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CFP: [Religion] Unruly Catholic Women Writers, Vol. II

updated: 
Friday, October 17, 2008 - 8:56pm
Ana Kothe

Call For Papers: Unruly Catholic Women Writers, Volume II. The editors of
The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers: Critical Essays (Palgrave
2007) invite submissions for a second anthology, this time of creative
piecesâ€"short stories, poems, personal essaysâ€"on the topic of unruly
Catholic women, following a spirit of inquiry regarding the extent to which
the Roman Catholic Church enables or restricts female unruliness. Also in
keeping with the first volume, the editors wish to cover varied geographic
and ethnic points of view. All submissions must be written in or
translated into English. Please send submissions of no longer than 5000

CFP: [Religion] Popular Culture Association Festivals and Faires Area

updated: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 8:51pm
Dr. Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans

Festivals & Faires
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Festivals & Faires area
of the Popular Culture Association
invites abstracts for the next annual meeting:
APRIL 8th-11th 2009
New Orleans Marriott
NEW ORLEANS, LA
The Festivals & Faires Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes
submissions on any festival or faireâ€"modern or historical. Scholars of
theatre / theater, drama, performance studies, American studies, popular
culture, religion, history, and non-western traditions are encouraged to
apply. Since the conference is in New Orleans, any papers relating to
festivals and faires in the city or Louisiana are greatly appreciated.

CFP: [Religion] CFP

updated: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 10:56am
Bernadette Cantrall

Issue 14: Sense & Sensation
 
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31st January, 2009
Send to: slamphilament_at_usyd.edu.au

“Ah well! It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess, digging her
sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “and the moral of
THAT is â€"‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of
themselves.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.

"To the senseless nothing is more maddening than sense."
Aldous Huxley, Island

CFP: [Religion] BABEL

updated: 
Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 11:57pm
G David Schwartz

Please accept the enclosed the enclosed original, as yet not published
work
written by G. David Schwartz - the former president of Seedhouse, the
online
interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of
Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati,
Schwartz continues
to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is now in
stores
or can be ordered.
Check out my book on Midrash:

CFP: [Religion] submission of âGet Over It:â

updated: 
Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 8:58pm
G David Schwartz

Please accept the enclosed the enclosed original, as yet not published
work written by G. David Schwartz - the former president of Seedhouse,
the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish
Appraisal of Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in
Cincinnati, Schwartz continues to write. His new book, Midrash and
Working Out Of The Book is now in stores or can be ordered.
Check out my book on Midrash:
http://hometown.aol.com/__121b_tdTFJGXZcJCPqQrUySnZ+KTxh35gb1iLtUVOk9VzwjA
ofilKR1T0xzcqXUHOGVmr

UPDATE: [Religion] Obliterature: The Art of Creative Destruction –– GEO Conference in Kirksville, MO

updated: 
Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 1:47am
Tamara Sack

Due to unforeseen scheduling problems, we have had to move the date of
the conference. Instead of April 10-11, our conference will now take
place April 3-4. We are sorry about the inconvenience.

I am reposting the entire CFP in this update with all the correct and
current information. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

***

The Graduate English Organization of Truman State University is proud to
announce the call for papers for their annual conference April 3-4, 2009!

CFP: [Religion] Teen Abstinence in the Twilight Saga

updated: 
Friday, October 3, 2008 - 6:01pm
Ann-Laurel Nickel

Summer School in Forks: A Twilight Symposium is pleased to announce the
release of its Call for Proposals. The symposium, to be held June 25-28,
2009 in Forks, WA, will offer two full days of academic and fan
programming for adult fans and scholars of the Twilight Saga novels.

CFP: [Religion] Childhood in its Time: The Child in British Literature (1/11/08 for 03/28-29/09)

updated: 
Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 6:05pm
Adrienne Gavin and Andrew Humphries

CALL FOR PAPERS

Childhood in its Time:
The Child in British Literature

A two-day international conference to be held at
Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, UK

Saturday-Sunday 28-29 March 2009
Keynote Speakers:

Professor Warren Chernaik, University of London
Professor Hugh Cunningham, University of Kent
Professor Kimberley Reynolds, Newcastle University

CFP: [Religion] Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 6:57pm
Tara L. McLellan

2009 Call for Papers

The 15th Annual Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference is a
University of Mississippi Graduate Student event held in conjunction with
the university’s Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.
Participants are encouraged to remain in Oxford after the SWSW Conference
to attend the Faulkner Conference. More information about the 2009
Faulkner Conference will be available at
www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner/.

UPDATE: [Religion] Obliterature: The Art of Creative Destruction –– GEO Conference in Kirksville, MO

updated: 
Friday, September 26, 2008 - 7:40pm
Tamara Sack

The deadline for submitting proposals to our Spring 2009
conference "Obliterature: The Art of Creative Destruction" has been
extended to midnight on January 15, 2009. Notices of acceptance will be
sent out mid-to-late February. Please refer to the original call for
papers for details on submission requirements.

Be sure to check out information on our conference in the December issue
of The Writer's Chronicle or online at
www.geocities.com/graduate.english/conference.html.

As usual, any questions or concerns may be sent to Tamara Sack at
tsack_at_truman.edu.

Thank you.

UPDATE: [Religion] St. John's University Humanities Review

updated: 
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 6:52pm
John V. Nance

This is a call for submissions to be considered for publication in The
St. John's University (Queens, NY) literary journal, The Humanities
Review.

The journal has published several notable academics in their
respective fields over the last few years such as: Gayatri Spivak, Amy
King, Nick Brandt and Peter McLaren.

The working themes of this edition are modern social flourishes,
exemplary figures and post-9/11 Noir. However, we will not discriminate
if your paper fails to converse with these ideas. Please send any and
all.

Please note: The submission deadline is November 1st 2008.

CFP: [Religion] The Everyday Journal–––Eucharist/Communion Issue

updated: 
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 3:50pm
Thomas Turner

The Everyday Journal (www.everydayliturgy.com/magazine) is focusing on the
Eucharist for its November issue.

Possible topics include:

-The Eucharist and Culture
-The Eucharist in Poetry
-The Eucharist in Contemporary Music
-The Eucharist in Literature
-The Eucharist and Politics
-The Eucharist and new liturgies/rituals

For Submission directions please read the instructions at
http://www.everydayliturgy.com/submissions

Please e-mail submissions to everydayjournal-at-gmail-dot-com

CFP: [Religion] Twilight Saga Convention

updated: 
Monday, September 22, 2008 - 8:06pm
Ann-Laurel Nickel

Summer School in Forks: A Twilight Symposium is pleased to announce the
release of its Call for Proposals. The symposium, to be held June 25-28,
2009 in Forks, WA, will offer two full days of academic and fan
programming for adult fans and scholars of the Twilight Saga novels.

CFP: [Religion] Christianity in Literature

updated: 
Sunday, September 21, 2008 - 7:41pm
Kathleen Heininge

Call for Papers
Speaking Truth to Power:
The Literature of Assent and Dissent

George Fox University
Newberg, Oregon
April 16-18, 2009

CFP: [Religion] Papers needed for Literary Journal

updated: 
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 5:44pm
John.V.Nance_at_virgo.sas.upenn.edu,

This is a call for submissions that you wish to be considered for
publication in The St. John's University (Queens, NY) bi-annual literary
journal, The Humanities Review. The journal has published several notable
academics in their respective fields over the last few years such as:
Gayatri Spivak, Amy King and Peter McLaren.

The working themes of this edition are Modern Social Custom Flourishes,
Exemplary Figures, Corruption of Dialect and Post-9/11 Noir. However, we
will not discriminate if your paper fails to converse with these ideas.
Whatever you have available will certainly suffice.

CFP: [Religion] Obliterature: The Art of Creative Destruction GEO Conference

updated: 
Saturday, September 13, 2008 - 6:03pm
Tamara Sack

The Graduate English Organization of Truman State University is proud to
announce the call for papers for their annual conference April 10-11,
2009!

Our speaker this year will be author extraordinaire Mary Ruefle, who has
published several books of poetry and prose as well as a comic book.
Inspired by her unique work A Little White Shadow, our conference is
entitled “Obliterature: The Art of Creative Destruction.” We are
looking for presentations, creative and scholarly, that deal with the
breaking down of culture and art, the imaginative implosions within the
written word, or simply those ideas that are not just out of the box but
crush it.

CFP: [Religion] Religion, Performance and Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 5:10pm
Jason Winslade

CFP: Religion, Performance and Popular Culture

  

2009 Association for Theater in Higher Education, New York, Aug. 8-11

  

The Religion and Theatre Focus Group of ATHE invites proposals for a
possible multi-disciplinary panel dealing with issues of religious
performance within popular culture.

  

This panel will be particularly concerned with instances in which
consumers of popular culture are called upon to interrogate or promote
religious identity through embodiment and enactment. Here, religion is
broadly defined to encompass a wide range of spiritualities and religious
practices.

  

Possible sites for such performances include, but are not limited to:

  

CFP: [Religion] ACLA 2009: Transcultural Jewishness: The Jew in Diasporic and Postcolonial Literature and Theory

updated: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 3:43pm
Jennifer Glaser

ACLA 2009 Convention
March 26-29, 2009
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Transcultural Jewishness: The Jew in Diasporic and Postcolonial Literature
and Theory

Co-chairs: Sarah Phillips Casteel and Jennifer Glaser

Following Paul Gilroy's and Jonathan Boyarin's early calls for a dialogue
between Jewish studies and postcolonial studies as well as Bryan Cheyette's
important work on Jewishness and race, scholars have begun to situate
Jewishness in interethnic contexts that move beyond the standard
articulations of black/Jewish relations.

UPDATE: [Religion] "The Body: Images, Perceptions, and Representations"

updated: 
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - 3:51pm
Emily Brackman

Extended Deadline! The fifth annual English Graduate Organization
Conference will now be held November 8 and 9. The deadline for abstract
submission is now October 1.

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 From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
            cfp_at_english.upenn.edu
             more information at
         http://cfp.english.upenn.edu
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Received on Tue Sep 09 2008 - 11:51:59 EDT

CFP: [Religion] Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature

updated: 
Monday, September 8, 2008 - 1:09pm
Lieke Stelling

Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies (Brill, Leiden, The
Netherlands)

Call for Papers for Volume 22

The Turn of the Soul:
Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature

CFP: [Religion] Upcoming Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 8:37am
Domenico de Clario

Out of Bounds: Art, Faith and Religiosity
An interdisciplinary event
Faculty of Art and Design
Monash University, Caulfield campus, Melbourne
Wednesday August 20th - Saturday August 23rd 2008.
http://www.artdes.monash.edu.au/outofbounds

We would like to announce an exciting interdisciplinary event to be held
this month at Monash University

UPDATE: [Religion] Expanding Literacy Studies International, Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 4:47pm
Shawn Casey

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

Expanding Literacy Studies is an International, Interdisciplinary
Conference for Graduate Students to be held April 3-5, 2009, at The Ohio
State University.

Literacy Studies is a recent construct. At the same time, it addresses
long-standing questions and concerns within and across disciplines. But
what is literacy? Who is studying it? And how is it being studied?

CFP: [Religion] Cannibalistic Thinking in Early Modern Poetry, Drama, Travel Narratives, and Liturgical Texts: GEMCS

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 5:38pm
Colleen Kennedy

Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) 2008 Conference:
"Appetite, Desire, and Gargantuan Pleasures"
November 20-23, 2008, Philadelphia
Cannibalistic Thinking in Early Modern Poetry, Drama, Travel Narratives,
and Liturgical Texts
 
“I think there is more barbarity in eating a man alive than eating him dead”
                        â€" Michel de Montaigne’s “Of Cannibals”

UPDATE: [Religion] GEMCS: Appetite, Desire, and Gargantuan Pleasures (6/20/08; 11/20-23/08)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 7:37pm
Deborah Montuori

Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies 2008
"Appetite, Desire, and Gargantuan Pleasures"

November 20-23, 2008, Philadelphia

* * * The deadline for submissions of proposals for panels, workshops,
and individual papers has been extended to July 11, 2008. * * *

Pre-constituted panels or workshops should be comprised of no fewer than
four and no more than five participants, and in order to allow the
greatest possible amount of discussion, we ask that presenters in these
panels limit their comments to ten minutes each.

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