Blogs & Wikis
MPCA/MACA - Region Conference
October 12-14, 2007
Radisson Hotel and Suites, Kansas City, Missouri

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 30, 2007

BLOGS, WIKIS, AND SCHOLARSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION
The Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture
Association is seeking papers on the use of blogs, wikis, or other
collaborative online technologies in higher education.

Possible topics include:
• case studies of blogs or wikis in the classroom
• the wiki in academic research
• the blogging professorate
• digital publishing and the tenure dossier

Current Trends in Narratology, University of Freiburg, Germany

(June 14 - 16, 2007)

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This workshop provides an overview of state-of-the-art research in =
narratology by leading scholars in four major areas of research. The =
conference will include the following sections:=20

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=B7 Thursday afternoon, June 14: "Narrative and Mediality" =
concentrates not so much on fiction and film (already over-researched) =
but on drama, poetry and other media, or issues of mediality per se in =
narrative and/or narratology. Lectures include:

v Brian Richardson (University of Maryland, College Park) "The =
Poetics of Beginnings and Endings in Drama"=20

Current Trends in Narratology, University of Freiburg, Germany

(June 14 - 16, 2007)

=20

=20

This workshop provides an overview of state-of-the-art research in =
narratology by leading scholars in four major areas of research. The =
conference will include the following sections:=20

=20

=20

=B7 Thursday afternoon, June 14: "Narrative and Mediality" =
concentrates not so much on fiction and film (already over-researched) =
but on drama, poetry and other media, or issues of mediality per se in =
narrative and/or narratology. Lectures include:

v Brian Richardson (University of Maryland, College Park) "The =
Poetics of Beginnings and Endings in Drama"=20

CFP: Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in 19th-Century American
Literature (6/15/07; collection)

We are writing to solicit articles for a collection on 19th century
American literature and food culture. The focus of the collection will
address the meaning and importance of food and the scenes of eating for
19th century American writers. What are the social, political, literary
implications of scenes and sites of food? For what effect do authors
employ culinary discourse in their work? How do references to foodways
or culinary traditions influence public perceptions of race, class, and
nation?

Writing Macao:
creative text and teaching

Call for Fifth Number:
Submissions are now sought for the fifth number of Writing Macao: creative
text and teaching, a special issue on Poetry and Translation, to appear
later in 2007 and already under construction.

Call for papers FORUM, the University of Edinburgh postgraduate =20
journal of Culture and the Arts issue 5:

Apocalypse Now?

One day the day will come when the day will not come.
Paul Virilio

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary =20
horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is =20
being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.
Susan Sontag.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The =20
pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

 =46rom Ragnarok to Revelations, AIDS to Armageddon. How has the end of =20=

Call for papers FORUM, the University of Edinburgh postgraduate =20
journal of Culture and the Arts issue 5:

Apocalypse Now?

One day the day will come when the day will not come.
Paul Virilio

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary =20
horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is =20
being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.
Susan Sontag.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The =20
pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

 =46rom Ragnarok to Revelations, AIDS to Armageddon. How has the end of =20=