"Between Future and Fatality:
Utopian and Dystopian Ideas in German Literature, Film, and Culture."

The German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of
Cincinnati
and the editors of the graduate student journal Focus on German Studies
present the Eleventh Annual Focus Graduate Student Conference
held on October 27-28, 2006 at the University of Cincinnati

Keynote speaker to be announced soon

"Between Future and Fatality:
Utopian and Dystopian Ideas in German Literature, Film, and Culture."

The German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of
Cincinnati
and the editors of the graduate student journal Focus on German Studies
present the Eleventh Annual Focus Graduate Student Conference
held on October 27-28, 2006 at the University of Cincinnati

Keynote speaker to be announced soon

Kathy Acker, Transatlanticism and the Transnational

edited by Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol

Kathy Acker, Transatlanticism and the Transnational

edited by Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol

18:Beckett
Symposium to be held 9-10 November 2006
Toronto, Canada

The prevalence of Beckettian references and formal strategies in =20
contemporary art, new media and theatre attests to the urgency felt =20
by cultural producers to negotiate his challenging legacy. This =20
symposium will explore recent reinventions of Beckettian themes or =20
strategies, such as repetition, fragmentation, abstraction, =20
absurdity, negativity and humour, in relation to contemporary issues. =20=

Post-Colonial Cannibalism in Literature and the Arts

Call for Papers on Language Attitudes

I am looking for papers for a possible publication of collected essays on
language attitudes, both historical and contemporary. Possible topics
include but are not limited to the following:

Call for Papers on Language Attitudes

I am looking for papers for a possible publication of collected essays on
language attitudes, both historical and contemporary. Possible topics
include but are not limited to the following:

Call for Papers: The Limits of History

Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 2007 Convention, March
1-4, Baltimore

"Men at Home: Masculine Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America"

The University of Virginia's College at Wise, Medieval-Renaissance Conference
is pleased to announce a call for a panel on JRR Tolkine and the Inklings for
the upcoming Medieval-Renaissance Conference, September 14-16, 2006.

Papers covering all aspects of the works of Tolkien and his peers are welcome,
with special consideration given to papers that discuss their works in
relation to medieval and/or renaissance art, literature, and culture.
Abstracts for papers should be 250-300 words in length and may be submitted
electronically or by snail-mail by July 1 to:

24th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference

University of Connecticut

The Medieval World: From the Secular to the Spiritual
Saturday, February 24, 2007

Plenary Speaker: James Simpson, Harvard University
Professor of English and American Literature and Language; Life Fellow, Girton College Cambridge;
Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities

Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted on all topics concerning late antiquity through the late Middle Ages. We strongly encourage papers from a variety of disciplines, including:

The University of Virginia's College at Wise, Medieval-Renaissance Conference
is pleased to announce a call for a panel on JRR Tolkine and the Inklings for
the upcoming Medieval-Renaissance Conference, September 14-16, 2006.

Papers covering all aspects of the works of Tolkien and his peers are welcome,
with special consideration given to papers that discuss their works in
relation to medieval and/or renaissance art, literature, and culture.
Abstracts for papers should be 250-300 words in length and may be submitted
electronically or by snail-mail by July 1 to:

Call for Papers: Image, Sound, & Touch in the Nineteenth Century (Collection)

We are seeking submissions for a collection of previously unpublished
essays on Image, Sound, and Touch in the Nineteenth Century.

How might the image look if we approach it through the sensations and
technologies of sound and touch? What can the nineteenth century teach us
about the inter-related and remedial qualities of media? In what ways do
we reproduce the apparent ocular-centrism of the nineteenth century in our
current critical practices?