REVISITING ELIZABETH GASKELL AND HER WORKS

2-day conference on Elizabeth Gaskell

22-23 September 2006, University of Salford, UK

In recent years Elizabeth Gaskell has attracted renewed scholarly attention,
and contextualisations of her minor works and letters were offered in
addition to the numerous studies of well-known texts such as Mary Barton.
The conference offers to supplement this research by a comprehensive
consideration of Gaskell's major and lesser-known works. A publisher has
expressed interest in publishing revised versions of the conference papers.

Please submit short abstracts (300 words) for 30-minute papers to the
organizers at Gaskellconference_at_hotmail.co.uk

Call for papers

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20 and 21 October 2006
Universit=C3=A9 Montpellier III, France

Literature, Theory and Criticism: the Critical Writings of 20th and 21st Ce=
ntury Writers

VERB, an interdisciplinary online journal with a newsprint supplement,
is seeking submissions for its Fall 2006 issue. The topic for this
issue is "contagion," broadly defined, which includes (but is not
limited to):

* Disease, sickness, and death, (or theorizing the same).
* The spread of ideas, practices, or perceptions, (or theorizing the same).
* Politics, parasites, or the rapidly-breeding nuisance insects of New
England.
* The communication of ideas, artistic or otherwise.
* Blogs (because no online journal can refuse to discuss blogs).
* Any other item with even a tenuous denotative or connotative
similarity to any definition of "contagion," current or otherwise.

VERB, an interdisciplinary online journal with a newsprint supplement,
is seeking submissions for its Fall 2006 issue. The topic for this
issue is "contagion," broadly defined, which includes (but is not
limited to):

* Disease, sickness, and death, (or theorizing the same).
* The spread of ideas, practices, or perceptions, (or theorizing the same).
* Politics, parasites, or the rapidly-breeding nuisance insects of New
England.
* The communication of ideas, artistic or otherwise.
* Blogs (because no online journal can refuse to discuss blogs).
* Any other item with even a tenuous denotative or connotative
similarity to any definition of "contagion," current or otherwise.

Call for Papers
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Reconstruction is proud to announce the publication of its Spring 2006
issue, which can be found at http://reconstruction.eserver.org.
Featured in the issue:

* Michael Vastola, "Pedagogy, Ideology, and Space in the Classical
Anarchist Conception of Freedom"

* Julie Elaine Goodspeed-Chadwick, "Derrida's Deconstruction of
Logocentrism: Implications for Trauma Studies"

* Rob Cover, "Producing Norms: Same-Sex Marriage, Refiguring Kinship
and the Cultural Groundswell of Queer Coupledom"

Call for Papers
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Reconstruction is proud to announce the publication of its Spring 2006
issue, which can be found at http://reconstruction.eserver.org.
Featured in the issue:

* Michael Vastola, "Pedagogy, Ideology, and Space in the Classical
Anarchist Conception of Freedom"

* Julie Elaine Goodspeed-Chadwick, "Derrida's Deconstruction of
Logocentrism: Implications for Trauma Studies"

* Rob Cover, "Producing Norms: Same-Sex Marriage, Refiguring Kinship
and the Cultural Groundswell of Queer Coupledom"

CFP: Restoration Drama (09/15/06; NEMLA, 03/01/07- 03/04/07)

2007 NEMLA (Northeast MLA) convention, Baltimore, Maryland
March 1-4, 2007

>From the comedy of manners to the heroic drama, theatre in the latter
part of the 17th century revived with a flourish. This NEMLA
Board-sponsored panel seeks paper proposals (approximately 500 words) on
new critical and theoretical approaches to Restoration and early
18th-century drama. Please include a brief biography and direct queries
and submissions (due date: Sept. 15th, 2006) to Rita Bode by email:
rbode_at_trentu.ca.

Call for articles: The 2006 Sarah Gordon Award of $500 will be
awarded to the best article by a graduate student about
the works of Flannery O'Connor or another southern studies topic.
Any critical approach may be used.

Each entrant must be a graduate student as of 1 Aug. 2006, and
articles must be postmarked by 1 Aug. 2006. Send two copies
of your article (without your name on them) and enclose an SASE
if you want your entry returned. In your cover letter, please provide
complete contact information.

All entries will be considered for publication in the Flannery O'Connor
Review.
Articles should conform to the usual guidelines outlined in the Review.

Mail entries to this address:

Call for articles: The 2006 Sarah Gordon Award of $500 will be
awarded to the best article by a graduate student about
the works of Flannery O'Connor or another southern studies topic.
Any critical approach may be used.

Each entrant must be a graduate student as of 1 Aug. 2006, and
articles must be postmarked by 1 Aug. 2006. Send two copies
of your article (without your name on them) and enclose an SASE
if you want your entry returned. In your cover letter, please provide
complete contact information.

All entries will be considered for publication in the Flannery O'Connor
Review.
Articles should conform to the usual guidelines outlined in the Review.

Mail entries to this address:

CFP: Francis E. W. Harper in Context (09/15/06; NEMLA, 03/01/07-
03/04/07)

2007 NEMLA (Northeast MLA) convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 1-4, 2007

CFP: Francis E. W. Harper in Context (09/15/06; NEMLA, 03/01/07-
03/04/07)

2007 NEMLA (Northeast MLA) convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 1-4, 2007

DEADLINE EXTENDED

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Proposals on the American South

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Popular Culture Association in the South / American Culture Association
in the South

October 5-7, 2006

Marriott Savannah Riverfront

Savannah, Georgia

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Proposals are welcome for individual presentations or entire sessions
(traditional presentations, roundtables, or other configurations) on any
aspect of the American South for the 2006 PCAS/ACAS joint conference in
Savannah.

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While all topics and approaches will be considered, to round out the
sessions already set for the program, we are especially interested in
scholarly proposals in the following areas:

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DEADLINE EXTENDED

=20

Proposals on the American South

=20

Popular Culture Association in the South / American Culture Association
in the South

October 5-7, 2006

Marriott Savannah Riverfront

Savannah, Georgia

=20

Proposals are welcome for individual presentations or entire sessions
(traditional presentations, roundtables, or other configurations) on any
aspect of the American South for the 2006 PCAS/ACAS joint conference in
Savannah.

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While all topics and approaches will be considered, to round out the
sessions already set for the program, we are especially interested in
scholarly proposals in the following areas:

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NOTE: I am posting this CFP on behalf of the Mark Twain Circle of
America and the American Humor Studies Association. Please send
proposals and other inquiries to the addresses specified in the body of
this message; please do not send them to the originating address of
this CFP.--Joe Alvarez
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American Humor Studies Association/Mark Twain Circle of America
Quadrennial Conference, December 7-10, 2006, New Orleans, LA.