A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

Callaloo invites you to submit formal articles, informal essays, and other
kinds of texts (including visual and creative writing) about

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

as a writer and friend in a Special Issue of the journal to be devoted to
this distinguished American writer.

Each manuscript or other contribution should be submitted following the
Callaloo submission guidelines and postmarked no later than Friday, April
20, 2007, to:

Callaloo/Octavia Butler Issue
Department of English
Texas A&M University
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227

Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred and the Sublime

Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia
May 10-12, 2007

Keynote Speakers: David Lyle Jeffrey, Baylor University; Maxine Hancock,
Regent College

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited on any aspects of the topics of suffering, the sacred,
and the sublime in literature from a Christian perspective.
Interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approaches to these topics are
encouraged.

Topics may include:

UPDATE: All Areas have CFPs up and ready.=20
Dear Film and Culture scholars,=20
The Film & History web site now carries over 50 areas of study for=20
the November conference. Check out the site and the detailed CFPs=20
available for our 8-12 Conference on =E2=80=9CThe Documentary Tradition.=
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www.filmandhistory.org=20
Here is a hint of the variety of topics under the main rubric of =20
DOCUMENTARY=20
Genres, Styles, and Aesthetics (13 areas)=20
Individual Filmmakers (18 areas)=20
Classics (3 areas)=20
Eras and Places (3 areas)=20
Social Documentaries and Topics (6 areas)=20
National Traidtions (10 areas)=20

CFP: Popular Culture, the Marketplace and Feminine Self-Fashioning Panel,
10/27-29/06

"A Rose by Any Other Name: Female Self-Fashioning and the Marketplace" is a
session of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association's
annual conference. The dates are 10/27/06 -10/29/06 in Baltimore, MD. For
more information, please go to: http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/.

American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, =
October 27-28, 2006, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA.

"Which Direction Ireland?"

Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines

12 - 14 April 2007 (deadline for submissions 1 Sept 06)
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan South Wales UK

Keynotes confirmed
Anne Bogart, SITI Company
Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

Call for Papers (please cross post where appropriate)

Improvisation is integral to arts practice. This conference provides a
structure and a space for artists/practitioners/teachers/scholars to
share ideas and debate about the application and relevance of
improvisation in arts practice today.

Panel Title:
 
Fairy Tale Visions and (Re)Visions

NeMLA Conference: Baltimore, MD
Conference Dates: 03/01/07-03/04/07
Proposals due to Panel Chair by: 09/15/06

Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines

12 - 14 April 2007 (deadline for submissions 1 Sept 06)
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan South Wales UK

Keynotes confirmed
Anne Bogart, SITI Company
Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

Call for Papers (please cross post where appropriate)

Improvisation is integral to arts practice. This conference provides a
structure and a space for artists/practitioners/teachers/scholars to
share ideas and debate about the application and relevance of
improvisation in arts practice today.

The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor a panel at the American Literature
Symposium on American Fiction in San Diego on September 28-30, 2006.

Please send two-page proposals on any aspect of Edith Wharton's fiction by
July 7, 2006 to Margaret Murray at drmpm_at_snet.net.

No audiovisual equipment will be available for this symposium. The
conference fee is $120, which includes two meals and two receptions. A full
description of the symposium, together with registration form and lodging
information, is available on the American Literature Association web site:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/otherconfs.html

Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities
Texas A&M University-Commerce
February 23, 2007

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of the five canons of rhetoric--invention,
arrangement, style, memory, delivery—which we define broadly to incorporate
a wide variety of research interests.

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

INTREPID VISIONARY: BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD, NOVELIST, POET, AND SCULPTOR

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?

**CALL FOR PAPERS**

FOR A PROPOSED ESSAY COLLECTION ON
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

Possible topics for articles might include:

· Braddon and the literary marketplace
· Braddon and the theatre
· Braddon's twentieth century fiction
· Adaptations of Braddon's novels
· Braddon and the sensation school
· Representations of gender in Braddon's work
· Braddon's literary influences
· Braddon's influence on other writers
· Autobiographical elements of Braddon's fiction
· Braddon's writing as social commentary
· Braddon's significance/legacy as a Victorian woman writer

Articles should be between 5000 and 7000 words in length, and should be sent
to:

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?