CALL FOR PAPERS

The Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM) is
hosting its annual conference on March 30 and 31, 2007. The conference
will be held at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. We would
like to solicit proposals for 20 minute papers from scholars at all career
stages, from beginning graduate students to established and senior scholars.

Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2006
Deadline for papers : March 2007
Ryan Murphy's imaginative and controversial series,
Nip/Tuck, is one of a number of American television
shows that has taken on critical social and cultural
issues in the last decade. Nip/Tuck in particular has
examined the American dream, the mid-life crises of
the Baby Boom generation, sexuality, and queer
readings in extremely innovative ways. The "deeply
shallow" show has looked into the mirror of American
ideals of beauty, youth, and success and provided an
entertaining, chilling, and queer reading of them.
This volume, to be published by IB Tauris books and
edited by Roz Kaveney and Jennifer Stoy, seeks

ACA/PCA National Conference
  Boston 2007
   
  American Art and Architecture
  Call for Papers
   
  The Art and Architecture Area of the American Culture Association
  is seeking papers on any aspect of "Visual Culture of the Americas"
  for the annual conference in Boston, April 4 to 7, 2007.
   
  Papers on topics related to questions of
  identity, patriotism and nationalism
  within the broader categories of
  Latino, Native, African American and Canadian
  art and architecture will be considered.
   
  We are especially interested in papers which offer
  a cross-disciplinary perspective, such as art and

The St. John's University Humanities Review is seeking well written
articles between 8-15 double spaced pages for publication in the
journal. We are seeking papers with a wide range of topics and are
especially looking for very specific topics that have not been written
about extensively already. Contemporary allusions appreciated.

Please email submissions to SJUHumanities_at_Gmail.com.

The St. John's University Humanities Review is seeking well written
articles between 8-15 double spaced pages for publication in the
journal. We are seeking papers with a wide range of topics and are
especially looking for very specific topics that have not been written
about extensively already. Contemporary allusions appreciated.

Please email submissions to SJUHumanities_at_Gmail.com.

The St. John's University Humanities Review is seeking well written
articles between 8-15 double spaced pages for publication in the
journal. We are seeking papers with a wide range of topics and are
especially looking for very specific topics that have not been written
about extensively already. Contemporary allusions appreciated.

Please email submissions to SJUHumanities_at_Gmail.com.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE REMEDIATING LITERATURE
(htttp://www2.let.uu.nl/remediatingliterature/)
CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline november 6, 2006)

An international conference on Literature and the new media entitled
Re-mediating Literature will take place at Utrecht University (the
Netherlands) 4-6 july 2007, with keynote speakers Katherine Hayles,
Marie-Laure Ryan, Jan Baetens, and Samuel Weber. The aim of this conference
is to examine how technological changes have affected the 'old' medium of
literature in the present (digital media) and the past (writing machines,
film, radio, phonograph, grammophone, television).

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE REMEDIATING LITERATURE
(htttp://www2.let.uu.nl/remediatingliterature/)
CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline november 6, 2006)

An international conference on Literature and the new media entitled
Re-mediating Literature will take place at Utrecht University (the
Netherlands) 4-6 july 2007, with keynote speakers Katherine Hayles,
Marie-Laure Ryan, Jan Baetens, and Samuel Weber. The aim of this conference
is to examine how technological changes have affected the 'old' medium of
literature in the present (digital media) and the past (writing machines,
film, radio, phonograph, grammophone, television).

Paper on the representation(2) of lesbian desire in popular
media--literature/television/film. Topics could include the construction
of figures, the development of erotic connections, adaptations of
characters to audience, straight actors/lesbian viewers, historical
perspectives, etc. Abstracts only, 1-2 pages. Send to betz_at_lasalle.edu
no later than 10/25/06.

Paper on the representation(2) of lesbian desire in popular
media--literature/television/film. Topics could include the construction
of figures, the development of erotic connections, adaptations of
characters to audience, straight actors/lesbian viewers, historical
perspectives, etc. Abstracts only, 1-2 pages. Send to betz_at_lasalle.edu
no later than 10/25/06.

Writing While Arab: Politics, Hyphens, and Homelands

RAWI – the Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc. – is organizing its
second national conference in Dearborn, Michigan on May 17-20, 2007 at
the Arab American National Museum. The conference welcomes RAWI members
and others who are interested in engaging in the Arab American literary
community. The conference will provide a venue to present our writings
and ideas to one another and to the Detroit and Arab communities. Our
gathering will offer an opportunity for colleagues to share strategies
for publishing and circulating our work and also for confronting
academic, community, and political barriers.

The Arab World in the US =

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The Fall 2006 issue of AMERICAN=40 welcomes submissions on the possible =
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in the USA =2C its influence on US national identity and sociocultural l=
andscape=2C and possible parallelisms with the creation of other histori=
cal internal suspects (religious=2C political=2C territorial=2C ethnic=2C=
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Call for Papers: "Bodies of Knowledge/Knowledge of Bodies: Depictions of the
Body in American Travel Writing."

The Society for American Travel Writing. American Literature Association
Annual Conference, 24-27 May 2007, Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA.

SECTUS 2007 – A HP FANDOM CONFERENCE

Park Crescent Conference Centre, London, UK.
Thursday 19th July – Sunday 22nd July 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sectus 2007 offers attendees the opportunity to celebrate the tenth
anniversary of J.K. Rowling's series at a major fandom conference to
be held in the heart of London.

The main focus of the conference will be on HP fandom and its many
areas of interest. Suggested topics for presentations include, but are
by no means restricted to:

- Science and technology:
Can science be said to exist in the Wizarding World, and if so, how
far does it reflect our real-world knowledge? Is magic bound by the
laws of physics?