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CFP: Beyond Multiculturalism (1/5/06; ALA, 5/25/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 1:39pm
Jeff Partridge

  Call for Papers: Beyond Multiculturalism
  American Literature Association Annual Convention
  May 25-28, 2006
  San Francisco, California
  Conference info:
  www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/
  
   
  The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS) and the Society for Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) seek papers on the topic BEYOND MULTICULTURALISM to be presented at the American Literature Association annual convention, May 25-28, in San Francisco.
   
  

UPDATE: Stony Brook: Voices Across Boundaries (grad) (1/10/06; 2/24/06-2/25/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 1:39pm
boluch_at_aol.com

The Deadline for submission has changed for Stony Brook's 2006 Graduate Conference: Voices Across Boundaries, to January 10, 2006.
 
FEBRUARY 24-25, 2006
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK
Keynote Speaker: H. Aram Veeser, Ph.D.
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Stony Brook University?s Annual Graduate Conference, the longest running graduate conference in the country, focuses on incipient and ongoing research emerging from the graduate community. Held on our Manhattan campus at the corner of 28th Street and Park Avenue in Midtown, the conference?s location reflects the vital, intellectual, and exploratory atmosphere that our past conferences have engendered.
 

CFP: African Americans and The Catholic Church (1/28/06; 4/27/06-4/29/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 1:39pm
Iyer, Nalini

SEATTLE UNIVERSITY

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AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH-A CONFERENCE

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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The Gaffney Chair for Endowed Mission and the Center for the Study of =
Justice in Society jointly present and invite contributions to a =
Conference on AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. The conference =
will be held at Seattle University from April 27-29, 2006.

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CFP: Yale Conference on Access to Knowledge (2/15/06 & 5/1/06; 4/21/06-4/23/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 1:39pm
Nicola Simpson

Call for Papers & Writing Competition - Yale ISP Conference on Access to
Knowledge (A2K) April 21-23, 2006

The Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP) and the International
Journal of Communications Law & Policy (IJCLP) are pleased to announce their
third interdisciplinary writing competition and a call for papers in
conjunction with the Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference taking place on
April 21-23, 2006 at Yale Law School. We invite students, scholars, policy
makers, activists and practitioners to submit papers for the writing
competition and/or for publication by the IJCLP.

Conference Description

CFP: Postwar Jewish Literatures (Belgium) (1/31/06; 11/6/06-11/7/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:23pm
Philippe Codde

*Response, Remembrance, Representation:
A Dialogue between Postwar Jewish Literatures*
Universities of Antwerp and Ghent, 6-7 November 2006

Papers are invited for a two-day comparative literature conference on
postwar Jewish writing in North America and Western Europe.

CFP: Postwar Jewish Literatures (Belgium) (1/31/06; 11/6/06-11/7/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:23pm
Philippe Codde

*Response, Remembrance, Representation:
A Dialogue between Postwar Jewish Literatures*
Universities of Antwerp and Ghent, 6-7 November 2006

Papers are invited for a two-day comparative literature conference on
postwar Jewish writing in North America and Western Europe.

CFP: Postwar Jewish Literatures (Belgium) (1/31/06; 11/6/06-11/7/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:23pm
Philippe Codde

*Response, Remembrance, Representation:
A Dialogue between Postwar Jewish Literatures*
Universities of Antwerp and Ghent, 6-7 November 2006

Papers are invited for a two-day comparative literature conference on
postwar Jewish writing in North America and Western Europe.

CFP: Postwar Jewish Literatures (Belgium) (1/31/06; 11/6/06-11/7/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:23pm
Philippe Codde

*Response, Remembrance, Representation:
A Dialogue between Postwar Jewish Literatures*
Universities of Antwerp and Ghent, 6-7 November 2006

Papers are invited for a two-day comparative literature conference on
postwar Jewish writing in North America and Western Europe.

CFP: Poetries (3/15/06, journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:22pm
Douglas Dowland

IOWA JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
SPECIAL ISSUE: POETRIES

Guest Edited by Adalaide Morris, Mike Chasar, and Heidi Bean

CFP: Poetries (3/15/06, journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:22pm
Douglas Dowland

IOWA JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
SPECIAL ISSUE: POETRIES

Guest Edited by Adalaide Morris, Mike Chasar, and Heidi Bean

CFP: Poetries (3/15/06, journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:22pm
Douglas Dowland

IOWA JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
SPECIAL ISSUE: POETRIES

Guest Edited by Adalaide Morris, Mike Chasar, and Heidi Bean

CFP: Love Potions in Harry Potter (1/2/06; LUMOS, 7/27/06-7/30/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:21pm
Melissa D. Aaron

Panel or a roundtable on love potions in Harry Potter, especially on
their importance in *Half Blood Prince.* Short presentations sought
on different aspects of Love Potions. Examples might be Love Potion
Ethics, Love Potion Mechanics, how love potions in HP relate to
"real" historical/cultural love spells and potions, and Love Potions
and the fandom (aka "shipping.")

Email me by January 2nd if you are interested.

Some information from the Lumos website:

CFP: Love Potions in Harry Potter (1/2/06; LUMOS, 7/27/06-7/30/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:21pm
Melissa D. Aaron

Panel or a roundtable on love potions in Harry Potter, especially on
their importance in *Half Blood Prince.* Short presentations sought
on different aspects of Love Potions. Examples might be Love Potion
Ethics, Love Potion Mechanics, how love potions in HP relate to
"real" historical/cultural love spells and potions, and Love Potions
and the fandom (aka "shipping.")

Email me by January 2nd if you are interested.

Some information from the Lumos website:

CFP: Spanish Golden Age and the Small College (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:21pm
Michael Joy

I invite submissions for a panel I am proposing for the 2006 MLA
conference in Philadelphia. The topic is "The Spanish Golden Age and
the Small College." The panel will center on life as the Golden Age
specialist (broadly defined to include both medievalists and
Renaissance specialists) at a smaller college or university: attracting
students, curricular and extracurricular innovations, connections
between research and teaching, and other topics of interest to the
Golden Age community. 250-word abstracts are due by March 15, 2006 to
the following address: Michael W. Joy, Department of Modern Foreign
Languages, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC 29325. E-mail address
for submissions: mjoy_at_presby.edu.

CFP: Spanish Golden Age and the Small College (3/15/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:21pm
Michael Joy

I invite submissions for a panel I am proposing for the 2006 MLA
conference in Philadelphia. The topic is "The Spanish Golden Age and
the Small College." The panel will center on life as the Golden Age
specialist (broadly defined to include both medievalists and
Renaissance specialists) at a smaller college or university: attracting
students, curricular and extracurricular innovations, connections
between research and teaching, and other topics of interest to the
Golden Age community. 250-word abstracts are due by March 15, 2006 to
the following address: Michael W. Joy, Department of Modern Foreign
Languages, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC 29325. E-mail address
for submissions: mjoy_at_presby.edu.

CFP: North American Society for Social Philosophy Conference (3/15/06; 8/3/06-8/5/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:20pm
Jeffrey Paris

 
TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE

      *

        *CALL FOR PAPERS *

(please disseminate widely)
The 23rd annual meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy will
be held August 3-5, 2006, at the

        *University of Victoria Victoria, B.C., Canada *

Although proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome, special
attention will be devoted to the theme

        *International Law and Justice*

CFP: The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar (1/16/06; 5/30/06-6/3/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:20pm
Ehawthorne03_at_aol.com

Call for Papers
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            The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars invites=20
abstracts for the 10th Anniversary International Conference =E2=80=9CThe Car=
ibbean=20
Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining/Theorizing/Creating=E2=80=9D to be held M=
ay 30-June 3,=20
2006, at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
            Sample Panel Topics:
            The Creative Theoretical
            Caribbean Feminist Theory
            The Caribbean Imaginary
            Orality and the Creative Imagination
            Imagining Progressive Futures
            One Caribbean in the Vision of Writers and Artists

CFP: The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar (1/16/06; 5/30/06-6/3/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:20pm
Ehawthorne03_at_aol.com

Call for Papers
=20
            The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars invites=20
abstracts for the 10th Anniversary International Conference =E2=80=9CThe Car=
ibbean=20
Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining/Theorizing/Creating=E2=80=9D to be held M=
ay 30-June 3,=20
2006, at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
            Sample Panel Topics:
            The Creative Theoretical
            Caribbean Feminist Theory
            The Caribbean Imaginary
            Orality and the Creative Imagination
            Imagining Progressive Futures
            One Caribbean in the Vision of Writers and Artists

CFP: The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar (1/16/06; 5/30/06-6/3/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:20pm
Ehawthorne03_at_aol.com

Call for Papers
=20
            The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars invites=20
abstracts for the 10th Anniversary International Conference =E2=80=9CThe Car=
ibbean=20
Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining/Theorizing/Creating=E2=80=9D to be held M=
ay 30-June 3,=20
2006, at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
            Sample Panel Topics:
            The Creative Theoretical
            Caribbean Feminist Theory
            The Caribbean Imaginary
            Orality and the Creative Imagination
            Imagining Progressive Futures
            One Caribbean in the Vision of Writers and Artists

CFP: Mester XXXV (2006) General Issue (1/6/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Mester Literary Journal

M E S T E R
2006 Call for Papers, General Issue
Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its upcoming 35th
anniversary issue to be published in June 2006.

Our new volume will be open to any topic related to the scope of the
journal. Mester publishes critical articles, interviews, and book
reviews in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish-American,
Brazilian, Chicano, and Latina/o literatures and linguistics. Mester
also welcomes articles in other disciplines such as Comparative
Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Articles may be
written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.

CFP: NeoAmericanist: Online Student Journal for American Studies (grad) (1/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
NeoAmericanist Journal for American Studies

Call for Papers

NeoAmericanist
Online Student Journal for American Studies

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The editors of NeoAmericanist, an online multi/inter-disciplinary journal
for the study of America, are issuing a call for papers among interested
Undergraduate and Graduate students. We are accepting original ARTICLES as
well as book and film REVIEWS from Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level
students on the comprehensive topic of America. The submission DEADLINE fo=
r
the next issue is JANUARY 1ST 2006.

CFP: English Seventeenth-Century Lyric Poetry (3/1/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
Eileen Abrahams

I am soliciting proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of English
Seventeenth-Century lyric poetry for a session at the Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association (RMMLA).

The annual meetings of the RMMLA will take place from October 12 until
October 14, 2006 in Tucson, Arizona.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words either as WORD or RTF
attachments via e-mail or via regular mail. All submissions must be
received by midnight on March 1, 2006. I'll e-mail notification of
acceptance by March 15, 2006.

Please send proposals to Eileen Abrahams at ei_at_vownet.net
or to

CFP: NeoAmericanist: Online Student Journal for American Studies (grad) (1/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:19pm
NeoAmericanist Journal for American Studies

Call for Papers

NeoAmericanist
Online Student Journal for American Studies

--------------
The editors of NeoAmericanist, an online multi/inter-disciplinary journal
for the study of America, are issuing a call for papers among interested
Undergraduate and Graduate students. We are accepting original ARTICLES as
well as book and film REVIEWS from Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level
students on the comprehensive topic of America. The submission DEADLINE fo=
r
the next issue is JANUARY 1ST 2006.

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