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	Calls for Papers 2012 Conference - Salt Lake City March 7-10, 2012 - Marriott Downtown C R O S S R O A D S HERA 2012 Conference Call Submission deadline: November 15, 2011 In keeping with HERA's mission of promoting the study of the humanities across a wide range of disciplines, we invite presentations exploring any form of artistic representation---literature, the visual arts, music, theatre, opera, dance, film, photography, architecture et al---from any world culture, using an interdisciplinary "crossroads" approach to enrich and deepen our understanding of these cultural artifacts and the societies that produced them. Presentations on interdisciplinary approaches to teaching the humanities are also welcome. >Click here for the web portal for submissions of papers, panels, or workshops. Presentation time for individual papers is limited to 15-20 minutes. Questions may be directed to Michael Call (michael_call@byu.edu), or Marcia Green at (mgreen@sfsu.edu). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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	INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES Ongoing call for essays and poems Upcoming Issues Deadline: January 15, 2012 Summer 2012 - Transformations Conference Issue featuring papers delivered at the March 2011 HERA conference held in San Francisco, California. Co-Editors: Lee Ann Westman (lewestman@utep.edu) and Stephen Husarik (shusarik@uafortsmith.edu). Deadline: May 1, 2012 Fall 2012 - Service Learning in the Humanities The editors welcome submissions of 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, practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and school-community partnerships as they apply to service-learning. 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. The co-editors for this special issue are Isabel Baca (University of Texas-El Paso) and Joana Owens (Jacksonville University). Send inquiries and papers to Isabel Baca at: ibaca@utep.edu and Joana Owens: jowens1@ju.edu. Deadline: November 1, 2012 Spring 2013 - Pride and Humility From the rage of Achilles to Priam's subservient pleadings for Hector's body, from the conceit of King Lear to the meekness of Cordelia, from the terribilità of Michelangelo's Moses to the earthy nobility of Van Gogh's Potato Eaters, from the detachment of Lao Tzu to the powerful assertions of Nietzsche, and from the pride punished in Dante's Inferno and Purgatory to the pride celebrated by Michael Eric Dyson; writers, thinkers, and artists through the ages have addressed fundamental questions about the nature of pride and humility. This issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities draws upon the widest variety of insights from the humanities to addresses the difficult and even paradoxical questions around pride and humility. Topics related to this theme include, but are not limited to, hubris, victory disease, group think, narcissism, esteem, identity pride, anatta, egolessness, openness, epoché, bracketing, indeterminacy, and cognitive conflict. For more information contact: Shawn Tucker at Deadline: January 15, 2013 Summer 2013 - Crossroads Conference Issue featuring papers delivered at the March 2012 HERA conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah. In keeping with HERA's mission of promoting the study of the humanities across a wide range of disciplines, we invite presentations exploring any form of artistic representation---literature, the visual arts, music, theatre, opera, dance, film, photography, architecture et al---from any world culture, using an interdisciplinary "crossroads" approach to enrich and deepen our understanding of these cultural artifacts and the societies that produced them -- See conference page. Co-Editors: Lee Ann Westman (lewestman@utep.edu) and Stephen Husarik (shusarik@uafortsmith.edu). Deadline: May 1, 2013 Fall 2013 - Fat Representations Co-Editors: Dr. Brenda Risch and Christoph Zepeda, M.A. The peer-reviewed journal Interdisciplinary Humanities invites submissions of scholarly articles, nonfiction essays, and book and film reviews that explore representations and theories of fat, gender and eating. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Eating: Representations of eating in popular culture, literature, film, and art. How is eating positioned as an activity of significance/insignificance? How is eating gendered, raced, classed, sexed, etc? What are the linkages between eating and identity, and how are these connections theorized? Fat Positive Representations: How do positive representations of fat articulate subjectivity? How is gender, race, class, sexuality, religion, age, physical ability woven into or expressed through fat positive view points? What theories of being rise out of positioning fat/plenitude/abundance as a positive attribute? Fat Superheros: What makes a Hero or Heroine of size? What complexities and textures of superhero-hood become visible in a fat superhero? How is she/he translated in film, literature, paintings, action figures, comic books, graphic novels, ceramics, and music? Additional topics include: Fat Sexualities; Fat Abroad; Global Perspectives on Fat/Size…. IH asks that all essays be interdisciplinary in nature, double-spaced, numbered, with one-inch margins on all sides, and that they do not exceed 6,000 words. Please include a 100 word abstract, c.v. and author biography of 200 words with your submission. Send queries and submissions to: Co-Editors: Brenda Risch (brisch@utep.edu) and Christoph Zepeda (czepeda@alliant.edu). Deadline: Nov. 1, 2013 Spring 2014 - Online Learning in the Humanities Send queries and submissions to John R. Groves, Ferris State University (JohnGroves@ferris.edu) and Stephen Husarik, University of Arkansas--Fort Smith (shusarik@fortsmith.edu). Deadline: Jan. 15, 2014 Summer 2014 - Conference Issue Book Reviews Deadline: Ongoing Send book reviews to Wynn Yarbrough at wynnyarbrough@gmail.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 at shusarik@uafortsmith.edu and Lee Ann Westman at lewestman@utep.edu. Detailed submissions guidelines can be found on the >Journal webpage. Interdisciplinary Humanities defines "interdisciplinary humanities education" as any learning activities with content that draws upon the human cultural heritage, methods that derive from the humanistic disciplines, and a purpose that is concerned with human values. Academic courses don't have to be labeled "humanities" to be interdisciplinary. Integrated courses and units are often disguised under such names as World History, Freshman English, Music Appreciation, Beginning Spanish, Introduction to Religion, Senior Honors, etc. Integration can range from the use of a novel in a history course to team teaching to comprehensive thematic extravaganzas that combine the arts, literature, philosophy, and social sciences. We welcome manuscripts from university colleagues, but also ones that examine interdisciplinary scholarship and education in elementary grades, teacher education, adult public programs, graduate seminars, educational radio and television, museums, and historic parks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Other Humanities Related Calls for Papers (Ongoing) 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: metapress.com/content/119918/. Deadline: Various 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: Various HNet - Humanities and Social Sciences on Line An international consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. H-Net is committed to pioneering the use of new communication technology to facilitate the free exchange of academic ideas and scholarly resources. Call for paper announcements can be found at:www.hnet.org/ announce/group.cgi?type=CFPs 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.
		Other Humanities Related Calls for Papers Submission Deadline: Jan. 15, 2012 Conference Date: May 10-13, 2012 Conference Location: San Francisco, California CREATING THE CHALICE Imagination and Integrity in Goddess Studies The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Biennial National Conference Advancing our scholarship involves the evolution and refinement of our methods. Suggested topics for this exciting conference might include, but are not limited to, the following: What are new paths for the field of Women’s Spirituality and Goddess Studies? How creative can we be? Are we inventing, reconstructing, or using creative license to reawaken and bring the past into the present? How do we evaluate this work? How can we use this creative work together with more “traditional’ approaches to advance our scholarship? What are new models and methods for our scholarly inquiry? Can we develop and advance our scholarship with methods such as Organic or Heuristic inquiry? What is Spiritual Autobiography, and how can this be useful? Sacred geography? What else? How shall our new methods be evaluated? What are our criteria for solid scholarship using these new models? What are the complexities around issues of Cultural Appropriation? How do we understand and address the tensions around rootedness and local culture on the one hand, and issues of lineage and history on the other? Are there new models of scholarship that honor history and culture while simultaneously enriching our scholarship? Proposals for papers, panels, and workshops addressing these topics will be given preference, but other subjects will be considered. Papers should be 20 minutes; up to four papers on a related topic may be proposed together. Workshops (limited to 90 minutes) should be organized to provide audience interaction and must clearly address theme. Presenters from all disciplines are welcome, as well as creative artists and practitioners who engage mythic themes in a scholarly manner in their work. Presenters must become members of ASWM prior to conference. Send 250-word abstract (for panels, 200 word abstract plus up to 150 words per paper) to aswmsubmissions@gmail.com by January 15, 2012. Include bio of up to 70 words for each presenter, as well as contact information including surface address and email. Submission Deadline: Feb. 1, 2012 Conference Dates: March 28-29, 2012 Location: El Paso, Texas The Naked Truth: Women’s Education and Empowerment 2012 Women’s History Month Conference Submit Proposals to WHMconf@utep.edu The Women’s Studies Program, the Women’s Resource Center, and the Women’s Studies honor society (Iota, Iota, Iota) seek participants for a two-day conference on March 28 -29, 2012 at the Union East Building on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso. We invite activists, scholars, and artists in all fields to propose panels, papers, roundtable discussions, workshops, and performances. All individual and panel papers will be considered. Graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to participate. Formats will include 60-minute sessions of 2-3 presenters and 90-minute sessions of 3-4 presenters. Bilingual panels are welcome. Examples of topics may include, but are not limited to discussions of Women and/or Gender Issues in the following categories: Historical and current studies of K-12 and higher education Popular and Mass culture Sex Industry Border Issues The gender gap in politics, science, and technology Leadership Domestic Violence/Rape Motherhood Workplace Success/Discrimination Activism and Education Fine Arts and Crafts Religion Environmental Issues Identity Submission Deadline: Feb. 13, 2012 Festival Date: March 29-31, 2012 Wichita, Kansas The 13th annual Literary Festival and Scholars’ Day Newman University will be hosting this year's festival in Wichita, KS. This year’s theme is “Lands of Unlikeness: Mysterious Landscapes in Literature.” The keynote speaker is Scott Cairns, author of Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven, Compass of Affection, The Sacred Place, and many other books. Guest speakers will include Clare Vanderpool, Michael Austin, and Bryan D. Dietrich. Interdisciplinary or creative approaches to this or other topics are welcome and encouraged. Submit 250-word abstracts to Dr. Bryan Dietrich at kryptonnights@yahoo.com. For more information, call 316-942-4291, ext. 2341. Award Announcements Application Period: Dec. 15, 2011 to Feb. 15, 2012 The 2012 Kore Dissertation Award, offered through the Association for Study of Women and Mythology and made possible through the gift of a generous contributor, recognizes excellence in scholarship in the area of women and mythology. It is offered in even-numbered years, for dissertations completed in the previous two calendar years (including defense). Applicants can be from any discipline, including but not limited to literature, religious studies, art or art history, classics, anthropology, and communications. Creative dissertations must include significant analysis of mythology in addition to creative work. A letter of support from the dissertation director is required is part of the application. Applicants must be members of ASWM at time of submission. Selection is made by a panel of scholars from a variety of disciplines. Conference date: May 10-13, 2012 Location: San Francisco, California Sarasvati Awards for Best Books in Women and Mythology. Two awards will be given at the ASWM national conference in San Francisco in May 2012, one for nonfiction/scholarly work, one for creative work in poetry, fiction or other genre, for books published during 2010 and 2011. Books must be published in print, not only in e-book format. Nominations must come directly from publisher; authors should contact their publishers to ask them to nominate for this award. Each publisher may nominate one work in each category, although publishers may nominate in only one category if they prefer. At this point, anthologies do not qualify for this award. Publishers should contact ASWM at ASWMsubmissions@gmail.com to receive required submissions form and details of submissions process. Judges will be a panel of published writers in women and mythology. Their own work cannot be accepted for consideration for these awards. Awardees will be invited to read at the ASWM national conference during the year of their award and/or the next biannual meeting following.