CFP: Gender-Laughter-Media (1/10/06; 8/24/06-8/26/06)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Gender ? Laughter ? Media
International and Interdisciplinary Conference
August 24-26, 2006, Kamloops, B.C., Canada
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Gender ? Laughter ? Media
International and Interdisciplinary Conference
August 24-26, 2006, Kamloops, B.C., Canada
CALL FOR PAPERS and PROPOSALS--UPDATE:
New England Women's Studies Association (NEWSA) conference
February 25, 2006
hosted by Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT=20
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NEW deadline for proposals: December 30, 2005
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Theme: Women and Justice
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Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Representations of Women, Women and War, Laws of the body, =
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Reproductive Health, Bodies of Law, Women and Mental Health
Movements toward Justice, Women and Religion, Women and Leadership
Women and Technology, Race and Justice, Sex Work, Sex Trafficking
Engendering Power, Women and Place, Women's Health, =20
CFP: Neal Stephenson
Contributors sought for essay collection on Neal Stephenson; contract
in hand from Cambridge Scholars Press. We are particularly
interested in essays examining Cryptonomicon and the early novels The
Big U and Zodiac. However, essays examining his other work,
including non-fiction, will be considered. Other potential areas of
interest: virtual worlds, "virtual" histories, war and violence,
cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk, digital computers and technology,
Stephenson's place in the contemporary canon.
Please send inquiries or abstracts (Word attachments only please) by
15 January 2006 to <jon.lewis_at_uncp.edu>. Deadline for completed
essays is 21 March 2006.
12th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature: McGill
University, Montreal
Theme: Permeability and Selfhood
March 11-12, 2006
This call for papers is for a panel to be held at Permeability and Selfhood,
the McGill Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, which will take
place March 11-12 at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Selfhood in a Posthuman Context
'Internationalizing Internet Studies'
Call for papers for a edited collection by
Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney) & Mark McLelland (University of =
Wollongong)
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM)
is hosting its annual graduate student conference on March 31 and
April 1, 2006. The conference will be held at Northern Illinois
University in DeKalb, Illinois. First-time conference presenters are
encouraged to apply!
The keynote speakers for this year's conference are Dr. Susan Gubar,
Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University and George
Hillocks, Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago and
Consultant in Writing and Language Arts Education.
This workshop is interdisciplinary. Philosophical and critical investigations
into the misuse and abuse of computing artifacts are
wanted. The workshop organizers are also working towards
journal and book publications in addition to the workshop
proceedings. Below is the cfp.
CALL FOR PAPERS
IR 7.0: INTERNET CONVERGENCES
International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of
Internet Researchers
Brisbane, Australia
28-30 September 2006
Pre-Conference Workshops: 27 September 2006
INTERNET CONVERGENCES
CFP: Mass Communications Panel
A Symposium in Rhetoric: "Rhetoric & Kairos"
Open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars
The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities
Texas Woman's University - Denton, Texas
Where: ACT Bldg. 2nd Floor
When: February 24, 2006
Synthetic Sensations-The Fives Senses and New Media
Kingston University-Dorich House UK
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/dorich/
One day conference June 30 2006
Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing texts
The Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton is seeking papers
for our 2006 conference to be held February 17 and 18, 2006. We are
interested in papers/presentations for the following suggested panel:
Slash Fan Fiction
Slash fan fiction is one of the most popular forms of fan fiction on the
Internet. Beginning with stories featuring the pairing of Kirk and Spock from
Star Trek in the 1970s and exploding into numerous stories based in, but not
limited to, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Star Wars, slash fan fiction
takes reader-response theory into creative praxis as fans rewrite fiction.
CFP: Writing Design: Pictographic Strategies in Literature (collection;
03/01/2006)
PANEL INFORMATION:
"Fan/tastic Visuals"
Panellists are being sought for a potential session to be submitted to
the 2006 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA),
March 15-19 at the Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel, Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida. This panel will focus on fan art, photo
manipulation, video, web design, costuming, body modification, and other
visual methods of creativity/expression by speculative fiction fan
communities.
CFP: Journalism Area
2006 National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations' Joint Conference
Atlanta Marriott Marquis
April 12 – 15, 2006
Submission Deadline: Dec. 7, 2005
The Journalism area of the National PCA/ACA Conference is interested in receiving submissions/abstracts for next year's conference at the beautiful Atlanta Marriott Marquis hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.
We are interested in ANY related topics, including:
--Katrina v. Pakistan earthquake: journalism's handling of natural disasters
--Literary depictions of journalism
--Political/national influences on journalism
--Yellow journalism
(Re)Markable Identities: Confronting, Corrupting, and Conflating Cultural
Discourses
February 24-26, 2006
Arizona State University ● Tempe, Arizona
CALL FOR PAPERS
(In)visibilities: Homosexualities in the media
CFP: Mass Communications Panel
A Symposium in Rhetoric: "Rhetoric & Kairos"
Open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars
The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities
Texas Woman's University - Denton, Texas
Where: ACT Bldg. 2nd Floor
When: February 24, 2006
2006 iDMAa + IMS Conference <code> HumanSystems | DigitalBodies
Final Call for Papers, Notes and Panels
Extended Deadline: December 5, 2005
The Conference seeks submissions of:
Call for Papers: Additional Proposals Sought
Below please find our updated CFP. There is a new submission date, some
changes to the features section call, and a new call for our review
section.
Thanks,
Erin Hill
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
UCLA's film, television, and digital media e-journal, Mediascape, is now
accepting submissions for the features and reviews sections of its
spring issue. This journal, a place for articles pertaining visual
culture, is peer-reviewed and published on a bi-annual table. The
deadline for submissions is January 15, 2006.
Features:
Hyperworld: Language, Culture and History
27-29 September 2006
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Dear Colleague,
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We have a great pleasure in inviting you to participate in the fourth =
international conference
LANGUAGE, CULTURE and TECHNOLOGIES=20
at Kaunas University of Technology (http://www.ktu.lt/en/)
Kaunas, LITHUANIA,=20
19-21 May, 2006
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We invite teachers, scholars and postgraduate students to participate =
and to contribute papers to the fourth international conference hosted =
by Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.
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MEDIA-N CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
media-N is the invitational and peer-reviewed online journal of the College Arts Association (CAA)New Media Caucus (NMC). The aim of the journal is to reflect the energy and interests of media arts practitioners, educators and theorists.
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/index.htm
Participants are being sought for paper sessions on
Fan Art, Fiction, and Culture for the 27th Annual
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.
CONVERGENCE: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES=20
CALL FOR PAPERS Vol 12. no 4.Winter 2006=20
An End to the New? Re-assessing the claims for New Media Writing(s)
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Guest-edited by Simon Mills, Gavin Stewart & Sue Thomas=20
The focus of the special issue:
This special edition of Convergence marks the tenth anniversary of the
trAce Online Writing Centre, UK. To commemorate this landmark event, the
guest editors are seeking to evaluate the state-of-the-art of new media
writing(s).=20
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights"
May 26-28, 2006
Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California
Submit proposals via e-mail by January 1, 2006 to director_at_ieet.org
Sponsored by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the Center for
Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences
Much of the criticism of enhancement technologies has focused on the
potential for increased discrimination against women, people of color,
the poor, the differently enabled, or "unenhanced" humans. Some
bioethicists have proposed a global treaty to ban enhancement
technologies as "crimes against humanity."
Call for Proposals
Computers & Writing Online 2006: Making Knowledge on the Digital =
Frontier
February 6 to 28, 2006=20
Proposals Due: 30 November 2005
We are pleased to announce Computers & Writing Online 2006: Making =
Knowledge
on the Digital Frontier-a conference for all educators. This conference
occurs completely online and complements the face-to-face conference =
that
will be held in May at Texas Tech University.
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>From: Stefani Engelstein <engelsteins_at_MISSOURI.EDU>
>Subject: CFP: Cyborgs Old and New (11/30/05; ACLA 3/23/06 -3/26/06)
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>Call for papers for a panel at the American Comparative Literature
>Association Annual Convention.
>March 23-26, 2006 at Princeton University.
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>Cyborgs Old and New
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American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting: The
Human and its Others
Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006
Seminar: "The Body in the Digital"
Technology, Performance & Identity:
Mediation, Remediation and the Politics of Self
A multidisciplinary conference
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK
Department of Arts and Media 8th annual conference
Friday 28th April 2006
Keynote Speaker: Tanya Krzywinska
co-editor of ScreenPlay: cinema/videogames/interfaces
& co-author of Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Princeton, NJ, March 23-26, 2006
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American Contemporary Literature Association Annual Meeting: The Human =
and
Its Other
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Seminar Title: The Human in Posthuman Technology
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Seminar Organizer(s): Steven A. Benko, Meredith College
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