CFP: Nanotechnology, Literature, and Society (6/1/2007; 12/6-7/2007)

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Paper and panel proposals are invited for "Nanotechnology, Literature, =
and Society,"

an interdisciplinary conference to be held at the University of =
Massachusetts Lowell,

December 6-7, 2007. =20

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Proposal deadline: June 1, 2007.

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"Nanotechnology is an intersection," Ted Sargent writes in THE DANCE OF=20

MOLECULES: HOW NANOTECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING OUR LIVES (2006):=20

it is "a confluence at the heart of contemporary science. . . . =
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produces convergent thinking when representatives of various mind-sets =
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Call for Papers:

T.S. Eliot, Dante, and the European Tradition: An International Symposium
Florence, Italy, January 19th – 26th, 2008

Participants will experience the pleasures of intellectual exchange in the
environs of Florence, staying at a three star hotel and enjoying daily
excursions and activities, as well as free time to explore the city.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS OR COMPLETED PAPERS: OCTOBER 15, 2007.

Visit the Symposium website to see the entire plan of the programme:
http://www.fondazione-delbianco.org/seminari/progetti_prof/progview_PL.asp?start=1&idprog=52

Transatlantic Fiction, Transatlantic Readers:
The Audience for the Novel in the US and Britain 1750-1860

Panel proposal for Reception Study Society Conference, Kansas City, MO, 9/27
- 9/29/2007

        The audience for the novel in English in the period 1750-1860 was
global, a result of the Anglophonic diaspora around the Atlantic basin. Yet
it remains to be demonstrated whether and how this fact influenced
individual writers or how best to understand the ways geography, nation,
gender, race, and class produced specific communities of readers-and to what
extent such communities for Anglophonic novels could be considered
transnational.

Transatlantic Fiction, Transatlantic Readers:
The Audience for the Novel in the US and Britain 1750-1860

Panel proposal for Reception Study Society Conference, Kansas City, MO, 9/27
- 9/29/2007

        The audience for the novel in English in the period 1750-1860 was
global, a result of the Anglophonic diaspora around the Atlantic basin. Yet
it remains to be demonstrated whether and how this fact influenced
individual writers or how best to understand the ways geography, nation,
gender, race, and class produced specific communities of readers-and to what
extent such communities for Anglophonic novels could be considered
transnational.

49th Parallel is proud to announce the publication of
its Issue No. 20 (Winter 2006-2007), available online
at
http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/current/index.htm

Featured in the issue, five articles:

* "The 'Clash of Civilisations' and the 'War on
Terror'" by Michael Dunn

* "Hollywood Censors History" by David Eldridge

* "'Go to the forest and move': 1960's American Rock
Music as Electronic Pastoral" by David Ingram

* "'Landscape Lessons': Gauging a Watershed in Don
Gayton's Kokanee" by Susan Naramore Maher

49th Parallel is proud to announce the publication of
its Issue No. 20 (Winter 2006-2007), available online
at
http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/current/index.htm

Featured in the issue, five articles:

* "The 'Clash of Civilisations' and the 'War on
Terror'" by Michael Dunn

* "Hollywood Censors History" by David Eldridge

* "'Go to the forest and move': 1960's American Rock
Music as Electronic Pastoral" by David Ingram

* "'Landscape Lessons': Gauging a Watershed in Don
Gayton's Kokanee" by Susan Naramore Maher

Call for submissions: Writing Technologies

Writing Technologies is an online international, peer-reviewed journal. It launches in April 2007, with a special issue on writing's technological locations, and will appear twice a year.

Submissions are invited for vol. 1.2, to be published in October 2007, and for subsequent issues. We welcome submissions which explore any dimension of the relationship between literature, technology and culture. For further details about the journal, please go to:

http://english.ntu.ac.uk/Writing/cfp1.htm <http://english.ntu.ac.uk/Writing/cfp1.htm>

South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference
November 9-11, 2007, Atlanta Georgia
Special Session CFP: Strategies for Teaching First-Year Writing

CALL FOR PAPERS

Purdue University's Renaissance Comparative Prose Conference
(deadline: July 15, 2007; conference: November 1-2, 2007)

Held this year at Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio

Keynote address: Thomas L. Martin, Florida Atlantic University
"C.S. Lewis as Renaissance Critic"

Papers are invited for a conference exploring any aspect of Renaissance prose.
Submissions are encouraged from scholars investigating texts in languages other
than English, as well as texts that explore transatlantic connections.

call for papers for MSA 9 in Long Beach, California 1-4 November 2007
 
Modernist Misogynies
 
This panel will address the various roles misogyny plays in the formation of
modernism, in particular texts, in the broader cultural movement, and in
subsequent canon-formation.
 
Possible topics might include:
-What forms does misogyny take in work by modernist writers, particularly or
generally, and how does misogyny during the modernist period differ from
that expressed in other historical periods?
-How have and how should feminists respond to or redefine the modernist
canon?
-Are there modernist masculinities that do NOT depend on renouncing or
otherwise vilifying the feminine?

 Invisibilities: Absence and Presence in Cultural Texts and ImagesCall For =
Papers Wednesday 20th June 2007School of Humanities: EnglishUniversity of =
Dundee Plenary Speaker: Dr Darryl JonesTrinity College Dublin The Fifth =
Annual English Postgraduate Conference will be held at the University of =
Dundee on Wednesday June 20th 2007. This interdisciplinary postgraduate =
conference invites proposals for papers under the heading =91InVisibilities=
: Absence and Presence in Cultural Texts and Images=92. What are the =
roles, forms and conditions of representation and exclusion in our culture =
and its diverse media? Suggested topics include (but are not limited to): =

 Invisibilities: Absence and Presence in Cultural Texts and ImagesCall For =
Papers Wednesday 20th June 2007School of Humanities: EnglishUniversity of =
Dundee Plenary Speaker: Dr Darryl JonesTrinity College Dublin The Fifth =
Annual English Postgraduate Conference will be held at the University of =
Dundee on Wednesday June 20th 2007. This interdisciplinary postgraduate =
conference invites proposals for papers under the heading =91InVisibilities=
: Absence and Presence in Cultural Texts and Images=92. What are the =
roles, forms and conditions of representation and exclusion in our culture =
and its diverse media? Suggested topics include (but are not limited to): =

Call for papers: Collaboration and the Writing Workshop CCCC 2008

The small group workshop holds promise in that by sharing work with peers, students world-views are expanded. In brining together different people, backgrounds, and experiences, the successful small group workshop bridges the private and the public and establishes a new sense of reality for students. Yet, often times the workshop is used by instructors and students with little positive effect. Theorists seem to have figured out the theoretical implications of pedagogy of collaboration, but today we find ourselves requiring and employing workshops out of habit that don't seem to be very productive.

The New York State English Council's scholarly journal, The English Record,
is seeking submissions on the following topic: The Multi-modal, Multimedia,
Multicultural Classroom
Whether it is the invented spellings rapidly typed with thumbs into a phone
or the deftly interpreted visual cues of a complex video game, many of the
students we are now teaching, and most of those in our future, have a need
for skills in areas commonly ignored by traditional classrooms. How do we
meet the needs of students who are more skilled on a computer than we are?
In what ways are canonical texts merging into media and attracting student
attention? How does employing multi-modal techniques help teachers reach