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                         Call for Papers and Poster Presentations

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What Arts and Humanities World Conference=20
Where Miami Beach, Florida, USA
When January 3-5, 2007
Who Academics, Students, Politicians, NGOs,
                       Municipal, State, and Federal Leaders,
                       Public Servants, Administrators=20

Special Issue of West Coast Line:
Representations of Murdered and Missing Women.

This special issue of West Coast Line, to be published in 2007, will
gather together work related to representations of murdered and missing
women. While the focus of the issue is on representations of murdered
and missing women of Vancouver and British Columbia, WCL also invites
works which have a national or international context. (If you have
questions, please query the guest editors for a response specific to
what you propose). For more details, see below.

Dear Sir/Madam:
   
  The R.O.C. English & American Literature Association will hold an international conference this November. The topic is ¡§Revisiting the Nineteenth Century: The World, the Body, the Text.¡¨ The call for paper is attached to this message. Please help post this call for papers. Thank you.
   
  The Organizing Committee
  The 14th Annual Conference of the R.O.C. English & American Literature Association
  Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Cheng Kung University
  No. 1, Ta-Hsueh Road, Tainan, Taiwan 70101
  Phone: 06-2757575 ext. 52249 (from outside of Taiwan: 886-6-2757575 ext. 52249)
  Email: english_ncku_at_yahoo.com.tw
   

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SESSIONS, PANELS, PAPERS: FAT STUDIES=20
MIDWEST POPULAR CULTURE & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE

                            12th Annual
                          SOUTHERN WRITERS,
                          SOUTHERN WRITING

[Updated Information: extended deadline (May 31, 2006)]
  
is a University of Mississippi Graduate Student Conference
held in conjunction with the Annual Faulkner and
Yoknapatawpha
Conference. The Graduate Students in the Departments of
English and
Southern Studies invite you to submit abstracts exploring
Southern
culture. Accepted papers will be presented in Oxford,
Mississippi, July
20th through 22nd, 2006.
  
Topics for papers or panels are not restricted to literature
& may include:

The International Society for the Study of Time
announces its
Thirteenth Triennial Conference
Time: Limits and Constraints

Asilomar Conference Center
Monterey, California, USA
July 28 - August 3, 2007

We encourage submission of academic articles from any discipline, coverin=
g any subject or topic, provided that the language used is non-specialist=
 and appeals to a wide audience. Unlike many academic publications, Nebul=
a is not limited to a specific school, faculty, or subject.
We are also interested in providing an alternative view to mainstream cul=
tural and political ideologies. As such, we encourage non-fiction, intell=
ectual writing, that does not follow the generic conventions of academic =
writing but which demonstrates substantial sophistication and which may b=
e of interest to a broad audience. We encourage contributors to offer the=

Editors are currently seeking scholarly essays (as opposed to personal narratives) that address the movie Brokeback Mountain, and/or Annie Proulx's short story of the same title. The deadline for submissions has been extended until June 30, 2006.
Submit full essays electronically (no abstracts, please) to:
Dr. Annette Olsen-Fazi
Associate Professor of English and French
216 F Pellegrino Hall
Texas A & M International University
5201 University Bld
Laredo, TX 78041-1900
Telephone: (956) 326-2657
Email: aolsen-fazi_at_tamiu.edu
Sender: owner-cfp_at_lists.sas.upenn.edu
Precedence: bulk

Modernist Studies Association 8
Tulsa, Oklahoma: October 19-22, 2006

Pulping the Archive: Uncovering Popular Modernisms

NEACIS (NEW ENGLAND AMERICAN CONFERENCE for IRISH STUDIES) 2006=20

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will be held at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT on Oct. =
21-22, 2006

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Theme: "CHANGING IRELAND"

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Confirmed speakers: COLM T=D3IB=CDN, EMMA DONOGHUE, & KEN SIMPSON

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Presentation topics may include but should not be limited to:=20

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* Irish identity=20

* Celtic Tiger Ireland=20

* Northern Irish Peace Process

* colonialism / post-colonialism=20

* immigration /emigration=20

* social, historical, artistic, religious, sexual or political =
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NEACIS (NEW ENGLAND AMERICAN CONFERENCE for IRISH STUDIES) 2006=20

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will be held at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT on Oct. =
21-22, 2006

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Theme: "CHANGING IRELAND"

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Confirmed speakers: COLM T=D3IB=CDN, EMMA DONOGHUE, & KEN SIMPSON

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Presentation topics may include but should not be limited to:=20

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* Irish identity=20

* Celtic Tiger Ireland=20

* Northern Irish Peace Process

* colonialism / post-colonialism=20

* immigration /emigration=20

* social, historical, artistic, religious, sexual or political =
(r)evolution=20

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Now accepting submissions for an edited volume of essays on Dialogism and Poetry.

Proposals are now being accepted for the 38th Annual Conference of the=20

International Visual Literacy Association, to be held October 6-10 in
Fort=20

Worth, Texas, USA.=20

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For full information, please visit the 2006 Conference Website:

http://plato.ou.edu/~ivla2006

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You also can access the conference site from the IVLA website:=20

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http://www.ivla.org <http://www.ivla.org/>=20

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We look forward to receiving your proposals and to interacting with you
all at another great IVLA conference!

=B3The Future/Ends of Narrative/Theory=B2
MMLA 2006 Comparative Literature Panel
9-12 November 2006, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago IL
contact: Mark Pettus (mapettus_at_wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Faced with practice, theory often turns its gaze toward the future, casting
predictions from a symptomatic present. Out of the present, theory often
prophesies the end of a movement or its continued progress.
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Kant, for instance, read the French Revolution as a sign of mankind=B9s
progress and Prussia=B9s peace with the revolutionary government of France as
portending perpetual peace between all nations. Earlier in =B3Idea for