The following is a CFP for a special session proposed for the 2006 Midwest Modern Language Association convention in Chicago, November 9-12, 2006:

CALL FOR PAPERS

2006 ALSC Conference, San Francisco, California, October 13-15 2006

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
MEATJOURNAL.COM
DEADLINE: ONGOING

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Imaginary Places: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film=20

(McFarland, 2006)

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Cyberpunk Dystopias'.

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2006 M/MLA Annual Convention
November 9-12, The Palmer House Hilton
Chicago, Illinois

Conference Theme: High/Low Culture

Proposed Special Session: "Popular Persuasions: The Rhetorics of
Identity in Popular Culture"

Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2006

Session Title: Christianity and Literature Allied Session
 
South Central Modern Language Association Conference
Dallas, Texas
Oct. 26-28, 2006.

http://www.ou.edu/scmla/

We invite submissions for the allied session on Christianity and
Literature.
The session will be an open topic; papers addressing any and all issues
pertaining to the intersections between literature and Christianity will

be considered. Paper topics may address a variety of issues, ideas
and/or authors from any time period and genre. Each paper should be
approximately 15 minutes' reading time.

Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2006

Session Title: Christianity and Literature Allied Session
 
South Central Modern Language Association Conference
Dallas, Texas
Oct. 26-28, 2006.

http://www.ou.edu/scmla/

We invite submissions for the allied session on Christianity and
Literature.
The session will be an open topic; papers addressing any and all issues
pertaining to the intersections between literature and Christianity will

be considered. Paper topics may address a variety of issues, ideas
and/or authors from any time period and genre. Each paper should be
approximately 15 minutes' reading time.

I am soliciting abstracts for a planned special session
submission for the 2006 Modern Language Association
convention in Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30.

CALL FOR PAPERS
(please forward)

2006 is the centenary of the birth of John Betjeman, Poet Laureate from
1972-84. To celebrate this event and to highlight the extensive holdings of
Betjeman's correspondence and manuscripts at the University of Victoria
(Canada), two panels on June 29th are dedicated to Betjeman and his milieu
in the "ON MIRACLE GROUND XIV" conference of the International Lawrence
Durrell Society (25-29 June 2006).

Papers that deal with any aspect of Betjeman's career or his engagement with
his contemporaries are welcome, though those with an archival or comparative
approach are particularly appropriate to the conference's general theme.

CALL FOR PAPERS

2006 ALSC Conference, San Francisco, California, October 13-15 2006

The deadline for abstracts has been extended until April 1st 2006.

I am seeking proposals for an edited collection tentatively entitled
"Brecht, Broadway, and American Theater" to be submitted to Cambridge
Scholars Press.

The deadline for abstracts has been extended until April 1st 2006.

I am seeking proposals for an edited collection tentatively entitled
"Brecht, Broadway, and American Theater" to be submitted to Cambridge
Scholars Press.

The deadline for abstracts has been extended until April 1st 2006.

I am seeking proposals for an edited collection tentatively entitled
"Brecht, Broadway, and American Theater" to be submitted to Cambridge
Scholars Press.

Dear Colleagues:

There are still several chapters available for Reading in America Today:
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Contemporary Popular American Literature.
This four-volume encyclopedia will include alphabetically arranged chapters
on more than 100 literary genres.

The following chapters are available:

Adventure Fiction
Financial Fiction
Historical Writing (Nonfiction)
Medical Thrillers
Military Thrillers

Each chapter will be approximately 7,500 words, and contributors will be
paid for their efforts. The chapters will not be due until February 1st, 2007.

I hope that you will consider participating in this project!