The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor a panel at the American Literature
Symposium on American Fiction in San Diego on September 28-30, 2006.

Please send two-page proposals on any aspect of Edith Wharton's fiction by
July 7, 2006 to Margaret Murray at drmpm_at_snet.net.

No audiovisual equipment will be available for this symposium. The
conference fee is $120, which includes two meals and two receptions. A full
description of the symposium, together with registration form and lodging
information, is available on the American Literature Association web site:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/otherconfs.html

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

INTREPID VISIONARY: BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD, NOVELIST, POET, AND SCULPTOR

*American Modernism: Cultural Transactions*
Oxford Brookes University, UK
22-23 September 2006

A major interdisciplinary conference examining the scope and impact of
America Modernism in literature, cinema and the visual arts

Sessions on Ethnicity and Culture, T.S. Eliot. Anglo-American Modernism,
the American Avant-garde, Edith Wharton, and Transnational Modernism

visit the website @
http://www.ah.brookes.ac.uk/conferences/americanmodernism/

Speakers include:
Cassandra Laity, Tim Armstrong, Janet Beer, Laura Marcus, Paul Giles and
Steven Mathews

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

INTREPID VISIONARY: BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD, NOVELIST, POET, AND SCULPTOR

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?

Papers are being sought for a panel on "The Post-Modern Vampire"
(Blacula, Interview with a Vampire, Blade, Angel, etc.) at the Oct 5-7
Savannah, GA meeting of the Popular Culture Association of the South.
We are particularly interested in how the vampire is or specifically is
not a locus for societal disquiet about issues of race, class, and sex.
Please send an abstract and vita to tcassidy_at_scsu.edu ASAP; no later
than June 15.
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Thomas Cassidy
Professor, English and Modern Languages
South Carolina State University
O:803/536-8785
Fax:803/533-3804
The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or

The Sixth Symbiosis Conference CFP=20

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Headline Theme: =91Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies =
of
Influence?=92 (N.B. Please note that submissions on other Anglo-American
topics/themes are most welcome).=20

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Venue: Brunel University, West London

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Dates: 12th =96 15th July 2007 =20

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The School of Arts at Brunel University is delighted to collaborate with
Symbiosis in hosting the Sixth Symbiosis Conference, with the headline =
theme
of =93Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of =
Influence?,=94 at
the Uxbridge Campus, Brunel University, July 12=9615, 2007.=20

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The Sixth Symbiosis Conference CFP=20

=20

Headline Theme: =91Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies =
of
Influence?=92 (N.B. Please note that submissions on other Anglo-American
topics/themes are most welcome).=20

=20

Venue: Brunel University, West London

=20

Dates: 12th =96 15th July 2007 =20

=20

The School of Arts at Brunel University is delighted to collaborate with
Symbiosis in hosting the Sixth Symbiosis Conference, with the headline =
theme
of =93Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies of =
Influence?,=94 at
the Uxbridge Campus, Brunel University, July 12=9615, 2007.=20

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R. K. Narayan Birth-Centenary Conference

A birth-centenary conference on R. K. Narayan will be held from 10 to 12
October 2006 at Mysore. The conference is organized by the Indian
Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) and
the Sahitya Akademi (the National Academy of Letters), New Delhi.

Of all the Indian novelists in English, R. K. Narayan remains one of the
most highly regarded, perhaps the most widely popular, and even the most
"typically Indian". On the occasion of his birth-centenary, we propose to
bring together a group of scholars and admirers of Narayan to re-read and
revaluate his life, works, context and legacy.

The Editors of Interdisciplinary Humanities are accepting essays and poems
for consideration in a special issue on jazz and blues in literature and the
arts. Interdisciplinary Humanities is the journal of the National Association
for Humanities Education. All essays and poems should be interdisciplinary in
nature. Essays should not exceed 6,000 words and should be submitted for
consideration to Lisa Graley, Editor, Interdisciplinary Humanities, P.O. Box
44691, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504.
Deadline: August 1, 2006.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Empires and their contested pasts

28th Irish Conference of Historians

at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

18–20 May 2007

We invite proposals for papers exploring aspects of the general theme of
empires and their contested pasts. There is no restriction on chronology,
location, or type of empire. Comparative studies and papers examining
historiographical debates and/or contestations of race, religion, gender,
class, and culture will be welcomed. We particularly invite proposals from
postgraduate students.

Call for Papers

Panel: Negotiating Homeplace in the Nineteenth Century

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

During the English and American industrial eras (1840-1910), homelessness was
more than a lack of home ownership. It often implied a lack of opportunity, a
lack of identity, a lack of acceptance. During this era, how did individuals
negotiate their space (or lack thereof)? How did their homes – or lack
thereof – aid or hinder their own development and position in society? What
spaces did they transform, and in what ways did they manage to maintain,
create, or reconstitute their homes?