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UPDATE: Deadline for Sumbissions for the Digital Cultures Issue Extended to August 15

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 7:31pm
The Projector: A Journal on Film, Media, and Culture

DEADLINE EXTENDED: The Projector: A Journal on Film, Media, and Culture is seeking submissions for a special issue on digital culture. We are interested in essays that critically explore digital texts, the digital distribution and consumption of media, and various forms of online communication and cultural practices. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

•Convergence Culture

•Remix Culture

•Web 2.0, new forms of media texts, and new forms of media consumption

•YouTube, Netflix, Hulu and other streaming services as distribution venues for independent and experimental cinema

•Web series as an evolution of or alternative to television broadcasting

•Netflix and Hulu as producers of media content

The Many Dangers of Photography: The Image of Photography in Literature - NEMLA 2015 (4/30-5/3)

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 6:56pm
Joanna Madloch, Montclair State University

This panel will examine the picture of photography in literature since the nineteenth century to modern days. We especially invite papers concerned with the problem of various dangers associated with photography. This includes but is not limited to: photographers harming their models or injuring themselves; photographs causing problems in peoples' lives; cameras threatening people; and possessing photographers.

Please submit 200-250 word abstracts by September 30, 2014, directly through the NeMLA site. Here is a direct link to submit an abstract: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15189

Queering the Nation: Queer Identities in Early America--For OIEAHC-SEA Conference, Chicago June 2015

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 6:37pm
Marcia D. Nichols (University of Minnesota Rochester) / Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture--Society for Early Americanists

Although Foucault declared that sexuality as an identity is a modern phenomenon dating from the medicalization of sexual impulses in the Victorian era, some recent scholarship has argued that queer sexualities per se existed, at least in proto- or nascent forms. For example, in Sex and the Eighteenth Century Man, Thomas Foster convincingly demonstrates that one colonial Massachusetts man whose sexual preference for other men was seemingly recognized as a sort of sexual identity by himself and his community. Moreover, in London, tales of female husbands continued to titillate and the existence of molly houses, with their elaborate rituals and lingo anatomized in canting dictionaries and criminal narratives.

Call for Papers: Adaptation: Literature, Film, and Culture Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 36th Annual

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 10:33am
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

Call for Papers: Adaptation: Literature, Film, and Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
36th Annual Conference, February 11-14, 2015

Popular and American Culture Studies 2015 Conference Theme: "Many Faces, Many Voices: Intersecting Borders in Popular and American Culture."

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

Proposal submission deadline: November 1, 2014

Anonymity and Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century Narratives of London (Deadline: September 30, 2014), NeMLA

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 9:53am
Northeast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention, Toronto, Ontario (April 30 – May 3, 2015)

In Poe's "The Man of the Crowd," the narrator finds himself anxiously pursuing an unknown but somehow sinister old man through the streets of London, determined to penetrate his mystery, only to ultimately conclude that he will "learn no more of him." Early in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mr.

Liberal Arts International Conference 2015

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 3:28am
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Transnational Perspectives on Globalization. Texas A&M University at Qatar

LIBE­RAL ARTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2015
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Transnational Perspectives on Globalization
1-3 February 2015
HOSTED BY: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR