Call for Proposals for "The Oral, The Written, and Other Verbal Media:
Interfaces and Audiences": A Conference and Festival

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 19-21,
2008

Call for Proposals for "The Oral, The Written, and Other Verbal Media:
Interfaces and Audiences": A Conference and Festival

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 19-21,
2008

CFP: "The Law of Genre"
A Panel of the MLA Graduate Student Caucus, MLA 2007

The Graduate Student Caucus, an affiliate organization of the MLA, is
pleased to invite current graduate students to submit proposals for
twenty-minute papers for a panel discussion titled "The Law of Genre" at th=
e
2007 MLA annual meeting, 12/27/07-12/30/07 in Chicago. This panel will
investigate the uses, injunctions, and limits of genre as mode of
literary-historical analysis, discursive convention, and longstanding
subject of philosophical and theoretical scrutiny.

The African/African American session of South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) welcomes abstracts of 500 words for papers to be presented in Memphis, Tn.
   
  Title of Panel: Switching Currents of Hybridity On/Off. Many African Americans can claim more than one racial identity, creating hybrid identities. Papers are requested that explore characters that switch from one identity to another in African or African American literature.
   
  Abstracts or full papers should be submitted to the panel chair.
   
  Dr. Juluette Bartlett Pack
  juluettepack_at_yahoo.com
  DeVry University
  11125 Equity Dr.
  713-973-3150
  Houston, Tx 77041
   

The African/African American session of South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) welcomes abstracts of 500 words for papers to be presented in Memphis, Tn.
   
  Title of Panel: Switching Currents of Hybridity On/Off. Many African Americans can claim more than one racial identity, creating hybrid identities. Papers are requested that explore characters that switch from one identity to another in African or African American literature.
   
  Abstracts or full papers should be submitted to the panel chair.
   
  Dr. Juluette Bartlett Pack
  juluettepack_at_yahoo.com
  DeVry University
  11125 Equity Dr.
  713-973-3150
  Houston, Tx 77041
   

Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature
 
20-21 April 2007
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Moorhead, MN
 
 
Keynote Address
 
³The Corporate Commonwealth: Artificial Persons and Political Bodies in
Early Modern England and Beyond.²
 
Dr. Henry S. Turner
University of Wisconsin-Madison
 
Overview
 
Conference includes Friday evening banquet (by Mosaic Foods) followed by
Dr. Turner¹s address.  Business luncheon will be conducted at the end of
the conference.  A conference proceedings will be published. 
 
Accommodations
 
Conference participants will receive a special conference rate at the

Hetero-Textual Guilt
 
Call for papers for 2007 MLA, Chicago, December
27-30
 
This proposed special session of the MLA seeks to
explore intersections between guilt
(psychological, religious, social and legal) and
literary and visual texts. This session hopes to
include both analysis of texts expressing or
investigating guilt and consideration of
narratives that consciously or not aid in the
expiation of guilt on the individual or societal
level. This session is interested in papers that
examine guilt as both an individual and a
communal phenomenon. Preference will be given to
papers that contain a strong theoretical
component in addition to sensitive textual

Hetero-Textual Guilt
 
Call for papers for 2007 MLA, Chicago, December
27-30
 
This proposed special session of the MLA seeks to
explore intersections between guilt
(psychological, religious, social and legal) and
literary and visual texts. This session hopes to
include both analysis of texts expressing or
investigating guilt and consideration of
narratives that consciously or not aid in the
expiation of guilt on the individual or societal
level. This session is interested in papers that
examine guilt as both an individual and a
communal phenomenon. Preference will be given to
papers that contain a strong theoretical
component in addition to sensitive textual

The Marlowe Society of America still has openings for quality papers on
any aspect of Christopher Marlowe's plays, poetry, or biography
(including performance-based criticism and theater history, ) for an
open-topic session to be held at the MLA Convention in Chicago on
Dec.27-30, 2007. Send detailed abstracts or papers of 15-minute reading
length by e-mail, e-mail attachment, or hard copy to Bruce Brandt,
(Bruce.Brandt_at_sdstate.edu <mailto:Bruce.Brandt_at_sdstate.edu> )
President, Marlowe Society of America, English Dept., Box 504, South
Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007. Deadline: March 1, 2007.

Proposed Panel for the 2007 Modern Language Association Conference

Chicago, Illinois

Culture, Aesthetics, and the State

We invite proposals for papers that explore the relation between
aesthetics and the emergence of the modern state. We are open to
papers from a wide range of national cultures and historical
periods. Possible themes might include political fantasy, political
rhetorics and/or discourses, state fictions, citizenship and
literacy, and representations of sovereignty.

Please submit half-page abstracts (500 words maximum) and a short
c.v. electronically by March 7, 2007 to:

Andrew Hebard

Assistant Professor

Department of English

Miami University

Call for Papers

2007 ALSC Conference, Chicago, IL, October 12-14, 2006

                          CALL FOR PAPERS

      Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, May 26 - June 2,
      2007, Saskatoon, Canada.

      Session title: Orientalism and Terrorism

      Organizer: Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Department of Sociology, University of
      Saskatchewan

      Discussant: Dr. Ron Wheeler, Department of Political Studies, University
      of Saskatchewan.

                (for Canadian Association of Geographers)

Session Description:

                          CALL FOR PAPERS

      Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, May 26 - June 2,
      2007, Saskatoon, Canada.

      Session title: Orientalism and Terrorism

      Organizer: Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Department of Sociology, University of
      Saskatchewan

      Discussant: Dr. Ron Wheeler, Department of Political Studies, University
      of Saskatchewan.

                (for Canadian Association of Geographers)

Session Description:

The Midwest Modern Language Association is soliciting panel proposals for
its annual convention, to be held in Cleveland from November 8-11, 2007.

Proposals on any theme can be submitted by completing a Special Session
Proposal Form, available at
http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/2007sessionproposalform.htm. Forms should be
returned by email to mmla_at_uiowa.edu or mailed to the M/MLA at the address
below by March 1, 2007.

Please direct any questions to:
Carolyn Jacobson
Midwest Modern Language Association
302 EPB
Univ. of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1408
mmla_at_uiowa.edu