Midwest Modern Language Association
49th Annual Convention: "Revisiting Realisms"
November 8-11, 2007, Cleveland, Ohio
 
Canadian Literature Section: The Canadian Nation(s)
 
Thomas King has called the border delimiting the boundaries of the Canadian nation "an imaginary line...a political line, that border line. It wasn't there before the Europeans came. It was a line that was inscribed across the country after that." This panel will explore how literatures written in and about Canada seek to define, question, or contest the idea of the Canadian nation(s), or engage with the notion of a Canadian literary canon. Papers on Quebecois, First Nations, and diasporic nationalisms in Canada are particularly encouraged.
 

Women Writing 1550-1750 (Revisited)
In 1999 scholars from Australia, New Zealand, and further afield gathered
together in Melbourne for a two day conference devoted to writing by early
modern women. This new conference offers a chance to reassess the field
almost a decade later, and to mull over and celebrate the significant and
growing body of scholarship devoted to early modern women=B9s writing.
Proposals are invited for a 20 minute paper, a panel, or a round table
discussion. We welcome contributions from all fields of study, and papers o=
r
round table proposals from postgraduate students are particularly welcome.
The conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia, at the city campus of

M/MLA Convention 2007
Special Session: "BAM! POW! ZAP! The Graphic Novel Meets Literature in the Gutter."

The call for papers has been extended to March 16th. Thanks

For further conference information, please advise those interested to
visit www.mnstate.edu/hamrick/northernplainsconference2007.htm

Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature

20-21 April 2007

Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN

Keynote Address:
Dr. Henry S. Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Call for Papers

**CFP: DRESS & FASHION IN LITERATURE**

We are looking for two essays to complete a manuscript under contract
for publication.

*An essay on dress/fashion in Renaissance literature.
*An essay on dress/fashion in Romantic literature.

Issues under consideration include, but are not limited to, the
following:

**CFP: DRESS & FASHION IN LITERATURE**

We are looking for two essays to complete a manuscript under contract
for publication.

*An essay on dress/fashion in Renaissance literature.
*An essay on dress/fashion in Romantic literature.

Issues under consideration include, but are not limited to, the
following:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline: Friday April 27, 2007.

Contributions are welcomed for a new book addressing the construction
and interpretation of virtual artefacts within virtual world museums and
within physical museum spaces. Particular emphasis is placed on theories
of spatiality and strategies of interpretation.

Deadline extended:

The AnaChronisT,

a peer-reviewed yearbook published by the Department of English Studies,
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary,

invites research papers and interviews on literatures in
English for its next issue, to be published in December 2007. All topics
acceptable. Papers are to be submitted by Tuesday, 24 April 2007.

The AnaChronisT welcomes submissions by graduate and doctoral students as
well as academics. The requirements of application are as follows:

- the text in Word or RTF document format sent to the following e-mail
address: anachronist_at_freemail.hu (your paper should not exceed 10,000 words,
including footnotes);

socine________________________
Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual
Brazilian Society for Cinema and Audiovisual Studies

XI Socine International Conference

October 17 to 20, 2007
PUC -- Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Brazil

The 2007 Socine annual conference will be held in Rio de Janeiro, at =20
PUC -- Pontif=EDcia Universidade Cat=F3lica. The university is located =
in =20
the G=E1vea district, in the South Side of the city of Rio de Janeiro. =20=

See more info about PUC at www.puc-rio.br

CFP: Altered States: On Dreaming, Fantasy, the Pharmakon, and the Real
in Literature and Culture

A special session proposal for the Midwest Modern Language Association
Conference on Realisms, November 2007

CFP: Altered States: On Dreaming, Fantasy, the Pharmakon, and the Real
in Literature and Culture

A special session proposal for the Midwest Modern Language Association
Conference on Realisms, November 2007

Proposed session for MLA 2007 in Chicago: Risk, Security, Anxiety in
21^st -Century Literature
 
This proposed special session will investigate developments in narrative
that respond to the uncertain times in which we live. In the face of
global violence, economic stratification, debt, environmental crisis,
technological innovations, information overload, and other contemporary
stressors, what new possibilities are emerging for articulating human
experience? Is the Bildungsroman/ /being adapted in new ways to
changing circumstances? Are our notions of risk, security, and
investment being transformed? Are writers constructing new models for
making decisions or negotiating uncertainty?
 

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue on "Detention" (Texas Studies in
Language and Literature)

Texas Studies in Language and Literature (TSLL), a refereed journal
published four times a year by the English department at UT-Austin,
seeks essays for a special issue on detention as it relates to American
literatures and cultures. Submissions should be 2500-8000 words and
are due by May 1, 2007.

Please send to:
TSLL--Detention Issue
1 University Station
Department of English B5000
University of Texas
Austin, TX, 78712.

Special Issue of *Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net*
Science and the Senses (1789-1914)