The correct deadline for the calls for submissions for the 7th Biennial
Southern Women Writers Conference at Berry College, Rome, GA, on Sept.
26-27 is APRIL 2, 2007 (not March 19).

REMINDER & EXTENDED DEADLINES

MSA 9—GEOGRAPHIES OF VISUAL AND LITERARY CULTURES
November 1-4 2007
Long Beach, California

CALL FOR SEMINAR, ROUNDTABLE, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Call for Papers

2007 ALSC Conference, Chicago, IL, October 12-14, 2006

We invite abstracts for a collection of essays on male beauty to be
published by Cambridge Scholarly Publishing. Save for the Greeks, Romans and
the contemporary art historian, very little has been said about beauty and
its relationship to men and masculinities. To its credit, masculinity
studies itself has surely emerged as a field of study and has covered much
ground in the last thirty years: we have understood masculinity as a
category for analysis and, like femininity, as a social construction; we
have supported and also challenged the "crisis" in masculinity; we have
studied it both with and without "men"; we have considered masculinity's

Call for Papers
Ruskinian Theatre
Contemporary Issues in Theatre Historiography
University of Birmingham (UK), 6-7 July, 2007
Proposals are invited for papers and respondents for a two day
colloquium sponsored by the History Department at Lancaster University
(UK), the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham
(UK), and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).
This colloquium is part of the AHRC funded project: Ruskinian Theatre:
the Aesthetics of the Nineteenth-Century London Popular Stage,
1870-1900, which seeks to investigate the interrelationships and
influences of John Ruskin's aesthetic and social theories on the popular

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Visual Studies Graduate Students

University of California, Irvine

Call for Papers: Import/Export
Octopus (Volume 3) Fall 2007=20
www.octopusjournal.org
Deadline for Submissions: April 15, 2007

We invite abstracts for a collection of essays on male beauty to be
published by Cambridge Scholarly Publishing. Save for the Greeks, Romans and
the contemporary art historian, very little has been said about beauty and
its relationship to men and masculinities. To its credit, masculinity
studies itself has surely emerged as a field of study and has covered much
ground in the last thirty years: we have understood masculinity as a
category for analysis and, like femininity, as a social construction; we
have supported and also challenged the "crisis" in masculinity; we have
studied it both with and without "men"; we have considered masculinity's

CFP: Various Topics: UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies London Summer
2007 Research Seminar Series (UK) (variable deadline; 06/13; 06/27;
07/11;07/25; 08/01).

UK Network London Summer 2007 Research Seminar Series Call for Papers

This series is co-convened for UKNMFS by Dr. Alex Murray (University College
London), Martyn Colebrooke (University of Hull), Steven Barfield (University
of Westminster), and Prof. Philip Tew (Brunel University). The UK Network
for Modern Fiction Studies Summer Seminar Series 2007 is to be held at 309
Regent Street, the University of Westminster, London, UK.

CFP: Various Topics: UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies London Summer
2007 Research Seminar Series (UK) (variable deadline; 06/13; 06/27;
07/11;07/25; 08/01).

UK Network London Summer 2007 Research Seminar Series Call for Papers

This series is co-convened for UKNMFS by Dr. Alex Murray (University College
London), Martyn Colebrooke (University of Hull), Steven Barfield (University
of Westminster), and Prof. Philip Tew (Brunel University). The UK Network
for Modern Fiction Studies Summer Seminar Series 2007 is to be held at 309
Regent Street, the University of Westminster, London, UK.

PLEASE NORE ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW ADDITIONAL PLENARY SPEAKERS, AND REVISED
METHOD OF PAYMENT FOR ACCOMMODATION

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Call for papers: the Sixth Biennial Conference in London of Symbiosis: A
Journal of Anglo-American Conference American Literary and Cultural =
Studies

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A Three-Day International Conference on All Areas of Anglo-American =
Literary
and Cultural Studies. =20

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Venue: Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom. =20

Dates: 12th =96 15th July 2007 =20

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Professor Ian F.A. Bell (Keele University) =91The Poundian Fourth =
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Call for Papers: Connection & Disconnection (Comparative Literature)
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), October 4-6, 2007
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Please submit 200-250 word abstracts
Deadline: March 1
to Yurika Tamura, yurika_at_email.arizona.edu.

We are seeking papers that explore sense of connection, disconnection,
identity and dislocation in literature from interdisciplinary perspective.
Topics suggested (but not limited to):

Transnationalism
Issues such as Gneder, Race and Class
Canonization
Post-colonialism
Forms/genres of literature (Blogs, letters, commercial website, etc.)

Special Topics Session: Beckett in Context

61st Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association =

October 4-6, 2007, Calgary, Alberta, Canada=20

=E2=80=9CWriting the Caribbean in the U.S.=E2=80=9D: How do writers of Car=
ibbean heritage,=20
who are located in the U.S., reconfigure =E2=80=9CCaribbean=E2=80=9D literat=
ure? Possible=20
topics: diaspora, linguistic crossings, disciplinary boundaries, shifting ra=
cial=20
and ethnic identities, responses to U.S. imperialism, native=20
spaces/informants, Caribbean writers and the U.S. academy. 1-page abstract a=
nd cv by 10 Mar.=20
to A. Shemak (aas004_at_shsu.edu)

Call for Papers: Teaching English
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), October 4-6, 2007
Calgary, Alberta, Canada at the Westin Calgary Hotel
Submit 300 word abstracts by March 1 to Breyan Strickler at bstrickler_at_rockford.edu.

We are now particularly seeking papers that address issues related to teaching with technology and how that helps shape a sense of community.

 
Breyan Strickler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Rockford College
113 Scarborough Building
5050 E. State Street
Rockford, IL 61108
E-mail: bstrickler_at_rockford.edu <mailto:bstrickler_at_rockford.edu>
Office Phone: (815) 226-4183
Office Fax: (815) 394-5171