I'm looking for contributors for a special session at the 2007 MLA in Chicago.

Special Session: Rereading the Sublime and Beautiful: The 250th Anniversary of Burke's Enquiry

How have contemporary methodologies such as cultural studies and feminist, queer, post-colonial, Marxist, psychoanalytic, and post-structural theories enriched our understanding of Edmund Burke's aesthetics? 500-word abstracts due: 2/28/07. Send your abstract and cv to Ana de Freitas Boe, Ph.D., Department of English, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH 44017.

E-mail submissions to aboe at bw dot edu are preferred.

As the MLA "Call for Papers for 2007 Convention in Chicago" flyer explains:

Association of University English Teachers of South Africa/ SAACLALS/ SAVAL CONFERENCE 2007
   
  8 - 11 July 2007,
   
  UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL, HOWARD COLLEGE, DURBAN
  
WORLDS, TEXTS, CRITICS
   
  Deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 April 2007.
  
Website: http://academic.sun.ac.za/english/AUETSA2007/
  SPECIAL PANEL MAGICAL REALISM: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Convenor: Faisal Marrouki
  email (fmarrouki_at_yahoo.com)
   

Association of University English Teachers of South Africa/ SAACLALS/ SAVAL CONFERENCE 2007
   
  8 - 11 July 2007,
   
  UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL, HOWARD COLLEGE, DURBAN
  
WORLDS, TEXTS, CRITICS
   
  Deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 April 2007.
  
Website: http://academic.sun.ac.za/english/AUETSA2007/
  SPECIAL PANEL MAGICAL REALISM: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Convenor: Faisal Marrouki
  email (fmarrouki_at_yahoo.com)
   

Call for Panel Submissions:
"British Literature after 1900" Panel,
RMMLA Conference,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
October 4-6, 2007

Submissions are invited on an engaging topic responding to British,
Irish, Commonwealth, or Post-colonial Literature written after 1900 to
the panelchair, Anthony Flinn, at aflinn_at_mail.ewu.edu by March 1,
2007. These submissions should be 300-word electronic abstracts,
formatted as a standard Word document or RTF.

Everyone submitting an abstract will be notified about acceptance by
March 15, 2007.

Call for Panel Submissions:
"British Literature after 1900" Panel,
RMMLA Conference,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
October 4-6, 2007

Submissions are invited on an engaging topic responding to British,
Irish, Commonwealth, or Post-colonial Literature written after 1900 to
the panelchair, Anthony Flinn, at aflinn_at_mail.ewu.edu by March 1,
2007. These submissions should be 300-word electronic abstracts,
formatted as a standard Word document or RTF.

Everyone submitting an abstract will be notified about acceptance by
March 15, 2007.

WYNDHAM LEWIS: MODERNITY AND CRITIQUE
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POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE - Birmingham, United Kingdom, January 2008
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Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers from postgraduates that consider=
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others throughout literary history.
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have not as yet received the critical attention they deserve. Furthermore, =

WYNDHAM LEWIS: MODERNITY AND CRITIQUE
=20
POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE - Birmingham, United Kingdom, January 2008
=20
Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers from postgraduates that consider=
 Lewis in two ways: as a major critical presence who evaluated, theorized, =
and=20
foresaw numerous key problems of modernity; and as a writer in relation to =
others throughout literary history.
=20
While Lewis=92s contributions to Anglo-American literary modernism have bee=
n generally accepted and scrutinized, significant aspects of his writing an=
d thought=20
have not as yet received the critical attention they deserve. Furthermore, =

CFP: Contemporary Literature and the State (Collection 3/26/07)

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND THE STATE
Edited by Matt Hart and Jim Hansen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CFP: Contemporary Literature and the State (Collection 3/26/07)

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND THE STATE
Edited by Matt Hart and Jim Hansen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Literature and Politics Panel

South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)

2007 Conference in Memphis, Tennessee

November 1-3

The Literature and Politics Panel welcomes 500 word abstracts/proposals for
its 2007 Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. The theme of the conference is
"Currents."

Paper topics for the panel are open; however, I am particularly interested
in essays dealing with the following themes:

Queer, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender or Intersexual
Politics in Literature

Marxist & Neo-Marxist Politics in Literature

Ambiguous and Contradicting Politics in Literature

Please note that the deadline for submissions has been extended to April
1, 2007.

The Theory Reading Group at Cornell University invites submissions for
its third annual interdisciplinary spring conference

The Time of Materiality

featuring keynote speakers Peter Hallward (Professor of Modern European
Philosophy, Middlesex University) and Catherine Malabou (Professor of
Philosophy, Université de Paris X – Nanterre)

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
April 5th-7th, 2007

http://www.arts.cornell.edu/trg/conf2007.html

"Cognitive Approaches to Genre"
Cognitive Approaches to Literature Discussion Group
Session
MLA 2007 (Chicago, December 27-30)

The MLA Discussion Group on Cognitive Approaches to
Literature invites papers bridging topics in cognitive
theory and genre theory for our session at the 2007
MLA Convention in Chicago. Send 300-word proposals to
Michael Sinding (msinding_at_rogers.com) by March 1.

Feminism(s): Film, Video and Politics Symposium
University of Hartford
West Hartford, CT
Conference Dates: April 20-22nd

Call for Papers, Films, Videos, Performances, and Workshops
Submission Deadline: February 25th

Confirmed Speakers Include:
Abigail Child, Dara Greenwald, Jeanine Oleson, Maureen Turim
and Sasha Waters