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"Temporality in African Diaspora Literature and Culture" – A Proposed
Special Session
MLA – December 27-30, 2006 – Philadelphia
2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition" Dallas 8-12 November, 2006
AREA: African American Documentary
The relationship of racialized communities to the cinema has been a
contentious one - in all realms, including the non-fiction film. From
early ethnographic films to more recent representations, constructions of
African Americans in documentary have remained problematic - not only in
terms of depictions, but access to production, distribution, and exhibition.
Update: African American Review is giving us a little more space and time.
Please note the later deadline and higher word limit.
CFP
The Nellie Tree: Reflections on the Life of Nellie Y. McKay
Recently, one of the central figures in African-American and Black Women¹s
literary studies, Nellie Y. McKay, passed away. Over the course of her
nearly forty years as an academic, she was one of the premier champions of
African-American literature, particularly the role of its women, as part of
the American canon.
"African American Literature and the Law" – A Proposed MLA Special Session
Masks and Passing in African American Literature
Panel Chair: Valerie B. McKee
Call for Papers on Masks and Passing in African American Literature
for the seventh annual graduate English conference entitled
"Encountering the Text: Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, and Writing" at
Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT on Saturday,
April 22 from 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, interpretations of
literary texts regarding themes of "passing," and the character type of the "tragic mulatto."
Panels will be one and a half hours long. Presentations will be 15 –
20 minutes long (papers should be 6 – 8 pages in length). A proposal
Businesswomen in Ethnic American Fiction
For a proposed special session at the MLA, we are looking for papers that
address the figure of the businesswoman or female entrepreneur in ethnic
American fiction. Recent historical scholarship has emphasized the ways that
African American and immigrant women have contributed to the development of
fashion, beauty, and other industries from the turn of the century onward.
This panel will examine how such women are depicted in ethnic American
literature.
Please send a brief abstract and c.v. to Lori Harrison-Kahan at
harris8_at_fas.harvard.edu by March 24, 2006.
Intersections of race and textual scholarship: drawing on what James
Weldon Johnson termed the "dilemma" of the "double audience," this panel
will investigate the ways in which textual and African Americanist
scholarship inform each other. Papers might explore such topics as:
decisions concerning the presentation of particular texts;
authenticating paratexts for slave and other narratives; book-form
republication of works previously published in serial form only for
black-owned periodicals; issues of archival preservation; questions of
canonization; "packaging" and repackaging of "Negro-authored" texts;
dissemination of texts that originally had a strong performative
Location change from Ft. Worth to Dallas Tx
South Central Modern Literature Association in Dallas, Tx October 26-28-2006.
Call for Papers for African/African American Literature Panel at SCMLA
Abstracts of 50-100 words
Theme: Rounding up the Strays: Characters and Authors who Wander from the Mainstream
Submit to: Holly Staves stavesh_at_nsula.edu
Juluette Bartlett-Pack jfbpack_at_yahoo.com
Location change from Ft. Worth to Dallas, Tx;
Call for papers for Women of Color Panel at South Central Modern Language Association to be held in Dallas, Texas October 26-28, 2006. Abstracts of 50-100 words due March 22, 2006.
Theme: Coloring the Landscape: Women of Color Changing the Mainstream Culture.
Submit to: Juluette Bartlett-Pack jfbpack_at_yahoo.com;
??Don?t Say Goodbye to the Pork Pie Hat?: Re ?Evaluating Larry
Neal?s Creative and Critical Vision of the Black Aesthetic,? an
international conference originally scheduled for February 10-12 of 2006 at
UNC-Chapel Hill, has been moved and re-scheduled. We are pleased to announce
that ?Don?t Say Goodbye to the Pork Pie Hat,? will now be hosted by
Brooklyn College from October 19-21, 2006.
CFP
The Nellie Tree: Reflections on the Life of Nellie Y. McKay
Recently, one of the central figures in African-American and Black Women¹s
literary studies, Nellie Y. McKay, passed away. Over the course of her
nearly forty years as an academic, she was one of the premier champions of
African-American literature, particularly the role of its women, as part of
the American canon.
Jazz Music in African-American Literature and Poetry
Panel Chair: David R. DiSarro
Call for papers on jazz music in African-American literature and poetry
for the seventh annual graduate English conference entitled
“Encountering the Text: Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, and Writing†at
Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT on Saturday,
April 22 from 9:00 a.m. â€" 4:30 p.m.
Call for papers for Women of Color Panel at South Central Modern Language Association to be held in Ft. Worth, Texas October 26-28, 2006. Abstracts of 50-100 words due March 15, 2006.
Theme: Coloring the Landscape: Women of Color Changing the Mainstream Culture.
Submit to: Juluette Bartlett-Pack jfbpack_at_yahoo.com; and Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
ebrown-guillory_at_uh.edu
Call for Paper for African/African American Literature Panel at SCMLA
Abstracts of 50-100 words
Theme: Rounding up the Strays: Characters and Authors who Wander from the Mainstream
Submit to: Holly Staves stavesh_at_nsula.edu
The Encyclopedia of Africa and the Americas (ABC-CLIO Transatlantic
Relations Series) seeks proposals for and entries in three areas:
1) Latin American and African writers, artists, major political figures,
and major scholars, whose works have a visible transatlantic influence
or dimension. Entries are typically 500-750 words each and must be
completed by April 30th, 2006.
2) A 1500-word overview of Latin American Literature with a
transatlantic emphasis.
Revisiting Slave Narratives II
Call for contributions
« Les Carnets du Cerpac »
Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III (France)
Deadline extended:
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: Global Connections: Eudora Welty
Paper proposals are invited for a special MLA session that explores
Welty's global connections in her work and / or with other writers
abroad. We seek new comparative theoretical approaches offering
provocative global, postcolonial, and post-regional insights into Welty.
Call for Papers: Minstrelsy, Passing, and the
Location of American Racial Identity
Call for Papers
Disability and the Modern Black Body
The Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
will convene its seventh international conference from
18 to 21 April, 2007 at the National University in
Madrid, Spain. The theme for the conference is
"Blackness and Modernities." Drawing on the
conference aim to include presentations on "The Modern
Black Body," this workshop will examine how disability
informs the desirability, experience, knowledge, and
representation of that subjectivity.
Participants might speak to the following concerns
(the list is suggestive, not exhaustive):
"We Wear the Mask": Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Representation of Black
Identity
Please Post:
We have extended the deadline for submission of abstracts to February
22, 2006. For further information, please contact jstein_at_seattleu.edu
AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH-A CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Gaffney Chair for Endowed Mission and the Center for the Study of
Justice in Society jointly present and invite contributions to a
Conference on AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. The conference
will be held at Seattle University from April 27-29, 2006.
A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS
READING CALLALOO, EATING CALLALOO
"Speaking in Tongues": A Study in African-American Literary Discourse,
Culture, and Rhetoric
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Please note new e-mail address and extended deadline. Thank you!
African American and Jewish American Women Writers of the Early 20th
Century: Intersections and Parallels
Papers are invited for upcoming Society for the Study of American Women
Writers Conference on contrasts and connections between African American
and Jewish American women writers of the early twentieth century.
Comparative, historical, and all other approaches will be considered. How does examining
these writers complicate our understanding of minority women's writing and
Of the period? 200-words abstracts to Meredith Goldsmith, Ursinus College
(mgoldsmith_at_ursinus.edu), by 1/25/06.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society (AAHGS)
Annual Conference 2006
"The Legacy of our Roots: A Heritage for the Future"
The Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society (AAHGS)
announces the 2006 Conference Call for Papers to be presented at our=20
next annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, 26-29 October
2006.
The AAHGS Conference endeavors each year to provide the premier> =20
opportunity to explore standard and innovative methods, resources,
and strategies centered around African-American, Caribbean, Native
American genealogy and the expansive history of the African in the
Diaspora.
[A technical problem led to the omission of the text of the previous copy
of this CFP -ed.]
CFP: "Black Authenticity—Authentic Blackness" (07/15/06; essay collection)
Updates in bold
The Toni Morrison Society invites proposals for 2 panels at the 2006 =
American Literature Association Conference, May 25-28, San Francisco, =
California. Email 200 word proposals to address below by 15 Jan. 2006.
1. Toni Morrison and Black Women Writers:=20
Morrison's impact on women writers=20
How Morrison has opened up "space" for women writers=20
The shifts in Black women's fiction before and after Morrison=20
The relationship of Morrison's fictional texts to other genres of Black =
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men's writing.=20
Please submit paper proposals for all topics related to African
American literature for the 2006 RMMLA (Tucson, Arizona
October 12-14, 2006). Paper proposals of 300-words are due to session
chairs by March 1, 2006.
Please note: RMMLA is an organization for its members. You are asked
to be current in your dues by April 1 to attend the convention,
present a paper, and have your name included in the convention
program. Visit www.rmmla.org for more information about the
conference, dues, etc.
Submit proposals in either paper or electronic form to:
Teresa Coronado, 2151 W 18th Ave, Eugene, OR 97402;
tcoronad_at_uoregon.edu
The Toni Morrison Society invites proposals for 15-20 panels at 2 panels at=
the 2006 American Literature Association Conference, May 25-28, San Franci=
sco, California. Email 200 word proposals to address below by 15 Jan. 2006.=
1. Toni Morrison and Black Women Writers:
Morrison's impact on women writers
How Morrison has opened up "space" for women writers
The shifts in Black women's fiction before and after Morrison
The relationship of Morrison's fictional texts to other genres of Black wo=
men's writing.
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
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AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH-A CONFERENCE
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Gaffney Chair for Endowed Mission and the Center for the Study of =
Justice in Society jointly present and invite contributions to a =
Conference on AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. The conference =
will be held at Seattle University from April 27-29, 2006.
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