Trash Cinema: A Primer for Beginners (collection)

UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 January, 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS: Collection of critical essays on trash cinema

We invite submissions for a critical anthology about the ever-expanding
world of national and international trash cinema.

As fans of trash cinema, while we do like to think of the form as being
utterly anti- or counter- "mainstream" cinema, in the ways it challenges
or reworks many of its assumptions, we are amazed at how many trash
favorites (both personal and more perennial, if such a thing exists)
have a striking formal similarity to - as well as an appeal for devotees
of - the "traditional" film canon's fare.

11th Annual Dickens Society Symposium
Queen's University
Belfast, Northern Ireland
11-13 August 2006

Call for Papers

The NEASECS Program Committee at Salem State College invites proposals for
panels or other innovative sessions on any topics related to the long
18th-century. We are particularly interested in proposals related to the
conference theme "Pursuits of Knowledge" in any of its broad,
interdisciplinary interpretations. The conference will take place in
historic Salem, Massachusetts November 9-12, 2006. Send panel topics or
session proposals to be included in the spring Call for Papers by December
31, 2005 to Dr. Elizabeth Blood (email: eblood_at_salemstate.edu) Visit our
website: http://www.neasecs2006.org

Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing Texts

The Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton is seeking
papers for our 2006 conference to be held February 17th and 18th,
2006. We are interested papers/presentations for the following
suggested panel:

Defining Spaces

Graduate Association of French and Italian Students
19th Annual Symposium
University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 30-April 1, 2006

We invite abstracts of 300-500 words about "defining
spaces" in French, Francophone, and Italian literary
and cultural studies. Students from multiple
disciplines are encouraged to apply and presentations
in English are recommended. Please submit abstracts
with title and contact information to Sandra Simmons
and Sharon Donaldson at gafis_symposium_at_yahoo.com by
December 15, 2005.

Visit http://frit.lss.wisc.edu/frit/ for more
information.

12th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
McGill University, Montreal
Theme: Permeability and Selfhood
March 11-12, 2006

This call for papers is for a panel to be held at Permeability and
Selfhood, the McGill Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, which
will take place March 11-12 at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.

"Drugs and Selfhood"

12th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
McGill University, Montreal
Theme: Permeability and Selfhood
March 11-12, 2006

This call for papers is for a panel to be held at Permeability and
Selfhood, the McGill Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, which
will take place March 11-12 at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.

"Drugs and Selfhood"

Call for Papers from Graduate Students

"(En)compass(ing) Language: Interplay Within English Studies"

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

March 31st through April 1st

Sponsored by: Texas Tech University's Graduate English Society

Co-Chairs: Brandon Hernsberger and Elizabeth Porter

Address: GES Conference

                                    Texas Tech University

                                    Department of English, Box 43091

                                    Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091

Call for Papers from Graduate Students

"(En)compass(ing) Language: Interplay Within English Studies"

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

March 31st through April 1st

Sponsored by: Texas Tech University's Graduate English Society

Co-Chairs: Brandon Hernsberger and Elizabeth Porter

Address: GES Conference

                                    Texas Tech University

                                    Department of English, Box 43091

                                    Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091

Call for Papers from Graduate Students

"(En)compass(ing) Language: Interplay Within English Studies"

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

March 31st through April 1st

Sponsored by: Texas Tech University's Graduate English Society

Co-Chairs: Brandon Hernsberger and Elizabeth Porter

Address: GES Conference

                                    Texas Tech University

                                    Department of English, Box 43091

                                    Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091

Call for Papers:

Theatricality, History, Theory

The seminar will be part of the American Comparative Literature Association Conference at Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey, March 23-26, 2006.

Seminar Organizers: Martin Harries, New York University; Andrew Parker, Amherst College

****CALL FOR PAPERS****
MELUS Special Issue - Multi-Ethnic American Graphic Narrative
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/droyal/melus.htm
  
In his book REINVENTING COMICS, Scott McCloud explores some of the problems
concerning ethnicity and comics. Not only does he argue for an increased
awareness of ethnic and gender representation in contemporary comics, but he
also highlights many of the ethnoracial concerns underlying the history of
comics in the United States. Using McCloud's arguments as a springboard,
MELUS plans on publishing a special issue devoted to multi-ethnic American

****CALL FOR PAPERS****
MELUS Special Issue - Multi-Ethnic American Graphic Narrative
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/droyal/melus.htm
  
In his book REINVENTING COMICS, Scott McCloud explores some of the problems
concerning ethnicity and comics. Not only does he argue for an increased
awareness of ethnic and gender representation in contemporary comics, but he
also highlights many of the ethnoracial concerns underlying the history of
comics in the United States. Using McCloud's arguments as a springboard,
MELUS plans on publishing a special issue devoted to multi-ethnic American

Princeton, NJ, March 23-26, 2006

American Contemporary Literature Association Annual Meeting: The Human and
Its Others

Seminar Title: Neurology and Literature, 1800-present

Seminar Organizer(s): Anne Stiles, UCLA; Maria Farland, Fordham University