science and culture

Call for Papers

Carolyn Burdett and Angelique Richardson are seeking contributions for a
Special Issue of the journal New Formations on ŒEugenics¹.

X-posted from SHAKSPER

The Undying Fire: The Journal of the H.G. Wells Society, the Americas

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2003

_The Undying Fire_ is devoted to the study of H.G. Wells, and critical
essays on any topic relating to Wells's life and work will be considered
for publication.

Interdisciplinary essays welcomed.

Published annually, each volume includes from five to seven
essays ranging from 10-25 pages in length. MLA documentation preferred.
Submit paper copy and the file on disk (in Word format).

Be sure to include your e-mail address on your cover letter.

CALL FOR PAPERS

For a proposed edited collection of essays on:

Time, Freedom, and Utopia: The Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

We extend this call for papers to authors from all disciplines
interested in exploring the contemporary political significance of
Ursula K. Le Guin's powerful utopian novel The Dispossessed.

Call for Papers: Science as Culture (journal)

I am seeking contributors for _20th Century American Science Fiction
and Fantasy Writers, 1900-1950_, the first volume of a
revision/expansion of the previous _Dictionary of Literary Biography_
volumes on the topic. The following entries are available:

Stephen Vincent Benet
Robert Bloch
Nelson S. Bond
James Branch Cabell
Hugh B. Cave
Robert W. Chambers
August Derleth
Ralph Milne Farley
Charles G. Finney
L. Ron Hubbard
Carl Jacobi
David H. Keller
Frank Belnap Long
Robert A.W. Lowndes
A. Merritt
John Meyers Meyers
Fletcher Pratt
E. Hoffman Price
Ross Rocklynne
Thorne Smith
Donald Wandrei
Manly Wade Wellman
Philip Wylie

Please forward to potentially interested parties:

'Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine' (to be published 2004)

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Editors of the book 'Signs of Life:
Cinema and Medicine' will be requiring a first rate chapter on the
representation of nurses and nursing in film -- delivered later this year.

This chapter will be 6000 words in length. The contributor will receive a
small fee and a contribution toward collection of images (if being used).

CFP: essay on Aids and Cinema -for forthcoming volume of essays on Medicine and
Cinema.

The editors of a volume of essays on Medicine and cinema are seeking an
original and quality piece on AIDS and cinema. Anyone interested in submitting
such a piece for consideration should write, with a precis and a cv, to Dr
Andrew Moor, Lecturer in Film, Univ. of Wales, Bangor on els604_at_bangor.ac.uk

With apologies for cross-posting...

Call for Contributions/Papers
to the
Orthotics and Prosthetics (O&P) Awareness Initiative
of the
Orthotic and Prosthetic Assistance Fund, Inc. (OPAF) www.opfund.org

Call for Contributions

New Book Series from Continuum

TECHNOLOGIES
Studies in Culture and Theory

EDITORS
Gary Hall & Chris Hables Gray

CONSULTANT EDITORS
Parveen Adams, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Jim Falk, Steve Graham, Donna
Haraway, Deborah Heath, Manuel De Landa, Paul Patton, Constance Penley,
Kevin Robins, Avital Ronell, Andrew Ross, Allucquere Rosanne
Stone.

Announcing a new series from Ashgate Publishing Company

Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity

Series Editors:
Mary Thomas Crane, Boston College and
Henry S. Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Our journal "Zeistprünge. Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit"
(information on website of Verlag Vittorio Klostermann) is inviting
articles on early modern history, culture, and science. Articles are
published in German or English. Please submit your articles
- in printed form to:
   Zentrum zur Erforschung der Fruehen Neuzeit
   Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet
   D - 60054 Frankfurt am Main
- as an email attachment in Rich Text Format to
  G.Engel_at_em.uni-frankfurt.de

Yours,
G.Engel

Dr. Gisela Engel
Zentrum zur Erforschung der Fruehen Neuzeit
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet
D - 60054 Frankfurt am Main

Tel. (069) 7982 3282
Fax (069) 7982 5122

Chapters and appropriate chapter suggestions are sought for:

"Signs of Life: Medicine and the Cinema"

"Signs of Life: Medicine and the Cinema" will consider how medicine,
the medical profession and medical science have been presented in
the cinema. The book will offer an historical, cultural and textual
study of the filmic representation of medicine and will appeal to both the
film studies and a wider film readership.

This book development project already includes a foreword by a major name in
medicine and the medical humanities and is receiving extremely enthusiastic
responses internationally. We intend for this to be an exceptional book.

The book is divided into three sections: