To whom it may concern:
  Paper proposals are being accepted for the upcoming Graduate Student
Conference "Alles in Ordnung?", to be held April 1st, 2006, at Columbia
University's Germanic Languages Department. The organizers would be most
appreciative if you would post the following on your graduate student
list-serve. The deadline for abstract submissions is February 1st, 2006.
 For further information, please contact Patrick Gallagher at
columbia.ordnung_at_gmail.com.
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*Grad Student Conference*

*Columbia University, April 1st, 2006*

*"Alles in Ordnung?" : Civil Order and Its Breakdowns*

Art and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America: A Transatlantic
Exchange
Deadline for Proposals: January 15th, 2006
Conference Date: 14. April. 2006
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

The Nineteenth Century Forum (NCF), an interdisciplinary group comprised of
faculty and graduate students at the University of Michigan, invites
proposals for panels and individual papers for its graduate student
conference "Art and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America: A
Transatlantic Exchange."

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Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing texts
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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 17 and 18, 2006. We are
interested in papers/presentations for the following suggested panel:
 
 
Quotidian Exigencies in FictionAre details/description of the mundane
important in literature? How might they function? What is the effect/affect of
their inclusion in fiction, drama, and poetry? What is the effect of their
exclusion from fiction/drama/and poetry?
 
We are accepting completed paper submissions only, no abstracts, please.
Creative writing/productions/performance contributions are encouraged to

Call for Papers for the University of Dayton LitFest, February 17 and 18,
2006

You are invited to submit paper or panel proposals for the University of
Dayton’s LitFest, to be held at the University of Dayton, February 17 and
18, 2006. Organized by Department of English graduate students, the UD
LitFest has brought academic and creative submissions together since 2001.
Conference attendees will have the opportunity to attend a reading by
award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni (who is appearing in Dayton as part of a
celebration of the life of Daytonian Paul Laurence Dunbar) as part of the
conference registration fee of $30. Transportation to and from the reading
will be provided.

CFP: Writing Design: Pictographic Strategies in Literature (collection;
03/01/2006)

CFP: Writing Design: Pictographic Strategies in Literature (collection;
03/01/2006)

Panel Proposal for:

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Permeability and Rivalry in the Early Modern Arts

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representation of corporeal things, and with respect to invisible =
things, he remains behind the musician.=94

(Leonardo, On Painting)

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Panel Proposal for:

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Painting about Poetry, Singing about Sculpture:=20

Permeability and Rivalry in the Early Modern Arts

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poetry blind painting=85

Music is not to be regarded as other than the sister of painting=85

The poet remains far behind the painter with respect to the =
representation of corporeal things, and with respect to invisible =
things, he remains behind the musician.=94

(Leonardo, On Painting)

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  CFP: Eros/Pornography Areas
   
  2006 National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations'
  Joint Conference
   
  Atlanta Marriott Marquis
  April 12 – 15, 2006
   
  Submission Deadline: Dec. 7, 2005
   
  The Eros & Pornography area of the National PCA/ACA Conference is interested in receiving submissions/abstracts for next year's conference at the beautiful Atlanta Marriott Marquis hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.
   
  We are interested in ANY topics related to this area, including:
   
  --Erotic Images in Literature, any period
  --Internet & Pornography
  --Eros & Mythology

PANEL INFORMATION:

"Fan/tastic Visuals"

Panellists are being sought for a potential session to be submitted to
the 2006 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA),
March 15-19 at the Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel, Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida. This panel will focus on fan art, photo
manipulation, video, web design, costuming, body modification, and other
visual methods of creativity/expression by speculative fiction fan
communities.

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 17 and 18, 2006. We are
interested in papers/presentations for the following suggested panel:
Power/Desire in Fiction
Is possession of power, or the possibility of wielding/using power affected
by desire? Do the powerful experience/fulfill/define desire? Do the powerful
depend on being desired, reject being the object of desire, or both?
We are accepting completed paper submissions only, no abstracts, please.
Creative writing/productions/performance contributions are encouraged to

PANEL INFORMATION:

"Fan/tastic Visuals"

Panellists are being sought for a potential session to be submitted to
the 2006 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA),
March 15-19 at the Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel, Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida. This panel will focus on fan art, photo
manipulation, video, web design, costuming, body modification, and other
visual methods of creativity/expression by speculative fiction fan
communities.

 
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 17 and 18, 2006. We are
interested in papers/presentations for the following suggested panel:
 
 
Imperfect Copies: Hybridity/Mimicry
As postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha posits his idea of hybridity and
mimicry in The Location of Culture, inexact, or displaced doubling may create
parodies of social hegemonies that carry the potential to disrupt the naturalized
norms. How does the idea/practice of creating an imperfect copy function in
literature?