FIRST INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CONFERENCE IN INDIA:
  "The Child and the Fantastic: Readings in children's fantasy literature",
  Children's Literature Association India (CLAI) International Conference
  Hotel Trichur Towers, Thrissur, Kerala, Southern India
  March 26, 2007 to March 28, 2007
  Conference Organizer, Anto Thomas, St. Thomas College, Calicut University, Kerala, India
   

Call for papers

Byron at the Theatre

Friday-Saturday 11th-12th May 2007

Clifton Campus, Nottingham Trent University

A one-and-a-half day conference held by the English Department, Nottingham Trent University, in association with the Newstead Abbey Byron Society, and the Midlands Romantic Seminar.

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting"

Of the Romantics, Byron was the most committed to writing plays: Manfred; Marino Faliero; Sardanapalus; The Two Foscari; Cain; The Deformed Transformed, to name but a few. We welcome papers addressing any aspect of Byron at the Theatre. Subjects could include

LiteraryResearcher.org:
A New Approach to Information Literacy Instruction in English Studies

Reading Daniel Deronda
University of Bristol, UK
31 August - 1 September 2007

Keynote speakers:  Valentine Cunningham and John Rignall

This interdisciplinary conference will focus on George Eliot's Daniel
Deronda in order to explore wider themes and debates provoked by the novel.
It will provide an opportunity for scholars engaged in research on the
nineteenth century to discuss a single book that embodies a breadth of
concerns within literature of the period. Lifelong Learning students will
also participate in this conference.

Updated (read: =93extended=94) deadline, revised address.

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CFP: Delmore Schwartz and Others (12/30/06; ALA, 5/24/07-5/27/07)

Proposed Panel for American Literature Association (ALA) Conference

May 24-27, 2007, Boston

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Delmore Schwartz and Others

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CFP: Law and Literature in the Postcolony (01/31/07; 07/08/07 - 07/11/07)

Special panel on 'Law and Literature': "Worlds, Texts, Critics" conference

Date/Place: July 8th to 11th / Durban, South Africa, University of Kwazulu-Natal.

Possibilities for papers include, but are not limited to:

Representations of law in postcolonial literature
Theorising postcolonial 'Law and Literature'
Law, ethics and postcolonial literature
Law and subjectivity in the postcolony
Human rights in/and postcolonial literature
Multiculturalism and postcoloniality
Law, literature and truth commissions
Trauma, witnessing and the law
Law and violence after September 11

Feminism and Psychoanalysis in 20th Century Literature

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions:
Malappropriation Nation, the University of California, Riverside's
fourteenth annual graduate humanities conference on April 6-7, 2007.

Feminism and Psychoanalysis in 20th Century Literature

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions:
Malappropriation Nation, the University of California, Riverside's
fourteenth annual graduate humanities conference on April 6-7, 2007.

New Worlds, Lost Worlds: Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature
13th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature: McGill
University, Montreal

March 10-11, 2007

This call for papers is for a panel to be held at New Worlds, Lost Worlds: Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature, the McGill Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, which will take place March 10th to 11th, 2007 at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Saying the Unsayable: Examining Discursive Silence in American Literature

New Worlds, Lost Worlds: Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature
13th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature: McGill
University, Montreal

March 10-11, 2007

This call for papers is for a panel to be held at New Worlds, Lost Worlds: Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature, the McGill Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, which will take place March 10th to 11th, 2007 at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Saying the Unsayable: Examining Discursive Silence in American Literature

Comp Lit Graduate Student Conference - Call for Papers!
"Foreclosure and Forgiveness: Tracing Debt in Literature and Culture"
Thurs. 29 - Sat.31 of March 2007

Call for Papers

The Marlowe Society of America solicits papers on any aspect of
Christopher Marlowe's plays, poetry, or biography (including
performance-based criticism and theater history, ) for an open-topic
session to be held at the MLA Convention in Chicago on Dec.27-30, 2007.
Send detailed abstracts or papers of 15-minute reading length by e-mail,
e-mail attachment, or hard copy to Bruce Brandt,
(Bruce.Brandt_at_sdstate.edu <mailto:Bruce.Brandt_at_sdstate.edu> )
President, Marlowe Society of America, English Dept., Box 504, South
Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007. Deadline: March 1, 2007.

The working group "Performance and Consciousness" within the IFTR
(International Federation for Theatre Research) invites papers for
presentation at the working group meetings at the 2007 IFTR annual
conference, to be held at The H.B. Thom Theatre Centre and the Arts
Building, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 10-14 July
2007.

Please see the conference website for further details about the conference
and registration http://www.iftr2007.co.za/index_html.

We have received some really great submissions to the conference already,
and we are extending our deadline.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM) is
hosting its annual conference on March 30 and 31, 2007. The conference
will be held at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. We would
like to solicit proposals for 20 minute papers from scholars at all career
stages, from beginning graduate students to established and senior scholars.