CFP: "The Cultural Other" (journal rubric; November 1, 2003; June 2004)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

An Anthology Concerning the Role of Nature and the Environment in Film and
Television Representations of the American West(s)

Deadline: November 1, 2003

The first "westerns" were filmed in the wilderness of New Jersey and then
(Eureka) moviemakers discovered California. This anthology will examine the
use of western landscape (Monument Valley, etc.), the "role" of nature in
film and television westerns, how western environment affects presentation of
regional character and dramatic characters, and how the natural world has
been constructed, both figuratively and -- a sound stage or through creative
cinematography.

Authors are wanted for a collection of essays on Jewish Orientalism.
This volume will encompass theoretical engagements with Edward Said and
other postcolonial theorists by examining the nexus of Jewish identity and
the Oriental Other Within/Without literary, cinematic, and other
representations. Perspectives are welcomed from scholars working on
cultural history (such as the "post-Zionism" debates), intellectual
history, or literary analysis. Topics might encompass Diaspora, migration,
the Jewish narration of national culture vis-a-vis the Other; history and
postcoloniality; focuses that encompass literature, art, as well as
popular culture, international relations, globalization, Jewish myths (or

Authors are wanted for a collection of essays on Jewish Orientalism.
This volume will encompass theoretical engagements with Edward Said and
other postcolonial theorists by examining the nexus of Jewish identity and
the Oriental Other Within/Without literary, cinematic, and other
representations. Perspectives are welcomed from scholars working on
cultural history (such as the "post-Zionism" debates), intellectual
history, or literary analysis. Topics might encompass Diaspora, migration,
the Jewish narration of national culture vis-a-vis the Other; history and
postcoloniality; focuses that encompass literature, art, as well as
popular culture, international relations, globalization, Jewish myths (or

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> Call for Papers for an essay collection on the arts of
> medieval rhetoric. Papers are invited on any aspect of
> medieval rhetoric as it relates to the theory and
> practice of writing and oratory from 400 to1400 AD.
> Papers may address the following topics: the place of
> rhetoric in both university and non-university
> educational curricula; discoveries of unfamiliar
> rhetoricians or new perspectives on known figures;

Call For Papers: Yale Journal of Student Anthropology

Attention: Undergraduate and Graduate Students

The Yale Journal of Student Anthropology invites essays written by
undergraduate and graduate students regarding cultural, linguistic, and
physical anthropology, and archaeology. Interdisciplinary papers from other
fields that focus on a sociocultural topic are also welcome. Submissions
may include papers written for classes or independently, as well as book
reviews and other scholarly work. The Journal is published as both a print
edition and an online edition.

Please send your submission to both Jennifer.Staple_at_yale.edu and
Sheila.Nightingale_at_yale.edu by May 1, 2003.