Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines

12 - 14 April 2007 (deadline for submissions 1 Sept 06)
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan South Wales UK

Keynotes confirmed
Anne Bogart, SITI Company
Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

Call for Papers (please cross post where appropriate)

Improvisation is integral to arts practice. This conference provides a
structure and a space for artists/practitioners/teachers/scholars to
share ideas and debate about the application and relevance of
improvisation in arts practice today.

Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines

12 - 14 April 2007 (deadline for submissions 1 Sept 06)
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan South Wales UK

Keynotes confirmed
Anne Bogart, SITI Company
Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

Call for Papers (please cross post where appropriate)

Improvisation is integral to arts practice. This conference provides a
structure and a space for artists/practitioners/teachers/scholars to
share ideas and debate about the application and relevance of
improvisation in arts practice today.

Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities
Texas A&M University-Commerce
February 23, 2007

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of the five canons of rhetoric--invention,
arrangement, style, memory, delivery—which we define broadly to incorporate
a wide variety of research interests.

Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities
Texas A&M University-Commerce
February 23, 2007

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of the five canons of rhetoric--invention,
arrangement, style, memory, delivery—which we define broadly to incorporate
a wide variety of research interests.

The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor a panel at the American Literature
Symposium on American Fiction in San Diego on September 28-30, 2006.

Please send two-page proposals on any aspect of Edith Wharton's fiction by
July 7, 2006 to Margaret Murray at drmpm_at_snet.net.

No audiovisual equipment will be available for this symposium. The
conference fee is $120, which includes two meals and two receptions. A full
description of the symposium, together with registration form and lodging
information, is available on the American Literature Association web site:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/otherconfs.html

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

INTREPID VISIONARY: BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD, NOVELIST, POET, AND SCULPTOR

*American Modernism: Cultural Transactions*
Oxford Brookes University, UK
22-23 September 2006

A major interdisciplinary conference examining the scope and impact of
America Modernism in literature, cinema and the visual arts

Sessions on Ethnicity and Culture, T.S. Eliot. Anglo-American Modernism,
the American Avant-garde, Edith Wharton, and Transnational Modernism

visit the website @
http://www.ah.brookes.ac.uk/conferences/americanmodernism/

Speakers include:
Cassandra Laity, Tim Armstrong, Janet Beer, Laura Marcus, Paul Giles and
Steven Mathews

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

INTREPID VISIONARY: BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD, NOVELIST, POET, AND SCULPTOR

Papers are being sought for a panel on "The Post-Modern Vampire"
(Blacula, Interview with a Vampire, Blade, Angel, etc.) at the Oct 5-7
Savannah, GA meeting of the Popular Culture Association of the South.
We are particularly interested in how the vampire is or specifically is
not a locus for societal disquiet about issues of race, class, and sex.
Please send an abstract and vita to tcassidy_at_scsu.edu ASAP; no later
than June 15.
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Thomas Cassidy
Professor, English and Modern Languages
South Carolina State University
O:803/536-8785
Fax:803/533-3804
The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or

The Sixth Symbiosis Conference CFP=20

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Headline Theme: =91Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies =
of
Influence?=92 (N.B. Please note that submissions on other Anglo-American
topics/themes are most welcome).=20

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Venue: Brunel University, West London

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Dates: 12th =96 15th July 2007 =20

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The School of Arts at Brunel University is delighted to collaborate with
Symbiosis in hosting the Sixth Symbiosis Conference, with the headline =
theme
of =93Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of =
Influence?,=94 at
the Uxbridge Campus, Brunel University, July 12=9615, 2007.=20

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The Sixth Symbiosis Conference CFP=20

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Headline Theme: =91Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies =
of
Influence?=92 (N.B. Please note that submissions on other Anglo-American
topics/themes are most welcome).=20

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Venue: Brunel University, West London

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Dates: 12th =96 15th July 2007 =20

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The School of Arts at Brunel University is delighted to collaborate with
Symbiosis in hosting the Sixth Symbiosis Conference, with the headline =
theme
of =93Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of =
Influence?,=94 at
the Uxbridge Campus, Brunel University, July 12=9615, 2007.=20

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