cultural studies and historical approaches

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:

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:

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:

CFP: Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture
2008 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association 29th Annual Conference

February 13-16, 2008

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
http://albuquerque.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtml

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:

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.

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.

2008 Southwest/Texas Regional Meeting
Popular Culture and American Culture Association
February 13 -16, 2008: Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM
Historical Fiction: "Setting the hiSTORY Straight"

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

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:

"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?

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

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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.

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,