Deadline extended:

"S(e)oul to Soul: The novels of Susan Choi and the Politics of
Representation" (10/15/05; 3/22-26/06)

Call For Papers
Canadian Association for Irish Studies /Association canadienne =20
d=92=E9tudes irlandaises

The Canadian Association for Irish Studies (CAIS) invites proposals =20
for presentations of twenty minutes in length =96 as well as full panel =20=

discussions =96 for its annual conference, to be held this year at the =20=

University of Ottawa from June 14-17, 2006. The theme of the CAIS =20
conference this year is =93Urban Ireland.=94 Possible topics, very =20
broadly defined, include (but are not limited to):

Cormac McCarthy Call for Papers
Abstract/Proposals by 15 November, 2005

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 26th Annual Conference
Albuquerque, NM February 8-11, 2006

Panels now forming on topics related to the writings of Cormac McCarthy.
Suggested topics include:
§ Papers about No Country for Old Men
§ Cormac McCarthy and film adaptation
§ Interdisciplinary approaches to reading McCarthy
§ Pedagogical approaches for teaching McCarthy
Other topics are also welcome.

Submission deadline for IRCALC 2006 edition of Africa Literary Journal, ALJ has been moved to December 2005. 'Re-Imagining African Literature (2)', the theme of our 2006 journal issue, will be edited by distinguished poet and fiction writer Chin Ce of IRCALC-ALJ Africa Desk, and will pursue the 2003 theme edited by Charles Smith in order to complement the scholarly essays that appeared in that previous volume. Contributions from non-African writers on African literature or submissions adopting a comparative approach to new literary and cultural impacts will be highly welcome.

CALL FOR PAPERS: SHAKESPEARE ON FILM AND TELEVISION
2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
27th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM
 
The 2006 Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference will be held in beautiful Albuquerque, NM, February 8-11, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency downtown. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.h-net.org/~swpca
 
Proposals are being accepted for the Shakespeare on Film and Television Area. All topics are welcome. Please send a 250 word proposal and a brief C.V. no later than November 15, 2005 to:
 

AMERICAN@ is a peer reviewed e-journal dedicated to American Cultural and
Literary Studies. It hopes to provide an intellectual canvas where the
cultural spaces and experiences of American Studies are theorized and
rigorously explored within both global and local contingencies of the present
and the past. AMERICAN@ is accepting paper submissions for its Fall issue
2005. This issue will have a special focus on
The Anticapitalist Struggle of Native Peoples in America.

9th Annual C. S. Lewis and the Inklings Conference (Sponsored by the C.
S. Lewis and Inklings Society
<http://www.okcu.edu/english/cslis/home.html> )
Keynote Speaker: Tom Shippey, world-renowned scholar of J. R. R.
Tolkien: Author of the Century=20

Date: March 3-4, 2006=20
Location: John Brown University <http://www.jbu.edu/> , Siloam Springs,
AR

CALL FOR PAPERS: APOCALYPTIC SHAKESPEARE FILMS
2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
27th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM
 
The 2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Conference will be held in beautiful Albuquerque, NM, February 8-11, 2006 at
the Hyatt Regency downtown. Further details regarding the conference
(listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca
 
Proposals are being accepted for a panel on "Apocalyptic Shakespeare Films,"
in the Shakespeare on Film and Television Area of the PCA. (See below for

Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association; Oakland, California; October 12-15, 2006: "The United States from Inside and Out: Transnational American Studies."

Panel: Transnational Regionalisms (12/15/05; ASA, 10/12/06 – 10/15/06)

"S(e)oul to Soul: The novels of Susan Choi and the Politics of
Representation" (10/7/05; 3/22-26/06)

Mobility/Stasis/Modernity in the Space Between, 1914-1945
  =A0
Submissions are invited for the eighth annual conference of The Space=20
Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, at Bucknell University,=20
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, June 8-11, 2005.

Acceleration, terminal velocity, downward-spiral, displacement,=20
paralysis, collision, modernity. The years 1914-1945 were marked by=20
wars colliding with peace movements, by the formation of new nations,=20
the dissolution of old empires, and the voluntary and forced movement=20
of people from ancient homelands to modern and nascent nation-states. =20=

CFP: Black British Aesthetics Today: The 2006 Howard University Symposium
(12/02/2005-4/08/2006)

The Graduate Film Studies Journal (GFSJ) is a new online film journal tha=
t is devoted solely to the publication of film essays written by exceptio=
nal graduate students from around the globe. Currently, we are looking f=
or intelligent essays on any subject of film for our inaugural issue. Pl=
ease send your essays to dm8600_at_albany.edu. All works should be sent as =
MSWord attachments, should be seven to ten pages in length, and should fo=
llow proper MLA format. Our goal is to, in a small and concentrated way,=
 prove that graduate work is an integral part in what has become a vast c=
olligate whole; that the work of graduate students can, in fact, shape or=

Border Crossings and Boundary Definitions
Postgraduate Conference, University of New Hampshire
Sponsored by the English Graduate Organization
March 31-April 1, 2006

Featured Speakers:
Donald E. Pease Jr., Professor of English, and Avalon Chair of the Humanities at
Dartmouth College
J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Professor, English & Comparative Literature at
the University of California, Irvine
Janet Aikins Yount, Professor and Chair of the Department of English, University
of New Hampshire