Call For Papers

The first annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference at George
Mason University will interrogate the politics of cultural programming
in public spaces.

Institutions within the conference purview include: museums, festivals,
the performing arts, sporting events, multicultural and/or ethnically
specific celebrations, gigs and club nights, and tourist spectacles. Of
special interest is the menu of activities available in specific
localities at any given moment: Of what is this menu comprised? To whom
is it offered? And at what cost?

Questions to be considered may include but are not limited to:

CFP: Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture (03/01/07; RMMLA, Oct 4-7, 2007, Calgary, Albert, Canada)

I am seeking submissions for the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association's "Practical Approaches to Teaching Culture" panel, to be presented at the 61st annual RMMLA convention in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (October 4-7, 2007).

In today's multicultural environment, college instructors are challenged to develop lessons that increase students' understanding of culture and intercultural interaction. By integrating innovative and creative lessons into our curricula, we can engage students so that they apply the lessons they learn in the classroom to the world around them.

KIPLING CONFERENCE 2007

September 7-8, University of Kent, UK

**** NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS, 17TH FEBRUARY, 2007 *****

"From Shanghai to Shepperton": An International Conference on J.G. Ballard
University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Saturday 5th May 2007.

Guest Speakers Include:
Toby Litt
Dr Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck)
Professor Philip Tew (Brunel)
David Pringle
Professor Jon Cook (UEA)
Professor Mark Currie (UEA)
Professor Vic Sage (UEA)

Out of the Ordinary: Urban Humdrum, Everyday Stuff, Public Things

Moments of Futurity: From Present Conditions to Material(izing)
Horizons
The Ninth Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group
Keynote Speaker Fredric Jameson
March 29-31 at the University of Florida
Conference website:
http://grove.ufl.edu/~gsg/bwwc/index.php?cf=5

The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to
February 1, 2007.

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
            
Call for Papers: humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

This is a call for papers that address the topic of gay masculinity. Can there be such a thing, or rather, are there many types of masculinities or is there only one masculinity? Must a gay masculinity (which is usually labeled as inadequate or excessive) always be defined against the heteronormative definition of what is masculine ? Academic pieces that consider these topics, and others of the same theme, are welcome.