Tolkien Seminar
The Tolkien Society & Tol Harndor
Saturday, 25th August 2007
Sydney, Australia

Tolkien Down Under - The Art and Science of Magic in Middle-earth

Call for Papers

This significant annual event in the Tolkien calendar is being held overseas
for the first time in Sydney, Australia. With attendees travelling from
around the world this will have an international festive feel.

The magic of Middle-earth is wide-ranging in scope and can cover not only
all aspects of magic in the works of Tolkien but also the enchantment that
Tolkien's writings have instilled in Tolkien fans far and wide.

Some potential topics for consideration might be:

The deadline for proposals has been extended to 1 Dec
2006.

Send proposals to holtfort_at_osweg.edu

Call for Papers: The culture of adoption.
What do we mean by the culture of adoption. Adoptees
and their families--both of them-- form a unique
grouping, even if the adoption is closed and secret.
The reasons for adopting, the ways the adoptive family
creates family stories of origin, the accomadations
the family and child make for the differences (subtle
or marked) between them.

UPDATE: Fact & Fiction: An Anthology of Critical Articles on Australian Literary Studies (25/02/2007, Anthology)

Contributions are invited for an anthology of critical articles on Australian Literature aimed at B.A./M.A./M.Phil students and research scholars in India working in the field of Australian literature. The articles should be of 3000-5000 words and should engage with any one of the areas given below. The articles can be interdisciplinary in nature addressing these themes but keeping in mind that it is a literary anthology.

1. Australian Literary Studies in India
Overview
Challenges
Opportunities

UPDATE: Fact & Fiction: An Anthology of Critical Articles on Australian Literary Studies (25/02/2007, Anthology)

Contributions are invited for an anthology of critical articles on Australian Literature aimed at B.A./M.A./M.Phil students and research scholars in India working in the field of Australian literature. The articles should be of 3000-5000 words and should engage with any one of the areas given below. The articles can be interdisciplinary in nature addressing these themes but keeping in mind that it is a literary anthology.

1. Australian Literary Studies in India
Overview
Challenges
Opportunities

We welcome proposals dealing with English-language representations of
Korean and Japanese environmental issues and literature. Proposals
dealing with the writings of Gary Snyder, especially in regard to his
activities in Asia, are also particularly welcome. Translation services
will be provided to make papers and presentations available in English,
Japanese, and Korean.

Below is the material we would like posted.

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
Japan-Korea Joint Symposium
August 19-21, Kanazawa, Japan

**Please forward as appropriate. Apologies for crosslisting.**

CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA

61st ANNUAL CONVENTION of the

ROCKY MOUNTAIN MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION=20

October 4 - 6, 2007 at the Westin Hotel (Downtown Calgary)

CALL FOR PAPERS ONLINE NOW @ www.rmmla.org

150+ General and Special Topic Sessions to choose from in literature,
film, popular culture, pedagogy, technical and professional
communication, and writing programs! DEADLINE for submission of paper
proposals to session chairs: March 1, 2007=20

The 6th Annual Literary London conference will be hosted by the Department
of English University of Westminster, London, at their 309 Regent Street
building. (http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-42). Originally founded as the
Polytechnic Institution by Sir George Cayley, a higher education building
has stood at this site in the West End of London since 1838.

London is one of the world's major cities with a long and rich literary
tradition reflecting both its diversity and its significance as a cultural
and commercial centre. Literary London 2007 aims to:

CFP - Domestic Violence in the Long Eighteenth Century (02/15/07; =
collection)

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I am currently soliciting proposals for contributions to a collection of =
essays on domestic violence-physical, emotional, sexual-during the long =
eighteenth century. Interdisciplinary treatments are especially =
encouraged, as are examinations of domestic violence in all countries =
and cultures during the long eighteenth century. Deadline for completed =
essays of 20-25 pp. is 31 May 2007. Electronic submissions preferred. =
Please send 250-word proposals by 02/15/07 to Judith Broome at =
broomej1_at_wpunj.edu <mailto:broomej1_at_wpunj.edu> =20

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Judith Broome

Assistant Professor

  Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
   
  The Politics of (Post) Counter Cultural Visual Rhetoric
   

  13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
   
  Off the Map: Ecocriticism Beyond Borders

"Ecological thinking about literature requires us to take the nonhuman
world as seriously as previous modes of criticism have taken the human realm of society and culture. That, it seems to me, is ecocriticism's greatest challenge and its greatest opportunity."
- Glen A. Love, "Ecocriticism and Science"

  13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
   
  Off the Map: Ecocriticism Beyond Borders

"Ecological thinking about literature requires us to take the nonhuman
world as seriously as previous modes of criticism have taken the human realm of society and culture. That, it seems to me, is ecocriticism's greatest challenge and its greatest opportunity."
- Glen A. Love, "Ecocriticism and Science"

  Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
  The Ethics of the Human? Animal
   

  Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
  Border Ethics in Literature
   

  Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
  Border Ethics in Literature