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CFP: Twilight of Queerness: from Binaries to Connectivity (no deadline noted; Queer CUNY, 4/7/07-4/8/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:53am
taylor black

Queer CUNY VIII
Hunter College, New York City
April 7-8, 2007

Twilight of Queerness:
from Binaries to Connectivity

Most current LGBT political activism focuses on the
marriage/anti-marriage debate, and accordingly, scholarship debate
disputes relational/anti-relational ideologies. Both grossly miss a
larger political and intellectual potential for queer studies and that
the definition of discreet identity binaries is, itself, destructive
to a truly radical and progressive discourse.

CFP: (dis)junctions 2007: General Topic (grad) (1/5/07; 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
HELEN LOVEJOY

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
    
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside's
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference
    
Abstract deadline: 1/5/07
    
The framework for (dis)junctions 2007:
Malappropriation Nation might be imagined in relation
to what the 20th century American poet Susan Howe
calls the idea of "Lawlessness," the acting outside of
acceptable boundaries and ideologies. In developing
this year's theme, we are hoping to formulate panels
in which conventional or popular theories are used and
in turn reworked/rethought/re-imagined in ways that

UPDATE: Un/Common Experience: Everyday Life (grad) (12/20/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
NYU French Graduate Conference Organizers ––

New deadline and keynote announcement for the annual graduate
conference of the NYU Department of French:

Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory of Everyday Life

February 16-17, 2007 with keynote speaker KRISTIN ROSS

The everyday is far from ordinary: within the banal lurks the sublime,
the familiar masks the strange. But does the quotidian confine,
define or liberate us?

CFP: (dis)junctions 2007: General Topic (grad) (1/5/07; 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
HELEN LOVEJOY

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
    
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside's
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference
    
Abstract deadline: 1/5/07
    
The framework for (dis)junctions 2007:
Malappropriation Nation might be imagined in relation
to what the 20th century American poet Susan Howe
calls the idea of "Lawlessness," the acting outside of
acceptable boundaries and ideologies. In developing
this year's theme, we are hoping to formulate panels
in which conventional or popular theories are used and
in turn reworked/rethought/re-imagined in ways that

CFP: (dis)junctions 2007: General Topic (grad) (1/5/07; 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
HELEN LOVEJOY

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
    
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside's
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference
    
Abstract deadline: 1/5/07
    
The framework for (dis)junctions 2007:
Malappropriation Nation might be imagined in relation
to what the 20th century American poet Susan Howe
calls the idea of "Lawlessness," the acting outside of
acceptable boundaries and ideologies. In developing
this year's theme, we are hoping to formulate panels
in which conventional or popular theories are used and
in turn reworked/rethought/re-imagined in ways that

UPDATE: Un/Common Experience: Everyday Life (grad) (12/20/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
NYU French Graduate Conference Organizers ––

New deadline and keynote announcement for the annual graduate
conference of the NYU Department of French:

Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory of Everyday Life

February 16-17, 2007 with keynote speaker KRISTIN ROSS

The everyday is far from ordinary: within the banal lurks the sublime,
the familiar masks the strange. But does the quotidian confine,
define or liberate us?

CFP: New Developments in Textual Culture (UK) (1/6/07; 2/17/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
Stephen Penn

Apologies for cross-posting
CALL FOR PAPERS
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TEXTUAL CULTURE
Department of English Studies, University of Stirling, UK
Saturday 17th February 2007
9.00 am - 5.30 pm
Keynote speakers: Prof. Ron Scollon (Georgetown), Dr Peter D. McDonald (Oxf=
ord)
Textual Culture is a cross-period, interdisciplinary field of enquiry focus=
ed on the production, circulation, and use of texts conceived in material, =
discursive, and economic terms. It brings together several strands of exist=
ing research interest, principally book history, publishing studies, discou=
rse analysis, and reader/audience study. This one-day symposium, intended a=

CFP: (dis)junctions 2007: General Topic (grad) (1/5/07; 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
HELEN LOVEJOY

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
    
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside's
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference
    
Abstract deadline: 1/5/07
    
The framework for (dis)junctions 2007:
Malappropriation Nation might be imagined in relation
to what the 20th century American poet Susan Howe
calls the idea of "Lawlessness," the acting outside of
acceptable boundaries and ideologies. In developing
this year's theme, we are hoping to formulate panels
in which conventional or popular theories are used and
in turn reworked/rethought/re-imagined in ways that

CFP: New Developments in Textual Culture (UK) (1/6/07; 2/17/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
Stephen Penn

Apologies for cross-posting
CALL FOR PAPERS
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TEXTUAL CULTURE
Department of English Studies, University of Stirling, UK
Saturday 17th February 2007
9.00 am - 5.30 pm
Keynote speakers: Prof. Ron Scollon (Georgetown), Dr Peter D. McDonald (Oxf=
ord)
Textual Culture is a cross-period, interdisciplinary field of enquiry focus=
ed on the production, circulation, and use of texts conceived in material, =
discursive, and economic terms. It brings together several strands of exist=
ing research interest, principally book history, publishing studies, discou=
rse analysis, and reader/audience study. This one-day symposium, intended a=

UPDATE: Un/Common Experience: Everyday Life (grad) (12/20/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
NYU French Graduate Conference Organizers ––

New deadline and keynote announcement for the annual graduate
conference of the NYU Department of French:

Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory of Everyday Life

February 16-17, 2007 with keynote speaker KRISTIN ROSS

The everyday is far from ordinary: within the banal lurks the sublime,
the familiar masks the strange. But does the quotidian confine,
define or liberate us?

CFP: (dis)junctions 2007: General Topic (grad) (1/5/07; 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
HELEN LOVEJOY

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
    
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside's
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference
    
Abstract deadline: 1/5/07
    
The framework for (dis)junctions 2007:
Malappropriation Nation might be imagined in relation
to what the 20th century American poet Susan Howe
calls the idea of "Lawlessness," the acting outside of
acceptable boundaries and ideologies. In developing
this year's theme, we are hoping to formulate panels
in which conventional or popular theories are used and
in turn reworked/rethought/re-imagined in ways that

CFP: Beyond the Page: Performing Italian Literature (grad) (1/27/07; 3/9/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
yvonne mattevi

  Beyond the Page: Performing Italian Literature.
   
  The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
  PhD Program in Comparative Literature
  Doctoral Specialization in Italian
   
  Friday, March 9, 2006
   
  "The image is re-presentation,
  Which is to say ultimately resurrection"
  Roland Barthes, Image - Music - Text.
   

CFP: Beyond the Page: Performing Italian Literature (grad) (1/27/07; 3/9/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
yvonne mattevi

  Beyond the Page: Performing Italian Literature.
   
  The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
  PhD Program in Comparative Literature
  Doctoral Specialization in Italian
   
  Friday, March 9, 2006
   
  "The image is re-presentation,
  Which is to say ultimately resurrection"
  Roland Barthes, Image - Music - Text.
   

CFP: Historicizing Fat (4/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Elena Levy-Navarro

"Historicizing Fat"=20

A Proposed Special Session for the 2007 Annual Convention of the Modern =
Language Association

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CFP: Historicizing Fat (4/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Elena Levy-Navarro

"Historicizing Fat"=20

A Proposed Special Session for the 2007 Annual Convention of the Modern =
Language Association

=20

CFP: Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Rubin, Lance

Call for submissions to a special topics panel devoted to the work of =
Chuck Palahniuk at the Rocky Mountain MLA in Calgary, Alberta, Canada =
October 4-6, 2007. In the spirit of the panel's title, "Fight Club and =
Beyond," papers that explore Palahniuk's other novels -- or which =
discuss Fight Club in the context of his other works -- are encouraged.
=20
Please send proposals (1-2 pages) or finished papers by March 1st as a =
Word attachment to lance.rubin_at_arapahoe.edu or mail hard copies to the =
following address
=20
Lance Rubin, Ph.D.
Humanities Chair=20
Arapahoe Community College
5900 S. Santa Fe Drive
Littleton, CO 80160

CFP: Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Rubin, Lance

Call for submissions to a special topics panel devoted to the work of =
Chuck Palahniuk at the Rocky Mountain MLA in Calgary, Alberta, Canada =
October 4-6, 2007. In the spirit of the panel's title, "Fight Club and =
Beyond," papers that explore Palahniuk's other novels -- or which =
discuss Fight Club in the context of his other works -- are encouraged.
=20
Please send proposals (1-2 pages) or finished papers by March 1st as a =
Word attachment to lance.rubin_at_arapahoe.edu or mail hard copies to the =
following address
=20
Lance Rubin, Ph.D.
Humanities Chair=20
Arapahoe Community College
5900 S. Santa Fe Drive
Littleton, CO 80160

CFP: Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Rubin, Lance

Call for submissions to a special topics panel devoted to the work of =
Chuck Palahniuk at the Rocky Mountain MLA in Calgary, Alberta, Canada =
October 4-6, 2007. In the spirit of the panel's title, "Fight Club and =
Beyond," papers that explore Palahniuk's other novels -- or which =
discuss Fight Club in the context of his other works -- are encouraged.
=20
Please send proposals (1-2 pages) or finished papers by March 1st as a =
Word attachment to lance.rubin_at_arapahoe.edu or mail hard copies to the =
following address
=20
Lance Rubin, Ph.D.
Humanities Chair=20
Arapahoe Community College
5900 S. Santa Fe Drive
Littleton, CO 80160

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