CALL FOR PAPERS=20
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference=20
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania=20
March 2-5, 2006=20
Abstracts are invited for a roundtable on adjuncts in the teaching of writi=
ng. Participants will have 5 minutes for preliminary remarks before a gener=
al discussion. Preference will be given to panelists with adjunct status, =
those who hire and supervise adjuncts, and independent scholars seeking to =
acquire adjunct positions.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: pedagogical challenges fo=
r part-timers; scholarship; access to resources; salary and unions; seguewa=
ys into the tenure track; "permanent" part-timers; adjunct teacher as hobby=

Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing Texts

The Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton is seeking
papers for our 2006 conference to be held February 17th and 18th,
2006. We are interested papers/presentations for the following
suggested panel:

Call for Papers from Graduate Students

"En(compass)ing Language: Interplay Within English Studies"

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

March 31st through April 1st

Sponsored by: Texas Tech University's Graduate English Society

Co-Chairs: Brandon Hernsberger and Elizabeth Porter

Address: GES Conference

                                    Texas Tech University

                                    Department of English, Box 43091

                                    Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091

American Comparative Literature Association Conference 2006
(Princeton University, March 23-26)

Seminar-panel

Knowledge and =E2=80=98the Grey Zone=E2=80=99: Limit Situations and the Hum=
an Condition

"Schumann Perspectives: A View Across the Disciplines," an
international symposium and music festival celebrating the wide-ranging
artistic legacy of Robert Schumann will take place on the campus of
Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas from September 29-30, 2006.
The festival marks the 150th anniversary of the death of this remarkable
composer, writer, and cultural icon.

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Featured guest speakers and performers include:

* Lawrence Kramer (Professor of Music, Fordham University),
co-editor of 19th-Century Music and author of seven books on the
interrelations of music, culture, and society.

Intimacy and Exteriority
ACLA Annual Conference Seminar, Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006

Mon semblable, mon frère

Deadline for proposal submissions: Nov. 30, 2005

Call for Papers:

2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: Docudrama

Edith Wharton's Dialog with the Women's Movement
 
The Edith Wharton Society will host a panel at the Society for the Study
of American Women Writers Conference (Philadelphia, November 8 - 11,
2006).

Edith Wharton's Dialog with the Women's Movement
 
The Edith Wharton Society will host a panel at the Society for the Study
of American Women Writers Conference (Philadelphia, November 8 - 11,
2006).

CALL-FOR-SUBMISSIONS: CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, Volume Four

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A Symposium in Rhetoric: "Rhetoric & Kairos"
Open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities

Texas Woman's University - Denton, Texas

Where: ACT Bldg. 2nd Floor

When: February 24, 2006

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of kairos, which we define broadly to
incorporate a wide variety of research interests.

A Symposium in Rhetoric: "Rhetoric & Kairos"
Open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities

Texas Woman's University - Denton, Texas

Where: ACT Bldg. 2nd Floor

When: February 24, 2006

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of kairos, which we define broadly to
incorporate a wide variety of research interests.

American Indians Today-American Indians in Film Call for Papers

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 27th Annual
Conference
Albuquerque, NM, February 8-11, 2006
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710

The American Indians Today Area chair invites you to submit papers for a
special emphasis panel/workshop in American Indian Film for the
Southwest Texas/American Popular Culture Association's 27th "Annual
Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 8-11, 2006.=20

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The Panel/Workshop: Teaching American Indian Film

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Announcing the North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference

TRUE OR FALSE?

FEBRUARY 3-4, 2006
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT
CHAPEL HILL

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

* fact and fiction
* forgery
* perception and reality
* theater and verisimilitude
* portraiture, hagiography, (auto)biography
* memory and nostalgia
* mystical experiences
* witchcraft and magic
* judicial procedures
* scientific explanation
* the True Faith, heresy, and false religions
* writing history