CFP: The Star and Celebrity Confessional
      Special Themed Issue Social Semiotics
      Guest Editor: Sean Redmond
 
Social Semiotics (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10350330.asp) is
soliciting papers for a special themed issue on the star and celebrity
confessional. The confessional, taken to be any moment in which a star,
celebrity, or fan engages in revelatory acts, has become one of the dominant
ways in which fame is circulated and consumed.
 
The celebrity confessional involves Œthe combination of reflexivity about
the business of being a celebrity, emotional interiority and self

We are excited to announce that Currents in Electronic Literacy is
moving in a new direction. The Spring 2007 issue of Currents will
focus on reviews. We believe a journal based on reviews can be of much
greater relevance to the field than our past models, which consisted
of a few long articles supplemented by short book reviews. However, in
this new model we will conceive of "reviews" more broadly. In addition
to reviewing books, we are soliciting reviews of software, websites,
blogs, conferences, parallel academic programs, and pedagogical
practices. We hope that the new version of Currents will point out
emerging trends in the field of electronic literacy.

Spring 2007 Call for Reviews:

College English Association National Conference, April 12-14, 2007, New
Orleans, LA.

The CEA is now accepting submissions for the Native American Literature
panel. All topics related to Native American literature are welcome, though
special consideration will be given to papers addressing this year's
conference theme, "Empathy and Ethics."

Please submit proposals using the CEA online database:
http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/conftool/index.php.
Additional information about the call for papers is available at:
http://www2.widener.edu/%7Ecea/conference2006.htm

We are excited to announce that Currents in Electronic Literacy is
moving in a new direction. The Spring 2007 issue of Currents will
focus on reviews. We believe a journal based on reviews can be of much
greater relevance to the field than our past models, which consisted
of a few long articles supplemented by short book reviews. However, in
this new model we will conceive of "reviews" more broadly. In addition
to reviewing books, we are soliciting reviews of software, websites,
blogs, conferences, parallel academic programs, and pedagogical
practices. We hope that the new version of Currents will point out
emerging trends in the field of electronic literacy.

Spring 2007 Call for Reviews:

College English Association National Conference, April 12-14, 2007, New
Orleans, LA.

The CEA is now accepting submissions for the Native American Literature
panel. All topics related to Native American literature are welcome, though
special consideration will be given to papers addressing this year's
conference theme, "Empathy and Ethics."

Please submit proposals using the CEA online database:
http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/conftool/index.php.
Additional information about the call for papers is available at:
http://www2.widener.edu/%7Ecea/conference2006.htm

Transformations is seeking abstracts for the following issue:

"Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the
Age of Global Culture"

What does Walter Benjamin offer for critical thinking and creative
practice in an age increasingly mediated by virtual technologies?

Transformations is seeking abstracts for the following issue:

"Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the
Age of Global Culture"

What does Walter Benjamin offer for critical thinking and creative
practice in an age increasingly mediated by virtual technologies?

Transformations is seeking abstracts for the following issue:

"Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the
Age of Global Culture"

What does Walter Benjamin offer for critical thinking and creative
practice in an age increasingly mediated by virtual technologies?

Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
   
  Another Backlash: Current Responses to Feminist Works
   

CFP: CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES IN LITERATURE AND FILM

The 28th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA
February 14â€"17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Rowlandson may have set a classroom standard for captivity narratives in
American literature but there are other stories to be considered.

In addition to those captured by Native Americans, slave narratives also
tell stories of life in captivity. And, captivity narratives are not limited to
an American tradition; many folk and fairy tales preceded them in other
cultures.

CFP: The Use(s) of Poetry (11/15/06; ACCUTE 06/26/07-06/29/07)

This call is for papers to be delivered at the 2007 ACCUTE (Association of
Canadian College and University Teachers of English) Conference which will
be held at the University of Saskatchewan, May 26-29, 2007.

Call for papers - Victorian Dramas Interdisciplinary Conference to be held =20
at the University of Worcester on Jan 27th 2007. Keynote speakers: Kate Newe=
y, =20
Jackie Bratton & David Mayer. Proposals for 20min papers on any aspect of=20
Victorian Drama, especially gesture, e-resources, adaptations, publishing=20
practices, melodrama, themed papers reflecting the resources in The Victori=
an=20
Plays Project. For more details visit _www.worc.ac.uk/victorian_=20
(http://www.worc.ac.uk/victorian) or e-mail _k.mattacks@worc.ac.uk_=20

Call for papers - Victorian Dramas Interdisciplinary Conference to be held =20
at the University of Worcester on Jan 27th 2007. Keynote speakers: Kate Newe=
y, =20
Jackie Bratton & David Mayer. Proposals for 20min papers on any aspect of=20
Victorian Drama, especially gesture, e-resources, adaptations, publishing=20
practices, melodrama, themed papers reflecting the resources in The Victori=
an=20
Plays Project. For more details visit _www.worc.ac.uk/victorian_=20
(http://www.worc.ac.uk/victorian) or e-mail _k.mattacks@worc.ac.uk_=20

Rethinking Resistance: Literature, Religion, and Politics in a Global Context
March 30-31st, 2007
Emory University Graduate Conference
Atlanta, GA

Keynote Speakers: Michael Hardt, Professor of Literature, Duke University
Amy Kaplan, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor in the Humanities,
University of Pennsylvania