College English Association National Conference
Thursday, April 12-Saturday, April 14
New Orleans, Louisiana

We invite paper and panel proposals on African-American literature for the
38th annual meeting of CEA. This years general conference theme is "Empathy
and Ethics." Proposals that offer new and inventive readings on
African-American literature will also be considered. Please interpret the
conference theme broadly including but not limited to the following areas:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special issue of Dichtung Digital:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special issue of Dichtung Digital:

Panel proposal for the upcoming conference of the Association for the =
Study of Literature and Environment at Wofford College, South Carolina, =
June 12-16 2007

=20

Ecocriticism and Science: Sociobiology, Evolutionary Biology, and the =
Question of Culture

=20

Artful Strategies/Necessary Risks: The Shifting Borders between Success and
Failure

April 20th and 21st on the campus of California State University, Sacramento

Definitions of failure and success are not bound by timeless, objective
criteria but ultimately lie in the eyes of the observer answering to ever
changing parameters of time and culture. Thus what accounts for success in
one context may well be construed as failure in other contexts, by other
observers, or by succeeding generations. The conference aims to lend a forum
to ideas that examine the shifting borders between success and failure in
literature, the arts, history, anthropology, sociology, law, politics,
religion and related fields.

Artful Strategies/Necessary Risks: The Shifting Borders between Success and
Failure

April 20th and 21st on the campus of California State University, Sacramento

Definitions of failure and success are not bound by timeless, objective
criteria but ultimately lie in the eyes of the observer answering to ever
changing parameters of time and culture. Thus what accounts for success in
one context may well be construed as failure in other contexts, by other
observers, or by succeeding generations. The conference aims to lend a forum
to ideas that examine the shifting borders between success and failure in
literature, the arts, history, anthropology, sociology, law, politics,
religion and related fields.

Panel proposal for the upcoming conference of the Association for the =
Study of Literature and Environment at Wofford College, South Carolina, =
June 12-16 2007

=20

Ecocriticism and Science: Sociobiology, Evolutionary Biology, and the =
Question of Culture

=20

Submissions are invited for two sessions hosted by the Nathaniel
Hawthorne Society at The Modern Language Association Conference in
Chicago, 27-30 December 2007.

1. Critical Overviews: Where Are We Now?

2. Is There a Case for the Late Hawthorne?

All approaches to these topics are welcome. Deadline for proposals is 1
March, 2007. Please send 1-2 page abstracts for 20-minute papers to
Brenda Wineapple, 176 West 87th Street/ New York, NY 10024 or
bwineapple_at_earthlink.net

Rosemary M. Fisk
Associate Dean/ Assoc. Professor of English
Howard College of Arts & Sciences
Samford University
Birmingham, AL 35229

CFP: The Star and Celebrity Confessional
      Special Themed Issue Social Semiotics
      Guest Editor: Sean Redmond
 
Social Semiotics (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10350330.asp) is
soliciting papers for a special themed issue on the star and celebrity
confessional. The confessional, taken to be any moment in which a star,
celebrity, or fan engages in revelatory acts, has become one of the dominant
ways in which fame is circulated and consumed.
 
The celebrity confessional involves Œthe combination of reflexivity about
the business of being a celebrity, emotional interiority and self

We are excited to announce that Currents in Electronic Literacy is
moving in a new direction. The Spring 2007 issue of Currents will
focus on reviews. We believe a journal based on reviews can be of much
greater relevance to the field than our past models, which consisted
of a few long articles supplemented by short book reviews. However, in
this new model we will conceive of "reviews" more broadly. In addition
to reviewing books, we are soliciting reviews of software, websites,
blogs, conferences, parallel academic programs, and pedagogical
practices. We hope that the new version of Currents will point out
emerging trends in the field of electronic literacy.

Spring 2007 Call for Reviews:

College English Association National Conference, April 12-14, 2007, New
Orleans, LA.

The CEA is now accepting submissions for the Native American Literature
panel. All topics related to Native American literature are welcome, though
special consideration will be given to papers addressing this year's
conference theme, "Empathy and Ethics."

Please submit proposals using the CEA online database:
http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/conftool/index.php.
Additional information about the call for papers is available at:
http://www2.widener.edu/%7Ecea/conference2006.htm

We are excited to announce that Currents in Electronic Literacy is
moving in a new direction. The Spring 2007 issue of Currents will
focus on reviews. We believe a journal based on reviews can be of much
greater relevance to the field than our past models, which consisted
of a few long articles supplemented by short book reviews. However, in
this new model we will conceive of "reviews" more broadly. In addition
to reviewing books, we are soliciting reviews of software, websites,
blogs, conferences, parallel academic programs, and pedagogical
practices. We hope that the new version of Currents will point out
emerging trends in the field of electronic literacy.

Spring 2007 Call for Reviews:

College English Association National Conference, April 12-14, 2007, New
Orleans, LA.

The CEA is now accepting submissions for the Native American Literature
panel. All topics related to Native American literature are welcome, though
special consideration will be given to papers addressing this year's
conference theme, "Empathy and Ethics."

Please submit proposals using the CEA online database:
http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/conftool/index.php.
Additional information about the call for papers is available at:
http://www2.widener.edu/%7Ecea/conference2006.htm

Transformations is seeking abstracts for the following issue:

"Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the
Age of Global Culture"

What does Walter Benjamin offer for critical thinking and creative
practice in an age increasingly mediated by virtual technologies?