Call for Papers

Seventh Native American Symposium

Extensions Journal Volume 4: TempoRealities of
Performance
Call For Submissions
 
Extensions invites submissions for its forthcoming
issue: TempoRealities of Performance. We welcome
scholarly essays, experimental writing, interviews,
reviews, media/Web-based art works/projects, and
documentation of music, dance, visual, sound, and
performance art that interrogate the relationship of
temporality to performance.
 
Time, particularly "the present," has been configured
as the ontological force field that grounds
performance. Yet, the present as a temporal category,
and presence as material proof of that time, is being
challenged on many fronts. For example, how have the

Call For Papers

"The Thread of Narrative:

Directions and Digressions in the=20

Storytelling Process"=20

NYCEA Fall 2007 Conference

Daemen College

Buffalo, New York

October 12 & 13, 2007

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                        Papers are welcome in the areas of traditional =
plot development, experimental prose or poetry, the internal logic of =
the text, the effect of chaos or quantum theory on narrative process, =
rising and falling action, Freitag's triangle, or any other subject =
related to the thread of narration.

            Deadline for submissions is September 5, 2007

                        Send abstracts or inquiries to the following =
address:

Call For Papers

"The Thread of Narrative:

Directions and Digressions in the=20

Storytelling Process"=20

NYCEA Fall 2007 Conference

Daemen College

Buffalo, New York

October 12 & 13, 2007

=20

                        Papers are welcome in the areas of traditional =
plot development, experimental prose or poetry, the internal logic of =
the text, the effect of chaos or quantum theory on narrative process, =
rising and falling action, Freitag's triangle, or any other subject =
related to the thread of narration.

            Deadline for submissions is September 5, 2007

                        Send abstracts or inquiries to the following =
address:

1st Global Conference
Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging

Monday 3rd September - Wednesday 5th September 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford

1st Global Conference
Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging

Monday 3rd September - Wednesday 5th September 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford

The College English Association Caribbean Chapter is putting together a
collection of essays on the theme of its Spring 2007 conference, "Of Mice
and Men: Animals in Human Signification." To supplement the papers presented
at the conference we are seeking additional papers that address human views
of non-human animals in literature and the media as well as in other
channels and modes of human representation. We are particularly interested
in papers that address the following topics:

The College English Association Caribbean Chapter is putting together a
collection of essays on the theme of its Spring 2007 conference, "Of Mice
and Men: Animals in Human Signification." To supplement the papers presented
at the conference we are seeking additional papers that address human views
of non-human animals in literature and the media as well as in other
channels and modes of human representation. We are particularly interested
in papers that address the following topics:

The Postcolonial Wondrous: Third World in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Editors: Ericka Hoagland and Reema Sarwal

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The Postcolonial Wondrous: Third World in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Editors: Ericka Hoagland and Reema Sarwal

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Special Session: Objections to Objects=0D=0A=0D=0AAs indicated by the =
topic of the 2007 ICR conference, Romantic Objects, objects were very =
important in the post-Enlightenment era, advances in science, technolo=
gy and psychology yielding a greater focus on material culture, includ=
ing objects like the body, goals and pursuits in this world, nationali=
sm and the like. Still, there were those who, like Blake, believed tha=
t "Corporeal Friends are Spiritual Enemies," and therefore objected to=
 what they considered to be a misplaced emphasis on objects. In their =
defense, I am soliciting papers for what might be viewed as an antithe=

CALL FOR ESSAY PROPOSALS

BILLY WILDER BOOK COLLECTION

BUFFY HEREAFTER: From the Whedonverse to the Whedonesque:

An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Work of Joss Whedon and its Aftereffects.

17-19 October 2007

Istanbul, TURKEY

Keynote: David Lavery, (Brunel University) Keeping the Faith: Joss
Whedon's "Religion in Narrative" and Contemporary Television

XANDER: Whoa, Giles has a TV. Everybody, Giles has a TV. He's shallow like us.

OZ: I got to admit, I am a little disappointed.

WILLOW: Well maybe it doesn't work. Like a piece of art.

Xander turns the TV on. Willow is open mouthed with shock.

GILES: Public television. Come on everyone we have vital work to do.
Watching television is not going to help us right now.

Unique in both range and approach, Literature Compass (http://www.literatur=
e-compass.com<http://www.literature-compass.com/>) is an online-only journa=
l publishing peer-reviewed survey articles from across the entire disciplin=
e.

The editors of Literature Compass are now inviting submissions for the 2007=
 Graduate Essay Prize.

Win $200/=A3100 of free Blackwell books and have your article published in =
Literature Compass!

There will be a prize-winning graduate essay for each of the 9 sections on =
Literature Compass:

Medieval

Renaissance

Shakespeare

Seventeenth Century