The deadline for submissions has changed from 06/01/06 to 07/01/06.

All SALA Membership and Conference Registration inquiries should be directed to:

Pennie Ticen
Treasurer, SALA
P. O. Box 253
Lexington, VA 24450
ticenpj_at_vmi.edu

Call for Papers for SALA's (South Asian Literary Association) 7th Annual Conference (December 26 and 27, 2006; to be held in conjunction with the MLA)

For its 7th annual conference, the South Asian Literature Association invites proposals (of no more than 200-300 words) on the subject: Postcolonialism and South Asian Diasporas.

The deadline for submissions has changed from 06/01/06 to 07/01/06.

All SALA Membership and Conference Registration inquiries should be directed to:

Pennie Ticen
Treasurer, SALA
P. O. Box 253
Lexington, VA 24450
ticenpj_at_vmi.edu

Call for Papers for SALA's (South Asian Literary Association) 7th Annual Conference (December 26 and 27, 2006; to be held in conjunction with the MLA)

For its 7th annual conference, the South Asian Literature Association invites proposals (of no more than 200-300 words) on the subject: Postcolonialism and South Asian Diasporas.

Storytelling, Self, Society:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies

Call for Submissions

Storytelling, Self, Society is a bi-annual,
interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that
publishes scholarship on a wide variety of topics
related to storytelling as interpersonal, performance,
or public discourse. Papers may represent disciplines
including but not limited to storytelling, folklore,
cultural studies, communication, English, education,
library science, health care, business, peace studies,
psychology, sociology, anthropology, pop culture,
theater and performance studies.

Film I Panel of the Midwest Modern Language Association:

Panel Title: Film Genre and Criticism

This panel will consider film's capacity to revisit and revise genre in =
a critical fashion. How do genre forms and conventions inhibit or =
enhance a film's critical potential? What does a film gain by combining =
and redefining genres and subgenres? Abstracts for this panel should =
explore the interconnections between film genre and criticism through =
analyses that perform critical redefinitions themselves.=20

Some possible topics to consider include:

-the connections between genre formations and questions of nationality, =
culture, class, race, and gender

Please announce:

CALL FOR PAPERS

9th Annual
Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
The Liberal Arts Campus of the University of North Carolina

Saturday, October 14, 2006

I welcome self-nominations, by January 24, for
participating in this interdisciplinary
Roundtable I'm PROPOSING for this May's American
Literature Association conference in San Francisco:

  "Colloquy with Wendy Martin: An American
     Triptych and, Now, a Dickinson Biography"

Topic announced:

CFP: Romantic Ideologies (grad) (2/1/06; disjunctions, 4/7/06-4/8/06)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at Disjunctions, the
University of California,

Riverside's 13th Annual Humanities Conference, April 7-8, 2006. In keeping
with this year's

theme, Lost in Translation, this panel attempts to consider how notions of
Romanticism are created, overturned, and reborn.

Suggested topics in the ever-widening field of British Romanticism (poetry,
drama, and the novel, 1780-1850) include

Romantic subjectivity

The Oriental tale and/or imperialism

Mythology and intertextuality

Nature, science, and medicine

Romanticism and Gothic monstrosity

Deadline extended:

CALL FOR PAPERS

R/Évolution 5ive: ReMixed and ReVisited
An Interdisciplinary Conference
Hosted by the Ph.D. Humanities Program: Interdisciplinary Studies in Society
and Culture
March 17th, 18th, and 19th, 2006 at Concordia University

Academics, graduate students, artists and activists from all disciplines are
invited to submit proposals exploring "R/Évolution," with particular focus
on issues stemming from its intersections with the intentionally broad
themes of "remixed" and "revisited".

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special issue of Victorian Poetry:
"Edward FitzGerald and The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám"

Victorian Poetry announces a special issue to celebrate the bicentennial
of the birth of Edward FitzGerald (1809) and the sesquicentennial of the
publication of his masterpiece, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859).
Submissions are invited, particularly on the Rubáiyát, although articles
dealing with FitzGerald's other works, his life, his influence, or his
relationship to his contemporaries are also welcome.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special issue of Victorian Poetry:
"Edward FitzGerald and The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám"

Victorian Poetry announces a special issue to celebrate the bicentennial
of the birth of Edward FitzGerald (1809) and the sesquicentennial of the
publication of his masterpiece, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859).
Submissions are invited, particularly on the Rubáiyát, although articles
dealing with FitzGerald's other works, his life, his influence, or his
relationship to his contemporaries are also welcome.

CFP: Resisting the Goddess: Disguising the Sacred Feminine (03/01/06;
SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)

Proposals are sought on the topic of the sacred feminine, a consistent th=
eme
in literary history, but also one which has received renewed attention in=

CFP: Resisting the Goddess: Disguising the Sacred Feminine (03/01/06;
SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)

Proposals are sought on the topic of the sacred feminine, a consistent th=
eme
in literary history, but also one which has received renewed attention in=

CFP: Resisting the Goddess: Disguising the Sacred Feminine (03/01/06;
SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)

Proposals are sought on the topic of the sacred feminine, a consistent th=
eme
in literary history, but also one which has received renewed attention in=