ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PROSTITUTION. The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution is a reference work about prostitution past and present, both worldwide (mostly in the West) and in the United States, to be published by Greenwood Press. With approximately 600 entries on health, cultural issues, migration, boom towns, legislation, technology, literature, movies, and more, this three-volume encyclopedia promises to be a foremost resource devoted to this high-interest yet sensitive topic. Information: Melissa Ditmore.
LITERARY MAMA. Literary Mama seeks first-person reflections with an intellectual as well as personal focus. Potential topics include writing as a mother; the influence of motherhood on your craft; reading as a mother; the reading that inspires and motivates your writing process; working as a professional; teaching, editing, publishing, and marketing mother-writing. In the Literary Criticism Collection, we seek reprints of scholarly articles about literature whose main theme is motherhood and written by mothers. These articles can address motherhood/mothering/mothers as subject matter, theme, or image. Send submissions of 750-5000 words in the text of an email and/or attached Word document, along with a brief cover letter, to litcrit@literarymama.com. We respond in 4-6 weeks. Editors: Libby Gruner and Caroline Grant. For further information: Elisabeth Rose Gruner.
LITERATURE COMPASS. Calling for articles on all major topics in the study of twentieth-century British literature—articles exploring the state of criticism on the given subject and/or recommending new directions—for Literature Compass (Blackwell's on-line journal devoted to new developments in criticism and theory). Send 250-word abstracts (and questions) to Kivmars Bowling.
TV SHORTS. 2500-3000 word articles are sought from potential contributors to TV Shorts, online at Critical Studies in Television. TV Shorts will train attention on contemporary television fiction, generating lively debate as well as providing an intellectual and creative platform for thinking differently and responding ingeniously to contemporary television culture. Each paper must be submitted electronically. To ensure quick turnaround, submissions will be approved and referred by the editorial board prior to posting. Writers of the best contributions will be invited to re-work and extend their piece for publication in the hard copy issue. Any hard correspondence should be sent to CST Administrator, Critical Studies in Television, Department of Contemporary Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, MMU Cheshire, Hassall Road,Alsager ST7 2HL (UK).
INTERNATIONAL DRAG KING EXTRAVAGANZA 7 (IDKE) ACADEMIC CONFERENCE. Conference callout for the IDKE 7, October 20 - 23, 2005 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Itching to share your research? How about sitting on a panel or coordinating a drag king workshop? Here is your chance! Sessions will be held Friday, October 22nd and Saturday, October 23rd at the University of Winnipeg. Some examples of past sessions and presentations include: kinging and the impact/implications on race, class, and ability; kinging and the impact/implications on feminist and queer discourse; king subcultures, including bio/faux queens, bio/faux kings, transkings, etc.; learning to (fill in the blank): interactive sessions; Producer's Roundtable. Information: either Halley or Maybe, Co-Academic conference coordinators.
LITERATURE AND MEDICINE: HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS seeks essays that explore the intersections of health and human rights, as well as essays that critique the narratives that structure the concepts of health and human rights. We are especially interested in essays with a concentration on global health and the discourse of human rights and on questions of justice and access. Inquiries and submissions to Rita Charon and Maura Spiegel, Editors-in-Chief, Literature and Medicine, Program in Narrative Medicine, College of P & S, Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, PH9E—105, New York, NY 10032 and sent as an attachment to editor Priscilla Wald.
CASAZINE on CHÉ GUEVARA: THOUGHT, ACTION, IMAGE. Ernesto "Ché" Guevara embodies the willingness to put dreams and ideals into practice, and to face the consequences of this practice - a readiness usually associated with action, and one that many lack in the practice of their theory. Like few others, he was faced with the challenge to concretely accomplish the complex negotiation of thought, ideals and action, particularly during the consolidation period of the Cuban revolution. In this issue of the CASAzine we invite contributions that engage with his writing and/or with the significance of his image. We invite contributions that engage with—and do not objectify—the theory, practice, the image and the persona of Ché Guevara both in articles focusing concretely on his example, and in articles that take a comparative approach in their analysis of his significance for other movements and of the influence of his theoretical work on social movements and on other writers. We also invite reviews on books and articles related to the topic. Articles should not contain more than 3000 words. Send your contributions and attach a short autobiography.
GENDER DISGUSSED: GENDER & THE ABJECT. We invite scholars to contribute target articles and reviews to its upcoming issue on gender and the abject. Target articles should conform to the MLA style sheet and should not exceed 8,000 words. Please include a bio-blurb and an abstract of 10 to 15 lines. Use endnotes and fully documented references at the end of the article. Files should be sent as email attachments in a PC-readable format (WordPerfect, Word, HTML or RTF). Information: visit our website or contact us via e-mail.
PERFORMING THE MATRIX: MEDIATING CULTURAL PERFORMANCES at UNIVERSITY OF MAINZ, GERMANY, JULY 30-AUG. 25, 2005. While matrix is a well-established concept within different scholarly fields, it has recently become a popular catchword through the homonymous Wachowski brothers' film. As both a traditional concept and a popular phenomenon, "matrix" can take on a new value when reconsidered in the light of performance studies. Contemporary discussions on cultural performances necessarily reflect on the medial preconditions of these performative activities themselves. A behind-the-scenes look at theatre, ritual, sports, events will reveal a productive mediating structure metaphorically described as "matrix.” Inquiries: Birgit Walkenhorst, program coordinator.
TRANSGRESSION/TRANSCENDENCE IN CYBERSPACE. Women Writers: A Zine seeks previously unpublished essays and original works of fiction, poetry, and hypertext for an upcoming special issue, "Digital Eves: Transgression/ Transcendence in Cyberspace." This issue will explore cyberspace as a contemporary arena for originary human sin: a transgressive space in which, like the biblical Eve, individuals for varying reasons seek to transcend their ontological limits, be they physical, temporal, intellectual, or creative. Submissions should engage the central question "In what ways does or can cyberspace function as an imaginative space in which beings attempt to repeat Eve's original 'encounter with the apple,' perhaps in the hope that computer technology will help afford a success that biblical mythology and tradition has not accorded her?" Send complete piece and CV/ bio to guest editors for this issue (Jill LeRoy-Frazier, David E. Frazier, Heather Hoover, and Jason Payton). See submission guidelines.
TAKING MODERNITY FROM BEHIND (panel proposal). In Negotiations, Giles Deleuze famously characterizes his history of philosophy as “a sort of buggery,” the practice of “taking an author from behind and giving him a child that would be his own offspring, yet monstrous.” Using this description as an organizing impetus, we invite submissions for a proposed 2005 GEMCS (Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies) panel on approaching theories of modernity from behind, i.e. from texts retroactively designated as “early modern.” What kinds of “offspring” does such an analysis generate? And to whom would they be “monstrous”? Email 250-word abstracts to Will Stockton.
POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT & AMERICAN THEATER BEFORE 1900. This special issue of Comparative Drama seeks to illuminate and explore the wide range of theatrical productions in the U.S. before 1900. Topics may include popular melodrama; minstrelsy; touring performers and performances; Wild West shows, historical reenactments, and Indian plays; museums and traveling circuses; the rise of the Broadway impresario; the development of stage realism; technological innovation and stagecraft; race and gender as factors in popularity and/or appeals to specific audience(s); humbugs and hoaxes; regionalism and theater; the relationship of theater with other arts; social and cultural performance beyond the formal stage. Send essays (25 pages max., double-spaced) to: Nicolas S. Witschi, Dept. of English, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331. Queries: Nicolas Witschi.
RHETORIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2006 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE. The RSA 2006 conference theme, "Sizing Up Rhetoric," is intentionally ambiguous. It emphasizes all of the following: taking stock of rhetoric and its various subfields in their intellectual and disciplinary configurations, addressing questions of rhetoric's scope and boundaries, and considering larger and more ambitious projects for rhetorical study. We invite proposals that pertain to the conference theme. In addition, of course, we seek papers and panels in all areas of rhetorical studies: history, theory, criticism, and pedagogy. Especially welcome are submissions that will be of interest across disciplinary boundaries or that explore the common ground of composition and communication. Panels on which all participants come from the same institution are strongly discouraged. Inquiries about the conference.
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