The Irish Studies area of the Midwest Popular Culture and Midwest American
Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its upcoming conference.
The MPCA/MACA conference will be held Friday-Sunday, October 12-14, 2007 at
the Radisson Hotel & Suites Kansas City-City Center, Kansas City, MO.

Please send proposals on any aspect of Irish Studies to the area chair via
email or mail. Emailed proposals should be sent to Kathleen Turner,
Department of English, Northern Illinois University at
turner8kathleen_at_gmail.com. Mailed proposals should be sent to Kathleen
Turner, Department of English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
60115.

Voices and Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines
Midwest ACIS Conference: 10/18-20/2007
University of Missouri-Kansas City

The American Conference for Irish Studies invites you to attend the thirty-first annual Midwest ACIS meeting centered on the theme Voices and Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines.

This conference hopes to cross disciplinary lines to explore interactions among art, history, music, literature, cinema, and culture in Ireland from earliest times to the present.

Plenary Speakers:

The International Spenser Society is sponsoring a panel at RSA 2008
in Chicago, "Edmund Spenser, Scholarship Boy." Papers might examine
Spenser's status as a sizar; the shifting demographics of the
universities; service and servitude in the poetry; the social
implications of humanist education reform. Please email 1 page
abstracts and a brief cv by Friday 20 April 2007 to
chris.warley_at_utoronto.ca

The Harry Potter area of the Midwest Popular Culture and Midwest American
Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its upcoming conference.
The MPCA/MACA conference will be held Friday-Sunday, October 12-14, 2007 at
the Radisson Hotel & Suites Kansas City-City Center, Kansas City, MO.

Please send proposals on any aspect of Harry Potter Studies to the area
chair via email or mail. Emailed proposals should be sent to Kathleen
Turner, Department of English, Northern Illinois University at
turner8kathleen_at_gmail.com. Mailed proposals should be sent to Kathleen
Turner, Department of English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
60115.

Sex Acts: Practice, Performance and Perversion in Early Modern Italy
(3/23/07; 08/01/07)

The Ethnic Studies session of the RMMLA Conference
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada; 10/04/07-10/06/07) has
extended its deadline for proposals to 3/23/07.
Accepting abstracts
on literature and ethnicity, with a specific interest
in Maidu, Ohlone, Shoshone, and Paiute. Send to

Robin Somers
lecturer, Writing Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
robinsomers_at_sbcglobal.net

Workshop: The Poetics of Globalisation=20

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May 2, Centre for Contemporary Writing, University of Southampton

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The implications of the ubiquitous languages of 'globalization' for literar=
y and cultural critique are far from clear. The term is deeply ambivalent, =
suggesting both a political critique of the neo-liberal agenda and an acces=
sion to the universalizing assumptions of its corporate entities. This work=
shop offers literary critics the opportunity to assess and openly debate th=
e significance of the theoretical and political frameworks of globalization=
 for the study of literature.=20

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Specific issues to be addressed include:=20=20