CFP: Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Caucus (03/01/07; RMMLA, 10/04/07-10/06/07 Calgary)
   
  Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Caucus Seminar
  Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)
  October 4-6, 2007 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
   
  Papers are welcomed on any aspect of the GLBTQ experience as expressed through literature, film and/or theory. All proposals will be considered. Papers addressing a bisexual and/or transgendered theme are especially encouraged.
   
  Please submit abstracts of 300 words and be sure to include a title. On your abstract, please include your name, institutional affiliation
(if applicable), email address, office phone number, and whether you

The Henry James Society will sponsor two sessions at the Modern Language =
Association annual conference, December 27-30, 2007, Chicago. Proposals =
are invited for the following panels:

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MLA, 2007

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Henry James and the Things of Modernism

The influence of modern inventions and institutions on new social =
configurations in James's fiction and non-fiction: photography, early =
cinema and new visual perspectives, hotels, high buildings, domestic and =
commercial space, telegraph and telephone, newspapers and news =
circulation, new museums, art collections, public libraries, private and =
public space.

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James's 'The Tempest' Essay=20

4th Global Conference
War, Virtual War and Human Security

Wednesday 2nd May - Saturday 5th May 2007
Hungary, Budapest

Call for Papers

4th Global Conference
War, Virtual War and Human Security

Wednesday 2nd May - Saturday 5th May 2007
Hungary, Budapest

Call for Papers

LSU EGSA Mardi Gras Conference on Language and Literature.
Feb. 16-17, 2007
Lod Cook Alumni Center
Baton Rouge, LA

Members Only: Gatekeepers and the Future of Literary Studies

Keynote Speaker: Timothy Brennan, Professor of Comparative Literature,
Cultural Studies, and English, The University of Minnesota.
Selected Publications: Wars of Position: Cultural Politics of Left and
Right (2005), Ed. Music in Cuba (2001), At Home in the World:
Cosmopolitanism Now (1997).

CFP: The A,B,Z of Contemporary Theory: Agamben, Badiou, and Zizek
(EGSA LSU 12/15/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07)

LSU EGSA Mardi Gras Conference on Language and Literature.
Feb. 16-17, 2007
Lod Cook Alumni Center
Baton Rouge, LA

Members Only: Gatekeepers and the Future of Literary Studies

Keynote Speaker: Timothy Brennan, Professor of Comparative Literature,
Cultural Studies, and English, The University of Minnesota.
Selected Publications: Wars of Position: Cultural Politics of Left and
Right (2005), Ed. Music in Cuba (2001), At Home in the World:
Cosmopolitanism Now (1997).

CFP: Benjamin and the Post-Secular (EGSA LSU 12/15/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07)

Panel for Figures of Comparison in the Humanities and the Social
Sciences, the second annual graduate student conference of The
Center for Comparative Literature and Society (CCLS)

Date/Place: March 2nd-3rd, 2007/ Columbia University, New York

CFP: Figures of Intellectual Labor (panel moderated by Bruce
Robbins)

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society at the ALA in Boston, May 2007

The recent publicaton of "The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin" edited by =
Henry Louis Gates signals the importance of Harriet Beecher Stowe on =
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African American authors and the development of the literary traditio=
n as a whole. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society invites papers for a=
 session that investigates the nature of Stowe's influence on African=
 American literary=20
production. Paper topics may consider Stowe's influence on any aspec=
t of African American literary production. Please email a 250-word a=
bstract to:=20
Tess Chakkalakal at tchakkal_at_williams.edu by 15 January 2007.=20

Call for Papers

"Literary Journalism in an International Context"

2nd International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies

Sciences Po Paris
Paris, France
18-19 May 2007

Call for Papers

"Literary Journalism in an International Context"

2nd International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies

Sciences Po Paris
Paris, France
18-19 May 2007

Call for Papers: Sports Culture, Film and Literature

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

28th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico

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February 14-17, 2007

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The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New
Mexico at the Hyatt Regency downtown. Join us this year, as a returning
or first-time participant, as we celebrate a new future on Route 66 at
this regional popular culture conference. Further details regarding the
conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can
be found at: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/

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American Association of Australian Literary Studies

Call for Papers for a Symposium on
"Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Representation, and Power in Colonial and
Post-Colonial Cultures"

Thursday and Friday 12-13 April 2007
University of Queensland

Deadline for Abstract: 20 January 2007

Colonialism produces its fair share of celebrities, yet the meanings, forms,
and functions of celebrities within colonial and post-colonial cultures have
received little scholarly attention.

The Postcolonial Research Group of the University of Queensland invites
proposals for papers for a symposium on Celebrity Colonialism to be held at
the University of Queensland in April 2007.

Call for Papers for a Symposium on
"Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Representation, and Power in Colonial and
Post-Colonial Cultures"

Thursday and Friday 12-13 April 2007
University of Queensland

Deadline for Abstract: 20 January 2007

Colonialism produces its fair share of celebrities, yet the meanings, forms,
and functions of celebrities within colonial and post-colonial cultures have
received little scholarly attention.

The Postcolonial Research Group of the University of Queensland invites
proposals for papers for a symposium on Celebrity Colonialism to be held at
the University of Queensland in April 2007.