***Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota (LCMND) 2007***

Celebrating Memory: The 50th Anniversary of the Linguistic Circle of
Manitoba and North Dakota

When: Thursday - Saturday, September 27-29, 2007
Location: North Dakota State University Alumni Center, 1241 N. University
Drive, Fargo, ND.

Call for Papers on the Theme "Memory, Memorial, Memorializing: Spaces of and
for Remembering"

The Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota invites proposals for
15-minute papers or 60-minute panels for the 50th annual meeting of LCMND.
Papers selected by review process will be published as a collection marking
the occasion. Conference languages: French and English.

CFP: SECOND INTERNATIONAL IDEA CONFERENCE,=20
        April 17-19, 2007
        (Extended Deadline: December 15, 2006

The 2nd International IDEA Conference, which will be jointly hosted by =
Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language =
and Literature, and English Language and Literature Research Association =
of Turkey (IDEA), will be held on 17-19 April 2007, at the University's =
Beytepe Campus, Ankara. The Conference will cover the following four =
main areas, of which the literature area has been expanded so as to =
include, besides English literature, also other literatures in English =
and, thereby giving it an inter-literary and comparative perspective.

Call for Papers

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative
Writing (MLM Publishers) announces its move to 3 issues per year!

The journal seeks creative and critical work of the highest quality.

Now published three times a year, New Writing publishes some of the best
creative work from university and college creative writing programmes
worldwide, alongside interviews with writers, articles about creative writing
teaching methods and creative writing research, debates in the subject and
analysis of the relationship between creative writing on campus and the
relevant creative industries

The African-American Literature and Culture Society invites proposals
related to the following topic, for a session at the American Literature
Association meetings in Boston [May 24-27, 2007].

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Examining Popular African-American Literature

The African-American Literature and Culture Society invites proposals
related to the following topic, for a session at the American Literature
Association meetings in Boston [May 24-27, 2007].

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Examining Popular African-American Literature

Paper proposals are invited for an ALA session that explores Eudora

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.

This ALA session, sponsored by the Eudora Welty Society, seeks to

explore new topics, conversations and conflicts by situating Eudora

Welty in global literary, historical and cultural contexts. What

happens to Welty's fiction when we take it out of the familiar

regional narratives of the South that have previously defined

it? How does a global comparative study of Welty answer her famous

In addition to our regular annual business meeting, the Louisa May Alcott Society will host two scholarly sessions at the American Literature Association 18th Annual Conference in Boston, 24-27 May 2007. Calls for Papers follow for the second of our two proposed sessions:

Session 2. The Dramatic Alcotts
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Concord Dramatic Union, we invite proposals for a wide range of topics,
including the following:
* The theatrical career of Louisa May Alcott
* The Alcott girls as playwrights
* Adaptations of Little Women for stage and/or screen
* The role of The Witch's Curse in Little Women

Teaching Sex: In Public

This panel seeks papers that articulate pedagogies of sexuality in
the humanities, fine arts, and interpretive social
sciences. Especially welcome are papers that mix an understanding of
current methods and texts in the field with critical anecdotes about
classroom experiences.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

CALL FOR PAPERS

  Space and Displacement

  A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium

Sponsored by the Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas

Bilkent University

21-22 April 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

  Space and Displacement

  A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium

Sponsored by the Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas

Bilkent University

21-22 April 2007

SOCIETY OF EARLY AMERICANISTS at the American Literature Association Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Deadline: Friday, January 5, 2007

The Society of Early Americanists invites paper proposals for the American Literature Association's 2007 Conference in Boston, May 24-27, 2007. We will again sponsor four SEA Sessions: one will focus on teaching, and the topics for the other three are completely open.

Please watch our website, http://www.societyofearlyamericanists.org, for details about our annual Business Meeting and our traditional Reception!

CFP: Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek (2/28/07; collection).

Teaching Sex: In Public

This panel seeks papers that articulate pedagogies of sexuality in
the humanities, fine arts, and interpretive social
sciences. Especially welcome are papers that mix an understanding of
current methods and texts in the field with critical anecdotes about
classroom experiences.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

***Please note, there was an error in the original call for papers. All
dates should read 2007, not 2006. The corrected version is below.***

Nuances of Lack in Italian Culture

Call for Papers
New York University

April 20-21, 2007

"Deh peregrini che pensosi andate
forse di cosa che non v'è presente"
- Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova 30:1-2