The journal /qui parle/ is seeking submissions for a special dossier,
"Urban Intercessions: The City as Limit Politics." The dossier will
focus on how we could imagine the effects and conditions of violence or
political force — whether it be legal, racial, geographic, or gendered,
and whether the force be oppressive or emancipatory — within the
specific locality of a metropolitan context, one which is somehow
inflected by local or particular concerns and yet reflects a global,
international, or, at the very least, extra-metropolitan politics. What
role does the city — "modern" or "not" — have in current inter/national
political formations? How does it function as a site of violence or

The MELUS WOCC(Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the
United States, Women of Color Caucus) invites proposals for a panel at
the MELUS 21st Annual Conference, March 22-25, 2007, hosted by
California State University, Fresno. This session engages with the
overall conference theme of "Work, Migration, and Globalization:
Contested Journeys in Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature."

The MELUS WOCC(Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the
United States, Women of Color Caucus) invites proposals for a panel at
the MELUS 21st Annual Conference, March 22-25, 2007, hosted by
California State University, Fresno. This session engages with the
overall conference theme of "Work, Migration, and Globalization:
Contested Journeys in Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature."

Archives: From Memory to Event

UCL English Postgraduate Conference
March 9th 2007
Institute of English Studies
Senate House
London
http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/list/ies_conferences

Keynote Speakers: Helen Freshwater (Birkbeck), Dorothea McEwan (Warburg
Archive)

Archives: From Memory to Event

UCL English Postgraduate Conference
March 9th 2007
Institute of English Studies
Senate House
London
http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/list/ies_conferences

Keynote Speakers: Helen Freshwater (Birkbeck), Dorothea McEwan (Warburg
Archive)

The T. S. Eliot Society invites proposals for papers to be delivered at two sessions during the ALA meeting in Boston, MA, May 24-27 2007. Although any topic related to Eliot will be considered, a special session may be devoted to Eliot and Auden (2007 being his centennial) if interest warrants.

Papers should be about 10 pp. long, delivered in about 20 minutes, which will leave 10 minutes for discussion. By 1/1/2007 please send abstract (no longer than 300 words) to wharmon03_at_mindspring.com.

William Harmon, T. S. Eliot Society

CFP: GLBTQ Conference "Queer Today, Where Tomorrow?" (11/1/06; UNCA
3/22/07-3/24/07)

I am inviting proposals for the panel "Childhood and Children's Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century" at the 2007 South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference to be held in Tulsa, OK, February 22-24, 2007. The panel welcomes papers that address portrayals of children in literature, pedagogical texts for children, childhood literacy, issues of censorship/editing in texts designed for children, etc. during the Restoration and eighteenth century. For more information on the conference, visit scsecs.net. Please send proposals to Sara Beam at <sara-beam_at_utulsa.edu> by October 15, 2006.

    CALL FOR PAPERS!
  SHAKESPEARE ON FILM AND TELEVISION!
   
  UPDATED Submission Deadline: 3 November 2006
   
  The Shakespeare on Film and Television Area of the National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association is calling for papers for the annual conference, to be held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007. Join us this year as a returning or a first time participant, for another exciting Pop Culture experience. Further details regarding the conference, including hotel information, registration, tours, etc can be found at: http://www.popularculture.org
   

ACLA, Mexico, April 19-22, 2007.
http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/acla2007/?p=53

Criminal Imaginaries: Transnational Capital and Moral Economies

Description:

The notion of criminality calls to mind the state apparatuses required to
control or eradicate such activities and the felons who perpetuate them.
As such, discussions of the criminal figure imbricate discourses of the
nation and its institutions. This seminar will look at who or what the
nation-state criminalizes, and the relations of "criminals" to
transnational capital.

 Call for Papers - Seeing Things: Irish Studies and Visual Culture

CFP: Shakespeare and Islam (journal issue)

Scholars have long associated Shakespeare with the wider world beyond early
modern England's shores, notably Europe of course and, in the wake of New
Historicism, the Americas. One of the most interesting recent developments
in early modern studies, however, has been the recognition that writers
looked towards the East as well as westwards - to the Islamic world, and the
Ottoman Empire in particular.

CFP: Shakespeare and Islam (journal issue)

Scholars have long associated Shakespeare with the wider world beyond early
modern England's shores, notably Europe of course and, in the wake of New
Historicism, the Americas. One of the most interesting recent developments
in early modern studies, however, has been the recognition that writers
looked towards the East as well as westwards - to the Islamic world, and the
Ottoman Empire in particular.

    Call For Papers: MOTORCYCLING CULTURE AND MYTH, PCA/ACA, April 4-7, 2007
   
  UPDATED Submission Deadline: 3 November 2006
   
  The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Associations are holding a series of panels at the next annual meeting of these groups to be held April 4-7, 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts at the beautiful Boston Marriott Copley Place.
   
  Papers and presentations are requested on motorcycling and its impact on American and other societies and cultures. Suggested topics include:
   
  * Riders' narratives or descriptions of the ride
  * The motorcycle as art, poetry, or agency
  * Rituals, norms, customs, or influences in motorcycle culture