PRODUCTION: Critical Race Analysis and Literary Studies
A Graduate Student Conferece
New York University, 23-24 February 2007
Coordinators at New York University seek abstracts for a two-day
conference on "production" at the intersection of critical race
analysis and literary studies. Organized by the Critical Race
Analysis and Literary Studies Colloquium (CRALS) at NYU, this
conference will provide an opportunity for graduate students to
present work that reflects on the significance of critical race
theories to teaching, research, and writing in departments of English
and other fields related to literary study. Beyond (but including)

Call For Papers: Latino/a Focus Group ATHE

New Deadline for "Cross Cultural Explorations of Trauma" at the North
East MLA, Baltimore March 1-4.

Despite Cathy Caruth's claim in her landmark collection "Trauma:
Explorations in Memory" that "trauma itself may provide the very link
between cultures," trauma has been infrequently explored from
cross-cultural and non-Western perspectives. This panel seeks to examine
the relationship between trauma and culture, to explore and possibly
critique the Eurocentric perspective of trauma studies, and to
investigate the manner in which trauma reinvigorates psychoanalysis with
the work of cultural critique.

Paper topics might consider the following questions:

CFP: In Transit; Travel Writing (any period) conference (UK) (12/01/06;
05/12/07)

Call for papers for a one-day conference
At University of Hull, England
Saturday 12 May 2007

Theme: In Transit: Literature on the Move

We invite papers on any aspect of travel literature or on literary
representations of travel from any period.

One of the great literary travellers, Robinson Crusoe, set out from Hull:

"Had I now had the sense to have gone back to Hull, and have gone home, I
had been happy."

CALL FOR PAPERS

Stirring the gumbo pot: French and Francophone Studies, Critical Approaches, and New Directions

Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
March 23rd-24th 2007, Baton Rouge, USA
Keynote Speaker: Professor Peggy Kamuf

CFP: MUSICAL THEATRE
   
  NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
  2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
   
  April 4 – 10, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
   
  For more information on the PCA/ACA, please go
  to: http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.
   
  DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2006
   
  The Musical Theatre Area of the Popular Culture
  Association is calling for papers for the PCA
  Conference, to be held at the Boston Marriott
  Copley Place, April 4 – 10, 2007. I am welcoming
  proposals from anyone interested in any musical
  that has been shown on the stage, in the movies, or

CALL FOR PAPERS

SHARP 2007 Conference: Open the Book, Open the Mind

 Call for Papers: Hemingway and Travel Writing
(ALA in Boston, MA on May 24-27. 2007)

 Call for Papers: Hemingway and Travel Writing
(ALA in Boston, MA on May 24-27. 2007)

Call for Papers
Brújula Vol. 6
Art and Encounters

Brújula's sixth issue, devoted to the construction of the imaginary in
artistic discourses in Latin America, seeks to encourage a dialogue between
diverse manifestations of aesthetic thought and creation. Essays might
explore analytical, historical and/or interpretive approaches. Proposals
with an interdisciplinary focus in literature, dance, music, visual arts,
theater, cinema, architecture, new technologies, etc., are welcome; we are
interested in works that respond to contemporary production, as well as
those that encompass other historical periods. Potential topics for
investigation include:

Call for Papers
Brújula Vol. 6
Art and Encounters

Brújula's sixth issue, devoted to the construction of the imaginary in
artistic discourses in Latin America, seeks to encourage a dialogue between
diverse manifestations of aesthetic thought and creation. Essays might
explore analytical, historical and/or interpretive approaches. Proposals
with an interdisciplinary focus in literature, dance, music, visual arts,
theater, cinema, architecture, new technologies, etc., are welcome; we are
interested in works that respond to contemporary production, as well as
those that encompass other historical periods. Potential topics for
investigation include:

Autobiography and the Body

We are seeking essay abstracts for a proposed anthology of essays on any
aspect of the role of the body in autobiography.

Autobiography and the Body

We are seeking essay abstracts for a proposed anthology of essays on any
aspect of the role of the body in autobiography.

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on
Fan Art, Fiction, and Culture for the 28th Annual
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 28 is on gender and sexuality in the
fantastic, and while papers relating to this theme are
encouraged, proposals on any topics are welcome. The
conference will be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
from March 14 - 17, 2007 at the Wyndham Fort
Lauderdale Airport Hotel. For more information and
updates about the conference, please visit
www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the
following: