Women and the everyday realities of war

Call for contributions

Essay collection

Whether living through the British Civil War in the seventeenth century or the American Civil War in the nineteenth century or today's conflicts in the Middle East, women writers have historically chronicled their responses to war in ways that merge politics and domesticity. Despite vast differences in time and place, works like Jane Cavendish's manuscript writing (ca. 1640) shares with Hanan al-Shaykh's more recent evocations of war-torn Beirut a sense that women's acts of everyday resistance--making bread even when food supplies have been raided, for example--impact the way war works, on metaphoric, physical, political, and ideological levels.

  CFP: HORROR (LITERATURE/FICTION/FILM/CULTURE)
   
  2007 NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE
  POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
   
  The "Horror" Area Chair of the Popular Culture Association
  invites interested scholars to submit papers on any aspect
  of horror in literature, cinema, television, or general culture
  for the 2007 PCA National Convention to be held at the
  Boston Marriott at Copley Place in Boston, MA.
  The conference runs from April 4-7.
   
  If you are interested in being a presenter, please send a
  100-250 word abstract, including title, through email or regular mail.
  You may send as a Word attachment or in the body of the email.

  CFP: HORROR (LITERATURE/FICTION/FILM/CULTURE)
   
  2007 NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE
  POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
   
  The "Horror" Area Chair of the Popular Culture Association
  invites interested scholars to submit papers on any aspect
  of horror in literature, cinema, television, or general culture
  for the 2007 PCA National Convention to be held at the
  Boston Marriott at Copley Place in Boston, MA.
  The conference runs from April 4-7.
   
  If you are interested in being a presenter, please send a
  100-250 word abstract, including title, through email or regular mail.
  You may send as a Word attachment or in the body of the email.

ADAPTATION ADAPTING CULTURE IN LITERATURE, FILM, AND NEW MEDIA
   
  Deadline for Abstracts: Nov 1, 2006
   
  For the 2007 Popular Culture Association (PCA)/
  American Culture Association (ACA) Conference
  in Boston, Massachusetts, from April 4th to April 7th.
   
  Adaptation studies, long the step-child to both literary studies
  and film studies, has begun to mature into its own discipline
  spanning the gaps between film, literature, and translation
  studies. Since at least the time of George Bluestone a handful
  of scholars has worked to understand adaptation not simply
  as a way of thinking about literary works that have been

  CFP: Digital Games
   
  PCA/ACA National Conference
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  Abstract Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006
   
  The Digital Games area of the Popular Culture Association
  invites papers/panels on digital games (video games, computer
  games, arcade games, etc.) and digital game studies for the Popular
  Culture Association/American Culture Association National
  Conference to be held April 4-7, 2007, at the Boston Marriott
  Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. All topics related to
  digital games and digital game studies will be considered.
   

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
38th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, 22-25 March, 2007

The Ecocritical Eighteenth Century

Submission deadline extended. We will also be accepting 500-word abstracts in lieu of full articles.

Call for Papers
Writing Against the Curriculum:
Anti-Disciplinarity in the Writing and Cultural Studies Classroom

_Florilegium_, the journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists/Société
canadienne des médiévistes, invites submissions for its next volume. Papers on any
aspect of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (including the post-medieval
representation of the medieval period) are welcome. Submissions intended for the
next volume should arrive by the end of August 2006.

For information about the journal, please visit
<http://www.csm.wlu.ca/Florilegium/florilegium.htm>.

The First International Making Books, Shaping Readers Conference
University College, Cork, April 18th - 20th 2007
http://www.ucc.ie/en/mbsr

Theme: "Making an Audience"

This conference encourages a broad interpretation of the notion of an
audience in keeping with the etymology of the word. (The term audience,
which derives from the Latin audenita, "a hearing, listening", from awis,
"to perceive physically, to grasp", and from the nineteenth century
transformation of the sense of the word to "readers of a book", reflects the
way in which technologies of the word have changed throughout history, from
oral, to manuscript, to print).

The First International Making Books, Shaping Readers Conference
University College, Cork, April 18th - 20th 2007
http://www.ucc.ie/en/mbsr

Theme: "Making an Audience"

This conference encourages a broad interpretation of the notion of an
audience in keeping with the etymology of the word. (The term audience,
which derives from the Latin audenita, "a hearing, listening", from awis,
"to perceive physically, to grasp", and from the nineteenth century
transformation of the sense of the word to "readers of a book", reflects the
way in which technologies of the word have changed throughout history, from
oral, to manuscript, to print).

  Call for Papers: Robert A. Heinlein Studies
   
  Robert A. Heinlein Studies
An Area of the Popular Culture Association
National PCA/ACA Conference
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  April 7-10, 2007
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  2007 marks the 100th anniversary of Robert A. Heinlein's birth. Centennial events and celebrations will take place throughout the year. Select papers presented at the 2007 PCA/ACA conference will be published in special Centennial issues of the Heinlein Journal.
   

CFP

NEMLA ANNUAL CONVENTION

Baltimore, Maryland

March 1-4 2007

Topic: Writing the Wilderness The panel invites papers that examine how Early American authors like Franklin, Crevecoeur, Jefferson, Brockden Brown wrote the wilderness as part of nation building. Send abstracts to Timothy Strode, Nassau Community College: strodet_at_ncc.edu

Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2006(unless otherwise noted)

Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation / Email address / Postal address / Telephone number / A/V requirements (if any)

Panel Title: The End of Tolerance?

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland

As the new century began, 'tolerance' was supposed to pour healing oil on
American waters and enable some ground for a universal moral commitment. In
Europe, it was believed that the emergence of the European Union and the
"European Dream" would enable a culture of tolerance and a kindly
integration of The Other.

Panel Title: The End of Tolerance?

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland

As the new century began, 'tolerance' was supposed to pour healing oil on
American waters and enable some ground for a universal moral commitment. In
Europe, it was believed that the emergence of the European Union and the
"European Dream" would enable a culture of tolerance and a kindly
integration of The Other.