Call for Papers
Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum:
Building New Connections
October 10-12, 2006
Hosted by Portland State University
In collaboration with Baldwin-Wallace College, Binghamton University,
The University of Iowa & the American Council on Education (ACE) Internationalization
Collaborative
INVITATION AND OVERVIEW
The Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Movement intends to make global competence a reality for students and to create alliances among educators to share practices and find ways to incorporate an international dimension in curricula, and, more generally, to achieve internationalization goals. General principles of CLAC include 1) a focus on communication and content rather than grammar in language instruction and application, 2) an emphasis on meaningful content-focused language use, outside traditional foreign language classes, and 3) an approach to language use and cross-cultural skills as means for the achievement of global intellectual synthesis, in which students learn to combine and interpret knowledge produced in other languages and in other cultures. Within this large framework, CLAC can take many forms, depending on specific content and curricular goals within a discipline. Among areas of interest to CLAC educators are 1) alternative models of education that foster the acquisition of cross-cultural competences, 2) frameworks that serve to build connections between comparative literature, cultural studies and area studies, 3) K-16 articulation models, 4) content-based language instruction and the development of new content-based foreign language textbooks and discipline-specific learning materials and technology, 4) study abroad, including programs focused on professional studies, 5) heritage learner programs, and 6) service learning models in cross-cultural contexts.
The specific focus of the 2nd annual conference on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum will be:
1) how to prepare students for CLAC through better K-16 articulation and 2) how to incorporate culture into language-focused models. The conference will be held in conjunction with the 6th International
Conference on Service Learning in Portland, Oregon, to allow participants to learn about incorporating
CLAC into service learning experiences. These two events will overlap by one day to allow crossconference participation.
TOPICS
Papers are solicited concerning, but not limited to the following areas:
1) CLAC and K-16 Articulation
How can we establish workable K-16 articulation models that promote international education?
2) Content-Based Language Learning
What are the intersections between CLAC and content-based language learning theories and practices?
3) Culture and Cross-Cultural Communication
How can CLAC highlight culture to improve cross-cultural competence and promote language study?
4) Business and Government Models of Internationalization
How can we meet the contrasting needs of business (the "metropolitan migrant" model) and academia, defense, or diplomacy (the "expert" model)? How might we adapt CLAC to fulfill varying needs?

5) CLAC in the Context of Comparative, Cultural, and Area Studies
What are the intersections between Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Area Studies, and CLAC?
Can these fields of study "meet" through the agency of CLAC?
6) CLAC and International Service Learning (ISL)
How can CLAC be used before, during, and after ISL activities to maximize acquisition of intercultural knowledge and skills? How can ISL principles and practices inform CLAC to increase global learning?
7) CLAC and Study Abroad Programs
How can CLAC principles be integrated into study abroad programs, including programs for professional studies? How can study abroad link better to non-foreign language disciplines?
8) CLAC and Assessment
How should we assess CLAC programs and learning? Are language proficiency and cross-cultural skills assessment tools (such as ACTFL standards and the IDI) appropriate to the goals of CLAC?
9) CLAC and Heritage Learner Programs
How can the needs of heritage learners in foreign language instruction be addressed using CLAC principles? How can the knowledge of these learners be used as a resource in CLAC programs?
ABSTRACT FORMAT
To offer a 30-minute paper or 90-minute panel presentation, please provide the following, in the form of
MS Word documents attached to the email message:
1. A cover sheet including: a. Type: Paper (30 minutes, including 10 minutes for open discussion) or Panel Presentation (90 minutes, including 30 minutes for questions and comments from the audience) b. Title of your paper or presentation and brief description (75-100 words) c. Names of Presenter(s) including, as appropriate, specification of their roles, contact information for each (titles and affiliations, email addresses, telephone and fax numbers), and brief biographical sketch (50-
75 words) for each presenter d. Relationship to Conference Themes e. Target Audience(s), including what the audience(s) can expect to "take away" from your paper or presentation
2. A one-page abstract (500 words) of your paper or presentation, clearly indicating what each presenter, if more than one, will contribute.
3. A list of needs for your paper or session (Internet access and on-site computers may be limited.
Come prepared.)
Proposals must be submitted by July 14, 2006 to: Kathie Godfrey, Portland State University at clacpdx@pdx.edu
with "CLAC Conference" in the Subject line. Tel: (800) 547-8887, ex. 5294. Fax: (503)
725-5276. Mail: Foreign Languages & Literatures, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97201-0751.

For additional information see our website at: http://www.clas.pdx.edu/clac/
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Marketing the Movies: Promotion, Advertising and Film Studies
Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick, UK 24 February 2007
Confirmed Speakers: Dr. Vinzenz Hediger (University of Bochum), Dr. Sarah Street (University of Bristol) and Dr. Dina Iordanova (St. Andrews University)
More so than many other kinds of art, films exist primarily as commercial entities, with for-profit enterprises producing and distributing the vast majority of the works which are seen throughout the world.
Selling these products to audiences often entails more money (and some would say, creativity) than goes into the production of the films themselves. Despite the prominence in film culture of movie posters, theatrical trailers, and television commercials for upcoming releases, relatively little research has been done within film studies on film marketing itself. Promotion has heretofore been used mainly as a supplementary component of reception studies, with materials such as studio guidebooks or staged promotional events being typically presented as constituting “useful evidence as to how the company involved viewed the film at the time,” to quote Colin McArthur, or helping to explain the journalistic reception of the films in question.
This event seeks to break from this pattern of using the promotion of films in such ways and to shift the critical focus to the materials and practices themselves, to treat them as the object of study while also reflecting on the ways in which they can, and should, be used as research resources. How do they go about getting people to see movies? How have they functioned and changed throughout the history of the medium? How do they work in differing national and cultural contexts? What can they tell us about the films they promote and/or the industry they are a part of?
Proposals for papers are invited on any aspect of the marketing and promotion of films. Suggested topics include:
-- Analyses of promotional materials such as trailers, commercials, posters, pressbooks, etc.
-- Historical perspectives on film promotion and advertising.
-- Nationally specific film marketing practices.
-- Transnational marketing practices, i.e. European films in America, American films in Europe,
Bollywood cinema in Britain, etc.
-- Institutions of film promotion, e.g. The UK Film Council, Internet Movie Database, Film Festivals
-- Branding of film products through directors, stars, nationality or literary authors.
Proposals should be no longer than 300 words and should be submitted by 15 August 2006 by mail or email to Christopher Meir, University of Warwick, Department of Film and Television Studies, Coventry CV4
7AL, c.t.meir@warwick.ac.uk
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CFP: Text and Image: The Language of Images (10/01/06; CCSU, 03/29/07-03/30/07)
Text and Image Conference
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, CT 06050

The Language of Images, March 29-30, 2007
Central Connecticut State University and the English Department invite proposals for their international, interdisciplinary Text and Image Conference on “The Language of Images” on March 29-30, 2007.
The goal of this conference is to provide a diachronic and multidisciplinary exploration of the complex and ever-evolving interaction between texts and images in fields as diverse as literature, art, philosophy, history, drama, sociology, tourism, cartography, graphic design, and the media. We welcome submissions that examine and challenge the relationships between texts and images from a historical, cultural, theoretical, and generic perspective, while emphasizing the illuminating or destabilizing effects of this interaction for the reader/viewer. By analyzing texts that incorporate visual images, or visual images that incorporate text, participants are invited to consider the forms and modalities that the debate on texts and images has taken over time and space from its origins in the Sister Arts tradition to the more recent discussions of the proliferation of images in today’s “pictorial turn” or “visual culture.” Submissions may emphasize, for example, the textual components of images and the graphical elements of texts according to the tradition of “Ut Pictura Poesis,” their joint nature as “signs” according to semiotic tenets, or the fundamental resistance of images to interpretation according to poststructuralist theories. Proposals may also address notions of truth, artifice, otherness, and evidentiality. We encourage contributors to consider the ambivalent reactions of iconophilia and iconophobia that images seem to generate historically and culturally, and to examine the interaction between texts and images in terms of power and gender. Issues of history, memory, trauma, and nostalgia may also be addressed, while formal issues may be raised through discussions of innovative “iconotextual” strategies that attempt to break the boundaries between the verbal and the visual. Whatever the focus, but particularly in cases of ekphrasis – the verbal representation of a visual representation – submissions may use the interplay between texts and images to provide a reflection on the limits of representation, as well to re-think the very acts of reading and viewing.
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Literature and the Visual Arts:
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Literature and Painting
Literature and Film
Literature and Maps
Literature and Illustrations
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Concrete Poetry
Ekphrastic Poetry
Graphic Novels
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Artist Books
Hypertexts
Text and Image in Art
Text and Image in Drama
Text and Image in History
Text and Image in the Media
Text and Image in Cartography
Text and Image in Graphic Design
Text and Image in Tourism
Visual Sociology
The Theory of Text and Image
Please send a 250-word abstract and a short biography as a Word attachment to laurence.petit@ccsu.edu
Submissions must be received by October 1, 2006.
CFP: DoubleTake/Points of Entry Magazine. Deadline--September 15, 2006
DoubleTake/Points of Entry, the documentary magazine edited by Dr. Robert Coles and Professors
Roberta Rosenberg and Terry Lee, seeks essays, fiction, poetry and documentary photographs on

the topic of "Crossing Cultures" for the next issue of the magazine.
Deadline for submission for this issue to mark Jamestown 2007 is September 15th. Writers and photographers interested in contributing should send their manuscripts to the specific editor at DoubleTake. To obtain editors' addresses and guidelines, please see our website www.doubletakecommunity.org
. Back issues and subscriptions to
DoubleTake/Points of Entry are available through the Johns Hopkins University Journals website http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/doubletake/index.html
DoubleTake/Points of Entry is the successor to
DoubleTake, originally published by Duke University and Dr. Robert Coles. For more information, please contact Professor Roberta Rosenberg at rrosenb@cnu.edu
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Why Melville Matters Now: A Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Herman Melville, Albany, NY
Keynote Speaker: Andrew Delbanco
This celebratory symposium to be held November 17 and 18th 2006 at the Albany Academy campus and its environs where Melville lived and attended school from 1830-31, will consider the enduring relevance of the author s life, work, and inf luence from the perspectives of the humanities, arts, the sciences, and new technologies.
Herman Melville s work lives on to to tell the tale, because the questions he posed are the same issues that inspire contemporary writers, artists, and thinkers today 94the vexed relations between humans and their environment, racial and social injustices, capitol punishment, psychological alienation, and the new frontiers of science and globalism.
The symposium, sponsored by the Albany Academies in conjunction with The Center for Humanities,
Arts, and Sciences (CHATS), State University of New York at Albany, will bring together scholars, artists, actors, historians, archivists to present paper s and panels. In addition, there will be artistic performances and installations, archival and gallery exhibits, and a 24-hour marathon reading of Moby Dick. Readers will include visiting writers at local cultural institutions, celebrities, community members, local university faculty and students and the Academies alums, faculty and students . Participants will be able to take a self-guided tour of Melville s Albany connec tions, a route that includes Lansingburgh, Pittsfield and Arrowhead, and the origina l Albany
Academy building, where Melville attended school, and to attend special art exhibits based on Melvilleinspired works. Melville s texts and what might be called their transdisciplinary a pproach to existence anticipate their own critical future and our own times in multiple ways. These works lend themselves to contemporary critical/theoretical discourses as well as interdisciplinary approaches and adaptations. The following topic areas are not meant to be prescriptive but rather suggestive of possible papers:
Melville, travel, and world citizenship
Melville and environmentalism, ecology
Melville the ultimate eco-tourist
Melville and morality, ethics
Melville and cosmopolitanism
Melville and Pedagogy: teaching Melville today
Gender and queer studies: approaches to
Melville s short fiction
The question of the animal, animality
Blackness and whiteness, racial and social issues in Melville s fiction
Postcolonialism, cross-culturalism
Biological and ecological issues in
Melville narratology
Freudian, Lacanian readings
Melville and questions of agency class, and power relations
Adaptations
Music
Melville and Science, cetology and herpetology
Digital studies, media, and Melville

Questions, paper and panel proposals and abstracts should be sent to
_MelvilleNow@yahoo.com_ ( mailto:MelvilleNow@yahoo.com
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Additional Information: _www.albany-academy.org/melville_ (h ttp://www.albany-academy.org/melville)
CALL FOR PAPERS
SOCIETY FOR REFORMATION RESEARCH SPONSORED SESSIONS
Kalamazoo: 4nd International Medieval Congress
May 10-13, 2007
Location: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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We are offering three themed Sessions:
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1. Reformation I: The Power of the Book
A session about how print and the press expedited the progress of the Reformation. Could be influential books ("The Bondage of the Will"), or THE book (Scripture), or polemical contests. Individuals (Luther or
Knox) or groups (Puritans). Social change... censorship issues ... influence of specific books on the progress of the Reformation.
2. Reformation II: The Power of the Sword
A session on force and compulsion, issues of conscience, military history, Peasants Rebellion, armed resistance, church and state. Does the church have the power of the sword? Issues of obedience and resistance, and authority.
3. Reformation III: The Power of the Word
A session on belles lettres, rhetoric, the style of individual authors (reform-minded or anti-reformation), the scriptural 'Word', the influence of texts on religious and spiritual thought. Send 200 Word Abstracts by email to Maureen Thum, Program Secretary, SRR at Kalamazoo mthum@umflint.edu
Please use subject heading: SRR proposal
****DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: May 14, 2006*** (We need to send in the program proposal May
15) We may accept some abstracts after this date if the sessions are not yet full
FORMAT OF ABSTRACTS
The following information should be provided at the beginning of the abstract
1) name of presenter
2) affiliation (university, emeritus, independent scholar)
3) status (faculty, graduate, undergraduate)
4) complete address, either home or institution where we can best reach you at all times
5) office phone and home phone
6) e-mail address
8) title of paper
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****MEMBERSHIP IN THE SOCIETY FOR REFORMATION RESEARCH ****
Membership is required to present a paper. $20 regular, $10 student and emeritus
****Useful contact information****
Maureen Thum, Program Secretary, Society for Reformation Research at
Kalamazoo. Department of English, 326 French Hall, University of
Michigan-Flint, Flint, MI 48502

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CALL FOR PAPERS: THE GOTHIC AND ADDICTION
>From Matthew Lewis s The Monk (1795) and Charlotte Dacre s Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), to Mary
Shelley s Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818), Thomas De Quincey s Confessions of an
English Opium-Eater (1821), Robert Louis Stevenson s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(1886), and Marie Corelli s Wormwood: A Drama of Paris (1890), the Gothic has been fascinated with the theme of addiction/obsession/monomania as it is variously manifested. Proposals for individual or collaborative papers for a special issue of Gothic Studies (the official journal of the International Gothic
Association) are invited on the idea of the Gothic and addiction/obsession/monomania. Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):
strategies and structure in the Gothic "pharmography": i.e. narratives chronicling the process of drug/alcohol seduction and addiction
addiction and the Faustian intertext
obsessive science/scientists; science and drugs/alcohol (i.e. the elixir vitae)
the tension between rational will/liberty/control/mastery and irrational enslavement/excessive passion
literary and medical conceptions of addiction
drugs and Orientalism, racial contagion, imperial geography
drugs/alcohol and individual/national degeneration
"love is a drug" addiction
drugs/alcohol as symbolic scapegoat onto which are displaced such "secret vices" as homosexuality (see
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick s Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, 1985)
Gothic literature as an "addictive," socially dangerous form
Please send electronic copies of proposals of approximately 500 words and a 100-word bio by Monday,
September 4th, 2006, to Carol Margaret Davison ( cdavison@uwindsor.ca
) or by snail-mail to:
Dr. Carol Margaret Davison
Department of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing
University of Windsor
401 Sunset Avenue
Windsor, Ontario
N9B 3P4
Canada
Completed essays of approximately 6000 words (including endnotes) are due by March 31, 2007.
Call for Papers Humans and Animals
Proteus: A Journal of Ideas
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
For Spring 2007, Proteus seeks articles that examine the relationships between humans and animals from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines. Articles may discuss wild or domesticated animals; they may

encompass multiple human societies and animal species; or they may focus on the interactions between an individual human and animal. Submissions may include, but are not limited to, articles and essays written by scientists, humanists, historians, social scientists, and literary scholars. The journal especially encourages articles that span multiple disciplines. Poetry and art are accepted.
Deadline for manuscripts is October 2, 2006. Publication date is April 2007.
Manuscripts must be typed and double-spaced. Preferable length of articles is 2,000 to 5,000 words. Longer papers will be considered.
Send manuscript as a Microsoft word attachment to: proteus@ship.edu
Contact Person:
Proteus Managing Editor, Marcia Gibbs
(717-477-1206)
Transformations
Refereed electronic journal in regional media and cultural studies http://transformations.cqu.edu.au
Call for abstracts: "Accidental Environments"
"The Accident is not an exception or a sickness of our apolitical regimes; nor it is a correctable defect of our civilization: it is the natural consequence of our science, our politics, and our morality." - Octavio Paz,
_Conjunctions and Disjunctions_.
This issue of Transformations seeks submissions that explore, describe, translate and transform "accidental environments". Accidents happen by chance. They are seen as the mark of a failure to maintain control of an environment. But can accidents be seen in another way, as productive in the sense that seemingly incongruous things and events coincide or collide and together create possibilities and release potentials.
They produce "events".
An environment is a fluid milieu of intermingling forces that condition the many contexts of life.
Environments are forms of immanence that make life livable, but within certain constraints, liberties and conditions. Environments are permeable-they always exceed the dictates of science, capital and politics that try to control and contain them. The body, the biosphere are environments that exceed their discursive boundaries.
An accidental environment is one constituted on the possibility of accidents happening. There are control environments in which the accident is reduced to a particular instance of a more general problem, but there are also creative environments which feed off the chance incident or encounter, and the singularity of the event.
For this issue of Transformations we seek submissions that reflect on what it might mean to speak of an accidental environment in either of its control or creative forms: What is the status of the accident today?
What is the role of the accident in war? How do technology, global capital and geopolitics affect or effect accidental environments?
DEADLINE: Abstracts to be submitted by 16th June, 2006.
Abstracts (500 words) should be sent to the General Editor, Warwick Mules. w.mules@cqu.edu.au
(with a view to submitting completed drafts by mid-September 2006)
Panel Title: "Deadwood" and Emotion
Conference: Western American Literature Association, Boise, Idaho, October 25-28, 2006.

In keeping with the WLA conference theme, "Feeling Western," this panel will examine the role of emotion in HBO's award-winning television western "Deadwood." Although much has been said about the show's rough language, violence, and its gritty and realistic portrayal of a frontier town and its inhabitants, there has been little discussion thus far of its emotive and even sentimental elements. The central question this panel will ask is: what is the role of "feeling" and "feelings" in "Deadwood"?
Individual papers might address the show's evocation and/or representation of particular emotions (tears, fears, anger, hate, sorrow, desire, sympathy, empathy, repulsion, melancholy, pathos, catharsis, etc.). Other topics might include (but are not limited to): same-sex "couples" (or partners) in "Deadwood"; domesticity in "Deadwood"; the role of emotion in the formation of relationships between characters.
Please send 250-300 word abstract with name, address, affiliation, email, phone, fax, and A/V requests by
June 1, 2006 to: michael.johnson@maine.edu
For more information on the conference itself, please visit the WLA's website: http://www.usu.edu/westlit/conference2006.htm
Dr. Michael K. Johnson
Department of Humanities
University of Maine at Farmington
Farmington, ME 04938
I am putting together a book collection of essays on The X-Files and Literature. I am looking for essays of 20-40 pages that explore The X-Files' revision and adaptation of literature and literary conventions, literary works or forms that anticipate the major traits that make The X-Files what it is, and the television program's reflexive influence on other forms of literature or 20/21st-century adaptations of literature.
Please submit an abstract of 250-500 words by 6/04/06 to:
Sharon R. Yang, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Languages and Literature
Worcester State College
486 Chandler Street
Worcester, MA 01602
CFP: Fake News and its Narratives (7/01/06; collection)
Submissions are invited for a proposed collection theorizing fabricated news and its narratives.
In the past twenty-five years, American journalism has been scandalized by a series of sensational cases of journalistic fraud. Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, and Jayson Blair are only the most notorious examples of reporters who have been caught inventing characters, making up quotations, plagiarizing details, and, in the most outrageous cases, faking entire stories.
Revelations of journalistic fabrication are invariably followed by the agonized self-scrutiny of the victim publications as they attempt to set the record straight. Throughout the many texts this process generates
(reports, clarifications, corrections, apologies), fabrication is routinely described as the “cardinal sin” of reporting and its perpetrators excoriated as journalistic aberrations. But is this the whole story? To what extent do these aberrant texts expose certain features which are most, rather than least, typical of news?
What can fabricated stories tell us, for example, about the patterns which help construct news as an intelligible and credible discourse or about the newsroom practices which support those patterns? In what ways does the credibility of fabricated news arise from its deft faithfulness not to “external” facts but rather to the generic and narrative patterns publishers, editors, and readers expect, desire, and value in the news?
To what degree do these same expectations distort non-fabricated news?

While beginning with such questions, this collection seeks to explore the idea of fabricated news in all of its textual aspects from editorial apologetics to fabricators’ memoirs to the stories told by a Washington
Press Corps willing to suspend disbelief and obligingly report official fictions as fact.
Other possible topics include:
News, Lies, and Market Culture
Phantom Sources
Fabrication and Form(ula)
Staging News
Fabrication and the Journalistic Archive
Pundit Payola
Satire and Fake News
Technology and Fabrication
News as Urban Myth
Fabrication and Editorial Desire
False Witnesses
“Jeff Gannon” and the Phenomenon of the Fake Reporter
Fabrication and Public Memory
This volume aims to engage current articulations of narrative and genre theory with journalistic discourse, but submissions exploring all theoretical approaches to the questions raised by fabricated news and its cognate texts are welcome and encouraged. Submissions need not be restricted to American or print fabrications.
Send 500-word proposals electronically (if sending as an attachment, submit in
*.rtf format) by July 1, 2006 to Robert Alexander ( ralexander@brocku.ca
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Please include a brief CV and biographical statement.
Deadlines for accepted manuscripts (5500 - 8000 words) will be January 31, 2007.
Please use “Fake News” in the subject line of all electronic correspondence.
Hard copies may be mailed to
Robert Alexander
Department of English Language and Literature
Brock University
500 Glenridge Ave.
St. Catharines, Ontario
Canada L2S 3A1