CALL FOR PAPERS

The North American Victorian Studies Association and the Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada will join forces for a joint
conference to be held 10-13 October 2007. The conference will take
place at the Laurel Point Inn on Victoria's beautiful inner harbour.
Featured presenters include Stephen Arata, Peter Bailey, Kirstie
Blair, Nicholas Daly, Jennifer Green-Lewis, Donald E. Hall, Gail
Turley Houston, Linda K. Hughes, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Seth
Koven, Philippa Levine, Lynda Nead, John Picker, Erika
Rappaport, and Talia Schaffer.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The North American Victorian Studies Association and the Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada will join forces for a joint
conference to be held 10-13 October 2007. The conference will take
place at the Laurel Point Inn on Victoria's beautiful inner harbour.
Featured presenters include Stephen Arata, Peter Bailey, Kirstie
Blair, Nicholas Daly, Jennifer Green-Lewis, Donald E. Hall, Gail
Turley Houston, Linda K. Hughes, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Seth
Koven, Philippa Levine, Lynda Nead, John Picker, Erika
Rappaport, and Talia Schaffer.

CFP: Re-imagining, Re-inventing, and Re-reading (grad [April 20th-22nd] )
The Graduate Student Association is pleased to host the Third Annual MadLit conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This year's theme invites a wide range of graduate student papers from a variety of literary and rhetorical periods that engage with re-imagining, re-inventing, or re-reading texts, genres, disciplines, and pedagogies.

CFP: Re-imagining, Re-inventing, and Re-reading (grad [April 20th-22nd] )
The Graduate Student Association is pleased to host the Third Annual MadLit conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This year's theme invites a wide range of graduate student papers from a variety of literary and rhetorical periods that engage with re-imagining, re-inventing, or re-reading texts, genres, disciplines, and pedagogies.

Plenaries announced:

The Idea of the City: Early modern, Modern, and Post-Modern
Locations and Communities

A two-day international conference at the University of Northampton
UK, 8-9 June 2007 Call for Papers

Plenaries announced:

The Idea of the City: Early modern, Modern, and Post-Modern
Locations and Communities

A two-day international conference at the University of Northampton
UK, 8-9 June 2007 Call for Papers

The Aphra Behn Society invites panels and papers for its
conference "Heavenly and Earthly Bodies: Exploration
1660-1830" to be held at the University of New Mexico, in
Albuquerque, October 25-27, 2007.

Call for Papers

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
Global Context

Issue Two, Spring 2007
"Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship"

The editorial staff for the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
invites submissions for its second issue on the subject of "Transnational
Migration, Race, and Citizenship." Ethnoscapes maps the development of
important themes in the field of race and ethnic studies by using a
"classic" piece as a point of departure for a reconsideration of critical
issues within the contemporary economic, political, and cultural terrain.

Call for Papers

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
Global Context

Issue Two, Spring 2007
"Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship"

The editorial staff for the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
invites submissions for its second issue on the subject of "Transnational
Migration, Race, and Citizenship." Ethnoscapes maps the development of
important themes in the field of race and ethnic studies by using a
"classic" piece as a point of departure for a reconsideration of critical
issues within the contemporary economic, political, and cultural terrain.

Call for Papers

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
Global Context

Issue Two, Spring 2007
"Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship"

The editorial staff for the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
invites submissions for its second issue on the subject of "Transnational
Migration, Race, and Citizenship." Ethnoscapes maps the development of
important themes in the field of race and ethnic studies by using a
"classic" piece as a point of departure for a reconsideration of critical
issues within the contemporary economic, political, and cultural terrain.

Literary scholars are invited to submit an article for the third special
issue of the Journal of Literary Disability (JLd), which will be entitled
The Representation of Cognitive Impairment.

Call for submissions to a special topics panel devoted to Hungarian Studies
at the Rocky Mountain MLA in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007.
The topic for this panel is open and all and any critical approaches to
Hungarian themes are encouraged for 15-20 minutes long presentations. Some
possible themes but not restricted to:

-Hungarian film studies

-race and identity in Hungary before and after WWII

-the Hungarian Medieval thought in the European context

-Shakespeare on the Hungarian stage

-gender studies: history and context in post-Communism

-new directions in the Hungarian literary scene

-Hungarian studies and culture beyond the border

Call for submissions to a special topics panel devoted to Hungarian Studies
at the Rocky Mountain MLA in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007.
The topic for this panel is open and all and any critical approaches to
Hungarian themes are encouraged for 15-20 minutes long presentations. Some
possible themes but not restricted to:

-Hungarian film studies

-race and identity in Hungary before and after WWII

-the Hungarian Medieval thought in the European context

-Shakespeare on the Hungarian stage

-gender studies: history and context in post-Communism

-new directions in the Hungarian literary scene

-Hungarian studies and culture beyond the border

CFP: Romantic Shakespeare. (3/1/07; MLA '07)

In conjunction with the theme of a future issue of the Shakespeare
Yearbook, "Romantic Shakespeare" the journal seeks abstracts for a
proposed Special Session at the 2007 Annual meeting of the MLA in
Chicago. Proposals are welcome that explore the editing or
interpretation of Shakespeare and early modern literature in the
Romantic period, as well as the impact of early modern literature on
the literary production of writers associated with the English
Romantic Movement.