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Category Archives: CFPs, Conferences, Lectures and Journals

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 ‘despotically excludes in [...]

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, law and cultural [...]

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 from a variety [...]

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, gender [...]

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 will be published by [...]

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. How do [...]

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 really great deals).
I [...]

CFP: Carl Schmitt and the Event

Papers are invited for a thematic issue on Carl Schmitt and the Event to appear in Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Politics, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Culture, and the Arts in 2009.
Guest-edited by Michael V. Marder (University of Toronto), the journal invites papers that explore the political, philosophical, and theological dimensions of the “event” in Carl [...]