This celebratory symposium on Herman Melville to be
held November 17 and 18, 2006, at the Albany Academy
campus and its environs where Melville lived and
attended school from 1830-31, will consider the
enduring relevance of the author's life, work, and
influence from the perspectives of the humanities,
arts, the sciences, and new technologies. Herman
Melville's work lives on to "tell the tale," because
the questions he posed are the same issues that
inspire contemporary writers, artists, and thinkers
today-the vexed relations between humans and their
environment, racial and social injustices, capitol
punishment, psychological alienation, and the new
frontiers of science and globalism.

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Kris Salata, Stanford University=20
Lisa Wolford Wylam, Bowling Green State University =20
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Hotel Allegro, Chicago November 16-19, 2006 =20
Conference Theme: AMERICAN: SOCIETY : THEATRE : RESEARCH=20
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Call for Papers

UPDATE

2006 ALSC Conference, Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, California,
October 13-15 2006

May 12, 2006

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) has extended the
submissions deadline for its seminar on "The Personal Voice in Literary
Criticism," which is part of the 2006 ALSC Conference Program.

The submissions deadline for this seminar has been extended to June 30.

Additional prospective members and current members alike are heartily
invited to apply.

Please see below for details.

Seminars

Submissions for the 11th International Arthur Miller Society Conference

Conference Theme: "Arthur Miller and the American West"

Hosted by the Community College of Southern Nevada

Las Vegas

October 19-21, 2006

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Call for papers

The Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) is a new
online, scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. JMMS is
published twice a year, beginning in January 2007 with provision for
other special editions.

* * * * UPDATE * * * *

Owing to a website glitch over Easter drawn to our attention by people
seeking to apply, we are re-issuing our CFP for TV Fiction exchange with an
extended deadline. We already have contributions from 15 countries so the
conference promises to embrace a wide range of perspectives on the debate.
Please send any late submission a.s.a.p.

TV Fiction Exchange: Local/Regional/National/Global.
An International Conference.

Contributors include:
Professor Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney
David Bianculli, NY Daily News television critic and author of Teleliteracy
Dr David Lavery, Middle-State Tennessee University
Mark Lawson, Guardian television critic and writer

The Death in American Culture area of the Mid Atlantic American/Popular Culture Conference, October 27-29, 2006 in Baltimore MD is soliciting paper proposals.

Papers are welcome on any aspect of American cultural responses to death. Paper proposals may be from any appropriate discipline and cover any historical period. General topic areas include but are not limited to the following:

1. Attitudes toward and practices relating to death, including the medicalization of death, the social construction of death, death in art and literature, funeral customs, the evolution of the funeral business and the cemetery, changing attitudes toward the dead body and its disposal, and burial and mourning practices.

ASTR 2006 CONFERENCE

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF ASTR
Hotel Allegro, Chicago - November 16-19, 2006

AMERICA: SOCIETY: THEATRE: RESEARCH

Call for contributions to Seminar:
The Stakes of Performance Research - Local Situations and Global Forces

A Storied Life: The Apocryphal Biography and Autobiography is a session of
the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Pop/Am Culture Association annual conference. The
dates are 10/27-29/06 in lovely Baltimore, MD. Registration fees apply. For
more information, please go to <http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/>.

Bridges or Fences: Diversity on the American Stage
(A One-Day Symposium Re-engaging the Wilson-Brustein Debates)

Saturday June 24, 2006
Pittsburgh, Pa

Bridges or Fences: Diversity on the American Stage
(A One-Day Symposium Re-engaging the Wilson-Brustein Debates)

Saturday June 24, 2006
Pittsburgh, Pa

Paper proposals are invited for a conference entitled "Living Together,
Working Together: African-American Miners and the Coal Culture of
Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1870-1970." The conference is sponsored by the
Coal and Coke Heritage Center at The Pennsylvania State University's
Fayette Campus and is supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical
and Museum Commission. It will be held March 16, 2007. We have funding to
publish selected papers in a conference proceedings.

The National Association for Humanities Education (NAHE) invites =
250-word proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops for =
inclusion in the program of its 2007 conference, "The Golden Gateways of =
the Humanities: Transgressions/Transformation, Dissonance/Harmony," to =
be held at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway in San Francisco, CA from =
February 28 to March 3, 2007. Papers should be planned for twenty =
minutes; panels, roundtables, and workshops should be planned for an =
hour and thirty minutes.

The National Association for Humanities Education (NAHE) invites =
250-word proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops for =
inclusion in the program of its 2007 conference, "The Golden Gateways of =
the Humanities: Transgressions/Transformation, Dissonance/Harmony," to =
be held at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway in San Francisco, CA from =
February 28 to March 3, 2007. Papers should be planned for twenty =
minutes; panels, roundtables, and workshops should be planned for an =
hour and thirty minutes.