3nd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
April 18 and 19, 2008
California State University, Sacramento

The third annual ASNR conference invites papers that address the politics
or politicization of play and performance, festival and frivolity. This
interdisciplinary conference provides a forum for considering
manifestations of play and performance at macro- and micro-levels of
everyday life, both historically and contemporarily. We invite abstracts
for papers in the humanities and social sciences that address the
following or related ideas:

What makes a person seem “affected” rather than natural, and why should it matter? Since the
concept of affectation became current during the Renaissance (in part thanks to texts such as
Castiglione's The Courtier) many playwrights, philosophers and novelists have tried to codify and
dramatize the difference between "affected" and spontaneous or natural behavior. This distinction,
however, is frequently blurred by the ambiguity of motives and gestures. Indeed, some might argue
that the effort to distinguish between truthful, heartfelt or natural feelings and simulated or affected
ones is doomed to failure. Yet these efforts and the difficulties they encounter arguably tell us a

CFP: Political Masculinities (11/1/07; PCA/ACA, 3/19/08-3/22/08)
                 
2008 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference

March 19-22, 2008
San Francisco Marriott
San Francisco, California

For more information on the PCA/ACA, please go to http:www.h-net.org/~pcaaca. The
conference website is http:www.pcaaca.org

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE UPDATE: NOVEMBER 1, 2007

We are considering proposals for session organized around a theme, special panels, and/or
individual papers. Sessions are scheduled in 1 hour slots, usually with 4 papers or speakers per
session.

Call for Papers

Portals: A Journal of Comparative Literature is a graduate student journal
published by the Comparative Literature Association of San Francisco State
University.

Portals invites original, critical essay submissions that explore
comparative literary topics across cultural, regional, linguistic, and
temporal boundaries for the Spring 2008 issue.

Submission Guidelines

Dear friends, collegues and italianists from all over the world: last
days to send your abstract to NEMLA Convention 2008.
Here is the session: Literature, Poetry and Theatre.
 This panel invites papers that explore the boundaries among literature,
poetry and theatre in the (second) Twentieth and Twenty-first century
works. Welcome are papers that investigate improvisation as a limit as
well as a common element among the three genres; all kind of relations
between text and its representation in one or more of the considered
genres. Send abstracts to Anna Cafaro, Boston College: cafaroa_at_bc.edu
Deadline: 10/12/07

Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture invites submissions to
Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture and Review Americana: A Literary Journal.

To submit American Studies scholarship and creative writing, we invite you to visit the journals at
http://www.americanpopularculture.com

You can also find submission guidelines online at

Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present)
http://americanpopularculture.com/journal/call_for_papers.htm