On October 25, 2007 the Cartoon Research Library at the Ohio State
University, in collaboration with Project Narrative and the
Department of English, will host a one-day symposium on "Graphic
Storytelling: Academic Perspectives." The gathering will serve as a
prelude to the 2007 Festival of Cartoon Art, which runs from October
26-27, and which is this year devoted to "Graphic Storytelling" and a
celebration of the 100th birthday of Milton Caniff. For the first
time, the triennial Festival is sponsoring an academic pre-conference
in recognition of the exciting developments in academic comics
studies in recent years and the growing collaborations between comics

Social Justice in South Asian Cultural Practices

8th Annual Conference of the South Asian Literary Association

December 26-27, 2007, Chicago, IL

For its 8th annual conference, the South Asian Literature Association
invites proposals (of no more than 200-300 words) on the subject: Social
Justice in South Asian Cultural Practices.

Social Justice in South Asian Cultural Practices

8th Annual Conference of the South Asian Literary Association

December 26-27, 2007, Chicago, IL

For its 8th annual conference, the South Asian Literature Association
invites proposals (of no more than 200-300 words) on the subject: Social
Justice in South Asian Cultural Practices.

CFP: Jewish Memorial Books (June 11, 2007; collection)

CFP: Jewish Memorial Books (June 11, 2007; collection)

The editors of the Transformations Journal are pleased to announce the publication of Issue 14 - March 2007:

ACCIDENTAL ENVIRONMENTS

"The Accident is not an exception or a sickness of our apolitical regimes; nor it is a correctable defect of our civilization: it is the natural consequence of our science, our politics, and our morality."
-- Octavio Paz, Conjunctions and Disjunctions.

Call for Papers

The Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin
Announces its Fourth Annual Graduate Conference

 October 5-6, 2007

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*"Un(bound): the Humanities in Transition*

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Haun Saussy

Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University

In the age of globalism, the humanities have become the place for forming
new pathways that connect academic disciplines and refashion curricular
boundaries. Rapid change calls upon the scholar to embody a new spirit of
trans/inter-disciplinarity, leading to scholarship that detects and crosses
geographical and disciplinary divisions.

Traveling Through the USA on the ESL Express! Are Changing Attitudes and
Altered Standards among the States Compromising the Equality of the Study of
English for International Students?
(4/15/07; SAMLA 11/9/07-11/11/07)
Myrna J. Santos
Florida Atlantic University
via email: ESLCARE_at_aol.com or
3600 NW 82 Dr, Coral Springs, FL 33065

rhizomes.forthcoming

CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue: Rhizomes 15: Deleuze and Guattari's Ecophilosophy

NEW DEADLINE 4/1/07 CFP: CULTURE AND IDENTITY Kasarinlan Philippine Journal of Third World Studies

UPDATE: Deadline extended to April 1, 2007
Call for Papers: Culture and Identity Issue

NEW DEADLINE 4/1/07 CFP: CULTURE AND IDENTITY Kasarinlan Philippine Journal of Third World Studies

UPDATE: Deadline extended to April 1, 2007
Call for Papers: Culture and Identity Issue

Dear Colleagues:

I could still use one or two submissions for the RMMLA panel entitled
"RMMLA members read their own prose" for next October in Calgary. We
would love to hear your original short story or novel excerpt in a
20-minute format.

Please contact me at HHansen_at_western.edu, with an abstract, if you have a
piece you would like to share.

Thanks!
Helynne Hansen
professor of language
Western State College
Gunnison, CO 81230

Women Writing 1550-1750 (Revisited)
In 1999 scholars from Australia, New Zealand, and further afield gathered
together in Melbourne for a two day conference devoted to writing by early
modern women. This new conference offers a chance to reassess the field
almost a decade later, and to mull over and celebrate the significant and
growing body of scholarship devoted to early modern women=B9s writing.
Proposals are invited for a 20 minute paper, a panel, or a round table
discussion. We welcome contributions from all fields of study, and papers o=
r
round table proposals from postgraduate students are particularly welcome.
The conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia, at the city campus of