Due to recent publicity in the UK national newspaper the Guardian, this colloquium has now been extended to run over two days - Friday 24th and Saturday 25th February 2006.

Like wise the deadline to register an interest or submit a panel/paper has now been extended to January 7th 2006.

Autism and Representation - Liverpool John Moores University, UK
A Two Day Colloquium hosted by the Association for Research in Popular Fictions
Friday 24th and Saturday 25th February 2006

Due to recent publicity in the UK national newspaper the Guardian, this colloquium has now been extended to run over two days - Friday 24th and Saturday 25th February 2006.

Like wise the deadline to register an interest or submit a panel/paper has now been extended to January 7th 2006.

Autism and Representation - Liverpool John Moores University, UK
A Two Day Colloquium hosted by the Association for Research in Popular Fictions
Friday 24th and Saturday 25th February 2006

Please distribute. Apologies for x-posting.

We would like to invite paper proposals for consideration for the =20
session
'Anti-Consumerism and Cultural Studies ' at the Cultural Studies =20
Crossroads Conference, Istanbul 2006 (www.crossroads2006.org =20
<http://www.crossroads2006.org> ).

See below for further session details. Final date for abstracts: 31st =20=

January
2006.

Please sent abstracts (150 words maximum) to
Sam Binkley Samuel_Binkley_at_emerson.edu
Jo Littler jo.littler_at_ntlworld.com

Please submit paper proposals for all topics related to African
American literature for the 2006 RMMLA (Tucson, Arizona
October 12-14, 2006). Paper proposals of 300-words are due to session
chairs by March 1, 2006.

Please note: RMMLA is an organization for its members. You are asked
to be current in your dues by April 1 to attend the convention,
present a paper, and have your name included in the convention
program. Visit www.rmmla.org for more information about the
conference, dues, etc.

Submit proposals in either paper or electronic form to:
Teresa Coronado, 2151 W 18th Ave, Eugene, OR 97402;
tcoronad_at_uoregon.edu

Deadline extended:

4th Interdisciplinary
Graduate Conference
Interdisciplinarity:
Questioning the Boundaries in & around the Humanities
University of Utah, Salt Lake City ~ March 17-18, 2006

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Rosemary Hennessy
Department of English
The University at Albany, SUNY

Attention Graduate Students!

The Humanities Graduate Conference Committee invites you to share your work at a
conference organized by graduate students for graduate students. This year's
theme presents a question to further expand the interdisciplinary conversation:
What are the facts, manners, and means of negotiating borders and identities in
the humanities?

Extended deadline:

Call for papers: Poetry and Politics. A Conference at the University of
Stirling, Scotland, 13-16 July 2006.=20

Abstracts of 200-250 words of papers not lasting longer than twenty
minutes in delivery should reach the organisers by our extended deadline
of January 15, 2006. Many thanks to all those who have already
responded. Everyone concerned will receive a formal decision on their
submission by mid January as previously advertised.

Poets and speakers to include Moniza Alvi, Eavan Boland, David Dabydeen,
Marilyn Hacker, Linton Kwesi Johnson, David Norbrook, Tom Paulin, Deryn
Rees-Jones, Jo Shapcott, and the Norton keynote speaker, Adrienne Rich
(all confirmed).=20

Extended deadline:

Call for papers: Poetry and Politics. A Conference at the University of
Stirling, Scotland, 13-16 July 2006.=20

Abstracts of 200-250 words of papers not lasting longer than twenty
minutes in delivery should reach the organisers by our extended deadline
of January 15, 2006. Many thanks to all those who have already
responded. Everyone concerned will receive a formal decision on their
submission by mid January as previously advertised.

Poets and speakers to include Moniza Alvi, Eavan Boland, David Dabydeen,
Marilyn Hacker, Linton Kwesi Johnson, David Norbrook, Tom Paulin, Deryn
Rees-Jones, Jo Shapcott, and the Norton keynote speaker, Adrienne Rich
(all confirmed).=20

Deadline extended for panels:

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Where is Now?: Articulating Post-Post-Modernity

Deadline extended for panels:

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Where is Now?: Articulating Post-Post-Modernity

         CALL FOR PAPERS

         Modern Language Association

         Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2006

         HENRY ROTH AT 100. A centennial reexamination--New approaches to

Roth's life, works, and place in literary history. 250-word abstracts by 1

Mar.; Steven G. Kellman (kellman_at_lonestar.utsa.edu).

Please note that in order to avoid a conflict with the annual
conference of the Renaissance Society of America, the date for the New
York University graduate student conference, "Power and Image in Early
Modern Europe", has been changed to April 7-8, 2006.

NYU is pleased to announce, however, Deanna Shemek of the University
of California, Santa Cruz, will be delivering the keynote speech.

Please find the current information for the conference posted below.

Kind regards,

Valerie McGuire
Gaoheng Zhang
Jessica Goethals

_________________________________

NYU Call for Papers:

Power and Image in Early Modern Europe

THE CURRENT STATE OF LITERARY SEMIOTICS

Imatra, Finland, June 10-13, 2006
Organizer: International Semiotics Institute (ISI)

Call for papers

Scientia and Techne: 14th Annual Conference of the North American =20
Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Purdue University, West =20=

Lafayette, Indiana.

"Inhibiting Scientia: Romanticism and the Ethics of Knowledge"

We are pleased to announce that Imelda Whehelan and Deborah Cartmell,
authors of Interpreting Shakespeare On Screen, Adaptations: From Text
to Screen, Screen to Text, and the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to
Literature on Screen will be our guest speakers at the upcoming
conference on Film Adaptation at the University of South Britanny.
You will find the call for papers below.

De la page blanche aux salles obscures : l'adaptation
cinématographique dans le domaine anglophone
 From the Blank Page to the Silver Screen: Film Adaptations in the
English-Speaking World

Université de Bretagne Sud (University of South Brittany)
Lorient, France
June 8-10, 2006