twentieth century and beyond

CFP: Mothering in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature

(09/05/2005; collection)

For an Edited Collection tentatively entitled

Textual Mothers, Maternal Texts:

Representations of Mothering in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century
Literature

edited by Andrea O'Reilly and Elizabeth Podnieks

The book is under contract with Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

We are seeking essays on the topic of Motherhood in Women's Literature
from the 20th and 21st Centuries. We welcome submissions on Fiction,
Poetry, Drama, and Life Writing (Diary, Memoir, Autobiography,
Biography).

Call for Papers: 'Fin de Siecle' seminar, 1870-1920

The University of Oxford 'Fin de Siecle' seminar invites proposals for 45- to
50-minute papers on any aspect of literature, society and the arts in Britain
during the period between 1870 and 1920. Proposals for papers with an
international dimension will be considered.

Now in its sixth year, the seminar is a lively forum in which graduates
and established academics discuss fresh perspectives on turn-of-the-century
culture. It attracts attention from a broad community of researchers both
within and outside Oxford, who value its rigorous scholarly discussion.
Recent papers have examined such diverse subjects as:

Second Call for Papers for book, On Joanna Russ, edited by Farah
Mendlesohn, to be published by Wesleyan University Press in 2006.

This is a re-opening of a call for papers on the work of Joanna Russ.
The current state of the project is that all the spaces for essays on
Russ's critical work have been filled.

I am looking for up to six papers on Joanna Russ's fiction, each of
between six and seven thousand words long.

Abstracts should be sent to: farah.sf_at_gmail.com by June 30.

The deadline for the completion of accepted articles will be October 31st 2006.

eSharp is the University of Glasgow's open-access online journal for
postgraduates in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Run by
postgraduates, it aims to provide a critical but supportive entry into
the realm of academic publishing for emerging academics, including
postgraduates and recent postdoctoral students, the world over.
After the successful launch of our fourth issue, on 'Journeys of
Discovery', eSharp is delighted to announce the Call for Papers for
the forthcoming issue, on 'Identity and Marginality'. Please forward
the attached Call for Papers and help us to spread the word. eSharp is
very grateful for your help and support. In case you have any

Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 8-11, 2006
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 27th Annual Conference
CFP: Literature, Ecocriticism, and the Environment
Abstract/Proposals by 15 November 2005

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
Hotel: http://albuquerque.hyatt.com
Conference Website: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/ (updated regularly)

Panels now forming for presentations and roundtables regarding Literature, Ecocriticism, and the Environment in such areas as:

Abstracts for papers are now being accepted for the Kent State
University Ashtabula 2006 Fairy Tale Conference, "The Art of The
Fairy Tale from Grimm to Shrek: And All the Ogres in Between," to
be held April 28 and 29, 2006 on the campus of Kent State
University Ashtabula.

Keynote speaker at the conference will be Dr. Valerie Paradiz,
author of Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales

Interested participants must submit electronically a 200 word
abstract.

Essays are sought for a special issue of Cultural Studies<=>Critical
Metholodologies on Race and Kids Culture. The special issue will speak to
a set of shared concerns. As corporations increasingly structure and media
almost entirely saturate the lives of children, scholars and social
critics have rightly begun to explore the articulations of power, culture,
and identity. Inspired particularly by the emergent field of cultural
studies and informed by the post-marxist, feminist, and post-structural
frameworks, they have interpreted the ways in which toys, games, movies,
television, music, and literature educate, imprint, and otherwise
interpolate them to embrace normative values and institutions.

CFP: International Virginia Woolf Society Panel, University of
Louisville Thirty-fourth Annual Twentieth Century Literature
Conference, February 23-25, 2006.

The International Virginia Woolf Society is pleased to host its fifth
consecutive panel at the University of Louisville=92s Twentieth Century
Literature Conference. We invite proposals for critical papers on any
topic concerning Woolf's work. A specific panel theme may be decided
upon depending on the proposals received. Previous IVWS panels have
met with great enthusiasm at Louisville, and we look forward to another
successful session.

Call for Papers: Special issue of American Literature, "Global Contexts,
Local Literature: The New Southern Studies"

 American Literature invites submissions for a special issue on
literature and globalization, co-edited by University of Mississippi
professors Kathryn McKee and Annette Trefzer.

Submission Deadline : July 1st
Publication decisions will be made by September 1st
In many modern and contemporary narrative acts of psychological and physical violence among women, violence has been interpreted and presented in terms of Freudian envy, spaces for male pleasure, negotiating conflicts in a male world, biological determinism (the over protective mother), or as non-existent, i.e. created by males (women are peacemakers and nurturers, neither inherently violent nor evil) etc.

Latitude(s): Nomadic Imagination and Transnational Spaces in the New Europe
Latitude(s): Imaginaires nomades et espaces transnationaux dans l'Europe à
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A Proposed Exploratory Workshop of the European Sciences Foundation,
Strasbourg, France (approval pending).

Université de Cergy-Pontoise
Centre de Recherche Texte et Histoire [E.A. 1392]
Paris, France
Thursday and Friday, December 7-8, 2006

Colloque / Conference
17-18 mars / March 2006

Revisiting The Jungle: Literary Journalism of the Last Century

Con/texts of Invention
A working conference of the Society for Critical Exchange

With support from the Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts at Case
Western Reserve University School of Law; the History of Science Department
at Harvard University; the Washington College of Law at American
University; and the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of
Science at the University of Chicago

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
April 20-22, 2006

Call for Papers: Special issue on Margaret Millar, _Clues: A Journal of Detection_
(deadline: April 28, 2006)
 
Published quarterly, the peer-reviewed _CLUES: A Journal of Detection_ welcomes scholarly articles on all aspects of mystery and detective material in print, television, and film without limit to period or country covered. The spring 2007 issue will focus on author and screenwriter Margaret Millar (Edgar winner, _Beast in View_; MWA Grand Master; wife of author Ross Macdonald).
 
Guest Editor: Dean James, Houston, Texas
 
For the issue, the guest editor would particularly like to see articles that: