Personal Pleasure(s): Exploring Individual Gratification and Satisfaction in
Young Adult Literature

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation Graduate Conference

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation Graduate Conference

Flickering Landscapes: Cinematic Representations of the West

This conference will be focused on the question of how landscape, place,
and location become a rich, problematic, contradictory subject in the
cinematic Western, both in the "golden age" of the Western and since.
The Western landscape has both iconic significance and daily meaning for
many people, and has come to represent America as strongly as any set of
images can. Our task will be to both identify and explore the existing
narratives and meanings that the landscape in the cinematic Western has,
and also to ask how those narratives and meanings might be altered or
even subverted while the Western is retained as a genre.

Modern Language Association (MLA) 2007
Chicago--December 27-30
Children's Literature Division

The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to March
15, 2007.

Japanese 'Kawaii'/'Cute' Children's Culture 1995-Now

Science and Fiction: Un/natural Selection and Post/human Futures
A Permanent Section of the MMLA

49th Annual M/MLA Convention
November 8-11, 2007
The Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cleveland, Ohio

Science and Fiction: Un/natural Selection and Post/human Futures
A Permanent Section of the MMLA

49th Annual M/MLA Convention
November 8-11, 2007
The Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cleveland, Ohio

JOYCE IN AUSTIN
 
"Bring a stranger within thy tower." (Ulysses 14.365)
                
The 2007 International James Joyce Conference
Endorsed by the International James Joyce Foundation
The University of Texas at Austin, June 13-17, 2007
 
The 2007 International James Joyce Conference will be hosted by the English
Department at the University of Texas at Austin. The event will feature
plenary presentations and readings by Vicki Mahaffey, Paul Muldoon, Tom
Staley, and Sean Walsh; a round-table discussion with all the plenary
speakers; panels on Samuel Beckett‚s letters (Lois Overbeck and Martha
Fehsenfeld), Elizabeth Bowen (Elizabeth Cullingford), Tom Stoppard (Ira

Call for Papers for New Journal:
Adaptation in Film and Performance
Volume 1, Number 1

Editors: Richard J. Hand & Katja Krebs

Call for Papers: Modernist Studies Association Proposed Panel
Digital Poetry Redux, to/from Modernist Poetry
Annual Meeting, 1-4 November 2007 (Long Beach, CA)

We are seeking contributions to a collection on Fight Club, welcoming
articles that examine the novel and/or the film, as well as critical
examinations of their interrelation.
        Opinions regarding David Fincher's 1999 filmic adaptation of Chuck
Palahniuk's 1996 novel Fight Club differ widely, raging from from
students remarking that, "this is a movie that poignantly and accurately
voices some of the major existential concerns of the postmodern
generation," to critical castigation that bashes Fight Club as, "a film
without a single redeeming quality, which may have to find its audience
in Hell." Fincher's film has become a widespread popular cultural

We are seeking contributions to a collection on Fight Club, welcoming
articles that examine the novel and/or the film, as well as critical
examinations of their interrelation.
        Opinions regarding David Fincher's 1999 filmic adaptation of Chuck
Palahniuk's 1996 novel Fight Club differ widely, raging from from
students remarking that, "this is a movie that poignantly and accurately
voices some of the major existential concerns of the postmodern
generation," to critical castigation that bashes Fight Club as, "a film
without a single redeeming quality, which may have to find its audience
in Hell." Fincher's film has become a widespread popular cultural

THIRD ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA ENGLISH GRADUATE CONFERENCE
 
"Art Made Tongue-Tied By Authority": Expression, Suppression, and Censorship
 
Conference date: Friday September 21 ­ Saturday September 22, 2007
Place: Department of English, University of Ottawa
Deadline for proposals: June 1, 2007
Contact: uottawa.conference_at_gmail.com
 
According to playwright Eugene O'Neill, "Censorship of anything, at any
time, in any place, on whatever pretence, has always been and always will be
the last resort of the boob and the bigot." Censorship continues to be a
major impediment to freedom of speech in literature, music, and visual and

THIRD ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA ENGLISH GRADUATE CONFERENCE
 
"Art Made Tongue-Tied By Authority": Expression, Suppression, and Censorship
 
Conference date: Friday September 21 ­ Saturday September 22, 2007
Place: Department of English, University of Ottawa
Deadline for proposals: June 1, 2007
Contact: uottawa.conference_at_gmail.com
 
According to playwright Eugene O'Neill, "Censorship of anything, at any
time, in any place, on whatever pretence, has always been and always will be
the last resort of the boob and the bigot." Censorship continues to be a
major impediment to freedom of speech in literature, music, and visual and