Dear colleagues,
We send to you the information about the possibility to submit an article for an international scientific journal (Fifth CFP)
"Problems of Management in the 21st Century" ISSN 2029-6932
http://www.jbse.webinfo.lt/PMC/Problems_of_Management.htm

Keynote Speaker: Angela McRobbie

Feminism has always found significant expression in creative
and critical literature, from poetry and pamphlets to modes of
the digital age: Twittering and blogging. Yet with its shifting
social and political manifestations, the term feminism itself has
frequently been seen to raise as many questions as supposed
answers, leaving it open to revision, contestation and new
expression. This conference seeks to examine the varied and
diverse ways in which contemporary women's writing since
1970 has engaged with and continues to respond to the 'the f
word'.

Call for Papers: Film (General) Area
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association
34th Annual Conference
February 13-16, 2013

"Celebrating Popular/American Cultures in a Global Context"

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
in Albuquerque, New Mexico
http://www.swtxpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 16, 2012

Call for Papers: Striding toward Salvation: Medieval and Renaissance Pilgrimage in Europe and the Mediterranean. Saginaw Valley State University (University Center, MI), February 22-23, 2013

Call for Papers

For a special issue on "Science Fictions" Studies in the Novel seeks critical responses to the genres of SF. Essays would consider debates within SF's various communities of genre and affiliation, as well as across these communities, with an emphasis on the SF novel or writings of any kind by noted SF novelists. Submission deadline is September 1, 2014; all questions and submissions should be directed to studiesinthenovel@unt.edu.

Guest Editor: Farah Mendlesohn, Professor and Chair of English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, author of Rhetorics of Fantasy (Wesleyan 2008), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2003).

We are pleased to invite you to participate to the International Summer School "Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind". The event will take place from
26th to 30th August 2013 and will be hosted by Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg - Institute for Advanced Study Delmenhorst (Germany).

The Summer School provides a unique opportunity for Master students, PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and senior academic researchers to
take part in a lively exhange of ideas within an international and interdisciplinary community of experts in aesthetics and the embodied mind thesis.

Medieval Christians were ambivalent about rhetoric. In 'De doctrina christiana,' Augustine describes an unknown poet's idolatrous tribute to the god Neptune with an allusion to Luke 15:16: "Within its pleasing covering, this husk rattles sonorous little gems; but it is the nourishment of pigs, not of men" ("Haec siliqua intra dulce tectorium sonantes lapillos quatit; non est autem hominum sed porcorum cibus"). Augustine's mixed metaphor conflates aural, visual, and gustatory pleasure, and emphasizes language's potential for empty sensuality. He suggests that the smooth or pleasing surface of poetic language may conceal proper meaning or deceptively cover over a void in spiritual truth.