CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Papers and/or panels in the area:
Chicana/Chicano Culture: Literature, Film, Theory

The Popular Culture and American Culture Associations will hold their 2006
annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, April 12 through 15, 2006. Panels and
individual papers on all aspects of Chicana and Chicano culture are
encouraged for our 2006 meeting. The ³Chicana/Chicano Culture: Literature,
Film, Theory² area tends to be both multicultural and interdisciplinary, and
panels and individual papers may explore any issues relevant to Chicana and
Chicano cultural studies.

UPDATE: Extension of abstract dateline to October 30, 2005
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QUEER CHINESE CINEMAS

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Deadline extended:

The 6th Wenshan Conference on English and American Literature

English Department, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

March 11, 2006
Abstracts Due: Nov. 5, 2005

Conference Theme: "Situated Knowledges: Literature of Belief, Believing, and the Unbelievable"

Due to exceptional interest in the conference guests and themes of the upcoming Sixth Wenshan Conference on English and American Literature and the streamlining of the review process, the deadline for abstracts has been extended to 5 November 2005. After that date, new submissions will not be accepted.

Update of submissions deadline for:

(Re)Markable Identities: Confronting, Corrupting, and Conflating Cultural
Discourses

February 24-26, 2006
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

"Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to
distinguish us from them."
                                                                                
  —Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands la Fronterra

Update of submissions deadline for:

(Re)Markable Identities: Confronting, Corrupting, and Conflating Cultural
Discourses

February 24-26, 2006
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

"Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to
distinguish us from them."
                                                                                
  —Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands la Fronterra

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Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) & Department of Theatre =
Studies, University of Amsterdam

5-8 April, 2006

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Dear Writers and Students of Southern Literature:

The Southern Literature & Culture area of the American
Popular Culture Association is seeking presentations
for the 2006 PCA/ACA Conference in Atlanta next April
12-16. Presentations covering a broad range of
Southern literature pieces and critical approaches are
welcome; presentations should be developed for a
20-minute reading. Creative writing, including
readings of poems and short stories, are welcome
submissions. Critical papers and various (mis)readings
of literature and the culture are also invited. As we
deal with the entire dimension of the South, any
aspect of study is suitable for presentation.

"Arresting the Flow"
CLS Conference-Spring 2006
http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/complit_arrestflow/

Keynote addresses by:

Bernhard Siegert
(History and Theory of Cultural Technologies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

Jules Law
(English and Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University)

Responses by:

Peter Fenves
(Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature, Northwestern University)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call For Contributions

Cinematic Responses to E.U. Expansion (collection)

This collection seeks to explore how various European films and filmmakers
from Western and East-Central Europe as well as the Balkan states are
responding to the expansion of the E.U. and, more broadly, European history
following the collapse of communism. The collection asks: Is there a
totalizing or even coherent image of Europe that emerges from such films?
Moreover, how do we understand such films in light of the fact that one of
the reasons cited for the Dutch and French rejection of the E.U.
constitution is resistance to further European expansion, in particular the
entry of Turkey into Europe?

Deadline extended:

"S(e)oul to Soul: The novels of Susan Choi and the Politics of
Representation" (10/15/05; 3/22-26/06)

Call For Papers
Canadian Association for Irish Studies /Association canadienne =20
d=92=E9tudes irlandaises

The Canadian Association for Irish Studies (CAIS) invites proposals =20
for presentations of twenty minutes in length =96 as well as full panel =20=

discussions =96 for its annual conference, to be held this year at the =20=

University of Ottawa from June 14-17, 2006. The theme of the CAIS =20
conference this year is =93Urban Ireland.=94 Possible topics, very =20
broadly defined, include (but are not limited to):

Cormac McCarthy Call for Papers
Abstract/Proposals by 15 November, 2005

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 26th Annual Conference
Albuquerque, NM February 8-11, 2006

Panels now forming on topics related to the writings of Cormac McCarthy.
Suggested topics include:
§ Papers about No Country for Old Men
§ Cormac McCarthy and film adaptation
§ Interdisciplinary approaches to reading McCarthy
§ Pedagogical approaches for teaching McCarthy
Other topics are also welcome.

Submission deadline for IRCALC 2006 edition of Africa Literary Journal, ALJ has been moved to December 2005. 'Re-Imagining African Literature (2)', the theme of our 2006 journal issue, will be edited by distinguished poet and fiction writer Chin Ce of IRCALC-ALJ Africa Desk, and will pursue the 2003 theme edited by Charles Smith in order to complement the scholarly essays that appeared in that previous volume. Contributions from non-African writers on African literature or submissions adopting a comparative approach to new literary and cultural impacts will be highly welcome.