EXTENDED DEADLINE: January 20

Updated website: http://www.communicationincrisis.org/

Communication in Crisis
Conference hosted by the Graduate Program in Communication
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
March 31 - April 1, 2006

Keynote Speaker: Mark Crispin Miller (New York University)

RMMLA
Tucson, AZ
October 12-14, 2006

Practical Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare

This special topic panel will demystify the pedagogical puzzle of
teaching the Bard of Avon to willing (and sometimes unwilling) students.
Successful proposals will outline practical (i.e. leave the Piaget at
home) methods for teaching language, plot, performance, characterization,
symbols, themes, etc. in Shakespeare's plays or poems. Tell the story of
the class that went wrong or conduct a teaching demonstration with the
panel audience so everyone can see your brilliant strategies. Papers or
demonstrations should focus on teaching college-level courses
introductory, intermediate, or advanced.

CALL FOR PAPERS (Please circulate)

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Panel for the 2006 Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest
American Culture Association Conference in Indianapolis, IN, October
27-29

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Panel Title: "The 'Other' in Superhero Comic Books"

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Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2006

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CONFRONTING DANGER Update: Please note that we have extended the date
for proposal submittals to January 15th.

Call for Papers:

The graduate students in the Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch
of
the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are pleased to announce the
upcoming conference, "Confronting Danger," which will take place April
6-9,
2006.

CONFRONTING DANGER Update: Please note that we have extended the date
for proposal submittals to January 15th.

Call for Papers:

The graduate students in the Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch
of
the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are pleased to announce the
upcoming conference, "Confronting Danger," which will take place April
6-9,
2006.

Hi--this updated version reflects the following:

1) Conference dates changed slightly
2) Extended deadline to end of February

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY:
Local, Global, and Glocal: Shifting Borders and Hybrid Identities
University of Arizona
April 6-8, 2006

Hi--this updated version reflects the following:

1) Conference dates changed slightly
2) Extended deadline to end of February

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY:
Local, Global, and Glocal: Shifting Borders and Hybrid Identities
University of Arizona
April 6-8, 2006

Hi--this updated version reflects the following:

1) Conference dates changed slightly
2) Extended deadline to end of February

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY:
Local, Global, and Glocal: Shifting Borders and Hybrid Identities
University of Arizona
April 6-8, 2006

The Division for Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association
is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Philadelphia,
December 2006:

Peak Oil and Post-Prosperity: Discourses of Depletion
Organizer: Martha Stoddard Holmes
Papers on rhetorics and narratives of peak-/post-oil and energy issues in
geoscience, literature, film, cultural commentary: neo-Malthusianism (the
great die-off), neopastoralism, etc. Abstracts or 8-page papers and brief
bio by March 15 to Martha Stoddard Holmes, mstoddar_at_csusm.edu.

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Catherine Belling, PhD

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UPDATE: Emerging Spaces, Transforming Scapes - New Adjunct Workshop and Web Site

Deadline: January 20th, 2006

If you could, please post this update concerning "Emerging Spaces, Transforming Scapes," the Intersections Graduate Student Creative Conference 2006, in Toronto:

In association with the Toronto Universities Policy Discussion Group (TUPDiG) a new Adjunct Workshop and Web Site have been developed. For more information concerning the workshop and the conference please see the details that follow below, or please check the web site at the following URL:

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UPDATE: Emerging Spaces, Transforming Scapes - New Adjunct Workshop and Web Site

Deadline: January 20th, 2006

If you could, please post this update concerning "Emerging Spaces, Transforming Scapes," the Intersections Graduate Student Creative Conference 2006, in Toronto:

In association with the Toronto Universities Policy Discussion Group (TUPDiG) a new Adjunct Workshop and Web Site have been developed. For more information concerning the workshop and the conference please see the details that follow below, or please check the web site at the following URL:

CFP: Queer Homophobia (grad) (2/1/06; disjunctions, 4/7/06-4/8/06)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at Disjunctions, the
University of California,
Riverside's 13th Annual Humanities Conference, April 7-8, 2006. In keeping
with this year's
theme, Lost in Translation, this panel attempts to investigate what happens
to the term queer as it
is translated from subcultures and incorporated into academic discourse.

CFP: Queer Homophobia (grad) (2/1/06; disjunctions, 4/7/06-4/8/06)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at Disjunctions, the
University of California,
Riverside's 13th Annual Humanities Conference, April 7-8, 2006. In keeping
with this year's
theme, Lost in Translation, this panel attempts to investigate what happens
to the term queer as it
is translated from subcultures and incorporated into academic discourse.

The Mystery and Detective Fiction section at SAMLA seeks papers on
mystery and detective fiction. The topic is open, as are approaches and
perspectives.

Please send 200-250 word proposals for 20-minute papers by 1 March 2006
to: winston_at_dickinson.edu (MS Word attachments, please)
or
Bob Winston
Department of English
Dickinson College
P.O. Box 1773
Carlisle, PA 17013-2896

In order for the proposal to be considered, include the following
information: