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CFP: Fear, Horror & Terror (UK) (8/24/07; 9/10/07-9/12/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Dr Rob Fisher

1st Global Conference
Fear, Horror and Terror

Monday 10th September - Wednesday 12th September 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to
examine and explore issues which lie at the interface of fear, horror
and terror. In particular the project is interested in investigating
the various contexts of fear, horror and terror, and assessing issues
surrounding the artistic, cinematic, literary, moral, social,
(geo)political, philosophical, psychological and religious
significance of them, both individually and together.

CFP: Fear, Horror & Terror (UK) (8/24/07; 9/10/07-9/12/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Dr Rob Fisher

1st Global Conference
Fear, Horror and Terror

Monday 10th September - Wednesday 12th September 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to
examine and explore issues which lie at the interface of fear, horror
and terror. In particular the project is interested in investigating
the various contexts of fear, horror and terror, and assessing issues
surrounding the artistic, cinematic, literary, moral, social,
(geo)political, philosophical, psychological and religious
significance of them, both individually and together.

UPDATE: Promethean Visions and Communities of Belief in 19th-Century American Literature (3/28/07; PAMLA, 11/2/07-11/3/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Dr. William Corley

**Deadline for abstracts and proposals has been extended until March 28,
2007.**

Promethean Visions and Communities of Belief in 19th-Century American
Literature

An accepted special session for the Pacific Ancient & Modern Language
Association (PAMLA) annual conference to be held on November 2 & 3,
2007, on the campus of Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA

UPDATE: Promethean Visions and Communities of Belief in 19th-Century American Literature (3/28/07; PAMLA, 11/2/07-11/3/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Dr. William Corley

**Deadline for abstracts and proposals has been extended until March 28,
2007.**

Promethean Visions and Communities of Belief in 19th-Century American
Literature

An accepted special session for the Pacific Ancient & Modern Language
Association (PAMLA) annual conference to be held on November 2 & 3,
2007, on the campus of Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA

CFP: Shakespeare's Late Tragedies and Romances, Special Session (4/13/07; SAMLA; 11/9/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Keith Botelho

CALL FOR PAPERS: SHAKESPEARE'S LATE TRAGEDIES AND ROMANCES Special
Session on Shakespeare's Late Tragedies and RomancesSouth Atlantic
Modern Language AssociationRenaissance Atlanta Hotel DowntownAtlanta, GA
9-11 November 2007 250-word abstracts are invited on topics related to
Shakespeare's late tragedies and romances. Possible topics include
physical and verbal violence, gender, wonder and awe, fools and cheats,
and enclosed spaces and private worlds. Deadline for abstracts: Friday,
April 13, 2007. Please send abstracts via email to Dr. Keith
Botelho:kbotelho_at_kennesaw.edu Keith M. Botelho, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of
    Early British Drama
Department of English

CFP: Shakespeare's Late Tragedies and Romances, Special Session (4/13/07; SAMLA; 11/9/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Keith Botelho

CALL FOR PAPERS: SHAKESPEARE'S LATE TRAGEDIES AND ROMANCES Special
Session on Shakespeare's Late Tragedies and RomancesSouth Atlantic
Modern Language AssociationRenaissance Atlanta Hotel DowntownAtlanta, GA
9-11 November 2007 250-word abstracts are invited on topics related to
Shakespeare's late tragedies and romances. Possible topics include
physical and verbal violence, gender, wonder and awe, fools and cheats,
and enclosed spaces and private worlds. Deadline for abstracts: Friday,
April 13, 2007. Please send abstracts via email to Dr. Keith
Botelho:kbotelho_at_kennesaw.edu Keith M. Botelho, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of
    Early British Drama
Department of English

CFP: James Bond and 007 (4/9/07; collection)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Christoph Lindner

BOND IS BACK

Original scholarly essays on emergent or under-analyzed aspects of
the 007 series are sought for the second edition of _The James Bond
Phenomenon: A Critical Reader_ (Manchester University Press). Essays
that engage innovatively and accessibly with current thinking in
critical theory and cultural/film studies are especially welcome.
Potential contributors are encouraged to consult the current edition
of the book to avoid duplication/overlap (details are available
online at: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/
book.asp?id=1341)

CFP: The Business of Entertainment (5/1/07: Collection)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Robert Sickels

We are seeking contributors for the articles that will ultimately =20
make-up the chapters of The Business of Entertainment, a 3 volume =20
series under contract with Praeger Press. This series will detail =20
the ways in which the media conglomerates that control the =20
contemporary entertainment industry exploit the synergies between =20
their companies. What does all this mean to us, the consumers, the =20
end users who just want to be entertained and want to have a wide =20
selection of options from which to choose? How and why are choices =20
affected and for the sake of what or whom? In investigating the =20
answers to these questions and many more, these texts will =20

CFP: James Bond and 007 (4/9/07; collection)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Christoph Lindner

BOND IS BACK

Original scholarly essays on emergent or under-analyzed aspects of
the 007 series are sought for the second edition of _The James Bond
Phenomenon: A Critical Reader_ (Manchester University Press). Essays
that engage innovatively and accessibly with current thinking in
critical theory and cultural/film studies are especially welcome.
Potential contributors are encouraged to consult the current edition
of the book to avoid duplication/overlap (details are available
online at: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/
book.asp?id=1341)

CFP: Journal of Surrealism and the Americas (5/1/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Claudia Mesch

Announcing a New Journal and CFP
 
The _Journal of Surrealism and the Americas_ focuses on the subject of
modern European and American intellectuals' obsession with the "New World."
The editors would like to announce a call for papers for a general topics
issue on any aspect of visual culture or literature that engages with
surrealism in the Americas, or, that deals with the reception and legacy of
the Surrealist movement in the Americas.
 
Foreign language contributions (in French, German and Spanish) are accepted,
but we require a two-page, double-spaced English language abstract with any
foreign language submission. Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2007. The

CFP: Journal of Surrealism and the Americas (5/1/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Claudia Mesch

Announcing a New Journal and CFP
 
The _Journal of Surrealism and the Americas_ focuses on the subject of
modern European and American intellectuals' obsession with the "New World."
The editors would like to announce a call for papers for a general topics
issue on any aspect of visual culture or literature that engages with
surrealism in the Americas, or, that deals with the reception and legacy of
the Surrealist movement in the Americas.
 
Foreign language contributions (in French, German and Spanish) are accepted,
but we require a two-page, double-spaced English language abstract with any
foreign language submission. Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2007. The

CFP: Poets & Theory (France) (6/30/07; 1/22/08-1/23/08)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Guillaume Cingal

Conference: =93Poets and Theory=94
organized by the GRAAT Research Centre
Universit=E9 Fran=E7ois Rabelais
Tours, France
January 22-23, 2008
=20
       This conference aims to explore the relationship between
English-language poets and theory. Many openly address technical matters
in the course of their poems=97Pope, Bishop, Ferlinghetti, Marechera=97, =
in
their letters=97Sydney, Keats, Dickinson, Hopkins, Lowell=97in =
theoretical
and polemical texts=97Coleridge, Whitman, Stevens, Auden, O=92Hara =
Olson,
Ashbery, Howe, Taban lo Liyong, Hejinian=97when they do not adopt =
several,
if not all, of the above strategies to question their own artistic

CFP: Poets & Theory (France) (6/30/07; 1/22/08-1/23/08)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Guillaume Cingal

Conference: =93Poets and Theory=94
organized by the GRAAT Research Centre
Universit=E9 Fran=E7ois Rabelais
Tours, France
January 22-23, 2008
=20
       This conference aims to explore the relationship between
English-language poets and theory. Many openly address technical matters
in the course of their poems=97Pope, Bishop, Ferlinghetti, Marechera=97, =
in
their letters=97Sydney, Keats, Dickinson, Hopkins, Lowell=97in =
theoretical
and polemical texts=97Coleridge, Whitman, Stevens, Auden, O=92Hara =
Olson,
Ashbery, Howe, Taban lo Liyong, Hejinian=97when they do not adopt =
several,
if not all, of the above strategies to question their own artistic

CFP: Poets & Theory (France) (6/30/07; 1/22/08-1/23/08)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Guillaume Cingal

Conference: =93Poets and Theory=94
organized by the GRAAT Research Centre
Universit=E9 Fran=E7ois Rabelais
Tours, France
January 22-23, 2008
=20
       This conference aims to explore the relationship between
English-language poets and theory. Many openly address technical matters
in the course of their poems=97Pope, Bishop, Ferlinghetti, Marechera=97, =
in
their letters=97Sydney, Keats, Dickinson, Hopkins, Lowell=97in =
theoretical
and polemical texts=97Coleridge, Whitman, Stevens, Auden, O=92Hara =
Olson,
Ashbery, Howe, Taban lo Liyong, Hejinian=97when they do not adopt =
several,
if not all, of the above strategies to question their own artistic

UPDATE: Third Conference on South African Children's Literature (South Africa) (4/30/07; 9/17/07-9/20/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Betsie van der Westhuizen

UPDATE: 3RD CONFERENCE ON SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
17 - 20 September 2007
North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa
Invitation to attend conference and call for papers

3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature - 17-20 September, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa

Call for papers and invitation to attend and participate in the 3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature
 
Read more:
* 3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature: http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/lettere/klw/kinderlitkonf07/oproepreferate_e.html

UPDATE: Third Conference on South African Children's Literature (South Africa) (4/30/07; 9/17/07-9/20/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Betsie van der Westhuizen

UPDATE: 3RD CONFERENCE ON SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
17 - 20 September 2007
North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa
Invitation to attend conference and call for papers

3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature - 17-20 September, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa

Call for papers and invitation to attend and participate in the 3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature
 
Read more:
* 3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature: http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/lettere/klw/kinderlitkonf07/oproepreferate_e.html

UPDATE: Third Conference on South African Children's Literature (South Africa) (4/30/07; 9/17/07-9/20/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Betsie van der Westhuizen

UPDATE: 3RD CONFERENCE ON SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
17 - 20 September 2007
North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa
Invitation to attend conference and call for papers

3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature - 17-20 September, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa

Call for papers and invitation to attend and participate in the 3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature
 
Read more:
* 3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature: http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/lettere/klw/kinderlitkonf07/oproepreferate_e.html

UPDATE: Third Conference on South African Children's Literature (South Africa) (4/30/07; 9/17/07-9/20/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Betsie van der Westhuizen

UPDATE: 3RD CONFERENCE ON SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
17 - 20 September 2007
North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa
Invitation to attend conference and call for papers

3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature - 17-20 September, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa

Call for papers and invitation to attend and participate in the 3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature
 
Read more:
* 3rd Conference on South African Children's Literature: http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/lettere/klw/kinderlitkonf07/oproepreferate_e.html

CFP: Teachers, Teaching, and the Movies (6/15/07; 10/25/07-10/27/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Bruns, John E.

Call for Papers

TEACHERS, TEACHING, AND THE MOVIES

Interdisciplinary Conference
October 25-27, 2007

College of Charleston,
Charleston, SC

This conference will focus on an under-examined topic in the fields of education and film studies: the way narrative cinema represents teachers, teaching, and learning.

CFP: Teachers, Teaching, and the Movies (6/15/07; 10/25/07-10/27/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Bruns, John E.

Call for Papers

TEACHERS, TEACHING, AND THE MOVIES

Interdisciplinary Conference
October 25-27, 2007

College of Charleston,
Charleston, SC

This conference will focus on an under-examined topic in the fields of education and film studies: the way narrative cinema represents teachers, teaching, and learning.

CFP: Llansol, 30 Years of O Livro das Comunidades (UK) (4/1/07; 9/5/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Ribeiro, Raquel

Maria Gabriela Llansol

30 years since O Livro das Comunidades

Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Blackburne House, Hope Street, Liverpool

=20

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

=20

Guest speakers

Paulo de Medeiros (Utrecht)

Pedro Eiras (Porto)

=20

=20

CFP: Llansol, 30 Years of O Livro das Comunidades (UK) (4/1/07; 9/5/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Ribeiro, Raquel

Maria Gabriela Llansol

30 years since O Livro das Comunidades

Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Blackburne House, Hope Street, Liverpool

=20

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

=20

Guest speakers

Paulo de Medeiros (Utrecht)

Pedro Eiras (Porto)

=20

=20

CFP: New Voices Graduate Student Conference (grad) (5/1/07; 9/27/07-9/29/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
GEA Enggea

Call for Papers
New Voices Graduate Student Conference September 27-29, 2007
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2007

New Voices Maps/Boundaries
Call for papers and special sessions

The New Voices Graduate Student Conference invites proposals considering
the presence, (de)construction, maintenance, persistence, (re)imagining
of Maps/Boundaries.

CFP: New Voices Graduate Student Conference (grad) (5/1/07; 9/27/07-9/29/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
GEA Enggea

Call for Papers
New Voices Graduate Student Conference September 27-29, 2007
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2007

New Voices Maps/Boundaries
Call for papers and special sessions

The New Voices Graduate Student Conference invites proposals considering
the presence, (de)construction, maintenance, persistence, (re)imagining
of Maps/Boundaries.

CFP: New Voices Graduate Student Conference (grad) (5/1/07; 9/27/07-9/29/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
GEA Enggea

Call for Papers
New Voices Graduate Student Conference September 27-29, 2007
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2007

New Voices Maps/Boundaries
Call for papers and special sessions

The New Voices Graduate Student Conference invites proposals considering
the presence, (de)construction, maintenance, persistence, (re)imagining
of Maps/Boundaries.

CFP: New Voices Graduate Student Conference (grad) (5/1/07; 9/27/07-9/29/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
GEA Enggea

Call for Papers
New Voices Graduate Student Conference September 27-29, 2007
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2007

New Voices Maps/Boundaries
Call for papers and special sessions

The New Voices Graduate Student Conference invites proposals considering
the presence, (de)construction, maintenance, persistence, (re)imagining
of Maps/Boundaries.

CFP: New Voices Graduate Student Conference (grad) (5/1/07; 9/27/07-9/29/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
GEA Enggea

Call for Papers
New Voices Graduate Student Conference September 27-29, 2007
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2007

New Voices Maps/Boundaries
Call for papers and special sessions

The New Voices Graduate Student Conference invites proposals considering
the presence, (de)construction, maintenance, persistence, (re)imagining
of Maps/Boundaries.

UPDATE: Contemporary Literature and the State (10/31/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:35pm
Matthew Hart

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND THE STATE
Edited by Matt Hart and Jim Hansen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

***NEW DEADLINE, SUBMISSION PROCESS, & PUBLICATION STATUS***

We seek 1-3 essays and an author interview to complete CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND THE STATE, to be published as a special issue of CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE 49/4 (Winter 2008) and marketed as a paperback volume through the University of Wisconsin Press.

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