Call for Abstracts: Collection of Critical Essays
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Narratives of Community: Women's Short Story Sequences
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While James Joyce's Dubliners (1926) is often credited as the first short =
story sequence, or collection of linked short stories reading like a =
novel, and while Sherwood Anderson claimed that he had invented the genre =
with Winesburg, Ohio, sequences by Grace King, Grace Sartwell Mason, and =
Sarah Orne Jewett (and likely others) predate them both. Since then, this =
form of narrative has appealed particularly to women writers who often =
use it to negotiate the tensions between individual identity and community.=

THE JULIE MANGO: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Special Issue on Education and Transformative Pedagogy
Submissions are sought for the third issue of The Julie Mango, an
international journal of poetry, prose and visual art, published twice
yearly on the web. We are searching for well-crafted and thought-provoking
politically conscious work from individuals and groups with original
voices and perspectives. Work stemming from and representing unknown,
marginalized and silenced bodies, communities and peoples are welcomed. We
are interested in submissions concerned with issues of colonial relations
of power, systemic racism, social justice, human rights, and all forms of

PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for abstract submission has been extended.

CFP: "Prefixing" - An Interdisciplinary Work-in-Progress Conference (Australia)
(07/07/06; 09/24/06-09/26/06)

NEW ABSTRACT DEADLINE: Friday, July 7
Conference Date: Sunday, September 24 - Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Prefixing: An Interdisciplinary Work-in-Progress (WIP) Conference
Emmanuel College
The University of Queensland
St. Lucia Campus

"Prefixing" is the 10th Annual Work-in-Progress postgraduate
conference organised by the English, Media Studies, and Art History
Postgraduate Society (EMAPS) of the University of Queensland in
Brisbane, Australia.

PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for abstract submission has been extended.

CFP: "Prefixing" - An Interdisciplinary Work-in-Progress Conference (Australia)
(07/07/06; 09/24/06-09/26/06)

NEW ABSTRACT DEADLINE: Friday, July 7
Conference Date: Sunday, September 24 - Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Prefixing: An Interdisciplinary Work-in-Progress (WIP) Conference
Emmanuel College
The University of Queensland
St. Lucia Campus

"Prefixing" is the 10th Annual Work-in-Progress postgraduate
conference organised by the English, Media Studies, and Art History
Postgraduate Society (EMAPS) of the University of Queensland in
Brisbane, Australia.

Approaches to Contemporary American Literature

Series Editors: Aliki Varvogli (University of Dundee, UK); Chris Gair
(University of Birmingham, UK)

The editors invite proposals for e-books to be included in a new series
of approaches to American literature since 1970. We seek typescripts and
proposals for books in any of the following (or similar) areas:

The ninth annual Student Success in First-Year Composition conference is
scheduled for February 2, 2007 at Georgia Southern University in
Statesboro, GA. The conference will feature sessions that address theory
and practice in the teaching of composition, as well as topics that
focus on the link between high school and college. The proposal deadline
is October 16, 2006. All submissions must be online, via
http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/ssfyc. For more details, contact
seminars_at_georgiasouthern.edu

RELIC - VU CENTRE FOR DUTCH RELIGIOUS HISTORY

call for papers

The Modern Calvin

John Calvin in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-
Century Collective Memory

ReLiC - Centre for Dutch Religious History at the VU University in =
Amsterdam (www.relic-vu.nl) invites contributions to a volume examining =
how John Calvin (1509-1564) served as an icon, saint, (anti)hero and =
role model in nineteenth and twentieth-century collective memory. The =
volume will be published by Brill Academic Publishers (www.brill.nl) in =
their Religious History and Culture Series.

Deadline extended to 06/12/2006 submit to: jtdawson_at_andrew.cmu.edu

The English Department at Carnegie Mellon University and Unseam'd
Shakespeare Company (Pittsburgh, Pa) with the participation of the August
Wilson Center for African American Culture invite academics, artists and
graduate students to participate in a day-long symposium:

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

June 24, 2006
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pa

Deadline extended to 06/12/2006 submit to: jtdawson_at_andrew.cmu.edu

The English Department at Carnegie Mellon University and Unseam'd
Shakespeare Company (Pittsburgh, Pa) with the participation of the August
Wilson Center for African American Culture invite academics, artists and
graduate students to participate in a day-long symposium:

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

June 24, 2006
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pa

CALL FOR POSTERS=20

Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

October 19-21, 2006=20

The Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future Symposium Planning =
Committee is issuing a call for posters that highlight digital =
humanities projects, tools or techniques or work in progress. We also =
encourage any college or university digital humanities program, center =
or group to present a poster that overviews their program. Posters may =
include a demonstration, traditional printed poster, or a combination of =
both. Wireless internet access will be available at the poster venue.

Call for Papers:
Compulsory Screening: Australian Cinema and the Question of Borders

The Westerly Centre at the University of Western Australia invites
abstracts for an edited collection of essays addressing Australian
cinematic experience in the light recent debates concerning
immigration, border security, refugees and the detention of asylum
seekers. We are interested in how these events have helped
precipitate a new understanding of nation and how this in turn might
have affected cinematic expression, changed the kind of films that
are produced, or made earlier films ring with new resonances.

'evolutions': a two-day international conference hosted by the School
of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh,
22-23 September 2006

CFP Panel: Unfolding Selves: Evolution and the Rites of Passage

 From the birth of a child to the death of a parent, entering university
to finishing schooling, childhood to adulthood through a myriad of
milestones, life is full of markers of change.

    * What can be said about losing one's virginity, shaving for the
first time, or the onset of menstruation?
    * What is the significance of confirmation or circumcision?
    * What greater privileges come in the gaining of a driver's licence
or the right to vote?

'evolutions': a two-day international conference hosted by the School
of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh,
22-23 September 2006

CFP Panel: Unfolding Selves: Evolution and the Rites of Passage

 From the birth of a child to the death of a parent, entering university
to finishing schooling, childhood to adulthood through a myriad of
milestones, life is full of markers of change.

    * What can be said about losing one's virginity, shaving for the
first time, or the onset of menstruation?
    * What is the significance of confirmation or circumcision?
    * What greater privileges come in the gaining of a driver's licence
or the right to vote?

"Tropes in the Gender Discourse of Modern East Asian Literature, Film and Other
Cultural Works"
A panel at the 2007 convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association,
March 1-3, Baltimore MD.