Transgendering Human Rights: A Postcolonial Reading of Subcultures of
Resistance

Call for papers for 2007 MLA, Chicago, December 27-30

  Southern Connecticut State University
  Women's Studies Program
   
  Presents
   
  The Seventeenth Annual Women's Studies Conference
   
  Global & Local Women's Studies:
  Going on Forty
  To be held on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University
  Friday and Saturday, October 19 and 20, 2007

The Creative Nonfiction special session of SCMLA (November 1-3 in
Memphis, Tennessee) is accepting nonfiction thematic essays that render
an aspect of the 2007 conference theme: currents. We encourage widely
imaginative engagement and seek inventive interpretation of the theme,
which could be treated as a metaphor (for example: water, electricity,
music) or a motif for the form of the essay itself (for example: thought
currents). Email abstracts or complete essays, a bio and contact
information by March 15, 2007 to MaryJo Mahoney, Dept. of English,
Elmira Coll.; Email:
mjmahoney_at_elmira.edu <mailto:mjmahoney_at_elmira.edu>=20

Hi folks,

Please consider this CFP, and forward it to anyone interested.
Deadline is March 15th. Thank you.

Conference Panel Call for Papers:
Against Embodiment (or, Embodiment and its Discontents)
21st Annual Conference for the Society for Literature,
     Science and the Arts
November 1 – November 4, 2007
Portland, Maine, USA

Hi folks,

Please consider this CFP, and forward it to anyone interested.
Deadline is March 15th. Thank you.

Conference Panel Call for Papers:
Against Embodiment (or, Embodiment and its Discontents)
21st Annual Conference for the Society for Literature,
     Science and the Arts
November 1 – November 4, 2007
Portland, Maine, USA

The Queensland Society for the Study of Religion (QSSR) in conjunction with
the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of
Queensland, Brisbane, Australia presents

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***Alternative Expressions of the Numinous***
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**Date: Friday 17 - Sunday 19 August 2007

**Venue: School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University
of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, Australia

**Conference Chairs:

Helen Farley
Danielle Kirby, and
Julie Washington

***Call for Papers:

Abstracts (250 words) are invited for, but not limited to, the following
strands:

Papers are sought for a book/special issue of a journal on the topic of
"working-class humor" in any discipline (literary studies, cinema, art,
folklore, anthropology, history, etc.) and using any theoretical
approach. The focus of the collection is the interplay of the category
of humor (roughly defined as anything that can be perceived as funny,
amusing, etc.) with the working-class. Of particular interest are essays
that pursue the topic of working-class humor in relation to genre,
ethnicity, race, geography, and history. Both papers that deal with the
representation of the working class in humorous discourse and/or on the
use of humor by the working class are welcome. Expressions of interest

Call for Papers

Conference
IRISH WOMEN WRITERS:
National and European Contexts

University of Leuven, Belgium
Wednesday 24 October =96 Saturday 27 October 2007

Confirmed Plenary speakers: Patricia Coughlan,=20
Ann Owen Weekes, Anne Fogarty and Sin=E9ad Morrissey

Fourth Australian International Academic Conference on Motherhood

The Mother: Images, Issues and Practices

Thursday 5th July 2007 - Saturday 7th July 2007

The University of Queensland, St Lucia Q 4072, Brisbane, Australia

This Conference will explore, examine, critique, theorise, and respond to
key issues and recent research into images and their effects on mothers,
maternal issues and how these issues have been theorised by mothers
themselves, and how mothers see their practices when rearing their children.

2007 MLA in Chicago

The Poetics of Architecture

How do Germans writing around 1800 represent the experience of
constructed space? How is the perception of architecture related to
travel? What aesthetic aspirations do Goethe and his contemporaries
associate with idealized buildings? How does Goethe help construct a
history of architectural styles? What is the relationship between
Classicist aesthetics and German architectural histories written in
the nineteenth century? Please submit 200 word proposals to Daniel
Purdy (dlp14_at_psu.edu) by 15 March 2007.

2007 MLA in Chicago

The Poetics of Architecture

How do Germans writing around 1800 represent the experience of
constructed space? How is the perception of architecture related to
travel? What aesthetic aspirations do Goethe and his contemporaries
associate with idealized buildings? How does Goethe help construct a
history of architectural styles? What is the relationship between
Classicist aesthetics and German architectural histories written in
the nineteenth century? Please submit 200 word proposals to Daniel
Purdy (dlp14_at_psu.edu) by 15 March 2007.

CALL FOR PAPERS

BEHOLDING VIOLENCE:
A CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN
REPRESENTATION AND CULTURE

February 28 - March 1, 2008

BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY

Historically, the action of beholding is linked to spectatorship and
theatricality in viewing. In the scene of beholding, one is often
captivated by the image before which one is placed. The viewer reacts
to the image and this reaction has political implications. Beholding
also carries with it elements of debt, duty, and responsibility.
Often the beholder of violence is placed in a precarious position
with regard to aesthetic and ethical questions.

* The Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, forthcoming in 2008 from Facts on
File, is seeking contributors. We encourage prospective authors to consult
our website (see below) for available entries.
     Our encyclopedia is intended as a guide to bestselling contemporary
fiction, covering those works typically neglected by more "literary"
guides. We include entries on authors whose work has reached, or
consistently come very close to, the annual "top 10" list of bestsellers
during roughly the past 25 years (1980 to the present), along with entries
on a representative selection of individual works which have reached "top
10" bestseller status in a particular year during this period. Some works

ARCHAEOLOGIES OF BLACK MEMORY CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR

University of Miami Hosts Critical, Creative Conference from June 22 – 29, 2007