cultural studies and historical approaches

CALL FOR PAPERS

Ludologica Retro, Volume 1: Vintage Arcade (1971- 1984), edited by Ian
Bogost & Matteo Bittanti

"Ludologica. Videogames d'Autore" is pleased to announce its Call for
Papers for a book on classic video games that will be published in
mid-2005.

Provisionally titled "Ludologica Retro, Volume 1: Vintage Arcade (1971 –
1984)", this interdisciplinary critical anthology will explore a range
of topics regarding the aesthetic, cultural, and social significance of
seminal vintage arcade games. The volume will be edited by Ian Bogost
(Georgia Institute of Technology) and Matteo Bittanti (Libera Università
di Lingue e Comunicazione, IULM).

Arise! Journal Call for Submissions

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Arise! is a journal dedicated to bringing theory and practice into =
dialogue. The editorial collective is particularly interested in =
discussions of post/anti-colonialism, feminism and queer thought, =
Marxism, anarchism, environmentalism, and contemporary activist =
struggles in the United States and elsewhere.

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The fourth issue of Br=FAjula, =93Working Gender: Cultural =
Representations
of Women and Labor=94 aims to bring together research that engages with
and analyzes the condition of women as they participate in work. Studies
of work include but are not limited to paid, unpaid, intellectual,
creative, physical, formal or informal, legal or illegal endeavors. We
will consider papers from a variety of discipl ines that explore and
problematize the changing definitions of women and their labors in Latin
American societies from pre-colonial to contemporary times.=20
Br=FAjula is a peer-reviewed journal that favors anonymity in the =
process

Call for Reviews - Iraq War Culture
Bad Subjects
Issued: October 25, 2004
Deadline: Open

Bad Subjects is issuing an open call for review essays of 1000-3000 words dealing with the cultural landscape created by the Iraq War. We are interested in essays that examine cultural products (art, film/video, photography, writing, music, theater, dance, software) or public-sphere phenomena (protests, political events, media coverage, educational projects, public reports, law) that respond to the war and its social environment.

Call for Papers: Playing with Mother Nature: Video Games, Space, and
Ecology

Editors Sidney I. Dobrin, Cathlena Martin, and Laurie Taylor seek
proposals for a new collection of original articles that address the use
and place of space and ecology in video games. This collection will
examine video games in terms of the spaces they create and use, the
metaphors of space on which they rely, and the ecologies that they create
within those spaces. This collection will address the significant
intersections in terms of how and why video games construct space and
ecology as they do, and in terms of how those constructions shape
conceptions of both space and ecology.

Abstract Submission Deadline Extention to November 1 2004

Reading Stargate SG-1 and Beyond: Stan Beeler and Lisa Dickson, eds.
 
Essay abstracts of 250 - 500 words should be forwarded by Nov 1 2004 to
Stan Beeler, stan_at_unbc.ca or
Lisa Dickson, dicksonl_at_unbc.ca

Authors are sought for individual chapters of the Europe volume of the Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture, a six-volume set under contract with the Greenwood Publishing Group.

 Storytelling, Self, Society:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies

Call for Proposals

CHILDREN'S LIT & THE LEFT
Special Issue, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY

Call for contributions to a volume on depression and narrative.

Readers are invited to submit pieces for a book project which will
consist of original feminist fairy tales and psychological/cultural
analytical/interpretative essays about the tales. If you are interested
in participating, I'll need expressions of interest, abstracts, or
proposals by 9/15/04; I must have the stories and essays by 1/15/05.
Since some of the writing you do may involve self-disclosure, I will
need your mailing address so that I can mail you the requisite Indiana
University "human subject" permission form for this type of writing
project if I accept your work for inclusion in the collection. I will
also send-via e-mail-if you'd like to see it, a model story ("Beauty and

divide #3: "Art and Politics"

forthcoming Fall 2005

CFP: Visual Culture in the Literature Classroom: Essays in Pedagogy
and Practice

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Submissions are sought for a proposed volume of essays presently titled
Visual Culture in the Literature Classroom: Essays in Pedagogy and
Practice.

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The English Studies Forum's forthcoming sites on parody and play will be combined into a new ongoing forum on Parody / Play / Performance. Submissions to this forum might address all forms of parody, play, and/or performance. We are interested in manuscripts that theorize these concepts, as well as those that are themselves parodic, playful, or performative.

The electronic peer-reviewed English Studies Forum seeks innovative creative and critical writing. The editors are seeking aesthetically adventurous work that experiments with language and thought, challenging conventional techniques of literary expression.

The "Parody / Play / Performance" forum is scheduled to debut in our Fall 2004 issue.