The academic symposium of the Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival
seeks papers on a range of topics for the October 24-27, 2007 event on
the campus of Baylor University.

The Festival features a lively mix of theatre productions, staged
readings, professional panels, guest artists, and scholarly papers.

Previous honorees were Horton Foote (2003) and Romulus Linney (2005).
The 2007 festival will celebrate Tina Howe, although the academic
symposium will include panels on other writers and on a variety of
issues related to theatre and drama in the United States.
 
Possible paper panels for the 2007 festival:

As recent work in transgender studies by scholars such as Judith
Halberstam (Female Masculinity and In a Queer Time and Place) and Jay
Prosser (Second Skins) has shown, the category of gender has become
especially productive for queer scholarship on early twentieth-century
literature. While Diana Fuss (Identification Papers) and others have
explored the way in which identification, understood in psychoanalytic
terms, confounds the project of staking claim to identities, there has
been little work in queer theory that has sought to understand the
difficulties that desire poses for that same project. Accustomed to
thinking of the subject in a Freudian manner—as formed by the history of

Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

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for a Conference to be held in / pour le Congr=E8s de

Winnipeg, Manitoba

du 17 au 20 octobre / October 2007

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MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION / M=C9DIAS ET COMMUNICATION

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Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

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Call for Papers / Appel =E0 contribution

for a Conference to be held in / pour le Congr=E8s de

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du 17 au 20 octobre / October 2007

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 *** CFP deadline extended to 05/01/07 ***

Toward an Africawithout Borders Conference=C2=AD 2007: From Theory to Pra=
ctice
July5-8, 2007 - DurbanUniversityof Technology, Durban, South Africa

 *** CFP deadline extended to 05/01/07 ***

Toward an Africawithout Borders Conference=C2=AD 2007: From Theory to Pra=
ctice
July5-8, 2007 - DurbanUniversityof Technology, Durban, South Africa

DEADLINE: July 1, 2007 (vol. 16. 2)

"Interactions" is an international journal on British and American
Literature
and Culture, published biannually in Fall and Spring by Ege University
Depts. of British and American Studies (Izmir/Turkey).

It is internationally refereed and indexed in MLA International
Bibliography, featuring essays, film and book reviews (ISSN 1300-574-X).

Articles (4000-7000 words) and reviews (2000-4000 words) should follow MLA
paranthetical citation format.

General submission deadlines are July 1 for the Fall Issue and December 1
for the Spring Issue.

Submissions should be sent by email attachments (word doc.) to:

DEADLINE: July 1, 2007 (vol. 16. 2)

"Interactions" is an international journal on British and American
Literature
and Culture, published biannually in Fall and Spring by Ege University
Depts. of British and American Studies (Izmir/Turkey).

It is internationally refereed and indexed in MLA International
Bibliography, featuring essays, film and book reviews (ISSN 1300-574-X).

Articles (4000-7000 words) and reviews (2000-4000 words) should follow MLA
paranthetical citation format.

General submission deadlines are July 1 for the Fall Issue and December 1
for the Spring Issue.

Submissions should be sent by email attachments (word doc.) to:

MODERNIST STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

GEOGRAPHIES OF VISUAL AND LITERARY CULTURES
http://www.usc.edu/msa9
1-4 November 2007
Long Beach, California

Panel call for papers:

BACK TO THE LAND: MODERNISM AND RURAL GEOGRAPHIES

CFP Special issue of Comparative Literature Studies
Literary Forms and Human Rights

Guest Editors: Sophia A. McClennen and Joseph R. Slaughter
"Literary Forms and Human Rights": This thematic issue of Comparative =20=

CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference
Chicago, 3-5 April 2008

For the past seven years, the RSA program has featured a number of sessions
that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being
incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. At the 2008 RSA
meeting (Chicago, 3-5 April 2008), several sessions will continue to follow
this interest across several key projects, through a number of thematic
touchstones, and in several emerging areas.

For these sessions, we seek proposals in the following general areas, and
beyond:

Call for papers
Brújula Vol. 7

Theoretical Cross-Pollination in Latin America: Mapping Transnational
Exchanges

CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference
Chicago, 3-5 April 2008

For the past seven years, the RSA program has featured a number of sessions
that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being
incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. At the 2008 RSA
meeting (Chicago, 3-5 April 2008), several sessions will continue to follow
this interest across several key projects, through a number of thematic
touchstones, and in several emerging areas.

For these sessions, we seek proposals in the following general areas, and
beyond:

SUBMISSION DATE EXTENDED

Call for Papers

Medievalism Transformed:
Medieval Expression

A one-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, June 16, 2007.

Inviting abstracts for the third annual Medieval Studies conference, a one day
interdisciplinary event, at the University of Wales, Bangor. We will be
convening to explore the medieval world and its sustained impact on subsequent
culture and thought.

This year's theme is Medieval Expression. All topics within the general scope
of the conference will be considered, including: