8TH CAMBRIDGE HERITAGE SEMINAR
Re-visioning the Nation: Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Disaster
at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Saturday 12 May 2007

For nearly ten years the Cambridge Heritage Seminars have brought
together researchers, policy makers and practitioners to explore some of
the more pressing issues concerning cultural heritage today.

8TH CAMBRIDGE HERITAGE SEMINAR
Re-visioning the Nation: Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Disaster
at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Saturday 12 May 2007

For nearly ten years the Cambridge Heritage Seminars have brought
together researchers, policy makers and practitioners to explore some of
the more pressing issues concerning cultural heritage today.

CALL FOR PAPERS

George Herbert’s Pastoral: Poetry and Priesthood, Past and Future
An International, Interdisciplinary Conference
Sarum College, Salisbury, England
5-6 October, 2007

Panel Topic: George Herbert and Social Class

Plenary Speakers:
Helen Wilcox of the University of Wales, Bangor, Cristina Malcolmson of
Bates College, and David Jasper of the University of Glasgow.

Two University Presses have expressed interest in publication of conference
proceedings.

Deadline extended to February 15th--The Experience of War in the Space Between, June 8-9, 2007, Annapolis, MD.

The Experience of War in the Space Between, 1914-45

Submissions are invited for the 9th annual conference of The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, in Annapolis, Maryland, 7-10 June 2007

Keynote Speaker: Michael Saler, Prof of History, University of California, Davis, author of The Avant-Garde in Interwar England (OUP, 1999)

Call for Papers

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REROUTING THE POSTCOLONIAL

The University of Northampton, UK, 3-4 July 2007 (07/03/07 - 07/04/07)

=20

To mark the re-launch of the journal World Literature Written in English
as the Journal of Postcolonial Studies, The Centre for Contemporary
Fiction and Narrative, University of Northampton, and the Journal of
Postcolonial Writing, in association with Taylor and Francis publishers
and the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, hosts:

Keynote Speakers -=20

=20

Simon Gikandi =20

Patrick Williams=20

Elleke Boehmer=20

Alastair Niven

Call for Papers

=20

REROUTING THE POSTCOLONIAL

The University of Northampton, UK, 3-4 July 2007 (07/03/07 - 07/04/07)

=20

To mark the re-launch of the journal World Literature Written in English
as the Journal of Postcolonial Studies, The Centre for Contemporary
Fiction and Narrative, University of Northampton, and the Journal of
Postcolonial Writing, in association with Taylor and Francis publishers
and the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, hosts:

Keynote Speakers -=20

=20

Simon Gikandi =20

Patrick Williams=20

Elleke Boehmer=20

Alastair Niven

Call for Papers: Paradoxa: World Literary Genres
A Volume on Ursula K. Le Guin

"She is the kind of writer businessmen hate most, producing challenging,
unpredictable books whose meanings are too elusive to be easily controlled."
- Meredith Tax, The Nation:, January 28, 2002

CFP: Finance and Gender in 17th- & 18th-Century England (2/14/07,
11/09/07-11/11/07)

North American Conference for British Studies (NACBS)
2007 Annual Meeting
Held in conjunction with the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
(PCCBS)
San Francisco, CA
Friday, November 9th – Sunday, November 11th

CFP: Finance and Gender in 17th- & 18th-Century England (2/14/07,
11/09/07-11/11/07)

North American Conference for British Studies (NACBS)
2007 Annual Meeting
Held in conjunction with the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
(PCCBS)
San Francisco, CA
Friday, November 9th – Sunday, November 11th

CFP: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (2/28/07; collection)
From: John J. Han <hanjn_at_mobap.edu>

Previously unpublished critical essays are being sought for a new volume in Rodopi Press's Dialogue series on Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood. The "Dialogue" series offers emerging and experienced scholars the opportunity to present alternative (point/counterpoint) readings and approaches to classic texts that have received canonical acceptance in either American or Continental literature.

Deadline extension from Jan 30 to Feb 28 for American Regional Hip Hop.

My call, in its entirety, should now read:

>From Dr. Mickey S. Hess <regionalhiphop_at_gmail.com>
Date Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:27:14 -0500 (EST)
>From The Greenwood Guide to American Regional Hip Hop
(Proposals due February 28, 2007. Essays due June 15, 2007)

Call for papers: Lexicography discussion group session, MLA 2007, Chicago

150 Years of the OED

Call for papers: Lexicography discussion group session, MLA 2007, Chicago

150 Years of the OED

CFP: Renaissance Futures (edited collection)
        Abstracts due: 31 March 2007
        Articles (6,000 words) due: 31 March 2008
For more information, see:
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~enstaab2/futures.html
We are seeking essays for an edited collection on 'Renaissance Futures'.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, early modern conceptions or
narratives of the following:
        Progress, mutability, predestination, providence, fate, fortune,
destiny, personal development; pilgrim's progresses, dreams, visions,
intuitions, fortune-telling and soothsaying; personal futures: providing