CFP: Charles Olson: The End of the Maximus and the Late Prose

American Literature Association, Boston, May 24-27, 2007

The Charles Olson Society invites proposals that focus on any aspect of the
end of "The Maximus Poems" or Olson's late prose (published or unpublished).

250-word proposals should be sent to Don Byrd at dbyrd1_at_nycap.rr.com or to
Gary Grieve-Carlson at grieveca_at_lvc.edu by December 15, 2006. Please include
your name, institutional affiliation (if any), e-mail address, and AV needs
(if any).

3RD CONFERENCE ON SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
17 - 20 September 2007
North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa
Invitation to attend conference and call for papers

Call for Papers for the 3rd biennial International Rebecca West
Conference, in New York City at the Mercantile Library on 47th street,
September 28-30, 2007:

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The International Rebecca West Society invites proposals for talks about
any aspect of Rebecca West and her work. We are particularly interested
in contributions about Rebecca West as performer and media figure but
will also consider proposals about matters of intertextuality, aesthetic
practice, politics, religion, moral philosophy, genre, etc.

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Highlights of the third International Rebecca West Conference:

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- Keynote address by Francine Prose

CFP: SECOND INTERNATIONAL IDEA CONFERENCE,=20
        April 17-19, 2007
        (Extended Deadline: December 15, 2006

The 2nd International IDEA Conference, which will be jointly hosted by =
Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language =
and Literature, and English Language and Literature Research Association =
of Turkey (IDEA), will be held on 17-19 April 2007, at the University's =
Beytepe Campus, Ankara. The Conference will cover the following four =
main areas, of which the literature area has been expanded so as to =
include, besides English literature, also other literatures in English =
and, thereby giving it an inter-literary and comparative perspective.

CFP: SECOND INTERNATIONAL IDEA CONFERENCE,=20
        April 17-19, 2007
        (Extended Deadline: December 15, 2006

The 2nd International IDEA Conference, which will be jointly hosted by =
Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language =
and Literature, and English Language and Literature Research Association =
of Turkey (IDEA), will be held on 17-19 April 2007, at the University's =
Beytepe Campus, Ankara. The Conference will cover the following four =
main areas, of which the literature area has been expanded so as to =
include, besides English literature, also other literatures in English =
and, thereby giving it an inter-literary and comparative perspective.

Call for Papers

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative
Writing (MLM Publishers) announces its move to 3 issues per year!

The journal seeks creative and critical work of the highest quality.

Now published three times a year, New Writing publishes some of the best
creative work from university and college creative writing programmes
worldwide, alongside interviews with writers, articles about creative writing
teaching methods and creative writing research, debates in the subject and
analysis of the relationship between creative writing on campus and the
relevant creative industries

The African-American Literature and Culture Society invites proposals
related to the following topic, for a session at the American Literature
Association meetings in Boston [May 24-27, 2007].

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Examining Popular African-American Literature

The African-American Literature and Culture Society invites proposals
related to the following topic, for a session at the American Literature
Association meetings in Boston [May 24-27, 2007].

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Examining Popular African-American Literature

Paper proposals are invited for an ALA session that explores Eudora

Welty's global connections in her work and / or with other writers

abroad. We seek new comparative theoretical approaches offering

provocative global, postcolonial, and post-regional insights into Welty.

This ALA session, sponsored by the Eudora Welty Society, seeks to

explore new topics, conversations and conflicts by situating Eudora

Welty in global literary, historical and cultural contexts. What

happens to Welty's fiction when we take it out of the familiar

regional narratives of the South that have previously defined

it? How does a global comparative study of Welty answer her famous

In addition to our regular annual business meeting, the Louisa May Alcott Society will host two scholarly sessions at the American Literature Association 18th Annual Conference in Boston, 24-27 May 2007. Calls for Papers follow for the second of our two proposed sessions:

Session 2. The Dramatic Alcotts
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Concord Dramatic Union, we invite proposals for a wide range of topics,
including the following:
* The theatrical career of Louisa May Alcott
* The Alcott girls as playwrights
* Adaptations of Little Women for stage and/or screen
* The role of The Witch's Curse in Little Women

CFP: Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek (2/28/07; collection).

Teaching Sex: In Public

This panel seeks papers that articulate pedagogies of sexuality in
the humanities, fine arts, and interpretive social
sciences. Especially welcome are papers that mix an understanding of
current methods and texts in the field with critical anecdotes about
classroom experiences.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

***Please note, there was an error in the original call for papers. All
dates should read 2007, not 2006. The corrected version is below.***

Nuances of Lack in Italian Culture

Call for Papers
New York University

April 20-21, 2007

"Deh peregrini che pensosi andate
forse di cosa che non v'è presente"
- Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova 30:1-2

CALL FOR PAPERS

  Space and Displacement

  A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium

Sponsored by the Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas

Bilkent University

21-22 April 2007