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UPDATE: Ancient & Modern Narrative (1/13/06; 3/9/06-3/11/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Kathryn Chew

Update: 41st Annual Comparative Literature conference at California=20
State University, Long Beach: "Ancient and Modern Narrative:=20
Intersections, Interactions, and Interstices"

Please note the new deadline for abstract submissions: Friday, 13=20
January 2006.

CFP: Enfance/Childhood (grad) (2/17/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
revfront_at_post.queensu.ca

Appel: Revue Frontenac Review
Eté 2006 : numéro 20 : « Enfance »

Nous invitons les étudiant-e-s gradué-e-s à soumettre un article écrit en
français ou en anglais pour notre prochain numéro intitulé « Enfance » -
terme que nous définissons comme la période s'achevant aux alentours de
l'age de treize ans.
Les travaux soumis pourront adopter toutes sortes d'approches critiques et
théoriques. Ils ne devront pas dépasser 20 pages et le format devra
impérativement suivre la norme MLA.

UPDATE: Ancient & Modern Narrative (1/13/06; 3/9/06-3/11/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Kathryn Chew

Update: 41st Annual Comparative Literature conference at California=20
State University, Long Beach: "Ancient and Modern Narrative:=20
Intersections, Interactions, and Interstices"

Please note the new deadline for abstract submissions: Friday, 13=20
January 2006.

UPDATE: Ancient & Modern Narrative (1/13/06; 3/9/06-3/11/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Kathryn Chew

Update: 41st Annual Comparative Literature conference at California=20
State University, Long Beach: "Ancient and Modern Narrative:=20
Intersections, Interactions, and Interstices"

Please note the new deadline for abstract submissions: Friday, 13=20
January 2006.

UPDATE: Ancient & Modern Narrative (1/13/06; 3/9/06-3/11/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Kathryn Chew

Update: 41st Annual Comparative Literature conference at California=20
State University, Long Beach: "Ancient and Modern Narrative:=20
Intersections, Interactions, and Interstices"

Please note the new deadline for abstract submissions: Friday, 13=20
January 2006.

CFP: Enfance/Childhood (grad) (2/17/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
revfront_at_post.queensu.ca

Appel: Revue Frontenac Review
Eté 2006 : numéro 20 : « Enfance »

Nous invitons les étudiant-e-s gradué-e-s à soumettre un article écrit en
français ou en anglais pour notre prochain numéro intitulé « Enfance » -
terme que nous définissons comme la période s'achevant aux alentours de
l'age de treize ans.
Les travaux soumis pourront adopter toutes sortes d'approches critiques et
théoriques. Ils ne devront pas dépasser 20 pages et le format devra
impérativement suivre la norme MLA.

UPDATE: Ancient & Modern Narrative (1/13/06; 3/9/06-3/11/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Kathryn Chew

Update: 41st Annual Comparative Literature conference at California=20
State University, Long Beach: "Ancient and Modern Narrative:=20
Intersections, Interactions, and Interstices"

Please note the new deadline for abstract submissions: Friday, 13=20
January 2006.

CFP: Enfance/Childhood (grad) (2/17/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
revfront_at_post.queensu.ca

Appel: Revue Frontenac Review
Eté 2006 : numéro 20 : « Enfance »

Nous invitons les étudiant-e-s gradué-e-s à soumettre un article écrit en
français ou en anglais pour notre prochain numéro intitulé « Enfance » -
terme que nous définissons comme la période s'achevant aux alentours de
l'age de treize ans.
Les travaux soumis pourront adopter toutes sortes d'approches critiques et
théoriques. Ils ne devront pas dépasser 20 pages et le format devra
impérativement suivre la norme MLA.

CFP: Elizabeth Stoddard and Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture (1/10/06; ALA, 5/25-5/30/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Elizabeth Stockton

CALL FOR PAPERS
"Elizabeth Stoddard and Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture"
American Literature Association Conference
May 25-28, 2006
Hyatt Regency San Francisco in Embarcadero Center

This panel will explore the connections between Elizabeth Stoddard and
the broader literary culture of nineteenth-century America. Papers on
any aspects of her connection to that culture—biographical, literary,
aesthetic, thematic—are welcome. We especially seek papers that do not
exclusively engage with Stoddard's work alone, but consider her within a
broader context.

CFP: College English Association of Ohio Spring Conference (3/2/06; 4/28/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
dremley_at_kent.edu

The College English Association of Ohio (CEAO) invites panels, papers,
and roundtables for our conference theme of ":"Strategies for
teaching,
learning and scholarship in literature and composition". Topics might
include: articulation, licensure, two- and four- year institutions,
cohorts,
pedagogy, technology, composition, upper-division writing, rhetoric,
literature, secondary and post-secondary institutions, collaboration,
writing centers, or other related topics. Papers on other topics will
also be considered.

CEAO welcomes proposals from graduate students, adjunct and part-time
instructors, full-time faculty, as well as individuals living/working
both inside Ohio and outside Ohio.

UPDATE: Passing and Questions of Legitimacy (grad) (12/15/05; 2/17/06-2/18/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Joshua Lea Brazee

Passing and Questions of Legitimacy
February 17th and 18th, 2006
Graduate Student Conference
The University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK

The deadline for submissions has been extended until the 15th of December 2005. Decisions on acceptance will be made by the first of January 2006.

We would also like to announce that Pamela Caughie, the author of Passing and Pedagogy, published by the University of Illinois Press, will be our keynote speaker.

UPDATE: Passing and Questions of Legitimacy (grad) (12/15/05; 2/17/06-2/18/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Joshua Lea Brazee

Passing and Questions of Legitimacy
February 17th and 18th, 2006
Graduate Student Conference
The University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK

The deadline for submissions has been extended until the 15th of December 2005. Decisions on acceptance will be made by the first of January 2006.

We would also like to announce that Pamela Caughie, the author of Passing and Pedagogy, published by the University of Illinois Press, will be our keynote speaker.

CFP: Cape Breton University Storytelling Symposium (2/14/06; 6/9/06-6/10/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Afra Kavanagh

 
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE TENTH ANNUAL
CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY STORYTELLING SYMPOSIUM
 
Scheduled for the second weekend in June (June 9 and 10, 2006) in the city of Sydney on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, this symposium combines an evening of storytelling with a day of papers about storytelling.
 

UPDATE: Passing and Questions of Legitimacy (grad) (12/15/05; 2/17/06-2/18/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Joshua Lea Brazee

Passing and Questions of Legitimacy
February 17th and 18th, 2006
Graduate Student Conference
The University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK

The deadline for submissions has been extended until the 15th of December 2005. Decisions on acceptance will be made by the first of January 2006.

We would also like to announce that Pamela Caughie, the author of Passing and Pedagogy, published by the University of Illinois Press, will be our keynote speaker.

CFP: Illumination (3/17/06; online journal)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
M.C. Flannery

Dear all,

It is with great pleasure that I forward to you the following Call for
Papers for the 2006 Summer issue of Marginalia.

Very best wishes,

Mary Flannery
The Medieval Reading Group at the University of Cambridge
http://www.marginalia.co.uk

_______

'Illumination'

CFP: Iain (M.) Banks (2/28/06; collection)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Martyn.Colebrook_at_english.hull.ac.uk

Working title: Bridging fantasies: Critical responses to the writing of Iain
(M.) Banks

CFP: Illumination (3/17/06; online journal)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
M.C. Flannery

Dear all,

It is with great pleasure that I forward to you the following Call for
Papers for the 2006 Summer issue of Marginalia.

Very best wishes,

Mary Flannery
The Medieval Reading Group at the University of Cambridge
http://www.marginalia.co.uk

_______

'Illumination'

CFP: Illumination (3/17/06; online journal)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
M.C. Flannery

Dear all,

It is with great pleasure that I forward to you the following Call for
Papers for the 2006 Summer issue of Marginalia.

Very best wishes,

Mary Flannery
The Medieval Reading Group at the University of Cambridge
http://www.marginalia.co.uk

_______

'Illumination'

CFP: Iain (M.) Banks (2/28/06; collection)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Martyn.Colebrook_at_english.hull.ac.uk

Working title: Bridging fantasies: Critical responses to the writing of Iain
(M.) Banks

CFP: Illumination (3/17/06; online journal)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
M.C. Flannery

Dear all,

It is with great pleasure that I forward to you the following Call for
Papers for the 2006 Summer issue of Marginalia.

Very best wishes,

Mary Flannery
The Medieval Reading Group at the University of Cambridge
http://www.marginalia.co.uk

_______

'Illumination'

CFP: Illumination (3/17/06; online journal)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
M.C. Flannery

Dear all,

It is with great pleasure that I forward to you the following Call for
Papers for the 2006 Summer issue of Marginalia.

Very best wishes,

Mary Flannery
The Medieval Reading Group at the University of Cambridge
http://www.marginalia.co.uk

_______

'Illumination'

CFP: Working Conditions: Reform & Religion in 19th Century American Women's Writing (12/15/05; ALA, 5/25/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Marit MacArthur

CFP: Working Conditions: Reform & Religion in 19th Century American
Women's Writing

How did anti-Calvinist religious movements (with a new belief in progress
and human perfectability) condition reformist American literature by women
during the period 1840-1895? Of particular interest are works that exposed
and criticized industrial working conditions, such as Rebecca Harding
Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, but papers on any reformist women's
writing works from this period are welcome.

Please submit a 300-word abstract by December 15th to:

CFP: Working Conditions: Reform & Religion in 19th Century American Women's Writing (12/15/05; ALA, 5/25/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Marit MacArthur

CFP: Working Conditions: Reform & Religion in 19th Century American
Women's Writing

How did anti-Calvinist religious movements (with a new belief in progress
and human perfectability) condition reformist American literature by women
during the period 1840-1895? Of particular interest are works that exposed
and criticized industrial working conditions, such as Rebecca Harding
Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, but papers on any reformist women's
writing works from this period are welcome.

Please submit a 300-word abstract by December 15th to:

CFP: Permeability and Rivalry in the Early Modern Arts (grad) (1/5/06; McGill, 3/11/06-3/12/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 9, 2005 - 8:18pm
Meredith J. Donaldson

Panel Proposal for:

=93Permeability and Selfhood=94=20
McGill University, Montreal=20
12th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature=20

=20

Painting about Poetry, Singing about Sculpture:=20

Permeability and Rivalry in the Early Modern Arts

=93If you assert that painting is dumb poetry, then the painter may call =
poetry blind painting=85

Music is not to be regarded as other than the sister of painting=85

The poet remains far behind the painter with respect to the =
representation of corporeal things, and with respect to invisible =
things, he remains behind the musician.=94

(Leonardo, On Painting)

=20

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