To: Shakespeareans

re: 7th Triennial Congress of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa:24-27 June
2007:Rhodes University, Grahamstown:

               THE INTERNATIONAL SPREAD OF SHAKESPEARE

                  http:www.ru.ac.za/shakespeare OR
      http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/isea/shake/conference.html

UCLA's film, television, and digital media e-journal, Mediascape, is
now accepting submissions for the Features, Reviews, Columns and Meta
sections of its next issue. This journal, a place for articles
pertaining to visual culture, is peer-reviewed and published on an
annual table. The deadline for the next issue is the 1st of January,
2007.

The journal /qui parle/ is seeking submissions for a special dossier,
"Urban Intercessions: The City as Limit Politics." The dossier will
focus on how we could imagine the effects and conditions of violence or
political force — whether it be legal, racial, geographic, or gendered,
and whether the force be oppressive or emancipatory — within the
specific locality of a metropolitan context, one which is somehow
inflected by local or particular concerns and yet reflects a global,
international, or, at the very least, extra-metropolitan politics. What
role does the city — "modern" or "not" — have in current inter/national
political formations? How does it function as a site of violence or

The Asian American Literary Labyrinth: Theorizing Disciplinary Boundaries
(American Literature Association/Circle of Asian American Literary Studies)

Fatih University
2nd Annual Transdisciplinary Literary and Cultural Studies Conference
Metamorphosis and Place:

May 24-26, 2007
Istanbul

This conference seeks to address the myriad definitions of ethics and how it
is represented in literature and other texts. The moment of ethical
decision often occurs at the point of impasse, of dilemma, of crisis that
springs from the space between two opposing ideas, when an easy or
prescriptive decision is not possible. Rather, each impasse requires an
ethical, scriptive fluidity whose focus is social as well as personal;
ambivalence, therefore, emerges as an ethical response to such a crisis. To
be sure, though, this space is difficult to occupy, much less sustain. In
Gayatri Spivak's words, "ethics is the experience of the impossible." What

CFP: Gendered 'I's in Literature and Film (3/1/07; RMMLA in Calgary,
Canada; 10/4/07-10/6/07)

CFP: Gendered 'I's in Literature and Film (3/1/07; RMMLA in Calgary,
Canada; 10/4/07-10/6/07)

Dear Colleague:

I write to inform you of a forthcoming (Summer 2007) seminar on "Masters of
English Prose: Samuel Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill" funded by
the National Endowment for the Humanities, hosted by Boston University, and
co-sponsored by Boston University and the Association of Literary Scholars
and Critics (ALSC).

This seminar, which is directed by distinguished ALSC member John Briggs,
also includes ALSC members Bruce Redford and Paul Alkon as co-directors. For
information about the ALSC, please visit our website at www.bu.edu/literary.

***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY***

 Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area

***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY***

 Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area

“The Child and the Fantastic: Readings in
children’s fantasy literature”
Children's Literature Association - India (CLAI) first
international conference will be held from March 26,
2007 to March 28, 2007 at Trichur Towers Hotel,
Thrissur, Kerala, Southern India.

National Women's Studies Association Journal
Call for Proposals to Edit a Special Issue of NWSA Journal
Deadline: March 1, 2007

The National Women's Studies Association Journal invites proposals from
scholars/activists who would like to edit a special issue or cluster issue for
the NWSAJ. Through these special issues, we will continue NWSAJ's tradition of
publishing multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary articles on topics that
are critical to the understanding of women's lives.

While special issues about any topic related to Women's Studies may be
submitted, we are especially looking for scholars and topics that focus on the
following areas:

Sojourn, an interdisciplinary journal that fuses the literary and
fine arts, is accepting translations of poetry and prose for its 20th
anniversary issue. Please see our website,
<http://www.sojournjournal.org/>www.sojournjournal.org, for
submission guidelines. Submissions are due December 31, 2006.

We will also consider work in other genres. Sojourn is published
through the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas
at Dallas.

Questions about Sojourn? Send inquiries to: sojourn_at_utdallas.edu.