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CFP: Fissures and Sutures: Sources of Division and Mutual Aid in Postcolonial
Reflections on History and Literature, United States Association for
Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

selling trauma: post-apartheid(?) and tourism

Apartheid ended more than ten years ago; regardless, bulletholes in the
stained glass of Regina Mundi remain, long after the June 1976 Soweto school
uprisings, as do the lime mines on Robben Island, the squatter camps in Soweto
and Cape Town, and the to-be-furnished space for representing the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission in the Apartheid Museum on the skirts of
Johannesburg.

CFP: Fissures and Sutures: Sources of Division and Mutual Aid in Postcolonial
Reflections on History and Literature, United States Association for
Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

selling trauma: post-apartheid(?) and tourism

Apartheid ended more than ten years ago; regardless, bulletholes in the
stained glass of Regina Mundi remain, long after the June 1976 Soweto school
uprisings, as do the lime mines on Robben Island, the squatter camps in Soweto
and Cape Town, and the to-be-furnished space for representing the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission in the Apartheid Museum on the skirts of
Johannesburg.

Sponsored by the Institute of English Literature, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China
October 13-15, 2006

Call for Papers 2006

The Institute of English Literature, Zhejiang University, cordially invites your active
participation in an international symposium on Sinology and Sino-West cultural relations
and exchanges to be held in Hangzhou, October 13-15, 2006.

British Heavy Metal

Essays are sought for a book project that takes a Cultural Studies approach
to British Heavy Metal.

M/MLA Conference
Chicago, IL
November 9-12, 2006

American Literature I: Literature to 1870 Permanent Section

TOPIC: Literacy and Literary Practice

"Beyond Ground Zero": 9/11 and the Futures of Critical Thought

Saturday, October 21, 2006

McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

CFP: Contemporary British and Irish Literary Landscapes: Re-Reading Pat Barker

Call for papers for a one-day conference at University of Hertfordshire,
England

Friday 24th November, 2006

This one-day conference is the first of a series entitled Contemporary
British and Irish Literary Landscapes. The inaugural conference explores
the work of Pat Barker.

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

A Popular Reconstruction: Imagining Reunion in Post-Civil War American
Literature

                            CALL FOR PAPERS

The Editor of CALLALOO invites you to submit formal articles, informal
essays, and other kinds of texts (including visual and creative writing) about
NATHAN A. SCOTT, JR.

as scholar, professor, literary critic, and friend in a Special Issue of the
journal to be devoted to this distinguished man of letters.

Each manuscript or other contribution should be postmarked no later than
Monday, March 5, 2007, to:

        
        The Editor
        CALLALOO
        Department of English
        Texas A&M University
        College Station, TX 77843-4227

MLA Convention 2006
Philadelphia, PA

Special Session: Teaching the British Literature Survey

The panel solicits proposals for papers on individual approaches to teaching
the British Literature Survey or on topics related to this most
widely-taught course, such as: the historical origins of the course; its
place within English Department curricula; the major anthologies; canonicity
and text selection; periodization; implicit or explicit meta-narratives;
language, literature, and national identity; necessity or desirability of
the course; student reception; pedagogical strategies; etc. All submissions
to be considered for prospective volume on the topic.

M/MLA; Chicago, 11/9/06-11/12/06
Conference theme: High & Low Culture

"After Highbrow/Lowbrow: Shakespearean Cultural Capital" (Proposed
Special Session)

Deadline extended:

UPDATE: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/31/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)

ROMANTICISM, ENVIRONMENT, CRISIS

23-27 June 2006
Centre for Romantic Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Lawrence Buell, Cheryll Glotfelty, James C. McKusick, George Monbiot, Kate
Soper.

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Romanticism, Environment, Crisis" will highlight the continuing urgency
of the Romantic text at a time when changes in our biosphere threaten to
realize Romanticism's prophetic anxieties, its darkest imaginings.