MP Feminist International Journal is seeking submissions for its
Fall 2006 issue on the theme "Religion, Politics and the Great
Pumpkin". In the comic strip "Peanuts", the character Linus once
said "There are three things I have learned never to discuss with
people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin." In this issue,
we'd like to talk about the great taboo subjects. Religion,
spirituality, politics, and other taboo subjects, such as women
and money, are welcomed. The most important thing we'll be looking
for in these submissions is that they challenge taboos and explore
the subject intelligently and uniquely. We are primarily seeking

13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
   
   
  Southwest Graduate English Symposium – 2007
   
  Only Human?: Medical Biology vs. The Social Model of Disability
   
  In her 1999 book Female Forms, Carol Thomas suggests that disability studies and activism would benefit from a social model approach to definitions of disability, as opposed to the long-standing contention that disability, impairment, and its effects are biological, physiological, anatomical—in short, medical.
   

13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
   
   
  Southwest Graduate English Symposium – 2007
   
  Only Human?: Medical Biology vs. The Social Model of Disability
   
  In her 1999 book Female Forms, Carol Thomas suggests that disability studies and activism would benefit from a social model approach to definitions of disability, as opposed to the long-standing contention that disability, impairment, and its effects are biological, physiological, anatomical—in short, medical.
   

Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
  Border Ethics in Literature
   

Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
  Border Ethics in Literature
   

CFP: FILM EXHIBITION AND THEATER PRESERVATION

The 28th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA
February 14â€"17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Join a group that has gathered annually since 2000 to discuss research
accomplishments for the year and to participate in an area that always welcomes
newcomers with fresh ideas on exhibition history and the future of film
exhibition today, as well as the efforts of theatre preservationists who save
history for all us. The focus, then, is the history and future of film exhibition
as well as the good work of those who save movie theatres for all of us to
enjoy.

THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR IN THE SPACE BETWEEN, 1914-1945
=20
Submissions are invited for the 9th annual conference of The Space =
Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, in Annapolis, =
Maryland, 7-10 June 2007.

2007 Stanford French and Italian Graduate Conference

"Conversions"

January 26 and 27, 2007

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
(Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, /Meditations/)

2007 Stanford French and Italian Graduate Conference

"Conversions"

January 26 and 27, 2007

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
(Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, /Meditations/)

   
  Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
   
  The Ethics of (re)presentation: Imagining Others
   

Festivals & Faires
  CALL FOR PAPERS
   
  The Festivals & Faires area
  of the Popular Culture Association invites
  abstracts for the next annual meeting:
   
  APRIL 4 - 7, 2007
  BOSTON, MA
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
   
  In this inaugural year of the "Festivals & Faires" area
  of the Popular Culture Association, submissions are
  welcome on any festival or faire—modern or historical.
  Specific areas of interest for this year's panels include,
  but are not limited to:
   
  --Financial aspects of festival/faire culture (particularly
  in contemporary U.S. culture)
  --Theorists' whose work influences the study of

Please note that this call is not for a journal publication as indicated in the initial email, but is for an upcoming conference (April 26-28, 2007).
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Call for Proposals

Proposal Deadline: November 15, 2006

Women as Intercultural Leaders:
Collaboration at the Crossroads

An interdisciplinary conference exploring the intersections of women's studies,
international and multicultural education, and leadership development hosted by

Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, Indiana
April 26-28, 2007

Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
  Must the (re)turn to ethics involve a turn away from something else, or is ethics inevitably intertwined with other concerns?
   

Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
  Must the (re)turn to ethics involve a turn away from something else, or is ethics inevitably intertwined with other concerns?