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UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] American History and Culture area (SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference 2008)

updated: 
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 6:02am
Kelli Shapiro

CFP Deadline Extended:
The submission deadline for all proposals to the SW/TX PCA/ACA conference
has been extended until December 15, 2007.
 
Call for Papers: American History and Culture area
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture / American Culture Associations
29th Annual Conference, February 13-16, 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico
 
The annual SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference is one of the nation's largest
gatherings of interdisciplinary scholars. The 2008 conference will take
place February 13-16 at the Hyatt Regency in vibrant downtown Albuquerque,
New Mexico, just steps from historic Route 66. Further details about the

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Submissions: LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE

updated: 
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 7:28pm
Eric Skipper

Rodopi Press Amsterdam/ Atlanta announces a new series of literary studies
entitled DIALOGUE, under the general editorship of Michael J. Meyer. The
series will offer new and experienced scholars the opportunity to present
alternative readings and approaches to classic texts (those which have
received canonical acceptance in either American or Continental
Literature).

Essays sought for Laura Esquivel’s LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE. For list of
possible topics and more info, contact Eric Skipper eskipper_at_gsc.edu.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] The Black Female Body in Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, November 26, 2007 - 8:50pm
Dr. Carol E. Henderson

Call for Papers: Imagining the black female body:
Text and Contexts in literature and culture

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet,
undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or
special patronage, then and there the whole…race enters with me.”
--Anna Julia Cooper, 1892

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Dec. 3 Comparative Diasporas ACLA 2008

updated: 
Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 8:43pm
Ursula Lindqvist

**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 3, 2007**
Call for Papers
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
Long Beach, CA
April 24-27, 2008
Deadline for submissions: December 3, 2007

Re-Writing the Promised Land: Comparative Diasporas

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Refractory - Split Screen

updated: 
Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 4:31am
tessa Dwyer

CALL FOR PAPERS

Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media is a refereed, peer-reviewed, e-journal that explores
the diverging and intersecting aspects of current and past entertainment media. The journal is
published by the Cinema Studies Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of
Melbourne.

http://www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au/

ISSUE THEME: Split-Screen: Doubling, Duplicity & the Audiovisual

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Getting Obsessive: Culture and Excess; USC, March 28 and 29, 2008

updated: 
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 7:38pm
Alice Bardan

Getting Obsessive: Culture and Excess
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium, March 28 and 29, 2008
Sponsored by USC’s Assocation of English Graduate Students and the USC
Center for Feminist Research

Keynote Speaker: Tavia Nyong’o, NYU Performance Studies.

Everyone’s a little bit obsessive; academics are usually more than a
little. But what consitutes our obsessions and what work do they do? What
is the relation between obsession and knowledge production; and what
about less legitimate obsessions, the things, places, people and cultural
forms about which we feel excessive love or hate?

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] American Indians Today

updated: 
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 10:59pm
Richard.L.Allen_at_sas.upenn.edu,

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

Albuquerque, NM. February 13-16, 2008
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710

Panels now forming on topics related to American Indians Today. I am
looking for panels or papers that examine the influence that American pop
culture has on aspects of contemporary American Indian life ways and vice
versa. American Indian culture is diverse and an examination of the
culture, influences, adaptation, and cultural syncretism as it is
presented in contemporary America is welcome.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Call For Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 4:47am
Dr Denis C. Meyer

France and China Conference 2008
Cultural and Educational Perspectives
16-17 June 2008
The University of Hong Kong

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] American Literature Association, Latina/o Literature Society

updated: 
Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 7:35pm
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson

 
CFP: Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
May 22-25, 2008
 
The Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature
Association seeks proposals for several panels at the American Literature
Association’s 19th annual conference at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, CA
May 25-28, 2008.
 
Those interested in submitting a paper should send a one-page abstract with
your name, position, affiliation, and contact information to Latina/o
Literature and Culture Society co-chair Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson at
eliza_rodriguezygibson_at_redlands.edu by January 17, 2008.
 

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] Myth and Fairy Tale

updated: 
Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 12:15am
Sharon Melissa Morphew

Myth and Fairy Tale Call for Papers
Deadline Extended
Abstract/Proposals by 1 December 2007
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 29th Annual
Conference
Albuquerque, NM February 14-17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
Panels now forming on topics related to all areas of myth and fairy tale
and their connections to popular culture.
Special Areas of Interest Include:
Fairy Tale and Myth in Film, Revisionist Myth and Fairy Tale, The Works
of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Fairytale, Fairy Tale in
Contemporary Poetry, Myth in Contemporary Poetry, Fairy Tale and the

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] The House of Fiction as the House of Life

updated: 
Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 2:38pm
Francesca Saggini

S.03. The House of Fiction as the House of Life: Representation of the
House in Literature and Culture, 1700-1900
Prof. Francesca Saggini Boyle (University of Tuscia / University of
Glasgow)
E-mail: fsaggini_at_unitus.it
Dr. Anna Enrichetta Soccio (University of Chieti)
E-mail: esoccio_at_unich.it
Click here to send an e-mail to the convenors

European Society for the Study of English Conference (ESSE) 9, August 22-
26, 2008 :: Department of English :: University of Aarhus :: Denmark.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Literature and Pathology

updated: 
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 8:57pm
Jessica Howell

Call for Papers

“Literature and Pathology”
University of California, Davis
February 29thâ€"March 2nd, 2008
http://litpathcon.ucdavis.edu/

Keynote Speaker: Professor Athena Vrettos, author of Somatic Fictions:
Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture (1995) and “Displaced Memories in
Victorian Fiction and Psychology” (2007).

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] âMusic and Traditionâ at SW/TX-PCA/ACA 13-16 Feb 2008 (Dec 1)

updated: 
Friday, November 9, 2007 - 7:07pm
Christopher J. Smith

UPDATE: “Music and Tradition” at SW/TX-PCA/ACA 13-16 Feb 2008 (Dec 1)

The 29th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA
February 13â€"16, 2008
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico

The SW/TX PCA/ACA annual conference represents one of the nation's largest
gatherings of interdisciplinary scholars, with a particular interest in
critical examinations of non-traditional or cross-disciplinary topics. In
order to maximize the pool of submissions, the deadline for proposals has
been extended to December 1.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] International Symposium - Samuel de Champlain Quadricentennial "When the French Were Here"

updated: 
Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 2:28pm
Antoine J. Polgar Ph.D

Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont will host an international acad-
emic symposium on July 2-5, 2009 amidst the pageantry of the Champlain
Quadricentennial Observances commemorating Samuel de Champlain’s explor-
ation of Lake Champlain in 1609. The 2009 celebration of historical
memory and identity in the Lake Champlain Basin evokes the 150 year
French presence in the region (beginning with its exploration by Cham-
plain in 1609) and perpetuates a tradition of earlier observances of
public memory in 1909 and 1959. Entitled “When the French Were Here,” the
Symposium takes place in the context of the experience of temporality.

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] Challenging Faith: Intersections of Belief and Doubt in Literature, Composition, and the Professio

updated: 
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 - 8:01pm
Matt Hurwitz

The University of New Hampshire English Graduate Organization is proud to
announce the speakers for our upcoming 2008 Graduate
Conference “Challenging Faith: Intersections of Belief and Doubt in
Literature, Composition, and the Profession” to be held March 7-8. This
year’s speakers will be Patricia Bizzell, Meredith Hall, and Sharon
O’Dair. We are thrilled that they have all agreed to speak on various
aspects of the conference theme. See below for more detailed information
about each speaker.

We are also announcing a change to our proposal deadline; the new
deadline is Monday, December 10th by noon.

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] SW/TX PCA/ACA Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections

updated: 
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 - 5:06pm
Elizabeth 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 still 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] Shakespeare, The Elizabethans and the Early Modern World

updated: 
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 - 2:21pm
Gregory J. Thompson

PCA/ACA 2008
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
San Francisco Marriot,
San Francisco, California
March 19-22, 2008

Proposals are now being accepted for “Shakespeare, The Elizabethans and
the Early Modern World.” Any and all aspects of culture from this time
period are encouraged. The emphasis is on the “Early Modern World.”
We are interested not only in the literature and drama but other art
forms, technology and material culture from this era. We are also eager
to open the conversation up to interests outside England. We encourage
those with an interest in areas such as Spanish Theatre and literature
before 1700 to make proposals.

CFP: [Cultural–Historical] America and the Holocaust––CSA Conference May 22–24

updated: 
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - 3:15am
Michael Schuldiner

How have Americans experiencedâ€"physically manifested and internalizedâ€"the
experience of both Jewish victimhood and Nazi criminality? What do
American literature, music, art, theatre, and film about the Holocaust
tell us about the Americans who create them? Why and how has the
Holocaust become a central feature of the American heritage landscape?
These questions and others concerning the holocaust in America will be
addressed by the participants on this panel at the Cultural Studies
Association Annual Meeitng at New York University from May 22-24, 2008.
Abstracts of proposed papers should be no more than 500 words and should
be submitted along with a short curriculum vitae to Michael Schuldiner at

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

updated: 
Monday, November 5, 2007 - 11:00pm
Barbara

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 Orlando Marriott Airport 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:

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

updated: 
Monday, November 5, 2007 - 10:58pm
Barbara

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 Orlando Marriott Airport Hotel.
For more information and updates about the conference, please visit
www.iafa.org.

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

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