MLA 2007
CFP: Children and Political Activism

Inspired by the work of Susan Bartoletti's Kids on Strike and Growing up in
Coal Country, this panel seeks submissions examining children's texts
(fictional, non-fictional, photographic, etc.) depicting children taking
political action and/or texts that are designed to inspire child readers to
take up direct political action.

These texts, marketed to children, might include representations of radical
children demanding their rights or fighting for particular causes.

Abstract Deadline: 1 March 2007
Send 1-2 page abstracts or 8-page papers to:

Dr. Jennifer Miskec
Christopher Newport University
jennifer.miskec_at_cnu.edu

OR

Session on Renaissance Non-dramatic literature

South Central Modern Language Association

November 1-3, 2007

Memphis, Tennessee

This is an open topic session on Renaissance non-dramatic literature. Please
submit abstracts or completed papers (20 minute maximum reading time) or
abstracts electronically by March 15, 2007 to Dr. Jacob Blevins blevinsjake_at_aol.com
. You can visit the SCMLA website at http://www.ou.edu/scmla/ .

Jacob Blevins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Editor, The McNeese Review
McNeese State University
Lake Charles, LA 70609-2655
337 475-5323
blevinsjake_at_aol.com

Aesthetic Violence in the 20th C. and Beyond

How does art respond to the tremendous pace of the world's violence? More
than merely sublimating or ameliorating trauma, art documents the physical
and psychological damage wreaked by social, political, cultural or personal
violence. Damaged life yields a damaged art, the distortions of which are
crucial in capturing the specific ramifications of violence. Art in the
face of war must suffer this distortion; consider the writings of Levi,
Antelme, Celan, Beckett, and O'Brien, among many others. The documentary of
aesthetic violence runs through work as various as art on feminism, racism,
and ranges from group to personal violence.

Aesthetic Violence in the 20th C. and Beyond

How does art respond to the tremendous pace of the world's violence? More
than merely sublimating or ameliorating trauma, art documents the physical
and psychological damage wreaked by social, political, cultural or personal
violence. Damaged life yields a damaged art, the distortions of which are
crucial in capturing the specific ramifications of violence. Art in the
face of war must suffer this distortion; consider the writings of Levi,
Antelme, Celan, Beckett, and O'Brien, among many others. The documentary of
aesthetic violence runs through work as various as art on feminism, racism,
and ranges from group to personal violence.

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Call for Proposals

for a collection

Women and Things: Material Culture, 1750-1950

Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin , editors

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We invite proposals for essays for a collection titled Women and Things:
Material Culture, 1750-1950. This collection invites scholars to
consider women's engagement with the material world, from the most
ordinary, mundane daily practices and objects to the most extraordinary,
life-altering practices and objects, over the two-hundred-year period of
1750 to1950.=20

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Please Distribute
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Call for Proposals

for a collection

Women and Things: Material Culture, 1750-1950

Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin , editors

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=20

We invite proposals for essays for a collection titled Women and Things:
Material Culture, 1750-1950. This collection invites scholars to
consider women's engagement with the material world, from the most
ordinary, mundane daily practices and objects to the most extraordinary,
life-altering practices and objects, over the two-hundred-year period of
1750 to1950.=20

=20

Please Distribute
=20
Call for Proposals

for a collection

Women and Things: Material Culture, 1750-1950

Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin , editors

=20

=20

We invite proposals for essays for a collection titled Women and Things:
Material Culture, 1750-1950. This collection invites scholars to
consider women's engagement with the material world, from the most
ordinary, mundane daily practices and objects to the most extraordinary,
life-altering practices and objects, over the two-hundred-year period of
1750 to1950.=20

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"MULTICULTURALISM, PLURALISM AND GLOBALIZATION"
An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by
THE WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES
and the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
Office of International Education and Department of History

OCTOBER 4-5, 2007

Keynote Speaker: Harvey Sarles, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature,
University of Minnesota

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We invite proposals for individual papers and entire panels for an
interdisciplinary conference on multiculturalism, pluralism, and
globalization.
Papers and presentations from all disciplines and time periods are welcome.

**

"MULTICULTURALISM, PLURALISM AND GLOBALIZATION"
An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by
THE WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES
and the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
Office of International Education and Department of History

OCTOBER 4-5, 2007

Keynote Speaker: Harvey Sarles, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature,
University of Minnesota

***

We invite proposals for individual papers and entire panels for an
interdisciplinary conference on multiculturalism, pluralism, and
globalization.
Papers and presentations from all disciplines and time periods are welcome.

please circulate:

WOMEN IN ACTION: CRISIS, ACTIVISM, AND RECONSTRUCTION
Call for Papers
Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Conference
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
July 24-25, 2007 ~ New Orleans, Louisiana
The New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts

please circulate:

WOMEN IN ACTION: CRISIS, ACTIVISM, AND RECONSTRUCTION
Call for Papers
Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Conference
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
July 24-25, 2007 ~ New Orleans, Louisiana
The New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts

Symposium @ CASCA /AES (Canadian Anthropology Society/ American Ethnological Society) conference, May 8-12, 2007, University of Toronto.

Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Performance: From Hegemonic Nationalisms to Social Critique

Symposium @ CASCA /AES (Canadian Anthropology Society/ American Ethnological Society) conference, May 8-12, 2007, University of Toronto.

Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Performance: From Hegemonic Nationalisms to Social Critique

CALL FOR PAPERS
2007 RSS CONFERENCE ON RECEPTION STUDY
The University of Missouri at Kansas City,
Thurs, September 27th, through Sat., the 29th, 2007.