Below are calls for proposals for two special issues on Web 2.0 and
college composition. See the links below for more information and feel
free to email the guest editors with questions.

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Sincerely,

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Randall McClure

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1) Calls for Positions, Papers, and Webtexts

Composition in the Freeware Age: Using Web 2.0 Applications in the
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Guest-edited by Randall McClure, Michael Day and Mike Palmquist=20

For more information, visit http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/papcall.htm.=20

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2) Call for Proposals

Composition in the Freeware Age:

NEMLA in Buffalo, November 2007:

This panel invites a discussion of twentieth century
American women writers whose work can be considered
avant-garde, but whose work may challenge current
definitions of the avant-garde (e.g. Peter Bürger's).
Whether they have not been considered as members of
the "historical avant-garde" because of time of
writing, or for formal or cultural reasons, including
limited notions of "modernism" and "postmodernism,"
this panel seeks to question: 1. How definitions of
the avant-garde may serve to exclude experimental
female writers, and 2., Whether an avant-garde is
still possible.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy panel for the RMMLA 2007 conference has =
extended its deadline for abstracts to May 25th. This panel welcomes =
abstracts that examine famous (and infamous) and/or controversial =
science fiction and fantasy narratives (including literature, film, and =
television) from the last two decades. While papers can engage/examine =
in why these narratives are so well-known or controversial, papers =
examining specific aspects (religion, technology, reproduction, ecology, =
etc.) of famous or controversial sci-fi fantasy narratives are also =
welcome. Abstracts should be 250 words; submissions should include =

The Robert Penn Warren Circle invites proposals for papers that address Robert Penn Warren and his relationship to the Western United States. Papers may examine the West as a place in Warren's works, Warren's relationship to people from the West, or any other aspect of Warren's relationship to the West.
   
  Please send proposals of 250-500 words to Dr. Keri Overall at keri.overall_at_tccd.edu by May 31, 2007. We need 2 more papers to complete this panel.

Keri Overall, Ph.D.
Instructor of English
Tarrant County College-NW

Society and human-animal studies in gender perspective

Gender and Animal Studies Conference Uppsala, 26-28 August 2007

Deadline for submission of abstracts is May 20, 2007

Society and human-animal studies in gender perspective

Gender and Animal Studies Conference Uppsala, 26-28 August 2007

Deadline for submission of abstracts is May 20, 2007

Paper proposals (200-250 words) for twenty-minute presentations in English or French are invited that examine the various stakes of ultra-contemporary literary and filmic representations of French nationals as economic (im)migrants in countries that are traditionally associated with migration to metropolitan France. Send your proposal to Helene Sicard-Cowan via email at: helene.sicard-cowan_at_mcgill.ca.
Besides the abstract, a paper proposal must include the following:
Presenter's name and institutional affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
Audio-visual requirements (if any)

Interrogating the Natural
A session sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
Buffalo, NY, 10-13 April 2008.

Papers concerned with nature or the natural
as posited, articulated, assumed, critiqued, attacked, resuscitated, etc.
in literary, critical, philosophical, political, or other discourses.

Abstracts for 20-minute presentations due 15 Sept. 2007 to Scott
DeShong, spdes_at_conncoll.edu (preferred) or alternatively Quinebaug
Valley Community College, 742 Upper Maple St., Danielson CT 06239, USA.

Besides the abstract, a proposal must include the following:

Update:

Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America 2008 Conference

                          Chicago, Illinois 3-5 April, 2008

East and West in the Holy Land. 1517-1713.

This session will take a comparative look at travel to the Levant, but
more specifically to the Holy Land. How differently do people from
various regions reflect on the experience? Given the Jewish, Christian,
and Muslim veneration for the land, what role does religious belief play
in the making of the geographical narratives? What social, theological,
and/or political views do the narratives express? How might church or
state governments utilize these views and to what purpose?

Update:

Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America 2008 Conference

                          Chicago, Illinois 3-5 April, 2008

East and West in the Holy Land. 1517-1713.

This session will take a comparative look at travel to the Levant, but
more specifically to the Holy Land. How differently do people from
various regions reflect on the experience? Given the Jewish, Christian,
and Muslim veneration for the land, what role does religious belief play
in the making of the geographical narratives? What social, theological,
and/or political views do the narratives express? How might church or
state governments utilize these views and to what purpose?

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!

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HETEROSEXUALITY

Editor: Yasco Horsman
Book Series: Thamyris / Intersecting: Place, Sex, and 'Race'
Publisher: Rodopi (Amsterdam / New York)
Series Editor: Ernst van Alphen
Deadline for Proposals: July 1, 2007

"Thamyris / Intersecting," a book series on place, sex and 'race' seeks
contributions to an upcoming volume on heterosexuality.

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!

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HETEROSEXUALITY

Editor: Yasco Horsman
Book Series: Thamyris / Intersecting: Place, Sex, and 'Race'
Publisher: Rodopi (Amsterdam / New York)
Series Editor: Ernst van Alphen
Deadline for Proposals: July 1, 2007

"Thamyris / Intersecting," a book series on place, sex and 'race' seeks
contributions to an upcoming volume on heterosexuality.

Call for Papers: Renaissance In-Betweenness

Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society
Annual Conference
Vancouver, BC
3-5 April 2008

The Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society (PNRS) will be held from April 3-5, 2008 in downtown Vancouver at the Hyatt Regency (room rates: $141.00 CDN per night, single or double). The theme for this year's conference is ???Renaissance In-Betweenness,??? and our plenary speakers will be Fran Dolan (University of California, Davis) and Elizabeth Harvey (University of Toronto).

CFP: George Oppen Centenary Panel (9/15/07; NEMLA 4/10/08 - 4/13/08)

39th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 10-13, 2008
Buffalo, New York