Studies in Modern Horror is inviting submissions
regarding author Thomas Ligotti's works, with intent
to publish in a dedicated issue of the journal.

Payment is in two (2) contributors' copies of the
issue your article appears in.

*About the journal*
Studies in Modern Horror is a quarterly scholarly
journal designed to promote the criticism of
contemporary horror, supernatural, and weird fiction;
dealing exclusively with the work of authors who have
been active within the last 30 years.

Contesting Transoceanic Natural Histories

Seminar Organizers: Adam Miyashiro and Oscar Fernandez
Affiliations: The Pennsylvania State University and Portland State University

The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Annual Meeting 2007: Puebla, Mexico

April 19-22, 2007
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006

Description: This interdisciplinary panel seeks to address
critical issues in the theory and practice of “natural history,” a formal
mode of encyclopedic writing that described everything perceived as
“natural” from the perspective of their writers.

Contesting Transoceanic Natural Histories

Seminar Organizers: Adam Miyashiro and Oscar Fernandez
Affiliations: The Pennsylvania State University and Portland State University

The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Annual Meeting 2007: Puebla, Mexico

April 19-22, 2007
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006

Description: This interdisciplinary panel seeks to address
critical issues in the theory and practice of “natural history,” a formal
mode of encyclopedic writing that described everything perceived as
“natural” from the perspective of their writers.

Contesting Transoceanic Natural Histories

Seminar Organizers: Adam Miyashiro and Oscar Fernandez
Affiliations: The Pennsylvania State University and Portland State University

The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Annual Meeting 2007: Puebla, Mexico

April 19-22, 2007
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006

Description: This interdisciplinary panel seeks to address
critical issues in the theory and practice of “natural history,” a formal
mode of encyclopedic writing that described everything perceived as
“natural” from the perspective of their writers.

CFP: "Borders & Memories/Images of Past & Present" (Mexico) (11/1/06; ACLA, 4/19 - 23/07)

CFP: Interdisciplinary Studies of the El Paso-Juarez Border Region =
(1/11/06; ACLA, Puebla, Mexico, 4/19/06-4/22/07)
=20

"Interdisciplinary Studies of the El Paso-Juarez Border Region" at the =
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting in Puebla, =
Mexico, April 17-19, 2007

=20

This seminar will examine cultural theories and practices as they relate =
to the border cities of El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Chihuahua. The mode =
of inquiry will be interdisciplinary.=20

=20

CFP: Interdisciplinary Studies of the El Paso-Juarez Border Region =
(1/11/06; ACLA, Puebla, Mexico, 4/19/06-4/22/07)
=20

"Interdisciplinary Studies of the El Paso-Juarez Border Region" at the =
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting in Puebla, =
Mexico, April 17-19, 2007

=20

This seminar will examine cultural theories and practices as they relate =
to the border cities of El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Chihuahua. The mode =
of inquiry will be interdisciplinary.=20

=20

Call for seminar papers for the American Comparative Literature
Association Annual Conference 2007,
"Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact"
Puebla, Mexico
April 19-22, 2007

Deadline: 1 November 2006

Seminar Title: This is Not Your Home

Call for seminar papers for the American Comparative Literature
Association Annual Conference 2007,
"Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact"
Puebla, Mexico
April 19-22, 2007

Deadline: 1 November 2006

Seminar Title: This is Not Your Home

Please circulate:

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting April
19-22, 2007 in Puebla, Mexico.

http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/

Seminars for the ACLA convention contain 9-12 papers and meet for 2-3
consecutive days. This seminar calls for papers dealing with racial mixture
in the Americas. Submissions should be sent through the ACLA webpage.

Call for Papers
*Locating Photography*
Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies
University of Durham, UK
20-22 September 2007

Following the success of its inaugural conference 'Thinking Photography –
Again' (July 2005), the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies
(www.dur.ac.uk/dcaps) invites proposals for a conference on 'Locating
Photography'.

Call for Papers
*Locating Photography*
Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies
University of Durham, UK
20-22 September 2007

Following the success of its inaugural conference 'Thinking Photography –
Again' (July 2005), the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies
(www.dur.ac.uk/dcaps) invites proposals for a conference on 'Locating
Photography'.

Call for paper
"Louis XI a controversial figure"
Université de Lille 3
Campus Pont de Bois
Equipe d'accueil ALITHILA
4th-5th-6th oct. 2007
During the past few years, the sections of comparative and medieval studies in
the University of Lille 3 have been studying together how historical or
literary figures are received and transmitted to the later generations,  i.e.
the reception of Antiquity, of Virgil from the Middle-Ages to the XXth
century, the posterity of the Renaissance. Persuing the same aim, we would
like to focus our attention on the figure of Louis XI.
Since Paul M. Kendall, Jean Dufournet and Joël Blanchard and their analysis of