CFP for a special issue of Persuasions On-Line Papers due by March 1st

Persuasions On-Line, a peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to
scholarship on Jane Austen, solicits papers for a special issue on the
most recent film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice: the 2005 Focus
Features film starring Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen.

Storytellers and friends of storytelling: Please post the following call for papers, or pass it on to someone who is interested.
This year, at The Eleventh Annual Cape Breton University Storytelling Symposium, we are planning to have more time for stories. The nature of the focus for this year's get together makes this a logical choice. We are looking forward to an enthusiastic response.
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL
CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY STORYTELLING SYMPOSIUM

Storytellers and friends of storytelling: Please post the following call for papers, or pass it on to someone who is interested.
This year, at The Eleventh Annual Cape Breton University Storytelling Symposium, we are planning to have more time for stories. The nature of the focus for this year's get together makes this a logical choice. We are looking forward to an enthusiastic response.
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL
CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY STORYTELLING SYMPOSIUM

College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Spring 2007 Conference: 29-30 March 2007
"Of Mice and Men: Animals in Human Perception"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

Evelyn Scott and Her Contemporaries - American Modernism

Panel sponsored by The Evelyn Scott Society for the American=20
Literature Association 18th Annual Conference (May 24-27, 2007; Boston)=20

Paper proposals are sought which explore any of the various aspects of
the American modernist experience including, but not limited to: the
relationship of art and artist, the new woman, Pound's exhortation to
"make new," "the Greenwich Village revolt, the Stieglitz group, the
European expatriate scene, the art colonies of Taos and Santa Fe,
feminism, anarchism, the rise of literary communism and . . . the
Southern Renaissance."

Submit 100-word proposals by January 1, 2007 via USPS or email to:

Call for Papers: Frost and His Legacy
(ALA Boston, MA, May 24-27, 2007; Proposals by December 1, 2006)
The Robert Frost Society invites proposals that address either the=20
understanding that later poets have had of Frost?s legacy or the=20
understanding Frost had of his legacy or of his debt to previous=20
generations. One- or two-page proposals should be sent to Michael L.=20
Manson mmanson_at_american.edu. Please include your name, institutional=20
affiliation, and any AV needs in the proposal. Proposals must be received =

by December 15, 2006.=20

UPDATE

Cerpac (Research Centre for Commonwealth Studies)
http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/cerpac

Novembre 8-9-10, 2007, Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III), France

Guest writers: Bernardine EVARISTO and Karen KING-ARIBISALA
Keynote speakers: John McLeod (University of Leeds, UK) and Gerry
TURCOTTE (University of Wollongong, Australia)

  * ** 01.For a popular panel of the New Jersey College English
Association. While papers are, of course, expected to be of a
professional, academic nature, a true spirit of informality is expected
to be a mainstay of this panel. Papers must adhere to a 12 minute
reading, thereby leaving time for audience participation. Please eMail
an abstract of 250 words, plus a one-sheet Curriculum Vita to Dr.Ted
Price: pricet_at_mail.montclair.edu by Thursday December 22, 2006.*

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  * ** 01.For a popular panel of the New Jersey College English
Association. While papers are, of course, expected to be of a
professional, academic nature, a true spirit of informality is expected
to be a mainstay of this panel. Papers must adhere to a 12 minute
reading, thereby leaving time for audience participation. Please eMail
an abstract of 250 words, plus a one-sheet Curriculum Vita to Dr.Ted
Price: pricet_at_mail.montclair.edu by Thursday December 22, 2006.*

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Spring Cleaning:
Rediscovering and Revitalizing the Artifact
University of Calgary Free Exchange Graduate Conference
16-18 March 2007
For more information, please visit Free Exchange at www.english.ucalgary.ca

History is of the essence, true, but she can also be a bully.
                                -Noah Richler
                                This is my Country, What¡¦s Yours?

Spring Cleaning:
Rediscovering and Revitalizing the Artifact
University of Calgary Free Exchange Graduate Conference
16-18 March 2007
For more information, please visit Free Exchange at www.english.ucalgary.ca

History is of the essence, true, but she can also be a bully.
                                -Noah Richler
                                This is my Country, What¡¦s Yours?

Conference: Global Photographies: Histories¦ Theories¦ Practices
Venue: Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Date: Wednesday 27th - Friday 29th June 2007

The Photography Program at the Institute of Art Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire in Dublin is pleased to announce that it will be holding an international conference on photography and globalization in June 2007. The aim of the conference is to bring together photographers, artists, curators and writers on the photographic image from any discipline to examine all aspects of photography's role in globalization.

The submissions should include the presenter's name, phone number, postal and
  e-mail address, title of the paper, and a 250-word abstract. Please indicate the type of presentation as critical research, fiction, or poetry.
  Presenters will be notified of acceptance by January 10, 2007. Please address any inquiries concerning the meeting to Dr. Susan J. Bandy at: susanjbandy_at_yahoo.com
Sender: owner-cfp_at_lists.sas.upenn.edu
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CFP: Forces of Nature: Natural(-izing) Gender and Gender(-ing) Nature in
the Discourses of Western Culture.