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AMERICAN NAME SOCIETY, an allied organization:
Two open MLA sessions on the literary use of names. Related fields
include literary theory, philosophy, linguistics, geography, history.
Panels on single authors/subjects invited. 150 word (max.) abstracts
by 5 March to Grant W. Smith <gsmith_at_ewu.edu>
UPDATE:
Our yearly EGAD conference has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts.
It will be held in the fall semester instead of this spring. Please note the
new conference date and deadlines. Thank you to all of you who submitted. We
hope to see everyone in the fall.
Conference Date: October 20th 2006
Submission Deadline: October 20th 2006
CONFERENCE INFORMATION:
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CALL FOR PAPERS- EGAD Panels
DaVinci to Derrida: Breaking Codes Across Disciplines
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EGAD
(English Graduates for Academic Development)
UPDATE:
Our yearly EGAD conference has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts.
It will be held in the fall semester instead of this spring. Please note the
new conference date and deadlines. Thank you to all of you who submitted. We
hope to see everyone in the fall.
Conference Date: October 20th 2006
Submission Deadline: October 20th 2006
CONFERENCE INFORMATION:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CALL FOR PAPERS- EGAD Panels
DaVinci to Derrida: Breaking Codes Across Disciplines
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EGAD
(English Graduates for Academic Development)
UPDATE:
Our yearly EGAD conference has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts.
It will be held in the fall semester instead of this spring. Please note the
new conference date and deadlines. Thank you to all of you who submitted. We
hope to see everyone in the fall.
Conference Date: October 20th 2006
Submission Deadline: October 20th 2006
CONFERENCE INFORMATION:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CALL FOR PAPERS- EGAD Panels
DaVinci to Derrida: Breaking Codes Across Disciplines
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EGAD
(English Graduates for Academic Development)
The 17th-Century Making of the Novel (Proposed Special Session)
MLA Annual Conference
27-30 December 2006, Philadelphia, PA
Proposals are invited for a special session, to be proposed to the
2006 MLA Conference in Philadelphia
The 17th-Century Making of the Novel
UPDATE:
Our yearly EGAD conference has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts.
It will be held in the fall semester instead of this spring. Please note the
new conference date and deadlines. Thank you to all of you who submitted. We
hope to see everyone in the fall.
Conference Date: October 20th 2006
Submission Deadline: October 20th 2006
CONFERENCE INFORMATION:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CALL FOR PAPERS- EGAD Panels
DaVinci to Derrida: Breaking Codes Across Disciplines
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EGAD
(English Graduates for Academic Development)
The 17th-Century Making of the Novel (Proposed Special Session)
MLA Annual Conference
27-30 December 2006, Philadelphia, PA
Proposals are invited for a special session, to be proposed to the
2006 MLA Conference in Philadelphia
The 17th-Century Making of the Novel
Essays not exceeding 5,000 words are invited for an anthology exploring Non-Western Christianity and Literature. The editor is especially interested in essays that show how creative writers (novelists, short fiction writers, poets, etc.) capture the real-lived texture of non-Western Christian belief and behavior. Various methodological and disciplinary approaches are encouraged. Please send abstracts, which should not exceed 250 words, in the first instance. E-mail attachments preferred. Please use the e-mail address listed below. And feel free to use this address for any and all initial inquiries.
The new deadline for receipt of abstracts is March 15, 2006. And the new deadline for completed essays is June 30, 2006.
Essays not exceeding 5,000 words are invited for an anthology exploring Non-Western Christianity and Literature. The editor is especially interested in essays that show how creative writers (novelists, short fiction writers, poets, etc.) capture the real-lived texture of non-Western Christian belief and behavior. Various methodological and disciplinary approaches are encouraged. Please send abstracts, which should not exceed 250 words, in the first instance. E-mail attachments preferred. Please use the e-mail address listed below. And feel free to use this address for any and all initial inquiries.
The new deadline for receipt of abstracts is March 15, 2006. And the new deadline for completed essays is June 30, 2006.
Essays not exceeding 5,000 words are invited for an anthology exploring Non-Western Christianity and Literature. The editor is especially interested in essays that show how creative writers (novelists, short fiction writers, poets, etc.) capture the real-lived texture of non-Western Christian belief and behavior. Various methodological and disciplinary approaches are encouraged. Please send abstracts, which should not exceed 250 words, in the first instance. E-mail attachments preferred. Please use the e-mail address listed below. And feel free to use this address for any and all initial inquiries.
The new deadline for receipt of abstracts is March 15, 2006. And the new deadline for completed essays is June 30, 2006.
Deadline Extended: Submit Abstracts by March 1, 2006.
8th Annual Conference on Hispanic and Lusophone
Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
May 12-13, 2006
"CALL FOR PAPERS"
Rethinking Identity: Perspectives on Identity in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures.
We would be most grateful if the attached call for papers could be
post on the CFP site. With many thanks: Dan Wylie.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 3rd Literature & Ecology Colloquium
6-8 October 2006
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Toxic Belonging?:
Ecology and identity in southern Africa
=93My fate binds me indissolubly to this place=94
(James Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of Kruger National
Park)
Deadline Extended: Submit Abstracts by March 1, 2006.
8th Annual Conference on Hispanic and Lusophone
Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
May 12-13, 2006
"CALL FOR PAPERS"
Rethinking Identity: Perspectives on Identity in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures.
Deadline Extended: Submit Abstracts by March 1, 2006.
8th Annual Conference on Hispanic and Lusophone
Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
May 12-13, 2006
"CALL FOR PAPERS"
Rethinking Identity: Perspectives on Identity in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures.
We would be most grateful if the attached call for papers could be
post on the CFP site. With many thanks: Dan Wylie.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 3rd Literature & Ecology Colloquium
6-8 October 2006
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Toxic Belonging?:
Ecology and identity in southern Africa
=93My fate binds me indissolubly to this place=94
(James Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of Kruger National
Park)
We would be most grateful if the attached call for papers could be
post on the CFP site. With many thanks: Dan Wylie.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 3rd Literature & Ecology Colloquium
6-8 October 2006
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Toxic Belonging?:
Ecology and identity in southern Africa
=93My fate binds me indissolubly to this place=94
(James Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of Kruger National
Park)
In six or eight of her stories from the Vietnam War years, Kate Wilhelm made a name for herself as one
of the most aggressive critics of the culture of violence in the military-industrial state. But her work at
that time was hardly unique in her oeuvre; from as early as the 1950s, with the suicidal explosion that
ends her second published story, Wilhelm's fiction has been engaged in analyses of the violent mindset,
of how individual and societal violence interrelate, of the cognitive basis of violent personalities, and of
the personal effects of impersonal violence. The extent to which outward-directed violence is destined
In six or eight of her stories from the Vietnam War years, Kate Wilhelm made a name for herself as one
of the most aggressive critics of the culture of violence in the military-industrial state. But her work at
that time was hardly unique in her oeuvre; from as early as the 1950s, with the suicidal explosion that
ends her second published story, Wilhelm's fiction has been engaged in analyses of the violent mindset,
of how individual and societal violence interrelate, of the cognitive basis of violent personalities, and of
the personal effects of impersonal violence. The extent to which outward-directed violence is destined
"George Bernard Shaw at 150: Theater, Criticism, Contemporaneity"
Special Session at MLA 2006
Now Sponsored by the International Shaw Society (ISS)
"George Bernard Shaw at 150: Theater, Criticism, Contemporaneity"
Special Session at MLA 2006
Now Sponsored by the International Shaw Society (ISS)
Deadline extended:
Call for Contributors: Dictionary of Literary Biography
AMERICAN ROMANCE WRITERS
Draft deadline July 1, 2006
Contributors are needed to write an objective, clear, comprehensive account
of the life, career, and literary reputation of the romance writers listed
below.
Mary Jo Putney
Kathleen Winsor
Those interested in contributing please e-mail the editor of the volume:
Pamela Regis, Professor of English
McDaniel College
2 College Hill
Westminster, MD 21157
pregis_at_mcdaniel.edu
Deadline extended:
Call for Contributors: Dictionary of Literary Biography
AMERICAN ROMANCE WRITERS
Draft deadline July 1, 2006
Contributors are needed to write an objective, clear, comprehensive account
of the life, career, and literary reputation of the romance writers listed
below.
Mary Jo Putney
Kathleen Winsor
Those interested in contributing please e-mail the editor of the volume:
Pamela Regis, Professor of English
McDaniel College
2 College Hill
Westminster, MD 21157
pregis_at_mcdaniel.edu
"Every region neere": Explorations in gendered, generic, historical, and
geographic regions, 1500-1700
I have recently been contacted by Cambridge Scholars Press about possibly
editing a volume on early modern approaches to region, and I am interested in
soliciting abstracts for contributions that consider gendered, generic, or
geographic regions in early modern texts.
"Every region neere": Explorations in gendered, generic, historical, and
geographic regions, 1500-1700
I have recently been contacted by Cambridge Scholars Press about possibly
editing a volume on early modern approaches to region, and I am interested in
soliciting abstracts for contributions that consider gendered, generic, or
geographic regions in early modern texts.
"Every region neere": Explorations in gendered, generic, historical, and
geographic regions, 1500-1700
I have recently been contacted by Cambridge Scholars Press about possibly
editing a volume on early modern approaches to region, and I am interested in
soliciting abstracts for contributions that consider gendered, generic, or
geographic regions in early modern texts.
Submissions are invited for a collection of essays analyzing the novels =
and short stories of black British author Zadie Smith. The main focus of =
the collection will be to explore the various ways Smith approaches =
issues of race, identity, and post colonialism.=20
Suggested topics for discussion include:
Black British/British identity in a global community
Exploring Biracial identity in a British context
Interracial relationships
The utopian view of "race mixing"
A comparative view of post colonialism: immigrant vs. British born =
children
Cultural alienation and displacement
Submissions are invited for a collection of essays analyzing the novels =
and short stories of black British author Zadie Smith. The main focus of =
the collection will be to explore the various ways Smith approaches =
issues of race, identity, and post colonialism.=20
Suggested topics for discussion include:
Black British/British identity in a global community
Exploring Biracial identity in a British context
Interracial relationships
The utopian view of "race mixing"
A comparative view of post colonialism: immigrant vs. British born =
children
Cultural alienation and displacement
Submissions are invited for a collection of essays analyzing the novels =
and short stories of black British author Zadie Smith. The main focus of =
the collection will be to explore the various ways Smith approaches =
issues of race, identity, and post colonialism.=20
Suggested topics for discussion include:
Black British/British identity in a global community
Exploring Biracial identity in a British context
Interracial relationships
The utopian view of "race mixing"
A comparative view of post colonialism: immigrant vs. British born =
children
Cultural alienation and displacement
CALL FOR PAPER ABSTRACTS--THE 4TH NORMAN MAILER SOCIETY CONFERENCE, 2006
=20
The Programming Committee is looking for good proposals for panel =
presentations during the fourth annual conference of The Norman Mailer =
Society, to be held in Provincetown, MA, October 12-14, 2006. The =
theme of this year's conference is "The Political Norman Mailer," but =
papers on other topics related to Mailer and his work are also welcome. =
Please follow the guidelines below carefully.
=20
Send a 50-75 word biographical statement and a 300-400 word abstract of =
the proposed paper--as MS Word attachments only--not in the body of your =
email--by April 15 to the program committee chair: Robert Begiebing, =
CALL FOR PAPER ABSTRACTS--THE 4TH NORMAN MAILER SOCIETY CONFERENCE, 2006
=20
The Programming Committee is looking for good proposals for panel =
presentations during the fourth annual conference of The Norman Mailer =
Society, to be held in Provincetown, MA, October 12-14, 2006. The =
theme of this year's conference is "The Political Norman Mailer," but =
papers on other topics related to Mailer and his work are also welcome. =
Please follow the guidelines below carefully.
=20
Send a 50-75 word biographical statement and a 300-400 word abstract of =
the proposed paper--as MS Word attachments only--not in the body of your =
email--by April 15 to the program committee chair: Robert Begiebing, =