MLA 2006
December 27-30, 2006, Philadelphia
Proposed Special Session
Deadline: March 17, 2006

Contraband in the Americas

"The end of contraband ... is the end of Argentine history."
        - Ricardo Piglia

What is the role of the black market, broadly defined, in literature from the
United States and Latin America? How is the notion of a contraband economy
important for rethinking political narrative? What is the function of an other
market? How can smuggling be theorized not only as a motif in literary texts,
but also as a figure for the act of writing in the Americas? Please send
1-page abstracts to David Kelman, dkelman_at_learnlink.emory.edu, by 17 March 2006.

Deadline extended:

Call for Papers: Global Connections: Eudora Welty

Paper proposals are invited for a special MLA session that explores
Welty's global connections in her work and / or with other writers
abroad. We seek new comparative theoretical approaches offering
provocative global, postcolonial, and post-regional insights into Welty.

Call for Papers: Global Connections: Eudora Welty

Paper proposals are invited for a special MLA session that explores
Welty's global connections in her work and / or with other writers
abroad. We seek new comparative theoretical approaches offering
provocative global, postcolonial, and post-regional insights into Welty.

MLA 2006
December 27-30, 2006, Philadelphia
Proposed Special Session
Deadline: March 17, 2006

Contraband in the Americas

"The end of contraband ... is the end of Argentine history."
        - Ricardo Piglia

What is the role of the black market, broadly defined, in literature from the
United States and Latin America? How is the notion of a contraband economy
important for rethinking political narrative? What is the function of an other
market? How can smuggling be theorized not only as a motif in literary texts,
but also as a figure for the act of writing in the Americas? Please send
1-page abstracts to David Kelman, dkelman_at_learnlink.emory.edu, by 17 March 2006.

Deadline extended:

The English IV section (Romantic and Victorian Literature) at SAMLA
seeks papers on "The Child-Woman in Romantic and
Victorian Literature."

In texts from the late eighteenth through the late nineteenth
centuries, women are often given characteristics simultaneously
childlike and sexualized. Poems, novels, conduct books, and visual
arts of the Romantic and Victorian periods accept, foster, and
sometimes interrogate this conflation of the unripe and forbidden
with the sexually desirable. We welcome proposals analyzing the
interplay of these aesthetic and cultural values in Romantic and
Victorian literature.

     CFP: Kept Boys and Possessive Girls:
Reorganizing Sex, Agency, and Authority in Nineteenth- and
Twentieth-Century U.S. Literatures

     CFP: Kept Boys and Possessive Girls:
Reorganizing Sex, Agency, and Authority in Nineteenth- and
Twentieth-Century U.S. Literatures

Call for papers: "Representations of Empire": the twentieth century
witnessed the dismantling of the British and French empires, but imperialism
is far form over. Papers dealing with representation of current empire
building in contemporary literary texts and/or contexts are invited for a
volume of articles about the topic to be published in Cambridge Scholars
Press <http://www.cambridgescholarspress.com/>. Please send one-page
abstracts to Silvia Nagy-Zekmi (Villanova University) at
<snzekmi_at_verizon.net> or to Chantal Zabus (La Sorbonne, Paris XIII) at
<czabus_at_hotmail.com>by 10 March 2006.

Thank you,

I am seeking panelists for a proposed Special Session on "Christopher Morley
and Philadelphia Print Culture" for the Modern Language Association
convention in Philadelphia (27-30 December 2006).

=93=91Birth was the death of him=92: Samuel Beckett, Death, Dying and =
All That
Other Unfinished Business'

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An International Conference in honour of Samuel Beckett=92s Centenary

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Avenue Campus, University of Northampton, 1st =96 3rd December 2006

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Co-organized by:

The Centre for Contemporary Fiction & Narrative, School of Arts, =
University
of Northampton;

The UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies;=20

and the London Beckett Seminar Group

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=93Birth was the death of him. Again. Words are few. Dying too. Birth =
was
the death of him.=94 A Piece of Monologue

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=93=91Birth was the death of him=92: Samuel Beckett, Death, Dying and =
All That
Other Unfinished Business'

=20

An International Conference in honour of Samuel Beckett=92s Centenary

=20

=20

Avenue Campus, University of Northampton, 1st =96 3rd December 2006

=20

=20

Co-organized by:

The Centre for Contemporary Fiction & Narrative, School of Arts, =
University
of Northampton;

The UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies;=20

and the London Beckett Seminar Group

=20

=20

=93Birth was the death of him. Again. Words are few. Dying too. Birth =
was
the death of him.=94 A Piece of Monologue

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14th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the American Studies Colloquium
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
May 31-June 1, 2006

Cultural Forms, Cultural Politics

"The ultimately formative moment is the material articulation, the
activation and generation of shared sounds and words." -- Raymond
Williams

"To define a system formation in its specific individuality is to
characterize a discourse or a group of statements by the regularity of a
practice." -- Michel Foucault