CFP: Renaissance Drama â€" “Adaptations of Renaissance Drama”

South Central MLA,
San Antonio, Texas, November 6-8, 2008.

The “Adaptations of Renaissance Drama” panel for the 2008 SCMLA invites
papers that address the appropriation, adaptation, and cross-genre re-
envisioning of Renaissance drama. We invite proposals that explore how
Renaissance plays have been updated and/or staged throughout theatre
history; cross-media adaptations such as film, television, comic books,
and the fine arts; literary adaptations; and trans-cultural adaptations
(e.g. Shakespeare in India).

Please submit abstracts or completed papers by March 14, 2008 to:

CFP: Renaissance Drama in the Archives

South Central MLA,
San Antonio, Texas, November 6-8, 2008.

The panel invites papers that address the relationship between public or
historical records and the performance, production, suppression, or
regulation of theatre in the Renaissance. Papers on specific archival
collections and their application to research on Renaissance theatre are
also welcome.
 
Please submit abstracts or completed papers by February 13, 2008 to:

J. Caitlin Finlayson
Literature, Philosophy and the Arts
3011 CB
University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Rd.
Dearborn, MI 48128-2406
cfinlay_at_umd.umich.edu

To celebrate the launch of Staffordshire University's new award
'Multiplayer Online Games Design', The Faculty of Computing, Engineering
and Technology are hosting a 2 day conference on all aspects of the growing
field of study that are MMOGs â€" including industry, academic, technological
and the individual perspective.The Conference will take place on the 5th
and 6th of June, 2008 at the Beaconside Campus of Staffordshire University
â€" Stafford, UK.

The scope of the 2 day conference is broad, encompassing the many angles of
the current state of play of massive multiplayer games, in all their forms.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

“Get a Move On!”: Nineteenth Century Migration and Mobility
A Graduate English Conference sponsored by the University of South
Carolina
Dates: March 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley

Abstract Deadline: December 31, 2007

Immigrants and expatriates, sailors and soldiers, travelers and
wanderers, men and women: people in the nineteenth century were moving.
Novels and new inventions such as railroads, steamships, and street cars
provided vehicles of transport for individuals and their imaginations,
while the transnational movements of ideas and populations gave rise to a
newly globalized Anglo-American literature.

Atenea, a multidisciplinary bilingual journal on the humanities and
social sciences, features essays, books reviews, and some fiction and
poetry.
URL: http://www.uprm.edu/atenea

The editorial board invites submissions for publication for a special
issue (June 2008) on "Time and Temporality"

Essays may address the intersection of time with a wide variety of topics

including (but not limited to) history, narrative, memory, consciousness,
and culture.

Submissions in either English or Spanish are welcome (see the guidelines
below):

Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1730-1945.

Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster, eds.

We are seeking contributions for an innovative collection of essays
analyzing how African American masculinity has been practiced and imagined
in American history and literature from the colonial period through World
War II. Our goal is to have historians and literary scholars share topics
and sources in a series of paired chapters chronicling the development,
representation, and contest over African American masculinities. Several
university presses have expressed interest in the project, and we are
seeking abstracts in order to provide a more concrete framework to
publishers.