"Schumann Perspectives: A View Across the Disciplines," an
international symposium and music festival celebrating the wide-ranging
artistic legacy of Robert Schumann will take place on the campus of
Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas from September 29-30, 2006.
The festival marks the 150th anniversary of the death of this remarkable
composer, writer, and cultural icon.

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Featured guest speakers and performers include:

* Lawrence Kramer (Professor of Music, Fordham University),
co-editor of 19th-Century Music and author of seven books on the
interrelations of music, culture, and society.

Intimacy and Exteriority
ACLA Annual Conference Seminar, Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006

Mon semblable, mon frère

Deadline for proposal submissions: Nov. 30, 2005

Call for Papers:

2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: Docudrama

Edith Wharton's Dialog with the Women's Movement
 
The Edith Wharton Society will host a panel at the Society for the Study
of American Women Writers Conference (Philadelphia, November 8 - 11,
2006).

Edith Wharton's Dialog with the Women's Movement
 
The Edith Wharton Society will host a panel at the Society for the Study
of American Women Writers Conference (Philadelphia, November 8 - 11,
2006).

CALL-FOR-SUBMISSIONS: CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, Volume Four

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A Symposium in Rhetoric: "Rhetoric & Kairos"
Open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities

Texas Woman's University - Denton, Texas

Where: ACT Bldg. 2nd Floor

When: February 24, 2006

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of kairos, which we define broadly to
incorporate a wide variety of research interests.

A Symposium in Rhetoric: "Rhetoric & Kairos"
Open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities

Texas Woman's University - Denton, Texas

Where: ACT Bldg. 2nd Floor

When: February 24, 2006

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of kairos, which we define broadly to
incorporate a wide variety of research interests.

American Indians Today-American Indians in Film Call for Papers

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 27th Annual
Conference
Albuquerque, NM, February 8-11, 2006
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710

The American Indians Today Area chair invites you to submit papers for a
special emphasis panel/workshop in American Indian Film for the
Southwest Texas/American Popular Culture Association's 27th "Annual
Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 8-11, 2006.=20

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The Panel/Workshop: Teaching American Indian Film

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American Indians Today-American Indians in Film Call for Papers

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 27th Annual
Conference
Albuquerque, NM, February 8-11, 2006
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710

The American Indians Today Area chair invites you to submit papers for a
special emphasis panel/workshop in American Indian Film for the
Southwest Texas/American Popular Culture Association's 27th "Annual
Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 8-11, 2006.=20

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The Panel/Workshop: Teaching American Indian Film

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Announcing the North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference

TRUE OR FALSE?

FEBRUARY 3-4, 2006
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT
CHAPEL HILL

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

* fact and fiction
* forgery
* perception and reality
* theater and verisimilitude
* portraiture, hagiography, (auto)biography
* memory and nostalgia
* mystical experiences
* witchcraft and magic
* judicial procedures
* scientific explanation
* the True Faith, heresy, and false religions
* writing history

Paper Session: "Michael Arnzen: New Directions in Horror"
The 27th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts , Ft.
Lauderdale, FL, March 15-19, 2006. (http://iafa.org/)
 
Responding to the conference's focus on "the fantastic in other media,"
"Michael Arnzen: New Directions in Horror" attempts to define the impact of
new media on popular literature by exploring multiple award-winning author
Dr. Arnzen's literary experiments producing horror for such media as palm
pilots, email, electronic texts and his Stoker award winning website, The
Goreletter (as well as traditional print forms). Dr. Arnzen has already
agreed to act as a respondent.
 

Although the deadline for proposals has passed, later submissions will be
considered.

The Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic, is pleased to announce an
International conference:

Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries

Although the deadline for proposals has passed, later submissions will be
considered.

The Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic, is pleased to announce an
International conference:

Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries