Call for Papers
MLA 2006 Convention, Philadelphia
Lexicography Discussion Group

Text and Hypertext: Dictionaries and their Readers/Users

Increasingly, dictionaries appear in multiple forms, printed and
web-based, that elicit different responses from their readers. Papers
addressing the changes in the needs and expectations of dictionary users
and the differing requirements of multiple media welcome.

Abstracts due by March 15, 2006 to Felicia Jean Steele (steele_at_tcnj.edu).
Newcomers to the Modern Language Association welcome, although all
participants in convention sessions must be MLA members by 7 April 2006.

Call for Papers and Sessions
THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION
November 8-12, 2006
www.filmandhistory.org

Area CFP: Mockumentaries

CORRECTION! Please disregard the information referring to Ron Gard in the former CFP. Editorial error. My apologies. Mary Song
   
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    Call for Papers

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
at University of California, Riverside
on November 3-4, 2006

Session Title: American Literature After 1865

"The Historical Novel in Canada, 1832-2005" (collection; 06/30/06)

The editors invite submissions for a collection of critical essays tentatively titled "The Historical Novel in Canada, 1832-2005." Wilfrid Laurier University Press has committed to publication of the collection.

Survivor paradigms through which literatures of trauma are read often presume a stable self that can be recovered. How and what does a postmodern subject survive, and is recovery possible or desired? How is selfhood in dialogue with culture in moments of crisis? The devastation in our Gulf Coast invites us to consider existing theories of the survivor and to contemplate new approaches that acknowledge elements of postmodern culture.

Theoretical essays and readings of specific texts/events/experiences are welcome for this SAMLA special session. Memoirs and autobiography must be in dialogue with critical discourse.

CALL FOR PAPERS

TV Fiction Exchange: Local/Regional/National/Global.
An International Conference.

Contributors include:
Professor Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney
David Bianculli, NY Daily News television critic and author of
Teletiteracy
Dr David Lavery, Middle-State Tennessee University
Mark Lawson, Guardian television critic and writer

Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU Cheshire).
Dates: Tuesday 5 - Friday 8 September 2006.

CFP: Visual Studies (grad) (3/15/06; 4/22/06)

The Seventh Annual Graduate English Conference
Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT

I'm seeking papers from graduate students that examine mythologization in comics. Which myths, legends and folktales have been retold? Where do these retellings remain faithful and how do they depart from the original stories? What does this suggest about motifs and topologies? These and other similar questions are the focus of the Visual Studies panel.

CFP: Visual Studies (grad) (3/15/06; 4/22/06)

The Seventh Annual Graduate English Conference
Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT

I'm seeking papers from graduate students that examine mythologization in comics. Which myths, legends and folktales have been retold? Where do these retellings remain faithful and how do they depart from the original stories? What does this suggest about motifs and topologies? These and other similar questions are the focus of the Visual Studies panel.

CFP: Bibliography and Textual Criticism (3/1/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

Paper proposals are invited for the "Bibliography and Textual Criticism"
session at the 2006 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
conference in Tucson, Arizona. Papers may be on any aspect of
bibliography, textual criticism, history of the book, or related topics.
Please send a 1-page abstract before March 1, 2006 to:

Ryan Muckerheide

Arizona State University

Department of English

PO Box 870302

Tempe, AZ 85287-0302

Or by email attachment to: Ryan.Muckerheide _ at _ asu.edu

Papers are invited for the 2006 panel of the MLA Discussion Group “Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English” (MLA Conference, Philadelphia, December 2006). Panel title: “The Languages of Diaspora Drama and Performance.” Papers on U.S. diasporic dramatic texts and performances (theater, music, performance art etc.) that are in any languages other than English or are multi/bi/lingual. Please e-mail abstracts and c.v. to Dalia Kandiyoti by March 15: kandiyoti_at_inbox.com

Thank you.

Dalia Kandiyoti
Department of English, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

I would like to encourage you to submit a proposal for the session entitled "Practical Approaches to Teaching Film", which I will be chairing this year at the 60th Annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association convention. This session dedicated to using film in the classroom has met with great enthusiasm in the past and led to a fruitful exchange of ideas among teachers from a wide range of institutions.

Papers are invited for the 2006 panel of the MLA Discussion Group “Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English” (MLA Conference, Philadelphia, December 2006). Panel title: “The Languages of Diaspora Drama and Performance.” Papers on U.S. diasporic dramatic texts and performances (theater, music, performance art etc.) that are in any languages other than English or are multi/bi/lingual. Please e-mail abstracts and c.v. to Dalia Kandiyoti by March 15: kandiyoti_at_inbox.com

Thank you.

Dalia Kandiyoti
Department of English, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

VSAWC 2006: The Global Victorians: Interdisciplinary and Transnational
Approaches to the Victorian Era

Computer Applications in English and Foreign Languages
South Central Modern Language Association Annual Convention
October 28-30, 2006
Fort Worth, TX

The 2006 SCMLA Computer Applications in English and Foreign Languages
session welcomes submissions on any aspect of computer-assisted
instruction, humanities computing, electronic literacy, or related
topic. Please send papers or 500-word abstract to session chair Tom
Nelson at <tjnelson_at_mail.utexas.edu>.

Submissions due March 15. Notification of acceptance will be made by
April 7; participants must be members of SCMLA by May 15, 2006.