2006 Conference: The Documentary Tradition,
  8 - 12 November, 2006
  Dolce Conference Center, Dallas, TX.
   
   
  The 2006 Film & History conference on THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION is currently accepting paper abstracts and panel proposals on SOVIET PIONEER FILMMAKERS Dziga Vertov and Esther Shub.
   

Call for Poetry Papers: Submit Critical Work to Deep South!

Deep South is emerging from hibernation.Our 2006 call for critical
submissions closes on August 1st, 2006. We will publish critical essays in
the Humanities and Arts, extracts from work in progress and reviews,
pertaining to a poetry theme. Submissions from anyone are welcome. Quality
of work will be given priority over graduate or under-graduate status.
With a Spring deadline in mind, we intend to publish Deep South by
September 2006. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by
members of the Deep South editorial team. All submitters will receive
e-mail notification of acceptance or rejection by the end of August.

Call for Poetry Papers: Submit Critical Work to Deep South!

Deep South is emerging from hibernation.Our 2006 call for critical
submissions closes on August 1st, 2006. We will publish critical essays in
the Humanities and Arts, extracts from work in progress and reviews,
pertaining to a poetry theme. Submissions from anyone are welcome. Quality
of work will be given priority over graduate or under-graduate status.
With a Spring deadline in mind, we intend to publish Deep South by
September 2006. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by
members of the Deep South editorial team. All submitters will receive
e-mail notification of acceptance or rejection by the end of August.

Special Issue: Romantic Pedagogy Commons
Sublime Teaching: Teaching as/through sublime (dis)identification
Guest Editor: J. Jennifer Jones

Proposals are invited for a new volume of the Romantic Pedagogy
Commons on the sublime as pedagogical theory:

CFP: A Postcolonial Eighteenth Century? (9/30/06; ASECS, 3/22/07 - 3/25/07)

Writing the Queer Self: Sex, Gender, and the Creation of Space in Queer
Life Writing
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This panel seeks to examine the roles that the inclusion of queer sex and
gender non-conformity in LGBT autobiographies, diaries, and memoirs play in
creating a unique rhetorical space for queer bodies. Additionally, this
panel will look at the ways that specifically queer life writing alters the
landscapes of literary biographies of LGBT authors, and the interpretations
of their works. Possible topics might include a reading of place that quee=
r
sex holds in Joe Orton=B9s diaries, his creation of a hyper-masculine and
hyper-sexual persona, and how that influences John Lahr=B9s biography, and

UPDATE: The deadline for abstracts, which was omitted from the original =
call, is Sept. 15, 2006.

Call for Papers
38th Convention Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

Call for Papers: Third Annual English Graduate Organization Conference:
"Representations of Indigenous Identity: Constructions of Authenticity"

November 10-11, 2006, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
Keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Loudon, Eastern Illinois University.

Call for Papers: Third Annual English Graduate Organization Conference:
"Representations of Indigenous Identity: Constructions of Authenticity"

November 10-11, 2006, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
Keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Loudon, Eastern Illinois University.

UPDATE: The deadline for abstracts, which was omitted from the original =
call, is Sept. 15, 2006.

Call for Papers
38th Convention Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

CFP: Robinson Jeffers and the Visual Arts--Special Issue of Jeffers Studies
(9/1/06)

CFP: Robinson Jeffers and the Visual Arts--Special Issue of Jeffers Studies
(9/1/06)

        
eSharp: electronic social sciences, humanities
and arts review for postgraduates

CALL FOR PAPERS

eSharp is the online journal for social sciences, arts and humanities postgraduates based at the University of Glasgow. It is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to provide a critical but supportive entry into the world of academic publishing.

The first seven issues are currently online at www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk and we are now looking for submissions for the eighth edition to be launched in November 2006. We welcome papers from postgraduates working in all areas.

The theme of the eighth edition is:

Un/Worldly Bodies

February 22-24, 2007. Questioning Colonialism. The Sixteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium at the University of Miami invites abstracts for papers on topics dealing with colonization and its aftermath in the Americas, Africa, the Mideast, and the Far East. Topics may include indigenous cultures and their reaction to colonization; navigation; cartography; visual and literary representations of the colonized and the colonizing; the transformation of European world views; and the effects of empire in North and South America. We welcome a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches.