Atlantikos seeks short position papers for a special edition that will
examine the benefits and impact of transatlantic scholarship on current
trends/theories in literary and cultural studies. The essays should be
approximately 2,000 â€" 3,000 words in length and address one of the
following questions:

Giving & Taking Offense
University of Aveiro, Portugal

We are pleased to inform people interested in
attending the two-day conference on "Giving and
Taking Offence" at the University of Aveiro,
Portugal on the 21st and 22nd June 2007 that
proposals will be accepted until the 15th April
2007, and that the following people have agreed
to be our plenary speakers:

Prof. David Lavery, Head of Film and TV Studies
at Brunel University, London, who will be
speaking on "H**y F*****g Sh*t: Profanation,
Parody, and Bleeping American Unreality in The
Onion, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report".

The 5th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Consortium for
Literature, Theory & Culture at the University of California, Santa
Barbara:

Epistemologies of Torture: Limits, Bodies, Black Sites
Friday, 6 April 2007
Centennial House, UC Santa Barbara

http://www.cltc.ucsb.edu/conferences/2007

Abstracts Due: Sunday, March 25
Send to: tortureconference_at_yahoo.com

Keynote Speakers:

Alicia Partnoy (poet, activist, torture survivor and author of The
Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina)

The 5th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Consortium for
Literature, Theory & Culture at the University of California, Santa
Barbara:

Epistemologies of Torture: Limits, Bodies, Black Sites
Friday, 6 April 2007
Centennial House, UC Santa Barbara

http://www.cltc.ucsb.edu/conferences/2007

Abstracts Due: Sunday, March 25
Send to: tortureconference_at_yahoo.com

Keynote Speakers:

Alicia Partnoy (poet, activist, torture survivor and author of The
Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina)

"In arriving at structuralism, literary studies simply join the
general tendency of contemporary thought. Throughout almost the entire
realm of contemporary scholarship the discovery of the dynamic
relations which pervade its material has proven to be an effective
modus operandi ? for example, in the disciplines of the arts and in
general aesthetics, in psychology, sociology, linguistics, economics,
and even in the natural sciences" (J. Mukarovský, 1934)

CALL FOR PAPERS: SHORT FICTION, CRITICISM. REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS

Short Story, a refereed journal dedicated to every aspect of the short story, will bring out a special issue in the spring of 2008 on the theme "African Diaspora in North America and the Caribbean." Editors of Short Story solicit previously unpublished short stories, critical essays, book reviews, and interviews for publication on this theme. Diverse themes, interpretations and perspectives are welcome.

Abstracts are not required but may be emailed to lhill_at_claflin.edu. Full submissions must be emailed to lhill_at_claflin.edu or snailmailed and postmarked by August 31, 2007.

Mail to :

Linda Hill, Associate Professor of English,

MMLA Panel on English Literature 1800-1900
The Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cleveland, Ohio
November 8-11, 2007
                                         

UPDATE: deadline for proposals extended until April 16

Fragments in nineteenth-century British literature and culture

America in the Modernist Imaginary

Freud visited in 1909, enjoying the cinema, but complaining about the richness of the food; Henry Miller dubbed it the
“Air-Conditioned Nightmare”; in America Day By Day, Simone de Beauvoir admires drugstore food but condemns class
inequality and racial strife; in Lolita Vladimir Nabokov documents his own affections for American kitsch culture; Gertrude
Stein struggled to win over the American reading public, but wrote afterward that “In America everybody is [a celebrity]
but some are more than others. I was more than others.”

JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE DRAMA Immediate Need for Fast-Track Submissions

The current April issue of the JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE DRAMA has space for up to two immediate submissions. See http://www.rpg.net/larp/journal/index.html for more information about the journal. The journal considers new submissions at any time but we have an immediate need for pieces for the current issue. Submissions within the next week will be fast-tracked for immediate editorial vetting.

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JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE DRAMA

/Eighteenth-Century Fiction/ is an international quarterly published in French
and English devoted to the critical and historical investigation of imaginative
prose of the period 1660-1832.

ANNOUNCEMENT to graduate students
Eighteenth-Century Fiction Essay Prize 2007

/Eighteenth-Century Fiction/ is an international quarterly published in French
and English devoted to the critical and historical investigation of imaginative
prose of the period 1660-1832.

ANNOUNCEMENT to graduate students
Eighteenth-Century Fiction Essay Prize 2007

/Eighteenth-Century Fiction/, an international quarterly published in French and
English devoted to the critical and historical investigation of imaginative
prose of the period 1660-1832.

LOGICS OF THE LIVING

Keynote Speaker: Daniel Heller-Roazen

Department of Comparative Literature
Cornell University
October 12-14, 2007

CFP: 2007 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
Cleveland, Ohio, November 8-11, 2007

Poetry & Popular Culture