CFP: SMFS at Twenty: Teaching (Kzoo 9/15/05; 5/4/06-5/7/06)

CFP: SMFS at Twenty: Teaching (Kzoo 9/15/05; 5/4/06-5/7/06)

Call for 250 word proposals for essays to go into a book entitled
*Fabricating the Body.* Contributors are asked to examine the way the
body is fabricated through methods such as tatooing, clothing, scarring,
surgery, medicine, computer imaging, forensic science, and so on. The
topic is open to any text, genre, media, nation, theoretical approach,
historical time period. Submit proposal and cv by September 1, 2005 to
etklaver_at_siu.edu.

creative/critical/translation call

CFP: Mantis: Poetry and Discipline (07/29/05; journal)

We are seeking:
-previously unpublished critical original poetry, -previously unpublished
critical essays, and -previously unpublished poetry translations for Mantis
5, under the broad theme of "Poetry and Discipline."

Mantis is a journal of contemporary poetry, poetry translation and poetry
criticism. A forum for writers coming from a broad spectrum of intellectual
and aesthetic positions, Mantis is dedicated to publishing new work that
interrogates the relationships among critical writing, creative writing, and
translation.

The Medieval Romance Society invites abstracts on the subject of Health and
Healing in Medieval Romance for presentation at the Forty-first
International Congress on Medieval Studies in May 2006. In the past decade,
scholarship has made significant contributions to the study of medieval
health and medicine. What has yet to be fully explored, however, is how
these concepts are manifested in popular literary works. Where does the
medical concept of the disease of love come into play in the literature?
What is the scientific explanation of "magical healing"? This session seeks
to explore how notions of health and healing inform, or are informed by,

CFP: Politics in a Mediated World

2006 National Popular Culture/American Culture Associations' Annual Conference

Atlanta Marriott Marquis

Atlanta, Georgia

April 12-15, 2006

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2005

The Politics in a Mediated World section of the American Culture

Association is seeking individual papers and/or panels for the

Joint meeting of the American Culture Association and the Popular

Culture Association at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel in Atlanta,

Georgia on April 12-15, 2006.

ACA/PCA is committed to an interdisciplinary approach.