The Flannery O'Connor Society invites proposals for papers dealing with
O'Connor's work within a global perspective. Possible topics might include
(but are not limited to):
--O'Connor's perspective toward internationalization in a post-war America.
--How O'Connor's works are understood in the non-American classroom.
--How O'Connor fits within literary traditions in other countries.
--Pedagogial differences when teaching O'Connor abroad or to international
students.
--O'Connor texts as part of a Global Literature curriculum.

Please submit a 250-500 word abstract to Dianne Bunch cdbunch_at_alcorn.edu by
January 5, 2007.

7th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference
April 13-15th 2007
Sex in Public/Sex in Private
University of Iowa

CRAFT CRITIQUE CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the
intersections between critical and creative approaches to writing both
within and beyond the academy. This year's conference will examine the ways
that sex and gender define, delimit, distort, and dissolve the lines between
public and private spheres. Our keynote speakers include the University of
Chicago's George M. Pullman Professor of Literature, Lauren Berlant and the
University of Iowa's Assistant Professor of Cinema, Sasha Waters.

Correspondances Oc=E9aniennes

A thematic half-yearly journal promoting Oceanic
cultures based in Noum=E9a, New-Caledonia. Founded in
2002. Already published: issues on Women, Youth,
Nature, Memory, Literatures, the Body, Creation,
Images, Australia. Indexed by Austlit Database and in
Australian Literary Studies 21: 3, May 2004, p.385 &
390; reviewed in Antipodes 17: 2, Dec.2003, p.167-8.

(Founding) Editor : Dr. Jean-Fran=E7ois VERNAY

CALL FOR PAPERS:

FEEL FREE TO SEND YOUR PROPOSALS
TO THE EDITOR: vernayj_at_yahoo.com
By 30 March 2007.

THEME: INSCRIPTIONS.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Send proposal and brief CV by December 1, 2006.

To Complete a Panel: Need papers on "Bollywood Shakespeare" or "Shakespeare
in India" -- possible films include Shakespeare Walla (1965), Kaliyattam
(1997), Maqbool (2003), and Omkara (2006).

New Area Added: A panel on Metatheatrical Shakespeare, to include films in
which the characters put on a Shakespeare play. Examples include: A Double
Life (1947), To Be or Not To Be (1942), Kiss Me Kate (1953), Shakespeare
Walla (1965), Theatre of Blood (1973), Renaissance Man (1994), Dead Poets
Society (1989), A Midwinter's Tale (1995), Shakespeare in Love (1998), The
King is Alive (2000), Get Over It! (2001), and Stage Beauty (2004).

Deadline extended:

All travel and registration links on our website have now been updated for
2007.

http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html

New Areas Added.

Still Accepting Proposals for Chick Lit. Panel

Proposal Deadline: December 1, 2006

Call For Papers: "Chick Lit." Area

Abstract/Proposals by 15 November 2006

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 28th Annual
Conference

Albuquerque, NM February 14-17, 2007

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque

330 Tijeras

Albuquerque, NM 87102

Phone: 1.505.842.1234

Fax: 1.505.766.6710

Borderlines XI: Call for Papers

Minds and Mentalities

Papers from postgraduates in medieval studies and related fields are
invited for the eleventh annual Borderlines conference, 'Minds and
Mentalities', to be held at Queen's University Belfast on April
13-15, 2007. The title is intended to embrace as wide a range of
research interests as possible, with papers being welcome from all
disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. Thus,
prospective speakers are encouraged to interpret this title with
reference to any specialism; including literature, theology,
philosophy, historiography, psychology, performance, material
culture, the history of ideas, and art history.

Extended Deadline: December 1

Proposals for Film Areas, including Theory, Adaptation, and Production

Call for Papers: Film Area, a long-standing, well-represented area
with outstanding past presentations. Southwest/Texas Popular
Culture/American Culture Association 27th Annual Conf., held in
beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will meet February 14 - 17, 2007
at the Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel in downtown ABQ. Join us this
year, as a returning participant or for your first-time.

We welcome any aspect of film studies, prospective topics include:

FILM:

CALL FOR PAPERS

MECHADEMIA 3: Limits of the Human
Editor: Frenchy Lunning
Associate Editors: Thomas LaMarre, Michelle Ollie, Christopher Bolton

American Literature Association
Boston, May 24-27, 2007
 
Proposed Panel: Teaching American Regionalism/Local Color
 
Over the past two decades, literary critics--Richard Brodhead, Donna
Campbell, June Howard, Amy Kaplan, Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse, and
Stephanie Foote, to name but a few--have opened up new and compelling (and
often competing) ways of understanding regional and local color writing of
the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but as has been the case
with critical re-evaluations of the generic categories of realism and
naturalism, these reappraisals have left us in a certain flux as to what
makes a text an example of regionalism and/or local color and what such

The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society will hold its IX Annual Conference in beautiful Harrodsburg and Springfield (Saint Catharine College), Kentucky, April 21-23, 2007. The conference headquarters -- site of the opening banquet, keynote session, and annual business meeting -- is the lovely and legendary Beaumont Inn (http://www.beaumontinn.com/), in historic Harrodsburg. Academic paper sessions will be held at Saint Catharine College, just outside of Springfield, Roberts's hometown.

Call for Papers: Culture and Identity Issue

Call for Papers: Culture and Identity Issue

Edwin Arlington Robinson?s (1869-1935) most popular poems consistently
appear in numerous American poetry anthologies and high school
textbooks, his Collected Poems are carried by ?big box? bookstores, and
one of his poems was even the subject of the Simon and Garfunkel song
?Richard Cory.? Scott Donaldson?s forthcoming biography demonstrates
that Robinson remains a figure of literary interest. However, the
scarcity of recent critical work is remarkable; Donaldson?s biography
is the first in more than sixty years. So why does Robinson?s poetry
encourage so little critical attention if he was and is still a public,
published poet? This proposed ALA panel is soliciting 400-600 word

Edwin Arlington Robinson?s (1869-1935) most popular poems consistently
appear in numerous American poetry anthologies and high school
textbooks, his Collected Poems are carried by ?big box? bookstores, and
one of his poems was even the subject of the Simon and Garfunkel song
?Richard Cory.? Scott Donaldson?s forthcoming biography demonstrates
that Robinson remains a figure of literary interest. However, the
scarcity of recent critical work is remarkable; Donaldson?s biography
is the first in more than sixty years. So why does Robinson?s poetry
encourage so little critical attention if he was and is still a public,
published poet? This proposed ALA panel is soliciting 400-600 word