The Annual CUNY Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
November 3 & 4, 2006
The Graduate Center of CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue * New York, NY 10016

Envisioning Home

Keynote speakers: Laura Slatkin (NYU and University of Chicago) and
Joshua Landy (Stanford University)

The Annual CUNY Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
November 3 & 4, 2006
The Graduate Center of CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue * New York, NY 10016

Envisioning Home

Keynote speakers: Laura Slatkin (NYU and University of Chicago) and
Joshua Landy (Stanford University)

CFE- Special Issue of _History of Psychiatry_ on Anglo-European
Romanticism & Origins of Psychiatry (2/1/2007, 11/30/2007)

Call for papers

Special Issue of History of Psychiatry:
Anglo-European Romanticism and the origins of psychiatry

For a proposed panel on representations of American poverty at the 20th-
Century Literature and Culture Conference to be held at the University of
Louisville, February 22-24, 2007.

Papers on all aspects of 20th-century literary and/or filmic
representations of poverty in the U.S. are welcome. Possible topics might
include but are not limited to: period studies (e.g., The Great
Depression, the New Deal era, the age of Reagan and beyond); homelessness;
class conflict; immigration; gender divisions; the aesthetics of poverty;
realism / experimental narratives; politics and literary or cinematic
postmodernism.

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL SESSION OF THE MEDIEVAL POPULAR CULTURE AREA

THE COMICS GET MEDIEVAL 2007

PROPOSALS DUE TO ORGANIZER BY 10/15/06

Now in its fifth year, proposals are being accepted for inclusion at
"The Comics Get Medieval 2007," a panel and roundtable to be jointly
sponsored by the Comics & Comic Arts Area and the Medieval Popular
Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association for the 2007 Popular
Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference
Boston, Massachusetts, to be held from 4-7 April 2007, at the Boston
Marriott Copley Place.

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL SESSION OF THE ARTHURIAN LEGENDS AREA

MR. MERLIN'S NEIGHBORHOOD: THE MATTER OF BRITAIN ON TV

PROPOSALS DUE TO ORGANIZER BY 10/15/06

Seeking submissions for a proposed panel at the SCMS Conference (March
8-11, 2007, Hilton, Chicago)

Panel Title: Rethinking Radio’s Public
Biswarup Sen, University of Oregon

*Call for contributions*

*De/Construction of Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Age of Globalization*

The age of globalization has witnessed a redefinition of ethnicity as
well as the (re)emergence of nationhood, while at the same time
witnessing the deconstruction of both. Bi-, multi- and poly-cultural
societies more than ever have to confront issues generated from such
efforts, which aim at shaping and reshaping identities. While current
political developments exacerbate such phenomena, pacts of forgetting
and other silent alliances that had been established during the Cold War
as well as post- and neo-colonial paradigms are now being interrogated
and challenged.

*Call for contributions*

*De/Construction of Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Age of Globalization*

The age of globalization has witnessed a redefinition of ethnicity as
well as the (re)emergence of nationhood, while at the same time
witnessing the deconstruction of both. Bi-, multi- and poly-cultural
societies more than ever have to confront issues generated from such
efforts, which aim at shaping and reshaping identities. While current
political developments exacerbate such phenomena, pacts of forgetting
and other silent alliances that had been established during the Cold War
as well as post- and neo-colonial paradigms are now being interrogated
and challenged.

*Call for contributions*

*De/Construction of Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Age of Globalization*

The age of globalization has witnessed a redefinition of ethnicity as
well as the (re)emergence of nationhood, while at the same time
witnessing the deconstruction of both. Bi-, multi- and poly-cultural
societies more than ever have to confront issues generated from such
efforts, which aim at shaping and reshaping identities. While current
political developments exacerbate such phenomena, pacts of forgetting
and other silent alliances that had been established during the Cold War
as well as post- and neo-colonial paradigms are now being interrogated
and challenged.

 PCA/ACA HEALTH AND DISEASE IN POPULAR CULTURE (11/1/06; 4/4/07-4/7/07)
 POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
 BOSTON MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE
 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 4-7, 2007

 The "Health and Disease in Popular Culture" PCA/ACA area encourages
 proposals from historical and contemporary perspectives.

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

Globalization is by many accounts the central crisis of our age. And in the
wake of postcolonial studies and the events of 9/11, literary studies has
made a definitive 'global turn.' But we have still only begun to examine the
myriad effects of globalization upon literary texts (broadly defined to
include prose fiction and non-fiction, drama, poetry, film, electronic
texts, and popular culture in all its forms).

Call for Papers
   
  The SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Area
  of the Popular Culture Association
  invites submissions for the:
   
  PCA/ACA 2007 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
  BOSTON MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE,
  BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 4 - 7, 2007
   
  Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2006
   
  The Science Fiction and Fantasy (SF/F) Area of PCA
  solicits papers, paper proposals, and panel proposals
  from scholars interested in any aspect of SF/F. Any
  disciplinary method or approach is welcome!
   
  Proposals on all media, including literature, film,
  television, multimedia and written works are solicited.

CFP: HBO and Lacan (10/10/06; Narrative '07)

Papers are invited for a proposed panel on HBO and Lacan for the 2007 Society
for the Study of Narrative Literature conference (March 15-18). Lacanian
readings are sought that engage and illuminate such programs as Deadwood, Big
Love, Rome, Carnivale, Epitafos, The Sopranos, Oz, Six Feet Under, Sex and
the City, Entourage, and Curb Your Enthusiasm; particularly welcome are
papers that represent innovative encounters with Lacanian thought as well.

(Queries are welcome regarding programs other than those listed above, or
papers taking an alternative approach to that suggested here.)