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CFP: Resistance to Tyranny: Representing the Struggle for Human Rights in Literature (2/17/06; NYCEA, 4/28/06-4/29/06)

updated: 
Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 5:46pm
Jennifer Griffiths

* 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

UPDATE: Gender and Citizenship (11/28/05; 3/24/06-3/25/06)

updated: 
Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 5:46pm
Petra Lina Orloff

Deadline has already passed, but has been extended to
11/28/05. Decisions will be announced at the beginning of
December.

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

updated: 
Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 5:46pm
Iclal Vanwesenbeeck

        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: Resistance to Tyranny: Representing the Struggle for Human Rights in Literature (2/17/06; NYCEA, 4/28/06-4/29/06)

updated: 
Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 5:46pm
Jennifer Griffiths

* 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

UPDATE: Samuel R. Delany: A Critical Symposium (1/15/06; 3/23/06-3/24/06)

updated: 
Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 5:46pm
krjames_at_buffalo.edu

Below is an updated text for the CFP for the Samuel Delany conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS: SAMUEL R. DELANY - A CRITICAL SYMPOSIUM
SUNY Buffalo
March 23-4, 2006
Deadline: January 15, 2006

"Samuel R. Delany: A Critical Symposium" is a conference intended to provide
an interdisciplinary forum for world-class scholars and innovative writers to
discuss and celebrate Delany's work. As such, it will be the first event of its kind
in the United States.

CFP: Cassola Conference on Teaching Communication (12/1/05; 4/7/06)

updated: 
Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 5:46pm
Wendy Wagner

Johnson & Wales University

8th Annual Cassola Conference on Teaching Communication: Communication
Matters

With Keynote Address by Michael Corrente, (writer/director, Federal
Hill, Outside Providence)

April 7, 2006

=20

The Cassola Conference Committee invites you to submit a proposal for
this year's conference entitled "Communication Matters." As teachers and
researchers, we know communication matters, but what matters in
communication? Or to examine another aspect of the process, why does
communication matter?=20

=20

CFP: Editing the Early Modern: Women as Writers, Editors and Scholars (Netherlands) (11/15/05; SHARP, 7/11/06-7/14/06)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:50pm
chanita_at_bgu.ac.il

CALL FOR PAPERS

SHARP Conference
11-14 July 2006
The Netherlands

Session on:
Editing the Early Modern: Women as Writers, Editors and Scholars

We are proposing a panel exploring the challenges and discoveries involved in central aspects of editing early modern literature: when scholars edit the works of early modern women writers; and when scholars investigate the history of the first generations of women scholars and editors of this period.

CFP: Editing the Early Modern: Women as Writers, Editors and Scholars (Netherlands) (11/15/05; SHARP, 7/11/06-7/14/06)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:50pm
chanita_at_bgu.ac.il

CALL FOR PAPERS

SHARP Conference
11-14 July 2006
The Netherlands

Session on:
Editing the Early Modern: Women as Writers, Editors and Scholars

We are proposing a panel exploring the challenges and discoveries involved in central aspects of editing early modern literature: when scholars edit the works of early modern women writers; and when scholars investigate the history of the first generations of women scholars and editors of this period.

CFP: Editing the Early Modern: Women as Writers, Editors and Scholars (Netherlands) (11/15/05; SHARP, 7/11/06-7/14/06)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:50pm
chanita_at_bgu.ac.il

CALL FOR PAPERS

SHARP Conference
11-14 July 2006
The Netherlands

Session on:
Editing the Early Modern: Women as Writers, Editors and Scholars

We are proposing a panel exploring the challenges and discoveries involved in central aspects of editing early modern literature: when scholars edit the works of early modern women writers; and when scholars investigate the history of the first generations of women scholars and editors of this period.

CFP: Editing the Early Modern: Women as Writers, Editors and Scholars (Netherlands) (11/15/05; SHARP, 7/11/06-7/14/06)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:50pm
chanita_at_bgu.ac.il

CALL FOR PAPERS

SHARP Conference
11-14 July 2006
The Netherlands

Session on:
Editing the Early Modern: Women as Writers, Editors and Scholars

We are proposing a panel exploring the challenges and discoveries involved in central aspects of editing early modern literature: when scholars edit the works of early modern women writers; and when scholars investigate the history of the first generations of women scholars and editors of this period.

UPDATE: Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Cultural Moment (grad) (11/15/05; 3/31/06-4/1/06)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Celeste Pottier

The conference website for the University of South Carolina's Nineteenth-Century Graduate Literature Conference, "Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Cultural Moment," is now online at http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/19thcenturyconference/index.html.

A scholarly press has expressed interest in publishing a volume of essays from the conference. We anticipate choosing 14 to 16 essays for inclusion in this collection.

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UPDATE: Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Cultural Moment (grad) (11/15/05; 3/31/06-4/1/06)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Celeste Pottier

The conference website for the University of South Carolina's Nineteenth-Century Graduate Literature Conference, "Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Cultural Moment," is now online at http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/19thcenturyconference/index.html.

A scholarly press has expressed interest in publishing a volume of essays from the conference. We anticipate choosing 14 to 16 essays for inclusion in this collection.

*****************************************************************************************************

UPDATE: Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Cultural Moment (grad) (11/15/05; 3/31/06-4/1/06)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Celeste Pottier

The conference website for the University of South Carolina's Nineteenth-Century Graduate Literature Conference, "Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Cultural Moment," is now online at http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/19thcenturyconference/index.html.

A scholarly press has expressed interest in publishing a volume of essays from the conference. We anticipate choosing 14 to 16 essays for inclusion in this collection.

*****************************************************************************************************

UPDATE: Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Cultural Moment (grad) (11/15/05; 3/31/06-4/1/06)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Celeste Pottier

The conference website for the University of South Carolina's Nineteenth-Century Graduate Literature Conference, "Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Cultural Moment," is now online at http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/19thcenturyconference/index.html.

A scholarly press has expressed interest in publishing a volume of essays from the conference. We anticipate choosing 14 to 16 essays for inclusion in this collection.

*****************************************************************************************************

CFP: The Twentieth Anniversary Conference: Immigrant and Artistic License (12/15/05; AICW, 5/24/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Venera Fazio

Would it be possible for you to circulate the following call for =
literary papers?=20
Your help is appreciated,=20
Venera Fazio=20
vice-president AICW

The Twentieth Anniversary Conference
will be held in Vancouver May 24th-28, 2006.

Call for submissions: Submission Deadline: December 15, 2005
Submissions can be sent to: Vancouver2006_at_aicw.ca

CFP: The Twentieth Anniversary Conference: Immigrant and Artistic License (12/15/05; AICW, 5/24/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Venera Fazio

Would it be possible for you to circulate the following call for =
literary papers?=20
Your help is appreciated,=20
Venera Fazio=20
vice-president AICW

The Twentieth Anniversary Conference
will be held in Vancouver May 24th-28, 2006.

Call for submissions: Submission Deadline: December 15, 2005
Submissions can be sent to: Vancouver2006_at_aicw.ca

CFP: Shakespeare Bulletin (no deadline; journal)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Shakespeare Bulletin

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Shakespeare Bulletin, a peer-reviewed journal for the study of
Shakespeare in performance, is pleased to announce that as of Spring
2006 it will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The
editors invite submissions on a wide variety of performance-related
topics. Theatre and book reviews are assigned; articles may be submitted
electronically to the general editor. Inquiries may be made to any one
of the editors: Andrew Hartley (General Editor) sbeditor_at_email.uncc.edu;
Jeremy Lopez (Theatre Review Editor) jeremy.lopez_at_utoronto.ca; Kirk
Melnikoff (Film Editor) kbmelnik_at_email.uncc.edu; Genevieve Love (Book
Review Editor) glove_at_coloradocollege.edu.

CFP: Shakespeare Bulletin (no deadline; journal)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Shakespeare Bulletin

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Shakespeare Bulletin, a peer-reviewed journal for the study of
Shakespeare in performance, is pleased to announce that as of Spring
2006 it will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The
editors invite submissions on a wide variety of performance-related
topics. Theatre and book reviews are assigned; articles may be submitted
electronically to the general editor. Inquiries may be made to any one
of the editors: Andrew Hartley (General Editor) sbeditor_at_email.uncc.edu;
Jeremy Lopez (Theatre Review Editor) jeremy.lopez_at_utoronto.ca; Kirk
Melnikoff (Film Editor) kbmelnik_at_email.uncc.edu; Genevieve Love (Book
Review Editor) glove_at_coloradocollege.edu.

CFP: Shakespeare Bulletin (no deadline; journal)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Shakespeare Bulletin

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Shakespeare Bulletin, a peer-reviewed journal for the study of
Shakespeare in performance, is pleased to announce that as of Spring
2006 it will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The
editors invite submissions on a wide variety of performance-related
topics. Theatre and book reviews are assigned; articles may be submitted
electronically to the general editor. Inquiries may be made to any one
of the editors: Andrew Hartley (General Editor) sbeditor_at_email.uncc.edu;
Jeremy Lopez (Theatre Review Editor) jeremy.lopez_at_utoronto.ca; Kirk
Melnikoff (Film Editor) kbmelnik_at_email.uncc.edu; Genevieve Love (Book
Review Editor) glove_at_coloradocollege.edu.

CFP: Will Any Humanism Be Possible? (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/2006)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Garcia, Antonio

I am organizing a seminar based on the proposal below for the American
Comparative Literature Association's Conference 2006 at Princeton
University. Submit paper proposals to

garciaant @uhd.edu and through the acla web site www.princeton.edu/~acla06
<http://www.princeton.edu/~acla06> by the November 30 deadline.

 

Will Any Humanism Be Possible?
Seminar Organizer(s): Antonio A. Garcia, University of Houston-Downtown

CFP: Will Any Humanism Be Possible? (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/2006)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Garcia, Antonio

I am organizing a seminar based on the proposal below for the American
Comparative Literature Association's Conference 2006 at Princeton
University. Submit paper proposals to

garciaant @uhd.edu and through the acla web site www.princeton.edu/~acla06
<http://www.princeton.edu/~acla06> by the November 30 deadline.

 

Will Any Humanism Be Possible?
Seminar Organizer(s): Antonio A. Garcia, University of Houston-Downtown

CFP: Will Any Humanism Be Possible? (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/2006)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Garcia, Antonio

I am organizing a seminar based on the proposal below for the American
Comparative Literature Association's Conference 2006 at Princeton
University. Submit paper proposals to

garciaant @uhd.edu and through the acla web site www.princeton.edu/~acla06
<http://www.princeton.edu/~acla06> by the November 30 deadline.

 

Will Any Humanism Be Possible?
Seminar Organizer(s): Antonio A. Garcia, University of Houston-Downtown

CFP: 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference on Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic Literature, Linguistics and Culture (grad) (12/9/05;

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
anreynol_at_indiana.edu

3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference
on Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic Literature, Linguistics and Culture
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

* * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * *

The Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC), Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana is hosting a conference
February 19-20, 2006. All papers related to Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic
literature, linguistics and culture are welcome. Our suggested topic for this
year is "Peripheries", although any other topic will also be considered to be
part of the conference. Research on theoretical and applied linguistics,
literature, and culture pertaining to the suggested topics is encouraged.

CFP: 19th-Century American Children's Lit (12/18/05; collection)

updated: 
Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 6:49pm
Monika Elbert

Submissions are invited for a proposed collection of essays on
nineteenth-century American children's literature and cultural
contexts. How is the social milieu embedded in children's fiction or
non-fiction? The following topics are suggestions, but the list is not
meant to be exhaustive.

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