The deadline for paper proposals for the following conference has been
extended to 31 January 2007.

*Collectors and Collecting: Private Collections and their Role in
Libraries*

Proposals are invited for papers for a conference to be held at Chawton
House Library on 19 and 20 July 2007. The event is jointly organised by
Chawton House Library, the University of Southampton English Department,
and Goucher College, Baltimore.

CFP: Images and Argument in the Writings of American Suffragists
(grad) (03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Kenneth Florey <floreyk1_at_southernct.edu>

UPDATE: The deadline to submit abstracts for Literary Hustler of Hood: =
Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines has been e=
xtended to FEBUARARY 25, 2007. We are currently interested in critical =
essays on the Kenyatta Series, the film adaptation of Goines=92 fiction,=
 and essays on works other than White Man=92s Justice, Black Man=92s Gri=
ef. Please e-mail abstracts (250-500 words) to Dr. Stallings (stalling@=
english.ufl.edu) and Dr. Greg Thomas (gthomas_at_syr.edu). Submit abstracts=
 in MS Word. Completed essays will be due by December 1, 2007.
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UPDATE: The deadline to submit abstracts for Literary Hustler of Hood: =
Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines has been e=
xtended to FEBUARARY 25, 2007. We are currently interested in critical =
essays on the Kenyatta Series, the film adaptation of Goines=92 fiction,=
 and essays on works other than White Man=92s Justice, Black Man=92s Gri=
ef. Please e-mail abstracts (250-500 words) to Dr. Stallings (stalling@=
english.ufl.edu) and Dr. Greg Thomas (gthomas_at_syr.edu). Submit abstracts=
 in MS Word. Completed essays will be due by December 1, 2007.
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CFP: Academic Autobiography and/in the Discourses of History

CFP: Theories of Theory: A Critical Assessment of the value of
Literary Theory (grad) (03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Edith A. Kostka <kostkae1_at_southernct.edu>

CFP: Academic Autobiography and/in the Discourses of History

O Memory, who holds the thread that links
My modern mind to those of ancient days.
                   (A. S. Byatt. Possession)

The ongoing Greek myth panel of the 61st annual Rocky Mountain MLA
meeting in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007, at the Westin
Calgary Hotel, invites submissions on the relationship between memory
and myth within ancient culture and on the impact of Greek myth on
newer art works, especially literature in English. Suggested
approaches include but are not limited to close readings of the role
of memory in representations of specific myths, social contexts and
needs for myth as an aid to memory, and formal reception of myth.

CFP: Theories of Theory: A Critical Assessment of the value of
Literary Theory (grad) (03/15/07; 04/21/07)

From: Edith A. Kostka <kostkae1_at_southernct.edu>

O Memory, who holds the thread that links
My modern mind to those of ancient days.
                   (A. S. Byatt. Possession)

The ongoing Greek myth panel of the 61st annual Rocky Mountain MLA
meeting in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007, at the Westin
Calgary Hotel, invites submissions on the relationship between memory
and myth within ancient culture and on the impact of Greek myth on
newer art works, especially literature in English. Suggested
approaches include but are not limited to close readings of the role
of memory in representations of specific myths, social contexts and
needs for myth as an aid to memory, and formal reception of myth.

Call for papers

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference--2007
November 2-3, 2007
Western Washington University
Bellingham, Washington

Special Session:

Nineteenth-Century Nature Writing

Paper proposals sought for a panel on 19th-century nature writing.
Proposals are encouraged that address this topic within a literary,
philosophical, theological, ecological, or scientific framework. All
submissions acknowledged by email.

Submit to this special session by emailing ecampbell_at_oregonstate.edu.
Proposals should be two-pages (500 words) and should be submitted
electronically in the body of an email or as an attachment in .doc or
.pdf format by March 1.

Gender and Space in the Theater

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions:
Malappropriation Nation, the University of California, Riverside's
fourteenth annual graduate humanities conference on April 6-7, 2007.

Gender and Space in the Theater

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions:
Malappropriation Nation, the University of California, Riverside's
fourteenth annual graduate humanities conference on April 6-7, 2007.

CFP: American West and Geopolitical Imaginary (March 15; MLA 07)

American West and Geopolitical Imaginary =20
For this proposed MLA Special Session I seek abstracts of about 500 =
words. Papers should consider representations of the American West as =
space of national imaginary dramatizing contemporary issues including =
immigration and security; American empire; U.S. military action; =
terrorism and trauma. Due on or by March 15; Alex Hunt =
(ahunt_at_mail.wtamu.edu).=20

Alex Hunt
Assistant Professor of American Literature
Department of English and Modern Languages
West Texas A&M University
Box 60908
Canyon, TX 79016
806-651-2457
ahunt_at_mail.wtamu.edu