We invite abstracts for a collection of essays on male beauty to be
published by Cambridge Scholarly Publishing. Save for the Greeks, Romans and
the contemporary art historian, very little has been said about beauty and
its relationship to men and masculinities. To its credit, masculinity
studies itself has surely emerged as a field of study and has covered much
ground in the last thirty years: we have understood masculinity as a
category for analysis and, like femininity, as a social construction; we
have supported and also challenged the "crisis" in masculinity; we have
studied it both with and without "men"; we have considered masculinity's

Call for Papers
Ruskinian Theatre
Contemporary Issues in Theatre Historiography
University of Birmingham (UK), 6-7 July, 2007
Proposals are invited for papers and respondents for a two day
colloquium sponsored by the History Department at Lancaster University
(UK), the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham
(UK), and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).
This colloquium is part of the AHRC funded project: Ruskinian Theatre:
the Aesthetics of the Nineteenth-Century London Popular Stage,
1870-1900, which seeks to investigate the interrelationships and
influences of John Ruskin's aesthetic and social theories on the popular

CFP: Various Topics: UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies London Summer
2007 Research Seminar Series (UK) (variable deadline; 06/13; 06/27;
07/11;07/25; 08/01).

UK Network London Summer 2007 Research Seminar Series Call for Papers

This series is co-convened for UKNMFS by Dr. Alex Murray (University College
London), Martyn Colebrooke (University of Hull), Steven Barfield (University
of Westminster), and Prof. Philip Tew (Brunel University). The UK Network
for Modern Fiction Studies Summer Seminar Series 2007 is to be held at 309
Regent Street, the University of Westminster, London, UK.

PLEASE NORE ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW ADDITIONAL PLENARY SPEAKERS, AND REVISED
METHOD OF PAYMENT FOR ACCOMMODATION

=20

=20

Call for papers: the Sixth Biennial Conference in London of Symbiosis: A
Journal of Anglo-American Conference American Literary and Cultural =
Studies

=20

A Three-Day International Conference on All Areas of Anglo-American =
Literary
and Cultural Studies. =20

=20

Venue: Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom. =20

Dates: 12th =96 15th July 2007 =20

=20

=20

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:=20

=20

Professor Ian F.A. Bell (Keele University) =91The Poundian Fourth =
Dimension=92=20

=20

Call for Papers: Connection & Disconnection (Comparative Literature)
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), October 4-6, 2007
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Please submit 200-250 word abstracts
Deadline: March 1
to Yurika Tamura, yurika_at_email.arizona.edu.

We are seeking papers that explore sense of connection, disconnection,
identity and dislocation in literature from interdisciplinary perspective.
Topics suggested (but not limited to):

Transnationalism
Issues such as Gneder, Race and Class
Canonization
Post-colonialism
Forms/genres of literature (Blogs, letters, commercial website, etc.)

Special Topics Session: Beckett in Context

61st Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association =

October 4-6, 2007, Calgary, Alberta, Canada=20

=E2=80=9CWriting the Caribbean in the U.S.=E2=80=9D: How do writers of Car=
ibbean heritage,=20
who are located in the U.S., reconfigure =E2=80=9CCaribbean=E2=80=9D literat=
ure? Possible=20
topics: diaspora, linguistic crossings, disciplinary boundaries, shifting ra=
cial=20
and ethnic identities, responses to U.S. imperialism, native=20
spaces/informants, Caribbean writers and the U.S. academy. 1-page abstract a=
nd cv by 10 Mar.=20
to A. Shemak (aas004_at_shsu.edu)

=E2=80=9CWriting the Caribbean in the U.S.=E2=80=9D: How do writers of Car=
ibbean heritage,=20
who are located in the U.S., reconfigure =E2=80=9CCaribbean=E2=80=9D literat=
ure? Possible=20
topics: diaspora, linguistic crossings, disciplinary boundaries, shifting ra=
cial=20
and ethnic identities, responses to U.S. imperialism, native=20
spaces/informants, Caribbean writers and the U.S. academy. 1-page abstract a=
nd cv by 10 Mar.=20
to A. Shemak (aas004_at_shsu.edu)

Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Latino Community:

You are invited to submit poems, short stories, and scholarly work on
Latina/o Literature for a special Latina/o Issue of Pembroke Magazine that
will be guest edited by Liliana Wendorff and Richard Vela.

Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Latino Community:

You are invited to submit poems, short stories, and scholarly work on
Latina/o Literature for a special Latina/o Issue of Pembroke Magazine that
will be guest edited by Liliana Wendorff and Richard Vela.

Call for Papers
MLA 2007, Chicago
Part-Time Discussion Group

The New Majority Faculty: A Kinetic Workforce

This panel focuses on recent trends assessing the facts and figures,
realities and myths within the part-time, academic workforce.

One page abstracts by 1 Mar to klombart_at_earthlink.net or
lombart1_at_canisius.edu.

PLEASE ANNOUNCE

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association ~ RMMLA

Annual Convention in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies

Calgary, Alberta ~ October 4-6, 2007

=20

Call for paper proposals!

SESSION: Canadian Literature and Film (Open Topic)=20

=20

300-word abstracts by email to rmmla_at_wsu.edu <mailto:rmmla_at_wsu.edu>=20

March 1 deadline, but later submissions may be considered.

Membership in RMMLA by April 1.

Convention Registration Fee also applies. =20

=20

See www.rmmla.org <http://www.rmmla.org/>=20

=20

RMMLA

This is an UPDATED call for papers to contribute to an article collection on African American and
Afro-Caribbean Women Writers.

We are soliciting manuscripts that critically examine contemporary works by African American and
Afro-Caribbean women writers. Manuscripts should explore factors that shape African American
women's identities and trace processes of memory formation as they occur in domestic and public
spheres.

Specifically, we are looking for submissions which address the following areas of influence:

religion
mythologies
magical realism
gender and sexualities
sites of eating and the role of food
historiography
violence
family
vocation/profession

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
will sponsor a panel at the Rocky Mountain MLA conference in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007.

Proposals are welcome on topics dealing with ecocriticism,
literature/art, and the environment; those dealing with neglected or
underrepresented authors or topics amd those covering new approaches
to the critical examiniation of literature and the environment are
especially welcome.

Please sumbit 300-word paper abstracts (preferably as MS word
attachment) by March 1 to

Tina Gianquitto (tinagian_at_mines.edu)

If you do not have access to e-mail, please send your proposal to: