FIVE different but related CFPs (read carefully!)

Mediascape
CFP: Moments of Futurity: From Present Conditions to Material(izing) Horizons (1/15/07;
3/29/07-3/31/07)
CFP: Hauntology, or Spectral Space (2/15/06; journal issue)
CFP: Space and Displacement (Turkey) (2/15/07; 4/21/07-4/22/07)
CFP: Kritikos: V.4 2007 (no deadline noted; journal issue)
CFP: Visions of Community: The Suburb in Recent Literature and Film (1/5/07; ASA,
10/11/07-10/14/07)
CFP: Shakespearean Screen Adaptations for the Teen Market (6/20/07; journal issue)

MEDIASCAPE Call for Submissions:

Mediascape, UCLA's online Critical Studies journal, is now accepting submissions for the
Features, Reviews, Columns and Meta sections of its next issue. This journal, a place
for articles pertaining to film, television, new media and other areas of visual culture, is
peer-reviewed and published on an annual table. The deadline for the next issue is the
1st of January, 2007.

Submission guidelines and section-specific calls for the next issue can be found on the
submissions page of the Mediascape website: 
http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/about/submissions06.html

Any other questions can be directed to Erin Hill (erinhill@ucla.edu).

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CFP: Moments of Futurity: From Present Conditions to Material(izing) Horizons (1/15/07;
3/29/07-3/31/07)

Moments of Futurity: From Present Conditions to Material(izing) Horizons The Ninth Annual
Conference of the Marxist Reading Group 
Keynote Speaker Fredric Jameson
March 29-31 at the University of Florida

Underwritten as it is by narratives of progress, rhetorics of novelty, and the logic of
speculation, capitalism asserts a monopoly on futurity, both as a semantic category and
a material horizon. While globalization ideologues insist that history has ended and
trumpet the present as the future (or, as Thomas Friedman and Merrill Lynch put it in
1999, "The World is Ten Years Old"), Marxism proposes a radically different narrative.
The Ninth Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group investigates the future from a
Marxist perspective and challenges Marxist scholars and activists to reclaim the category
of futurity.

Marxist theory and criticism are saturated by a rhetoric of the historical: historical
materialism, history as class conflict, the imperative to historicize. But what is the
history of the future in Marxism? That is, how is the category of the future configured
in various Marxisms? In what ways could an engagement with futurity, as a semantic,
temporal, and material category, lead beyond the notorious theory/practice impasse? How 
do we look beyond the material conditions of the present to find material horizons?
Answers to such questions can be located in a host of fields spanning the humanities and
the social sciences, and they can be informed by a variety of theoretical dimensions: Can
one historicize the future? Can dialectics reveal horizons? Can totalized mappings of the
present also grasp at the future? Do utopian projects lead the way? Ultimately, this
conference seeks papers that think the future via Marxist theory.

Fredric Jameson will provide the keynote address for this conference. The William A. Lane
Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, Jameson
has been among the leading voices of Marxist theory for the past decades, and his
contributions to literary and cultural theory have impacted the fields of literature and theory
indelibly. He is the author of Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,
The Political Unconscious, and recently Archaeologies of the Future.

Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:
Historicizing futurity
Representations of futurity
The future and the literary
Rhetorics of futurity
Utopia
Science Fiction
The future of capitalism
The future of activism
The revolutionary class
Communism
Marxism and New Media
The "end of history"
Globalization
Future(s) Markets
The future as nostalgia
Nostalgia for the future
Resisting futurity

Abstracts of 250 words must be submitted by January 15, 2007 to the conference website,
http://grove.ufl.edu/~gsg/bwwc/index.php?cf=5

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by February 5, 2007. Questions about the
conference may be directed to 2007mrg@gmail.com.

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CFP: Hauntology, or Spectral Space (2/15/06; journal issue)

Public Domain, Inc. is pleased to announce the call for PERFORATIONS 29.
Guest editor for this issue will be Dr. Thomas Mical, Carleton University School of
Architecture. As usual with perforations, deadlines are somewhat fluid but please notify
Thomas Mical or Robert Cheatham of your intent by February 15 2007 in order to be
included in the release notification.

Article length is at your discretion. Experimental hypertexts are especially welcome.
Other forms of media, video, etc., may have length restrictions, please cc media
editor Chea Prince or technical editor, Jim Demmers. If you have any questions please
query one of the editors.

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Guest Editor:        Dr. Thomas Mical                 thomas_mical@carleton.ca
Senior Editor:         Robert Cheatham                  zeug@pd.org
Technical Editor:           Jim Demmers                  Jdemmers@pd.org
Media Editor:          Chea Prince                  Chea@pd.org

Hauntologies, or Spectral Space
Call for Submissions
 
This issue of Perforations asks for informed speculations in art, literature, architecture,
and aesthetics concerning the ethereal others which are never quite present or absent:
including uncanny presences outside the frame of representation, anamorphic blurs
of concepts or images; leaking, stained, or spectral spaces, disappearing figures or
soluble identities; of all that sometimes works like miasmas, pneumas, and vapors;
and all possible manifestations of specters (real or imaginary). This includes speculative
revenants of repetitions of all sort including catastrophic trauma (the spectral
delays/deferrals of Freudian 'nachtraglichkeit') as well as any embeddings of notions of
'eternal return,' as having hauntological portent for communities and thought to come.
 
In its entirety, the issue seeks to selectively map an ephemeral cartography (a
haunto-topography) of the range of barely discernible ghosts, these "ontological specks"
or "pathological kernels", that traverse the instrumental Cartesian worldview of "clear
and distinct" entities. Authors are asked to chase and capture the multiple potential
meanings and effects of their favorite ontological spectre.
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Formed in 1991 to examine issues of theory, art, culture and community in a saturated age
of technical media, Perforations is perhaps the longest continuously running journal on-line.
                
The call for perforations 30, HUT TECH, will be released soon.

Perforations raison d'tre here:
http://www.pd.org/~chea/Perforations/perf1/perf-intro.html
<http://wwwpd.org/~chea/Perforations/perf1/perf-intro.html>

Perforations index page:
http://www.pd.org/~chea/HTML/perforations-index.html
<http://wwwpd.org/~chea/HTML/perforations-index.html>

podcasts, videos, and other projects here:
http://www.pd.org
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CFP: Space and Displacement (Turkey) (2/15/07; 4/21/07-4/22/07)

  Space and Displacement
  A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium

Sponsored by the Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas Bilkent University
21-22 April 2007 

Displacement is a major aspect of geo-politics (bio-politics), as well as a central term in
contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. Many artists, writers and theorists have
focused on various aspects of the phenomenon of displacement (exiles, refugees,
immigrants, prisoners). Cultural examples range from the politically radical, e.g.
Coetzee on internment camps as no-place, to the broadly socio-psychological e.g. Nuri
Bilge Ceylan's films. How can we theorize from this a post-nationalist contemporary
theory of space (the way Giorgio Agamben - after Foucault - does with the idea of the
camp, bio-politics, the exception - Guantanamo, etc.)? How does large scale displacement
change our conceptions of urban space (e.g. Mike Davis on third-world macro-cities) or of
political power (e.g. Immanuel Wallerstein on the decline of U.S. power)? What are the
spaces of thought today, and how can contemporary thought conceive the space(s) of
being (e.g. the post-Heideggerian work of Stuart Elden or Jeff Malpas)

We invite papers addressing the notion of displacement or issues related to the
representation or conceptualization of space in film, fiction, art, politics, philosophy,
sociology and related disciplines for the 4th Annual Bilkent University Multi-Disciplinary
Symposium.

Please send a short (one-page) abstract to the following e-mail address
(mkolb@bilkent.edu.tr) by February 15, 2007.

Please contact Martina Kolb (+90312 290 3132), or consult the CCI web page 
(http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~cci/)
for more information.

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CFP: Kritikos: V.4 2007 (no deadline noted; journal issue)
  
  Kritikos: journal of postmodern cultural sound, text and image
  ISSN: 1552-5112
  http://intertheory.org/kritikos
  
  Kritikos publishes work in cultural theory and criticism.
 
  http://intertheory.org/Submissions--Kritikos.htm

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CFP: Visions of Community: The Suburb in Recent Literature and Film (1/5/07; ASA,
10/11/07-10/14/07)

The proposed panel for the American Studies Association's annual meeting, October 11th
through 14th, seeks to examine novels and films that represent contemporary suburban
experience.

Although recent literature and films seem to have done little to alter the suburban myth,
which assumes that the suburbs are populated exclusively by bored, lonely, and atomized
white middle class families, the suburbs themselves bear little resemblance to the
borderlands of the 1920s and 30s or the bedroom communities of the1950s and 60s.
The distinctions between the city and the suburb have become increasingly blurred:
many industries have relocated to the suburbs, making them increasingly accessible to
the nation's poor.  No longer the exclusive domain of the white middle class, the suburbs
are increasingly reflecting the economic, racial and ethnic mix of the nation. Perhaps in 
response to these rapid changes, there is a sense of urgency to recent novels and films
one does not find in earlier suburban stories. Disaster looms large in these later works
(from the threat of child molester in Tom Perrotta's *Little Children*, to  a large scale
'airborne toxic event' in Don Delillo's *White Noise*, a school shooting in Homes'
*Music For Torching*, and  a wild fire and mudslide in T. C.Boyle's *Tortilla Curtain* ),
exposing the falseness of the perception of the suburb as a safe, if bland, haven. The
characters in these works struggle with how to live in constant fear.  In a New York *Times*
editorial immediately after the September 11th attacks, Richard Ford urged his fellow
suburbanites "to think large and small at once about whom we're connected to and separate
from and about what we mean by community." This panel seeks to revisit the suburb in the
context of these new stakes.

Submit 1-page abstracts and c.v's  by January 5 to Kathy Knapp ( FordhamUniversity), 
panel organizer, at kathyknapp@gmail.com.

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CFP: Shakespearean Screen Adaptations for the Teen Market (6/20/07; journal issue)

Call for Essays
Shakespeare Bulletin - Special Issue
Shakespearean Screen Adaptations for the Teen Market

Shakespeare Bulletin, a journal of performance criticism and scholarship incorporating
the Shakespeare on Film Newsletter, announces a special issue devoted to
Shakespearean Screen Adaptations for the Teen Market.  Essays should address
questions concerning the transformation of Shakespeare's plays from their textual
incarnations to cinematic and video renderings designed for teenage audiences. 
Subjects that might be addressed in such essays include:

The definition of a Shakespearean teen film adaptation
Recent trends in Shakespearean films aimed at teenagers
The differences between a teen film version, an adaptation, and a spinoff
The effects of teen film conventions on Shakespearean film adaptations
The language of Shakespearean film adaptations intended for the teen market
Shakespearean teen film adaptations and the DVD as a viewing medium
Shakespearean adaptations designed for teen TV audiences
Strategies for marketing Shakespearean film adaptations to teenage viewers
The social and historical context of Shakespearean film adaptations for teens
The use of Shakespearean film adaptations in the high school or college classroom

Essays may explore these subjects in a theoretical manner, or they may focus
attention on one or more films (such as Romeo + Juliet, 10 Things I Hate about You,
or She's the Man) that illuminate some aspect of these issues.  Documentation
of sources in such essays should conform to the most recent edition of the MLA
Style Manual.  Contributions should be sent in electronic form (Word format) by
June 20, 2007 to the issue's special editor, Michael D. Friedman, at
friedmanm1@scranton.edu.
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