UPDATE: Confirmed keynote speakers:
* F. Abiola Irele
* Achille Mbembe
* Bharati Mukherjee

Visit the conference website: www.sun.ac.za/english/localglobal2006.

Forging the Local and the Global

9-12 July 2006

University of Stellenbosch

Western Cape, South Africa

NEW DEADLINE UPDATE: NOVEMBER 20, 2005

THE BODY AND PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE

NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS

2006 JOINT CONFERENCE

April 12 – 15, 2006

Marriott Marquis Hotel

Atlanta, Georgia

For more information on the PCA/ACA, please go to http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.

DEADLINE UPDATE: NOVEMBER 20, 2005

If you miss this deadline, please contact the area chair.

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Deadline for CFP extended to November 30, 2005

Updated Schedule for Plenary Speakers:

Eavan Boland (Thursday February 23, 2006 5:30 p.m.)

Margot Backus (Friday February 24, 2006 4:30 p.m.)

Vona Groarke (TBA)

Conor O'Callaghan (TBA)

CALL FOR PAPERS

IRISH STUDIES: GEOGRAPHIES AND GENDERS

American Conference for Irish Studies

2006 Southern Regional Conference

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

February 23-26, 2006

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Deadline for CFP extended to November 30, 2005

Updated Schedule for Plenary Speakers:

Eavan Boland (Thursday February 23, 2006 5:30 p.m.)

Margot Backus (Friday February 24, 2006 4:30 p.m.)

Vona Groarke (TBA)

Conor O'Callaghan (TBA)

CALL FOR PAPERS

IRISH STUDIES: GEOGRAPHIES AND GENDERS

American Conference for Irish Studies

2006 Southern Regional Conference

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

February 23-26, 2006

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Deadline for CFP extended to November 30, 2005

Updated Schedule for Plenary Speakers:

Eavan Boland (Thursday February 23, 2006 5:30 p.m.)

Margot Backus (Friday February 24, 2006 4:30 p.m.)

Vona Groarke (TBA)

Conor O'Callaghan (TBA)

CALL FOR PAPERS

IRISH STUDIES: GEOGRAPHIES AND GENDERS

American Conference for Irish Studies

2006 Southern Regional Conference

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

February 23-26, 2006

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The Better-Known Chopin: Making It New
  
For over fifty years, The Awakening and stories like "Desiree's Baby" and
"The Story of an Hour" have been part of the literary canon and staples of
the classroom. As the times and contexts change, we are finding new
approaches and new perspectives on these familiar works. For this ALA
panel, which is sponsored by The Kate Chopin Society, papers and
presentations should provide some re-visionings of Kate Chopin's
better-known fiction: proposing innovative critical approaches, developing
new textual pairings and readings, examining unexplored contexts, or
suggesting classroom techniques that can make Chopin's work fresh for

The IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication seeks tutorials and teaching cases for upcoming issues of the journal. Samples of tutorials and teaching cases appear on the journal's website: http://ieeepcs.org/activities_publications_transactions_authors.php

All types of tutorials or teaching cases for professional communication are appropriate as long as authors address the following questions:

For tutorials:

Deadline Extended to December 1, 2005

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Call for Papers: American Indians Today in Popular Culture

Abstract/Proposals by December 1, 2005

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Southwest/Texas Popular & American Popular Culture Associations 27th
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Albuquerque, NM. February 8-11, 2006

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque

330 Tijeras

Albuquerque, NM 87102

Phone: 1.505.842.1234

Fax: 1.505.766.6710

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Katherine Anne Porter Society, a member society of the American =
Literature Association, issues a call for papers for a session at the =
ALA 2006 conference in San Francisco, CA. Entitled "Katherine Anne =
Porter and the Artist," the session will consider the variety of ways =
that Porter explored the role of the artist in her fiction and =
non-fiction. Possible subjects include, but are not limited to, Porter's =
artist figures, Porter's literary criticism, Porter's reflections on the =
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12th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature McGill University,
Montreal
Theme: Permeability and Selfhood
March 11-12, 2006

This call for papers is for a panel to be held at Permeability and Selfhood,
the McGill Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, which will take
place March 11-12 at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Please email paper abstracts of approximately 300 words.

You can direct submissions to melissa.fink_at_mail.mcgill.ca by January 5, 2006.

Thanks for your interest, please let me know if you have any questions.

Melissa Fink
(Panel Chair)

Narrating Gender: Representation and Identity Formation in Contemporary
Autobiography

12th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature McGill University,
Montreal
Theme: Permeability and Selfhood
March 11-12, 2006

This call for papers is for a panel to be held at Permeability and Selfhood,
the McGill Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, which will take
place March 11-12 at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Please email paper abstracts of approximately 300 words.

You can direct submissions to melissa.fink_at_mail.mcgill.ca by January 5, 2006.

Thanks for your interest, please let me know if you have any questions.

Melissa Fink
(Panel Chair)

Narrating Gender: Representation and Identity Formation in Contemporary
Autobiography

UPDATE: CALL FOR PAPERS
SHAKESPEARE ADAPTATIONS: ADDITIONS AND OMISSIONS

2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
27th Annual Conference: Albuquerque, NM

February 8-11, 2006

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: The deadline is extended until December 1, 2005.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: December 31, 2005

Proposals are being accepted for a panel entitled "Shakespeare Adaptations:
Additions and Omissions" in the Shakespeare on Film and Television Area of
the conference.

UPDATE: CALL FOR PAPERS
SHAKESPEARE ADAPTATIONS: ADDITIONS AND OMISSIONS

2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
27th Annual Conference: Albuquerque, NM

February 8-11, 2006

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: The deadline is extended until December 1, 2005.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: December 31, 2005

Proposals are being accepted for a panel entitled "Shakespeare Adaptations:
Additions and Omissions" in the Shakespeare on Film and Television Area of
the conference.