CFP: Victorian Traffic (10/15/05; 2/6/2006-2/9/2006)
 
2006 Conference of the Australasian Victorian Studies Association
 
6-9 February 2006
Venue: Hotel Y Conference Centre, Melbourne, Australia
 
Hosted by La Trobe University
 
Offers of papers of 20 minutes duration are invited on the conference theme,
³Victorian Traffic². Proposals from a range of disciplines are welcome and
might address
 
· the history, theory or representation of trade, commerce,
marketplaces and transport
 
· traffic in ideas, aesthetics, styles and artifacts
 
· cross-cultural exchange and exchanges
 

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities
Research invites abstracts that address the
relationship of visual culture to other forms of human
expression and thought. Presentations may address
aspects of image production and image reception in the
humanities, whether the image be printed, projected,
digitized, rendered artistically, imagined, or
destroyed. Topics may include exploration of pictorial
as opposed to written or oral expression; the ways in
which images may fill interstices in language, music,
and thought; the centrality of different forms of
picture making in human history, society, and culture.
We encourage papers that range across the spectrum

Religion and Gender in the Early Modern Period:

This is a call for papers for a book-length collection of essays that brings
into dialogue male and female voices on the question of gender and religion
in the literature, visual arts, religious writings, and culture of the late
medieval and early modern period. We are interested in treatments of
authors who directly or indirectly engage one another in debate, but we are
also interested in bringing into dialogue by their juxtaposition in this
collection male and female voices of authors who may not necessarily have
known of each other's work but who nonetheless seem to "speak" to one
another.

Religion and Gender in the Early Modern Period:

This is a call for papers for a book-length collection of essays that brings
into dialogue male and female voices on the question of gender and religion
in the literature, visual arts, religious writings, and culture of the late
medieval and early modern period. We are interested in treatments of
authors who directly or indirectly engage one another in debate, but we are
also interested in bringing into dialogue by their juxtaposition in this
collection male and female voices of authors who may not necessarily have
known of each other's work but who nonetheless seem to "speak" to one
another.

Religion and Gender in the Early Modern Period:

This is a call for papers for a book-length collection of essays that brings
into dialogue male and female voices on the question of gender and religion
in the literature, visual arts, religious writings, and culture of the late
medieval and early modern period. We are interested in treatments of
authors who directly or indirectly engage one another in debate, but we are
also interested in bringing into dialogue by their juxtaposition in this
collection male and female voices of authors who may not necessarily have
known of each other's work but who nonetheless seem to "speak" to one
another.

The Florida CEA invites papers or panel proposals on any aspects of =
Florida Literature, Florida Culture, or Florida Studies for the College =
English Association's 37th National Conference in San Antonio, April 6-8, =
2006. Please submit the following information to Professor Steve Brahlek =
(brahleks_at_pbcc.edu) by October 15, 2005.
=20
- Name
- Institutional Affiliation (if applicable)
- Mailing Address
- Phone Number
- Email Address
- Title for Proposed Presentation
- Abstract of no more than 500 words
- A-V Equipment Needs, if any
- Special Needs, if any

CALL FOR PAPERS:

INTERNATIONAL PYNCHON WEEK. V. IS FOR VARO TOO: EXPLORING
THOMAS PYNCHON'S HISPANIC (AND OTHER!) GLOBAL CONNECTIONS.

GRANADA, SPAIN, JUNE 13-16, 2006

This four-day event, slated to coincide with Granada's Corpus
Christi celebrations, will provide a forum not only for the
exploration of Pynchon's Hispanic connections, but also for
wide-ranging engagement with the totality of Pynchon's work to
date. We hope that some scholars will focus their studies on
the myriad Hispanic references dotted throughout Pynchon's
writing, for example:

Atlantikos is an online journal published by graduate students in the
English department at Michigan State University. We invite submissions of
essays by graduate students in the field of Transatlantic Studies, broadly
defined as the study of textual productions dating from the age of
exploration to the present that originate in Europe, Africa, and the
Americas. We encourage both traditional and innovative scholarship
addressing textual, critical, cultural, and theoretical issues related to
Transatlantic Studies. Comparative literatures are within the purview of the
journal, although submissions need not be comparative in nature. The journal

Call for Papers:

The Hidden Ireland - ASSEC 2006
Montreal, Canada
March 30-April 2

Falling in Love Again -
Romantic Comedy in Post-Classical Cinema

Edited by Stacey Abbott & Deborah Jermyn (Roehampton University, UK)

Proposals are sought for a new edited collection on romantic comedy and
post-classical cinema.

The 6th Wenshan Conference on English and American Literature

English Department, National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei.

March 2006
 
Call for papers
 
Conference Theme: "Situated Knowledges: Literature of Belief, Believing, &the Unbelievable"
 
"Situated Knowledges: Literature of Belief, Believing, &the Unbelievable"

Call For Papers: Secrets and Spies: Reading Alias

Edited by Stacey Abbott (Roehampton University) and Simon Brown (Kingston University)

We are seeking proposals for a new edited collection on the American TV series Alias.

The 21st Century Ethnic Enclave: Beyond the Way Station
Association for Asian American Studies
Atlanta, GA March 22-26, 2006

Please note: the deadline for receipt of proposals for the follwoing anthology
has been extended to 14 October 2005.

(Un)Making the Cut: Feminism, Filmmaking, Fluidity
Edited by Corinn Columpar and Sophie Mayer