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vice-president AICW

The Twentieth Anniversary Conference
will be held in Vancouver May 24th-28, 2006.

Call for submissions: Submission Deadline: December 15, 2005
Submissions can be sent to: Vancouver2006_at_aicw.ca

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Shakespeare Bulletin, a peer-reviewed journal for the study of
Shakespeare in performance, is pleased to announce that as of Spring
2006 it will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The
editors invite submissions on a wide variety of performance-related
topics. Theatre and book reviews are assigned; articles may be submitted
electronically to the general editor. Inquiries may be made to any one
of the editors: Andrew Hartley (General Editor) sbeditor_at_email.uncc.edu;
Jeremy Lopez (Theatre Review Editor) jeremy.lopez_at_utoronto.ca; Kirk
Melnikoff (Film Editor) kbmelnik_at_email.uncc.edu; Genevieve Love (Book
Review Editor) glove_at_coloradocollege.edu.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Shakespeare Bulletin, a peer-reviewed journal for the study of
Shakespeare in performance, is pleased to announce that as of Spring
2006 it will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The
editors invite submissions on a wide variety of performance-related
topics. Theatre and book reviews are assigned; articles may be submitted
electronically to the general editor. Inquiries may be made to any one
of the editors: Andrew Hartley (General Editor) sbeditor_at_email.uncc.edu;
Jeremy Lopez (Theatre Review Editor) jeremy.lopez_at_utoronto.ca; Kirk
Melnikoff (Film Editor) kbmelnik_at_email.uncc.edu; Genevieve Love (Book
Review Editor) glove_at_coloradocollege.edu.

I am organizing a seminar based on the proposal below for the American
Comparative Literature Association's Conference 2006 at Princeton
University. Submit paper proposals to

garciaant @uhd.edu and through the acla web site www.princeton.edu/~acla06
<http://www.princeton.edu/~acla06> by the November 30 deadline.

Will Any Humanism Be Possible?
Seminar Organizer(s): Antonio A. Garcia, University of Houston-Downtown

Submissions are invited for a proposed collection of essays on
nineteenth-century American children's literature and cultural
contexts. How is the social milieu embedded in children's fiction or
non-fiction? The following topics are suggestions, but the list is not
meant to be exhaustive.

3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference
on Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic Literature, Linguistics and Culture
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

* * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * *

The Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC), Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana is hosting a conference
February 19-20, 2006. All papers related to Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic
literature, linguistics and culture are welcome. Our suggested topic for this
year is "Peripheries", although any other topic will also be considered to be
part of the conference. Research on theoretical and applied linguistics,
literature, and culture pertaining to the suggested topics is encouraged.

Submissions are invited for a proposed collection of essays on
nineteenth-century American children's literature and cultural
contexts. How is the social milieu embedded in children's fiction or
non-fiction? The following topics are suggestions, but the list is not
meant to be exhaustive.

Proposed Panel for NWSA 2006:
Politics and Performance in an Age of Control

Proposed Panel for NWSA 2006:
Politics and Performance in an Age of Control

Affect and the Translation of the human (11/30/05; ACLA 06, Princeton,
March 06)

2006 ACLA CONFERENCE,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY,
March 23-26, 06.

SEMINAR: Transferring Bodies: Affect and the Translation of the Human

Seminar Organizer(s): Ignacio Infante, Rutgers University

Seminar Description:

The Lesser-Known Chopin: What We've Missed/What We're Missing
 
Though Kate Chopin wrote two novels, dozens of poems, and nearly a hundred
short stories, her critical reputation continues to rest largely on The
Awakening and a handful of very famous stories. But there's more. This
panel will provide a glimpse into some of the remarkable work that has
been too often overlooked by scholars and students alike. For this ALA
panel, which is sponsored by The Kate Chopin Society, papers and
presentations are solicited that explore Chopin's other novel (At Fault),
her lesser-known short stories, or her poetry, as well as her essays,
diaries, and account books. Proposals of 100-150 words should be sent to

We seek papers for a panel at the 2006 Society for the Study of American
Women Writers conference (in Philadelphia) that explore the relationship
between science and sentiment in women's writing. Taking as a starting
point scholarship on sentiment by critics such as Shirley Samuels, Glenn
Hendler, Julie Ellison, Marianne Noble, Dana Nelson, and Lauren Berlant, we
are interested in how women writers' use of and relationship to the
sentimental aesthetic developed as America's scientific world view evolved,
from the age of so-called sentimental "feminization" (in the 18th and 19th
centuries) into the present moment. The language of science-as seen in

We seek papers for a panel at the 2006 Society for the Study of American
Women Writers conference (in Philadelphia) that explore the relationship
between science and sentiment in women's writing. Taking as a starting
point scholarship on sentiment by critics such as Shirley Samuels, Glenn
Hendler, Julie Ellison, Marianne Noble, Dana Nelson, and Lauren Berlant, we
are interested in how women writers' use of and relationship to the
sentimental aesthetic developed as America's scientific world view evolved,
from the age of so-called sentimental "feminization" (in the 18th and 19th
centuries) into the present moment. The language of science-as seen in

Call for papers for a seminar entitled, "Animal Whites: Whiteness,
Animals and the Human," to be held at the American Comparative
Literature Association 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others
at Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006.

Organizer: Lucia Hodgson, English Department, University of Southern
California, lhodgson_at_usc.edu

Abstracts (max. 250 words) must be submitted by November 30, 2005
using the online form on the ACLA website (www.acla.org).

Seminar Description: