UPDATE: CFP: European Silent Cinema (02/2006/2006; proposed edited
collection)

Submissions are invited for a book-length collection of essays relating to
European Silent Cinema.

On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Jan Lauwers's =
Needcompany

Gent (Belgium), Academia Press, 2007.

Panel proposed for the
American Literature Association Conference
May 25-28, 2006
San Francisco, CA
Conference information: www.americanliterature.org

Confessional Elegies

Panel proposed for the
American Literature Association Conference
May 25-28, 2006
San Francisco, CA
Conference information: www.americanliterature.org

Confessional Elegies

Call for proposals Philosophy Insights series

Authors in the Philosophy Insights series at Humanities Ebooks will be =
writing guides which they would expect other academics to recommend to =
their students. In place of summaries and model answers these books will =
provide a stimulating, suggestive yet authoritative introduction to =
matters of debate and interpretation. The series will characteristically =
raise rather more questions than it answers, will set readers thinking =
about questions before proposing answers, and will address some major =
issues dialogically.=20

Please note deadline extension to 1/10/06.

The deadline for abstracts submissions has been extended to January 15,
2006.

Conference website:
http://people.brandeis.edu/~dcoriale/traffic/Traffic7.htm

MARCH 10, 2006
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
Plenary Speaker: Professor John Plotz, Brandeis University

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Third Annual English Graduate Conference at Brandeis University

Call for Papers =96 the Fibreculture Journal =96 General Issue, 2006
(please circulate)

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New web site address:

WOOLFIAN BOUNDARIES
the 16th Annual International Conference on

email: vwoolf2006_at_bham.ac.uk

Virginia Woolf

22 – 25 June 2006

hosted by the University of Birmingham

at Crowne Plaza Hotel

Central Square

Holliday Street
Birmingham B1 1HH
UK

In affiliation with the International Virginia Woolf Society and the
Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.

Conference information added:

CFP: Margaret Atwood: Texts and Contexts (3/1/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

Abstracts of 15-20 minute papers due by March 1, 2006 to Karen Stein, WMS
Program, 315 Roosevelt Hall, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881

or wmsdir_at_etal.uri.edu

Margaret Atwood: Texts and Contexts
We welcome submissions on any aspect of Atwood's work, especially her more
recent works, such as Oryx and Crake, The Penelopiad or The Blind Assassin.
Also welcome are papers about other contemporary Canadian women writers,
especially in connection with Atwood.

New web site address:

WOOLFIAN BOUNDARIES
the 16th Annual International Conference on

email: vwoolf2006_at_bham.ac.uk

Virginia Woolf

22 – 25 June 2006

hosted by the University of Birmingham

at Crowne Plaza Hotel

Central Square

Holliday Street
Birmingham B1 1HH
UK

In affiliation with the International Virginia Woolf Society and the
Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.

The deadline for abstracts submissions has been extended to January 15,
2006.

Conference website:
http://people.brandeis.edu/~dcoriale/traffic/Traffic7.htm

MARCH 10, 2006
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
Plenary Speaker: Professor John Plotz, Brandeis University

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Third Annual English Graduate Conference at Brandeis University

The Toni Morrison Society invites proposals for 15-20 panels at 2 panels at=
 the 2006 American Literature Association Conference, May 25-28, San Franci=
sco, California. Email 200 word proposals to address below by 15 Jan. 2006.=

1. Toni Morrison and Black Women Writers:
Morrison's impact on women writers
How Morrison has opened up "space" for women writers
The shifts in Black women's fiction before and after Morrison
The relationship of Morrison's fictional texts to other genres of Black wo=
men's writing.

In honor of J. Hillis Miller recently being awarded the fourth-ever Lifetime
Achievement Award for Scholarship by the MLA, the UNH English Graduate
Organization has decided to extend the deadline submission for its graduate
student conference, "Border Crossings and Boundary Definitions" to
January 1, 2006. Keynote speakers, in addition to J. Hillis Miller,
are Donald E. Pease, Jr., and Janet Aikins Yount.

Border Crossings and Boundary Definitions
Graduate Conference, University of New Hampshire
March 31-April 1, 2006