Seeking one essay addressing diaspora and Jewish culture (broadly
conceived), and one essay addressing diaspora and Arab culture (broadly
conceived), for a collection of essays entitled Transforming Diaspora.
We wish to receive queries/proposal from interested scholars by April 6,
2007. The full CFP for the essay collection follows. Send email
submissions to robinfield_at_kings.edu.
Transforming Diaspora (Book Collection)=20
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Eds. Parmita Kapadia and Robin Field=20
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Cultural studies has generated a re-evaluation of the long established
tropes governing the diasporic condition. The emergence of various
diasporas prompts a rethinking of the field to include the experiences=20

Seeking one essay addressing diaspora and Jewish culture (broadly
conceived), and one essay addressing diaspora and Arab culture (broadly
conceived), for a collection of essays entitled Transforming Diaspora.
We wish to receive queries/proposal from interested scholars by April 6,
2007. The full CFP for the essay collection follows. Send email
submissions to robinfield_at_kings.edu.
Transforming Diaspora (Book Collection)=20
=20
Eds. Parmita Kapadia and Robin Field=20
=20
Cultural studies has generated a re-evaluation of the long established
tropes governing the diasporic condition. The emergence of various
diasporas prompts a rethinking of the field to include the experiences=20

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.

**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

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

Call for Papers: Proposed Panel for MSA 9
Modernist Studies Association 9th Annual Conference (http://www.usc.edu/msa9)
November 1-4, 2007 in Long Beach, CA

"Modernist Dialectics of Ethics and Visuality"

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

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)

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

Conference: =93Poets and Theory=94
organized by the GRAAT Research Centre
Universit=E9 Fran=E7ois Rabelais
Tours, France
January 22-23, 2008
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       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: 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: 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

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.

Maria Gabriela Llansol

30 years since O Livro das Comunidades

Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Blackburne House, Hope Street, Liverpool

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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Guest speakers

Paulo de Medeiros (Utrecht)

Pedro Eiras (Porto)

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