CFP: 2007 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
Cleveland, Ohio, November 8-11, 2007

Poetry & Popular Culture

Threatening Bodies Issue Announcement
Call for Papers
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Reconstruction is proud to announce the publication of its Vol. 7, No. 1
(2007) themed issue, "Threatening Bodies," edited by Jennifer Musial and
Emily van der Meulen. The issue can be found at
http://reconstruction.eserver.org.

Featured in the issue:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Salvador C. Fernández, Ph.D. Dr. Mariam Pirbhai
Professor of Spanish Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish and French Department of English and Film Studies
Occidental College Wilfrid Laurier University
Los Angeles, CA 90041 Waterloo, Ontario,

fernande_at_oxy.edu N2L 3C5

       mpirbhai_at_wlu.ca <mailto:mpirbhai_at_wlu.ca>

Caribbean Identities of Central America

CALL FOR PAPERS

Salvador C. Fernández, Ph.D. Dr. Mariam Pirbhai
Professor of Spanish Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish and French Department of English and Film Studies
Occidental College Wilfrid Laurier University
Los Angeles, CA 90041 Waterloo, Ontario,

fernande_at_oxy.edu N2L 3C5

       mpirbhai_at_wlu.ca <mailto:mpirbhai_at_wlu.ca>

Caribbean Identities of Central America

Based on the papers I've accepted so far, I'd like to invite proposals =
that focus on modern/early postmodern female poets -- e.g. lorine =
niedecker? -- and i'm extending the deadline to march 29. I still need =
at least two more papers, so please, if you have something along this =
line you'd like to present, send it along.

Papers (15-20 minutes) are invited for the Poetry and Poetics session of
the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association annual conference,
meeting Nov 2-3, 2007 at Western Washington University in Bellingham, =
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WA.

Send a 500 word proposal (double spaced) and a CV to David =3D
Hadbawnik (dh1184_at_txstate.edu) by March 29, 2007.=20

** Deadline Extended to 1 May 2007 **

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE & MODERNISM

Special Issue, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY

Stream of consciousness, fragmentation, multi-media experimentation,
multiple perspectives, cityscapes, shifting boundaries of time and
space, making it new, recycling the old. Modernism pursues new ways of
seeing -- and often through the pages of children's literature.

This special issue of _Children's Literature Association Quarterly_
invites submissions on any aspect of children's literature during the
modernist period, 1890-1945. Topics may include:

Call for Panel Proposals:

Northeast Modern Language Association

39th Annual Convention Buffalo, April 10-13, 2008

As a regional MLA, NeMLA offers a vibrant yet more intimate conference
experience. The 2007 Convention in Baltimore featured more than 200
panels,
covering all aspects of scholarship and teaching in the modern languages
and
literatures. You can make NeMLA's 39th Annual Convention an even bigger
success.

Propose a Session!
NeMLA is a member-driven convention, accepting session proposals (panel,
roundtable, creative session) in the following areas:

MSA 2007 CFP: Scapes: Poetry and Looking

CFP: Intimacies of Empire: Childhood, Race and Gender (3/26/07; MLA '07)

Proposed special session for MLA Annual Convention
December 27-30, 2007
Chicago, IL
CFP Deadline: March 26, 2007

CFP: Intimacies of Empire: Childhood, Race and Gender (3/26/07; MLA '07)

Proposed special session for MLA Annual Convention
December 27-30, 2007
Chicago, IL
CFP Deadline: March 26, 2007

Blogs & Wikis
MPCA/MACA - Region Conference
October 12-14, 2007
Radisson Hotel and Suites, Kansas City, Missouri

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 30, 2007

BLOGS, WIKIS, AND SCHOLARSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION
The Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture
Association is seeking papers on the use of blogs, wikis, or other
collaborative online technologies in higher education.

Possible topics include:
• case studies of blogs or wikis in the classroom
• the wiki in academic research
• the blogging professorate
• digital publishing and the tenure dossier

Call For Papers: Renaissance Paper Session
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South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)=20
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Atlanta, November 9-11, 2007
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Papers on any aspect of the Renaissance are solicited for this paper =
session. Please send abstracts (250-500 words) by April 15th via email =
to: katiek_at_usca.edu
or by post to: Dr. Katie Kalpin, Dept. of English, University of South =
Carolina-Aiken, Aiken, SC 29801.
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for more information on the convention visit:
http://www.samla.gsu.edu/convention/convention.htm

Current Trends in Narratology, University of Freiburg, Germany

(June 14 - 16, 2007)

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This workshop provides an overview of state-of-the-art research in =
narratology by leading scholars in four major areas of research. The =
conference will include the following sections:=20

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=B7 Thursday afternoon, June 14: "Narrative and Mediality" =
concentrates not so much on fiction and film (already over-researched) =
but on drama, poetry and other media, or issues of mediality per se in =
narrative and/or narratology. Lectures include:

v Brian Richardson (University of Maryland, College Park) "The =
Poetics of Beginnings and Endings in Drama"=20

CFP: Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in 19th-Century American
Literature (6/15/07; collection)

We are writing to solicit articles for a collection on 19th century
American literature and food culture. The focus of the collection will
address the meaning and importance of food and the scenes of eating for
19th century American writers. What are the social, political, literary
implications of scenes and sites of food? For what effect do authors
employ culinary discourse in their work? How do references to foodways
or culinary traditions influence public perceptions of race, class, and
nation?