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CALL FOR PAPERS
ACLA '06: THE HUMAN AND ITS OTHERS
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference
Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006

ACLA 2006 will take place at Princeton University on March 23-26, 2006 (Thursday evening through Sunday noon). Hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature, along with other Departments and Programs in the humanities and the creative arts, the conference will focus on a central theme, The Human and Its Others.

Call for Papers

Theatron, a semi-annual theatre journal published out of Washington University
in November and May, is currently accepting submissions, particularly from
graduate students, in five different categories:

-Scholarly papers on the subjects of dramatic literature, criticism, theory,
or performance. Submissions may be written in English, any Romance Language,
or German.
-New ten-minute plays or new translations of plays.
-Production reviews, reviews of new plays or books on the subject of drama.
-Interviews with theatre professionals.
-Letters to the editors.

The deadline for both of the following panel proposal calls for theRhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference is August 25. Please note 2 calls for proposals are posted below.
 

RSA Panel Title: Rhetoric in the Jesuit Tradition: Looking Back

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Materials of Modern Sculpture
A one-day graduate student symposium
Saturday, February 4, 2006
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

This one-day graduate student symposium will address the materials of
modern sculpture and changing conceptions of the sculptural object from
1945 to the present.

cfp: LAW, LITERATURE, AND LANGUAGE (10/15/05 proposals; 3/31/05 articles =
for journal issue)=20

European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 11, Issue 1 (Routledge)=20

Call for Papers for the second edition of JUNG: The e-Journal of the
Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies, a peer-reviewed, academic journal.
                         
                        Opens: August 1, 2005
                        Deadline: December 1, 2005
                        To be published on-line April 2006
                         
Papers of up to 7500 words on any topic that implements, utilizes, or
critiques the relevance and application of Jungian and post-Jungian theory
for scholarly study. Topics may include (but need not be constrained to)
the arts, humanities, and sciences, such as literature, the arts, drama,

 Rhetoric Society of America Panel Title: Rhetoric in the Jesuit
Tradition: Looking Back

(please circulate =AD apologies for cross-posting)

Fibreculture Journal
http://journal.fibreculture.org

Call for papers

New media, networks and new pedagogies (2006)

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discussion of internet theory, culture, 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.

Conference: Literature and the Cognitive Sciences at University of
Connecticut, Storrs.
Deadline: submit 200-300 word abstract by Sept. 21, 2005
Panel: "Cognitive Approaches to Latino/a Narrative and Image"
Panel Organizer: Frederick Luis Aldama, Professor of English and Comparative
Studies at The Ohio State University.
I invite abstracts for the panel "Cognitive Approaches to Latino/a Narrative
and Image" to present at the Literature and the Cognitive Sciences
conference at the University of Connecticut, Storrs (April 6-9, 2006).
Recent advances in such areas as narrative theory, linguistics, and the
cognitive and neurobiological sciences, offer the opportunity for scholars

Could you please forward this to you graduate students? Many Thanks!

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd UK Kant Society Annual Graduate Conference on Kant
at the University of Hertfordshire (U.K) de Havilland Campus on
Thursday 6th- Friday 7th July 2006

Keynote Speakers: Karl Ameriks and Marcia Baron

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday 3rd January 2006

Further details: http://www.herts.ac.uk/humanities/philosophy/Kant05.html

CALL FOR PAPERS
(please circulate widely)

Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
PERFORMING REPARATION: PRACTICE, METHODOLOGY, AND PROCESS

Seeking abstracts for panel(s) to be proposed for the Society for Cinema
and Media Studies Conference (Vancouver, BC, March 2-5 2006) on the
topic "Media Studies and Recent Developments in Critical Theory."

Deadline for receipt of proposals: August 15th 2005.

Please send paper proposal and brief bio by email to Rich Cante,
Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, The Univeristy of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "rcante_at_email.unc.edu."

All interesting proposals are welcome--whatever media, concepts, or
"methods" they deal with.

Proposal for Panel

19th Century American Literature and the
Psychoanalytic Subject
 
For The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture
and Society (APCS) Annual Conference on November 4-6,
2005 at Rutgers University

Plenary Speakers: Willy Apollon and Eric Santner

19th Century American Literature and the
Psychoanalytic Subject

We are seeking essays for an edited collection on "Asian American
Literature and Postcolonial Theory," which should be both an exploration
and a mapping of the debates around these two terms and their corollaries.
Such corollary debates have erupted over the use of terms such as diaspora,
cultural memory, racial melancholy and trauma, nationalism, ethnicity, and
hybridity in Asian American cultural critique. Essays that consider these
genealogies and/or question the usefulness of theories derived from
colonial and postcolonial discourse are especially welcome. Also of
interest would be specific author, period, regional, national, and textual