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Category Archives: CFPs, Conferences, Lectures and Journals

Global Public Health Vigilance: Creating a World on Alert

Some may be interested in the following new book. Global Public Health Vigilance: Creating a World on Alert Lorna Weir & Eric Mykhalovskiy Rutledge, 2010 Global Public Health Vigilance is the first social science book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities perceive and respond to international threats to human health. Between [...]

CFP: Foucault and Animals

Call For Abstracts: Foucault and Animals Matthew Chrulew and Dinesh Wadiwel (Eds) “The animal in man no longer has any value as the sign of a Beyond; it has become his madness, without a relation to anything but itself; his madness in the state of nature.” “it is a technique of training, of dressage, that [...]

CFP: Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities

Call for Participation:  13th Annual ASLCH Conference March 19-20, 2010 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistic legal scholarship.  The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory, jurisprudence, [...]

CFP: Canadian Initiative In Law, Culture and the Humanities

VISION AND VOICE 3rd Biennial Conference of the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 16-18 October, 2009

Annual meeting of the CSA

The call for papers for the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association has been posted here. A few more sessions should appear over the coming days. Unfortunately, all presenters must be members of the CSA by the time of the conference. I am organizing a session on “Social Theory and History,” which already has [...]

CFP: Crime, Law and the Disciplines

Crime, Law and the Disciplines: A Graduate Student Conference November 6-7, 2008, University of Toronto CALL FOR PAPERS The Centre of Criminology Graduate Student Association invites all graduate students working on criminological, sociological, socio-legal and/or other research to participate in an upcoming conference entitled ‘Crime, Law and Disciplines’. We welcome papers that explore this theme [...]

CFP: Zombies

Call for Papers: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on the Zombie We are seeking proposals for an interdisciplinary edited volume discussing the zombie from a wide variety of perspectives and within a wide range of contexts. We encourage submissions from any discipline, including but not limited to English literature, film studies, media studies, cultural studies, [...]

CFP: Down to The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television

Call For Papers – Edited Collection Down to The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television Edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall (University of British Columbia) Proposals are invited for an edited collection of original essays that examine The Wire, HBO’s award-winning television series, which has just concluded its fifth and final season. The volume [...]

Pedagogical Encounters in Law, Culture and the Humanities

Call for Participation Pedagogical Encounters in Law, Culture and the Humanities Academics in law, culture and the humanities find the “law” in a wide array of cultural sites – from Victorian diaries, to Hollywood blockbusters, to children’s literature, to memorial architecture. This richness poses incredible opportunities but also daunting challenges for us in the classroom. [...]

Cheap Books – Columbia UP

In my mail this morning – possibly of interest (Butler, Deleuze, Cixous, Derrida, Lefort, Kristeva, etc): I wanted to let you know about our White Sale which goes through May 31st. For more information, please visit: http://cup.columbia.edu/sale/23 We are offering up to 80% off on more than 1,000 titles in all subjects. (There are some [...]