CFP: Contemporary Depictions of Mormons and Mormonism (7/1/07; collection)
Peculiar Portrayals: Contemporary Depictions of Mormons and Mormonism
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The International Journal of Religion and Sport is a forthcoming refereed publication examining and analyzing the interchanges between world religions, religious practice, spirituality, wellness and global sport. The editors of the journal seek submissions which take seriously the study of religion and sport as well as scholarship investigating notions of sport as religious or spiritual practice. The journal seeks contributions using diverse methodological approaches to religion and sport from a variety of disciplines such as myth and ritual studies, historical studies, popular culture studies, wellness studies, and liturgical studies.
We are pleased to announce that Lee Edelman has just been added as a =
second keynote speaker for the World Picture Conference.
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October 26 and 27, 2007
Oklahoma State University
Keynote Speakers: Joan Copjec and Lee Edelman
Update:
Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America 2008 Conference
Chicago, Illinois 3-5 April, 2008
East and West in the Holy Land. 1517-1713.
This session will take a comparative look at travel to the Levant, but
more specifically to the Holy Land. How differently do people from
various regions reflect on the experience? Given the Jewish, Christian,
and Muslim veneration for the land, what role does religious belief play
in the making of the geographical narratives? What social, theological,
and/or political views do the narratives express? How might church or
state governments utilize these views and to what purpose?
Life, the Universe, and Everything XXVI: The Marion K. "Doc" Smith
Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held February 14-16,
2008, on the Provo, Utah, campus of Brigham Young University. Guests
include Gail Carson Levine. (For more information, see http://
ltue.byu.edu.)
We are especially interested in papers in the following areas (but
others can be considered):
• Literary criticism/analysis of sf&f and related literature
(medieval, renaissance, mythology, magic realism, etc.)
• Science and technology (especially new or unusual)
• Analysis of sf&f relating to poetry and/or theatre
• Mormon culture, literature, and society in relation to sf&f
This panel seeks to interrogate the ways in which Protestant authors
depict Catholicism during the Elizabethan and Jacobean era in
non-propagandistic literature. Papers should reflect on issues that
reveal the complex ways in which the divide between Protestantism and
Catholicism is articulated in drama, prose, or poetry. Were Protestant
authors always critical of their Catholic peers? How do potentially
crypto-Catholic authors like Shakespeare express their Catholic
sympathies to a Protestant audience? What is the significance of nuns
and friars in plays like "Measure for Measure," "Romeo and Juliet," "The
Jew of Malta," and "'Tis Pity She's a Whore"? How do political fears
Call for Papers
Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Event and Academic Conference
July 6-8, 2007
Kansas City, MO
Submission deadline extended to May 15, 2007
We invite abstracts for papers, roundtable discussions, and presentation/lectures on any topic related to the representation of theological and religious matters in the works of novelist and futurist Robert A. Heinlein.
Heinlein achieved fame (or perhaps infamy) with his controversial depictions of various religions, real and imaginary. Was he an atheist, an agnostic, or a true believer whose "impatience with human institutions" forced him to mock the institution while still honoring what it stood for?
*MOSES AND MODERNISM*
-Call for Papers for Proposed Panel-
Modernist Studies Association
Annual Meeting, November 1-4, 2007 (Long Beach, CA)
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/conferences/msa9/CFP/
Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America 2008 Conference
Chicago, Illinois 3-5 April, 2008
East and West in the Holy Land. 1517-1713.
This session will take a comparative look at travel to the Levant, but
more specifically to the Holy Land. How differently do people from
various regions reflect on the experience? Given the Jewish, Christian,
and Muslim veneration for the land, what role does religious belief play
in the making of the geographical narratives? What social, theological,
and/or political views do the narratives express? How might church or
state governments utilize these views and to what purpose?
Dear Colleagues,
Publishing a conference paper in a refereed journal is rarely the immediate
outcome of a conference presentation; however, this call for papers is also
a call for such scholarly articles.
Please read the email below, visit the website listed below, and if you
still have questions, feel free to contact me directly.
Do pass this call on by word of mouth and via your other list-serves.
Finally, encourage your Ph.D students to submit abstracts -- the Zora forum
is an excellent source of both intellectual support and constructive
criticism.
Deidre Crumbley
deidre_crumbley_at_ncsu.edu
919 787 8153
Vienna, December 6-9, 2007
KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies
http://www.inst.at/kctos/sektionen_t-z/thuswaldner.htm=20
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CFP: The Crux of Islam in Europe: Ethnic and Religious Transformations
in European Contexts
Institutional grant funding has been secured to custom publish an anthology
of new essays dealing with the depiction of religious faith or spirituality
in world cinema. The editors seek proposals for critically informed,
previously unpublished essays that explore the representation of faith and
spirituality in canonical works of film. Although all proposals are
welcome, essays dealing with one or more of the following directors are
especially solicited:
[Apologies for cross-posting.]
CALL FOR PAPERS
Lollard Affiliations: Historical, Literary, Theological
Oriel College, Oxford, 11-13 July 2008
Plenary speakers: Anne Hudson, Alastair Minnis, Peter Marshall
CFP: Resurrecting the =93First Five Hundred=94: The Fathers and Early =20=
Modern English Culture, 1500-1660
In his =93Challenge Sermon=94 delivered at St. Paul=92s Cross on =
November =20
26, 1559, Bishop John Jewel argued that the English divines would =20
assert as foundational the underlying belief that the ancient Fathers =20=
CALL FOR PAPERS
'Tyndale, More and their circles: Persecution and martyrdom under the
Tudors.'
Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom, 3-6 July 2008
This will be an interdisciplinary conference which will bring together
scholars interested in the religious history and literature of the Tudor
period. Although there will be a focus on lives, works and reputations of
Tyndale and More, papers are sought on martyrdom, religious persecution and
inter-Christian conflict generally and thus may range in subject from Anne
Askew to Edmund Campion.
Dulia et Latria (roughly translated as service to man and service to
God) is an online journal dedicated to exploring dulia and latria
within the Christian faith. In his late 14th century Tractatus de
Mandatis Divinis, John Wycliffe, writing against iconic idolatry within
the Catholic church, defined dulia as the reverence men and women owe
to each other and latria as the reverence a man or woman owes only to
God. He was interested in developing a taxonomy for and an analysis of
duties involved in the horizontal relationship between created beings
themselves and the vertical relationship between the created and the
creator, and so are we. With our journal we wish to showcase current and
**Deadline for abstracts and proposals has been extended until March 28,
2007.**
Promethean Visions and Communities of Belief in 19th-Century American
Literature
An accepted special session for the Pacific Ancient & Modern Language
Association (PAMLA) annual conference to be held on November 2 & 3,
2007, on the campus of Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA
Performance and Spirituality:
The Journal of the Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality
CFP: "Delineating the Field": Submission Deadline, May 15, 2007.
(The Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality is an emerging
research center that operates in association with the Martin E. Segal Theatre
Center of The Graduate Center, of the City University of New York.)
CALL FOR PAPERS
MLA Convention 2007 (Chicago)
Discussion Group on Yiddish Literature
Yiddish and Christianity. Yiddish emerged and developed within
Christian Europe. How did this effect the language and its culture?
What attitudes have Christians adopted towards Yiddish? How do
Yiddish literature and other cultural forms portray Christians? How
do modern Yiddish writers depict Jesus?
Abstracts (500 words, maximum) to be sent by March 20 to Beatrice Caplan,
<bcaplan7_at_jhu.edu>
CFP: Jewish Memorial Books (June 11, 2007; collection)
The Queensland Society for the Study of Religion (QSSR) in conjunction with
the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of
Queensland, Brisbane, Australia presents
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***Alternative Expressions of the Numinous***
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**Date: Friday 17 - Sunday 19 August 2007
**Venue: School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University
of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, Australia
**Conference Chairs:
Helen Farley
Danielle Kirby, and
Julie Washington
***Call for Papers:
Abstracts (250 words) are invited for, but not limited to, the following
strands:
Proposed Panel
American Anthropological Association (AAA): Nov. 28 – Dec. 2 2007
Washington, DC
Please send paper abstracts (250 words) and direct inquiries to: Lydia
Boyd (lydia.boyd_at_nyu.edu) by March 12th.
Hookin' up (with Jesus): Kinship, Desire, and Love among born-again
young adults in the Global South
Call for Papers:
Call for Papers
Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Event and Academic Conference
July 6-8, 2007
Kansas City, MO
Submission deadline: March 31, 2007
We invite abstracts for papers, roundtable discussions, and presentation/lectures on any topic related to the representation of theological and religious matters in the works of novelist and futurist Robert A. Heinlein.
Heinlein achieved fame (or perhaps infamy) with his controversial depictions of various religions, real and imaginary. Was he an atheist, an agnostic, or a true believer whose "impatience with human institutions" forced him to mock the institution while still honoring what it stood for?
Proposed Panel for the 2007 Modern Language Association
Chicago, IL.
American Women Poets and Nineteenth-century Religion
Papers are sought for a proposed special session on nineteenth-
century American women poets and religion. We especially welcome
papers on the work of unrepresented women poets for whom religion,
Christian or otherwise, was a positive influence.
Please submit half-page abstract and c.v. electronically by March 18,
2007 to:
Mark McCullough
The Graduate Center at the City University of New York
mccullough_at_mindspring.com
Papers invited in all genres that treat any aspect of anti-Semitism.
250-word abstracts by 10 March.
In order to present at the MLA Convention, individuals must be
registered members by 31 March.
Contact Evelyn Avery (eavery_at_towson.edu) for more information.
A Special Session is proposed for the MLA 2007
conference in Chicago.
"Reading the Wind: Literary Pedagogy for Myth, Magic,
Ritual, Spirituality, Religion in African, Middle
Eastern, Asian, trans-American Texts" explores
alternatives to post-colonial, Lacanian, and
post-structuralist readings.
Panelists are welcomed who can address the
supersensible dimension of a specific work from the
above geographic areas using its spiritual, religious,
cosmological, or philosophical context.
CFP: workshop on "American Judaism" at the DGfA (Germany) 07 (3/15/07;
5/31/07-06/03/07)
This workshop on "American Judaism" will take place within the Annual
Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (DGFA) whose
topic this year is "Religion." The conference will take place in
Dortmund/Bochum, Germany, from May 31st to June 3, 2007.
Call for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association Conference 2007
Cleveland, Ohio November 8-11
Fabricating the Body:
Representations of the Body in Literature and Culture
Panel One: American Literature and Culture
Panel Two: British Literature and Culture
John N. King and James K. Bracken of The Ohio State University will direct