Seeking papers for the MLA convention in Chicago, December 27-30, 2007

"Re-Mapped Lives: The Partition of British India." Papers
investigating, using literature and film, how the Partition experience
of communal violence and mass displacement has shaped postcolonial
societies and subjectivities in South Asia.

Please submit 300-word abstracts to Debali
Mookerjea-Leonard(dmookerj_at_gmail.com) by March 1.

Thanks,
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

Seeking papers for the MLA convention in Chicago, December 27-30, 2007

"Re-Mapped Lives: The Partition of British India." Papers
investigating, using literature and film, how the Partition experience
of communal violence and mass displacement has shaped postcolonial
societies and subjectivities in South Asia.

Please submit 300-word abstracts to Debali
Mookerjea-Leonard(dmookerj_at_gmail.com) by March 1.

Thanks,
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2007 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held Saturday, June 9, 2007, in Toronto, Ontario, at the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, one of the most important collections of fantastic literature in the world.

We invite proposals for papers in any area of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, including:

-studies of individual works and authors;
-comparative studies;
-studies that place works in their literary and/or
         cultural contexts.

For the 2007 MLA Convention, December 27-30 in Chicago:

*Ending the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1807-2007. * To mark the
bicentennial: tellings of the Middle Passage; stories of resistance;
the U.S. South in the Black Atlantic. In literature of any relevant
period. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Jennifer Rae Greeson (greeson_at_princeton.edu).

*Filming the U.S. South. * Silver-screen Souths: race, location,
segregation, and film history; visualizing the plantation; myths and
counter-myths; spectacle and violence. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Jennifer
Rae Greeson (greeson_at_princeton.edu).

The Division for Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association
is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Chicago,
December 2007:
 

FEELING SCIENCE
What's the use of feeling to science, or science to feeling? Hippocratic medicine to romantic science to neuroscience and beyond; scientific theories of affect; conversations with literature/film. Abstract/complete paper by March 15 to Martha Stoddard Holmes (mstoddar_at_csusm.edu <mailto:mstoddar_at_csusm.edu> ) AND Laura Dassow Walls (wallsld_at_gwm.sc.edu <mailto:wallsld_at_gwm.sc.edu> ).

The Division for Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association
is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Chicago,
December 2007:
 

FEELING SCIENCE
What's the use of feeling to science, or science to feeling? Hippocratic medicine to romantic science to neuroscience and beyond; scientific theories of affect; conversations with literature/film. Abstract/complete paper by March 15 to Martha Stoddard Holmes (mstoddar_at_csusm.edu <mailto:mstoddar_at_csusm.edu> ) AND Laura Dassow Walls (wallsld_at_gwm.sc.edu <mailto:wallsld_at_gwm.sc.edu> ).

UPDATE: New Deadline for Submissions - 1/31/07

Polygraph Issue 19

Issue Editor: Russ Leo

TENTATIVE TITLE: Augustine, our Contemporary

CFP: The Meaning of Food: How What We Eat Shapes Cultural,
Environmental, Political, and Literary Paradigms (3/1/07; RMMLA,
10/4/07-106/07)

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Conspiracy Theories in American Literature (Finland) (5/24/07-5/26/07)

Papers are invited for a "Conspiracy Theories in American Literature"
workshop taking place at the 20th Biennial Nordic Association for
American Studies (NAAS)
Conference at the University of Tampere, Finland between May 24-26,
2007. The conference theme this year is "American Bodies, American
Violence".

Synthetic worlds can now boast tens of millions of members. =46rom =20
game environments such as World of Warcraft to the social environment =20=

The topic for the Spring 2007 Issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany is
 Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Submissions are due by February 2, 2007
 to Pamela St. Clair pstclair_at_fastmail.fm or Amanda Golden
 apg3_at_u.washington.edu .

Suggested Topics Include:

Woolf, Plath and

Material Culture
England, America
Marriage
Childhood
Writing, The Creative Process
Life, Death, Suicide
Modernism
Art
Photography
Language, Imagery, Poetry
Reading
Literary Life

Conspiracy Theories in American Literature (Finland) (5/24/07-5/26/07)

Papers are invited for a "Conspiracy Theories in American Literature"
workshop taking place at the 20th Biennial Nordic Association for
American Studies (NAAS)
Conference at the University of Tampere, Finland between May 24-26,
2007. The conference theme this year is "American Bodies, American
Violence".

Synthetic worlds can now boast tens of millions of members. =46rom =20
game environments such as World of Warcraft to the social environment =20=

Conspiracy Theories in American Literature (Finland) (5/24/07-5/26/07)

Papers are invited for a "Conspiracy Theories in American Literature"
workshop taking place at the 20th Biennial Nordic Association for
American Studies (NAAS)
Conference at the University of Tampere, Finland between May 24-26,
2007. The conference theme this year is "American Bodies, American
Violence".