african-american

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

"PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire."
February 28, 2007. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

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Call for Papers

University of Florida 1st Annual Black Cultural Interventions into Gender
and Sexuality Studies (Past, Present, and Future) March 23-24, 2007

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:

Call for Papers

University of Florida 1st Annual Black Cultural Interventions into
Gender and Sexuality Studies (Past, Present, and Future) March
23-24, 2007

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

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.
   

A Callaloo Call For Papers

The Cultures and Letters of the Black Diaspora

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

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

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.

Call for Papers
  Reading in Yoruba
  38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
  March 1-4, 2007
  Baltimore, Maryland
   

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:

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

INTREPID VISIONARY: BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD, NOVELIST, POET, AND SCULPTOR