science and culture

Green Letters 7: The Future of Ecocriticism

deadline for submissions: 1 February 2005

Green Letters, the journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of
Literature and the Environment), explores interdisciplinary interfaces
between humans and the natural and built environment. Articles are invited
for our spring 2005 edition focusing on 'ecocriticism'.

The online journal Invisible Culture
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html is seeking
papers for an upcoming issue on the theme of nature loving.=20

The H G Wells Society Essay Competition is intended to provide interested
post graduate students with an opportunity to publish their work on H G
Wells in THE WELLSIAN, annual journal of the Wells Society.

UPDATE: EDITED VOLUME ON HARRY POTTER FAN FICTION

DEADLINE JUNE 15

Scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts for a
proposed collection of essays about Harry Potter fan fiction. Essays
on young writers, transnational fandom, and fan works from outside
the English-speaking world are especially needed, but all submissions
on fan works are very welcome. Please note that the topic of this
volume is fan fiction; to be considered, all papers must at least
touch on fan writings or art.

Paper topics might include, but are by no means limited to:

Call for Papers =AD the Fibreculture Journal =AD Contagion and the Diseases
of Information, 2005
(please circulate) (please note that this is a different CFP to the
recent FCJ CFP for a general issue)

http://journal.fibreculture.org/

:: fibreculture:: has established itself as Australasia's leading forum
for discussion of internet theory, criticism, and research. The
Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed journal that explores the
issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture
network and wider social formations.

CFP: Tekumel and M. A. R. Barker [collection; no deadline]
Editor: Thomas Fortenberry

Open call for submissions to a new essay collection on SF-fantasy author M.
A. R. Barker and his phenomenally complex world of Tekumel. Tekumel, though
less well known than Middle-Earth, is the subject of numerous novels, popular
games, modules, and a forth-coming film.

>> Call for Contributors <<

MASTERS OF MAGIC: ESSAYS ON WIZARDS IN WESTERN CULTURE
Deadline for Proposals: September 15, 2004

In J. R. R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS, the Hobbits are warned, "Do not
meddle in the affairs of wizards"; yet, few readers today, in a time when
the wizard features so prominently in both popular culture and scholarship,
would choose to follow this admonition. Accepting this as a given, proposals
are now being accepted for an essay collection co-edited by Charlotte A. T.
Wulf and Michael A. Torregrossa and investigating the figure of the wizard
in Western culture.

I apologize for this, but there was a mistake in the last posting. Thank
you.

Outside the Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology
Editor-in-Chief: Anthony Crisafi

CALL FOR PAPERS: Inaugural issue

Outside the Frame is a journal dedicated to examining emergent theories
concerning how technology is transforming the way we currently think of or
practice scholarship in the Arts and Sciences. We are specifically
interested in theoretical works that approach texts and technology from an
interdisciplinary perspective.

Submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics are welcomed:

EDITED VOLUME: HARRY POTTER FAN FICTION

Contributions are sought for a proposed collection of essays about
Harry Potter fan fiction.

Scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts or
completed essays. Essays on young writers, the transnational fandom,
and fan works from outside the English-speaking world are especially
needed, but all submissions are very welcome.

Paper topics might include, but are by no means limited to:

CFP: The Undiscovered Country: Science fiction in culture and the canon

There have been several milestones met and passed since Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Grandfather of science fiction, introduced us to extra terrestrial life on Mars. Through science fiction we have engaged our minds and souls in the modern manifestation of philosophy and often crossed the line into technical prophecy.

Literary & Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
General Editors: Mary Thomas Crane, Boston College, and Henry Turner,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

CFP:
Science Studies and Science Fiction
edited by Margret Grebowicz

This collection calls on specialists in science studies, broadly conceived,
to explore the implications of science fiction for their particular areas of
inquiry. Critical essays will explore the actual and potential roles of the
genre of science fiction in academic interrogations of the sciences, from
theoretical, pedagogical, and historical perspectives. I am soliciting
essays which address works of science fiction in any medium from any of the
following vantage points:

CFP: _Literature and Medicine_ General Issue (no date)

The Science Fiction Foundation seeks entries for its annual graduate
essay prize.
£250 will be awarded for the best unpublished essay in science fiction
criticism.
The winning entry will be published in the journal 'Foundation'.

The judges of the competition are:
Andrew M. Butler (Canterbury Christ Church University College): editor
of 'Vector'
Elizabeth Hand: author and reviewer for 'The Magazine of F&SF'
Gary K. Wolfe (Roosevelt University, Chicago): reviewer for 'Locus'

The deadline for submissions is 31st May 2004.

Entrants must be registered for a higher degree.
The judges reserve the right to withhold the award.