CFP: The Wallace Stevens Society Panel, University of Louisville
Thirty-Fifth Annual Twentieth Century Literature Conference, February
22-24, 2007.

The Wallace Stevens Society is pleased to host a panel this February at
the University of Louisville's Twentieth Century Literature Conference.
We invite proposals for critical papers on any topic concerning Stevens's
work. A specific panel theme may be decided upon depending on the
proposals received.

   Reproductive Rights =26 Responsibilities 2006=3A Beyond Pro-Choice/Pro=
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Life

The Harold Washington College Women=92s Studies Committee (WSC) is =

hosting a reproductive rights symposium on November 8-10=2C 2006 on the =

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faculty=2C students=2C staff=2C and guests with presentations=2C exhibits=
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discussions on reproductive rights issues ranging from current =

legislative activity to cultural perspectives on sexuality to =

historical intersections of race=2C gender=2C and class in relation to =

   Reproductive Rights =26 Responsibilities 2006=3A Beyond Pro-Choice/Pro=
-
Life

The Harold Washington College Women=92s Studies Committee (WSC) is =

hosting a reproductive rights symposium on November 8-10=2C 2006 on the =

college=92s campus (30 E=2E Lake St=2E=2C Chicago=2C IL)=2E Designed to =
be multi-
faceted=2C informative=2C and provocative=2C the symposium aims to engage=
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faculty=2C students=2C staff=2C and guests with presentations=2C exhibits=
=2C and =

discussions on reproductive rights issues ranging from current =

legislative activity to cultural perspectives on sexuality to =

historical intersections of race=2C gender=2C and class in relation to =

Science Fiction / Fantasy Creative Writing

Call for Papers

The SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Area of the Popular Culture Association
invites submissions for the:

PCA/ACA 2007 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
BOSTON MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE,
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 4 - 7, 2007

Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2006

Call for Articles
Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives.

Despite the continuing rise of memory studies in various disciplines, there is
yet no consistent, comprehensive, or metacritical publication accounting for
the library as a specific archival form.

UPDATE-CFP: Women's Experiences of Justice (10/7/06; collection)
   
  The co-editors of (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women's Experience, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press, Ltd. in late 2007, seek scholars interested in contributing a chapter. The book, which will show how women create justice or resist injustice through (re)interpretations of traditional structures, is divided into five sections that represent patriarchal authority and power: Language, Religion, Medicine, War, and Sex Trafficking.
   

UPDATE-CFP: Women's Experiences of Justice (10/7/06; collection)
   
  The co-editors of (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women's Experience, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press, Ltd. in late 2007, seek scholars interested in contributing a chapter. The book, which will show how women create justice or resist injustice through (re)interpretations of traditional structures, is divided into five sections that represent patriarchal authority and power: Language, Religion, Medicine, War, and Sex Trafficking.
   

Immigration is a phenomenon that contemporary societies struggle with. In this context the figure of the foreigner is a good scenario to explore the dynamics and tensions of cultures in contact. The liminal perspective provided by the outsider adds a new interpretation of our own reality, questioning the foundations of the canonical culture and our own identities. "What appear to be cultural units-human beings, words, meanings, ideas, philosophical systems, social organizations-are maintained in their apparent unity only through an active process of exclusion, opposition, and hierarchization.

Immigration is a phenomenon that contemporary societies struggle with. In this context the figure of the foreigner is a good scenario to explore the dynamics and tensions of cultures in contact. The liminal perspective provided by the outsider adds a new interpretation of our own reality, questioning the foundations of the canonical culture and our own identities. "What appear to be cultural units-human beings, words, meanings, ideas, philosophical systems, social organizations-are maintained in their apparent unity only through an active process of exclusion, opposition, and hierarchization.

NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS: OCTOBER 10, 2006. PLEASE
EMAIL CUNYCOMPLIT.CONFERENCE_at_GMAIL.COM

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Envisioning Home

Keynote Speakers=20

Prof. Laura Slatkin (NYU/U. Chicago) &=20

Prof. Joshua Landy (Stanford)

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Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature

November 3 & 4, 2006

The Graduate Center of CUNY

365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016

www.beautifulnovember.com

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CFP: Cinematic Homesick Blues (10/15/06; SASA,
2/14/07-2/18/07)

This panel for the Southern American Studies Association
(SASA) will explore filmic uses of the blues and southern
music as an ethnic and/or regional signifier. Of particular
interest is the blues as signifier not only of place but of
time, i.e., blues as signifier for nostalgia and/or the
past. Other areas of interest include but are not limited
to: the filmic relationship between visual images and the
blues, diegetic versus nondiegetic uses of the blues, and
transcultural uses of the blues.

CFP: Cinematic Homesick Blues (10/15/06; SASA,
2/14/07-2/18/07)

This panel for the Southern American Studies Association
(SASA) will explore filmic uses of the blues and southern
music as an ethnic and/or regional signifier. Of particular
interest is the blues as signifier not only of place but of
time, i.e., blues as signifier for nostalgia and/or the
past. Other areas of interest include but are not limited
to: the filmic relationship between visual images and the
blues, diegetic versus nondiegetic uses of the blues, and
transcultural uses of the blues.

> >CALL FOR PAPERS
> >
> >>LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SECTION
> >
> >Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters
> >
> >MARCH 9-10 2007, Location: Ferris State University, Big Rapids
Michigan
> >
> >Grad Students Welcome!
> >
> >British, American, Ethnic, Comparative literature, literature and
> film

FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.)
hosted by the Portland Center for Cultural Studies

Portland, Oregon (Portland State University) April 19-21, 2007

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its =20
Fifth Annual Meeting from all areas and topics of relevance to =20
Cultural Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, =20
sociology, geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, =20
cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist =20
studies, postcolonial studies, media and film studies, material =20
culture studies, performance and visual arts studies.