The Clinton Institute for American Studies invites paper proposals for
a one day conference on

Terrorism, the City and the State

to be held at University College Dublin on 26 February 2007

Keynote speakers include Professor Mike Davis (University of California
Irvine), author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums, who will speak
on 'The History of Car Bombing'

The Clinton Institute for American Studies invites paper proposals for
a one day conference on

Terrorism, the City and the State

to be held at University College Dublin on 26 February 2007

Keynote speakers include Professor Mike Davis (University of California
Irvine), author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums, who will speak
on 'The History of Car Bombing'

Fourth Annual Conference of the Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State University.
 
"Black Diaspora in the South and the Caribbean."

Mar 16-17, 2007

NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Feb. 1, 2007

Invited keynote speakers include:

-Jane Landers, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
-Francis Abiola Irele, Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
-Ifeoma Nwanko, Associate Professor of English Vanderbilt University

The Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State University invites proposals for individual presentations at its fourth annual conference.

Fourth Annual Conference of the Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State University.
 
"Black Diaspora in the South and the Caribbean."

Mar 16-17, 2007

NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Feb. 1, 2007

Invited keynote speakers include:

-Jane Landers, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
-Francis Abiola Irele, Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
-Ifeoma Nwanko, Associate Professor of English Vanderbilt University

The Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State University invites proposals for individual presentations at its fourth annual conference.

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
            
Call for Papers: humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
            
Call for Papers: humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

Living, Writing and Teaching in the West
3rd Annual Intermountain Graduate Conference

The English Graduate Student Association of Idaho State University is
inviting graduate students from all relevant fields to submit work
related to our theme. We look forward to listening and discussing,
reading and writing together--to insights offered within the spirit of
fellowship and learning in the Intermountain West.

Please submit a 150-200 word abstract that includes your paper title,
name, affiliation, and email address to:
Intermountain Graduate Conference
Attn: Michael Stubbs, Conference Chair
Department of English, Campus Box 8056
Idaho State University
Pocatello, ID 83209

Living, Writing and Teaching in the West
3rd Annual Intermountain Graduate Conference

The English Graduate Student Association of Idaho State University is
inviting graduate students from all relevant fields to submit work
related to our theme. We look forward to listening and discussing,
reading and writing together--to insights offered within the spirit of
fellowship and learning in the Intermountain West.

Please submit a 150-200 word abstract that includes your paper title,
name, affiliation, and email address to:
Intermountain Graduate Conference
Attn: Michael Stubbs, Conference Chair
Department of English, Campus Box 8056
Idaho State University
Pocatello, ID 83209

Living, Writing and Teaching in the West
3rd Annual Intermountain Graduate Conference

The English Graduate Student Association of Idaho State University is
inviting graduate students from all relevant fields to submit work
related to our theme. We look forward to listening and discussing,
reading and writing together--to insights offered within the spirit of
fellowship and learning in the Intermountain West.

Please submit a 150-200 word abstract that includes your paper title,
name, affiliation, and email address to:
Intermountain Graduate Conference
Attn: Michael Stubbs, Conference Chair
Department of English, Campus Box 8056
Idaho State University
Pocatello, ID 83209

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
            
Call for Papers: humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

This a general call for papers that deal with the author George Elliot. While preference will be given to papers that center on her novels and/or characters, presentations historical in emphasis or biographical will also be considered.

Abstracts no longer than 250 words should be e-mailed to:
“Plrand25_at_hotmail.com” by February 16, 2007. Please put the text in the body of the message, not as an attachment.

'BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT': CONVERSATIONS IN LITERATURE, LAW AND PHILOSOPHY
FROM THE REFORMATION TO THE PRESENT DAY
7TH - 9TH SEPTEMBER 2007
FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
Convenors: Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji, Jan-Melissa Schramm

PLENARY SPEAKERS

John Bender
Peter Brooks
Leo Damrosch
Kathy Eden
Lorna Hutson
Ian Ward
Luke Wilson

Culture & Power Seminar - Call for Papers

"THE PLOTS OF HISTORY"

12th International Conference Culture & Power
University of Oviedo, Spain
September 26 - 28, 2007

Cultural theory at the end of the 20th Century claimed that there would be an end to all metanarratives.
That end does not seem to be forthcoming in the present age, as new and old forms of manufacturing truth and emplotting history continue to affect our representations of the world.
This conference invites papers that address this topic from a variety of positions within Cultural Studies. We welcome papers dealing specifically with issues such as the following:

This is a call for papers to contribute to an article collection on African American and Afro-Caribbean Women Writers.
 
We are soliciting manuscripts that critically examine contemporary works by African American and Afro-Caribbean women writers. Manuscripts should explore factors that shape African American women's identities and trace processes of memory formation as they occur in domestic and public spheres.
 
Specifically, we are looking for submissions which address the following areas of influence:
 
religion
mythologies
magical realism
gender and sexualities
sites of eating and the role of food
historiography
violence
family

   CFP for 3 Panels coordinated by the new MLA Postcolonial Studies
Division:

  Postcolonial Studies: Reflective Assessments
  Inaugurating the MLA's new Postcolonial Studies Division, a panel to
review postcolonialism's transformation of literary studies since 1983.
500-word proposals and 2-page CVs by 15 March to David Chioni Moore.
[mooredc_at_macalester.edu]

  Postcolonial Environments
  How do postcolonial literatures and cultures inscribe nonhuman alterity?
Topics might include ecology, sustainability, human and nonhuman relations,
ecocriticism, ethics, biopolitics, planetarity. 500-word proposals and
2-page CVs by 15 March to Elizabeth DeLoughrey. [emd23_at_cornell.edu]