The Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture will hold its annual conference in Baltimore, MD, October 27-29, 2006.

Shakespeare's position in popular as well as high culture remains strong, with new works in fiction, film and other areas. But Shakespeare is not the only Renaissance figure to have a presence in modern popular culture. Other writers, historical figures, events and debates are still part of the popular landscape. This area welcomes topics on any aspect of the overlap or intersection between the Early Modern period (roughly 1500-1700) and the Postmodern one. Topics for this area can include, but are not limited to:

–Shakespeare on film, in TV, comics or fiction

Papers sought for a panel at the annual meeting of the Northeast
American Society for 18c Studies in Salem, MA, Nov 9-12, 2006 that
will examine the ways gender figured in popular representations of
the causes, effects, and progress of criminality through the
18c. Especially desirable are papers that revisit the work of
Frances Dolan, Garthine Walker, or Margaret Arnot, and/or that engage
with Robert Shoemaker's argument, at the October 2005 conference on
Gender and Popular Culture at University of Michigan, for the
significance of London's "female crime wave" of 1690-1730. Proposals
and cv by April 15 to Jennifer Thorn, Colby College. Email:

Call for Papers

UPDATE

2006 ALSC Conference, Hotel Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco, California,
October 13-15 2006

April 7, 2006

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) has re-issued its
call for papers for the seminar sections of the 2006 ALSC Conference
Program. The panels are not open for submissions at this time.

The submissions deadline for all three seminars has been extended to April
30.

Additional prospective members and current members alike are heartily
invited to apply.

Please see below for details.

Seminars

CALL FOR PAPERS

A Commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807

Academic papers and creative submissions are invited for this special issue to mark the two-hundredth anniversary in 2007 of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

EnterText volume 7 number 1

Abolition's Bicentenary: The Black Atlantic Then and Now

Submissions are invited by 1 December 2006

CFP: "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: History, Culture and
Politics" (Submission date: June 16, 2006)

Victorian Review is publishing a special issue on interdisciplinary
approaches to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, to be published in the summer of
2007. The editor is seeking 5000-8000 word essays that introduce new
methodologies and approaches to the study of EBB's poetry, correspondence or
other writing. Topics might include political thought,
historiography, theology, science, psychology, legal theory, visual
culture, history of
sexuality, journalism, abolitionism, feminist activism, nationalism, etc.

CFP: "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: History, Culture and
Politics" (Submission date: June 16, 2006)

Victorian Review is publishing a special issue on interdisciplinary
approaches to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, to be published in the summer of
2007. The editor is seeking 5000-8000 word essays that introduce new
methodologies and approaches to the study of EBB's poetry, correspondence or
other writing. Topics might include political thought,
historiography, theology, science, psychology, legal theory, visual
culture, history of
sexuality, journalism, abolitionism, feminist activism, nationalism, etc.

Call for Papers

UPDATE

2006 ALSC Conference, Hotel Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco, California,
October 13-15 2006

April 7, 2006

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) has re-issued its
call for papers for the seminar sections of the 2006 ALSC Conference
Program. The panels are not open for submissions at this time.

The submissions deadline for all three seminars has been extended to April
30.

Additional prospective members and current members alike are heartily
invited to apply.

Please see below for details.

Seminars

NEW DEADLINE: MAY 31, 2006

postscript: a journal of graduate criticism and theory
is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal
published annually by graduate students in the
Department of English Language and Literature at
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Students either
currently enrolled in a post-graduate program or
having recently graduated from one are invited to
submit papers for a special issue exploring the mall
and its itinerant shoppers.

Call for Papers

UPDATE

2006 ALSC Conference, Hotel Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco, California,
October 13-15 2006

April 7, 2006

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) has re-issued its
call for papers for the seminar sections of the 2006 ALSC Conference
Program. The panels are not open for submissions at this time.

The submissions deadline for all three seminars has been extended to April
30.

Additional prospective members and current members alike are heartily
invited to apply.

Please see below for details.

Seminars

PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

*DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH*

* International Conference on*

*Nature and Human Nature*: Land, Landscape and Cultural Constructions of th=
e
Environment

*21st-23rd September 2006*

*Venue: Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India *

* *

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

*DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH*

* International Conference on*

*Nature and Human Nature*: Land, Landscape and Cultural Constructions of th=
e
Environment

*21st-23rd September 2006*

*Venue: Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India *

* *

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Call for Papers
2006 Film & History Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
8-12 November 2006
Dolce Conference Center-Dallas, TX
www.filmandhistory.org

We have added more guest writers and artists to our upcoming (6/22-6/25)
SFRA 2006 conference. Our updated guest list now includes:

Writers:
Norman Spinrad: Guest of Honor
Other guests: Nancy Kress, Nalo Hopkinson, R. Garcia y Robertson, William
Sleator, Joan Slonczewski (Distinguished Member Participant), David G.
Hartwell, John "JP" Briggs, Bruce Tayler, Lee Denning, and Samuel R. Delany
(tentative)

Artists:
Michael Whelan (Special Guest Artist), Abe Echevarria and Tom Kidd

Additionally, we have extended the deadline for essay proposals to May 1, 2006.

All other information remains the same.

Please send one-page paper proposals to: sfra2006_at_yahoo.com

Thank you.

 
  The deadline has been extended for an approved special session entitled, "AIDS in Literature" at the Midwest MLA conference in Chicago, November 9-12, 2006.
 
  Papers are sought especially on the topic of personal integration and dis-integration in characters who are infected with HIV/AIDS. However, the panel gladly encourages submissions on any subject within the broad topic of AIDS in literature.
 
  The revised deadline for submission of abstracts is April 21, 2006.
 
 Please send inquiries and abstracts (of 250 words) to:
 
Donald P. Gagnon, Ph.D.
Department of English
Western Connecticut State University
181 White Street
Berkshire Hall 210 E
Danbury, CT 06810