CALL for PAPERS
 
The growing interest in medieval disability has the potential to modify both our understanding of historical models of disability and our understanding of medieval society. This collection has the specific goal of looking at the legal uses and intellectual/creative understanding of disability in the Middle Ages (within Europe in the first instance, but with some interest in other geographical areas as well). We welcome proposals of roughly 1000 words or finished papers from any relevant discipline or from between disciplines (history, theology, various literatures, philosophy, etc). Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:
 
Medieval law codes and physical disability

49th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Cleveland, Nov. 8-11, 2007.

Permanent Session: Illustrated Texts

49th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Cleveland, Nov. 8-11, 2007.

Permanent Session: Illustrated Texts

49th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Cleveland, Nov. 8-11, 2007.

Permanent Session: Illustrated Texts

CALL FOR PAPERS
VISAWUS 2007: VICTORIANS IN MOTION

The Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western
United States (VISAWUS) announces its twelfth annual conference:

DATES: Oct. 25-27, 2007

PLACE: Boulder, CO

The focus of this year's conference is "Victorians in Motion."
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

The editors of a new professional development book under contract with =
Thomson Wadsworth are soliciting essay submissions. Using Popular =
Culture in the Writing Classroom will consist of 15-20 essays that =
showcase effective pedagogical ideas on bringing pop culture into the =
writing classroom. The intended audience consists of graduate students =
and others who are teaching composition for the first time and want to =
find a place (a contact zone) where they first can meet their students =
and then help students make the journey through a composition class.

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The editors of a new professional development book under contract with =
Thomson Wadsworth are soliciting essay submissions. Using Popular =
Culture in the Writing Classroom will consist of 15-20 essays that =
showcase effective pedagogical ideas on bringing pop culture into the =
writing classroom. The intended audience consists of graduate students =
and others who are teaching composition for the first time and want to =
find a place (a contact zone) where they first can meet their students =
and then help students make the journey through a composition class.

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Decadence, Deviance, and Debauchery: A Celebration of Difference
Annual Graduate Students in English Association Conference
University of North Texas, Department of English
Saturday, April 28, 2007

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Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention
November 8-11, 2007
The Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cleveland, Ohio

History of Critical Reception: "Media and Reception"
Abstract deadline: April 15

RETHINKING HISTORY: THE JOURNAL OF THEORY AND PRACTICE invites proposals for
a themed issue entitled ³Liberalism, Conservatism, Radicalism, and
Historical Materialism.² The issue is part of Volume 13, will be published
in 2009, and is guest edited by Dennis Dworkin, Associate Professor of
History, at the University of Nevada. Reno.
 
While historians have often prided themselves on their objectivity and
detachment, it is well known that some of the most influential historical
texts have been politically impassioned. Some of the most famous examples
come from the various traditions of ³history from below,² but they are not
limited to these, and they exist across the political spectrum.
 

CFP: New Maps of the Mind: Neuroscience, Microscopy and the Literary
Imagination
We are looking for one or two delegates to join us on a panel on
neuroscience and literary modernism at the MSA 9th Annual Conference
Geographies of Visual and Literary Culture in Long Beach, CA (1 - 4 November
2007).
Turn-of-the-century scientific inventions and discoveries created radically
new topographies of the human mind. Especially neuroscience, relying on
improved technology in the area of microscopy, suggested profoundly new ways
of looking at the nervous system, making its internal organisation and
geography visible to the human eye. Whilst the workings of the human mind

Disconnections and missed connections between the spheres of disability, HIV/AIDS and culture. How do the three inform each other? How can they be (and are they) prioritized and with what investments? Which (types of) individuals navigate the three spheres and with what results?

Potential topics of discussion include, but are not limited to:

Representation in literature, music and art

Reception and reception theory

Knowledge production

Activism and histories of activism

Ideologies of "cure"

Politics and body politics

Identity and identity construction

Intersectionality

Disconnections and missed connections between the spheres of disability, HIV/AIDS and culture. How do the three inform each other? How can they be (and are they) prioritized and with what investments? Which (types of) individuals navigate the three spheres and with what results?

Potential topics of discussion include, but are not limited to:

Representation in literature, music and art

Reception and reception theory

Knowledge production

Activism and histories of activism

Ideologies of "cure"

Politics and body politics

Identity and identity construction

Intersectionality

UPDATE: The conference is to be held in *2008*. The email subject line
was previously incorrect. I apologize for the confusion.

The Novel and its Borders

3 day Conference organised by The Centre for The Novel
University of Aberdeen
 8-10 July 2008
www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference/

The novel is not only a literary form occupying a particular generic or
cultural territory, but also an aesthetic, historical and social
phenomenon that represents, constructs, and transgresses borders. The
conference on The Novel and its Borders
will engage with the novel in all its aspects, material and theoretical,
from the 18th to the 21st century.