Call for Papers

The Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society / Cumann
Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag Queen's University, Belfast 15th – 17th June, 2007

Proposals are invited for papers on any aspect of eighteenth-century
Ireland, including its history, literature, language and culture. Special
panels may include

• The Act of Union, 1707 To mark the three hundred year anniversary of the
union of England and Scotland, papers are invited on any aspect of the
Irish ramifications of the act, including Swift's The Story of the Injured
Lady.

Call for Papers

The Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society / Cumann
Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag Queen's University, Belfast 15th – 17th June, 2007

Proposals are invited for papers on any aspect of eighteenth-century
Ireland, including its history, literature, language and culture. Special
panels may include

• The Act of Union, 1707 To mark the three hundred year anniversary of the
union of England and Scotland, papers are invited on any aspect of the
Irish ramifications of the act, including Swift's The Story of the Injured
Lady.

The Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium, to take place at Oxford on
October 25-29, 2007, announces a Call For Papers for its literary
conference. For more information please visit:
www.plathsymposium2007.org

College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Spring 2007 Conference: 29-30 March 2007
"Of Mice and Men: Animals in Human Perception"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Spring 2007 Conference: 29-30 March 2007
"Of Mice and Men: Animals in Human Perception"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

The Curious Knot: The War on Terror and Post 9/11 Popular Culture

Howells's Reviews

For a panel in the program of the 2007 American Literature Association annual convention, the William Dean Howells Society invites paper proposals that examine the work of William Dean Howells in reviews. Possible topics may include Howells's own publications as a book reviewer, other critics' reviews of Howells's work, or Howells's responses to the work of other reviewers. Please send by January 8, 2007 paper proposals no longer than 500 words and copy of cv to Claudia Stokes at Claudia.stokes_at_trinity.edu or by post to Claudia Stokes, Trinity University, Dept of English, 1 Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX 78212

Travel Texts:
New Zealand and the South Pacific
 
Organised by the
Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
and the
Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University
 
University of London, 23 June 2007
 
 
Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers on the subject of New
Zealand travel texts for a conference to be held at the University of
London on Saturday 23 June 2007. Keynote speakers will include
Professor Lydia Wevers (Victoria University of Wellington). This
conference is a collaboration between two unique centres and will
look to extend the research being conducted within both the subject

Travel Texts:
New Zealand and the South Pacific
 
Organised by the
Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
and the
Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University
 
University of London, 23 June 2007
 
 
Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers on the subject of New
Zealand travel texts for a conference to be held at the University of
London on Saturday 23 June 2007. Keynote speakers will include
Professor Lydia Wevers (Victoria University of Wellington). This
conference is a collaboration between two unique centres and will
look to extend the research being conducted within both the subject

REAL THINGS: MATTER, MATERIALITY, REPRESENTATION
1880 TO THE PRESENT
5-8 July 2007

Proposals for twenty-minute presentations or panels of three to four =20
presenters are invited for a conference entitled =93Real Things: =20
Matter, Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the present,=94 to be held =20=

at the University of York, England and co-sponsored by the University =20=

of Sussex.

Keynote speakers:
Bill Brown
Mary Ann Doane
Hal Foster
Patrick Keiller
Hermione Lee
Edmund White

This conference proposes a re-engagement with representational =20
realism and its objects and effects across a wide range of aesthetic, =20=

REAL THINGS: MATTER, MATERIALITY, REPRESENTATION
1880 TO THE PRESENT
5-8 July 2007

Proposals for twenty-minute presentations or panels of three to four =20
presenters are invited for a conference entitled =93Real Things: =20
Matter, Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the present,=94 to be held =20=

at the University of York, England and co-sponsored by the University =20=

of Sussex.

Keynote speakers:
Bill Brown
Mary Ann Doane
Hal Foster
Patrick Keiller
Hermione Lee
Edmund White

This conference proposes a re-engagement with representational =20
realism and its objects and effects across a wide range of aesthetic, =20=

*UPDATE: Deadline Extended to 26 November, 2006!!!*

CFP: Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture
2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association 28th Annual
Conference

February 14-17, 2007

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
http://albuquerque.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtml

The topic for the Spring 2007 Issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany is =
Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Submissions are due by February 2, 2007 =
to Pamela St. Clair pstclair_at_fastmail.fm or Amanda Golden =
apg3_at_u.washington.edu .

=20

Submissions should be no longer than 2500 words at maximum and shorter =
articles are strongly preferred; articles should be submitted =
electronically, in MS Word format, and in compliance with current MLA =
style.

LITERARY TOURISM & NINETEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE

An International One-Day Conference

to be held on

Friday, 8th June 2007

Institute for English Studies, University of London, U.K.

CALL FOR PAPERS