Appalachia Issue

Appalachia is perhaps America's most misunderstood region, a mountainous
land of hard-working people and devastating (and, too often, devastated)
beauty, a place that is ridiculed by residents of America's glory
coasts-ridiculed, that is, when it is paid any attention at all. But
what really goes on in Appalachia? What are the poems and stories and
songs that come from these mountains, and how do they illuminate the
people who live there?

Hellenic Association for American Studies
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
School of English
  HELAAS Graduate Student International Conference Inaugural
March 15-18, 2007
  Ex-centric Narratives, Identity and Multivocality in Anglo-American Cultures
  CALL FOR PAPERS
  The Hellenic Association for American Studies, and the Department of American Literature and Culture of the School of English of Aristotle University aim to bring together Greek and foreign graduate students (MA & PhD) as well as young scholars at the start of their careers from various fields and disciplines to a conference which is organized at the Aristotle University Campus.

Hellenic Association for American Studies
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
School of English
  HELAAS Graduate Student International Conference Inaugural
March 15-18, 2007
  Ex-centric Narratives, Identity and Multivocality in Anglo-American Cultures
  CALL FOR PAPERS
  The Hellenic Association for American Studies, and the Department of American Literature and Culture of the School of English of Aristotle University aim to bring together Greek and foreign graduate students (MA & PhD) as well as young scholars at the start of their careers from various fields and disciplines to a conference which is organized at the Aristotle University Campus.

THE NEW YORK COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION

and the

UTICA COLLEGE ETHNIC HERITAGE STUDIES CENTER

invite proposals for a Fall 2006 Conference:

Ethnicity, Literature and Language

Utica College

Utica, New York

September 22-23, 2006

Featured speaker: Frank Lentricchia, author of After the New
Criticism, Crimes of Art and Terror, and The Book of Ruth

Presentations may include:
             15-minute papers/45-minute panel presentations
             readings of creative fiction, non-fiction or poetry
(15-20 minutes)

Call for Papers:
Tove Jansson Essay Collection
Tove Jansson Conference

Proposals are invited for contributions to a Collection of Critical Essays
on Finnish author and artist, Tove Jansson, under contract to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press, and for papers for a one-day Jansson Conference, to be held at Pembroke College, Oxford on 24 March 2007.

Call for Papers:
Tove Jansson Essay Collection
Tove Jansson Conference

Proposals are invited for contributions to a Collection of Critical Essays
on Finnish author and artist, Tove Jansson, under contract to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press, and for papers for a one-day Jansson Conference, to be held at Pembroke College, Oxford on 24 March 2007.

Call For Papers:

International Virginia Woolf Society Panel at the University of=20
Louisville Thirty-fifth Annual Twentieth Century Literature & Culture=20
Conference, February 22-24, 2007.

The International Virginia Woolf Society is pleased to host its sixth=20
consecutive panel at the University of Louisville Twentieth Century=20
Literature and Culture Conference. We invite proposals for critical=20
papers on any topic concerning Virginia Woolf=92s work. A particular=20
theme may be chosen depending upon the proposals received.

Announcing BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media, hosted by the
Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University in
Morgantown, WV. September 14-16, 2006.

Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (TALTP) is looking for contributors for its inaugural issue to be published online (web site still under construction).

Call for Papers: Motorcycling Rights and Regulation (Deadline: September 1,
2006)

The International Journal of Motorcycle Studies (IJMS) is dedicated to the
study and discussion of motorcycling culture in all its forms and from all
over the world-including moped/scooter, street and racetrack, and
off-road/dirt bikes as well as every aspect of motorcycle culture past,
present and future.

The journal is inviting submissions for a special issue on rights and
regulation to be published in November 2006.

Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (TALTP) is looking for contributors for its inaugural issue to be published online (web site still under construction).

CALL FOR PAPERS

Fifteenth Annual California State University Shakespeare
Symposium
CSU Long Beach, 90840

Saturday November 4, 2006

Abstracts for 15-minute papers are invited for the
Fifteenth Annual California State University Shakespeare
Symposium.

"Reading Margaret Cavendish"
Renaissance Society of America
March 22-24, 2007
Miami, FL

Papers welcome on any aspect of Margaret Cavendish and science,
including discussions of Cavendish's literary and scientific
writings; relations with contemporaries; with the history of science
and philosophy; science and politics; science and gender; reason and
fancy. Papers that explore new directions in Cavendish studies are
especially encouraged.

Please send abstracts of no more than 150 words and a brief c.v. by
May 18, 2006 to Graham Hammill (English, University of Notre Dame) at
ghammill_at_nd.edu.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS:

Beckett on TV
A Special Issue of The Journal of Beckett Studies