african-american

Updated CFP
Update=3A The guest editors of a special issue of African American Revie=
w on Representing Segregation are still looking for proposals for projec=
ts that address the special issue topic in the late nineteenth century=2E=
 The original call for papers is appended below=2E =

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The extended deadline for proposals on the late nineteenth century is Ma=
rch 15=2C 2007=2E Send inquiries or proposals to Brian Norman (normbria=40=
isu=2Eedu) and Piper Kendrix Williams (williamp=40tcnj=2Eedu)=2E Complet=
ed papers will due by May 1=2C 2007=2E More information=2C including a l=
ink to the special issue website at http=3A//aar=2Eslu=2Eedu/=2E
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Fourth Annual Conference of the Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State University.
 
"Black Diaspora in the South and the Caribbean."

Mar 16-17, 2007

NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Feb. 1, 2007

Invited keynote speakers include:

-Jane Landers, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
-Francis Abiola Irele, Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
-Ifeoma Nwanko, Associate Professor of English Vanderbilt University

The Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State University invites proposals for individual presentations at its fourth annual conference.

This panel invites proposals exploring any African American women writers for the 2007 RMMLA conference in Calgary, October 4-7, 2007. Electronic submission of a 300-word abstract by March 1, 2007 to billiesblues82_at_yahoo.com.
   
  Snail mail may be sent to:
  Erin Mae Clark
  Department of English
  Washington State University
  P.O. Box 645020
  Pullman, WA 99164-5020
   
  Panelists will be notified by March 15, 2007 and must secure or renew RMMLA membership by April 1, 2007. For more information, please see the RMMLA website, http://rmmla.wsu.edu

UPDATE: The deadline to submit abstracts for Literary Hustler of Hood: =
Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines has been e=
xtended to FEBUARARY 25, 2007. We are currently interested in critical =
essays on the Kenyatta Series, the film adaptation of Goines=92 fiction,=
 and essays on works other than White Man=92s Justice, Black Man=92s Gri=
ef. Please e-mail abstracts (250-500 words) to Dr. Stallings (stalling@=
english.ufl.edu) and Dr. Greg Thomas (gthomas_at_syr.edu). Submit abstracts=
 in MS Word. Completed essays will be due by December 1, 2007.
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The Crisis Within: The Challenges of Specializing in African-American Literature in a Traditional
English Department

Call for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
8-11 November 2007
Cleveland

Teaching Toni Morrison

Calls for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
8-11 November 2007
Cleveland

This panel seeks papers that address pedagogical responses to Toni Morrison. Proposals should
explore/discuss the following issues:

·Representations of black male masculinity
·Sexuality
·Whiteness
·Class difference
·Gender
·Community
·Canon formation: Where do we situate Morrison in the teaching of American and/or African-American
literatures?

Email 200 word abstracts, full-length papers, or questions by March 31, 2007 to:

Melissa Daniels
PhD Student
Department of English,
Northwestern University
m-daniels_at_northwestern.edu

The English Department at The University of Alabama is inviting
proposals for its biannual symposium to be held March 29-30, 2007.
Entitled "Eruptions of Funk," the symposium will provide a venue in
which scholars and artists can engage issues specifically related to
African American cultural memory. Featured speakers include:

Mark Anthony Neal
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Rickey Vincent
Kalamu ya Salaam
Tracie Morris
Cheryl Keyes

CFP: Contemporary African Immigrant Experience in the United States
(collection)

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I am looking for personal narratives and essays (short poems welcome)
for an edited collection on the Contemporary African Immigrant
experience in the United States, and other parts of the Diaspora.

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Panel proposal for the upcoming conference of the Association for the Study of
Literature and Environment at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina,
June 12-16, 2007:

African Americans and the Environment

As ecocriticism continues to expand its borders from the study of traditional
nature writing, so too must the perception of the American “nature experience”
extend beyond what has largely been a white pastime. This panel will consider
literary representations of African Americans and nature by black and white
writers, pre- and post-Civil War, which engage issues of ecological ethics,
environmental justice and activism, agriculture, gardening, and beyond.

The African-American Literature and Culture Society invites proposals
related to the following topic, for a session at the American Literature
Association meetings in Boston [May 24-27, 2007].

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Examining Popular African-American Literature

Claude McKay, Postnationalist Critique and Critical Contradiction:
A Special Session for MLA 2007

African Literature Association Conference
March 14-18, 2007

Panel: "Telling Otherwise: Re-Writing / Re-Visioning in Africa and the
African Diaspora"

American Literature Association Annual Convention
Boston, 5/24/07-5/27/07

Call for Papers: WILLIAM WELLS BROWN

Despite his significance as the first African-American novelist and =20
as an anti-slavery lecturer, autobiographer, poet, editor, historian, =20=

travel writer, and dramatist, William Wells Brown has received =20
surprisingly little critical attention. For a proposed panel at ALA =20
2007, I am seeking papers of twenty minutes in length on any aspect =20
of Brown=92s work.

Please send proposals (ca. 300 words) and brief CV to Dawn Coleman at =20=

dcolema7_at_utk.edu by 5 January 2007. Inquiries welcome.

Call for Papers

Note the deadline has been extended to December 15th, 2006!

Special Issue on Visual Culture. In celebration of its 30th =20
anniversary and its commitment to exploring the intersection of =20
literary and visual art, Callaloo will publish an issue that focuses =20
on visual culture and collaboration in the African American context. =20
This special visual culture issue will feature visual and written =20
works that examine the important crossroads=97where literary and visual =20=

art meet=97that Callaloo provides. We seek, then, creative responses, =20=