Death Becomes Her:
Cultural Narratives of Women and Death
in Nineteenth-Century America

ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others
Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2005

Seminar: "Poetry is what is lost in translation":
Translating the Poetry of Other

ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others
Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2005

Seminar: "Poetry is what is lost in translation":
Translating the Poetry of Other

Call for Papers

The online journal Invisible Culture
<http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html>
is seeking papers for an upcoming issue on the theme of *The Symptom*.

Call for Papers: Inaugural issue of the Community Literacy Journal (for Fall
2006)

The peer-reviewed Community Literacy Journal seeks contributions for our
inaugural, Fall 2006 issue. We welcome submissions that address any social,
cultural, rhetorical, or institutional aspects of community literacy; we
particularly welcome co-authored pieces in collaboration with community
partners. Case studies of projects are also welcome.

Possible articles and approaches include, but are not limited to:

What are the broad, disciplinary implications and possibilities for emerging
community literacy initiatives at the programmatic and institutional levels?

The Marlowe Society of America solicits papers on any aspect of
Christopher Marlowe's plays or poetry (including performance-based
criticism) for an open-topic session to be held at the MLA Convention
(scheduled for New Orleans) in Dec. 2006. 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, 2006.

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Updated Schedule for Plenary Speakers:

Eavan Boland (Thursday February 23, 2006 5:30 p.m.)

Vona Groarke (Friday February 24, 2006 4:30 p.m.)

Margot Backus (TBA)

Conor O'Callaghan (TBA)

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DEADLINE FOR CFP: November 15, 2005

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IRISH STUDIES: GEOGRAPHIES AND GENDERS

American Conference for Irish Studies

2006 Southern Regional Conference

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

February 23-26, 2006

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Updated Schedule for Plenary Speakers:

Eavan Boland (Thursday February 23, 2006 5:30 p.m.)

Vona Groarke (Friday February 24, 2006 4:30 p.m.)

Margot Backus (TBA)

Conor O'Callaghan (TBA)

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DEADLINE FOR CFP: November 15, 2005

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IRISH STUDIES: GEOGRAPHIES AND GENDERS

American Conference for Irish Studies

2006 Southern Regional Conference

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

February 23-26, 2006

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Update: the submission deadline for the Whedonverse (Angel, Buffy, and
Serenity) panel at the SW/TX PCA/ACA conference has been extended to
November 17, 2005.

Special Call for Papers: Buffy, Angel, Firefly and/or Serenity (AKA
Whedonverse), Science Fiction and Fantasy Area, SW/TX PCA/ACA

2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 27th
Annual Conference. The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM,
February 8-11, 2006.

The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to
invite paper and panel proposals on the special topic of Joss Whedon's
work, including Buffy: TVS, Angel, Firefly, and Serenity.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: the Philosophy of Luce Irigaray
Stony Brook University, Manhattan Campus
September 22-23, 2006

ECOLOGY AND CULTURE: CFP UPDATE

SUBMISSION DEADLINE UPDATE: NOVEMBER 20, 2005

NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS

2005 JOINT CONFERENCE

April 12 – 15, 2006

Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel

For more information on the PCA/ACA, please go to http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE UPDATE: NOVEMBER 20, 2005

We are considering proposals for sessions organized around a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers per standard session.

New deadline:

"The Unconscious Master: Henry James and Jane Austen=94
2006 ACCUTE CONFERENCE AT YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO

(27 May - 4 June 2006 at 75th Congress of Humanities and Social=20
Sciences; the ACCUTE conference will take place over 3-4 days within=20
that timeframe)

Henry James, himself known as the Master, praised Jane Austen for her=20
"little
master-strokes of imagination," suggesting that the reason for her high=20=

Call for Papers
African American Literature Permanent Session
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
Chicago, Illinois
November 9-12, 2006

The African American Literary Canon:
Rationale and Function, Pros and Cons

CALL FOR PAPERS
SLASH FICTION STUDY DAY

Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Wednesday March 1, 2006

This Study Day will be a slash-friendly forum for discussion of one of the
most vibrant sub-genres of fanfic. Proposals are invited for papers for
panel sessions on slash-related topics and controversies, including, but not
limited to, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter and real person
slash.

The Study Day will take place as part of Cultural eXchanges, a week long
series of events at the Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University.