CFP for MLA 2006, Philadelphia
  
  EXTENDED DEADLINE: MARCH 15
  
  Pregnant Bodies and Other Mothers in the Academy -
  
  Chair, Cynthia Tompkins
  Papers addressing the full range of mothering: women of color, mommy
  queers, white, adoptive and mentor mothers; explorations of biological,
  cultural, economic, and institutional expectations and experiences.
  Abstracts by 15 March; to Cynthia Tompkins, cynthia.tompkins_at_asu.edu.

"In the gloating, enormous strangeness and solitude of the real world, where I am so often inconsolable, marooned, utterly dizzied -- all I need do is pick up a pen and begin to write -- safe in the shelter of the alphabet."
~Carole Maso

CFP for MLA 2006, Philadelphia
  
  EXTENDED DEADLINE: MARCH 15
  
  Pregnant Bodies and Other Mothers in the Academy -
  
  Chair, Cynthia Tompkins
  Papers addressing the full range of mothering: women of color, mommy
  queers, white, adoptive and mentor mothers; explorations of biological,
  cultural, economic, and institutional expectations and experiences.
  Abstracts by 15 March; to Cynthia Tompkins, cynthia.tompkins_at_asu.edu.

"In the gloating, enormous strangeness and solitude of the real world, where I am so often inconsolable, marooned, utterly dizzied -- all I need do is pick up a pen and begin to write -- safe in the shelter of the alphabet."
~Carole Maso

Graduate Student Conference:
The New School for Social Research
CFP: What Remains: Living Through Ruins, Thinking Through Empire
(grad) (3/31/06; 5/11/06-5/12/06)

"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony
rubbish?" ~ T.S. Eliot, 'The Wasteland'

Call for Papers

We are soliciting papers from graduate students in anthropology,
history, geography, literature, sociology, and other relevant
disciplines related to our focus on empire and ruins. The deadline for
submission of abstracts is March 31, 2006. For more information,
questions or submissions, please e-mail David Bond or Joseph DeStefano
at: RuinsConference2006_at_gmail.com

Graduate Student Conference:
The New School for Social Research
CFP: What Remains: Living Through Ruins, Thinking Through Empire
(grad) (3/31/06; 5/11/06-5/12/06)

"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony
rubbish?" ~ T.S. Eliot, 'The Wasteland'

Call for Papers

We are soliciting papers from graduate students in anthropology,
history, geography, literature, sociology, and other relevant
disciplines related to our focus on empire and ruins. The deadline for
submission of abstracts is March 31, 2006. For more information,
questions or submissions, please e-mail David Bond or Joseph DeStefano
at: RuinsConference2006_at_gmail.com

Location change from Ft. Worth to Dallas Tx
  South Central Modern Literature Association in Dallas, Tx October 26-28-2006.
   
  Call for Papers for African/African American Literature Panel at SCMLA
  Abstracts of 50-100 words
   
  Theme: Rounding up the Strays: Characters and Authors who Wander from the Mainstream
   
  Submit to: Holly Staves stavesh_at_nsula.edu
                   Juluette Bartlett-Pack jfbpack_at_yahoo.com
   

Location change from Ft. Worth to Dallas Tx
  South Central Modern Literature Association in Dallas, Tx October 26-28-2006.
   
  Call for Papers for African/African American Literature Panel at SCMLA
  Abstracts of 50-100 words
   
  Theme: Rounding up the Strays: Characters and Authors who Wander from the Mainstream
   
  Submit to: Holly Staves stavesh_at_nsula.edu
                   Juluette Bartlett-Pack jfbpack_at_yahoo.com
   

Deadline extended:

Cross-Posted from SHAKSPER and RENAIS-L

"Unmasquing Prince Henry" (extended)

Papers on new directions for traditional topics, neglected beliefs and
practices, as well as contact among religious communities (Native,
European, African). Send 1-page proposals by March 15 to: Lisa Gordis
(lgordis_at_barnard.edu) and Kristina Bross (kbross_at_cla.purdue.edu)

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Kristina Bross

Associate Professor

English and American Studies

Purdue University

500 Oval Drive

West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038

765/494-3745

The deadline is extended for the SciFi/Fantasy Panel at the SCMLA to March
20, 2006. Particularly encouraged are any papers dealing with the work of
recently deceased writer Octavia Butler.

CFP: SciFi/Fantasy and the Other (3/20/06; SCMLA 10/28-30 Fort Worth, Texas)

Science Fiction / Fantasy Panel:
The Other Speaks: Sci-Fi, Speculative Fiction and Fantasy from the Margins

UPDATE: The deadline for abstracts has been extended to March 27, 2006.

Call for Papers for 2006 Midwest Conference on British Studies, Indianapolis,
IN, Oct 27-29

"Reimagining History in Post-Imperial Britain"

CFP: Trauma and Narrative (3/15/06; PAMLA, 11/10/06-11/11/06)

This special session invites papers dealing with various intersections
of narrative and trauma, including but not limited to traumas of war,
dislocation, identity, intersubjective relationships). The generality
of the call thus seeks a wide variety of papers from all and across
disciplines that explore such areas as ethnicity and national identity,
postcolonial identity, class studies, national literatures, trauma
theory, among others. *A paper title, a 500-word proposal, and a
50-word abstract should be sent to the session chair by March 15.

Desire and Queer Genders in Early Twentieth-Century Literature
Proposed Special Session for the Modern Language Association,
Philadelphia, 12/27/06-12/30/06

ABSTRACT DEADLINE (350-500wds)
May 1, 2006

MONOGRAPH TITLE
What We Do: Thinking/Practicing Theatre

EDITOR
Robert Craig Baum, Scholar in Residence
European Graduate School
English Faculty, New Hampshire Community Technical College
Humanities Faculty, Community College of Vermont

"The Pragmatist Revival and George Herbert Mead": A Proposed Special
Session for MLA '06 in Philadelphia