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Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association ~ RMMLA

Annual Convention in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies

Calgary, Alberta ~ October 4-6, 2007

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Call for paper proposals!

SESSION: Oral and Traditional Arts

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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

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

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RMMLA

CFP: Chris Ware (3/15/07; MLA, 12/27/07-12/30/07)

Call for papers for a proposed special session
MLA Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2007

Papers for this proposed special session will consider the work of
Chicago-based contemporary graphic novelist/comic book artist/cartoonist
Chris Ware, author of _Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth_ (2000,
winner of the 2001 Guardian First Book Award), _Quimby the Mouse_ (2003),
and _The Acme Novelty Library_ (2005). Among the questions that proposals
could address are:

-- What is Ware's relationship to the literary canon (both in terms of
graphic and conventional literature) and how does he re-imagine our
relationship to the idea of literariness?

Call for Papers
Sender: owner-cfp_at_lists.sas.upenn.edu
Precedence: bulk

2007 ALSC Conference, Chicago, IL, October 12-14, 2006

"The Novel and its Borders"

3 day Conference organised by The Centre for The Novel
University of Aberdeen
8-10 July 2008
www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference/

The novel is not only a literary form occupying a particular generic or
cultural territory, but also an aesthetic, historical and social
phenomenon that represents, constructs, and transgresses borders. The
conference on The Novel and its Borders will engage with the novel in all
its aspects, material and theoretical, from the 18th to the 21st century.

Plenary speakers: Malcolm Bowie, Jonathan Lamb, Terry Castle

Panel topics will include the following:

"The Novel and its Borders"

3 day Conference organised by The Centre for The Novel
University of Aberdeen
8-10 July 2008
www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference/

The novel is not only a literary form occupying a particular generic or
cultural territory, but also an aesthetic, historical and social
phenomenon that represents, constructs, and transgresses borders. The
conference on The Novel and its Borders will engage with the novel in all
its aspects, material and theoretical, from the 18th to the 21st century.

Plenary speakers: Malcolm Bowie, Jonathan Lamb, Terry Castle

Panel topics will include the following:

Call for papers:

The 2007 Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA) panel on the short
story:

Revisiting Metafiction and Metanarrative

Narratives of 9/11: The Arab World and its Diasporas

The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association's 2007 meetings will have =
a session devoted to ethical criticism. Wayne Booth's approach is the =
most common topic, but any paper proposal on the ethical impact (or why =
we should expect no ethical impact from an aesthetic medium) of =
literature is welcome. The deadline for paper proposals is March 1, =
2007. Send your 300-word or shorter proposal to Alan Goff at =
agoff_at_devry.edu<mailto:agoff_at_devry.edu>.

Colonial and Postcolonial Spaces: an Interdisciplinary Conference

6-7 September 2007

Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England

Call for Papers

CFP: Ecocriticism: Raising Environmental Awareness through Literature
(3/1/07; RMMLA 10/4/07 - 10/6/07)

Call for Papers for the Special Topics Session on Ecocriticism at the
Rocky Mountain MLA, Westin Calgary Hotel, Calgary, AB, 10/4/07 - 10/6/07
Conference information at: http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/default.asp

Proposals are sought for 20-minute presentations from scholars working in
any aspect of ecocriticism, although investigations of globalization,
climate change, environmental justice, and toxic discourse are of
particular interest.

CFP: Ecocriticism: Raising Environmental Awareness through Literature
(3/1/07; RMMLA 10/4/07 - 10/6/07)

Call for Papers for the Special Topics Session on Ecocriticism at the
Rocky Mountain MLA, Westin Calgary Hotel, Calgary, AB, 10/4/07 - 10/6/07
Conference information at: http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/default.asp

Proposals are sought for 20-minute presentations from scholars working in
any aspect of ecocriticism, although investigations of globalization,
climate change, environmental justice, and toxic discourse are of
particular interest.

Deadline extended to March 15th.

RAPE IN ART CINEMA: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

(Essay Collection)

Deadline for proposals: March 15th, 2007

Hypermedia/Hypertext
MPCA/MACA - Regional Conference
Oct 12-14, 2007
Radisson Hotel & Suites Kansas City-City Center, 1301 Wyandotte Ave., Kansas
City MO 64105

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 30, 2007.

The Hypermedia/Hypertext area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association
invites papers/panels on hypermedia art and fiction, hypertext theory,
analysis of hypertext/hypermedia works, Internet studies, narrative studies
within the area and any other topics related to writing/publishing on the
Internet. The conference will be held at the Radisson Hotel & Suites Kansas
City in the center of Kansas City, MO over
the weekend of October 12-14, 2007.

Call for Papers

2007 ALSC Conference, Chicago, IL, October 12-14, 2006