****DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 8******

We are looking for essays for a special double-issue of GLQ: A Journal of
Lesbian and Gay Studies entitled “Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity:
Rethinking the State at the Intersection of Native American and Queer
Studies.”

****DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 8******

We are looking for essays for a special double-issue of GLQ: A Journal of
Lesbian and Gay Studies entitled “Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity:
Rethinking the State at the Intersection of Native American and Queer
Studies.”

EXTENDED CFP AND PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY:

“I remain, &c”: Addressing the Eighteenth-Century Letter

St Edmund Hall, Oxford
11th-12th September 2008

http://eighteenthcenturyletters.blogspot.com

30th June 2008: We are pleased to announce an opportunity for some
participants at our conference to be published in an established academic
journal. We have extended the deadline for our call for papers as a
result of this development. The new deadline is FRIDAY 18TH JULY.

Call for Papers

In Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the SF Imagination

April 3-4, 2009

Graduate Student Conference
Department of English
University of Alabama in Huntsville

Speakers: Phillip E. Wegner (University of Florida)
                Tobias Buckell

This conference will be devoted to exploring Darko Suvin’s claim that the
estranging function of science fiction allows us to “redescribe the known
world and open up new possibilities of intervening into it.” We welcome
paper and panel proposals from a variety of disciplinary perspectives on
topics including (but certainly not limited to) intersections of SF with
the following areas of inquiry:

In order to complete an upcoming special issue, the multidisciplinary
online journal “gender forum” (http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de) seeks
2-3 further contributions discussing Jewish culture from a gender
perspective. Proposed topics include but are not limited to culturally
specific discourses of gender and sexuality, questions of media
representation and visibility, the representation of Jewish women in
popular culture, the gendering of Anti-Semitism as well as gender
perspectives on Diaspora existences.

Call for Papers: MOTHER
Guest Editors: Nicole Cooley and Pamela Stone

We have entered a motherhood moment--from celebrity mom baby-bump
sightings to recent televised debates between “stay at home moms”
and “working moms,” from “welfare mothers” to “Alpha moms,” images of
motherhood are circulating in our culture as never before.