CFP: The Graphic Novel: Histories, Audiences, Methods. (Graduate
Student Conference, 4/21/07). This panel solicits papers (6-8 pages
long; 15-20 minute presentations) on various aspects of the graphic
novel: the histor(ies) of this genre (and relation to comics); the
dominant use of history and autobiography; political stances;
feminist/queer/class dimensions; the implications of the changing/
widening audiences; considerations of methods and methodologies of
analysis and production, and emerging "canon."
        The Eighth Annual Graduate English Conference:
        "Encountering the Text: Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, Writing"
        Michael J. Adanti Student Center

CALL FOR PAPERS

A Commemoration of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807

Academic papers and creative submissions are invited for this special issue to mark the two-hundredth anniversary in 2007 of London's abolition of the infamous Atlantic trade.

EnterText volume 7 number 1

Abolition's Bicentenary: The Black Atlantic Then and Now

Submissions are invited by 1 March 2007

British Association for Romantic Studies Postgraduate Conference
University of Leeds, 10 March 2007

Romanticism and Heroism

Call for Papers

I want a hero: an uncommon want
  When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
  The age discovers he is not the true one;
Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,
  I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan.

                              Byron, Don Juan, Canto I, (ll.1-6)

Call for Papers: Film & History
Abstracts/Proposals by 15 December 2006 (Final Extended Deadline)

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations' 28th Annual
Conference
Albuquerque, NM, February 14-17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: (505) 842-1234
Fax: (505) 766-6710
http://albuquerque.hyatt.com

  The Ethics of Passing
   
  The concept of "passing" is not new to the American landscape. While racial/ethnic passing may be the most widely recognized form of passing, recent acceptance of queer and transgender studies reveals passing as more than a matter of skin color. The most general question, what are the ethics involved and undermined in participating in passing, opens the door to many other questions surrounding this issue. Does the actor always have control over her/his own ability to pass? What does it mean that someone can be passed without desiring such recognition? What kind of responsibility is involved in revealing ethnic, sexual, or gender "authenticity" if even the notion of the authentic has become problematic?

Final Extension

    13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2007
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
   
  Off the Map: Ecocriticism Beyond Borders

"Ecological thinking about literature requires us to take the nonhuman
world as seriously as previous modes of criticism have taken the human realm of society and culture. That, it seems to me, is ecocriticism's greatest challenge and its greatest opportunity."
- Glen A. Love, "Ecocriticism and Science"

Deadline extended for a proposed panel on Edward P. Jones at the eighteenth annual conference of
the American Literature Association to be held in Boston, May 24-27, 2007.

Papers that focus on his short fiction are particularly encouraged, though papers on his novel, The
Known World, will be considered. All approaches are welcome.

Please email 200 word abstracts and a CV no later than January 10, 2007 to Gregory Miller,
University of California at Davis (glmiller_at_ucdavis.edu)

The William Faulkner Society invites proposals for individual papers or
complete panels, topics open, for the American Literature Association
Conference to be held in Boston, May 24-27, 2007. The Society will sponsor
two panels at ALA. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to
John T. Matthews, President, The Faulkner Society, at jtmattws_at_bu.edu no
later than January 15, 2007. Preliminary inquiries are welcomed.

  The Ethics of Feminist Coalitional Politics
   

21st Century Literature: Now through History

Madison Conference -- March 24, 2007

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

             "These imponderables are what I am finally concerned
with =96 our sense of the ground under and around us, our ...sense of
where is it in time we find ourselves=85 [O]ur relation =96 individually
and collectively =96 to the idea of past, present, and future has been
radically modified. A great many people now live with the feeling
that both the historical and the personal past exist on the other
side of a widening gulf, while the future seems to press down
with a palpable urgency."

                         =96Sven Birkerts, =93The Millennial Warp=94

  
  Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
  Must the (re)turn to ethics involve a turn away from something else, or is ethics inevitably intertwined with other concerns?
   

  
  Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
  Must the (re)turn to ethics involve a turn away from something else, or is ethics inevitably intertwined with other concerns?
   

Call for Papers
STRATEGIES OF CRITIQUE XXI: BROKE/N
Graduate Student Conference
April 13th and 14th, 2007
Department of Social and Political Thought
York University, Toronto
CFP deadline: January 25th, 2007

Call for papers

13th International Philosophy Colloquium Evian
13. Internationales Philosophie-Kolloquium Evian
13ème Colloque Philosophique International d'Evian

Evian, July 15-21, 2007

Experience and Experiences
Erfahrung und Erfahrungen
L'expérience et les expériences

Conference website:
www.uni-hildesheim.de/eviancolloquium

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Georg W. Bertram, Institut für Philosophie, Universität
Hildesheim, Marienburger Platz 22, D-31141 Hildesheim, Germany
evian_at_uni-hildesheim.de