UPDATED INFORMATION:
The organisers of the following conference are delighted to inform
prospective attendees that a publisher has expressed an interest in
releasing a collection of edited essays or proceedings from the
Fashioning Fiction conference. We also have organised a celidh in The
Queen's Hotel: http://www.queenshotelscotland.com/ . Please remember
that the closing date for abstracts is 10th March (deadline may be
extended). For further information visit
www.fashioningfiction.stir.ac.uk .

The First Annual Southwest Writers and Artists Festival, hosted by Texas
A&M University, is seeking papers, panel proposals, and creative works
to be presented at the Festival, October 24-26, 2006, in College
Station.
 
The Festival will celebrate the arts of the Southwest by inviting
notable poets, novelists, essayists, scholars, filmmakers,
photographers, painters, songwriters and musicians to the campus for
three days of performances, readings, panels, and discussions. Critical
and creative submissions may touch on areas relating to the humanities,
such as painting, sculpture, literature, history, film, and folklore and

The First Annual Southwest Writers and Artists Festival, hosted by Texas
A&M University, is seeking papers, panel proposals, and creative works
to be presented at the Festival, October 24-26, 2006, in College
Station.
 
The Festival will celebrate the arts of the Southwest by inviting
notable poets, novelists, essayists, scholars, filmmakers,
photographers, painters, songwriters and musicians to the campus for
three days of performances, readings, panels, and discussions. Critical
and creative submissions may touch on areas relating to the humanities,
such as painting, sculpture, literature, history, film, and folklore and

The Embodied Canon
The 17th Annual Southland Graduate Student Conference
UCLA English Department
Friday, May 19, 2006

This panel invites writers to consider how gossip and its related forms
negotiate the distance between high and low culture and public and private
spheres. Does gossip function as a conservative or subversive force? What
happens when scandalous talk circulates in print? How do "high" literary
genres (such as biography) mimic the content or strategies of "low" forms
(such as scandal sheets)? Does gossip function as a trope or a threat for
authorship? How can scandal be commodified--as news, talk shows, published
diaries, scandal sheets, even blackmail? When a secret becomes public
knowledge, whose story is it? We hope these questions serve as a

The Embodied Canon
The 17th Annual Southland Graduate Student Conference
UCLA English Department
Friday, May 19, 2006

Deadline Extended: 3/20/06

Original CFP Below:

Commensurate with Experience: Work and the Next
Generation of English Scholars
 
Citing findings from the National Center for
Educational Statistics (NCES), Louis Menand points out
in his 2005 contribution to MLA's _Profession_ that
between 1970 and 2001 the number of English majors has
dropped, roughly, by a third; however "the system is
producing the same number of doctorates in English
that it was producing back in 1970. These Ph.D.s have
trouble getting tenure-track jobs because fewer
students major in English, and therefore the demand
for English literature specialists has declined"
(12-13).

Deadline extended:

In an interview with Amnesty International , Chilean writer and activist Ariel Dorfman explains that, despite efforts to
silence survivors of human rights violations, "Somehow the stories do come out, those voices do come out. I am not their
voice: I make a space for those voices, a bridge." Dorfman's insights raise questions about the role of literature in the
struggle for human rights. How do writers represent often unspeakable crimes against humanity and create a cultural memory
that recognizes the forgotten or marginalized voices from the past? What does it mean to bear witness through literature?

The following is a CFP for a special session proposed for the 2006 Midwest Modern Language Association convention in Chicago, November 9-12, 2006:

The following is a CFP for a special session proposed for the 2006 Midwest Modern Language Association convention in Chicago, November 9-12, 2006:

CALL FOR PAPERS

2006 ALSC Conference, San Francisco, California, October 13-15 2006

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
MEATJOURNAL.COM
DEADLINE: ONGOING

In the rush toward digital space, what often gets forgotten is the =20
"meat," the living, breathing, paying-bills bodies who write. =20
MEATJOURNAL.COM (ISSN 1549-4454) is a refereed online journal that, =20
among other things, explores issues of the body in popular culture. =20
We invite a wide array of submissions: scholarly articles, =20
interviews, essays, book reviews, and creative works (both word and =20
image). Past contributions have included an interview with author =20
Erika Lopez (Flaming Iguanas: An All-Girl Road Novel Thing), essays =20
by Will Banks and Barclay Barrios, visual art, music, and a holy host =20=

NOTE: Change of Date for Abstracts

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Imaginary Places: Representations of Dystopia in Literature and Film=20

(McFarland, 2006)

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Proposals and contributions are being sought for a chapter on dystopian=20

film in a commissioned edited collection of essays on dystopian =
literature=20

and film.

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Abstracts are required for a chapter on film provisionally called=20

'Nightmare Visions and Unaccountable Corporations: The Dystopian Sprawl =
of=20

Cyberpunk Dystopias'.

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If you would like to be considered for this collection send a 250 word=20

abstract to the editor, p.a.wheeler_at_herts.ac.uk by March 31st 2006.=20

2006 M/MLA Annual Convention
November 9-12, The Palmer House Hilton
Chicago, Illinois

Conference Theme: High/Low Culture

Proposed Special Session: "Popular Persuasions: The Rhetorics of
Identity in Popular Culture"