Call for Papers

SPATIAL AMERICAS
April 19-20, 2007
University of California, Santa Barbara

ABSTRACTS DUE 1/22/07

A recent article in London's Financial Times (FT) warned its
market-minded readers that the "plight of La Paz provides an
illustration of how a city's unchecked growth can threaten
stability."* The article went on to detail how El Alto, a "slum" city
of 1 million located on a plateau above the Bolivian capital, disrupts
business as usual not just with by now familiar complaints of
"pot-holed roads, belching minibuses, street vendors and packs of
stray dogs," but the radical spatial praxis of its inhabitants.

Call for Papers

SPATIAL AMERICAS
April 19-20, 2007
University of California, Santa Barbara

ABSTRACTS DUE 1/22/07

A recent article in London's Financial Times (FT) warned its
market-minded readers that the "plight of La Paz provides an
illustration of how a city's unchecked growth can threaten
stability."* The article went on to detail how El Alto, a "slum" city
of 1 million located on a plateau above the Bolivian capital, disrupts
business as usual not just with by now familiar complaints of
"pot-holed roads, belching minibuses, street vendors and packs of
stray dogs," but the radical spatial praxis of its inhabitants.

Please post the following announcement for a special issue of The Southern
Quarterly on the UPenn Call for Papers in English and American Literature
mailing list and website:

Please post the following announcement for a special issue of The Southern
Quarterly on the UPenn Call for Papers in English and American Literature
mailing list and website:

Call for Papers
Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association,
Calgary,Alberta, Canada, October 3-6, 2007.

Session: Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom
Call for theoretically informed papers focusing on any aspect of the
application of feminist theory and perspectives to the clasroom.

Please send a one-page abstract or 12 page paper and vita to:

Professor Liahna Armstrong
Central Washington University
lotus_at_cwu.edu

Call for Papers: Film & History
Abstracts/Proposals by 1 December 2006 (Extended Deadline)

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations' 28th Annual
Conference Albuquerque, NM, February 14-17, 2007 Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: (505) 842-1234
Fax: (505) 766-6710
http://albuquerque.hyatt.com

CFP: Sylvia Plath (Oxford) (05/15/07; 10/25/07-10/29/07)

The University of Oxford and Indiana University invite you to
participate in The Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium Literary Conference
to be held on the Oxford campus from Thursday through Monday, October
25 - 29, 2007.

Call for Papers: Linguistics Area
2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

The 28th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA
February 14-17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque=20
Albuquerque, New Mexico

The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New =
Mexico at the Hyatt Regency downtown. Further details regarding the =
conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can =
be found at http://www.swtexaspca.org.

  "Queer Space" (3/1/07: ELN Special Issue)

A respected forum since 1962 for new work in English literary
studies, ELN (English
  Language Notes) has undergone a change in editorship and an extensive makeover
  as a biannual journal devoted exclusively to special topics in all
fields of literary
  and cultural studies. The new ELN is particularly determined to revive and
  reenergize its traditional commitment to featuring shorter notes,
often no more than
  3-4 pages in print, an attribute of the journal that will provide a
unique forum for
  cutting-edge scholarly debate and exchange in the humanities.

Call for Papers: Frost's Ascent to Poet Laureate (MLA Chicago, Dec. 27-30,
2007; proposals by March 9, 2007) The Robert Frost Society invites
proposals that address Frost's reputation, politics, and cultural
positionings as well as relations with other writers before he became poet
laureate in 1958. Send inquiries to Camille Roman at Washington State
University at roman_at_wsu.edu by March 9, 2007

The Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance seeks book and performance
reviews for its upcoming issue regarding indigenous communities of the
Americas, including North, Central, and South America. The following titles
are now available for review:

Hawai'I Nei: Island Plays by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl

Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women's Theater Eds.
Stephanie Fitzgerald and Jaye T. Darby

American Indian Theater in Performance: A Reader Edited by Hanay Geiogamah
and Jaye T. Darby

Evening at the Warbonnet and Other Plays by Bruce King

Staging Coyote's Dream by Monique Mojica and Ric Knowles

Call for Papers
Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association,
Calgary,Alberta, Canada, October 3-6, 2007.

Session: Australian Film and Literature
Call for theoretically informed papers focusing on any aspect of
Australian film, literature, or popular culture.

Please send a one-page abstract or 12 page paper and vita to:

Professor Liahna Armstrong
Central Washington University
lotus_at_cwu.edu

**************
Professor Liahna Armstrong
Department of English
Central Washington University
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7558
Office phone: 509-963-1738
Dept. phone: 509-963-1546
Fax: 509-963-1561

Call for Papers
Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association,
Calgary,Alberta, Canada, October 3-6, 2007.

Session: Australian Film and Literature
Call for theoretically informed papers focusing on any aspect of
Australian film, literature, or popular culture.

Please send a one-page abstract or 12 page paper and vita to:

Professor Liahna Armstrong
Central Washington University
lotus_at_cwu.edu

**************
Professor Liahna Armstrong
Department of English
Central Washington University
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7558
Office phone: 509-963-1738
Dept. phone: 509-963-1546
Fax: 509-963-1561

Tolkien Seminar
The Tolkien Society & Tol Harndor
Saturday, 25th August 2007
Sydney, Australia

Tolkien Down Under - The Art and Science of Magic in Middle-earth

Call for Papers

This significant annual event in the Tolkien calendar is being held overseas
for the first time in Sydney, Australia. With attendees travelling from
around the world this will have an international festive feel.

The magic of Middle-earth is wide-ranging in scope and can cover not only
all aspects of magic in the works of Tolkien but also the enchantment that
Tolkien's writings have instilled in Tolkien fans far and wide.

Some potential topics for consideration might be: