Shift: Queen's Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture - Call for Papers, Deadline: April 1, 2009 full name / name of organization: Shift: Queen's Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture contact email: [log in to unmask] cfp categories: african-american american classical_studies cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches ecocriticism_and_environmental_studies eighteenth_century ethnicity_and_national_identity film_and_television gender_studies_and_sexuality general_announcements humanities_computing_and_the_internet journals_and_collections_of_essays medieval popular_culture postcolonial religion renaissance romantic science_and_culture theatre theory twentieth_century_and_beyond victorian We are pleased to announce an open call for submissions to the second issue of Shift, set to be launched 01 October 2009. Shift welcomes academic papers, as well as exhibition and book reviews, dealing with visual and material culture from graduate students in any discipline in the humanities. Papers may address a full range of topics and historical periods. Topics may include, but are not limited to, art and propaganda, patronage, gender and identity, spirituality and art, nationalisms and regionalisms, modernism and modernity, performance art, photography and film, perspectives in theory, methodology, and historiography, collection and representation, art and technology. All manuscripts should be sent by email to [log in to unmask] by 01 April 2009. For further details and submission guidelines please see the journal website at http://www.shiftjournal.org/callforpapers.htm. -- Yemisi Ogunleye www.iq4news.com Head of Communications, MeCCSA Post-Graduate Network website: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/pgn/ Media & Communications Dept., Birmingham City University, City North Campus, Birmingham B42 2SU