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Thamyris/Intersecting shares this focus with Thamyris: Mythmaking from Past to Present, the socially committed international journal which was established in 1994, out of which Thamyris/Intersecting has evolved. The sharpness and urgency of these issues is our point of departure, and our title reflects our decision to work on the cutting edge. We envision these confrontations and dialogues through three recurring categories: place, sex, and race. To us they are three of the most decisive categories that order society, locate power, and inflict pain and/or pleasure. Gender and class will necessarily figure prominently in our engagement with the above. Race, for we will keep analyzing this ugly, much-debated concept, instead of turning to more civil concepts (ethnicity, culture) that do not address the full disgrace of racism. Sex, for sexuality has to be addressed as an always active social strategy of locating, controlling as well as mobilizing people, and as an all-important, not necessarily obvious, cultural practice. And place, for we agree with other cultural analysts that this is a more productive framework for the analysis of situated identities and acts that allow us to move beyond narrow identitarian theories. The long title of the new book series points at what we, its editors, want to do: think together. Our series will not satisfy itself with merely demonstrating the complexity of our times, or with analyzing the shaping factors of that complexity. We know how to theorize the intertwining of, for example, sexuality and race, but pushing these intersections one step further is what we aim for: How can this complexity be understood in practice? That is, in concrete forms of political agency, and the efforts of self-reflexive, contextualized interpretation. How can different socially and theoretically relevant issues be thought together? And: how can scholars (of different backgrounds) and activists think together, and realize productive alliances in a radical, transnational community? We invite proposals for edited volumes that take the issues that Thamyris/Intersecting addresses seriously. These contributions should combine an activist-oriented perspective with intellectual rigor and theoretical insights, interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives. The editors seek cultural criticism that is daring, invigorating and self-reflexive; that share our commitment to thinking together. Editorial Address: intersecting@let.leidenuniv.nl Thamyris/Intersecting's subscribers will have access to the Internet version of the series through IngentaConnect. ---------------------------------- Call for papers HETEROSEXUALITY Editor: Yasco Horsman Deadline for Proposals: July 1, 2007 Heterosexuality has long been considered the norm, the unmarked category from which all ‘perversions’ deviate - in short, something that is in itself not in need of an explanation. With the emergence of queer theory in the 1990’s, and its insistence on the constructed and flux nature of all sexual identities, straightness itself was shown to be neither as monolithic nor as stable as had once been assumed. This opened the doors for a project that Calvin Thomas has recently dubbed ‘straight queer theory,’ a rigorous analysis of the cultural and social construction of heterosexuality that refuses to take sexual identity as fixed. For its upcoming volume on ‘straight queer theory’ Thamyris / Intersecting welcomes essays that explore contemporary scenes of straightness in art, literature, cinema and popular culture as well as theoretical excursions on heterosexuality that critically engage with queer theory, gender studies or psychoanalysis. Topics to be considered could range from the straight body, straight camp, straight mating rituals and straight dating shows, to straightness in Houellebecq’s novels, Breillat’s films, Arab Strap’s songs, Matthew Barney’s installations or Karen Finley’s performances. Essays that address the relations between sexuality, national identity or race will receive a special consideration. Thamyris / Interesecting is published by Rodopi-Press in the Netherlands. Recent issues include essays by Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Rey Chow, Ariel Dorfman, Marianne Hirsch & Leo Spitzer, Isabel Hoving, Brian McHale and Griselda Pollock. Proposals for contributions to “Heterosexuality” may be submitted by email (y.horsman@let.leidenuniv.nl) before July 1, 2007. Include the proposal (600 words) in the body of the message. Use "Heterosexuality" as the subject line. Please include a short c.v. The deadline for finished articles (6,000-8,000 words) is December 1, 2007. All acceptances are conditional on the approval of the series editor. Volumes 20  Representation Matters., Hoffmann, Anette and Esther Peeren (Eds.) NEW 19  Migratory Settings., AYDEMIR, Murat and Alex ROTAS (Eds.) 18  Sonic Interventions., MIESZKOWSKI, Sylia, Joy SMITH and Marijke de VALCK (Eds.) 17  Essays in Migratory Aesthetics., DURRANT, Sam and Catherine M. LORD (Eds.) 16  Cosmopatriots., JURRIËNS, Edwin and Jeroen de KLOET (Eds.) 15  The Shock of the Other., HORSTKOTTE, Silke and Esther PEEREN (Eds) 14  Constellations of the Transnational., DASGUPTA, Sudeep with the assistance of Esther PEEREN (Ed.) 13  Diaspora and Memory., BARONIAN, Marie-Aude, Stephan BESSER and Yolande JANSEN (Eds.) 12  Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility., MARGARONI, Maria and Effie YIANNOPOULOU (Eds.) 11  Africa and Its Significant Others., HOVING, Isabel, Frans-Willem KORSTEN and Ernst van ALPHEN (Eds.) 10  After Orientalism., BOER, Inge E. (Ed.) 9  Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility., VERSTRAETE, Ginette and Tim CRESSWELL (Eds.) 8  Convergences and Interferences., GYSSELS, Kathleen, Isabel HOVING and Maggie Ann BOWERS (Editors) 6,1  Thamyris., LEBIHAN, Jill and Sue VICE (Eds.) 6,2  Africa on the Cusp of the 21st Century., RAVELL-PINTO, Thelma (Ed.) 5,1  Thamyris., CADAT, Brieuc-Yves, Nanny de VRIES, Gert HEKMA, Isabel HOVING, Thelma RAVELL-PINTO and Gloria WEKKER (Eds.) 5,2  Caribbean Women Writers:, BOYCE DAVIES, Carole (Guest editor) 4.1  Gender in the Making:, SUNDER RAJAN, Rajeswari (Guest Editor) 4.2  Thamyris., BEST, Jan and Nanny de VRIES (Eds.) 3,2  Gender in the Middle East:, BOER, Inge (Guest editor) 3.1  Myths and Millennial Dreams of a New Age in Australian Culture., MARCUS, Julie and Jackie HUGGINS (Guest editors) 3.2  Gender in the Middle East., BEST. Jan and Nanny de VRIES (Eds.) 2.2  The Gender of Homosexuality., BEST, Jan and Nanny de VRIES (Eds.) 2.1  The Gender of Homosexuality., BEST,Jan and Nanny de VRIES (Eds.) 1,1  The Classical Ideal., BEST, Jan and Nanny de VRIES (Eds.) 1,2  The Classical Ideal., BEST, Jan and Nanny de VRIES	Tijnmuiden 7 1046 AK Amsterdam The Netherlands T: +31-20-611 48 21 F: +31-20-447 29 79 248 East 44th Street - 2nd floor New York, NY 10017 USA T: 1-800-225-3998 F: 1-800-853-3881 Toll-free in the USA info@rodopi.nl