The Midwest Modern Language Association is soliciting individual paper
abstracts on the topic of "Revisiting Realisms" for its annual convention,
to be held in Cleveland from November 8-11, 2007. 250-word abstracts should
be emailed to mmla_at_uiowa.edu by March 1, 2007. Accepted abstracts will be
assembled into panels by the M/MLA president.

Possible paper topics might include:

The Midwest Modern Language Association is soliciting individual paper
abstracts on the topic of "Revisiting Realisms" for its annual convention,
to be held in Cleveland from November 8-11, 2007. 250-word abstracts should
be emailed to mmla_at_uiowa.edu by March 1, 2007. Accepted abstracts will be
assembled into panels by the M/MLA president.

Possible paper topics might include:

Call for Panel Submissions:
Literature and Trauma: Testimony and Witness in Holocaust and Ethnic American Literature Panel,
RMMLA Conference,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
October 4-6, 2007
 
Please Email abstracts or full-length papers, along with a c.v. by March 1, 2007 to: Joy Viveros, University of the Pacific, jviveros_at_pacific.edu.
 
Papers invited on intersections between Holocaust literature-fiction and non-fiction and ethnic American literatures.
 
Of particular interest are papers that engage these questions:

German Studies Association (GSA)

Panel Topic: Cosmopolitanism in German Cinema: Politics, Identity, Europe
October 4-7, 2007
San Diego, CA

Submission Deadline: February 13, 2007.

CALL-FOR-SUBMISSIONS: CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, Volume Five

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CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual is a publication dedicated to the
interdisciplinary study and artistic appreciation of the South (broadly
defined) and Southern culture.=20

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MELUS is now accepting proposals for the following two panels at MLA
(December 27-30, 2007, Chicago):

1. Multi-ethnic Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersections

Ecofeminism sees a relationship among nature, women, and people of color.
How have multi-ethnic texts contributed to the ecofeminist or eco-political
agenda? What theoretical and practical issues are involved?

2. Trans/nation: Race, Ethnicity, Citizenship and the State of American
Literature

How have current studies on globalization/transnationalism impacted
our conceptions of American ethnic literatures? How have globalization
and transnationalism redefined 21st-century multi-ethnic American
literary studies?

MELUS is now accepting proposals for the following two panels at MLA
(December 27-30, 2007, Chicago):

1. Multi-ethnic Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersections

Ecofeminism sees a relationship among nature, women, and people of color.
How have multi-ethnic texts contributed to the ecofeminist or eco-political
agenda? What theoretical and practical issues are involved?

2. Trans/nation: Race, Ethnicity, Citizenship and the State of American
Literature

How have current studies on globalization/transnationalism impacted
our conceptions of American ethnic literatures? How have globalization
and transnationalism redefined 21st-century multi-ethnic American
literary studies?

From: Yesod-Fredrick Douglas Knowles < knowlesf1_at_southernct.edu >

Panel Title: Literature, People of Color and the HIV/Aids Pandemic
(graduate)
Conference: The Eighth Annual SCSU Graduate English Conference, Michael
J. Adanti Student Center, Southern Connecticut State University, New
Haven, CT, Saturday, April 21, 2007, 9:00 am-4:30 pm

Call For Papers:

From: Yesod-Fredrick Douglas Knowles < knowlesf1_at_southernct.edu >

Panel Title: Literature, People of Color and the HIV/Aids Pandemic
(graduate)
Conference: The Eighth Annual SCSU Graduate English Conference, Michael
J. Adanti Student Center, Southern Connecticut State University, New
Haven, CT, Saturday, April 21, 2007, 9:00 am-4:30 pm

Call For Papers:

The Milton Society of America is sponsoring a session at MLA 07 in
Chicago, "John Milton: Land, Space, and Place," and invites topics that
include topography, exterior and interior space, visibilia and
invisibilia, spiritual space, etc. Send 1-page detailed proposal by 15
March to Mary Fenton (mfenton_at_email.wcu.edu).

Call for Papers

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

Call for papers for
 
The Modern Language Association
Annual Convention 2007
Chicago
27-30 December 2007
 
Deadline: 15 March 2007
 
Session Title: Translation and the Humanities
 
The MLA Discussion Group on Translation invites papers on the Humanities'
dependency on translation vis-à-vis transmission of ideas, literary
concepts and categories, and the translated text in the classroom.
 
Please send 250-word abstracts to the Discussion Group Chair, Corinne
Scheiner (cscheiner_at_coloradocollege.edu).
 
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Corinne Scheiner
Maytag Associate Professor
Comparative Literature
The Colorado College

Call for papers for
 
The Modern Language Association
Annual Convention 2007
Chicago
27-30 December 2007
 
Deadline: 15 March 2007
 
Session Title: Translation and the Humanities
 
The MLA Discussion Group on Translation invites papers on the Humanities'
dependency on translation vis-à-vis transmission of ideas, literary
concepts and categories, and the translated text in the classroom.
 
Please send 250-word abstracts to the Discussion Group Chair, Corinne
Scheiner (cscheiner_at_coloradocollege.edu).
 
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Corinne Scheiner
Maytag Associate Professor
Comparative Literature
The Colorado College

CFP DEADLINE NOW EXTENDED UNTIL 31st MARCH 2007

LITERARY LONDON 2007
Representations of London in Literature An Interdisciplinary Conference

Hosted by The Department of English, University of Westminster, London.

Organised by the University of Northampton, Kingston University, and the =
University of Westminster.
19th to 20th July 2007

Plenary speakers: TBC

The 6th Annual Literary London conference will be hosted by the =
Department of English University of Westminster, London, at their 309 =
Regent Street building.