The interim editorial board of Interdisciplinary Research in Indigenous Studies (IRIS) is pleased to announce the call for submission of papers for the first issue of the journal, scheduled to be published in the summer of 2014.
IRIS will be published quarterly and feature scholarly work that contributes new knowledge and understanding to the field of Indigenous studies. Our publication is committed to disseminating research from and across all disciplines, as they relate to Indigenous peoples, cultures and societies.
Submission of papers for IRIS 1(1), 2014 – Inaugural Issue
1. Indigenous Studies topics
• Papers that address Indigenous studies from within any academic field and on any related topic are welcome.

Please join us for the 35th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, February 19-22, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

**Abstracts due November 15**

The UC Berkeley Program in Medieval Studies invites submissions for an interdisciplinary graduate student conference:

"The Material Middle Ages"
February 28 and March 1, 2014
University of California, Berkeley
Keynote speaker: Cynthia J. Brown, Professor of French, UCSB

"Life, in Theory" refers to the ways in which the principle of life is assumed and articulated by highly specialized disciplinary knowledge, is entangled with media technologies, and is constantly resignified in relation to specific forms of power. Because the concept of life today does no longer provide sufficient ontological ground to distinguish among different forms of life and to guide ethical, political, legal, medical just actions, the conference aims at generating the context for a fruitful discussion on the ecological stakes of theorizing the bios across science, technology, literature, and the arts.

Call for Articles, Reviews and Interviews
From
TEXT MATTERS: A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, THEORY AND CULTURE
Published by the University of Łodź in Poland
Editor-in-Chief
Dorota Filipczak
No. 5
Special Themed Issue
Collecting, Archiving, Publishing North America
edited by Jadwiga Maszewska

The Re-Focus series from Edinburgh University Press is dedicated to reappraising the work of neglected and undervalued Hollywood filmmakers. Following the forthcoming inaugural volume on the films of Budd Boetticher, the second collection will be dedicated to Fred Zinnemann.