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CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Bilingualism and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 4:08pm
Kristyl Kepley

Boca~the South Florida Graduate Student Journal of Linguistics is now
accepting papers for their Spring 2008 issue.
 
GUIDELINES:

· Submissions are due November 18, 2007.

· The 2008 Spring Publication will have a thematic focus of Bilingualism
and Culture.

· Topics which address this issue, from any linguistic (or related)
subfield, will be considered.

· Papers may be submitted in any language, so long as we are able to
secure an appropriate reviewer.

· Submissions should be no more than 25 pages, or approximately 7,000
words, and should follow the most recent APA guidelines.

· A separate title page should include the author's name and address.

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] Integral Studies (11/15/07; SW/TX-PCA/ACA, 2/13/08-2/15/08)

updated: 
Monday, September 17, 2007 - 2:39pm
Daniel Gustav Anderson

This is an open session on integral studies and integral theory broadly
defined. Topics may include:

Intersections among integral theory, critical theory, and cultural theory;

Integral approaches to culture, politics, gender, and/or subjectivity;

Historical approaches to integral practice and thought;

Critique of integralism specifically or new age culture generally.

Submit 200 word proposals for papers by email to dander5 at gmu.edu
(MS Word attachment preferred) by 15 November 2007, or by snail mail to:

Daniel Gustav Anderson
Cultural Studies
George Mason University MSN 5E4
Fairfax, VA 22030

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Gaming Theory and Culture (10/31/07; ICFA, 3/19/08 â 3/23/08)

updated: 
Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 7:21pm
Barbara Lucas

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on Video Game Theory and
Culture for the 29th Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in
the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 29 is on the sublime in the fantastic, and while papers
relating to this theme are welcome, proposals on any topics related to
this call will be considered. The conference will be held in Orlando,
Florida, from March 19 - 23, 2008 at the Marriott Orlando Marriott
Hotel. For more information and updates about the conference, please
visit www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Buying and Selling Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (10/31/07; ICFA, 3/19/08 â 3/23/08)

updated: 
Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 7:19pm
Barbara Lucas

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on Buying and Selling
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror for the 29th Annual International
Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 29 is on the sublime in the fantastic, and while papers
relating to this theme are welcome, proposals on any topics related to
this call will be considered. The conference will be held in Orlando,
Florida, from March 19 - 23, 2008 at the Marriott Orlando Marriott
Hotel. For more information and updates about the conference, please
visit www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Hypertexts, New Media, and Convergence in the Fantastic (10/31/07; ICFA, 3/19/08 â 3/23/08)

updated: 
Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 7:18pm
Barbara Lucas

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on Hypertexts, New
Media, and Convergence in the Fantastic for the 29th Annual International
Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 29 is on the sublime in the fantastic, and while papers
relating to this theme are welcome, proposals on any topics related to
this call will be considered. The conference will be held in Orlando,
Florida, from March 19 - 23, 2008 at the Marriott Orlando Marriott
Hotel. For more information and updates about the conference, please
visit www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Sociology and Folklore in the Fantastic (10/31/07; ICFA, 3/19/08 â 3/23/08)

updated: 
Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 7:16pm
Barbara Lucas

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on Sociology and
Folklore in the Fantastic for the 29th Annual International Conference on
the Fantastic in the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 29 is on the sublime in the fantastic, and while papers
relating to this theme are welcome, proposals on any topics related to
this call will be considered. The conference will be held in Orlando,
Florida, from March 19 - 23, 2008 at the Marriott Orlando Marriott
Hotel. For more information and updates about the conference, please
visit www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Fan Art, Fiction, and Culture (10/31/07; ICFA, 3/19/08 â 3/23/08)

updated: 
Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 7:13pm
Barbara Lucas

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on Fan Art, Fiction, and
Culture for the 29th Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in
the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 29 is on the sublime in the fantastic, and while papers
relating to this theme are welcome, proposals on any topics related to
this call will be considered. The conference will be held in Orlando,
Florida, from March 19 - 23, 2008 at the Marriott Orlando Marriott
Hotel. For more information and updates about the conference, please
visit www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] Specs: Sympathetic Interfaces btw. Critical/Creative Practices (journal)

updated: 
Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 2:46am
Vidhu Aggarwal

Specs is a journal of contemporary culture and arts at Rollins College.

Specs aims to create sympathetic interfaces between artistic and critical
practices. The journal invokes the spirit of John Dewey, for whom thinking
begins in flux, in the "peculiar combination of the understood and
nonunderstood."

The editors invite submissions of theoretical and/or creative work for both
the print and web issue, including critical articles, fiction, non-fiction
(of up to 6000 works), poetry (3-5 poems) and artwork.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Specs: Sympathetic Interfaces btw. Critical/Creative Practices (journal)

updated: 
Friday, September 14, 2007 - 6:09pm
Vidhu Aggarwal

CALL FOR PAPERS

Specs is a journal of contemporary culture and arts at Rollins College.

Specs aims to create sympathetic interfaces between artistic and critical practices. The journal
invokes the spirit of John Dewey, for whom thinking begins in flux, in the "peculiar combination
of the understood and nonunderstood."

The editors invite submissions of theoretical and/or creative work for print and web issue.

The editorial board consists of writers and academics for a wire variety of fields. The editors are
excited by specialty, an excess of detail, fragments, narratives, meta-narratives, and pieces that
blur genre boundaries.

Please email submissions as word attachments to specs_at_rollins.edu.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Extreme Subcultures and Secrecy

updated: 
Friday, September 14, 2007 - 5:07pm
Ashley Ortiz and Heather Hernandez

This panel is going to present on the various societal impacts that extreme
subcultures have, and how those impacts make other social groups both more
and less aware of the relationships those subcultures have to the dominant
culture.

Topics already included in the panel are the extreme elitism of a secret
society, and cases in which the ideologies of the dominant culture force
the formation of secret subcultures.

We are seeking papers that relate to these two topics, or topics including
but not limited to:

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Comics and the American South (11/30/07; SSSL, 4/18/07-4/20/07)

updated: 
Friday, September 14, 2007 - 2:13pm
Qiana Whitted

Abstracts are invited for a proposed panel on “Comics and the American
South” for the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL)
Conference in Williamsburg, VA, April 18-20, 2008.

In keeping with the conference’s theme of “Southern Roots and Routes:
Origins, Migrations, Transformation,” this panel hopes to take advantage of
recent strides in comics criticism to demonstrate how familiar debates in
southern literature surrounding race, class, and regional identity find new
expression in the medium of comics and graphic novels.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] The Globetrotting Shopaholic: Consumer Spaces, Products, and their Cultural Meanings

updated: 
Friday, September 14, 2007 - 8:08am
The Mall Project

Call for Papers

The editors of The Globetrotting Shopaholic: Consumer Spaces, Products,
and their Cultural Meanings invite submissions for an upcoming anthology
on consumer/ commercial spaces and mass consumption. Interest from a
major publishing house has already been expressed.

We welcome original, unpublished interdisciplinary contributions covering
all aspects of consumer/commercial spaces and mass consumption. Topics
of particular interest include:

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] âThe Body Uncovered:Determining the Coreâ

updated: 
Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 5:01pm
Laurie Lopez Coleman

San Antonio College 14th Annual Multicultural Conference April 22-24, 2008
The body is powerful and those interested in power have long used it to
accomplish their ends. The desire to own the body and its
representations drives the fashion industry, entertainment, politicians.
Racists define human value according to the body; the abortion debate is
ultimately about who owns the body, as is the question of decency in the
pornography debate.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] New Directions in Biography

updated: 
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 10:32pm
Liz Podnieks

Chapters are sought for a Special Issue of the scholarly journal a/b:
Auto/Biography (Fall 2008) on the topic of new or contemporary directions
in scholarly and or popular biography. Possible areas to consider
include, but are not limited to, the following:
- the rise of celebrity biographies
-tabloids, celebrity, and or glossy magazines as sites of biography
- biography on TV and online
-"biopic" movies
-graphic biographies
- intersections of biography and fiction in various forms/media
-interviews and or documentaries as sites of biographical production
- "biography" or “people” sections in mega bookstores
-scholarly journals, academic programs, and research centres devoted to

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] HISTORY AND THE SOUTH ASIAN NOVEL IN ENGLISH

updated: 
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 11:24am
Nicole Weickgenannt

Call for Papers:

History and the South Asian Novel written in English

20th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS)
The University of Manchester, UK, 8-11 July 2008

This panel proposes to explore the representation of history in the South
Asian novel in English. Papers will study the narrativisation of history in
fiction and historiography from an interdisciplinary perspective and employ
critical and cultural theory in innovative ways.

The ECMSAS is the largest gathering of South Asia oriented researchers in
Europe, covering all fields from the humanities and social sciences to
technology, natural sciences and medicine.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/1/2007)

updated: 
Monday, September 10, 2007 - 5:23pm
Elizabeth A. Festa

Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections

29th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture
Association
Feb 13-16 2008
Hyatt Regency
Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html

Proposals are now being accepted for the Collecting, Collectibles,
Collectors, Collections Area. Listed below are some suggestions for
possible presentations, but topics not included here are also welcome:

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] women and the artifacts of celebrity (collection; 11.1.07)

updated: 
Sunday, September 9, 2007 - 1:50am
ann hawkins

"Beautiful Objects: Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity"

The editors seek essays for a proposed collection on women’s commodification and celebrity
prior to the twentieth-century. We have already had preliminary conversations with a publisher
who has expressed interest in the volume.

What does it mean to be a woman celebrity? In what ways does a woman writer become
commodified, and how are those commodities publicized and marketed? Are women
commodified differently than men of the same period?

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] Justice and the Big Bad Man: Perspectives on Individual Responsibility(9/15/07, NEMLA 4/10/-4/13/0

updated: 
Saturday, September 8, 2007 - 11:12pm
Chad B. Cripe

[The deadline for abstracts has been extended to 9.15.07)

Justice and the Big Bad Man: Perspectives on Individual Responsibility

“We the People” take for granted the role of the government to provide
certain servicesâ€"administration, protection, securityâ€"in a fair and
impartial manner. Yet the impartiality of any given system of government
is often compromised. Oppression can be passive, due to red tape and
forms in triplicate that delay or deny justice, or aggressive, when
individuals within the system seek selfish rather than communal benefits.
When the system fails, what responsibilities can, should, and/or must the
individual assume?

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] Beholding Violence Conference, BGSU

updated: 
Saturday, September 8, 2007 - 3:26am
erin labbie

Deadline for abstracts is extended to September 18. Please send to Erin Labbie
labbie_at_bgsu.edu

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CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Speaking in Borrowed Tongues: An Investigation of Appropriative Literature (NEMLA. April 2008)

updated: 
Saturday, September 8, 2007 - 2:12am
Michael S. Hennessey

Speaking in Borrowed Tongues: An Investigation of Appropriative Literature

Throughout the twentieth century and beyond, there has been a rich and
lively tradition of appropriative aesthetics, from the Surrealists to Pop
Art, hip-hop to contemporary mash-up artists. In the literary realm, this
mode of expression has taken forms as diverse as the cut-ups of Tristan
Tzara, the New York School poetics of John Ashbery and Ted Berrigan and
Kevin Young's Basquiat tribute-in-verse, To Repel Ghosts (the Remix), as
well as prose experimentations from William S. Burroughs to Jonathan Lethem.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Peace Panel (Nov. 1, 2007; CEA March 27-29, 2008

updated: 
Saturday, September 8, 2007 - 12:48am
Karen Lentz Madison

College English Association National Conference
March 27-29, 2008
St. Louis, Missouri
  
We invite Peace Panel submissions for the 39th annual meeting of the CEA:

PAX Perfect

Many paths lead to warâ€"
Others lead to peace.

The 2008 Peace Panel Committee requests conference presentations focusing
on peace passagesâ€"explored, discovered, research, forgedâ€"past, present, and
future.

Please keep in mind that to preserve time for discussion, CEA limits
presentations to 15 minutes. All Peace Panel abstracts must be submitted by
November 1st, 2007, via the CEA online database at
http://english.ttu.edu/cea/conftool.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Human Rights and Literature: Representing the Struggle (Nov. 1, 2007; CEA March 27-29, 2008)

updated: 
Thursday, September 6, 2007 - 1:39am
Lauren De La Vars

Call for Papers for a NYCEA sponsored CEA Special Topics Panel on "Human
Rights and Literature: Representing the Struggle" at the 39th College
English Association (CEA) Conference St. Louisâ€"27-29 March 2008

We welcome submissions of both past NYCEA papers previously presented at
the NYCEA Conference on this theme, OR new submissions on the topic of this
special session: "Human Rights and Literature: Representing the Struggle.”

We also welcome full panel proposals fitting the above panel topic.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Theorizing Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas and Potentialities

updated: 
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 - 8:42pm
B.O.FIRAT

Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex, Race invites articles for an upcoming volume in its series,
titled Theorizing Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas and Potentialities, which will focus on
contemporary cultural activism that deals with issues of gender, race, queer, inter-cultural
dialogue, political agency and societal transformation within the broader framework of
contemporary anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist and alternative-globalization struggles with their
particular forms, existing practices, and their further implications and potentialities.
The Yes Men, the Guerilla Girls, Adbusters, Reclaim the Streets, Critical Art Ensemble,

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] 2007 Cultural Studies Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 - 6:18pm
Lisa Tatonetti

Extremism and the Excluded Middle
The 17th Annual Cultural Studies Conference
at Kansas State University, March 6-8, 2008
TOPIC: Extremism and the Excluded Middle
CONFERENCE DATES: March 6-8, 2008
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: October 15, 2007

Keynote Speaker: Anne Fausto-Sterling, author of Sexing the Body and Myths
of Gender.
Featured Poet: Chrystos, author of Fire Power and Fugitive Colors.
Conference Description:

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