CFP: Mystery, Thriller and Crime Fiction

The Mystery, Thriller and Crime Fiction area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association announces a call for papers for its upcoming conference in Kansas City, October 12-14, 2007. 100-200 word abstracts should be sent to Kathryn Edney or Tricia Jenkins via email at tremperk_at_msu.edu or jenki172_at_msu.edu. Proposals will be accepted on all aspects of mystery, thriller and crime fiction and are due by April 30, 2007. More information regarding the conference can be found at www.mpcaaca.org.

PLEASE NOTE EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS...

NEW DEADLINE IS APRIL 15, 2007.

Call for Papers: Papers dealing with Experiences in Post/Colonial
Education Systems as depicted in literature are sought for the
Literatures of Africa and the Diaspora regular session at the South
Atlantic Modern Language Association which will meet in Atlanta, GA on
Nov. 9-11, 2007.

Papers might include childhood experiences through experiences in
higher education and might make use of any number of theoretical
frameworks.

The extended deadline for 250-word proposals is April 15, 2007.

Please send inquiries and proposals electronically to:

PLEASE NOTE EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS...

NEW DEADLINE IS APRIL 15, 2007.

Call for Papers: Papers dealing with Experiences in Post/Colonial
Education Systems as depicted in literature are sought for the
Literatures of Africa and the Diaspora regular session at the South
Atlantic Modern Language Association which will meet in Atlanta, GA on
Nov. 9-11, 2007.

Papers might include childhood experiences through experiences in
higher education and might make use of any number of theoretical
frameworks.

The extended deadline for 250-word proposals is April 15, 2007.

Please send inquiries and proposals electronically to:

The Writing Across the Curriculum panel wishes to=20
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those addressing assessment issues, any topics=20
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submission, please contact cotugnm_at_muohio.edu

Thank you.

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New Call for Submissions

Celebrating the International Poetry Day, the Arabesques Review is
now accepting submissions for two upcoming special issues:

Vol 03, Issue 02 Contemporary Women Literature

>>> Submissions Deadline: April 30, 2007

Vol 03, Issue 03 Globalization

>>> Submissions Deadline: June 30, 2007

 We would be very honored to read and consider your contribution for
these upcoming anthologies

To SUBMIT TO THE ARABESQUES REVIEW
<http://www.arabesquespress.org/journal/>

Call for Papers: Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults

I am seeking abstracts for a panel on Utopian and Dystopian Writing for
Children and Young Adults for the 32nd Annual Meeting of the _Society for
Utopian Studies_-- held at the Toronto Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel
[Toronto, Canada] on Oct. 4-7, 2007.

The Black Theatre Association (BTA), a focus group of the Association
for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), seeks essay submissions for
its 7th Annual Debut Panel. We encourage all graduate students and
non-tenured faculty working on African American theatre and
performance studies who have never presented at ATHE or a national
conference to apply. Papers may consider any aspect of African
American dramatic criticism, theatre history, plays, playwrights,
performers, directors, designers, etc. The highest quality papers
will be selected by our distinguished panel of theatre scholar
judges: Harry J. Elam, Jr., Olive H. Palmer Professor in the

The Black Theatre Association (BTA), a focus group of the Association
for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), seeks essay submissions for
its 7th Annual Debut Panel. We encourage all graduate students and
non-tenured faculty working on African American theatre and
performance studies who have never presented at ATHE or a national
conference to apply. Papers may consider any aspect of African
American dramatic criticism, theatre history, plays, playwrights,
performers, directors, designers, etc. The highest quality papers
will be selected by our distinguished panel of theatre scholar
judges: Harry J. Elam, Jr., Olive H. Palmer Professor in the

Teaching the 18th Century: a one-day workshop sponsored by the English
Subject Centre
13 September 2007
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Eighteenth-century studies have recently undergone exciting changes.
Research has expanded to include many non-canonical texts and a variety of
interdisciplinary approaches, while new electronic resources (especially
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online) with the potential to revolutionise
both research and teaching have become available. At the same time, students
seem to find it increasingly difficult to relate to the period.

Teaching the 18th Century: a one-day workshop sponsored by the English
Subject Centre
13 September 2007
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Eighteenth-century studies have recently undergone exciting changes.
Research has expanded to include many non-canonical texts and a variety of
interdisciplinary approaches, while new electronic resources (especially
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online) with the potential to revolutionise
both research and teaching have become available. At the same time, students
seem to find it increasingly difficult to relate to the period.

Robert Penn Warren and Race (4/20/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)
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The Robert Penn Warren Circle invites proposals for papers that will =
focus on any aspect of race in Warren's works (prose fiction, poetry, =
and/or non-fiction prose). Abstracts of up to 500 words for =
twenty-minute papers should be submitted by e-mail to Sean Heuston at =
sean.heuston_at_citadel.edu <mailto:sean.heuston_at_citadel.edu> by April 20, =
2007. =20

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Dr. Sean Heuston
Department of English
The Citadel

Teaching the 18th Century: a one-day workshop sponsored by the English
Subject Centre
13 September 2007
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Eighteenth-century studies have recently undergone exciting changes.
Research has expanded to include many non-canonical texts and a variety of
interdisciplinary approaches, while new electronic resources (especially
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online) with the potential to revolutionise
both research and teaching have become available. At the same time, students
seem to find it increasingly difficult to relate to the period.

*******PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY**************

Call for Papers: The Analytic Scene: Translations and Transferences
Deadline for Submissions: April 9th, 2007

The Psychoanalysis and Sexuality Research Unit of the Institute for
Humanities Research (IHR) at the University of California, Santa Cruz
invites submissions for its May 2007 graduate student conference, "The
Analytic Scene: Translations and Transferences," tentatively scheduled for
Saturday May 26th. The Psychoanalysis and Sexuality RU, now in its third
year, is an interdisciplinary faculty-graduate student research group that
reads psychoanalytic work together and
occasionally sponsors speakers and conferences.

CALL FOR PAPERS

'Tyndale, More and their circles: Persecution and martyrdom under the
Tudors.'

Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom, 3-6 July 2008

This will be an interdisciplinary conference which will bring together
scholars interested in the religious history and literature of the Tudor
period. Although there will be a focus on lives, works and reputations of
Tyndale and More, papers are sought on martyrdom, religious persecution and
inter-Christian conflict generally and thus may range in subject from Anne
Askew to Edmund Campion.