UPDATE: "Music and Politics" at SW/TX-PCA/ACA 14-17 Feb 2007 (Dec 1)

The 28th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA

February 14-17, 2007

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

The SW/TEX PCA/ACA annual conference represents one of the nation's largest gatherings of interdisciplinary scholars, with a particular interest in critical examinations of non-traditional or cross-disciplinary topics. The deadline for proposals has been extended to December 1.

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

CALL FOR PAPERS

JIM HARRISON SOCIETY

The Society invites proposals for presentations on all facets of Harrison's
canon and life. Papers will be presented at:

American Literature Association
18th Annual Conference
Westin-Copley Place
Boston, Massachusetts
May 24-27, 2007

Submit abstracts (500 word max.) to:

Michael C. Ryan, Ohio University
mr317400_at_ohio.edu

Deadline for Proposals:
15 January 2007

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

Call For Papers:
    MOTORCYCLING CULTURE
     
    Annual Meeting of the PCA/ACA Southwest/Texas
    February 14-17, 2007 Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, New Mexico
     
    The Popular Culture Association and American Culture
    Associations are holding a series of panels at the next
    annual meeting of these groups to be held April 4-7, 2007
    in Boston, Massachusetts at the beautiful Boston Marriott
    Copley Place.
     
    Papers and presentations are requested on motorcycling
    and its impact on American and other societies and cultures.
   
   Suggested topics include:
     
    * Riders' narratives or descriptions of the ride

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

=20

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

=20

Judith Broome

Assistant Professor

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

=20

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

=20

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