The Free Exchange Planning Committee is pleased to inform you that, as
well as having Dr. David Jarraway (U Ottawa) as our plenary speaker, we
will also be having a lecture and workshop with George Elliott Clarke.

The Free Exchange Planning Committee is pleased to inform you that, as
well as having Dr. David Jarraway (U Ottawa) as our plenary speaker, we
will also be having a lecture and workshop with George Elliott Clarke.

Call for papers: Incorporation in Literature
University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Conference

*Response, Remembrance, Representation:
A Dialogue between Postwar Jewish Literatures*
Universities of Antwerp and Ghent, 6-7 November 2006

*Extended deadline for submission: 20 February 2006.
Speakers: Emily Budick, Michael F Bernard-Donals, Bridget Kevane,
Phyllis Lassner, Cheryl Malcolm, Thomas Nolden, Ranen Omer-Sherman,
Derek Rubin, Sue Vice, and others.*

Papers are invited for a two-day comparative literature conference on
postwar Jewish writing in North America and Western Europe.

*Response, Remembrance, Representation:
A Dialogue between Postwar Jewish Literatures*
Universities of Antwerp and Ghent, 6-7 November 2006

*Extended deadline for submission: 20 February 2006.
Speakers: Emily Budick, Michael F Bernard-Donals, Bridget Kevane,
Phyllis Lassner, Cheryl Malcolm, Thomas Nolden, Ranen Omer-Sherman,
Derek Rubin, Sue Vice, and others.*

Papers are invited for a two-day comparative literature conference on
postwar Jewish writing in North America and Western Europe.

CFP: The New Elizabeth Bishop

I am seeking papers that explore the implications, for scholarly research
and teaching, of the publication of previously uncollected work by
Elizabeth Bishop in _Edgar Allen Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems,
Drafts and Fragments_, edited by Alice Quinn. (This volume will be
published in March of 2006 by Farrar Straus Giroux; proof and review
copies are available now from the publisher.) The publication makes
available a wealth of material from the Elizabeth Bishop papers at Vassar
College, among other archival resources. Papers might explore these
questions:

Students and Faculty:

I am writing to remind everyone of the upcoming Pacific Rim Conference
on Literature and Rhetoric in Anchorage, Alaska, which is fast
approaching: Feb. 23-25. The original deadline for submission of
12.15.05 has been extended to 02.11.06; as such, I am still accepting
submissions from students and faculty interested in presenting.

Addressing this year's conference are Dr. Cynthia Selfe, Humanities
Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University, and Dr. Patti
White, Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of
Alabama.

Students and Faculty:

I am writing to remind everyone of the upcoming Pacific Rim Conference
on Literature and Rhetoric in Anchorage, Alaska, which is fast
approaching: Feb. 23-25. The original deadline for submission of
12.15.05 has been extended to 02.11.06; as such, I am still accepting
submissions from students and faculty interested in presenting.

Addressing this year's conference are Dr. Cynthia Selfe, Humanities
Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University, and Dr. Patti
White, Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of
Alabama.

A special session at the 2006 meeting of NAVSA
(North American Victorian Studies Association)
Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
 31 August - 3 September 2006
The aim of this special session is to explore the relationship between
contemporary trauma theory and Victorian studies. Particularly welcome
are papers that offer interventions in current conceptions of the
genealogy of trauma and consider the implications of a more widely
historicized conception of trauma, as well as papers that reflect on the
usefulness and applicability of trauma theory to Victorian literature.
Proposals may also address the relationship between Victorian literary

"Erotic ritual in literature and film/Literature and film as erotic ritual"
The God & Sexuality Conference on Religion and Issues of Sexuality and Gender
Theme: Ritual Practice and Sexual Expression
April 9th-10th, 2006
13th St. Gay and Lesbian Center, New York City
http://www.godandsexuality.org/

"Erotic ritual in literature and film/Literature and film as erotic ritual"
The God & Sexuality Conference on Religion and Issues of Sexuality and Gender
Theme: Ritual Practice and Sexual Expression
April 9th-10th, 2006
13th St. Gay and Lesbian Center, New York City
http://www.godandsexuality.org/

Anthropology as Literature. Papers that address questions of
genre, aesthetics, rhetoric, narrative, figurative language,
and other "literary" matters in anthropological discourse
broadly definedâ€"from travel narratives and theories of culture
to ethnography proper. 300-word abstracts by 15 March. Cannon
Schmitt (cschmitt_at_wayne.edu).

Program to be arranged by the MLA Division on Anthropological
Approaches to Literature.

South Central Modern Language Association

Call for Papers for 2006 Conference

October 26-28

Fort Worth, Texas

Radisson Plaza Hotel

Theme: "Cultural Roundup"

The Creative Nonfiction Special Session is accepting papers considering CNF
as a frontier of gender, religion, race, ethnicity, and/or sexuality, a
landscape where popular/canonical cultures intersect as vision and culture.
Email abstracts or papers by February 15 to stella_thompson_at_pvamu.edu and
copy to jthompson39_at_houston.rr.com.

Please send abstracts by Feb. 1, 2006.

DIS-UNITED EMPIRES

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON BRITISH AND UNITED
STATES IMPERIALISM
IN AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE
MIDDLE EAST

QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA

MAY 15-18, 2006

Call for Papers