CFP: Masks and Passing in African American Literature (grad)
(03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Kenneth Florey <floreyk1_at_southernct.edu>

CFP: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Idea of Freedom
(grad) (03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Edith A. Kostka <kostkae1_at_southernct.edu>

Call for papers: the Sixth Biennial Conference in London of Symbiosis: A
Journal of Anglo-American Conference American Literary and Cultural
Studies
    
A Three-Day International Conference on All Areas of Anglo-American
Literary and Cultural Studies.

Venue: Brunel University, West London
Dates: 12th – 15th July 2007

Headline Theme: 'Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of
Influence?' All Other Areas Welcome.

Keynote: Ian Bell (Keele University). Other significant keynote speakers
to be announced shortly.

CFP: Popular Music

Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference

Honolulu, HI

May 25-27, 2007

Chaminade University of Honolulu

Panel and individual paper proposals are now being accepted for the
Popular Music Area of the inaugural Oceanic Popular Culture Association
Conference. All topics and proposals will be considered. Those related
to the following topics, or those treating the conference theme of "Work
and Play", will be especially welcome.

Contemporary Literature and Popular Music

Americana and Appropriation in the work of Tom Waits

Bob Dylan's latest trilogy: Time out of Mind, Love and Theft, Modern
Times.

Bob Dylan's Masked and Anonymous

CFP: Feminism Reframed: Reflections on Art and Difference

Additional 6,000-word contributions are sought for an already formed
edited collection on contemporary feminist approaches to art history
and visual culture. The collection will be published by Cambridge
Scholars Press within 2007.

Art historians, practicing artists, and scholars in visual/cultural
theory are invited to submit abstracts of approx. 500 words and a short
biography to the editor Alexandra Kokoli ( a.kokoli_at_sussex.ac.uk ), by
16th February 2007.

Completed essays will be due in April 2007.

CFP: Images and Argument in the Writings of American Suffragists
(grad) (03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Kenneth Florey <floreyk1_at_southernct.edu>

The deadline for paper proposals for the following conference has been
extended to 31 January 2007.

*Collectors and Collecting: Private Collections and their Role in
Libraries*

Proposals are invited for papers for a conference to be held at Chawton
House Library on 19 and 20 July 2007. The event is jointly organised by
Chawton House Library, the University of Southampton English Department,
and Goucher College, Baltimore.

UPDATE: The deadline to submit abstracts for Literary Hustler of Hood: =
Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines has been e=
xtended to FEBUARARY 25, 2007. We are currently interested in critical =
essays on the Kenyatta Series, the film adaptation of Goines=92 fiction,=
 and essays on works other than White Man=92s Justice, Black Man=92s Gri=
ef. Please e-mail abstracts (250-500 words) to Dr. Stallings (stalling@=
english.ufl.edu) and Dr. Greg Thomas (gthomas_at_syr.edu). Submit abstracts=
 in MS Word. Completed essays will be due by December 1, 2007.
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UPDATE: The deadline to submit abstracts for Literary Hustler of Hood: =
Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines has been e=
xtended to FEBUARARY 25, 2007. We are currently interested in critical =
essays on the Kenyatta Series, the film adaptation of Goines=92 fiction,=
 and essays on works other than White Man=92s Justice, Black Man=92s Gri=
ef. Please e-mail abstracts (250-500 words) to Dr. Stallings (stalling@=
english.ufl.edu) and Dr. Greg Thomas (gthomas_at_syr.edu). Submit abstracts=
 in MS Word. Completed essays will be due by December 1, 2007.
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O Memory, who holds the thread that links
My modern mind to those of ancient days.
                   (A. S. Byatt. Possession)

The ongoing Greek myth panel of the 61st annual Rocky Mountain MLA
meeting in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007, at the Westin
Calgary Hotel, invites submissions on the relationship between memory
and myth within ancient culture and on the impact of Greek myth on
newer art works, especially literature in English. Suggested
approaches include but are not limited to close readings of the role
of memory in representations of specific myths, social contexts and
needs for myth as an aid to memory, and formal reception of myth.

Call for Papers
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)
Calgary, Alberta at the downtown Westin Hotel
October 4-6, 2007

RMMLA invites submissions for its open session in Nineteenth-Century
American Literature. Please send 400-word abstracts to the program chair by
March 1, 2007:

Donna Campbell
Department of English
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
campbelld_at_wsu.edu

E-mail abstracts (no attachments, please) are preferred. Presenters will be
notified by March 15, 2007.

Submission and presentation guidelines are on the RMMLA Web site at
http://www.rmmla.org.

Call for papers

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference--2007
November 2-3, 2007
Western Washington University
Bellingham, Washington

Special Session:

Nineteenth-Century Nature Writing

Paper proposals sought for a panel on 19th-century nature writing.
Proposals are encouraged that address this topic within a literary,
philosophical, theological, ecological, or scientific framework. All
submissions acknowledged by email.

Submit to this special session by emailing ecampbell_at_oregonstate.edu.
Proposals should be two-pages (500 words) and should be submitted
electronically in the body of an email or as an attachment in .doc or
.pdf format by March 1.

CFP: Theories of Theory: A Critical Assessment of the value of
Literary Theory (grad) (03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Edith A. Kostka <kostkae1_at_southernct.edu>