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Call for Abstracts - Deadline Oct 1, 2010
Drawing from Foucault's notion of the 'political technology of the body' and the 'spectacle of the scaffold', the collection looks to explore the Sovereign's power and control over the body through the cinema's arguable co-option of the state's political-military-corporate aims and goals.
"Trans-Scripts" -- a student run, faculty advised online interdisciplinary journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences -- has recently been created at UC Irvine. The journal is seeking graduate student work, and I was wondering whether you would be so kind as to distribute the Call for Papers (attached as a pdf) to the grad students in the Humanities and Social Sciences at your institution.
Panel proposal for Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference in New Orleans, March 10-13, 2011. Open to work on Disney's _The Princess and The Frog_, including but not limited to cultural studies perspectives, theoretical perspectives, historical perspectives, etc. Ethnographic perspectives on the film's New Orleans setting also considered.
Please submit a 300-word abstract with bibliography and your contact information via email to Virginia Bonner at vbonner@clayton.edu by August 1, 2010.
CALL FOR PAPERS
I Do Not Miss What I Do Not Want: Asexual Identities, Asexual Lives
Special theme issue of Psychology and Sexuality
UPDATE:
We are glad to announce that the Science Fiction Foundation (http://www.sf-foundation.org) has kindly agreed to support our conference by offering four £50 bursaries for postgraduates who have their paper presented in this conference.
We still welcome submissions by 1 September and are looking forward to receiving abstracts from those interested in our event.
Original CFP follows below:
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SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY AREA
Conference of the Popular and American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)
April 20 – April 23, 2011 -- San Antonio, TX
One of the largest and most vibrant of the association, the Science Fiction and Fantasy (SF/F) Area invites proposals for its 2011 national conference. The goals of our area are (1) to share and support research, scholarship, and publication and (2) to mentor emerging scholars. As a result, we invite proposals from professors, independent scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates (with the guidance of a professor).
The conference will include sessions on Literature, the Sacred, and Texts; Literature, the Sacred, and the Environment; and Literature, the Sacred, and Philosophy. Within this context both literature and the sacred are defined quite broadly, and presentations on any topic, theme, or perspective within those general categories are welcome. Participants are also encouraged to propose their own category-specific sessions if necessary.
The conference will be held Thursday, October 14th, through Saturday, October 16th, at the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University.
Presentations should run approximately 15 minutes. Selected presentations from the conference will be published in a 2011 conference-specific issue of Literature and Belief.
To apply the SAMLA 2010 convention theme of "The Interplay of Text and Image" to fourteenth-century England, a panel will look at the visualization of vice and virtue in the works of Chaucer and Langland. Papers examining their different approaches to capturing a changing society are welcomed. This will be the ENGLISH I–C (MEDIEVAL) session. By August 30, 2010, please send a 250-word abstract and vitae to Kathleen DeMarco, Georgia Perimeter College, at Kathleen.DeMarco@gpc.edu.
http://conference2011.aulla.com.au. The 36th Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) will be a wide-ranging exploration of 'Storytelling in Literature, Language, and Culture.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Poetry and Melancholia, University of Stirling, 8-10 July 2011
Keynote speakers: Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary, University of London), Don Paterson (Poet), and Susan J. Wolfson (Princeton University). Other speakers include John Drakakis (Stirling University), Lorna Hutson (University of St Andrews), Ron Levao (Rutgers University), Cornelia D. J. Pearsall (Smith College) and David G. Riede (Ohio State University)
'Civilization arises and unfolds in and as play' (Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens). In civic entertainment, 'play' constitutes the primary formative element in human culture that affords and sustains common interest and amusement. Texts produced in the classical, medieval and the Renaissance periods document how the Church, the Court, and the citizens devise their 'play' in triumphal entries, court entertainment, civic festivals, religious rituals, processions, drama, music and dance.
Organizer: Justin Horton, Georgia State University
Respondent: Nick Davis, Northwestern University
A New Generation of Readers: Romance Novels Through the Internet Age
CALL FOR PAPERS: "INTERIORITY IN EARLY CULTURES"
The Group for the Study of Early Cultures at the University of California, Irvine invites submissions for its Third Annual Graduate Student Conference:
INTERIORITY IN EARLY CULTURES
Friday & Saturday, January 21-22, 2011
Keynote Address by Paul Strohm (Anna Garbedian Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University)
Call for Essays: Spider-Man, Spider-Women, and Webspinners: Critical Perspectives
Edited by Robert G. Weiner and Robert Moses Peaslee;
When Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first penned a short story about a young man named Peter Parker who gets bit by a radioactive spider and becomes the hero known as Spider-Man, little did they know they would be creating the most popular super-hero in history (next to Batman). Like most "happy accidents," the creation of Spider-Man almost did not happen. It was initially a throw away a story in a magazine that was getting cancelled anyway.