David Lavery (Brunel University, London) and Michele Byers (St. Mary's
University, Canada), the editors of this in-development book, seek
submissions on the subject of crying inspired by art.

We welcome any type of writing on the subject from memoirs and personal
essays to critical interpretations and more theoretical pieces. Contributors
may, of course, come from any discipline or field and need not be academics.

The idea for this book came out of a piece one of us wrote for an upcoming
issue of the online journal Flow. A pre-publication draft of the piece can
be read here:

http://davidlavery.net/tears.htm

**The deadline was been extended to March 16, 2007 (from February 23,
2007).**

CFP: Postcolonial Representation[s] and the U.S . (grad) [3/16/07; 5/12/07]
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Centennial House, University of California, Santa Barbara

Keynote Speaker: Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of English, UC Santa
Barbara (biography below)

http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/conference/grad2007/cfp.asp

Please note the extended deadline for proposals:

CFP: Children and Political Activism

2007 MLA in Chicago

Inspired by Susan Bartoletti's Kids on Strike and Growing up in Coal Country
and novels such as Carl Hiaasen's Hoot and Flush, we are seeking critical
examinations of texts written for children (fictional, non-fictional,
photographic, etc.) depicting children as activists and/or texts that are
designed to inspire child readers to take up direct political action. These
texts might include representations of radical children demanding their
rights or fighting for particular causes or instigating political change.

**The deadline was been extended to March 16, 2007 (from February 23,
2007).**

CFP: Postcolonial Representation[s] and the U.S . (grad) [3/16/07; 5/12/07]
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Centennial House, University of California, Santa Barbara

Keynote Speaker: Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of English, UC Santa
Barbara (biography below)

http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/conference/grad2007/cfp.asp

Papers are sought for a book/special issue of a journal on the topic of
"working-class humor" in any discipline (literary studies, cinema, art,
folklore, anthropology, history, etc.) and using any theoretical
approach. The focus of the collection is the interplay of the category
of humor (roughly defined as anything that can be perceived as funny,
amusing, etc.) with the working-class. Of particular interest are essays
that pursue the topic of working-class humor in relation to genre,
ethnicity, race, geography, and history. Both papers that deal with the
representation of the working class in humorous discourse and/or on the
use of humor by the working class are welcome. Expressions of interest

Papers are sought for a book/special issue of a journal on the topic of
"working-class humor" in any discipline (literary studies, cinema, art,
folklore, anthropology, history, etc.) and using any theoretical
approach. The focus of the collection is the interplay of the category
of humor (roughly defined as anything that can be perceived as funny,
amusing, etc.) with the working-class. Of particular interest are essays
that pursue the topic of working-class humor in relation to genre,
ethnicity, race, geography, and history. Both papers that deal with the
representation of the working class in humorous discourse and/or on the
use of humor by the working class are welcome. Expressions of interest

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sustainable Transformations:
Technology and Its Environments
 
October 4-6, 2007

The theme of the 31st Annual Humanities and Technology Conference
reflects the contemporary interest in the multiple interfaces of
technologies and their environments. HTA invites individual papers and
session proposals addressing the conference theme from the viewpoints of
the humanities, the sciences, and engineering.

In addition to the conference theme, papers on all other aspects of the
interactions of technology, science, and the humanities are welcome.

Due date for abstracts added:

CFP:Harry Potter Phenomenon (11/2/07-11/4/07; due 6/1/07 MAPACA, Richard
Currie

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CFP. SAMLA Convention, Nov. 9-11, 2007. Deadline: April 15, 2007.
Special Session: "Marginalizing the Haitian Revolution." If the
influence of the San Domingan (Haitian) revolution on the late 18^th and
early 19th century world of the Americas as well as Europe is
considered, then it is clear that it rivaled that of the French
Revolution. Yet critics and historians then and now have focused almost
exclusively on the European revolution as the cataclysmic event of the
period. Proposals from scholars are invited for 20-minute papers on
explanations for this, with possible topics including but not limited to
the politics of the British abolitionist movement, the fear of slave

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sustainable Transformations:
Technology and Its Environments
 
October 4-6, 2007

The theme of the 31st Annual Humanities and Technology Conference
reflects the contemporary interest in the multiple interfaces of
technologies and their environments. HTA invites individual papers and
session proposals addressing the conference theme from the viewpoints of
the humanities, the sciences, and engineering.

In addition to the conference theme, papers on all other aspects of the
interactions of technology, science, and the humanities are welcome.

Call for Papers:
Deadline Extended
The Raymond Carver Review (4/15/07, journal)

The Raymond Carver Review, a new, peer-reviewed, electronic annual,
hosted by Kent State University and published in cooperation with The
International Raymond Carver Society, seeks to publish the best
critical work both from established and emerging Carver scholars world-
wide.

Call for proposals for a collection tentatively titled, Dominant Culture and the Education of Women, and edited by Julia C. Paulk.

CFP: Jane Austen and Contemporary Literature and Culture (UK) (04/30/07; 06/23/07)

Proposals are invited for contributions to a study day on this theme at Chawton House, Hampshire, UK (the home of Jane Austen's brother). We wish to bring together scholars with an interest in contemporary re-writings and re-visions of Jane Austen, with a view to publishing an edited collection of essays. Possible topics might include:

Jane Austen sequels or prequels, re-writings such as Bridget Jones's Diary, film and TV adaptations, phenomena such as Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club and the Jane Austen Guide to Dating, biographies, Jane Austen pornography, etc.

Call for Papers: