SOCIETY OF EARLY AMERICANISTS at the American Literature Association Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Deadline: Friday, January 5, 2007

The Society of Early Americanists invites paper proposals for the American Literature Association's 2007 Conference in Boston, May 24-27, 2007. We will again sponsor four SEA Sessions: one will focus on teaching, and the topics for the other three are completely open.

Please watch our website, http://www.societyofearlyamericanists.org, for details about our annual Business Meeting and our traditional Reception!

CALL FOR PAPERS

  Space and Displacement

  A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium

Sponsored by the Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas

Bilkent University

21-22 April 2007

CFP: Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek (2/28/07; collection).

Teaching Sex: In Public

This panel seeks papers that articulate pedagogies of sexuality in
the humanities, fine arts, and interpretive social
sciences. Especially welcome are papers that mix an understanding of
current methods and texts in the field with critical anecdotes about
classroom experiences.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

CALL FOR PAPERS

  Space and Displacement

  A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium

Sponsored by the Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas

Bilkent University

21-22 April 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

  Space and Displacement

  A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium

Sponsored by the Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas

Bilkent University

21-22 April 2007

***Please note, there was an error in the original call for papers. All
dates should read 2007, not 2006. The corrected version is below.***

Nuances of Lack in Italian Culture

Call for Papers
New York University

April 20-21, 2007

"Deh peregrini che pensosi andate
forse di cosa che non v'è presente"
- Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova 30:1-2

CALL FOR PAPERS

  Space and Displacement

  A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium

Sponsored by the Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas

Bilkent University

21-22 April 2007

Call for submissions of articles for a special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn (April 2008): Children's Literature in South Africa

Please note the new deadline: JANUARY 15, 2007

"Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box": Poe and Twentieth Century Poetry.
Poe and his poetic theories have continued to be a point of
engagement for twentieth-century poets, as witnessed by the recent
publication of the posthumous Elizabeth Bishop poem from which the
title of this panel is taken. This panel is calling for papers that
engage with any aspect of Poe's relation to poets and poetry of the
last century.

Please note the new deadline: JANUARY 15, 2007

"Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box": Poe and Twentieth Century Poetry.
Poe and his poetic theories have continued to be a point of
engagement for twentieth-century poets, as witnessed by the recent
publication of the posthumous Elizabeth Bishop poem from which the
title of this panel is taken. This panel is calling for papers that
engage with any aspect of Poe's relation to poets and poetry of the
last century.

Please note the new deadline: JANUARY 15, 2007

Poe and Periodical Culture. This panel is calling for papers having
to do with any aspect of Poe's work with newspapers and magazines,
esp. papers engaging with recent scholarship that has addressed such
areas as authorship, literary nationalism, the culture of reprints,
copyright, mass production, marginalia, etc.

Send 250-word abstracts to Stephen Rachman
<mailto:rachman_at_msu.edu>rachman_at_msu.edu or Marcy J. Dinius
<mailto:dinius_at_english.udel.edu>dinius_at_english.udel.edu by January
15, 2007.

     In keeping with the 2007 conference theme, "Currents", the 2007
Regular Session on Australasian Literatures at SCMLA will focus on
"Australasian Currents." Our panel seeks to explore the current
conversation occurring between people from the Australian, New Zealand,
and South Pacific regions.
     Of particular interest is how people from the Australasian region
are using one or more form/s of creative expression (such as poetry,
fiction, narrative, film, music, art, etc) as a vehicle to represent
themselves and/ or others.
     Topics include, but are not limited to how these creative
endeavors have influenced and/ or critiqued religion, race, gender,

U.S.-Philippines Postcoloniality and Culture (grad)

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6-7, 2007
University of California, Riverside

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at
(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation at the
University of California, Riverside’s annual graduate
humanities conference. Submissions from all disciplines are
welcomed.