Call for Papers and Panels at SFRA 2007 – The Science Fiction Research
Association's Annual Meeting

Westin Crown Center Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri July 5 – 7, 2007.

Papers on any SF-related topic are welcome. Papers on our guest authors – Fred
Pohl, James Gunn, or Allen Steele – are particularly encouraged, as are papers
on Robert A. Heinlein and the conference theme, Celebrating the Golden Age of
Science Fiction.

Deadline for Proposal Submission: April 1, 2007.

Conference Participants do not have to be members of SFRA.

Send a copy of your proposal to each Program Co-Chair (two letters/emails):

The African-American Literature and Culture Society invites proposals
related to the following topic, for a session at the American Literature
Association meetings in Boston [May 24-27, 2007].

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Revisiting the South in African-American Literature

The African-American Literature and Culture Society invites proposals
related to the following topic, for a session at the American Literature
Association meetings in Boston [May 24-27, 2007].

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Revisiting the South in African-American Literature

Call for Papers

Transitional Nabokov
A two day international conference to be held at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, UK on 6th-7th July 2007.

Plenary Speakers:
        Michael Wood (Princeton)
        Alexander Dolinin (University of Madison-Wisconsin)

"Across the dark sky of exile, Sirin passed . . . like a meteor, and disappeared, leaving nothing much else behind him than a vague sense of uneasiness." (Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory).

     Maryland Graduate Forum: History as Text, Text as History

Conference: February 23rd & February 24th
Keynote Speaker: Dr Tom Bishop (NYU), Gould Professor of French Literature and director of the Center for French Civilization and Culture.
email contact: mgsforum_at_gmail.com
website: http://www.languages.umd.edu/grad/conf2007/

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15TH 2006

Call for Papers

The Novel: Democracy's Form?

'Countless are the novels of the world. So how can we speak of them?'
(Franco Moretti, 2006)

Call for Papers: Culture and Identity Issue

UPDATE: The deadline of submissions is now on December 30, 2006.

UPDATE: Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Caucus (03/01/07; RMMLA, 10/04/07-10/06/07 Calgary)
     
   Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Caucus Seminar
   Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)
   October 4-6, 2007 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
     
Papers are welcomed on any aspect of the GLBTQ experience as expressed through literature, film and/or theory. All proposals will be considered. Papers addressing a bisexual and/or transgendered theme are especially encouraged.
     
Please submit abstracts of 300-350 words and be sure to include a title. On your abstract,

UPDATE: Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Caucus (03/01/07; RMMLA, 10/04/07-10/06/07 Calgary)
     
   Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Caucus Seminar
   Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)
   October 4-6, 2007 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
     
Papers are welcomed on any aspect of the GLBTQ experience as expressed through literature, film and/or theory. All proposals will be considered. Papers addressing a bisexual and/or transgendered theme are especially encouraged.
     
Please submit abstracts of 300-350 words and be sure to include a title. On your abstract,

CFP: "Giving and Taking Offence" (Portugal) (15/4/ 2007; 21- 22/6/2007)

Call for Papers

Proposed dates: 21st - 22nd June 2007

"Giving and Taking Offence"

Venue: Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, =
Portugal

""No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to =
elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence." ~ =
Thomas Carlyle, "Sir Walter Scott", in London and Westminster Review, 12 =
November 1838

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CFP: "Giving and Taking Offence" (Portugal) (15/4/ 2007; 21- 22/6/2007)

Call for Papers

Proposed dates: 21st - 22nd June 2007

"Giving and Taking Offence"

Venue: Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, =
Portugal

""No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to =
elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence." ~ =
Thomas Carlyle, "Sir Walter Scott", in London and Westminster Review, 12 =
November 1838

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CALL FOR PAPERS

for our collection of essays on

ORIENT AND ORIENTALISMS IN AMERICAN POETRY AND POETICS

We are looking for additional contributors to our book project "Orient and
Orientalisms in American Poetry and Poetics", to be published in the series
"Transcription: Cultures - Concepts - Controversies," general editor Sabine
Sielke (Frankfurt: Lang, 2007).

Panel proposal for the upcoming conference of the Association for the Study of
Literature and Environment at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina,
June 12-16, 2007:

African Americans and the Environment

As ecocriticism continues to expand its borders from the study of traditional
nature writing, so too must the perception of the American “nature experience”
extend beyond what has largely been a white pastime. This panel will consider
literary representations of African Americans and nature by black and white
writers, pre- and post-Civil War, which engage issues of ecological ethics,
environmental justice and activism, agriculture, gardening, and beyond.

Panel proposal for the upcoming conference of the Association for the Study of
Literature and Environment at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina,
June 12-16, 2007:

African Americans and the Environment

As ecocriticism continues to expand its borders from the study of traditional
nature writing, so too must the perception of the American “nature experience”
extend beyond what has largely been a white pastime. This panel will consider
literary representations of African Americans and nature by black and white
writers, pre- and post-Civil War, which engage issues of ecological ethics,
environmental justice and activism, agriculture, gardening, and beyond.