Pathologies:
  Scientific and Cultural Representations of the
  Normal and the Abnormal
   
  Rice University
  March 16â€"17, 2007
   
  Keynote Speaker: Rachel Adams, Ph.D., associate professor of English and American Literature and associate director of American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of several books and essays, including Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination and editor of The Masculinity Studies Reader.
   

Pathologies:
  Scientific and Cultural Representations of the
  Normal and the Abnormal
   
  Rice University
  March 16â€"17, 2007
   
  Keynote Speaker: Rachel Adams, Ph.D., associate professor of English and American Literature and associate director of American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of several books and essays, including Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination and editor of The Masculinity Studies Reader.
   

Call for Proposals:

Fleshing Out: Racial Passing from Text to Film

Narratives of Citizenship

University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
March 23-25, 2007

'Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Conversations in Law, Literature and Philosophy
from the Reformation to the Present Day 7th - 9th September 2007
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK Convenors: Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji,
Jan-Melissa Schramm

'Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Conversations in Law, Literature and Philosophy
from the Reformation to the Present Day 7th - 9th September 2007
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK Convenors: Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji,
Jan-Melissa Schramm

'Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Conversations in Law, Literature and Philosophy
from the Reformation to the Present Day 7th - 9th September 2007
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK Convenors: Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji,
Jan-Melissa Schramm

'Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Conversations in Law, Literature and Philosophy
from the Reformation to the Present Day 7th - 9th September 2007
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK Convenors: Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji,
Jan-Melissa Schramm

Call for Papers: FOOD AND CULTURE AREA
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Southwest/Texas regional conference*=20
Albuquerque, NM February 14-17, 2007
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/

SOFEIR 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS
“Ireland: Going East”

16-17 March 2007
Institut du Monde Anglophone
Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
5, rue de l’Ecole de Médecine
75006 Paris

The Groupe de Recherche en Etudes Irlandaises de l’Université Sorbonne
Nouvelle-Paris 3, will host the annual conference of the SOFEIR (Société Française
d’Etudes Irlandaises) on 16th and 17th March 2007. The theme of the
conference will be: “Ireland: Going East”. Proposals for papers (250 words max.)
should be sent to Wesley Hutchinson and Carle Bonafous-Murat, before 30th
November 2006. Contact: sofeir2007_at_yahoo.fr

Composition and Rhetoric (Theory)

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We invite individual papers and panels on Rhetoric and Composition for
the 38th Annual Meeting of the CEA. Papers for this area will draw on
the conference theme "Empathy and Ethics." Proposals may conceive the
conference theme broadly. Possible topics include, but are not limited
to the following possible areas: =20

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1st Year Writing

Basic Writing

Bilingual Education

Classical Rhetoric

Computer Mediated Rhetoric

Cultural Rhetoric

ESL

Gendered Writing

Minority Rhetoric=20

Multimedia Rhetoric

Political Rhetoric=20

Popular Culture Rhetoric

Post-Colonial Rhetoric

CFP: Ghosts, Gender, History (12/10/06; collection)

Essays sought for an interdisciplinary edited collection on ghosts as =20=

literary figures in the context of gender and history. The =20
collection will be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2007. (I =20
am adding a chapter to an already finished manuscript.)

Completed essays will be 7,000-8,000 words in length and due
in February 2007.

Please send 1-2 page proposals and a short biography by December 10, =20
2006 to the editor

Sladja Blazan
S.Blazan_at_gmx.de

CFP: Ghosts, Gender, History (12/10/06; collection)

Essays sought for an interdisciplinary edited collection on ghosts as =20=

literary figures in the context of gender and history. The =20
collection will be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2007. (I =20
am adding a chapter to an already finished manuscript.)

Completed essays will be 7,000-8,000 words in length and due
in February 2007.

Please send 1-2 page proposals and a short biography by December 10, =20
2006 to the editor

Sladja Blazan
S.Blazan_at_gmx.de

You are invited to submit papers for a panel on "Food and Literary
Imagination" at the 38th annual meeting of the CEA in New Orleans Suggested
topics for this panel should discuss aspects of food imagery, symbol, and
metaphor in fiction, non- fiction, poetry, drama, or film. Contact is
Walter Levy, wlevy129_at_gmail.com.