Call for Papers: American Indian Literatures & Cultures

Popular Culture Association

and

American Culture Association

Annual Meeting

April 12 – 16, 2006

Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel

Atlanta, Georgia

We invite submissions from individuals or organized panels (3 or 4 persons) focusing on any issue relating to American Indian/First Nation/Indigenous peoples' lives and literatures. We especially invite the participation of native scholars and writers.

DEADLINE FOR ALL ABSTRACTS:

NOVEMBER 1st, 2005

FOR INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSIONS:

--200-250 word abstract [presentation title--10 words maximum]

I invite papers for a panel to be held at the fifteenth annual Cultural
Studies Conference at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, March
9-11. Papers can be on a wide variety of topics related to the conference
theme of privacy and secrecy and the public sphere.

Irish Children's Literature: National and International Contexts

IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Annual Conference

17 and 18 FEBRUARY 2006

Venue: Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines, Dublin 6

Irish Children's Literature: National and International Contexts

Irish Children's Literature: National and International Contexts

IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Annual Conference

17 and 18 FEBRUARY 2006

Venue: Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines, Dublin 6

Irish Children's Literature: National and International Contexts

Utopian Studies Society
7th International Conference
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (Spain)
July 6-8, 2006.

Organized by the Department of English & German Studies and the
T-CLAA/ICARUS Research Group, on behalf of the USS, the conference seeks to
be a transversal, interdisciplinary meeting for scholars of all fields who
have an interest in Utopian Studies (literature, cinema, philosophy,
history, political science, economics, architecture, art, etc.).

Submissions are invited for a session titled "Poe and Anxiety" sponsored by
the Poe Studies Association at the American Literature Association
Conference, May 25-28, 2006, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in
Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, CA. For information on the
conference, visit
<http://www.americanliterature.org/>www.americanliterature.org .

DEADLINE EXTENDED for the 15th annual Cultural Studies Conference at
Kansas State University.

TOPIC: PRIVACY (and Secrecy)
NEW DEADLINE: October 24, 2005

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Historian George Chauncey, author of _Gay New York_ and _Why Marriage_
Poet Susan Hahn, author of _Self/Pity_, _Holiday_, _Confesssion_

More details available at conference website: http://www.k-state.edu/
english/symposium/index.html

Send 1 page abstracts for 15 minute presentations to:

Michele Janette
Associate Professor and
Director, Program in Cultural Studies
English Department, KSU
mjanette_at_ksu.edu

The Center for British Studies and English Department at Berkeley are
hosting a conference on 'Scottish Romanticism and World Literatures' from
7-10 September 2006, jointly organized by Ian Duncan and Murray Pittock.
Among the areas we are planning to address in the main conference sessions
are the impact of Scottish Romanticism on European literatures, the
Anglophone British Empire and the United States; continuities between
Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism; relations between Scotland and
Ireland, and between Scottish and English Romanticisms; "literature" and
the disciplines of the natural and human sciences; the social environments

The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware
is pleased to announce its call for papers for the Fourth Annual
Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars (MCSES) to be held
Saturday, March 18, 2006 at the
Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library in Winterthur, Delaware.

Submissions for a session titled "How and Why We Teach Poe in 2006" are
invited by the Poe Studies Association at the American Literature
Association Conference, May 25-28, 2006, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco
in Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, CA. For information on the
conference, visit
<http://www.americanliterature.org/>www.americanliterature.org.

Submissions for a session titled "How and Why We Teach Poe in 2006" are
invited by the Poe Studies Association at the American Literature
Association Conference, May 25-28, 2006, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco
in Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, CA. For information on the
conference, visit
<http://www.americanliterature.org/>www.americanliterature.org.

Call for Papers for the University of Dayton LitFest, February 17 and 18,
2006

You are invited to submit paper or panel proposals for the University of
Dayton?s LitFest, to be held at the University of Dayton, February 17 and
18, 2006. LitFest is a graduate-student organized literature conference,
which this year celebrates its fifth anniversary.

The theme for this year?s event is ?The Politics of Poetry: Words and
Movement.?

We seek papers about the following:

We invite proposals for papers related to the theme of women and
performance in the Eighteenth Century (1660-1830) for a one-day conference
sponsored by the English Department/Theatre Arts Program at Duquesne
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Some suggested topics include: women
in the eighteenth-century theatre (female playwrights, actresses, singers,
dancers, musicians, women in theatre management, female theatre critics),
"performing" women in Restoration and/or eighteenth-century plays, novels,
novellas, poetry, diaries, letters, essays, and/or theoretical issues
related to women and performance, performance and the female body, female

We invite proposals for papers related to the theme of women and
performance in the Eighteenth Century (1660-1830) for a one-day conference
sponsored by the English Department/Theatre Arts Program at Duquesne
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Some suggested topics include: women
in the eighteenth-century theatre (female playwrights, actresses, singers,
dancers, musicians, women in theatre management, female theatre critics),
"performing" women in Restoration and/or eighteenth-century plays, novels,
novellas, poetry, diaries, letters, essays, and/or theoretical issues
related to women and performance, performance and the female body, female