Call for Papers: The Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference 2007
Topic: Appropriating Shakespeare
Date: October 11-13, 2007
Location: The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio

The Ohio Shakespeare Conference has changed its name with the addition
of West Virginia's Marshall University to its consortium.

My co-editors, Joseph Starr and Dr. Christine Jespersen, and I have received
a contract from McFarland & Company, Inc. for an edited volume of essays on
Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibits. To date, more than 20 million
people have visited von Hagens' Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of
Real Human Bodies in 25 cities and 12 countries across Asia, Europe, and
North America.

Articulations 2007, taking place on October 12 and 13, will experiment with
the act of entrance and attempt to investigate the resulting violence of
intervention. We will grapple with, face, grasp at, take on, and struggle
through the act of entrance at multiple sites scattered throughout the Twin
Cities. Please send a short C.V. (no more than two pages) and a 250-word
statement in which you describe your research interests and how you believe
they correspond to the goals of this conference, as well as any disability
accommodations, to George McConnell at Articulations2007_at_gmail.com by May
30, 2007. **WEBSITE: http://articulations.umn.edu

Articulations 2007, taking place on October 12 and 13, will experiment with
the act of entrance and attempt to investigate the resulting violence of
intervention. We will grapple with, face, grasp at, take on, and struggle
through the act of entrance at multiple sites scattered throughout the Twin
Cities. Please send a short C.V. (no more than two pages) and a 250-word
statement in which you describe your research interests and how you believe
they correspond to the goals of this conference, as well as any disability
accommodations, to George McConnell at Articulations2007_at_gmail.com by May
30, 2007. **WEBSITE: http://articulations.umn.edu

Seventh Portsmouth Translation Conference
  Conference Theme: Translation As Negotiation
  Date: 10 November 2007
  As translators and interpreters we engage in a range of negotiatory activities. We negotiate the frontiers and interfaces between languages and cultures; we negotiate translation issues and problems as we meet them; we negotiate rates, deadlines and briefs with clients. We also engage with the range of expectations and demands made of translators in our diverse cultures and working environments.

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Call for Papers: SHARP @ RSA 2008

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP)
will sponsor several panels at the Renaissance Society of America's
annual meeting in Chicago from 3-5 April 2008. Organized by Steven W.
May, Anne Lake Prescott and Michael Ullyot, SHARP @ RSA links the RSA
with scholars studying the creation, dissemination, and reception of
script and print. Since 2001 we have organized 21 panels at RSA meetings.

We will have two themes in 2008 (although more than two panels), and
invite submissions that consider English and Continental books and
manuscripts from 1350 to 1700 in relation to either of them:

Call for Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
Renaissance Hotel Downtown
Atlanta, GA
November 9 - 11, 2007

Session: "Queer Stages: Theater, Performativity, and Sexuality"

One-page abstracts are being sought for papers that explore and critique
the various roles that sexualities play (and have played) in American
and international drama. Of particular interest will be papers which
offer unique queer readings of canonical plays, as well as those that
introduce conference participants to lesser-known texts.