Live Comedy and Its Audiences

Seeking contributions for an anthology that explores live comedy audiences.=
 The book will include contributions by both scholars and comedians, and wi=
ll focus on the dynamics of audience behaviour. The anthology will cover th=
emes including: cultural and historical differences in comedy audience prac=
tice; the architecture of the audience; the reception of 'low' versus 'high=
' and live versus televised comedy; the subjectivity of audience members an=
d the spread of affect; the two-way relationship between joker and listener=
; and the comedy club as a distinct spatial and emotional environment. Addi=
tional topics also welcome.=20

The 17th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf will take place Thursday, June
7 through Sunday June 10, 2007, at the Marcum Conference Center of Miami
University of Ohio, in Oxford, Ohio.

We welcome proposals for academic presentations, roundtable discussions, and
creative performances on the conference topic of Art, Education, and
Internationalism.

Proposals addressing diverse perspectives on the following topics are
especially encouraged:

Peace, War, and Pedagogy

Public Discourse and the Artist

International Perspectives on Woolf Studies

Virginia and/or Leonard Woolf as Political Philosophers

Woolf and Postcolonial Studies

Animals and Agency

(MLA panel arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature
and the Environment)

Proposals are invited for presentations that explore literary
representations of animality, especially those that deal with the
agency and subjectivity of animals.

How do representations of animals undermine or complicate the
boundary that supposedly differentiates animals from humans?

How are animals constructed, and how do they undo those constructions?

Submit 300-word abstracts by March 1, 2007 to Sarah McFarland at
mcfarlands_at_nsula.edu.

Questions are welcome!

American Literature Association
18th Annual Conference, May 24-27, 2007
Boston, MA

International Raymond Carver Society
Call for Papers

CFP: Imagination: Public or Private? (2/12/07; 5/17/07 - 5/18/07)

University of Washington Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies/
in conjunction with an interdisciplinary faculty conference "Inventions of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Imaginary since Romanticism"

May 17-18, 2007
Keynote Speaker: David Clark (English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University)

CFP: Imagination: Public or Private? (2/12/07; 5/17/07 - 5/18/07)

University of Washington Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies/
in conjunction with an interdisciplinary faculty conference "Inventions of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Imaginary since Romanticism"

May 17-18, 2007
Keynote Speaker: David Clark (English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University)

UPDATE: C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Native American Literature Symposium, March 8 â€" March 10, 2007
Deadline â€" November 27, 2006

One of the participants in this roundtable had to drop out due to the change in dates for the symposium. We are seeking one or two replacements.

The host facility for the symposium will be the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort,
operated by the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan.

Roundtable on Teaching American Indian Film

Colleagues, I encourage those of you on this listserv to submit a =
proposal to present at the Colorado Community College Conference on =
Composition (5C's) on Friday, April 13, 2007. Please pass the word to =
your English-teaching colleagues as well. You may access information =
about the conference theme, keynote speaker, and registration =
information at the following web site:

http://www.aimsced.com/5C/5C2007.htm

Thank you!=20

=20

Call For Presentations
Colorado Community College Conference on Composition: 2007
=20

Dear Colleague:

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CFP: The Role of Religious Performance in Rebuilding Communities—Past and
Present (opening roundtable)

"Sore Spots": The 2007 Religion and Theatre Preconference
New Orleans, July 24-25, 2007

ATHE's Religion and Theatre Focus Group will open its preconference with a
roundtable entitled "The Role of Religious Performance in Rebuilding
Communities—Past and Present." Participants will offer a 5-10 minute
presentation on a particular instance when religious performance played a
role in rebuilding or regenerating community. Participants will then engage
in a moderate discussion and Q&A with all preconference attendees.

CFP: Pre-cinema and 'Cinematicity' / 1895: Before and After
March 24 - March 25, 2007
British Comparative Literature Association and the Centre for Film
Studies, University of Essex (UK)
Keynote Speakers: Ian Christie (Birkbeck); Tom Gunning (Chicago);
Marina Warner (Essex)
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars interested in
exploring the history of pre- and early film: the previsions of cinema
as both technology and cultural form, and early cinema's influence on
twentieth-century art, literature and culture.=20
Proposals for papers of 20 minutes are invited on these and similar
topics:
* prehistory of film in the arts
* literary anticipations of the cinema

American Popular Culture, 9/11 and=20

the So-Called Global War on Terror

CALL OR PAPERS for an International Symposium on History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, University of Arizona, May 3-6, 2007 (literature, art history, history, sociology, etc.)

Organized by Dr. Albrecht Classen, University Distinguished Professor.

Selected papers will be published by de Gruyter (Berlin and New York).

Submit an abstract, or for further information, please send an abstract by Jan. 31, 2007 to:
 

CALL OR PAPERS for an International Symposium on History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, University of Arizona, May 3-6, 2007 (literature, art history, history, sociology, etc.)

Organized by Dr. Albrecht Classen, University Distinguished Professor.

Selected papers will be published by de Gruyter (Berlin and New York).

Submit an abstract, or for further information, please send an abstract by Jan. 31, 2007 to:
 

CFP: Figures of Comparison in the Humanities and the Social Sciences

Date/Place: March 2nd-3rd, 2007/ Columbia University, New York

Keynote speaker: To Be Announced

The Center for Comparative Literature and Society (CCLS) at Columbia=20
University, New York invites papers for its second graduate student=20
conference entitled =93Figures of Comparison in the Humanities and the=20=

Social Sciences.=94 By =93figures of comparison,=94 we mean both objects =
of=20
study that call for a comparative approach and comparative methods that=20=