UPDATE: International conference on literature exploring immigration, emigration and the experience of Wales (1/6/06; 4/7/06-4/9/06)
Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, Wales, UK

Please note new deadline for submissions 2006

TRAVELLING TO NEW WORLDS: IMMIGRATION, EMIGRATION AND THE EXPERIENCE OF WALES
The Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English
7-9 April 2006

Keynote: Professor David Punter

UPDATE: Black British Aesthetics Today: The 2006 Howard University Symposium

(12/21/2005-4/08/2006)

EXTENSION OF THE CALL FOR PAPERS to December 21, 2005.

Papers are invited for an international symposium taking place on the Howard
University campus (Washington, D.C.) and designed to highlight and to
explore an important new area of aesthetic theory and artistic achievement:

UPDATE: Black British Aesthetics Today: The 2006 Howard University Symposium

(12/21/2005-4/08/2006)

EXTENSION OF THE CALL FOR PAPERS to December 21, 2005.

Papers are invited for an international symposium taking place on the Howard
University campus (Washington, D.C.) and designed to highlight and to
explore an important new area of aesthetic theory and artistic achievement:

UPDATE: International conference on literature exploring immigration, emigration and the experience of Wales (1/6/06; 4/7/06-4/9/06)
Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, Wales, UK

Please note new deadline for submissions 2006

TRAVELLING TO NEW WORLDS: IMMIGRATION, EMIGRATION AND THE EXPERIENCE OF WALES
The Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English
7-9 April 2006

Keynote: Professor David Punter

UPDATE: International conference on literature exploring immigration, emigration and the experience of Wales (1/6/06; 4/7/06-4/9/06)
Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, Wales, UK

Please note new deadline for submissions 2006

TRAVELLING TO NEW WORLDS: IMMIGRATION, EMIGRATION AND THE EXPERIENCE OF WALES
The Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English
7-9 April 2006

Keynote: Professor David Punter

New Voices 2006, 'Gender and Sexuality'.

Postgraduate students are invited to submit proposals for
the annual 'New Voices' Conference, on the theme of
'Gender and Sexuality', to be hosted by the Department of
English, NUI, Maynooth, Ireland, 5-7th May 2006.

Interested postgraduate researchers should submit a paper
title with a 300 word abstract, as well as a brief biography
stating departmental/school and institutional affiliation,
to sharon.mooney_at_nuim.ie, before Jan 15th 2006.

More conference details can be accessed on the conference
website:

http://www.nuim.ie/academic/english

CFP: Comparative Hebraisms (3/1/06; 10/12/06-10/14/06)
2006 RMMLA Convention Tucson, AZ ~ October 12-14, 2006
Accepting proposals for papers that incorporate any aspect of Hebrew
literature, rhetoric, philosophy, history, politics, culture,
personalities, linguistics, etc., especially in comparison/contrast to
other cultures. Email proposals of no more than 250 words to
kflacy_at_tamu.edu by March 1, 2006.

Kathleen Flacy
Texas A & M University
Department of Language and Literature
College Station, TX 77843-4227
979-204-6004
kflacy_at_tamu.edu

New Voices 2006, 'Gender and Sexuality'.

Postgraduate students are invited to submit proposals for
the annual 'New Voices' Conference, on the theme of
'Gender and Sexuality', to be hosted by the Department of
English, NUI, Maynooth, Ireland, 5-7th May 2006.

Interested postgraduate researchers should submit a paper
title with a 300 word abstract, as well as a brief biography
stating departmental/school and institutional affiliation,
to sharon.mooney_at_nuim.ie, before Jan 15th 2006.

More conference details can be accessed on the conference
website:

http://www.nuim.ie/academic/english

CALL FOR PAPERS
Reading and Touch

Essays are invited for a collection on the conjunction of Reading and Touch.
The collection is designed to navigate the contemporary labyrinth of
ever-proliferating aesthetic ideologies with the specific aim of
reassessing how we read—both how texts touch us, and we them.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Reading and Touch

Essays are invited for a collection on the conjunction of Reading and Touch.
The collection is designed to navigate the contemporary labyrinth of
ever-proliferating aesthetic ideologies with the specific aim of
reassessing how we read—both how texts touch us, and we them.

Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference

Interface 2006: “Ruptures”

Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture
(ICSLAC)
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
May 4th, 2006

Call for Papers
The Cultural Mediations program at Carleton University announces a call
for papers for its annual graduate conference to be held on campus in
Ottawa on May 4th, 2006. Details are available on the conference web
site at http://www.carleton.ca/interface/.

We are seeking papers for a proposed panel on The Cult of Domesticity
and Indigenous Women, to be submitted for consideration to the 2006
American Studies Association conference. We are interested in
considering how the cult of domesticity, as it is theoretically mapped
out by such authors as Ann Douglas, Lora Romero, Devon Mihesuah, K.
Tsianina Lomawaima, and Susan Tompkins, resonates specifically in
Indigenous women's narratives. We are interested in a complex
conversation about the multivalent negotiations Indigenous women have
and continue to make with the cult of domesticity. How does the cult
of domesticity for Indigenous women resonate similarly with and

We are seeking papers for a proposed panel on The Cult of Domesticity
and Indigenous Women, to be submitted for consideration to the 2006
American Studies Association conference. We are interested in
considering how the cult of domesticity, as it is theoretically mapped
out by such authors as Ann Douglas, Lora Romero, Devon Mihesuah, K.
Tsianina Lomawaima, and Susan Tompkins, resonates specifically in
Indigenous women's narratives. We are interested in a complex
conversation about the multivalent negotiations Indigenous women have
and continue to make with the cult of domesticity. How does the cult
of domesticity for Indigenous women resonate similarly with and

Call for submissions

Thresholds, the bi-annual critical journal of architecture, art and media culture
produced by editors in the Department of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, is currently accepting submissions--scholarly papers as well as
creative projects--for its Spring 2006 issue. The topic of this issue is "Access."
For more information, Please see below or go to http://architecture.mit.edu/thresholds/

Submissions due: 28 February 2006

Inquiries to Pamela Karimi <pamelak_at_mit.edu>