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CFP: Bloodlust and Dust: Essays on HBO's Carnivale (5/1/07; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:55pm
Peg Aloi

Bloodlust and Dust: Essays on HBO's Carnivale

Essays are invited which examine and explore Carnivale, HBO's drama set
during the 1930s in America's Dust Bowl. Any approach is welcome, but some
topics of interest are listed below. Essays will be edited by two editors
and are expected to conform to standard academic format and citation
protocol. The editors are eager to receive creative, dynamic essays on this
unusual show.

CFP: American Regional Hip Hop (6/15/07; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:55pm
Dr. Mickey S. Hess

Represent Where I'm From: The Greenwood Guide to American Regional Hip Hop
(Proposals due January 30, 2007. Essays due June 15, 2007)

Call for Contributors: I am seeking contributors for Represent Where I'm
From: The Greenwood Guide to American Regional Hip Hop, a two-volume
reference set under contract with Greenwood Press. This collection will
consist of 10,000-word essays on the most important regional hip hop
scenes in the US. Some of the regions available to contributors include:

CFP: The Nomadic Artifact (2/2/07; Calgary Free Exchange, 3/16/07-3/18/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:55pm
odfpercy_at_ucalgary.ca

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

The Nomadic Artifact

Nomadism: a kind of critical consciousness that resists settling into
socially coded modes of thought and behaviour...it produces the subversion
of set conventions.
               Rosi Braidotti quoted in Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy's
Writing in Our Time

CFP: Queer Readings of Television Series and Serials (France) (1/14/07; 3/30/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:55pm
Georges-Claude GUILBERT

Call for papers
One-day conference organized by the GRAAT:
Queer readings of television series and serials
Friday March 30, 2007
Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
Contributions will examine television series and
serials (1950s to today); they will be informed
by Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender
Studies and Queer Theory. British, Australian and
American shows will be favored, but
Spanish-speaking telenovelas will also be
considered. Deadlines for proposals January 14,
2007.
Send your proposals to Sebastien Salbayre
(sebastien.salbayre_at_univ-tours.fr)
AND Georges-Claude Guilbert
(georges-claude.guilbert_at_univ-tours.fr)

CFP: American Regional Hip Hop (6/15/07; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:55pm
Dr. Mickey S. Hess

Represent Where I'm From: The Greenwood Guide to American Regional Hip Hop
(Proposals due January 30, 2007. Essays due June 15, 2007)

Call for Contributors: I am seeking contributors for Represent Where I'm
From: The Greenwood Guide to American Regional Hip Hop, a two-volume
reference set under contract with Greenwood Press. This collection will
consist of 10,000-word essays on the most important regional hip hop
scenes in the US. Some of the regions available to contributors include:

CFP: Queer Readings of Television Series and Serials (France) (1/14/07; 3/30/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:55pm
Georges-Claude GUILBERT

Call for papers
One-day conference organized by the GRAAT:
Queer readings of television series and serials
Friday March 30, 2007
Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
Contributions will examine television series and
serials (1950s to today); they will be informed
by Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender
Studies and Queer Theory. British, Australian and
American shows will be favored, but
Spanish-speaking telenovelas will also be
considered. Deadlines for proposals January 14,
2007.
Send your proposals to Sebastien Salbayre
(sebastien.salbayre_at_univ-tours.fr)
AND Georges-Claude Guilbert
(georges-claude.guilbert_at_univ-tours.fr)

CFP: American Regional Hip Hop (6/15/07; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:55pm
Dr. Mickey S. Hess

Represent Where I'm From: The Greenwood Guide to American Regional Hip Hop
(Proposals due January 30, 2007. Essays due June 15, 2007)

Call for Contributors: I am seeking contributors for Represent Where I'm
From: The Greenwood Guide to American Regional Hip Hop, a two-volume
reference set under contract with Greenwood Press. This collection will
consist of 10,000-word essays on the most important regional hip hop
scenes in the US. Some of the regions available to contributors include:

CFP: William Carlos Williams Society (1/20/07; ALA, 5/24/07-5/27/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:55pm
Driscoll, Kerry

American Literature Association, Boston
May 2007
=20
"Williams and Dada." Abstracts should be sent electronically by January =
20, 2007
to kdriscoll_at_sjc.edu.

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CFP: The Nomadic Artifact (2/2/07; Calgary Free Exchange, 3/16/07-3/18/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:55pm
odfpercy_at_ucalgary.ca

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

The Nomadic Artifact

Nomadism: a kind of critical consciousness that resists settling into
socially coded modes of thought and behaviour...it produces the subversion
of set conventions.
               Rosi Braidotti quoted in Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy's
Writing in Our Time

CFP: Literature and Other Arts (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
Andrew Albin

The Literature and Other Arts Panel of the Rocky Mountain MLA invites the submission of papers/presentations for its session at the 61st annual convention, this year held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on October 4-6, 2007.

Paper/Presentation Topic:
Any aspect of literature as it relates to other arts, in practice or in theory.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

CFP: Literature and Other Arts (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
Andrew Albin

The Literature and Other Arts Panel of the Rocky Mountain MLA invites the submission of papers/presentations for its session at the 61st annual convention, this year held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on October 4-6, 2007.

Paper/Presentation Topic:
Any aspect of literature as it relates to other arts, in practice or in theory.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

CFP: Literature and Other Arts (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
Andrew Albin

The Literature and Other Arts Panel of the Rocky Mountain MLA invites the submission of papers/presentations for its session at the 61st annual convention, this year held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on October 4-6, 2007.

Paper/Presentation Topic:
Any aspect of literature as it relates to other arts, in practice or in theory.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

CFP: The Medieval World: From the Secular to the Spiritual Special Session for First Year Graduate Students (grad) (2/1/07; 2/24

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
Britt C Rothauser

 24th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate
 Student Conference
 University of Connecticut
 The Medieval World: From the Secular to the Spiritual
 Saturday, February 24, 2007
 
 Abstracts from first year graduate students are now being accepted
 on all topics concerning late antiquity through the late Middle
 Ages. This is a special session for first year graduate students
 only. We strongly encourage papers from a variety of disciplines,
 including:
 
 Anthropology – Archaeology – Art History – Classical Studies –
 Comparative
 Literature – Disability Studies – Drama – Gerontology – History –
 History of Science

CFP: 2007 MLA-CEA Call for Panel Proposals (1/24/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
favilamc_at_jmu.edu

________________
As an affiliate-organization of the Modern Language
Association, CEA sponsors two panels at the annual MLA
convention. We are now accepting proposals for panel topics
(not completed panels) for the 2007 MLA conference.
Sender: owner-cfp_at_lists.sas.upenn.edu
Precedence: bulk

By submitting a proposal, panel organizers agree to
advertise their topic nationally through the UPenn CFP list
and at least one other specialized listserv.

CEA members are invited to send a proposed topic in the form
of a cfp to Marina Favila at

favilamc_at_jmu.edu or
FAX 1-540-568-2983

CFP: 2007 MLA-CEA Call for Panel Proposals (1/24/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
favilamc_at_jmu.edu

________________
As an affiliate-organization of the Modern Language
Association, CEA sponsors two panels at the annual MLA
convention. We are now accepting proposals for panel topics
(not completed panels) for the 2007 MLA conference.
Sender: owner-cfp_at_lists.sas.upenn.edu
Precedence: bulk

By submitting a proposal, panel organizers agree to
advertise their topic nationally through the UPenn CFP list
and at least one other specialized listserv.

CEA members are invited to send a proposed topic in the form
of a cfp to Marina Favila at

favilamc_at_jmu.edu or
FAX 1-540-568-2983

CFP: The Medieval World: From the Secular to the Spiritual Special Session for First Year Graduate Students (grad) (2/1/07; 2/24

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
Britt C Rothauser

 24th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate
 Student Conference
 University of Connecticut
 The Medieval World: From the Secular to the Spiritual
 Saturday, February 24, 2007
 
 Abstracts from first year graduate students are now being accepted
 on all topics concerning late antiquity through the late Middle
 Ages. This is a special session for first year graduate students
 only. We strongly encourage papers from a variety of disciplines,
 including:
 
 Anthropology – Archaeology – Art History – Classical Studies –
 Comparative
 Literature – Disability Studies – Drama – Gerontology – History –
 History of Science

CFP: The Medieval World: From the Secular to the Spiritual Special Session for First Year Graduate Students (grad) (2/1/07; 2/24

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
Britt C Rothauser

 24th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate
 Student Conference
 University of Connecticut
 The Medieval World: From the Secular to the Spiritual
 Saturday, February 24, 2007
 
 Abstracts from first year graduate students are now being accepted
 on all topics concerning late antiquity through the late Middle
 Ages. This is a special session for first year graduate students
 only. We strongly encourage papers from a variety of disciplines,
 including:
 
 Anthropology – Archaeology – Art History – Classical Studies –
 Comparative
 Literature – Disability Studies – Drama – Gerontology – History –
 History of Science

CFP: 2007 MLA-CEA Call for Panel Proposals (1/24/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
favilamc_at_jmu.edu

________________
As an affiliate-organization of the Modern Language
Association, CEA sponsors two panels at the annual MLA
convention. We are now accepting proposals for panel topics
(not completed panels) for the 2007 MLA conference.
Sender: owner-cfp_at_lists.sas.upenn.edu
Precedence: bulk

By submitting a proposal, panel organizers agree to
advertise their topic nationally through the UPenn CFP list
and at least one other specialized listserv.

CEA members are invited to send a proposed topic in the form
of a cfp to Marina Favila at

favilamc_at_jmu.edu or
FAX 1-540-568-2983

CFP: 2007 MLA-CEA Call for Panel Proposals (1/24/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
favilamc_at_jmu.edu

________________
As an affiliate-organization of the Modern Language
Association, CEA sponsors two panels at the annual MLA
convention. We are now accepting proposals for panel topics
(not completed panels) for the 2007 MLA conference.
Sender: owner-cfp_at_lists.sas.upenn.edu
Precedence: bulk

By submitting a proposal, panel organizers agree to
advertise their topic nationally through the UPenn CFP list
and at least one other specialized listserv.

CEA members are invited to send a proposed topic in the form
of a cfp to Marina Favila at

favilamc_at_jmu.edu or
FAX 1-540-568-2983

CFP: Re-Imagining James Agee (1/28/07; ALA, 5/24/07-5/27/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
James Crank

The James Agee Society invites proposals for papers for a special session at
the American Literature Association conference in Boston (May 24-27, 2006).

We are especially interested in presentations that engage the recent
publications of Agee's manuscripts (including the University of Tennessee
Press' James Agee Rediscovered), as well as papers that address Agee's
poetry, film criticism, screenplays, and journalism. Papers on Agee's place
in the American canon and problems of gender and race in his work are also
welcome.

Please send a brief abstract of presentation by January 28 to

J.A. Crank
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
jacrank_at_gmail.com

CFP: Transverse: Comparative Literature Journal (grad) (1/25/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
andres.perez_at_utoronto.ca

Transverse, a graduate literary journal of the Centre for Comparative
Literature at the University of Toronto, invites submissions of
essays, literary reviews, and creative writing (short stories, poetry,
short plays) for the next issue, to be published in Spring 2007.
Transverse is a paper-based journal with a pdf version available
on-line at www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/journal.htm

CFP: Transverse: Comparative Literature Journal (grad) (1/25/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
andres.perez_at_utoronto.ca

Transverse, a graduate literary journal of the Centre for Comparative
Literature at the University of Toronto, invites submissions of
essays, literary reviews, and creative writing (short stories, poetry,
short plays) for the next issue, to be published in Spring 2007.
Transverse is a paper-based journal with a pdf version available
on-line at www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/journal.htm

CFP: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (2/28/07; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
JOHN HAN

CFP: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (2/28/07; collection)
From: John J. Han <hanjn_at_mobap.edu>

Previously unpublished critical essays are being sought for a new volume in Rodopi Press's Dialogue series on Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood. The "Dialogue" series offers emerging and experienced scholars the opportunity to present alternative (point/counterpoint) readings and approaches to classic texts that have received canonical acceptance in either American or Continental literature.

CFP: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (2/28/07; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
JOHN HAN

CFP: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (2/28/07; collection)
From: John J. Han <hanjn_at_mobap.edu>

Previously unpublished critical essays are being sought for a new volume in Rodopi Press's Dialogue series on Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood. The "Dialogue" series offers emerging and experienced scholars the opportunity to present alternative (point/counterpoint) readings and approaches to classic texts that have received canonical acceptance in either American or Continental literature.

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