Dear colleagues:

Here is the second Call for Papers for the Conference on the Ethics of Fiction
that will take place in Zaragoza from March 30 to April 1, 2006. Please note
the extension for the submission of papers; the new deadline is now January
10. We hope to see you all in Zaragoza.

Best,

Silvia Martínez Falquina
Dpto. de Filología Inglesa y Alemana
Universidad de Zaragoza
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
c/ Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza
Tel: +34 976762790

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

THE ETHICS OF FICTION IN CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE IN ENGLISH

Subjectivity and Community in Ethnic American Women's Memoir

Revised due date.

Papers may analyze how Ethnic American women use memoir to claim
subjectivity and join communities. Papers could explore how writers use
memoir to achieve self-actualization; claim subjectivity; and reconcile
their personal and community identities. Papers could also explore how
Ethnic American women manipulate conventional narrative forms (i.e., slave
narratives, travel narratives, and the autobiographical novel) to claim
subjectivity and to gain access to both the publishing community and
mainstream American society.

Subjectivity and Community in Ethnic American Women's Memoir

Revised due date.

Papers may analyze how Ethnic American women use memoir to claim
subjectivity and join communities. Papers could explore how writers use
memoir to achieve self-actualization; claim subjectivity; and reconcile
their personal and community identities. Papers could also explore how
Ethnic American women manipulate conventional narrative forms (i.e., slave
narratives, travel narratives, and the autobiographical novel) to claim
subjectivity and to gain access to both the publishing community and
mainstream American society.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 9 November 2005

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
          is calling for contributors to the 'transmit' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal.

Death Becomes Her:
Cultural Narratives of Women and Death
in Nineteenth-Century America

Death Becomes Her:
Cultural Narratives of Women and Death
in Nineteenth-Century America

ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others
Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2005

Seminar: "Poetry is what is lost in translation":
Translating the Poetry of Other

ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others
Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2005

Seminar: "Poetry is what is lost in translation":
Translating the Poetry of Other

Call for Papers

The online journal Invisible Culture
<http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html>
is seeking papers for an upcoming issue on the theme of *The Symptom*.

Call for Papers: Inaugural issue of the Community Literacy Journal (for Fall
2006)

The peer-reviewed Community Literacy Journal seeks contributions for our
inaugural, Fall 2006 issue. We welcome submissions that address any social,
cultural, rhetorical, or institutional aspects of community literacy; we
particularly welcome co-authored pieces in collaboration with community
partners. Case studies of projects are also welcome.

Possible articles and approaches include, but are not limited to:

What are the broad, disciplinary implications and possibilities for emerging
community literacy initiatives at the programmatic and institutional levels?

The Marlowe Society of America solicits papers on any aspect of
Christopher Marlowe's plays or poetry (including performance-based
criticism) for an open-topic session to be held at the MLA Convention
(scheduled for New Orleans) in Dec. 2006. Send detailed abstracts or
papers of 15-minute reading length by e-mail, e-mail attachment, or hard
copy to Bruce Brandt, (Bruce.Brandt_at_sdstate.edu
<mailto:Bruce.Brandt_at_sdstate.edu> ) President, Marlowe Society of
America, English Dept., Box 504, South Dakota State University,
Brookings, SD 57007. Deadline: March 1, 2006.

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Updated Schedule for Plenary Speakers:

Eavan Boland (Thursday February 23, 2006 5:30 p.m.)

Vona Groarke (Friday February 24, 2006 4:30 p.m.)

Margot Backus (TBA)

Conor O'Callaghan (TBA)

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DEADLINE FOR CFP: November 15, 2005

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IRISH STUDIES: GEOGRAPHIES AND GENDERS

American Conference for Irish Studies

2006 Southern Regional Conference

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

February 23-26, 2006

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********** UPDATE **********

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Updated Schedule for Plenary Speakers:

Eavan Boland (Thursday February 23, 2006 5:30 p.m.)

Vona Groarke (Friday February 24, 2006 4:30 p.m.)

Margot Backus (TBA)

Conor O'Callaghan (TBA)

=20

DEADLINE FOR CFP: November 15, 2005

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IRISH STUDIES: GEOGRAPHIES AND GENDERS

American Conference for Irish Studies

2006 Southern Regional Conference

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

February 23-26, 2006

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Update: the submission deadline for the Whedonverse (Angel, Buffy, and
Serenity) panel at the SW/TX PCA/ACA conference has been extended to
November 17, 2005.

Special Call for Papers: Buffy, Angel, Firefly and/or Serenity (AKA
Whedonverse), Science Fiction and Fantasy Area, SW/TX PCA/ACA

2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 27th
Annual Conference. The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM,
February 8-11, 2006.

The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to
invite paper and panel proposals on the special topic of Joss Whedon's
work, including Buffy: TVS, Angel, Firefly, and Serenity.