The editors of the international research confederacy on African literature and culture (IRCALC) welcome submissions of research papers on recent literatures /existing oratures of Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa generally focussed around the boundaries of Culture, Oral Tradition and Aesthetics; History, Progress and Transition; War, Conflicts, Trauma and Reconciliation; Individuality vs Fringe /Marginal Identities; Masculinist /Feminist (Re)Inscriptions; Present-Past /Future-Present Temporality; Contemporary Modernity and Citizenship (Re)Definitions; Post-Colony and Nation-State Dilemmas.

The editors of the international research confederacy on African literature and culture (IRCALC) welcome submissions of research papers on recent literatures /existing oratures of Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa generally focussed around the boundaries of Culture, Oral Tradition and Aesthetics; History, Progress and Transition; War, Conflicts, Trauma and Reconciliation; Individuality vs Fringe /Marginal Identities; Masculinist /Feminist (Re)Inscriptions; Present-Past /Future-Present Temporality; Contemporary Modernity and Citizenship (Re)Definitions; Post-Colony and Nation-State Dilemmas.

Call for Papers:

Victorian Landscape Descriptions

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

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Chicago, March 8-11, 2007

Imagining the World

Second Call for Papers

Women in Irish Culture and History

University College Dublin, October 20th-22nd 2006

*Please note the extended deadline (07/31/06) and new email address
for correspondence (irishwomen_at_gmail.com)

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Chicago, March 8-11, 2007

Imagining the World

Second Call for Papers

Women in Irish Culture and History

University College Dublin, October 20th-22nd 2006

*Please note the extended deadline (07/31/06) and new email address
for correspondence (irishwomen_at_gmail.com)

Eleventh Annual Australian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP)
Conference
 
Perilous Adventures: Creative Writing Practice and Research in the Higher Degree and Beyond
 
 
23-26 November, 2006. Brisbane, Queensland.
 
Invitation to Attend:
 

CFP: Identities: Individual, Cultural, National, ...

Graduate Student Conference: 31 March 2007
University of Rhode Island

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The Pearl-Poet Society is sponsoring the following four sessions at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, 10-13 May 2007 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.

1. "Masculinities in the Pearl-Poems"

2. "Humor and Play in the Pearl-Poems"

3. "Promiscuity and Decorum in the Pearl-Poems"

4. "Performance in/of the Pearl-Poems"

We invite abstracts from scholars of all levels—from graduate student to senior academic.

Please submit a one-page abstract to the desired session (please include complete contact information as required by the Congress).

CFP for Panel on Doris Lessing and Canon Formation for the Second
International Doris Lessing Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University,
U.K, to be held July 6-8, 2007.

Proposed Panel: "Putting the 'Woman of Letters' in Her Place: Canon
Formation and the Lessing Canon"

In the past 30 years, the canon of "great literature" has expanded,
shifted, and changed. No longer primarily a list of privileged, white,
male authors, the canon as we know it in the 21st century includes
writers who represent a range of identity categories. Spaces have been
carved out for women, gay, lesbian, working-class, postcolonial, and
multicultural writers.

A panel or panels on multiculturalism and representations of race and ethnic
identity is being constructed for the Wilson College conference on Nancy Drew
and Girl Sleuths. The goal of the panel is to examine representations of race
and ethnic identity in girl sleuth literature, both past and present; since
most characters in girl sleuth stories are generally white, this panel is
concerned about how other races and ethnic identities are depicted and
represented in contrast to the whiteness that seems to inform the majority of
the characters in these texts.

To submit an abstract, send it to the address listed for the conference below.

CFP for Panel on Doris Lessing and Canon Formation for the Second
International Doris Lessing Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University,
U.K, to be held July 6-8, 2007.

Proposed Panel: "Putting the 'Woman of Letters' in Her Place: Canon
Formation and the Lessing Canon"

In the past 30 years, the canon of "great literature" has expanded,
shifted, and changed. No longer primarily a list of privileged, white,
male authors, the canon as we know it in the 21st century includes
writers who represent a range of identity categories. Spaces have been
carved out for women, gay, lesbian, working-class, postcolonial, and
multicultural writers.

"Honoring Spiderwoman Theater / Celebrating Native American Theater"

February 19-21, 2007
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Deadline for proposals: October 1, 2006