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Call for Papers
ART OF THE REAL Area
2006 Film & History Conference
“The Documentary Traditionâ€
8-12 November, 2006
Dolce Conference Center â€" Dallas, TX
www.filmandhistory.org
AREA: Art of the Real
CALL FOR PAPERS: "Mothering and Health"
The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) is pleased to announce
"Mothering and Health" to kick off International Women's Week in March
2006. The one-day symposium will be held:
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Queen's University*
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
There will be twelve (12) presentations in four panels. There will be
one Open Stream panel and three panels dividing the stages of women's
health: teen years; [young] adulthood; and the "wonder" [mature] years.
There will be time for discussion following the presentations in each
session.
Please distribute widely.
Thank you,
Monica Rettig
CALL FOR PAPERS: Literacy of the Body
The Louisiana State University Graduate Theatre Organization in
conjunction with
The Louisiana State University English Graduate Student Association
16th Annual Mardi Gras Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
February 10-11
Text and the Provisionality of Meaning: Theory into Action
Keynote Speaker: Terry Eagleton, Professor of Cultural Theory and the John
Rylands Fellow, The University of Manchester, England.
Selected Publications: Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983/1996), The
Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2001), After Theory (2004)
Theatre Panel: Literacy of the Body
Please distribute widely.
Thank you,
Monica Rettig
Please distribute widely.
Thank you,
Monica Rettig
CFP: Mass Communications Panel
A Symposium in Rhetoric: "Rhetoric & Kairos"
Open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars
The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities
Texas Woman's University - Denton, Texas
Where: ACT Bldg. 2nd Floor
When: February 24, 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS: Literacy of the Body
The Louisiana State University Graduate Theatre Organization in
conjunction with
The Louisiana State University English Graduate Student Association
16th Annual Mardi Gras Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
February 10-11
Text and the Provisionality of Meaning: Theory into Action
Keynote Speaker: Terry Eagleton, Professor of Cultural Theory and the John
Rylands Fellow, The University of Manchester, England.
Selected Publications: Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983/1996), The
Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2001), After Theory (2004)
Theatre Panel: Literacy of the Body
CALL FOR PAPERS: "Mothering and Health"
The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) is pleased to announce
"Mothering and Health" to kick off International Women's Week in March
2006. The one-day symposium will be held:
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Queen's University*
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
There will be twelve (12) presentations in four panels. There will be
one Open Stream panel and three panels dividing the stages of women's
health: teen years; [young] adulthood; and the "wonder" [mature] years.
There will be time for discussion following the presentations in each
session.
Panel: The American Renaissance and New York City.
CUNY Graduate Student Conference: The City in Literature, March 24, 2006.
As the mugs sold at the New York Historical Society Gift Shop exclaim,
Emerson, in The Conduct of Life, famously pronounced, "New York is a sucked orange."
CALL FOR PAPERS
Midwest Conference on British Studies
52nd Annual Meeting
27-29 October 2006
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana
The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to announce that its
fifty-second annual meeting will be hosted by Indiana University-Purdue
University at Indianapolis at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
This year's plenary speakers are:
Linda Levy Peck (George Washington University), who will speak on "Murder,
Mayhem and Marriage in Restoration England."
and
Panel: The American Renaissance and New York City.
CUNY Graduate Student Conference: The City in Literature, March 24, 2006.
As the mugs sold at the New York Historical Society Gift Shop exclaim,
Emerson, in The Conduct of Life, famously pronounced, "New York is a sucked orange."
Proposals are invited for a volume of essays on the works of=20
Herman Melville and the =93aesthetic turn=94 in contemporary literary=20
criticism. Over the last few years, it has become clear that there are=20
many gifted critics of American literature out there with aesthetics on=20
their minds. In this volume, we hope to create a forum in which literary=20
critics can engage questions associated with that topic on the common=20
ground of a single author=92s work.
CFP: Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism in Irish Women's Fiction. =20
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CFP: Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism in Irish Women's Fiction. =20
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CFP: Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism in Irish Women's Fiction. =20
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CFP: Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism in Irish Women's Fiction. =20
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CFP: Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism in Irish Women's Fiction. =20
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CFP: Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism in Irish Women's Fiction. =20
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International Conference
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Kingston University
LONDON
September 15 &16 2006
PROVISIONAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Kingston University is pleased to announce the third Iris Murdoch
Conference, to be held at Kingston University in 2006. The Conference will
focus on Murdoch's relevance to contemporary debates on morality and
literature, and will investigate the ways her moral philosophy manifests
itself in her novels. We also welcome philosophical and theological papers
on any aspect of Murdoch's moral philosophy. In addition, we shall consider
papers for panels on specific topics or aspects of individual novels.
International Conference
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Kingston University
LONDON
September 15 &16 2006
PROVISIONAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Kingston University is pleased to announce the third Iris Murdoch
Conference, to be held at Kingston University in 2006. The Conference will
focus on Murdoch's relevance to contemporary debates on morality and
literature, and will investigate the ways her moral philosophy manifests
itself in her novels. We also welcome philosophical and theological papers
on any aspect of Murdoch's moral philosophy. In addition, we shall consider
papers for panels on specific topics or aspects of individual novels.
Call For Papers: Literature Courses with a Travel or Study Abroad
Component.=20
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Conference: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, October 12-14,
2006, Tucson =20
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Call For Papers: Literature Courses with a Travel or Study Abroad
Component.=20
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Conference: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, October 12-14,
2006, Tucson =20
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Call For Papers: Literature Courses with a Travel or Study Abroad
Component.=20
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Conference: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, October 12-14,
2006, Tucson =20
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International Conference
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Kingston University
LONDON
September 15 &16 2006
PROVISIONAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Kingston University is pleased to announce the third Iris Murdoch
Conference, to be held at Kingston University in 2006. The Conference will
focus on Murdoch's relevance to contemporary debates on morality and
literature, and will investigate the ways her moral philosophy manifests
itself in her novels. We also welcome philosophical and theological papers
on any aspect of Murdoch's moral philosophy. In addition, we shall consider
papers for panels on specific topics or aspects of individual novels.
"Walter Pater: New Questions, Latent Questionings "=20
CALL FOR PAPERS=20
For a conference organized by the International Walter Pater Society =20
Thursday - Saturday night, July 27-29, 2006=20
To be hosted by Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA) =20
"URBANISM, URBANITY, AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL"
August 3-6, 2006
University of California, Santa Cruz
sponsored by the Dickens Project
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/universe/weekend2006.html
Featured Speaker: Sharon Marcus, Columbia University
Two-page proposals due by Feb. 1, 2006. Mail proposals (hard copies only) to:
Professor Hilary Schor
Dept. of English
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089
"URBANISM, URBANITY, AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL"
August 3-6, 2006
University of California, Santa Cruz
sponsored by the Dickens Project
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/universe/weekend2006.html
Featured Speaker: Sharon Marcus, Columbia University
Two-page proposals due by Feb. 1, 2006. Mail proposals (hard copies only) to:
Professor Hilary Schor
Dept. of English
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089
Announcing A Call for Papers for
Kindred Spirits: the Relationship Between Human and NonHuman Animals,
An Interdisciplinary Conference
Law, Race, Speciesism, Sexuality, Feminism, Ethics, Rights Movements,
Literature, Religion, Gender Studies, History, Science, Creative Writing,
Philosophy, the Visual and Performing Arts, Veterinary Medicine, etc.
Please visit the Kindred Spirits Website for information updates:
http://www.indiana.edu/~kspirits/
Dates: September 7-9, 2006
Place: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
CFP: POSTCOLONIAL CREATURES (deadline 8/1/2006; 17/3/2006)
'To speak plainly [colonialism] turns [the native] into an animal' (Frantz
Fanon)
Postcolonial Creatures, a one-day colloquium at the Faculty of English,
University of Cambridge, on the 17th March 2006, seeks to interrogate the
dynamics of dehumanization and re-humanization in the colonies, the
post-colonies and the (so-called) developing world through the lenses of
postcolonial literature and postcolonial theory.