PCA/ACA national conference organizers have indicated a strong
interest in my proposed panel, titled "The Story on the Body:
Textual Tattoos and the Corporeal Canvas".

Panel Description:

Whereas Melville's Queequeg is one of American literature's earliest
fictional tattooed characters, it is Hawthorne's Hester who upends
one of the conventions of the body in literature: Her scarlet "A"
reminds us of the role of her body in the novel, but it is the
adulterous story told on her body that positions Hester herself as a
text to be read.

The Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) of the
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
invites paper submissions for its 5th annual
preconference, entitled "Regeneration and Return:
Performance Studies in New Orleans," to take place
July 25-26. As generations of performance studies
scholars turn – and return – to New Orleans, we seek a
variety of proposals that address the panel topic
described below. While the city of New Orleans is
central to many of the questions presented here, we
welcome scholarship that employs various methodologies
and geographic points of entry.

Panel #2: Staging Race, Staging Place: The Local and
the Diasporic

The Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) of the
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
invites paper submissions for its 5th annual
preconference, entitled "Regeneration and Return:
Performance Studies in New Orleans," to take place
July 25-26. As generations of performance studies
scholars turn – and return – to New Orleans, we seek a
variety of proposals that address the panel topic
described below. While the city of New Orleans is
central to many of the questions presented here, we
welcome scholarship that employs various methodologies
and geographic points of entry.

Panel #2: Staging Race, Staging Place: The Local and
the Diasporic

UPDATE on: *Grey's Anatomy* Collection 12/01/06

Edited by: Cynthia Burkhead (University of North Alabama) and Hillary Robson
(Middle Tennessee State University), with a preface written by David Lavery
(Brunel University).

CFP: "Pleasure and Responsibility: What's at Stake?" 12/1/06; 2/9-2/10/07

11th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF)
Conference:

February 9-10, University of Michigan

For a special issue on "Women in Power" the multidisciplinary online
journal "gender forum" (http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de), affiliated
with the University of Cologne, Germany, seeks articles discussing
female political leadership. "Women in Power" seeks to instigate this
discussion with two articles by German feminist activist Alice Schwarzer
on Angela Merkel and would like to invite a debate focussing on "Women
in Power" and questions of gender as well as reviews of books about and
by women in leadership positions. The articles by Alice Schwarzer are
available online at

Call for Papers
=20

I ANNUAL ASIAN CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ACSA) CONFERENCE
=20

NEW OLD WORLDS: THE CHANGING FACES OF ASIA
=20

Assumption University

592 Ramkhamhaeng 24, Hua Mak

10240 Bangkok, Thailand

=20

Conference dates: SATURDAY-SUNDAY 31.03.2007-01.04.2007

=20

CFP deadline for submissions: 07.01.2007

=20

NEW OLD WORLDS: THE CHANGING FACES OF ASIA
=20

For a special issue on "Women in Power" the multidisciplinary online
journal "gender forum" (http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de), affiliated
with the University of Cologne, Germany, seeks articles discussing
female political leadership. "Women in Power" seeks to instigate this
discussion with two articles by German feminist activist Alice Schwarzer
on Angela Merkel and would like to invite a debate focussing on "Women
in Power" and questions of gender as well as reviews of books about and
by women in leadership positions. The articles by Alice Schwarzer are
available online at

Call for Papers
=20

I ANNUAL ASIAN CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ACSA) CONFERENCE
=20

NEW OLD WORLDS: THE CHANGING FACES OF ASIA
=20

Assumption University

592 Ramkhamhaeng 24, Hua Mak

10240 Bangkok, Thailand

=20

Conference dates: SATURDAY-SUNDAY 31.03.2007-01.04.2007

=20

CFP deadline for submissions: 07.01.2007

=20

NEW OLD WORLDS: THE CHANGING FACES OF ASIA
=20

Confrontation

British Comparative Literature Association
Third Graduate Student Conference
Goldsmiths College, University of London
30 March, 2007

Plenary Speaker: Professor Alexander Callinicos (King's College London)

African Literature Association 33rd Annual Conference, March 14-18 2007,
West Virginia University, Conference Theme: African Literature and the
Cultural Dynamics of Globalization. Deadline for Panel/Paper Proposals
is December 1, 2006. All proposals and queriers should be sent to
wvuala_at_mail.wvu.edu/ For additional information, go to
http://www.africanlit.or <http://www.africanlit.or/> or
http://www.wvu.edu/forlang

Confrontation

British Comparative Literature Association
Third Graduate Student Conference
Goldsmiths College, University of London
30 March, 2007

Plenary Speaker: Professor Alexander Callinicos (King's College London)

CFP: Intersections, Margins, and Parallels in Cultural Production
(Grad; 01/22/07; 03/9-10/07)

We are pleased to invite proposals for an interdisciplinary graduate
student conference organized
by the Department of English at the University of Victoria to be held
March 9-10, 2007. This
year's keynote speaker will be Marshall Grossman of the University of Maryland.

CFP: Intersections, Margins, and Parallels in Cultural Production
(Grad; 01/22/07; 03/9-10/07)

We are pleased to invite proposals for an interdisciplinary graduate
student conference organized
by the Department of English at the University of Victoria to be held
March 9-10, 2007. This
year's keynote speaker will be Marshall Grossman of the University of Maryland.