twentieth century and beyond

CALL FOR PAPERS
SLASH FICTION STUDY DAY

Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Wednesday March 1, 2006

This Study Day will be a slash-friendly forum for discussion of one of the
most vibrant sub-genres of fanfic. Proposals are invited for papers for
panel sessions on slash-related topics and controversies, including, but not
limited to, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter and real person
slash.

The Study Day will take place as part of Cultural eXchanges, a week long
series of events at the Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University.

INTERNATIONAL RAYMOND CARVER SOCIETY
CALL FOR PAPERS
American Literature Association
17th Annual Conference, May 25-28, 2006
San Francisco, CA
Sender: owner-cfp_at_lists.sas.upenn.edu
Precedence: bulk

THE INTERNATIONAL RAYMOND CARVER SOCIETY is hosting two sessions at the
2006 ALA conference, 25-28th May in San Francisco.

1) A panel of three 20-minute papers on Raymond Carver's fiction and poetry
careers. Papers that address cross-overs between the two are encouraged.

2) A roundtable session of multiple 8-minute presentations on teaching
Raymond Carver's poetry and fiction.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposed Seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association 2006 =
Conference
March 23-26, 2006 at Princeton University

Literary Tropes and Molecular Biology in the Postmodern Era

Seminar Organizer(s): Priya Venkatesan, Dartmouth Medical School

PANEL TITLE: LANDSCAPE AND IDENTITY IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA

Delta Blues Symposium XII: Delta Diversity

Call for papers: "Exappropriating the Human: Tele-technologies,
Postcolonialism, and Their Convergence in Contemporary Globalization,"
seminar at the 2006 ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Conference, Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006. The goal of this seminar is to reflect upon the
dehumanizing and uprooting capacity of language through the concept of
"exapropriation," a term coined by Derrida in his later works. The term
exappropriation, when applied to language, expresses the double move of how
language puts the human in place (hands it the qualities that are proper to it, appropriation) and at the same time

Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing Texts

The Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton is seeking
papers for our 2006 conference to be held February 17th and 18th,
2006. We are interested papers/presentations for the following
suggested panel:

Humanism and the Global Hybrid=20

ACLA 2006, Princeton University, 3/23/06 - 3/26/06

Seminar Organizers: Dr. Assimina Karavanta, National & Kapodistrian =
University of Athens, Greece & Dr. Nina Morgan, Kennesaw State =
University

Panel sponsored by the Edith Wharton society

Physicality in Edith Wharton's Writing and Life

Papers on all aspects of physicality (eroticism, food, pain, pleasure,
addiction, smell, temperature etc.) are welcome.
Please send 300-400 word abstracts by January 5, 2006 to:

Prof. Hildegard Hoeller
Associate Professor of English
College of Staten Island--City University of New York
e-mail: hilhllr_at_aol.com
mail: 29 Gail Court, Staten Island NY 10306

THE SOCIETE DES PROFESSEURS FRANÇAIS ET FRANCOPHONES D'AMERIQUE
                                                                    (SPFFA)

                            Announces its Eighth International Colloquium

                                  "Creation and Reality in the French Idiom
                                                                 and
                                    The Centennial of Léopold Sédar Senghor"

We invite submissions to a collection of essays (already in progress)
entitled Anomalous Eyes: Postcoloniality and the Detective. Essays should
address such questions as: In what ways do societies in the throes of
decolonization or postcoloniality resist or transform the epistemological
"truth quest" conventionalized in the structure of the detective narrative?
Can the detective novel operate independently of national, imperial, or
global ideologies? How have authors worked with the figure of the detective
in ways that complicate the narrative or ideological stances typically
associated with modernism and postmodernism? And what happens when authors

Global States
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/complit/globalstates

Announcing a conference hosted by the graduate students in the Department
of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, May 5-6, 2006

Featuring a keynote dialogue between Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot
Professor in Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, and
Gayatri Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia
University

A seminar on "The Idea of the Holocaust and the Human" will be held at the
American Comparative Literature Association meeting at Princeton
University from March 23-26, 2006. The seminar format allows for as many
as a dozen 15-20 minute papers. Abstracts may be submitted at the ACLA
website: http://webscript.princeton.edu/~acla06/site/?page_id=4.
The deadline for submissions is November 30.

Announcement for "The Idea of the Holocaust and the Human":

AFROEUROPEANS: BLACK CULTURES AND IDENTITIES IN EUROPE

LEON (SPAIN) 18-21 OCTOBER 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS/CALL FOR ARTICLES

The international research team "Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and
Identities in Europe"* will be meeting in Leon, Spain, to celebrate the IV
Conference of African Studies at the University of Leon, under the motto:
"Afroeurope_at_s: Culturas e Identidades / Afroeuropeans: Cultures and
Identities / Afroeuropeens: Cultures et Identités".

The event will take place from the 18th to 21rst October 2006.

Among the invited speakers are: