Call for Papers

Composition and Rhetoric Area

Popular Culture Assocation/American Culture Association Conference

The Boston Marriott Copley Place
Boston, MA
April 4-7, 2007

The Composition and Rhetoric Area of the PCA/ACA seeks papers/projects
addressing the intersection of Popular Culture with Composition studies
and/or Rhetoric, as each of these terms can be most broadly construed.
We are interested in popular representations of writing, rhetoric, and
instruction in both, as well as the composed or rhetorical nature of
culture as expressed in popular artifacts. Topics include, but are not
limited to:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Winter 2007 Issue=20

Theme: The Courage to Teach Language Arts=20

Submission deadline for the winter issue: December 1, 2006

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UPDATE: China Abroad: Travels, Spaces, Subjects (collection)

NeMLA's 38^th Annual Convention March 1-4, 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland.

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*Modernism and the Scene of Writing*

Winthrop University, in Rock Hill, SC, will host the Southern Regional
Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies March 8-10,
2007. The theme of the interdisciplinary conference will be "A Piece of
the Irish Dream," although the committee welcomes papers proposals on
all aspects of Irish Studies.

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Please submit a one-page paper proposal by October 9, 2006 to:

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Marguerite Quintelli-Neary (nearym_at_winthrop.edu), or send hard copy to
her at:

English Dept., 250 Bancroft Hall, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
29733.

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The City in the Text: Setting as Signifier

The Annual CUNY Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
November 3 & 4, 2006
The Graduate Center of CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue * New York, NY 10016

Envisioning Home

Keynote speakers: Laura Slatkin (NYU and University of Chicago) and
Joshua Landy (Stanford University)

The Annual CUNY Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
November 3 & 4, 2006
The Graduate Center of CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue * New York, NY 10016

Envisioning Home

Keynote speakers: Laura Slatkin (NYU and University of Chicago) and
Joshua Landy (Stanford University)

CFE- Special Issue of _History of Psychiatry_ on Anglo-European
Romanticism & Origins of Psychiatry (2/1/2007, 11/30/2007)

Call for papers

Special Issue of History of Psychiatry:
Anglo-European Romanticism and the origins of psychiatry

For a proposed panel on representations of American poverty at the 20th-
Century Literature and Culture Conference to be held at the University of
Louisville, February 22-24, 2007.

Papers on all aspects of 20th-century literary and/or filmic
representations of poverty in the U.S. are welcome. Possible topics might
include but are not limited to: period studies (e.g., The Great
Depression, the New Deal era, the age of Reagan and beyond); homelessness;
class conflict; immigration; gender divisions; the aesthetics of poverty;
realism / experimental narratives; politics and literary or cinematic
postmodernism.

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL SESSION OF THE MEDIEVAL POPULAR CULTURE AREA

THE COMICS GET MEDIEVAL 2007

PROPOSALS DUE TO ORGANIZER BY 10/15/06

Now in its fifth year, proposals are being accepted for inclusion at
"The Comics Get Medieval 2007," a panel and roundtable to be jointly
sponsored by the Comics & Comic Arts Area and the Medieval Popular
Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association for the 2007 Popular
Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference
Boston, Massachusetts, to be held from 4-7 April 2007, at the Boston
Marriott Copley Place.

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL SESSION OF THE ARTHURIAN LEGENDS AREA

MR. MERLIN'S NEIGHBORHOOD: THE MATTER OF BRITAIN ON TV

PROPOSALS DUE TO ORGANIZER BY 10/15/06

Seeking submissions for a proposed panel at the SCMS Conference (March
8-11, 2007, Hilton, Chicago)

Panel Title: Rethinking Radio’s Public
Biswarup Sen, University of Oregon

*Call for contributions*

*De/Construction of Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Age of Globalization*

The age of globalization has witnessed a redefinition of ethnicity as
well as the (re)emergence of nationhood, while at the same time
witnessing the deconstruction of both. Bi-, multi- and poly-cultural
societies more than ever have to confront issues generated from such
efforts, which aim at shaping and reshaping identities. While current
political developments exacerbate such phenomena, pacts of forgetting
and other silent alliances that had been established during the Cold War
as well as post- and neo-colonial paradigms are now being interrogated
and challenged.