Because of the conflict with a major religious holiday, we have moved the dates
for NALS to March 8-10, 2007.
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NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM
March 8-10, 2007

MANY VOICES, ONE CENTER

Call for Proposals

DEADLINE: October 25, 2006

Featured Speakers: Poet, writer, filmmaker Sherman Alexie; artist and sculptor
Brent Learned; activist and author Noenoe Silva; and writer Debra Magpie
Earling

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 28th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 14-17, 2007.

The Area Co-Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on any aspect of the Star Trek franchise. Topics could include, but are not limited to the following:

• Core Films
• Novelizations (including graphic novels)
• Fan Fiction
• Slash Fiction
• Video Games (as narrative)
• Miniature Games (as narrative)
• Card Games (as narrative)

Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, and 500 word panel proposals, including full contact info for all participants, to

American Comparative Literature Association
"Trans, Pan, Intra: Cultures in Contact" Conference
Puebla, Mexico
19-22 April 2007

Seminar: "Rethinking the Pacific Imaginary: Militarism, Geopolitics, and
Emergent Asia/Pacific/US Cultural Production" (seminar chair: Rob Wilson,
University of California, Santa Cruz)

American Comparative Literature Association
"Trans, Pan, Intra: Cultures in Contact" Conference
Puebla, Mexico
19-22 April 2007

Seminar: "Rethinking the Pacific Imaginary: Militarism, Geopolitics, and
Emergent Asia/Pacific/US Cultural Production" (seminar chair: Rob Wilson,
University of California, Santa Cruz)

CALL FOR PAPERS

"The "Drama" of James Purdy"

American Literature Association (ALA) Conference
Westin Copley Place
Boston Massachusetts
May 24-27, 2007

The James Purdy Society will sponsor a session at the 18th Annual ALA
conference. Individuals whose proposals are accepted will join some of the
nation's leading James Purdy scholars for 15-20 minute presentations to
explore multiple facets of this major American author's dramatic works.

CFP: Geoff Ryman (11-26-06; ICFA 3-14-18-07

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Proposals are sought for a paper session or sessions (2-3 papers per
session) on any aspect of Geoff Ryman's work. I am especially =
interested in
proposals that are related to the themes of gender and sexuality in any =
of
his published works (listed below).=20

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After assembling the proposal(s), I will submit the session proposal to =
the
appropriate Division Heads (International Association of the Fantastic =
in
the Arts) for the 28th ICFA Conference (March 14-18, 2007). =20

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  CFP: HORROR (FICTION/FILM/CULTURE)
   
  2007 NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE
  POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
   
  UPDATED submission deadline: NOVEMBER 3, 2006.
   
  The "Horror" Area Chair of the Popular Culture Association
  invites interested scholars to submit papers on any aspect
  of horror in literature, cinema, television, or general culture
  for the 2007 PCA National Convention to be held at the
  Boston Marriott at Copley Place in Boston, MA.
  The conference runs from April 4-7.
   
  If you are interested in being a presenter, please send a
  100-250 word abstract, including title, through email or regular mail.

    NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE &
  AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
  2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For more information on the PCA/ACA, please
  go to http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.
   
  UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 3, 2006
   
  We are considering proposals for sessions organized around
  a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are
  scheduled in 1½ hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers
  per standard session.
   
  Should you or any of your colleagues be interested in submitting

Papers are sought for a proposed panel for the National Women's Studies
Association Summer 2007 conference to be held in St. Charles, Illinois. If
selected, the panel will be part of the embedded conference sub-theme on
(Im)Migration and Mobility. The panel, tentatively titled, "Bridging the
Body Gap: Mobilizing Embodied Activism for Im(Migrant) Equity," seeks to
examine (im)migration with a particular emphasis on the body. In
particular, the panel seeks to interrogate how (im)migrant bodies are coded
as racialized bodies, 'alien' bodies, threatening bodies, 'illegal' bodies,
etc. Seeking to investigate how an embodied approach to (im)migrant rights

Papers are sought for a proposed panel for the National Women's Studies
Association Summer 2007 conference to be held in St. Charles, Illinois. If
selected, the panel will be part of the embedded conference sub-theme on
(Im)Migration and Mobility. The panel, tentatively titled, "Bridging the
Body Gap: Mobilizing Embodied Activism for Im(Migrant) Equity," seeks to
examine (im)migration with a particular emphasis on the body. In
particular, the panel seeks to interrogate how (im)migrant bodies are coded
as racialized bodies, 'alien' bodies, threatening bodies, 'illegal' bodies,
etc. Seeking to investigate how an embodied approach to (im)migrant rights

Papers are sought for a proposed panel for the National Women's Studies
Association Summer 2007 conference to be held in St. Charles, Illinois. If
selected, the panel will be part of the embedded conference sub-theme on
(Im)Migration and Mobility. The panel, tentatively titled, "Bridging the
Body Gap: Mobilizing Embodied Activism for Im(Migrant) Equity," seeks to
examine (im)migration with a particular emphasis on the body. In
particular, the panel seeks to interrogate how (im)migrant bodies are coded
as racialized bodies, 'alien' bodies, threatening bodies, 'illegal' bodies,
etc. Seeking to investigate how an embodied approach to (im)migrant rights

Call for Papers for the 19th Annual Stony Brook Manhattan Graduate
Student Conference

"Transgressing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Dialogues"
Stony Brook Manhattan, New York

Friday and Saturday
16 and 17th of February, 2007
Keynote Speaker: Ralph Bauer, Visiting Associate Professor at the New
York University in the Departments of English, and Portuguese and
Spanish

The Stony Brook Manhattan Graduate Conference, the longest running
interdisciplinary graduate student conference in the nation, welcomes
papers and panels from all disciplines within the Humanities.

Papers might address but are certainly not limited to:

    CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SESSIONS, PANELS, PAPERS
   
  NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE &
  AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
  2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For more information on the PCA/ACA, please
  go to http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.
   
  UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 3, 2006
   
  We are considering proposals for sessions organized around
  a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are
  scheduled in 1½ hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers
  per standard session.
   

The National Women's Studies Association will host its 30th anniversary
celebration and 2007 Annual Conference: Past Debates, Present
Possibilities, Future Feminisms , in the Chicago suburb of St. Charles,
Illinois, at the Pheasant Run Resort, June 28 - July 1, 2007.