"Beyond Ground Zero": 9/11 and the Futures of Critical Thought

Saturday, October 21, 2006

McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

PLEASE NOTE: OUR DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS HAS CHANGED. The new
deadline is Sunday, July 16, 2006.

Call for Papers
Panel: Women Writers of Color, Womanist/Feminist Activism, and
Personal Healing
38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

This panel focuses on the connections between women authors, personal
healing, and the search for global justice. What is the relationship
between women's personal empowerment and their political action,
particularly in literature by women of color in the last half of the
20th and the first years of the 21st century? The panel will invoke
some of these questions:

'Wandering with Spinoza'

www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/spinoza/

The Conference will be held at the Victorian College of the Arts, =
Melbourne, Australia from 13 =96 15 September 2006.

The conference aims to bring together philosophers, theorists and visual =
and performing artists to celebrate this most influential of =
philosophers.

Keynote Speakers include Alain Badiou, Mieke Bal, Thomas Hirschhorn, =
Genevieve Lloyd, and Christopher Norris=20

>From Buffy to Blade to Bram Stoker, we are looking for
papers and presentations that cover the vampire in
literature, culture, and film (with a reading time of
15-20 minutes) for the National Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association Conference in
Boston, MA, April 4-7, 2007. This is a fairly broad
and open-ended topic as the vampire is found in many
mediums, especially in popular culture, so just about
any topic on the vampire is sought for this new area
of study at the PCA/ACA. Graduate students are
particularly encouraged to send proposals.

>From Buffy to Blade to Bram Stoker, we are looking for
papers and presentations that cover the vampire in
literature, culture, and film (with a reading time of
15-20 minutes) for the National Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association Conference in
Boston, MA, April 4-7, 2007. This is a fairly broad
and open-ended topic as the vampire is found in many
mediums, especially in popular culture, so just about
any topic on the vampire is sought for this new area
of study at the PCA/ACA. Graduate students are
particularly encouraged to send proposals.

Reframing Nella Larsen: Panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Baltimore, March 1-4, 2007.
 

> Bisexuality in Music: A Call for Papers
> For much of its history, bisexuality has barely been recognized as
> a legitimate topic for historical or theoretical
> discourse of any sort. Indeed, for many, bisexuality has often
> seemed little more than a question, at best.
> "Does bisexuality really even exist?" Only within the last decade
> or so has scholarship in the humanities begun
> to acknowledge, theorize and historicize this seemingly liminal

Reframing Nella Larsen: Panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Baltimore, March 1-4, 2007.
 

Call for Papers

"Ghosts of the Nineteenth Century"

38^th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

March 1-4, 2007

Baltimore, Maryland

Call for Papers--New Deadline

Essay Collection: Teaching Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose

CALL FOR PAPERS: MEDIEVAL FILMS AREA
Deadline for Proposals: 1 August 2006
The Film & History League's 2006 Film & History Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
8-12 November 2006
Dolce Conference Center (Dallas, TX)
http://FilmandHistory.org

THE "REEL" MIDDLE AGES AND THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION

NEMLA 2007 CONVENTION
Baltimore, Maryland
March 1-4, 2007.
Panel: Mary Shelley and her Contemporaries
CONTACT: lmekler_at_jewel.morgan.edu

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the University of Toronto Quarterly

Guest editors: Heike Harting and Smaro Kamboureli

Discourses of Security, "Peacekeeping" Narratives and the Cultural
Imagination in Canada

The University of Virginia's College at Wise, Medieval-Renaissance Conference
is pleased to announce a call for undergraduate papers for the upcoming
Medieval-Renaissance Conference, September 14-16, 2006.

Papers by undergraduates covering any area of medieval and renaissance studies
are welcome. Abstracts for papers should be 250-300 words in length and
should be accompanied by a brief letter of recommendation from a faculty
sponsor.

Abstracts may be submitted electronically or by snail-mail by July 1 to: