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CFP: Popular Culture and Feminine Self-Fashioning (7/15/06; MAPACA, 10/27/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Elizabeth Dill

CFP: Popular Culture, the Marketplace and Feminine Self-Fashioning Panel,
10/27-29/06

"A Rose by Any Other Name: Female Self-Fashioning and the Marketplace" is a
session of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association's
annual conference. The dates are 10/27/06 -10/29/06 in Baltimore, MD. For
more information, please go to: http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/.

CFP: Improvisation Continuums (UK) (9/1/06; 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Dennis R \(HLaSS\)

Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines

12 - 14 April 2007 (deadline for submissions 1 Sept 06)
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan South Wales UK

Keynotes confirmed
Anne Bogart, SITI Company
Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

Call for Papers (please cross post where appropriate)

Improvisation is integral to arts practice. This conference provides a
structure and a space for artists/practitioners/teachers/scholars to
share ideas and debate about the application and relevance of
improvisation in arts practice today.

CFP: Improvisation Continuums (UK) (9/1/06; 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Dennis R \(HLaSS\)

Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines

12 - 14 April 2007 (deadline for submissions 1 Sept 06)
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan South Wales UK

Keynotes confirmed
Anne Bogart, SITI Company
Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

Call for Papers (please cross post where appropriate)

Improvisation is integral to arts practice. This conference provides a
structure and a space for artists/practitioners/teachers/scholars to
share ideas and debate about the application and relevance of
improvisation in arts practice today.

CFP: Improvisation Continuums (UK) (9/1/06; 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Dennis R \(HLaSS\)

Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines

12 - 14 April 2007 (deadline for submissions 1 Sept 06)
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan South Wales UK

Keynotes confirmed
Anne Bogart, SITI Company
Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

Call for Papers (please cross post where appropriate)

Improvisation is integral to arts practice. This conference provides a
structure and a space for artists/practitioners/teachers/scholars to
share ideas and debate about the application and relevance of
improvisation in arts practice today.

CFP: Edith Wharton (7/7/06; ALA Symposium, 9/28/06-9/30/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Donna Campbell

The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor a panel at the American Literature
Symposium on American Fiction in San Diego on September 28-30, 2006.

Please send two-page proposals on any aspect of Edith Wharton's fiction by
July 7, 2006 to Margaret Murray at drmpm_at_snet.net.

No audiovisual equipment will be available for this symposium. The
conference fee is $120, which includes two meals and two receptions. A full
description of the symposium, together with registration form and lodging
information, is available on the American Literature Association web site:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/otherconfs.html

CFP: Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric (12/1/06; 2/23/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Elise Flanagan

Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities
Texas A&M University-Commerce
February 23, 2007

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of the five canons of rhetoric--invention,
arrangement, style, memory, delivery—which we define broadly to incorporate
a wide variety of research interests.

CFP: Edith Wharton (7/7/06; ALA Symposium, 9/28/06-9/30/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Donna Campbell

The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor a panel at the American Literature
Symposium on American Fiction in San Diego on September 28-30, 2006.

Please send two-page proposals on any aspect of Edith Wharton's fiction by
July 7, 2006 to Margaret Murray at drmpm_at_snet.net.

No audiovisual equipment will be available for this symposium. The
conference fee is $120, which includes two meals and two receptions. A full
description of the symposium, together with registration form and lodging
information, is available on the American Literature Association web site:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/otherconfs.html

CFP: Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric (12/1/06; 2/23/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Elise Flanagan

Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities
Texas A&M University-Commerce
February 23, 2007

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of the five canons of rhetoric--invention,
arrangement, style, memory, delivery—which we define broadly to incorporate
a wide variety of research interests.

CFP: Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric (12/1/06; 2/23/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Elise Flanagan

Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities
Texas A&M University-Commerce
February 23, 2007

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of the five canons of rhetoric--invention,
arrangement, style, memory, delivery—which we define broadly to incorporate
a wide variety of research interests.

UPDATE: Ecocriticism in the 21st century (UK) (6/30/06; 9/8/06-9/10/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Rupert Hildyard

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?

CFP: American Modernism: Cultural Transactions (UK) (8/11/06: 9/22/06-9/23/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
agoody_at_brookes.ac.uk

*American Modernism: Cultural Transactions*
Oxford Brookes University, UK
22-23 September 2006

A major interdisciplinary conference examining the scope and impact of
America Modernism in literature, cinema and the visual arts

Sessions on Ethnicity and Culture, T.S. Eliot. Anglo-American Modernism,
the American Avant-garde, Edith Wharton, and Transnational Modernism

visit the website @
http://www.ah.brookes.ac.uk/conferences/americanmodernism/

Speakers include:
Cassandra Laity, Tim Armstrong, Janet Beer, Laura Marcus, Paul Giles and
Steven Mathews

CFP: Mary Braddon Collection (no deadline noted; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Jessica Cox

**CALL FOR PAPERS**

FOR A PROPOSED ESSAY COLLECTION ON
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

Possible topics for articles might include:

· Braddon and the literary marketplace
· Braddon and the theatre
· Braddon's twentieth century fiction
· Adaptations of Braddon's novels
· Braddon and the sensation school
· Representations of gender in Braddon's work
· Braddon's literary influences
· Braddon's influence on other writers
· Autobiographical elements of Braddon's fiction
· Braddon's writing as social commentary
· Braddon's significance/legacy as a Victorian woman writer

Articles should be between 5000 and 7000 words in length, and should be sent
to:

UPDATE: Ecocriticism in the 21st century (UK) (6/30/06; 9/8/06-9/10/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Rupert Hildyard

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?

UPDATE: Ecocriticism in the 21st century (UK) (6/30/06; 9/8/06-9/10/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Rupert Hildyard

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?

UPDATE: Ecocriticism in the 21st century (UK) (6/30/06; 9/8/06-9/10/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Rupert Hildyard

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?

CFP: American Modernism: Cultural Transactions (UK) (8/11/06: 9/22/06-9/23/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
agoody_at_brookes.ac.uk

*American Modernism: Cultural Transactions*
Oxford Brookes University, UK
22-23 September 2006

A major interdisciplinary conference examining the scope and impact of
America Modernism in literature, cinema and the visual arts

Sessions on Ethnicity and Culture, T.S. Eliot. Anglo-American Modernism,
the American Avant-garde, Edith Wharton, and Transnational Modernism

visit the website @
http://www.ah.brookes.ac.uk/conferences/americanmodernism/

Speakers include:
Cassandra Laity, Tim Armstrong, Janet Beer, Laura Marcus, Paul Giles and
Steven Mathews

CFP: Mary Braddon Collection (no deadline noted; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Jessica Cox

**CALL FOR PAPERS**

FOR A PROPOSED ESSAY COLLECTION ON
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

Possible topics for articles might include:

· Braddon and the literary marketplace
· Braddon and the theatre
· Braddon's twentieth century fiction
· Adaptations of Braddon's novels
· Braddon and the sensation school
· Representations of gender in Braddon's work
· Braddon's literary influences
· Braddon's influence on other writers
· Autobiographical elements of Braddon's fiction
· Braddon's writing as social commentary
· Braddon's significance/legacy as a Victorian woman writer

Articles should be between 5000 and 7000 words in length, and should be sent
to:

CFP: Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of Influence? (UK) (5/4/07; 7/12/07-7/15/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Dr Philip Tew

The Sixth Symbiosis Conference CFP=20

=20

Headline Theme: =91Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies =
of
Influence?=92 (N.B. Please note that submissions on other Anglo-American
topics/themes are most welcome).=20

=20

Venue: Brunel University, West London

=20

Dates: 12th =96 15th July 2007 =20

=20

The School of Arts at Brunel University is delighted to collaborate with
Symbiosis in hosting the Sixth Symbiosis Conference, with the headline =
theme
of =93Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of =
Influence?,=94 at
the Uxbridge Campus, Brunel University, July 12=9615, 2007.=20

=20

CFP: Post-Modern Vampire (6/15/06; PCAS, 10/5/06-10/7/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Cassidy, Thomas J.

Papers are being sought for a panel on "The Post-Modern Vampire"
(Blacula, Interview with a Vampire, Blade, Angel, etc.) at the Oct 5-7
Savannah, GA meeting of the Popular Culture Association of the South.
We are particularly interested in how the vampire is or specifically is
not a locus for societal disquiet about issues of race, class, and sex.
Please send an abstract and vita to tcassidy_at_scsu.edu ASAP; no later
than June 15.
=20
Thomas Cassidy
Professor, English and Modern Languages
South Carolina State University
O:803/536-8785
Fax:803/533-3804
The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or

CFP: Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of Influence? (UK) (5/4/07; 7/12/07-7/15/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Dr Philip Tew

The Sixth Symbiosis Conference CFP=20

=20

Headline Theme: =91Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies =
of
Influence?=92 (N.B. Please note that submissions on other Anglo-American
topics/themes are most welcome).=20

=20

Venue: Brunel University, West London

=20

Dates: 12th =96 15th July 2007 =20

=20

The School of Arts at Brunel University is delighted to collaborate with
Symbiosis in hosting the Sixth Symbiosis Conference, with the headline =
theme
of =93Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of =
Influence?,=94 at
the Uxbridge Campus, Brunel University, July 12=9615, 2007.=20

=20

CFP: Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of Influence? (UK) (5/4/07; 7/12/07-7/15/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Dr Philip Tew

The Sixth Symbiosis Conference CFP=20

=20

Headline Theme: =91Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies =
of
Influence?=92 (N.B. Please note that submissions on other Anglo-American
topics/themes are most welcome).=20

=20

Venue: Brunel University, West London

=20

Dates: 12th =96 15th July 2007 =20

=20

The School of Arts at Brunel University is delighted to collaborate with
Symbiosis in hosting the Sixth Symbiosis Conference, with the headline =
theme
of =93Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of =
Influence?,=94 at
the Uxbridge Campus, Brunel University, July 12=9615, 2007.=20

=20

CFP: Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of Influence? (UK) (5/4/07; 7/12/07-7/15/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Dr Philip Tew

The Sixth Symbiosis Conference CFP=20

=20

Headline Theme: =91Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies =
of
Influence?=92 (N.B. Please note that submissions on other Anglo-American
topics/themes are most welcome).=20

=20

Venue: Brunel University, West London

=20

Dates: 12th =96 15th July 2007 =20

=20

The School of Arts at Brunel University is delighted to collaborate with
Symbiosis in hosting the Sixth Symbiosis Conference, with the headline =
theme
of =93Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of =
Influence?,=94 at
the Uxbridge Campus, Brunel University, July 12=9615, 2007.=20

=20

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