VERB, an interdisciplinary online journal with a newsprint supplement,
is seeking submissions for its Fall 2006 issue. The topic for this
issue is "contagion," broadly defined, which includes (but is not
limited to):

* Disease, sickness, and death, (or theorizing the same).
* The spread of ideas, practices, or perceptions, (or theorizing the same).
* Politics, parasites, or the rapidly-breeding nuisance insects of New
England.
* The communication of ideas, artistic or otherwise.
* Blogs (because no online journal can refuse to discuss blogs).
* Any other item with even a tenuous denotative or connotative
similarity to any definition of "contagion," current or otherwise.

Call for Papers
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Reconstruction is proud to announce the publication of its Spring 2006
issue, which can be found at http://reconstruction.eserver.org.
Featured in the issue:

* Michael Vastola, "Pedagogy, Ideology, and Space in the Classical
Anarchist Conception of Freedom"

* Julie Elaine Goodspeed-Chadwick, "Derrida's Deconstruction of
Logocentrism: Implications for Trauma Studies"

* Rob Cover, "Producing Norms: Same-Sex Marriage, Refiguring Kinship
and the Cultural Groundswell of Queer Coupledom"

CFP: Restoration Drama (09/15/06; NEMLA, 03/01/07- 03/04/07)

2007 NEMLA (Northeast MLA) convention, Baltimore, Maryland
March 1-4, 2007

>From the comedy of manners to the heroic drama, theatre in the latter
part of the 17th century revived with a flourish. This NEMLA
Board-sponsored panel seeks paper proposals (approximately 500 words) on
new critical and theoretical approaches to Restoration and early
18th-century drama. Please include a brief biography and direct queries
and submissions (due date: Sept. 15th, 2006) to Rita Bode by email:
rbode_at_trentu.ca.

CFP: Restoration Drama (09/15/06; NEMLA, 03/01/07- 03/04/07)

2007 NEMLA (Northeast MLA) convention, Baltimore, Maryland
March 1-4, 2007

>From the comedy of manners to the heroic drama, theatre in the latter
part of the 17th century revived with a flourish. This NEMLA
Board-sponsored panel seeks paper proposals (approximately 500 words) on
new critical and theoretical approaches to Restoration and early
18th-century drama. Please include a brief biography and direct queries
and submissions (due date: Sept. 15th, 2006) to Rita Bode by email:
rbode_at_trentu.ca.

Call for articles: The 2006 Sarah Gordon Award of $500 will be
awarded to the best article by a graduate student about
the works of Flannery O'Connor or another southern studies topic.
Any critical approach may be used.

Each entrant must be a graduate student as of 1 Aug. 2006, and
articles must be postmarked by 1 Aug. 2006. Send two copies
of your article (without your name on them) and enclose an SASE
if you want your entry returned. In your cover letter, please provide
complete contact information.

All entries will be considered for publication in the Flannery O'Connor
Review.
Articles should conform to the usual guidelines outlined in the Review.

Mail entries to this address:

The deadline for submission of abstracts for the international
conference on “Fundamentalism and Literature” at the
University of Muenster, Germany, November 19-22, 2006, has been extended
to July 1. You may access the call for papers and conference
registration form at  www.anglistik.uni-muenster.de/fundamentalism

CFP: Francis E. W. Harper in Context (09/15/06; NEMLA, 03/01/07-
03/04/07)

2007 NEMLA (Northeast MLA) convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 1-4, 2007

The deadline for submission of abstracts for the international
conference on “Fundamentalism and Literature” at the
University of Muenster, Germany, November 19-22, 2006, has been extended
to July 1. You may access the call for papers and conference
registration form at  www.anglistik.uni-muenster.de/fundamentalism

DEADLINE EXTENDED

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Proposals on the American South

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Popular Culture Association in the South / American Culture Association
in the South

October 5-7, 2006

Marriott Savannah Riverfront

Savannah, Georgia

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Proposals are welcome for individual presentations or entire sessions
(traditional presentations, roundtables, or other configurations) on any
aspect of the American South for the 2006 PCAS/ACAS joint conference in
Savannah.

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While all topics and approaches will be considered, to round out the
sessions already set for the program, we are especially interested in
scholarly proposals in the following areas:

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NOTE: I am posting this CFP on behalf of the Mark Twain Circle of
America and the American Humor Studies Association. Please send
proposals and other inquiries to the addresses specified in the body of
this message; please do not send them to the originating address of
this CFP.--Joe Alvarez
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American Humor Studies Association/Mark Twain Circle of America
Quadrennial Conference, December 7-10, 2006, New Orleans, LA.

Call for Papers
   
  Critical Essays on « Cameroon Literature in English :
  The Novel and Drama »
   
           Since the publication in 1993 of the collection of essays Anglophone Cameroon Writing by Lyonga, Breitinger and Butake, the Cameroon literary landscape has been enriched with new titles in English, Especially in the genres of the novel and drama. Almost on a monthly basis, there are book launches particularly in Yaounde, Buea and Bamenda. However, this outburst of literary creativity has not, it seems to us, been matched by serious critical judgments which could serve both the creative writers and the general reading public. This book project is intended to fill that vacuum.
   

Call for Papers
   
  Critical Essays on « Cameroon Literature in English :
  The Novel and Drama »
   
           Since the publication in 1993 of the collection of essays Anglophone Cameroon Writing by Lyonga, Breitinger and Butake, the Cameroon literary landscape has been enriched with new titles in English, Especially in the genres of the novel and drama. Almost on a monthly basis, there are book launches particularly in Yaounde, Buea and Bamenda. However, this outburst of literary creativity has not, it seems to us, been matched by serious critical judgments which could serve both the creative writers and the general reading public. This book project is intended to fill that vacuum.
   

Call for Papers
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38th Convention Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland
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Weird Science in Nineteenth Century Literature will explore the =
significance of unconventional or non-traditional science (including =
medicine) in texts of the period. Examples might include, but are not =
limited to: phrenology, mesmerism, alchemy and homeopathy. Please send =
abstracts of 250 words via email to: Kristin Sanner, Dept. of English, =
Mansfield University (ksanner_at_mansfield.edu)
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Please include with your abstract:
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Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Phone number
AV requirements (if any)

NEMLA 2007 =

Call for Papers
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Panel=3A The Violence of the Photographic Image and its Legacies=3A
30 Years After Susan Sontag=92s On Photography

38th Convention=2C Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4=2C 2007
Baltimore=2C Maryland =

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Contact=3A Marcelline Block=2C mblock=40princeton=2Eedu and Masha Mimran=
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Deadline for Paper Proposals=3A September 1st=2C 2006