AIDS in Literature (4/14/06; MMLA, 11/09-12/06; Chicago, IL)
 
In "AIDS, Keywords and Cultural Work," Jan Zita Grover remarks that people infected with HIV/AIDS find the boundaries of normativity challenged and re-configured and that people carrying the virus no longer view themselves as integrated, "but instead as a container for the virus." Michel Foucault underscores Grover's claim, linking the fear of death resulting from AIDS to using such fractive or dis-integrative strategies to cope with the fear of impending death.
 

AIDS in Literature (4/14/06; MMLA, 11/09-12/06; Chicago, IL)
 
In "AIDS, Keywords and Cultural Work," Jan Zita Grover remarks that people infected with HIV/AIDS find the boundaries of normativity challenged and re-configured and that people carrying the virus no longer view themselves as integrated, "but instead as a container for the virus." Michel Foucault underscores Grover's claim, linking the fear of death resulting from AIDS to using such fractive or dis-integrative strategies to cope with the fear of impending death.
 

Since the editors' semester schedules are hectic enough that we are
not going to get to submissions until summer anyway, we have extended
the deadline for this issue until June.

Call for Papers
The Comics Work of Neil Gaiman
A special issue of ImageTexT

Session Title: Game, Play, Literature
Topic: Language of Play/Play of Language
Chair/Moderator: Sura P. Rath
                        Central Washington University
E-mail: raths_at_cwu.edu
Mailing Address: The William O. Douglas Honors College,
                                400 E. University Way,
                Ellensburg, WA 98926-7521
                                Phone:
        509.963.1440 fax: 509.963.1206

CFP: Visual Archives and Embodied Practice

This panel looks to the archive as a motivating device for intervention, rather
than as an inert repository of empirical data. In other words, we're interested
in discussing how archival research becomes embodied in practices, and would
like to reconsider the agents and institutions mediating these embodiments.

CFP: Visual Archives and Embodied Practice

This panel looks to the archive as a motivating device for intervention, rather
than as an inert repository of empirical data. In other words, we're interested
in discussing how archival research becomes embodied in practices, and would
like to reconsider the agents and institutions mediating these embodiments.

ETUDES IRLANDAISES : CALL FOR PAPERS

        The editorial board of Etudes Irlandaises is now seeking
submissions for volume 32.1 to be published in Spring 2007.

This CFP is for a special session to be proposed for the 2006 MLA conference:

Urban Disaster in Charles Brockden Brown. Intersection with issues like
crises in environment, emergency response, or democracy; the nexus between
race, violence and poverty; treatments of immigrants or refugees; 500-word
abstracts, vitae, by March 15; Sean X. Goudie (sean.x.goudie_at_vanderbilt.edu).
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Goudie, Sean X
Vanderbilt University
Email: sean.x.goudie_at_Vanderbilt.Edu

This CFP is for a special session to be proposed for the 2006 MLA conference:

Urban Disaster in Charles Brockden Brown. Intersection with issues like
crises in environment, emergency response, or democracy; the nexus between
race, violence and poverty; treatments of immigrants or refugees; 500-word
abstracts, vitae, by March 15; Sean X. Goudie (sean.x.goudie_at_vanderbilt.edu).
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Goudie, Sean X
Vanderbilt University
Email: sean.x.goudie_at_Vanderbilt.Edu

M/MLA special session, Chicago 11/9-12, 2006
Session Title: Truth in Genre: Great Expectations in Contemporary Memoir

Hello,
I would like to update my abstract deadline for my CFP:
Responding to Molly in Irish Literature for the 2006 SCMLA
in Fort Worth in October. The new abstract deadline is
March 20th.
Thank you,
Danizete

Danizete Martínez
University of New Mexico
Department of English
MSC03-2170
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
(505) 615-3984

Hello,
I would like to update my abstract deadline for my CFP:
Responding to Molly in Irish Literature for the 2006 SCMLA
in Fort Worth in October. The new abstract deadline is
March 20th.
Thank you,
Danizete

Danizete Martínez
University of New Mexico
Department of English
MSC03-2170
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
(505) 615-3984

Shakespeare Bulletin, a journal for the study of renaissance drama in
performance, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, is pleased
to announce workshop titles for the RENAISSANCE DRAMA IN ACTION
conference, to be held November 8-12, 2006 on the University of Toronto
campus.
 
RENAISSANCE DRAMA IN ACTION will give scholars interested in performance
an opportunity to grapple with the practical realities of moving from
the page to the stage. Conference participants will sign up for a
rehearsal-and-performance workshop. Each workshop will focus on a
single scene from a play, one which exemplifies particular problems,
challenges, and/or rewards involved in staging renaissance drama.

Title: Romanticism and the Environment
   
  Chair: Chantelle MacPhee, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
   
  The Romantics have a unique relationship with nature and the environment. The Prelude and other major works reflect on nature, our relationship with it, and the elements. This session will explore the environment and discuss the Romantics' role in it. Was their view of nature radical for the 18th and 19th centuries? This session is open to all areas of Romanticism: British, German, American.........