Call for Papers

UPDATE

2006 ALSC Conference, Hotel Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco, California,
October 13-15 2006

April 7, 2006

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) has re-issued its
call for papers for the seminar sections of the 2006 ALSC Conference
Program. The panels are not open for submissions at this time.

The submissions deadline for all three seminars has been extended to April
30.

Additional prospective members and current members alike are heartily
invited to apply.

Please see below for details.

Seminars

Call for Papers

UPDATE

2006 ALSC Conference, Hotel Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco, California,
October 13-15 2006

April 7, 2006

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) has re-issued its
call for papers for the seminar sections of the 2006 ALSC Conference
Program. The panels are not open for submissions at this time.

The submissions deadline for all three seminars has been extended to April
30.

Additional prospective members and current members alike are heartily
invited to apply.

Please see below for details.

Seminars

CFP: "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: History, Culture and
Politics" (Submission date: June 16, 2006)

Victorian Review is publishing a special issue on interdisciplinary
approaches to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, to be published in the summer of
2007. The editor is seeking 5000-8000 word essays that introduce new
methodologies and approaches to the study of EBB's poetry, correspondence or
other writing. Topics might include political thought,
historiography, theology, science, psychology, legal theory, visual
culture, history of
sexuality, journalism, abolitionism, feminist activism, nationalism, etc.

PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

*DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH*

* International Conference on*

*Nature and Human Nature*: Land, Landscape and Cultural Constructions of th=
e
Environment

*21st-23rd September 2006*

*Venue: Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India *

* *

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

*DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH*

* International Conference on*

*Nature and Human Nature*: Land, Landscape and Cultural Constructions of th=
e
Environment

*21st-23rd September 2006*

*Venue: Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India *

* *

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

*DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH*

* International Conference on*

*Nature and Human Nature*: Land, Landscape and Cultural Constructions of th=
e
Environment

*21st-23rd September 2006*

*Venue: Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India *

* *

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

We have added more guest writers and artists to our upcoming (6/22-6/25)
SFRA 2006 conference. Our updated guest list now includes:

Writers:
Norman Spinrad: Guest of Honor
Other guests: Nancy Kress, Nalo Hopkinson, R. Garcia y Robertson, William
Sleator, Joan Slonczewski (Distinguished Member Participant), David G.
Hartwell, John "JP" Briggs, Bruce Tayler, Lee Denning, and Samuel R. Delany
(tentative)

Artists:
Michael Whelan (Special Guest Artist), Abe Echevarria and Tom Kidd

Additionally, we have extended the deadline for essay proposals to May 1, 2006.

All other information remains the same.

Please send one-page paper proposals to: sfra2006_at_yahoo.com

Thank you.

 
  The deadline has been extended for an approved special session entitled, "AIDS in Literature" at the Midwest MLA conference in Chicago, November 9-12, 2006.
 
  Papers are sought especially on the topic of personal integration and dis-integration in characters who are infected with HIV/AIDS. However, the panel gladly encourages submissions on any subject within the broad topic of AIDS in literature.
 
  The revised deadline for submission of abstracts is April 21, 2006.
 
 Please send inquiries and abstracts (of 250 words) to:
 
Donald P. Gagnon, Ph.D.
Department of English
Western Connecticut State University
181 White Street
Berkshire Hall 210 E
Danbury, CT 06810
 

 
  The deadline has been extended for an approved special session entitled, "AIDS in Literature" at the Midwest MLA conference in Chicago, November 9-12, 2006.
 
  Papers are sought especially on the topic of personal integration and dis-integration in characters who are infected with HIV/AIDS. However, the panel gladly encourages submissions on any subject within the broad topic of AIDS in literature.
 
  The revised deadline for submission of abstracts is April 21, 2006.
 
 Please send inquiries and abstracts (of 250 words) to:
 
Donald P. Gagnon, Ph.D.
Department of English
Western Connecticut State University
181 White Street
Berkshire Hall 210 E
Danbury, CT 06810
 

This CFP is for a special session of the 2006 Midwest Modern Language Association, entitled "Sonic Spectacles: From Event to Text." The conference will be held November 9-12, 2006 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago.
 
 On the cusp of the twentieth century, Edison built two machines which transformed temporally and spatially contingent events into reproducible texts, the phonograph and the kinetoscope, and immediately began attempting

Call for Papers:

College Art Association 95th Annual Conference
New York, Feb. 14-17, 2007

Submission Deadline: May 5, 2006

Transformations of Time and Place in Moving Image Work in the Digital Age

CFP: 'Déjà Vu' antiTHESIS Symposium (Australia)
(5/5/06;7/7/06)

Déjà Vu:
An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium

Friday July 7, 2006
Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne

'Déjà Vu' is a one-day symposium organised by the
editorial collective of antiTHESIS and postgraduates
in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at
the University of Melbourne.

The symposium will bring together postgraduate
scholars and creative writers from across Australia
for a day of interdisciplinary debate and academic
exchange.

"What lies before me is my past"
— Oscar Wilde.

CFP: 'Déjà Vu' antiTHESIS Symposium (Australia)
(5/5/06;7/7/06)

Déjà Vu:
An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium

Friday July 7, 2006
Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne

'Déjà Vu' is a one-day symposium organised by the
editorial collective of antiTHESIS and postgraduates
in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at
the University of Melbourne.

The symposium will bring together postgraduate
scholars and creative writers from across Australia
for a day of interdisciplinary debate and academic
exchange.

"What lies before me is my past"
— Oscar Wilde.

CALL FOR PAPERS

A Commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807

Academic papers and creative submissions are invited for this special issue to mark the two-hundredth anniversary in 2007 of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

EnterText volume 7 number 2

Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Slaveries and Freedoms Today

Submissions are invited by 1 March 2007

Forms of slavery, quasi-slavery and the abuse or exploitation of one group by another remain widespread in the world today. Questions which might be addressed include: