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hosting a reproductive rights symposium on November 8-10=2C 2006 on the =

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faculty=2C students=2C staff=2C and guests with presentations=2C exhibits=
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discussions on reproductive rights issues ranging from current =

legislative activity to cultural perspectives on sexuality to =

historical intersections of race=2C gender=2C and class in relation to =

   Reproductive Rights =26 Responsibilities 2006=3A Beyond Pro-Choice/Pro=
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Life

The Harold Washington College Women=92s Studies Committee (WSC) is =

hosting a reproductive rights symposium on November 8-10=2C 2006 on the =

college=92s campus (30 E=2E Lake St=2E=2C Chicago=2C IL)=2E Designed to =
be multi-
faceted=2C informative=2C and provocative=2C the symposium aims to engage=
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faculty=2C students=2C staff=2C and guests with presentations=2C exhibits=
=2C and =

discussions on reproductive rights issues ranging from current =

legislative activity to cultural perspectives on sexuality to =

historical intersections of race=2C gender=2C and class in relation to =

Science Fiction / Fantasy Creative Writing

Call for Papers

The SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Area of the Popular Culture Association
invites submissions for the:

PCA/ACA 2007 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
BOSTON MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE,
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 4 - 7, 2007

Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2006

Call for Articles
Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives.

Despite the continuing rise of memory studies in various disciplines, there is
yet no consistent, comprehensive, or metacritical publication accounting for
the library as a specific archival form.

UPDATE-CFP: Women's Experiences of Justice (10/7/06; collection)
   
  The co-editors of (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women's Experience, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press, Ltd. in late 2007, seek scholars interested in contributing a chapter. The book, which will show how women create justice or resist injustice through (re)interpretations of traditional structures, is divided into five sections that represent patriarchal authority and power: Language, Religion, Medicine, War, and Sex Trafficking.
   

UPDATE-CFP: Women's Experiences of Justice (10/7/06; collection)
   
  The co-editors of (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women's Experience, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press, Ltd. in late 2007, seek scholars interested in contributing a chapter. The book, which will show how women create justice or resist injustice through (re)interpretations of traditional structures, is divided into five sections that represent patriarchal authority and power: Language, Religion, Medicine, War, and Sex Trafficking.
   

Immigration is a phenomenon that contemporary societies struggle with. In this context the figure of the foreigner is a good scenario to explore the dynamics and tensions of cultures in contact. The liminal perspective provided by the outsider adds a new interpretation of our own reality, questioning the foundations of the canonical culture and our own identities. "What appear to be cultural units-human beings, words, meanings, ideas, philosophical systems, social organizations-are maintained in their apparent unity only through an active process of exclusion, opposition, and hierarchization.

Immigration is a phenomenon that contemporary societies struggle with. In this context the figure of the foreigner is a good scenario to explore the dynamics and tensions of cultures in contact. The liminal perspective provided by the outsider adds a new interpretation of our own reality, questioning the foundations of the canonical culture and our own identities. "What appear to be cultural units-human beings, words, meanings, ideas, philosophical systems, social organizations-are maintained in their apparent unity only through an active process of exclusion, opposition, and hierarchization.

NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS: OCTOBER 10, 2006. PLEASE
EMAIL CUNYCOMPLIT.CONFERENCE_at_GMAIL.COM

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Envisioning Home

Keynote Speakers=20

Prof. Laura Slatkin (NYU/U. Chicago) &=20

Prof. Joshua Landy (Stanford)

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Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature

November 3 & 4, 2006

The Graduate Center of CUNY

365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016

www.beautifulnovember.com

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CFP: Cinematic Homesick Blues (10/15/06; SASA,
2/14/07-2/18/07)

This panel for the Southern American Studies Association
(SASA) will explore filmic uses of the blues and southern
music as an ethnic and/or regional signifier. Of particular
interest is the blues as signifier not only of place but of
time, i.e., blues as signifier for nostalgia and/or the
past. Other areas of interest include but are not limited
to: the filmic relationship between visual images and the
blues, diegetic versus nondiegetic uses of the blues, and
transcultural uses of the blues.

CFP: Cinematic Homesick Blues (10/15/06; SASA,
2/14/07-2/18/07)

This panel for the Southern American Studies Association
(SASA) will explore filmic uses of the blues and southern
music as an ethnic and/or regional signifier. Of particular
interest is the blues as signifier not only of place but of
time, i.e., blues as signifier for nostalgia and/or the
past. Other areas of interest include but are not limited
to: the filmic relationship between visual images and the
blues, diegetic versus nondiegetic uses of the blues, and
transcultural uses of the blues.

> >CALL FOR PAPERS
> >
> >>LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SECTION
> >
> >Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters
> >
> >MARCH 9-10 2007, Location: Ferris State University, Big Rapids
Michigan
> >
> >Grad Students Welcome!
> >
> >British, American, Ethnic, Comparative literature, literature and
> film

FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.)
hosted by the Portland Center for Cultural Studies

Portland, Oregon (Portland State University) April 19-21, 2007

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its =20
Fifth Annual Meeting from all areas and topics of relevance to =20
Cultural Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, =20
sociology, geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, =20
cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist =20
studies, postcolonial studies, media and film studies, material =20
culture studies, performance and visual arts studies.

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Parables in Drama"

Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference
New Orleans
July 26-29, 2007

Parables and drama, and specifically parables in drama, work performatively
to "redescribe" the world as we know it and force the audience to perform a
redescription of reality. They deserve our attention for the ways in which the
self and our world are constructed and deconstructed. But most especially,
parables in drama consider layers of readings that highlight what the best of
both genres have to offer.