This panel session will address how historical, cultural, and personal traumas haunt Asian American authors, characters, and narrative structures. Furthermore, how do historical traumas manifest themselves in Asian American literary narratives and through bodies in literature? Why are historical traumas and personal/sexual/bodily traumas so often simultaneously narrated in Asian American literature? Is this phenomenon of trauma 'haunting' the present experienced differently by male and female Asian American characters? How can we expand the field of trauma studies by focusing specifically on the 'working-out' of trauma in Asian American literature?

This panel session will address how historical, cultural, and personal traumas haunt Asian American authors, characters, and narrative structures. Furthermore, how do historical traumas manifest themselves in Asian American literary narratives and through bodies in literature? Why are historical traumas and personal/sexual/bodily traumas so often simultaneously narrated in Asian American literature? Is this phenomenon of trauma 'haunting' the present experienced differently by male and female Asian American characters? How can we expand the field of trauma studies by focusing specifically on the 'working-out' of trauma in Asian American literature?

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Call for Papers
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*Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Conference Mar. 1 -4,
2007, Baltimore, Maryland*

*Panel: The Image of Women in the Films of Hitchcock & Fellini:
Comparison and Contrast*

Explore the images of women in the films of Hitchcock and Fellini:
REBECCA, NOTORIOUS, PSYCHO, THE BIRDS, MARNIE, FRENZY; LA STRADA, LA
DOLCE VITA, NIGHTS OF CABIRIA, JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, CITY OF WOMEN.

Papers may be on one or more films of Hitchcock & Fellini, comparing &
contrasting OR on a single film of one of them, that can be compared or
contrasted during the discussion period.

MODERN DRAMA
Special Issue on Recent Drama from the UK and Ireland

A special issue of MODERN DRAMA (50.3, Fall 2007) considers British and Irish
drama of the last fifteen years. The guest editor, R. Darren Gobert, invites
papers on significant plays from this period, such as those of Marina Carr,
Caryl Churchill, Martin Crimp, Martin McDonagh, Sarah Kane, and Mark Ravenhill.

Call for Proposals: Stephen Foster
  National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations / 2007 Joint Conference. April 4-7, 2007. Boston Marriott Copley Place – Boston, Massachusetts.

For more information on the PCA/ACA, please visit http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.

Deadline: September 1, 2006.

 Though prevailing notions of the popular frequently focus on newness,19th century

America provides a rich history of popular texts and music. As in our own historical

moment, first-generation critics responded to these texts from a plethora of political

perspectives. Historical analysis of minstrelsy could easily place Frederick

Villains, Villainy and Justice in Popular Fictional Narrative

Annual Conference For the Association for Research in Popular Fictions

Saturday 18th-Sunday 19th November 2006

Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University

We welcome papers considering popular fiction across any media and historical period.

Strands being convened for this conference are on Victorian fiction, teenage fiction, children's fiction, chicklit and crime.

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract by 30th September to:

Nickianne Moody,
convenor for ARPF,
Liverpool John Moores University,
Dean Walters Building,
St James Road,
Liverpool L1 7BR
UK

Women and Violence (UK) (9/12/06; Return to Gender, 11/25/06)

Papers are invited for this special panel at 'Return to Gender', the
forthcoming graduate conference at the University of Glasgow on 25th
November, 2006.

Women and Violence (UK) (9/12/06; Return to Gender, 11/25/06)

Papers are invited for this special panel at 'Return to Gender', the
forthcoming graduate conference at the University of Glasgow on 25th
November, 2006.

Change in deadline:

Submissions are sought for the following NEMLA panel.

For information of the conference of the Northeast Modern Language
Association 2007, please visit www.nemla.org.

Teaching the Works of Octavia Butler

Submissions are sought for the following NEMLA panel.

For information of the conference of the Northeast Modern Language
Association 2007, please visit www.nemla.org.

Teaching the Works of Octavia Butler

CFP: James Baldwin: Work, Life, Legacies (UK) (10/15/06; 6/29/07-6/30/07)

Call for Publication

Contributors are invited for the forthcoming edited
collection of essays Boundaries: Critical, Creative
and Interdisciplinary methods of Making, Breaking, and
Negotiating Boundaries*

The papers presented at the recent 'Boundaries:
Critical and Creative' Postgraduate Conference at
Loughborough University in June 2006 highlighted the
quality of academic research being done which
interrogates, acknowledges and challenges boundaries
in critical and creative literature. This collection
is in part inspired by and, in part, a response to the
success of the conference and the wide range of
high-quality academic discussion that came from it.

Call for Papers: Automobile Culture
  2007 Popular Culture Association/
  American Culture Association
  National Conference
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For additional conference information:
   http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca
   
  Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006.
   
  This is a call for papers for area of Automobile Culture.
  The automobile has had an immense influence upon our
  lives in innumerable ways. This area will seek to provide
  an understanding of this influence within the social and