CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND THE STATE
Edited by Matt Hart and Jim Hansen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

***NEW DEADLINE, SUBMISSION PROCESS, & PUBLICATION STATUS***

We seek 1-3 essays and an author interview to complete CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND THE STATE, to be published as a special issue of CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE 49/4 (Winter 2008) and marketed as a paperback volume through the University of Wisconsin Press.

CFP: The New Criticism (06/15/07; collection)

I welcome abstracts and full essays for a proposed volume on American
"New Criticism." Essays that deal in an original manner with the history
of this movement (including its impact and legacy in higher education,
its connections to Continental formalist movements and authors, etc.)
are especially encouraged, as are essays that address the theoretical
and philosophical implications of New Critical practice. A good general
description of the proposed book's area would be "history of criticism
and theory." I am in talks with Cambridge Scholars Press regarding this
volume, and will submit a formal proposal after I have selected
contributors.

Call for Papers
Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media
Abstract Deadline: June 30th 2007
Scheduled Release Date: August 20th 2007

/Eighteenth-Century Fiction/, an international quarterly published in French and
English devoted to the critical and historical investigation of imaginative
prose of the period 1660-1832.

Call for Papers: “Modernism and Economics”

Panel proposal for the 9th Modernist Studies Association Conference in Long Beach, CA (November 1-4, 2007).

Call for Papers

Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference
3-5 April 2008; Chicago

"Renaissance Nothings"

A panel interested in the aesthetic, philosophical, and sexual valence of
"nothing" in the Renaissance. Proposals addressing mathematical zero,
nihil paradoxes, the materialist abyss, and naught/y puns are all welcome.

For consideration, please submit (as Word attachments) a 250 word abstract
and a CV to:
whyman_at_ithaca.edu by April 15, 2007

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The First Biennial ASLE-UK Graduate Conference
‘Modern Environments: Contemporary Readings in Green Studies’

7-8 September 2007
The University of Glasgow

Papers are sought for a proposed panel on "The Utopianism of Kim
Stanley Robinson" to be delivered at the 32nd Annual Society for
Utopian Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 4-7, 2007.
Papers on any aspect of utopianism in Robinson's work will be
considered; examinations of his more recent work are particularly
encouraged. For more information about the Society for Utopian
Studies, including programs of past meetings, go to
http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/.

Electronic submissions preferred. Send abstracts or proposals of no
more than 250 words by April 20, 2007 to:

Performance and Spirituality:

The Journal of the Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality

CFP: "Delineating the Field": Submission Deadline, May 15, 2007.

(The Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality is an emerging
research center that operates in association with the Martin E. Segal Theatre
Center of The Graduate Center, of the City University of New York.)

CALL FOR PAPERS
MLA Convention 2007 (Chicago)
Discussion Group on Yiddish Literature

Yiddish and Christianity. Yiddish emerged and developed within
Christian Europe. How did this effect the language and its culture?
What attitudes have Christians adopted towards Yiddish? How do
Yiddish literature and other cultural forms portray Christians? How
do modern Yiddish writers depict Jesus?

Abstracts (500 words, maximum) to be sent by March 20 to Beatrice Caplan,
<bcaplan7_at_jhu.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS
MLA Convention 2007 (Chicago)
Discussion Group on Yiddish Literature

Yiddish and Christianity. Yiddish emerged and developed within
Christian Europe. How did this effect the language and its culture?
What attitudes have Christians adopted towards Yiddish? How do
Yiddish literature and other cultural forms portray Christians? How
do modern Yiddish writers depict Jesus?

Abstracts (500 words, maximum) to be sent by March 20 to Beatrice Caplan,
<bcaplan7_at_jhu.edu>

Call for Papers:
Proposals for presentations are invited for the Female Cultures session at the
2007 PAMLA Conference in Bellingham, WA on Nov. 2 and 3, 2007.
The session will feature papers concerning societies in which women's power is
celebrated. Presentations may reflect a broad area of interest from cultures
earlier than the Greco-Roman patriarchy to later more contemporary societies.
Submit proposals to Sarah Schuetze at sarahcs2_at_uwm.edu by March 30, 2007.

Call for Papers:
Proposals for presentations are invited for the Female Cultures session at the
2007 PAMLA Conference in Bellingham, WA on Nov. 2 and 3, 2007.
The session will feature papers concerning societies in which women's power is
celebrated. Presentations may reflect a broad area of interest from cultures
earlier than the Greco-Roman patriarchy to later more contemporary societies.
Submit proposals to Sarah Schuetze at sarahcs2_at_uwm.edu by March 30, 2007.

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jls_at_spamex.com

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Journal of Lesbian Studies has reopened its call for submissions for
the upcoming "Lesbians and Body Image" issue with a probable pub
date of 2007-8. Deb Burgard, Ph.D., Guest Editor, is welcoming
one-page abstracts of articles addressing different aspects of the
theme. Articles may raise more questions than they answer, and may
range from research to theory, academic to personal, for example:

* Does loving a woman change your own body image?

* Are athletic lesbians more or less accepting of their bodies than
non-athletic lesbians?