professor Peter Hallward (Middlesex University)

Peter Hallward is the author of Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing between
the Singular and the Specific (Manchester, 2001), Badiou: A Subject to
Truth (Minnesota, 2003), Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of
Creation (Verso, 2006), and most recently, Damming the Flood: Haiti,
Aristide, and the Politics of Containment (Verso, 2007).

(Proposals due April 15th, 2008)

Call for contributors for Hip Hop Around the World: An Encyclopedia, a
two-volume reference set under contract with Greenwood Press. This
collection will consist of 10,000-word essays on the most important hip hop
scenes around the world. I am currently seeking contributors interested in
writing chapters on the following countries and themes:

* North America
1. Aztlan/Chicano
2. Mexico
3. Native (North) America

* The Caribbean
4. Puerto Rico
5. Haiti
6. Cuba
7. Dominican Republic

* Europe
8. The U.K.
9. France
10. Germany
11. Italy

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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