Call for papers, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 5/12 – 5/11.
Panel Title: "Rhetoric of Prayer in Medieval Poetry"

The portrayal of prayer in medieval verse allows us to see how it was conceived outside of strictly theological discussions in ways such as Karen Jolly's examination of the role of prayers in Anglo-Saxon charms. Papers will examine what the depiction of prayers reveals about the underlying cultural conceptions of prayer as an act and could consider such wide-ranging topics as:

The role of prayers as charms or petitions.

The conditions necessary for a prayer's efficacy.

The possible disparities between secular and theological conceptions of prayer.

Contemporary mobile, internet, and computing technologies currently inform culture and society around the world. In the Middle East and North Africa, as elsewhere, technology has created new media avenues for interaction while blending them with existing channels of oral, written and multi-media communication. The Journal of New Media Studies in the Middle East and North Africa was created out of a clear need to encourage research in this exciting field and promotes work done in and by researchers from the countries making up this region as well as research related to the region from anywhere in the world.

Working Through Psychoanalysis:
Freud's Legacy in Art, Cinema, Literature and Popular Culture

An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Leeds, UK
15th-17th April, 2011

Guest speaker, D.M. Thomas,
author of The White Hotel

Call for Papers