" A Cabinet of Curiosities: Objectifying the Human from the
Renaissance to the 21st
Century"
Panel for the 2006 American Comparative Literature Association Annual
Meeting
March 23 - 26, 2006
Princeton University
Deadline for papers: November 30, 2005

We invite papers for the seminar panel, "A Cabinet of Curiosities:
Objectifying the Human from the Renaissance to the 21st Century," as
part of the American Comparative Literature Association's (ACLA) 2006
Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others.

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting: The
Human and its Others
Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006

Seminar: "The Body in the Digital"

Please excuse cross-posting as I wish to get this out as widely as
possible.

UPDATE: Please note the NEW SITE for this conference! We are still in
the greater Los Angeles area, but the conference will be held
in MANHATTAN BEACH at the Manhattan Beach Marriott.

Deadline is approaching for proposals: November 30, 2005

Transformations
Children's Literature Association's 33rd Annual Conference
Manhattan Beach, California
June 8-11 2006

Please excuse cross-posting as I wish to get this out as widely as
possible.

UPDATE: Please note the NEW SITE for this conference! We are still in
the greater Los Angeles area, but the conference will be held
in MANHATTAN BEACH at the Manhattan Beach Marriott.

Deadline is approaching for proposals: November 30, 2005

Transformations
Children's Literature Association's 33rd Annual Conference
Manhattan Beach, California
June 8-11 2006

" A Cabinet of Curiosities: Objectifying the Human from the
Renaissance to the 21st
Century"
Panel for the 2006 American Comparative Literature Association Annual
Meeting
March 23 - 26, 2006
Princeton University
Deadline for papers: November 30, 2005

We invite papers for the seminar panel, "A Cabinet of Curiosities:
Objectifying the Human from the Renaissance to the 21st Century," as
part of the American Comparative Literature Association's (ACLA) 2006
Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others.

CALL FOR PAPERS

War and the West
17th Annual Mari Sandoz Heritage Society Conference
March 30 to April 1, 2006
Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center
Chadron State College
Chadron, Nebraska

Compendium of 20th Century World Novelists and Novels

As the chief editor of The Compendium of 20th Century World Novelists =
and
Novels, I am seeking manuscripts from contributors who are familiar =
with the
work. The manuscripts will focus on novelists and novels from the 20th
century. The novels that will be collected in this extensive volume =
will
have been written in a language other than English but subsequently
translated into English. I am attaching a list of available writing
assignments. Please review the below list and email me with your =
interests.

Best regards,

New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan invites presentation proposals
for the Interdisciplinary Conference:

New York: City in Motion

This day-long conference will take place on Friday, March 10, 2006, in
NYIT's state-of-the-art conference facility near Columbus Circle. The
organizers welcome and encourage technology-enhanced presentations.

We seek presenters who will share their scholarship and perspectives on the
City of New York as examined through the ideas of movement, mobility, and
transformation. Panels and presentations may address motion either
literally or figuratively as suggested by but not limited to the following
categories:

New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan invites presentation proposals
for the Interdisciplinary Conference:

New York: City in Motion

This day-long conference will take place on Friday, March 10, 2006, in
NYIT's state-of-the-art conference facility near Columbus Circle. The
organizers welcome and encourage technology-enhanced presentations.

We seek presenters who will share their scholarship and perspectives on the
City of New York as examined through the ideas of movement, mobility, and
transformation. Panels and presentations may address motion either
literally or figuratively as suggested by but not limited to the following
categories:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Point of the Human: Gestures, Intentionality, and the =20
Possibilities of Literary Criticism

a seminar at the

American Comparative Literature Association 2006 Annual Meeting

"The Human and Its Others" at Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006

Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2005

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Point of the Human: Gestures, Intentionality, and the =20
Possibilities of Literary Criticism

a seminar at the

American Comparative Literature Association 2006 Annual Meeting

"The Human and Its Others" at Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006

Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2005

        CFP: The Faust Legend and the Human (11/30/05; ACLA,
3/23/06-3/26/06)

Dr.Iclal C. Vanwesenbeeck
Assistant Professor, English
240 Fenton Hall
Office phone: 673-3859
Email: Iclal.Vanwesenbeeck_at_fredonia.edu

CFP: Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at the
University of Chicago
April 7, 2006
Keynote speaker: George Levine, Rutgers

* Call for Papers *
The New York College English Association Conference
Marymount College of Fordham University
Tarrytown, NY April 28-29, 2006
Resistance to Tyranny:
Representing the Struggle for Human Rights in Literature
 
In an interview with Amnesty International, Chilean writer and activist Ariel Dorfman
explains that, despite efforts to silence survivors of human rights violations, "Somehow the
stories do come out, those voices do come out. I am not their voice: I make a space for
those voices, a bridge." Dorfman's insights raise questions about the role of literature in
the struggle for human rights. How do writers represent often unspeakable crimes against