WRITING RESEARCH ACROSS BORDERS
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

2008 Santa Barbara Conference on Writing Research
University of California Santa Barbara
February 22-24, 2008

Call for Proposals:
Theme: Writing Research Across Borders
Due Date: May 1
Length: under 300 words

The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and the Writing Programs at
the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of
California, Davis invite proposals for their interdisciplinary
conference, "Writing Research Across Borders," to be held February
22-24, 2008 in Santa Barbara, California.

Submission Deadline: March 9, 2007.
Please send submissions to: richardjeffreynewman_at_verizon.net

Writing Across the Curriculum: "Assessment and Writing Across the=
 Curriculum."

In Reference Guide to Writing Across the=20
Curriculum (Parlor Press LLC, 2005), Charles=20
Bazeman addresses the two assessment issues that=20
WAC programs raise and the unique circumstances=20
of the WAC classroom: assessing student writing=20
and assessing program success. This panel hopes=20
to bring together a group of papers that address=20
the sorts of issues that Bazeman =96 and many others =96 raise.

Please submit 500 - 1000 word abstracts and a=20
brief biographical statement by April 1 to:
Marianne Cotugno, Miami Univ., cotugnm_at_muohio.edu.

MLA CHICAGO 2007 BECKETT AND BILINGUALISM

SPECIAL SESSION

Bilingualism in Samuel Beckett's Work
Beckett's assiduousness in translating all his texts from French into English (or vice versa), results in a unique bilingual corpus. This panel investigates the status of the author as self-translator and the aesthetic implications of self-translation for his work.

MLA CHICAGO 2007 BECKETT AND BILINGUALISM

SPECIAL SESSION

Bilingualism in Samuel Beckett's Work
Beckett's assiduousness in translating all his texts from French into English (or vice versa), results in a unique bilingual corpus. This panel investigates the status of the author as self-translator and the aesthetic implications of self-translation for his work.

New keynote speakers have been added:
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SYNTHETICS
The 18th Annual Southland Graduate Student Conference
UCLA Department of English
Friday, 4 May 2007

Keynotes:
N. Katherine Hayles, John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature and
Design|Media Arts, UCLA
Ali Behdad, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UCLA

What does it mean to invoke the category of "the synthetic" today?

New keynote speakers have been added:
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SYNTHETICS
The 18th Annual Southland Graduate Student Conference
UCLA Department of English
Friday, 4 May 2007

Keynotes:
N. Katherine Hayles, John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature and
Design|Media Arts, UCLA
Ali Behdad, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UCLA

What does it mean to invoke the category of "the synthetic" today?

Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge

CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue: Rhizomes 15: Deleuze and Guattari=92s Ecophilosophy

Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge

CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue: Rhizomes 15: Deleuze and Guattari=92s Ecophilosophy

                            CALL FOR PAPERS

                             GREAT WRITING
              the International Creative Writing Conference

                            10th Great Year!

Great Writing, the UK's international Creative Writing Conference invites
papers/creative work/panel suggestions for this very special 10th Year
Conference.

                            GREAT WRITING 2007

                    Friday 29th June - Sunday 1st July

                          BANGOR UNIVERSITY (UK)

The organizers will consider creative work as well as papers on creative
writing teaching, creative writing theory and method, nd on contemporary writers
and their work.

Call for ProposalsPurpose
The purpose of the conference is to be a real and virtual *commons* for
college and university teachers, scholars, administrators, faculty
developers, and others interested in the scholarship of teaching and
learning as a focused, but expansive, evidence-based path for the
improvement of teaching effectiveness and student learning outcomes. The
SoTL Commons Conference: November 1 * 2, 2007
Submission of Proposals: January 15 * March 31, 2007
Result of Proposal Review: Within 4 weeks of submission
Deadline to Confirm Acceptance of Invitation to Present:
June 1, 2007
Deadline for Presenters to Submit an Abstract for Conference Program &
Proceedings: July 1, 2007

CFP: Special Issue of Women's Writing on "Silver-Fork
Fiction"

Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention, November 8-11, 2007,=
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Cleveland, Ohio=20
=E2=80=9CHenry James as the Artful Traveler=E2=80=9D=20
Papers are invited on any aspect of Henry James and travel, travel writing,=
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expatriation, exile, and the like. Feel free to interpret =E2=80=9Ctravel=
=E2=80=9D in the=20
widest possible senses. Please send an abstract (200 words or so) to Peter=20
Rawlings as a Word attachment to an e-mail by 10 April 2007. The address is=
: =20
rawlings2000_at_aol.com.

Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention, November 8-11, 2007,=
=20
Cleveland, Ohio=20
=E2=80=9CHenry James as the Artful Traveler=E2=80=9D=20
Papers are invited on any aspect of Henry James and travel, travel writing,=
=20
expatriation, exile, and the like. Feel free to interpret =E2=80=9Ctravel=
=E2=80=9D in the=20
widest possible senses. Please send an abstract (200 words or so) to Peter=20
Rawlings as a Word attachment to an e-mail by 10 April 2007. The address is=
: =20
rawlings2000_at_aol.com.