CFP: ATHE Performance Studies Focus Group Emerging Scholars Panel

The Performance Studies Focus Group at the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference invites submissions of papers for its Emerging Scholars' Panel. The theme of the conference is "Theatre Alive: Theater, Media, and Survival," and it takes place at the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, August 3-6, 2010.

We are now seeking additional submissions specifically in the following areas:

- Japanese cinema
- South Korean cinema
- Thai cinema
- Mainland Chinese cinema (and/or co-productions with Taiwan and Hong Kong)
- Other Pan-Asian co-productions and collaborations; Asian-North Americans working in East or South-East Asian films
- Reception of American films in East or South-East Asian markets

Please send your 500-word abstract (with bibliography/filmography)
and an author bio as email attachments by March 31, 2010
to Philippa Gates and Lisa Funnell

- Decisions regarding the successful proposals will be completed by April 15, 2010.
- Final papers will be required by Aug 1, 2010.

BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE: ANATOMY, COMPLEXITY AND THE INVENTION OF ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS, 1500-1850

We are seeking proposals for a collection of essays that will explore the many ways in which early modern understandings of the body created a new paradigm for the theoretical/artificial organization of human knowledge in the sciences, philosophy, logic, literature and the arts.

Abstracts should be 250 words in length. They must communicate a clear connection to the central theme of this collection. To be considered for publication, proposals should be sent to: anatomycfp@gmail.com. The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 1, 2010.

The Sixth Annual Medievalism Transformed Conference will be held on the 11th of June 2010 at Bangor University. This is an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference accepting papers on studies in the medieval period, especially literature, history, theology and music; other subjects will be considered as well.

We welcome proposals on the theme of the medieval audience: modes in which a text is presented to the public and interactions between the author and the book reader, listener or owner.

Suggested topics are as follows, but not limited to:

CALL FOR PAPERS
"ROMANTICISM & EVOLUTION"

www.uwo.ca/english/evolution

The Romanticism Research Group at The University of Western Ontario invites paper and special panel proposals for an international conference, "Romanticism & Evolution." The meeting will convene at Windermere Manor next to Western's main campus in London, Ontario, 12 - 14 May 2011.

PLENARY TALKS BY
Gillian Beer (Cambridge University)
Tilottama Rajan (University of Western Ontario)
Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago)

Among the more manifest changes of globalization is the recent watershed shift in the planet's population. A world once predominantly rural has become, in the new millennium, predominantly urban, and estimates suggest that the so-called "global countryside" will enter an extended period of decline over the next half-century.