CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue on "Detention" (Texas Studies in
Language and Literature)

Texas Studies in Language and Literature (TSLL), a refereed journal
published four times a year by the English department at UT-Austin,
seeks essays for a special issue on detention as it relates to American
literatures and cultures. Submissions should be 2500-8000 words and
are due by May 1, 2007.

Please send to:
TSLL--Detention Issue
1 University Station
Department of English B5000
University of Texas
Austin, TX, 78712.

Special Issue of *Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net*
Science and the Senses (1789-1914)

Special Issue of *Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net*
Science and the Senses (1789-1914)

H. G. Wells, Science and Philosophy

The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference, Imperial College/Conway Hall, London, 28-29 September 2007

Proposals for 20-minute papers, or for panels of 2-3 papers, are invited for this year's H. G. Wells Society Annual conference. The conference will be hosted by both Imperial College, London (on the 28 September) and by Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London (on the 29 September). The first day of the event will include a plenary lecture by the science fiction writer, Stephen Baxter.

New deadline
Update: Life Writing Conference (UK) (3/30/07; 7/4/07-7/6/07)

The Spirit of the Age:
Debating the Past, Present and Future of Life Writing

4-6 July 2007, Kingston University London

Call for Papers

Speakers to include: Neal Ascherson, Rachel Cusk, John Fuegi, Victoria
Glendinning, Kathryn Hughes, Hanif Kureishi, Annette Kobak, Blake
Morrison, Virginia Nicholson, Hilary Spurling, Roberta Taylor and Claire
Tomalin.

Panel - Central Asian Studies in light of Imperialism: A Neo-Orientalist
Approach within Western Academia
 
The 2007 CESS conference at the University of Washington
October 18-21, 2007 in Seattle, Washington
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html
 
 
Dear all,
 
 We are in the process of organizing a panel entitled: Central Asian Studies
in light of Imperialism: A Neo-Orientalist Approach within Western Academia
 
In the work, Orientalism, Edward W. Said elaborates on the idea behind
Middle Eastern studies in Western academia. Said is interested in

Panel - Central Asian Studies in light of Imperialism: A Neo-Orientalist
Approach within Western Academia
 
The 2007 CESS conference at the University of Washington
October 18-21, 2007 in Seattle, Washington
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html
 
 
Dear all,
 
 We are in the process of organizing a panel entitled: Central Asian Studies
in light of Imperialism: A Neo-Orientalist Approach within Western Academia
 
In the work, Orientalism, Edward W. Said elaborates on the idea behind
Middle Eastern studies in Western academia. Said is interested in

The Irish Studies area of the Midwest Popular Culture and Midwest American
Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its upcoming conference.
The MPCA/MACA conference will be held Friday-Sunday, October 12-14, 2007 at
the Radisson Hotel & Suites Kansas City-City Center, Kansas City, MO.

Please send proposals on any aspect of Irish Studies to the area chair via
email or mail. Emailed proposals should be sent to Kathleen Turner,
Department of English, Northern Illinois University at
turner8kathleen_at_gmail.com. Mailed proposals should be sent to Kathleen
Turner, Department of English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
60115.

The Irish Studies area of the Midwest Popular Culture and Midwest American
Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its upcoming conference.
The MPCA/MACA conference will be held Friday-Sunday, October 12-14, 2007 at
the Radisson Hotel & Suites Kansas City-City Center, Kansas City, MO.

Please send proposals on any aspect of Irish Studies to the area chair via
email or mail. Emailed proposals should be sent to Kathleen Turner,
Department of English, Northern Illinois University at
turner8kathleen_at_gmail.com. Mailed proposals should be sent to Kathleen
Turner, Department of English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
60115.

Voices and Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines
Midwest ACIS Conference: 10/18-20/2007
University of Missouri-Kansas City

The American Conference for Irish Studies invites you to attend the thirty-first annual Midwest ACIS meeting centered on the theme Voices and Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines.

This conference hopes to cross disciplinary lines to explore interactions among art, history, music, literature, cinema, and culture in Ireland from earliest times to the present.

Plenary Speakers:

The International Spenser Society is sponsoring a panel at RSA 2008
in Chicago, "Edmund Spenser, Scholarship Boy." Papers might examine
Spenser's status as a sizar; the shifting demographics of the
universities; service and servitude in the poetry; the social
implications of humanist education reform. Please email 1 page
abstracts and a brief cv by Friday 20 April 2007 to
chris.warley_at_utoronto.ca

The Harry Potter area of the Midwest Popular Culture and Midwest American
Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its upcoming conference.
The MPCA/MACA conference will be held Friday-Sunday, October 12-14, 2007 at
the Radisson Hotel & Suites Kansas City-City Center, Kansas City, MO.

Please send proposals on any aspect of Harry Potter Studies to the area
chair via email or mail. Emailed proposals should be sent to Kathleen
Turner, Department of English, Northern Illinois University at
turner8kathleen_at_gmail.com. Mailed proposals should be sent to Kathleen
Turner, Department of English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
60115.

Sex Acts: Practice, Performance and Perversion in Early Modern Italy
(3/23/07; 08/01/07)

The Ethnic Studies session of the RMMLA Conference
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada; 10/04/07-10/06/07) has
extended its deadline for proposals to 3/23/07.
Accepting abstracts
on literature and ethnicity, with a specific interest
in Maidu, Ohlone, Shoshone, and Paiute. Send to

Robin Somers
lecturer, Writing Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
robinsomers_at_sbcglobal.net