SOFEIR 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS
“Ireland: Going East”

16-17 March 2007
Institut du Monde Anglophone
Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
5, rue de l’Ecole de Médecine
75006 Paris

The Groupe de Recherche en Etudes Irlandaises de l’Université Sorbonne
Nouvelle-Paris 3, will host the annual conference of the SOFEIR (Société Française
d’Etudes Irlandaises) on 16th and 17th March 2007. The theme of the
conference will be: “Ireland: Going East”. Proposals for papers (250 words max.)
should be sent to Wesley Hutchinson and Carle Bonafous-Murat, before 30th
November 2006. Contact: sofeir2007_at_yahoo.fr

SOFEIR 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS
“Ireland: Going East”

16-17 March 2007
Institut du Monde Anglophone
Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
5, rue de l’Ecole de Médecine
75006 Paris

The Groupe de Recherche en Etudes Irlandaises de l’Université Sorbonne
Nouvelle-Paris 3, will host the annual conference of the SOFEIR (Société Française
d’Etudes Irlandaises) on 16th and 17th March 2007. The theme of the
conference will be: “Ireland: Going East”. Proposals for papers (250 words max.)
should be sent to Wesley Hutchinson and Carle Bonafous-Murat, before 30th
November 2006. Contact: sofeir2007_at_yahoo.fr

Composition and Rhetoric (Theory)

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We invite individual papers and panels on Rhetoric and Composition for
the 38th Annual Meeting of the CEA. Papers for this area will draw on
the conference theme "Empathy and Ethics." Proposals may conceive the
conference theme broadly. Possible topics include, but are not limited
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1st Year Writing

Basic Writing

Bilingual Education

Classical Rhetoric

Computer Mediated Rhetoric

Cultural Rhetoric

ESL

Gendered Writing

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Multimedia Rhetoric

Political Rhetoric=20

Popular Culture Rhetoric

Post-Colonial Rhetoric

CFP: Ghosts, Gender, History (12/10/06; collection)

Essays sought for an interdisciplinary edited collection on ghosts as =20=

literary figures in the context of gender and history. The =20
collection will be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2007. (I =20
am adding a chapter to an already finished manuscript.)

Completed essays will be 7,000-8,000 words in length and due
in February 2007.

Please send 1-2 page proposals and a short biography by December 10, =20
2006 to the editor

Sladja Blazan
S.Blazan_at_gmx.de

You are invited to submit papers for a panel on "Food and Literary
Imagination" at the 38th annual meeting of the CEA in New Orleans Suggested
topics for this panel should discuss aspects of food imagery, symbol, and
metaphor in fiction, non- fiction, poetry, drama, or film. Contact is
Walter Levy, wlevy129_at_gmail.com.

   Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings J o u r n a l o f F l o r i d a L i t
e r a t u r e

   Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings J o u r n a l o f F l o r i d a L i t
e r a t u r e

"PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire."
February 28, 2007. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

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CFP: Charles Olson: The End of the Maximus and the Late Prose

American Literature Association, Boston, May 24-27, 2007

The Charles Olson Society invites proposals that focus on any aspect of the
end of "The Maximus Poems" or Olson's late prose (published or unpublished).

250-word proposals should be sent to Don Byrd at dbyrd_at_nycap.rr.com by
December 15, 2006. Please include your name, institutional affiliation (if
any), e-mail address, and AV needs (if any).

Animals and Society II: Considering Animals
3-6 July 2007
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
http://www.cdesign.com.au/AS2007

Following on the success of the inaugural Animals and Society
Conference held at the University of Western Australia in 2005, the
Animals and Society Study Group (Australia) and the University of
Tasmania are pleased to be hosting Animals and Society II:
Considering Animals.

College English Association National Conference

April 12-14, 2007

New Orleans

We invite personal essays and memoir concerning Ethics and Empathy for the 38th annual meeting of the CEA. I am open to essays that do not necessarily fit into a discussion on ethics and empathy. Feel free to contact me before you submit your proposal if you have any questions.

Proposals should be submitted via the online database at
http://english.ttu.edu/cea/conftool <http://english.ttu.edu/cea/conftool>
by November 30th.

College English Association National Conference

April 12-14, 2007

New Orleans

We invite personal essays and memoir concerning Ethics and Empathy for the 38th annual meeting of the CEA. I am open to essays that do not necessarily fit into a discussion on ethics and empathy. Feel free to contact me before you submit your proposal if you have any questions.

Proposals should be submitted via the online database at
http://english.ttu.edu/cea/conftool <http://english.ttu.edu/cea/conftool>
by November 30th.

CALL FOR PAPERS

PEACE PANEL at CEA:

Morality, Militarism and Ante-Modernity

38th Annual College English Association Conference

New Orleans, Louisiana, April 12-14, 2007

One of the key features of conservative politics is that it insistently
evokes a nostalgic, sentimental past as the norm. In other words, its
strategy in dealing with the modern is to hate it and prefer the pre-modern
(the ante-modern).

Rural Representations and Kate Chopin

Panel sponsored by The Kate Chopin International Society for the American=20
Literature Association 18th Annual Conference (May 24-27, 2007; Boston)

Kate Chopin?s The Awakening (1899) takes place mostly in the urban setting =

of New Orleans. Since the novel?s publication and the subsequent scholarly =