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CFP: [Rhetoric-Composition] Call for Proposals for Research Network Forum at CCCC

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Friday, August 31, 2007 - 6:43pm
Dr. Katherine V. Wills

Research Network Forum
A Community of Inquiry
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
RESEARCH NETWORK FORUM AT CCCC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2008
NEW ORLEANS HILTON
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
HOMEPAGE: WWW.RNFONLINE.COM

CFP: The Research Network Forum was founded in 1987 as a pre-convention
workshop at
CCCC. RNF provides an opportunity for published researchers, new
researchers, and graduate students to discuss their current research
projects and receive responses from new and senior researchers. The forum
is free to CCCC convention participants. You need not be a work-in
progress presenter to attend.

CFP: [Film] The Classical Era: Special Edition of Film and History

updated: 
Friday, August 31, 2007 - 5:14pm
Cynthia Miller

Call For Papers: Film & History special issue on The Classical Era

Deadline: 12/9/08

Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites article proposals
(250-500 words) for a special edition focusing on classical antiquity, an
era that can be defined as the period beginning with Homeric poetry
(circa 8th century BC) and ending with the fall of the Roman Empire (476
AD).

CFP: [Medieval] Medieval Exile Experiences

updated: 
Friday, August 31, 2007 - 3:33pm
Kelli Gardner Bell

hile medieval exile has received some degree of attention in the past years, generally it is not
viewed as a productive experience and instead focuses more the negative associations of life in
exile. Exile takes on many forms and accounts for a diverse set of experiences among medieval
people. Can we understand a knight on a service mission for his lord as experiencing exile? or a
woman married off into a foreign land? Are exile experiences limited to political expulsions/hostile
take-over of lands or religious withdrawal from public life? In this session, I propose to explore the
question of what medieval exile was, why people experienced exile, and what experiences,

CFP: [Medieval] Caring for Children: Models of Parenthood, Guardianship, or Fosterage in Medieval Literature and Art

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Friday, August 31, 2007 - 3:32pm
Kelli Gardner Bell

While medieval childhood has received quite a high degree of attention recently, a lot of the
research has focused on the relationships between parents and their natural children as the societal
norm, while the wide-spread practice of guardianship and fosterage has mostly been discussed as
signs of parental negligence or abandonment. In this session, we propose to study more thoroughly
the multitude of arrangements in which medieval children received adult guidance, education,
nurturing and care as represented through a variety of media: fictional texts, historical documents,
art work, manuscript illustrations, and the like. We welcome paper proposals from all disciplines
and cultural areas.
 

CFP: [18th] Representations of Jews in the Long Eighteenth Century (ASECS 3/27-3/30/08' 9/15/07)

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Friday, August 31, 2007 - 1:02pm
Jeremy Webster

In his article “Juif” for the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des
sciences, des arts et des métiers, the Chevalier de Jaucourt maintains that
the fate of Europe had become inextricably linked to its treatment of Jews:
“scattered in our day with greater security than they had ever had in all
the countries of Europe where commerce reigns, they have become instruments
by means of which the most distant nations can converse and correspond with
each other.” Jaucourt concludes, “They are like the pegs and nails that one
uses in a great building, and which are necessary to join all of its parts.”

CFP: [Medieval] Inquisition & Resistance in the 14th Century (9-15-2007; Kalamazoo 5-8-11-2008)

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Thursday, August 30, 2007 - 10:02pm
Judy Ann Ford

Inquisition & Resistance in the 14th Century (9-15-2007; Kalamazoo 5-8-11-
2008)

CONTACT:
David C. Mengel
History Department
Xavier University
Cincinnati, OH 45207-4444

mengel_at_xavier.edu

DESCRIPTION:
The 14th Century Society seeks paper proposals for the International
Congress on Medieval Studies, to be held at Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8-11, 2008, on topics related to "Inquisition &
Resistance in the 14th Century." Papers dealing with some aspect of the
Inquisition in history, art history, religious studies, literature, or any
other aspect of 14th century culture are welcome.

CFP: [Medieval] Gravity & Levity in the 14th Century (9-15-2007; Kalamazoo 5-8-11-2008)

updated: 
Thursday, August 30, 2007 - 9:59pm
Judy Ann Ford

CONTACT:
Elizabeth Bailey
Department of Art History
Wesleyan University
4760 Forsyth Road
Macon, Georgia

lbailey_at_wesleyancolledge.edu

DESCRIPTION:
The 14th Century Society seeks paper proposals for the International
Congress on Medieval Studies, to be held at Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8-11, 2008, on topics related to "Gravity and
Levity." These terms are meant not only as emotional states, but also as
physical ones (as in "levitation"). Papers dealing with some aspect
of "Gravity and Levity" in art history, religious studies, literature, or
any other aspect of 14th century culture are welcome.

UPDATE: [American] Deadline Extension for Early Native American Literature (10/14/07;NEMLA, 4/10/08-4/13/08)

updated: 
Thursday, August 30, 2007 - 8:37pm
Drew Lopenzina

Call for Papers:
Early Native American Literature
39th convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
Dates: April 10-13, 2008
Buffalo, NY

In his recent book, The People and the Word, Robert Warrior speaks of
a "strengthening of the historical arc of Native writing" to consider how
Native American literatures of the past might be of use to us today. This
panel invites papers that focus on pre-twentieth century Native writers
(or writers on the cusp of the 20th century)examining, among other things,
how these authors negotiated their private ambitions and needs alongside
traditional concerns and the demands of print discourse.

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