Call for Papers

Portals: A Journal of Comparative Literature is a graduate student journal
published by the Comparative Literature Association of San Francisco State
University.

Portals invites original, critical essay submissions that explore
comparative literary topics across cultural, regional, linguistic, and
temporal boundaries for the Spring 2007 issue.

Submission Guidelines

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NECBS 2007 Annual Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Call for Papers - Union and Disunion

The Northeast Conference on British Studies 2007 Annual Meeting will be held
October 12-13, at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.  The 2007
meeting will focus on the general theme: "UNION AND DISUNION" in honor of the
300th anniversary of the Act of Union as well as the key position of Halifax
during the American Revolution.

Pacific Coast Philology, the journal of the West Coast regional MLA,
invites submissions in any area of scholarship in the classical and
modern languages and literatures for its fall 2007 issue. Essays of
4,500-8,000 words should be submitted by 1/15/07 in triplicate hard copy
to Prof. Victoria Myers, Humanities Div., Pepperdine Univ., 24255
Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA 90263-4225. Pacific Coast Philology
is a peer-reviewed journal, indexed in the MLAIB and ABELL and archived
on J-STOR. Publication takes place within six months of acceptance.
Queries to victoria.myers_at_pepperdine.edu.

   
  Whose Play is it Anyway?:
                 Translations/Adaptations/Versions
In a very real sense, every live staging of a printed play could theoretically be considered an adaptation in its performance.

   
  Whose Play is it Anyway?:
                 Translations/Adaptations/Versions
In a very real sense, every live staging of a printed play could theoretically be considered an adaptation in its performance.

*UPDATE FOR CFP -- "Black People Don't Read": An Analysis of the Role
Literacy, Reading, and Writing in African American Culture *

CALL FOR PAPERS

Entralogos: Romance Studies Graduate Conference 2007
Feb. 9-10, 2007
Cornell University

Enamored, Romanized, Romanced: Spells of "Romance"

UPDATE: Confirmed keynote: Sterling Professor of French Howard Bloch
(Yale) will be speaking on French literature. Other keynotes pending.

*UPDATE FOR CFP -- "Black People Don't Read": An Analysis of the Role
Literacy, Reading, and Writing in African American Culture *

61st Annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference
Calgary, Canada at the Westin Calgary Hotel
October 4-6, 2007

CFP "Recontextualized Images" (grad) (1/5/07;
(dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

CFP "Recontextualized Images" (grad) (1/5/07;
(dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

The deadline for abstract and panel proposals for the "Transgressing
Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Dialogues" Stony Brook Manhattan
Graduate Conference has been extended to January 12th, 2007.

Our keynote speaker will be Ralph Bauer, a visiting
associate professor at the New York University in the departments of
English and Portuguese and Spanish and an associate professor in the
department of English at the University of Maryland, who will present a
selection from his forthcoming work entitled, "A New World of
Secrets: Occult Philosophy and Local Knowledge in the Colonial
Encounters."

Art and Life in Aestheticism: De-Humanizing and Re-Humanizing Art, the Artist,
and the Artistic Receptor (Edited Collection, under contract with Palgrave
Macmillan):

I am seeking 2-3 additional chapters (approximately 20 double-spaced pages
each) to fill some gaps in an edited collection that considers the extent to
which art for art's sake can be viewed as an attempt to re-humanize (rather
than merely de-humanize) art, the artist, and the artistic receptor.

The Realist Impulse: Contemporary Film-making in Britain

A Conference hosted by Film Studies, Oxford Brookes University
12 and 13 July 2007 at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK

Keynote Speaker: Professor John Hill, Royal Holloway University
Restrospective of films by director Pawel Pawlikowski
Q&A with Pawel Pawlikowski and Jim Hillier

The Film Team at Oxford Brookes invite papers for a conference on The
Realist Impulse: Contemporary Film-making in Britain. We welcome proposals
from a diversity of cultural, historical and analytic approaches.