The 12th congress of the European Committee for Sports History will be hosted
by the University of Southern Brittany, Lorient, France, 20th-22nd September
2007. Congress participants will take part in a reflection on the artistic
status of sport, as well as its relation to and representation in the arts
(including literature). Some artistic representations have no intention but to
reflect some "reality", whereas some other representations pursue a variety of
specific goals. Moreover, whether in the arts or as a consequence of the moral
qualities it allows and constrains those who take part to display, sport is
widely believed to be the vehicle of a social ethic as well, making it

Call for Papers
  Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies
  University of Trieste, Italy
  June 29 - July 3, 2007
   
  "Bridging Communities"
   
  For the first time since the Canadian Society for Italian Studies was founded in 1972, the annual conference, normally held together with those of the other eighty associations that constitute the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences, will be held independently and outside Canada, namely at the University of Trieste, Italy.
   

Claude McKay, Postnationalist Critique and Critical Contradiction:
A Special Session for MLA 2007

Extended deadline for submissions to the American History and Culture area:
  Proposals for the SW/TX PCA/ACA conference are now due December 1st, 2006.
   
  Conference website updates:
  New areas added.
  Travel and registration pages updated.
  http://www.h-net.org/~swpca
   
  Call for Papers: American History and Culture area
  Southwest/Texas Popular Culture / American Culture Associations
  28th Annual Conference, February 14-17, 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
   

International Conference, March 9th and 10th, 2007.

Universit=E9 Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III

Call for papers

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Adventure(s)

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Less than an object or a precise event, adventure is mainly a =
representation, an ontological or formal ideal, an aspiration or a =
method, that privileges chance, imminence, nomadism.

International Conference, March 9th and 10th, 2007.

Universit=E9 Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III

Call for papers

=20

Adventure(s)

=20

Less than an object or a precise event, adventure is mainly a =
representation, an ontological or formal ideal, an aspiration or a =
method, that privileges chance, imminence, nomadism.

Sandra Cisneros: Woman Hollering Creek

CFP: Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek (2/28/07; collection).

Sandra Cisneros: Woman Hollering Creek

CFP: Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek (2/28/07; collection).

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE SUSAN GLASPELL SOCIETY ALA PANEL

Panel Topic: The Grotesque in the Work of Susan Glaspell, Djuna Barnes,
Zora Neale Hurston, and Their Modernist Contemporaries

Title: Banned in Boston
Proposed Panel for the American Literature Association Conference
Abstract deadline: January 12, 2007
Conference: May 24-27 in Boston, MA

The phrase "Banned in Boston" came into widespread usage in the 1920s during a particularly active campaign to censure objectionable, offensive, and obscene works in the city sometimes called "The Cradle of Liberty." This proposed panel for the 2007 Meeting of the ALA will examine the politics of moral enforcement as played out in Boston over the centuries. What social, political, religious, and economic agendas are served through the practice of censorship? How does the goal of protecting the public measure against the values of artistic liberty and freedom of speech?

Title: Banned in Boston
Proposed Panel for the American Literature Association Conference
Abstract deadline: January 12, 2007
Conference: May 24-27 in Boston, MA

The phrase "Banned in Boston" came into widespread usage in the 1920s during a particularly active campaign to censure objectionable, offensive, and obscene works in the city sometimes called "The Cradle of Liberty." This proposed panel for the 2007 Meeting of the ALA will examine the politics of moral enforcement as played out in Boston over the centuries. What social, political, religious, and economic agendas are served through the practice of censorship? How does the goal of protecting the public measure against the values of artistic liberty and freedom of speech?

Title: Banned in Boston
Proposed Panel for the American Literature Association Conference
Abstract deadline: January 12, 2007
Conference: May 24-27 in Boston, MA

The phrase "Banned in Boston" came into widespread usage in the 1920s during a particularly active campaign to censure objectionable, offensive, and obscene works in the city sometimes called "The Cradle of Liberty." This proposed panel for the 2007 Meeting of the ALA will examine the politics of moral enforcement as played out in Boston over the centuries. What social, political, religious, and economic agendas are served through the practice of censorship? How does the goal of protecting the public measure against the values of artistic liberty and freedom of speech?

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR PANEL entitled "Medieval lives,
media-cities--Medieval visions, modern spaces."

This panel is part of the 42nd Annual Comparative
Literature Conference, 15-16 March 2007--California State
University, Long Beach. This year's conference topic is
"Women, Sexuality, and Early Modern Studies."

"Medieval lives, media-cities--Medieval visions, modern
spaces"

Universidad de Sevilla – Facultad de Filología
Dreaming the Future
New Horizons / Old Barriers in 21st Century Ireland

6th EFACIS CONFERENCE
European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies

University of Seville, Spain
13-15 December 2007