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Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)Annual Convention
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, MD
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CFP: Medicine and Poetry: The Poultice and the Pen
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MLA 2007 Proposed Panel
Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, and Southern Women Writers
Scientific and medical films: Last call for proposals
Join us at Dallas this November
I am finalising the Scientific and medical films area for the 2006
Documentary Tradition Conference, 8-12 November 2006 at the Dolce Conference
Center, Dallas
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Currently we have the following confirmed speakers and topics:
Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 14-17, 2007
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 28th Annual =
Conference
CFP: Literature, Ecocriticism, and the Environment
Abstract/Proposals due by December 1, 2006
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Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
Hotel: http://albuquerque.hyatt.com
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Conference Website: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/ (updated regularly)
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Panels now forming for presentations and roundtables regarding Literature, =
Ecocriticism, and the Environment in such areas as:
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Call for Papers: Special theme issue of Reconstruction
Co-edited by
Alexandra Ganser, M.A., University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Dr. Vibha Arora, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
alexandraganser_at_hotmail.com AND vibhaaurora_at_gmail.com
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture is an open access,
electronic, peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing essays in
cultural studies from emerging and established scholars worldwide.
Call for Papers - =93Beasts, Birds, and Fishes: Travel, The New Science, =
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ASECS - Atlanta, Georgia March 22-March 25, 2007
CFP: HEALTH AND DISEASE IN POPULAR CULTURE
POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS CONFERENCE
BOSTON MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts
April 4-7, 2007
The "Health and Disease in Popular Culture" PCA/ACA
area encourages proposals from historical and contemporary
perspectives.
Topics may include subjects related to literary representations
of health issues/diseases; depictions of health and disease
in the mass media (e.g., television, film, internet, advertising);
drugs and pharmaceuticals; alcohol or tobacco; infectious and
chronic diseases in popular culture; epidemics; mental health;
Call for Papers: =93Works of Fancy: Women, Literature, and Science=94 =
ASECS =96 March 22-25, Atlanta, Georgia
This panel explores women and scientific discourse in the long =
eighteenth century. Genres include, but are not limited to, poetry, =
prose (fiction and non-fiction), drama, and art. This session focuses =
particularly on women utilizing scientific discovery, discourse, and/or =
representation in the context of their work rather than women =
specifically writing about science, although this would be of interest =
as well.
Please forward a 300-500 word abstract and vita by September 1, 2006 to =
jhayden_at_ut.edu or by regular mail to arrive by September 1,2006 to:
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
38th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, 22-25 March, 2007
The Ecocritical Eighteenth Century
International Conference
Sustainability and the Literary Imagination:
Transdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives
November 18th, 2006
Department of English
National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
Call for papers
H.L. Mencken: The Sage of Baltimore NEMLA 38th Annual Convention, March
1-4, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2006
This panels solicits papers on any aspect of the work or influence of
H.L. Mencken, with particular interest in his involvement with
lampoonery or social darwinism. Send abstracts to Lisa DeTora,
Lafayette College: detoral_at_lafayette.edu
Sedimentations: An Art Culture Nature Conference
18th - 20th of May 2007
Conference Site: Kettle Pond Visitor Center in Charlestown, Rhode Island
Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Conference Directors: Ana Flores and Petra Kuppers
This Art Culture Nature conference addresses connections between time,
ecology, human history and the histories of the land.
ACN is an interdisciplinary organization which brings together artists,
environmentalists and educators in the humanities, arts, sciences and
social sciences who are interested in the study of the connections
between the arts and environmental studies.
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artciencia=2Ecom - Number 4, Auguste-October 2006
Deadline: 28 July 2006
www=2Eartciencia=2Ecom is a quarterly online journal, which intends to =
publish authors' articles or artworks about Art, Science, Art and Scien=
ce, and Communication=2E The texts can be written in English, Portugues=
e, Spanish, French or Italian=2E
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- Art and Science in Architecture, Cinema, Literature, Music or Paintin=
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-Technology, Art, Science and Human Body
- New Media, Video and Computer Games
- Ethics, Bioethics, and Art and Science
'evolutions': a two-day international conference hosted by the School
of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh,
22-23 September 2006.
CFP Panel:Panel Call: Intelligent/Divine: Religion versus Rationality?
UPDATE: The deadline for abstracts, which was omitted from the original =
call, is Sept. 15, 2006.
Call for Papers
38th Convention Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland
Correspondances Océaniennes
A thematic half-yearly journal promoting Oceanic
cultures based in Nouméa, New-Caledonia. Founded in
2002. Already published: issues on Women, Youth,
Nature, Memory, Literatures, the Body, Creation,
Images, Australia, Departures. Indexed by Austlit
Database and in
Australian Literary Studies 21: 3, May 2004, p.385 &
390; reviewed in Antipodes 17: 2, Dec.2003, p.167-8.
(Founding) Editor : Dr. Jean-François VERNAY
CALL FOR PAPERS:
FEEL FREE TO SEND YOUR PROPOSALS
TO THE EDITOR: vernayj_at_yahoo.com
By 15 September 2006.
THEME: ISLANDS AND INSULARITY.
13TH ANNUAL ROBINSON JEFFERS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
FEBUARY 16-18, 2007, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I, HONOLULU
Call for Papers
Cognitive Approaches to Irish Literature (Panel)
New England American Conference for Irish Studies
University of Connecticut-Storrs, CT 10/21/2006-10/22/2006
We invite submissions of papers for a panel that will examine Irish
literature with the tools of cognitive science, cognitive psychology,
and cognitive literary theory. Recent discoveries in cognitive science
have profound implications for literary studies. Cross-disciplinary
scholars have made huge strides in showing how the functioning of the
embodied mind is inherently caught up with the production of literary
material. This panel will draw upon the most provocative insights of
VERB, an interdisciplinary online journal with a newsprint supplement,
is seeking submissions for its Fall 2006 issue. The topic for this
issue is "contagion," broadly defined, which includes (but is not
limited to):
* Disease, sickness, and death, (or theorizing the same).
* The spread of ideas, practices, or perceptions, (or theorizing the same).
* Politics, parasites, or the rapidly-breeding nuisance insects of New
England.
* The communication of ideas, artistic or otherwise.
* Blogs (because no online journal can refuse to discuss blogs).
* Any other item with even a tenuous denotative or connotative
similarity to any definition of "contagion," current or otherwise.
'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'
ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.
Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006
The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?
An updated version of artciencia=2Ecom - Number 3, May-July 2006 -, is =
now online=2E=20
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www=2Eartciencia=2Ecom is a quarterly online journal, which intends to =
publish authors' articles or artworks about Art, Science, Art and Scien=
ce, and Communication=2E The texts can be written in English, Portugues=
e, Spanish, French or Italian=2E
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Some possible general topics of consideration:=20
- Art and science in Architecture, Cinema, Design, Literature, Music, P=
ainting or other Arts;
- Technology, Art, Science and human body (New Media, Video and Compute=
r Games, etc=2E);
- =A0Ethics, Bioethics, and Art and Science=2E
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CALL FOR SEMINAR PAPERS
TRADITION AND CHANGE IN RURAL SOCIETY
(24-30 September 2006)
Deadline for submissions: 10 July 2006
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The Durrell School of Corfu will hold a seminar on the topic 'Tradition and
Change in Rural Society' at its Library and Study Centre in Corfu, 24-30
September 2006.
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2006 Film & History Conference
“The Documentary Traditionâ€
8-12 November 2006
Dolce Conference Center â€" Dallas, TX
www.filmandhistory.org
Deadline: August 15, 2006
AREA: Nature and the Environment in Film and Television Documentaries
Early filmmakers often traveled the globe to introduce audiences to views of
far away places. Niagara Falls and scenes of the Holy Land shared the
screen with the dancing Carmencita and boxers Corbett and Fitzsimmons. Later, the
filmic exploration of the natural world added support to the argument that
movies were educational tools.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Undead
A conference at the University of California at Berkeley
October 19-20, 2006
Hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature
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>From age-old whisperings of spirits and ghosts to the contemporary
explosion of cultural interest in zombies, the concept of the undead
is one that refuses to die.
Call for Papers
Panel: Women Writers of Color, Womanist/Feminist Activism, and
Personal Healing
38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland
This panel focuses on the connections between women authors, personal
healing, and the search for global justice. What is the relationship
between women's personal empowerment and their political action,
particularly in literature by women of color in the last half of the
20th and the first years of the 21st century? The panel will invoke
some of these questions:
Call for Papers: Image, Sound, & Touch in the Nineteenth Century (Collection)
We are seeking submissions for a collection of previously unpublished
essays on Image, Sound, and Touch in the Nineteenth Century.
How might the image look if we approach it through the sensations and
technologies of sound and touch? What can the nineteenth century teach us
about the inter-related and remedial qualities of media? In what ways do
we reproduce the apparent ocular-centrism of the nineteenth century in our
current critical practices?
CFP: Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association Conference March 31, 2007
"Creative Forces: Women, Art, Science"
The Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association invites submissions for its
annual conference to be held March 31, 2007, at Bucks County Community
College in Newtown, PA. This year's conference theme is "Creative Forces:
Women, Art, Science."
This conference spotlights the dynamic relations and fecund negotiations
among the complex and interrelated domains of the arts, the sciences, and
gender.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Interdisciplinary Essays on Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Papers are being sought for a collection of essays on Science in
Nineteenth-Century Britain. Edited by Amanda Mordavsky Caleb, the collection
will be printed by Cambridge Scholars Press in Spring/Summer 2007. Papers are
invited on all aspects of research broadly relating to science in
nineteenth-century Britain. Proposals may focus on areas including, but not
limited to: art, astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, continental influences,
history, literature, mathematics, medicine, music, philosophy, physics,
religion, sociology, and zoology.
For a book collection of essays, The Body in Medical Culture, please
send the abstract of completed essays of about 25 pages on any aspect of
the medicalized body in the 18th or 19th centuries. Europe, Britain or
North America considered. 250 word abstract due by June 15. Send to
etklaver_at_siu.edu.
CALL FOR PAPERS â€" THE GOTHIC AND ADDICTION