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CFP: August Wilson's Women (12/1/06; ALA, 5/24/07-5/27/07)

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Friday, November 10, 2006 - 11:14pm
Elizabeth Beaulieu

I am seeking proposals for 10-minute presentations on the topic of women
in August Wilson's cycle of plays. I hope to put together a roundtable
for ALA in Boston (May 24-27, 2007) on the often-unappreciated role
women play in Wilson's depiction of twentieth-century African American
experience.

Please send abstracts of approximately 200 words to
beaulieea_at_appstate.edu by December 1, 2006. I would like to include
short papers on 6 or 7 of Wilson's plays, as well as time for discussion
among panelists and audience members.

UPDATE: August Wilson issue of College Literature (4/15/07; journal issue)

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Friday, November 10, 2006 - 11:13pm
Carlton Floyd

Manuscripts from 5,000 to 10,000 words that reflect on August Wilson's
legacy and contribution to American culture are invited for a special
issue of College Literature. The editors—Cynthia Caywood and Carlton
Floyd of the University of San Diego and Marilyn Elkins of California
State University at Los Angeles—welcome contributions from all
disciplines that engage the full complexity of Wilson's work. We
encourage contributors to explore his work in a variety of ways: for
example, Wilson and history, Wilson and performance, performance
history, Wilson and women, Wilson and music, Wilson and folkways,
Wilson and place, Wilson and the migration narrative, Wilson and the

CFP: The Black Church: Past, Present, Future (1/15/07; 3/29/07-3/30/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 8, 2006 - 9:05pm
Sollars, Michael D.

Call for Papers

The Black Church:
Past, Present, Future

The Department of English at Texas Southern University invites you to
submit papers to be presented at the 2007 J. Marie McCleary Symposium on
"The Black Church: Past, Present, Future." The symposium runs March
29-30 at Texas Southern University, Houston, TX.

CFP: Funkativity in African American Culture (12/1/06; 3/29/07-3/30/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 6, 2006 - 1:38am
Bolden, Anthony

The English Department at The University of Alabama is inviting
proposals for its biannual symposium that will convene 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
Kalamu ya Salaam
Tracie Morris
Cheryl Keyes

CFP: African-American Literature (11/30/06; CEA, 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 6, 2006 - 1:36am
Shelia Collins

College English Association National Conference
Thursday, April 12-Saturday, April 14
New Orleans, Louisiana

We invite paper and panel proposals on African-American literature for the
38th annual meeting of CEA. This years general conference theme is "Empathy
and Ethics." Proposals that offer new and inventive readings on
African-American literature will also be considered. Please interpret the
conference theme broadly including but not limited to the following areas:

CFP: "Regenerations" in Black Drama, Theatre, and Performance: Black Theatre Association/Association for Theatre in Hi

updated: 
Monday, October 9, 2006 - 2:57pm
Melinda Wilson

CALL FOR PAPERS: ATHE 2007

July 26-29, 2007

New Orleans, Louisiana

The Black Theatre Association (BTA), a Focus Group of the Association
for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), invites complete panel or
individual paper proposals for ATHE's 2007 conference. In light of the
conference locale and theme, "REGENERATIONS," BTA is particularly
interested in panels/papers that consider the roots, growth, and
continuous resurgence of Black theatre and performance. Possible
panel/paper topics include, but are not limited to the following:

Performing Black America From Congo Square to Canada

Black Performances on the Rise

Black Theatre: A New Generation Speaks

CFP: Octavia E. Butler (11/15/06; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/14/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Saturday, September 9, 2006 - 2:53pm
Ximena Gallardo

Call for Papers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Area, SW/TX PCA/ACA, Special Topics
   
  2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 28th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 14-17, 2007.
   
  The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on the works of Octavia E. Butler.
   
  Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, and 500 word panel proposals, including full contact info for all participants, to
   
  Ximena Gallardo C.: xgallardo_at_lagcc.cuny.edu
   
   
  Deadline for proposal submissions: November 15, 2006.
   

CFP: Octavia Butler's Legacy (9/15/06; NEMLA, 3/1/07-3/4/07)

updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2006 - 1:27pm
Shari Evans

CFP: Shaping the Future of Octavia Butler: Towards Understanding Her
Legacy (9/15/06; NEMLA, 3/1/07-3/4/07)

Call for Papers
Panel Title: Shaping the Future of Octavia Butler: Towards Understanding
Her Legacy

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, MD

CFP: Themes, Symbols, and Images in African American Literature (grad) (10/31/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 2:01am
Brett Butler

LITERARY HORIZONS JOURNAL
   
  An examination of a people's past reveals the present day's progress, and illuminates their future. For its premiere issue, the Literary Horizons Journal, a journal dedicated to publishing the work of graduate students, is soliciting papers that analyze the evolution of themes, symbols, and images in African American Literature.
   
  The topics may include but are not limited to:
   
  * The value of education, from Frederick Douglass to Robert Stepto
  * The representation of African American religion in literature
  * The interaction between African Americans and people of other
    racial backgrounds as embodied in literary works

UPDATE: Crossings: Assimilation and Acculturation (8/15/06; 11/9/06-11/11/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 10:16pm
Robert Alexander

The Fletcher Lecture Series Committee of Nicholls State University is
pleased to announce the First Fletcher Lecture Series Conference,
featuring a keynote address by 2006 Fletcher Lecturer Henry Louis Gates,
Jr. The conference will be held November 9-11, 2006, on the campus of
Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana, located in the Bayou
Region of South Louisiana (1 hr. from New Orleans or Baton Rouge; 1 1/2
hours from Lafayette).

General Subject: "Crossings: Assimilation and Acculturation"

Submission deadline extended to August 15, 2006

CFP: 19th-C. African American Autobiography (9/15/06; NEMLA, 3/1/07-3/4/07)

updated: 
Sunday, July 9, 2006 - 1:30pm
Jason Haslam

New Approaches to 19th-century African American Autobiography
NeMLA Board-Sponsored Panel

38th Annual Northeast MLA Convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 1-4, 2007

In honor of NeMLA's return to Maryland, the state of Frederick
Douglass' birth, this board-sponsored panel invites papers that focus
on new approaches to nineteenth-century African American
autobiography. Papers may focus on any text or issue, including (but
not limited to) single-author studies, comparative autobiographical
studies, or larger generic issues within African American autobiography studies

CFP: Race and Faith in African American Literature (9/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
Tracey Michae'l Lewis

CHARCOAL CANONS

Race and Faith in African American Literature

 

Call for Submissions

 

As chords of a song are composed of very specific notes that create a
recognizable sound to those who are familiar with music, so has most forms
of African American literature, even the most diametrically opposed works,
created similar "sounds" in their discourse on race and faith.

 

CFP: The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference (8/25/06; 11/6/06-11/9/

updated: 
Monday, June 26, 2006 - 11:18pm
BRENNAN, SARAH

Please find the CFP for The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference below, and acknowledge receipt of this submission. If further information is needed, please let me know.
Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Sarah Brennan
__________________________________________________________________
THE AFRICAN PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE ON THE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Dedicated to Nicolás Guillén and Gwendolyn Brooks
November 2006

Paper/Proposal DEADLINE: AUGUST 25, 2006

CFP: Callaloo: Nathan A. Scott, Jr. (3/5/07; journal issue)

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Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:47am
Callaloo

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

The Editor of Callaloo invites you to submit formal articles, informal
essays, and other kinds of text (including visual and creative writing)
about

Nathan A. Scott, Jr.

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

This special issue of Callaloo is designed to document and explore the
numerous contributions Nathan A. Scott, Jr. has made to religious and
literary studies.

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

CFP: Callaloo: Octavia E. Butler (4/20/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Callaloo

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

Callaloo invites you to submit formal articles, informal essays, and other
kinds of texts (including visual and creative writing) about

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

as a writer and friend in a Special Issue of the journal to be devoted to
this distinguished American writer.

Each manuscript or other contribution should be submitted following the
Callaloo submission guidelines and postmarked no later than Friday, April
20, 2007, to:

Callaloo/Octavia Butler Issue
Department of English
Texas A&M University
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227

CFP: Callaloo: Next Thirty Years of Callaloo (12/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Callaloo

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS: THE NEXT THIRTY YEARS OF CALLALOO

Callaloo is currently putting together material for an issue to be published
in November 2007 as the last of four special issues celebrating Callaloo's
30th anniversary. This issue is to focus on Callaloo's future as an
international cultural institution and on the writers and scholars who will
fuel that future.

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