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UPDATE: Christ in Contemporary Cultures (6/1/06; 9/28/06-9/30/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 2:30pm
Gregor Thuswaldner

NEW DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2006
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Christ in Contemporary Cultures: A Cultural Studies Conference=20
at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, September 28-30, 2006=20

Hosted by Gordon College, Center for Christian Studies and partially =
funded by the Lilly Foundation Endowment, Inc.=20

Conference Organizers:=20
Brian Johnson, Ph.D. and Gregor Thuswaldner, Ph.D.=20

Keynote Speaker: Dr. CORNEL WEST, Princeton University=20

CALL FOR PAPERS=20

UPDATE: Nineteenth-Century Nature Writing (4/6/06; PAMLA, 11/10/06-11/11/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 7:13pm
Alfred J. Drake

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference (PAMLA)
Panel Topic: Nineteenth-Century Nature Writing
November 10-11, 2006
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California

Extended Deadline: April 06, 2006

Paper proposals sought for a panel on nineteenth-century nature writing. Proposals are encouraged that address this topic within a literary, philosophical, theological, ecological, or scientific framework.

Please email 500-word abstract (inline or attachment) to pamla2006_at_ajdrake.com or, if necessary, send by post to the following address:

Alfred J. Drake
1005 West Saint Andrew Place
Santa Ana, California 92707-2525

UPDATE: Resisting the Goddess: Disguising the Sacred Feminine (4/1/06; SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 1:29pm
Bowers, Bradley

UPDATE: Resisting the Goddess: Disguising the Sacred Feminine (04/01/06;
SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)

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DEADLINE CHANGED TO 04/01/06

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Proposals are sought on the topic of the sacred feminine, a consistent th=
eme
in literary history, but also one which has received renewed attention in=

religious studies and which was recently popularized by the novel The Da
Vinci Code and its attendant controversies. Especially welcome are propos=
als
which discuss the textual and academic resistance to representing the sac=
red
feminine. Possible authors would include Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Hemingway,=

UPDATE: Comparative Hebraisms (4/1/06; RMMLA, 10/11/06-10/13/06)

updated: 
Friday, March 10, 2006 - 1:25pm
Flacy, Kathleen Anne

The deadline for submissions to the Comparative Hebraisms session of the
2006 RMMLA conference in Tucson, Arizona has been extended to 1 April.
Paper proposals of 250-300 words are invited on any topic related to Jewish
literature, culture, learning, philosophy, or thought. Email proposals to
kflacy_at_tamu.edu. Presenters must be RMMLA members no later than 1 August.

CFP: New Approaches to Religions in Early America (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 11:22pm
Bross, Kristina

Papers on new directions for traditional topics, neglected beliefs and
practices, as well as contact among religious communities (Native,
European, African). Send 1-page proposals by March 15 to: Lisa Gordis
(lgordis_at_barnard.edu) and Kristina Bross (kbross_at_cla.purdue.edu)

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Kristina Bross

Associate Professor

English and American Studies

Purdue University

500 Oval Drive

West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038

765/494-3745

CFP: Christianity and Literature (3/15/06; SCMLA, 10/26/06-10/28/06)

updated: 
Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 8:04pm
Kulesz, Peggy P

Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2006

Session Title: Christianity and Literature Allied Session
 
South Central Modern Language Association Conference
Dallas, Texas
Oct. 26-28, 2006.

http://www.ou.edu/scmla/

We invite submissions for the allied session on Christianity and
Literature.
The session will be an open topic; papers addressing any and all issues
pertaining to the intersections between literature and Christianity will

be considered. Paper topics may address a variety of issues, ideas
and/or authors from any time period and genre. Each paper should be
approximately 15 minutes' reading time.

CFP: Intertextuality and Religion (Brazil) (3/25/06; 7/3/06-7/8/06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:45pm
Francisco Peña Fernandez

XI CONGRESO LATINOAMERICANO SOBRE RELIGI=C3=93N Y ETNICIDAD
XI LATIN AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON RELIGION AND ETHNICITY

CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: March 25th

INTERTEXTUALIDAD Y RELIGI=C3=93N: TEXTOS, DEVOCIONES E IDEOLOG=C3=8DAS.=20=

Coordinador: Francisco Pe=C3=B1a Fern=C3=A1ndez

INTERTEXTUALITY AND RELIGION: TEXTS, FORMS OF DEVOTION, AND IDEOLOGIES.=20=

Coordinator: Francisco Pe=C3=B1a Fern=C3=A1ndez

RELIGIOUS WORLDS: Identities and Convergences
July 3-8, 2006, Sao Paulo, Brazil

CFP: American Humor Studies Association (3/24/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 4:44pm
American Humor

NOTE: I am posting this CFP on behalf of The American Humor Studies
Association (AHSA). Please send all proposals and inquiries to Janice
McIntire-Strasburg or Roxanne Schwab (addresses at end of CFP), not to
me.--Joe Alvarez, Sec.-Treas., AHSA.

CFP: AHSA requests proposals for two sessions at MLA Philadelphia.

CFP: International Symposium on Sinology (6/1/06; 10/13/06-10/15/06)

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2006 - 5:19pm
Sinology

¡°When China Meets West¡­¡±
--- An International Symposium on Sinology and Sino-West Cultural Relations and Exchanges
Sponsored by the Institute of English Literature, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China
October 13-15, 2006

Call for Papers 2006

CFP: Religion and Literature (3/15/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

updated: 
Friday, February 24, 2006 - 4:28pm
esra mirze

Session Title: Literature and Religion

RMMLA Convention

October 12 - October 14, 2006

DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona

Deadline: March 15, 2006

 
  I would like to invite submissions for the session on Literature and Religion. Papers can address a wide range of perspectives by focusing on specific writers and works that explore religious identity, its place in secular societies, and the way it impacts the national collective.
   
  A range of topics may include:
  - Religious identity
  - Religion and nation
  - Secularism
  - Fundamentalism
  - Religion and revolution
  -Institutionalized Religion

CFP: Alternative Expressions of the Numinous (Australia) (6/2/06; 8/18/06-8/20/06)

updated: 
Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 3:00pm
Helen Farley

The Queensland Society for the Study of Religion (QSSR)
in conjunction with the
School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of=20
Queensland
and the
Straight Out of Brisbane Festival (SOOB)

presents the inaugural QSSR conference

*************************************
***Alternative Expressions of the Numinous***
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**Date: Friday 18 - Sunday 20 August 2006

**Venue: School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, =
University=20
of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, Australia

**Conference Chairs:

Helen Farley
Danielle Kirby, and
Julie Washington

**Confirmed Speakers:

CFP: Dance Matters (India) (3/30/06; 8/10/06-8/11/06)

updated: 
Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 3:00pm
nilanjana gupta

CALL FOR PAPERS

Dance Matters

The School of Media, Communication and Culture at
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India is pleased to
announce a two-day symposium titled Dance Matters on
August 10-11 2006. This symposium proposes to bring
to the forefront innovative approaches that have
placed dance at the center of scholarly research on
body, ritual, culture, identity, history, gender, and
power. Selected papers from the symposium will be
published in a book.

CFP: Modern Jewish Popular Literatures: Beyond the U.S. (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 4:11pm
Roth, Laurence

Modern Jewish Popular Literatures: Beyond the U.S.

Recent investigations into American Jewish popular literature and culture
have highlighted both the ³inside² interest of American Jews to subvert or
recontextualize Jewish identity, and the ³outside² interest of the culture
industries in exploiting yet another profitable brand of urban youth
culture.

But less explored are the Jewish popular literatures that developed in
Eastern and Western Europe, in Israel and the Middle East, and among
Orthodox as well as secular Jews upon their entrance into modernity. Their
extensive history offers a much-needed transnational context for the
contemporary American Jewish scene.

UPDATE: Victorian Nature Writing (3/15/06; PAMLA, 11/10/06-11/11/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 4:10pm
Alfred J. Drake

The PAMLA Conference dates have been changed to 11/10-11/11/2006.

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference (PAMLA)
Panel Topic: Victorian Nature Writing
November 10-11, 2006 (updated due to change in conference schedule)
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006

Paper proposals sought for a panel on Victorian nature writing.
Proposals are encouraged that address this topic within a literary,
philosophical, theological, ecological, or scientific framework. All
submissions acknowledged by email.

CFP: On the Outlook: Figures of the Messianic (Netherland) (2/20/06; 6/10/06-6/11/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 4:10pm
Thomas Crombez

Junior Researcher Symposium "On the Outlook: Figures of the Messianic"

Call For Papers

In conjunction with the international conference "Messianism and the
Law" which will take place on 11 and 12 May 2006, the Institute of
Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp is also planning a Junior
Researcher Symposium "On the Outlook: Figures of the Messianic" which
will be conducted on 10 and 11 May 2006.

Contributions for this Junior Researcher Symposium, which is expected
to focus on the modes and functions of Messianic thinking in
twentieth-century philosophy, may be submitted to the organizers as
listed below.

CFP: Race and Faith in African American Literature (3/30/06; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 4:10pm
Tracey Michae'l Lewis

Deadline extended:

CHARCOAL CANONS

Race and Faith in African American Literature

 

Call for Submissions

 

As chords of a song are composed of very specific notes that create a
recognizable sound to those who are familiar with music, so has most forms
of African American literature, even the most diametrically opposed works,
created similar "sounds" in their discourse on race and faith.

 

CFP: Society for Reformation Research (3/15/06; SCSC, 10/26/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 7:46pm
Susan R. Boettcher

The Society for Reformation Research (SRR: website at
http://www.reformationresearch.org/ ), a North American scholarly
organization and partner group to the Verein für Reformationgeschichte,
is concerned with furthering scholarly research on the Protestant and
Catholic Reformations and all other aspects of religious life in the
early modern era. Following our mandate, we will sponsor a variety of
sessions at the 2006 annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies
Conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA), from October 26-29.

CFP: Constructing Identities Conference (grad) (UK) (4/30/06; 6/22/06-6/23/06)

updated: 
Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 7:45pm
Rebecca Green

CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES
22-23 June 2006
Organised by doctoral students for doctoral students

Graduate School in Humanities, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

The convenors of the panels listed below are now inviting abstracts for papers which examine the concept of identity, and encourage submissions from those examining aspects of personal, linguistic, national and cultural identity. Proposals examining the following areas are especially welcome:

CFP: Through the Wardrobe: A Narnia Conference (3/25/06; 5/5/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 6:17pm
svonkco_at_netzero.net

"Through the Wardrobe: A Narnia Conference"
Deadline: March 25, 2006
CFP: Through the Wardrobe: A Narnia Conference
Friday May 5, 2006
Co-sponsored by the University of California, Riverside's Departments of English, Psychology, and Religious Studies, and by UCR's United Campus Ministry
To be held at the University of California, Riverside. UC Riverside is located one hour east of Los Angeles, conveniently accessible by train or car.

Call for Papers:

CFP: Shopping for Jesus! Religion as Commodity (5/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Dominic Janes

I am currently working on an edited volume of papers provisionally
titled 'Shopping for Jesus!: Religion as Commodity'. The aim of this is
to explore the connections between belief, its presentation, and the
processes by which it is sold and consumed. I want to think about the
way in which religion operates in a market culture and the degree to
which one can use the notions of branding, advertising and marketing to
understand missionary and revival activities. Conversely, one might ask
whether religious methods of self-promotion underlay the development of
some of the techniques of private enterprise. I am interested in papers
that explore such themes from a range of locations in time, space and

CFP: Queering Religion (2/10/06; NEXUS, 4/7/06-4/8/06)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Dustin Parrott

CFP: Queering Religion

NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference on Religion and Nation

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
April 7-8, 2006
Keynote Speaker: John D Caputo (Syracuse)
"Beyond Sovereignty: The Weakness of God and the Postmodern Situation"
Reading by Diane Glancy (Macalester College)
Website: http://web.utk.edu/~nexus/
Due date: February 10

CFP: Journal of Buddhist Ethics (no deadline; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Aaron Ogletree

    Call for Book Reviewers
   
   If there is a book on Buddhism that you are interested in reviewing contact the Journal of Buddhist Ethics (JBE). The Journal of Buddhist Ethics is an academic journal dedicated entirely to Buddhist ethics, and is innovative in adopting a totally electronic mode of publication. We welcome writers from diverse backgrounds that can and are willing to provide fresh insight into recently published books.

CFP: Religious Narrative and Post-Secularity (2/10/06; NEXUS, 4/7/06-4/8/06)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:30pm
William Brooks

Call for Papers

CFP: "Religious Narrative and Post-Secularity"

NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Friday April 7 - Saturday April 8, 2006
Keynote Speaker: John Caputo (Syracuse)--"Beyond Sovereignty: The =20
Weakness of God and the Postmodern Situation"
Reading by Diane Glancy (Macalester College)
Website: http://web.utk.edu/~nexus/
Deadline for Submissions: February 10, 2006

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