International Conference

Sustainability and the Literary Imagination:
Transdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives

November 18th, 2006
Department of English
National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

Call for papers

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s college students meet in one location. And it is the duty of compositi=
on instructors to assist these ethnically and culturally diverse student=
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cerning how best to help students construct this academic identity in th=
e contact zones of first year writing is still debated. While much of th=
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CALL FOR PAPERS
  International Conference
  on
  WESTERN POPULAR LITERATURE AND ITS RECEPTION IN INDIA
  Department of English, Jadavpur University,
  Kolkata 700032 India Phone 91 33 24146681 Fax 91 33 24137903
  The Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, invites papers for an International Conference on Western Popular Literature and Its Reception in India on 18-19 December 2006.
        The Conference will address historical issues such as the following:
    
   How western literature reached India.

Call for Papers: True Crime in Television, Film, and History
2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
  28th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico
  February 14-17, 2007
  The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency downtown. Join us this year, as a returning or first-time participant, as we celebrate a new future on Route 66 at this regional popular culture conference. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.swtexaspca.org.

Call for Papers: True Crime in Television, Film, and History
2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
  28th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico
  February 14-17, 2007
  The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency downtown. Join us this year, as a returning or first-time participant, as we celebrate a new future on Route 66 at this regional popular culture conference. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.swtexaspca.org.

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Caribbean Panels*

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

March 1-4, 2007

Baltimore, Maryland

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NeMLA members have proposed the following panels and invite abstracts that
examine authors and texts from the Caribbean:

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*From Negritude to Creolization * Board-Sponsored Panel. This panel invites
papers that explore theories of identity in the French Caribbean. Send
abstracts to Carinne Mardorossian, SUNY-Buffalo: cm27_at_buffalo.edu

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Call for Papers:
College English Association of Ohio – Fall Conference

CEAO Fall Conference

When: Friday, October 27, 2006

Where: Bowling Green State University

Theme: (Re)Inventing English Studies

The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Announces its

**1st Annual Award for the Best Non-English Language Scholarly Essay on the Fantastic**

We define the fantastic to include science fiction, folklore, and related genres in literature, drama, film, art and graphic design, and related disciplines.

Prize: $250 U.S. and one year's free membership in the IAFA to be awarded at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in March 2007
Winning essay to be published online at the IAFA website

Deadline: November 30, 2006

*** Please note the updated deadline for papers***

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Diversity and Change in Early Canadian Women's
Writing" (collection)
UPDATED DEADLINE: September 15, 2006

This spring's Congress conference call for papers on
"Diversity and Change: Early Canadian Women Writers"
yielded the attention of Cambridge Scholars Press
(http://www.cambridgescholarspress.com), who is
interested in publishing an edited collection of
essays on the subject. This is a call for complete,
developed, critical essays on diversity and change in
early Canadian women's writing for this collection of
essays.

*** Please note the updated deadline for papers***

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Diversity and Change in Early Canadian Women's
Writing" (collection)
UPDATED DEADLINE: September 15, 2006

This spring's Congress conference call for papers on
"Diversity and Change: Early Canadian Women Writers"
yielded the attention of Cambridge Scholars Press
(http://www.cambridgescholarspress.com), who is
interested in publishing an edited collection of
essays on the subject. This is a call for complete,
developed, critical essays on diversity and change in
early Canadian women's writing for this collection of
essays.

The editors of the international research confederacy on African literature and culture (IRCALC) welcome submissions of research papers on recent literatures /existing oratures of Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa generally focussed around the boundaries of Culture, Oral Tradition and Aesthetics; History, Progress and Transition; War, Conflicts, Trauma and Reconciliation; Individuality vs Fringe /Marginal Identities; Masculinist /Feminist (Re)Inscriptions; Present-Past /Future-Present Temporality; Contemporary Modernity and Citizenship (Re)Definitions; Post-Colony and Nation-State Dilemmas.

The editors of the international research confederacy on African literature and culture (IRCALC) welcome submissions of research papers on recent literatures /existing oratures of Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa generally focussed around the boundaries of Culture, Oral Tradition and Aesthetics; History, Progress and Transition; War, Conflicts, Trauma and Reconciliation; Individuality vs Fringe /Marginal Identities; Masculinist /Feminist (Re)Inscriptions; Present-Past /Future-Present Temporality; Contemporary Modernity and Citizenship (Re)Definitions; Post-Colony and Nation-State Dilemmas.

Call for Papers:

Victorian Landscape Descriptions

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

Second Call for Papers

Women in Irish Culture and History

University College Dublin, October 20th-22nd 2006

*Please note the extended deadline (07/31/06) and new email address
for correspondence (irishwomen_at_gmail.com)