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	Calls for Papers 2010 Conference Theme Intersections Mind, Body, Time, Space March 11 to 13, 2010 - El Paso, Texas Deadline has expired
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		Is there room for cooperation over issues that are not technical problems but deep cultural transformations that can be explored historically and empirically? Whose social implications can be examined; and whose underlying assumptions can be challenged and reconsidered? Just as significantly, how is it possible to perpetuate the results of original and spontaneous unions, incorporate them into society and employ them to invigorate the stagnating elements of our educational system and our cultural traditions? While sponsorship of the HERA conference comes from a majority of colleges and universities, HERA recognizes that the cultural and educational issues in the humanities do not stop at the campus gate. For that reason, all teachers and interested educators from the primary and secondary levels are encouraged to submit proposals and to make plans to attend the 2010 HERA Conference. Proposal Submissions: All proposals or panels should include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, and email and phone contact numbers of presenter. All proposals should include paper title(s) and a one paragraph abstract for each paper proposed either singly or as part of a panel. Please send all proposals by email to both: Marcia Green email: mgreen@sfsu.edu Dr. Ronald Weber Director email: rweber@utep.edu
	Modern constructs of personal and national identity that separate people from one another have created misunderstandings and hostility among many groups of people and are reflected even in the narrow focus in the academy. Both peoples and ideas have struggled for dominance and privilege. However, the traditions of knowledge were not created by separated paths but by the layering and intersecting of streams of enlightenment and discovery. Aristotle taught that it was the interaction of people that brought out the best and most rational in humanity. His assertion is reflected in the idea of the American contradiction that-for almost 4 centuries- has been the cultural legacy of the El Paso border area. This year's HERA conference seeks to explore this age old premise that discourse is the catalyst of creativity and humanity achieves its true greatness in identifying and celebrating layers of creativity through oral, symbolic, and written communication. HERA invites papers on art, music, literature, philosophy, gender studies, religion, cinema, media studies, cultural studies, museum studies, psychology, anthropology, biology, sociology, geography, geology, or history that speak to the discoveries initiated in these meetings.What does it take to create such intersections of bodies, minds and souls? What have been the results, and what do we now realize from those points where different elements or genre or approaches have come together? Are the humanities and the sciences different, unrelated spheres? Are there new, creative ways for science and the humanities to grow and to benefit humanity by taking note of the other? Is it even possible for science and the humanities to live in harmony with one another?

	INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES Ongoing call for essays and poems Upcoming Issues Deadline: Nov. 1, 2009 Spring 2010 - Nature and the Humanities, based on the papers delivered at the 2009 HERA conference in Chicago. Please contact co-editors Stephen Husarik (479.788.7555, shusarik@uafortsmith.edu) or Lee Ann Westman (915.747.5028, lewestman@utep.edu) for further information. Deadline: May 1, 2010 Fall 2010 - Thresholds of Utopia/Dystopia Dr. David A. Hatch, Utah Valley University, guest editor. We seek academic papers from a broad range of disciplines that address utopian/dystopian literature, historical attempts to create utopia, or the philosophical writings that underpin each of these efforts. We will also consider creative fictional engagements of utopian themes and creative nonfiction essays about utopia. In particular, this issue will explore the definitions of and boundaries between Utopia and Dystopia. Inquiries are welcome, but only full manuscripts will be considered. Inquiries, double-spaced manuscripts, and creative works in any genre should be sent to David Hatch (davidahatch@live.com). Word limit: 6,000 words. Deadline: Nov. 1, 2010 Spring 2011 - Incarnation: The Body and The Sacred - Annette Allen, Guest Editor. Please send essays to Dr. Annette Allen, IH Guest Editor, Division of the Humanities, 213 Humanities Bldg., University of Louisville; Louisville, KY 40292. Word limit: 6,000 words. Send papers or inquiries to Annette Allen at acalle01@louisville.edu. Deadline: May 1, 2011 Fall 2011 - (mis)Respresenting Difference in Media and Everyday Items - Susan Booker Morris, Director of Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University, guest editor. Although reason and discourse are important in framing and communicating ’truths’ about the human being, increasingly visual representation is serving to communicate attitudes, histories, beliefs, and values. This special issue on the representation of the ‘other’ invites your analysis of race, ethnicity, nationality, queerness, or gender as found in representations in television, ads, films, photographs, video games, computer images, etc. As these othernesses are constructed, the visual representation is one arena in which the construction takes place and is disseminated. Any theoretical bases are welcome. Use of the Jim Crow Museum at www.ferris.edu/jimcrow is particularly encouraged but not required. Deadline: Nov. 1, 2011 Spring 2012 - El Paso 2010 conference and San Francisco 2011 Conference papers, Co-edited by Stephen Husarik and Lee Ann Westman . Send inquiries and papers to Susan Booker Morris at: morrisus@ferris.edu. Deadline: May 1, 2012 Fall 2012 - Children's Media. Wynn Yarbrough, guest editor. This issue will offer up articles, essays, interviews, and creative works by authors who write or produce works for children. Video games, picture books, fantasy, hi-hop children's poetry: the various media that are relevant to children and have become part of twenty first century humanities warrants study and exploration for teachers and scholars in the humanities. Deadline: Nov. 1, 2012 Spring 2013 - Service Learning in the Humanities, Isabel Baca, UTEP, guest editor. Service learning across the humanities will include articles, essays, and reflective pieces on service-learning from various points of view: students, faculty, agency mentors, and higher-education and non-profit community administration and staff. Documents may focus on studies, theory, and reflection. Send inquiries and papers to Isabel Baca at: ibaca@utep.edu. Proposal deadline: Nov. 1, 2012 Submission deadline: May 1, 2013 Fall 2013 - Restorying Nature: The Voices of the Natural World, Marion W. Copeland and NILAS (Nature in Legend and Story), guest editor. The NILAS issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities (NILAS (Nature in Legend and Story at http://www.h-net.org/~nilas/) is dedicated to understanding relationships between humans and the natural world through the mediation of stories, legends, artworks, and other cultural products. We regard the interactions of people with fauna and flora as a subject that is sufficiently significant, complex, and interesting to merit the most serious attention of poets and scholars. NILAS promotes the understanding and exploration of these relationships thorough education (k-12, higher education and beyond), the arts, and other activities such as storytelling. Our interdisciplinary and intercultural emphasis naturally partners with the humanities and other traditional disciplines as well as with environmental and ecofeminist studies, Animal Studies with its interdisciplinary emphasis, and Human-Animals Relations. For this special issue we are defining story as Patrick D. Murphy does in Further Afield: “nature is…a story in the sense of an unfolding series of events with various forms of causality and coincidence in which all life forms are potential characters.” Because Euro-American scholarship has maintained such an anthropocentric bias, we are looking for work that foregrounds the bio- and animal-centric story (narrative). In Pieces of White Shell, Terry Tempest Williams further defines story as “an affirmation of our ties to one another” and by one another means “all life forms: people, land, and creatures”—eukaryotes (plants and animals), bacteria, and archaea (microbes). Send proposals to Marion W. Copeland at: mwcopeland@comcast.net Deadline: Nov. 1, 2013 Spring 2014 -Conference Issue (2012 and 2013) Book Reviews Deadline: Ongoing Send book reviews to Wynn Yarbrough at wynnyarbrough@hotmail .com Deadline: Ongoing General essays: We ask that all essays be interdisciplinary in nature and that they do not exceed 6,000 words. Moreover, essays should be in Microsoft Word format. Submit your essays for consideration to Stephen Husarik and Lee Ann Westman.
			Other Humanities Related Calls for Papers Deadline: Ongoing CRITIQUE is a peer-reviewed literary journal devoted to essays on contemporary fiction. The editors are also interested in critical essays on the fiction of significant emerging writers from any country. More information about CRITIQUE is available at: www.heldref.org/critique.php. Deadline: Ongoing English and American Literature The English Department at the University of Pennsylvania hosts a website at: www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ for calls for papers on English and American Literature and Culture for journals and conferences. The host encourages conference or panel organizers and volume editors to post calls to gain the largest possible audience for their announcements by posting them on this list and web archive. Announcements can include calls for upcoming conferences, panels, essay collections, and special journal issues related to English and American literature, and can include calls for completed papers, abstracts, and proposals. The boundaries are flexible: all English-language literatures, cultural studies, literary theory, bibliography, humanities computing, and comparative literature (even when not concerned specifically with English or American literature) are within the pale. Due to the volume of postings and the fact that each posting must be approved and edited by hand, the CFP list and web archive is only for calls for papers, not for general conference announcements. Deadline: Ongoing NEBULA is an online academic periodical interested in all things intellectual with the intention of providing a platform for interdisciplinary reading. NEBULA accepts academic articles from any discipline provided that these are written in non-specialist language and in a manner that appeals to a broad audience. In addition, the editors encourage academics and intellectuals to participate in a public debate as regards world politics. Nebula particularly welcomes submissions of a marginal or "against the grain" nature and those that heavily interrogate popular political ideologies in a sound and well-evidenced manner. Writings of high caliber that are particularly underrepresented in other academic periodicals are most welcome for consideration. Nebula also publishes literary and art works and is willing to consider any (graphic, cartoon etc.) material, which can be published on the world wide web. More info on submissions is available at www.nobleworld.biz/index.html Deadlines vary by issue OCHRE Journal of Women's Spirituality is an academic, peer-reviewed, online journal published by the Women's Spirituality, Philosophy and Religion MA and PhD program at California Institute of Integral Studies. OCHRE provides an interdisciplinary and international forum for discourse on women's spirituality among a diversity of voices. The intent of the journal is to utilize the wisdom of women's spirituality to create greater justice, well-being, and peace in our local, global, and planetary communities. You can view the inaugural issue of OCHRE at www.ciis.edu/ochrejournal. Call for Papers, Poetry, Artworks, Reviews It is with great enthusiasm that the OCHRE Journal of Women's Spirituality Editorial Council invites you to submit your scholarly and artistic work for our second issue. To be considered for this next issue, submissions must be received by September 15, 2009. OCHRE strives to engage the academic and larger communities in an embodied, intellectual, and creative reflection on the spirituality of women and the sacred female. The journal seeks to add to the rich and complex wisdom of women's spirituality by providing a necessary forum for discourse in this growing field. To ensure access by a wider range of individuals, OCHRE is published online, and all content is made available without subscription fees. Additionally, decisions are made collaboratively, supporting a cooperative way of working and interacting. It is hoped that this conversation will lead to personal and cultural transformation. Submissions to OCHRE may address topics such as: Interdisciplinary work or work within one discipline with a women's spirituality emphasis. Feminist/Womanist interpretations of spiritual and religious traditions and culture. Impact of women's spirituality on one's relationship to self, body, Earth, culture, and/or cosmos. Creative expression of women's spirituality in poetry, art, photography, or other mediums. Women's spiritual, religious, and ecological activism. Womanist/Feminist philosophical explorations with a spiritual/religious emphasis. Book reviews of women's spirituality literature (poetry, fiction, prose) . Film reviews of women's visionary film (primarily produced, > written, and/or directed by women, with a spiritual focus). OCHRE: Contact Information OCHRE Journal of Women's Spirituality, Attention: Editorial Council California Institute of Integral Studies Women's Spirituality, Philosophy and Religion MA and PhD Program, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 USA. Email: OCHRE@ciis.edu. OCHRE seeks to expand the boundaries of scholarship in academia through publication of material that honors multiple ways of knowing and embraces diversity in both subject matter and methodology. The journal is dedicated to publishing engaging, high quality scholarship in a multiplicity of forms: academic research, poetry, artwork, multimedia presentations, and literature and film reviews. All published pieces undergo a rigorous review process by the Editorial Council and International Editorial Board. The International Editorial Board is composed of traditional and non-traditional scholars who are renowned in their respective fields. Submissions due September 15, 2009. Specifications: page limit for articles: 20-35 pages. Citations in Chicago Style. Author's name and contact information only included on title page, which will be separated before review. Written submissions only in MS Word format; art submissions in PDF. For inquiries, submission guidelines and submission email: OCHRE@ciis.edu.