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CFP: Existentialism in Twentieth Century American Fiction (2/28/06; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Ganesan Balakrishnan

The Indian Institute of World Literature invites articles in about 2000 words for inclusion in a volume on "Existentialism in Twentieth Century American Fiction", edited by Prof.Ganesan Balakrishnan, to be published in June 2006. The book will highlight the traces of Existentialism in the works of writers of the 'lost generation' like Ernest Hemingway,John Dos Passos,Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner.However, the boundaries are not very rigid -
any major Post-War era American novelist with an Existentialist outlook upon life will also be
considered. Articles may be typed/printed on one side of A4 size paper may be sent by Courier/Ordinary Mail to the following address before 02/28/2006

CFP: Existentialism in Twentieth Century American Fiction (2/28/06; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Ganesan Balakrishnan

The Indian Institute of World Literature invites articles in about 2000 words for inclusion in a volume on "Existentialism in Twentieth Century American Fiction", edited by Prof.Ganesan Balakrishnan, to be published in June 2006. The book will highlight the traces of Existentialism in the works of writers of the 'lost generation' like Ernest Hemingway,John Dos Passos,Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner.However, the boundaries are not very rigid -
any major Post-War era American novelist with an Existentialist outlook upon life will also be
considered. Articles may be typed/printed on one side of A4 size paper may be sent by Courier/Ordinary Mail to the following address before 02/28/2006

UPDATE: An End to the New? Re-assessing the Claims for New Media Writing(s) (1/30/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Stewart, Gavin

CONVERGENCE: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES=20
CALL FOR PAPERS Vol 12. no 4.Winter 2006=20

An End to the New? Re-assessing the claims for New Media Writing(s)
=20
Guest-edited by Simon Mills, Gavin Stewart & Sue Thomas=20

The focus of the special issue:

This special edition of Convergence marks the tenth anniversary of the
trAce Online Writing Centre, UK. To commemorate this landmark event, the
guest editors are seeking to evaluate the state-of-the-art of new media
writing(s).=20

UPDATE: An End to the New? Re-assessing the Claims for New Media Writing(s) (1/30/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Stewart, Gavin

CONVERGENCE: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES=20
CALL FOR PAPERS Vol 12. no 4.Winter 2006=20

An End to the New? Re-assessing the claims for New Media Writing(s)
=20
Guest-edited by Simon Mills, Gavin Stewart & Sue Thomas=20

The focus of the special issue:

This special edition of Convergence marks the tenth anniversary of the
trAce Online Writing Centre, UK. To commemorate this landmark event, the
guest editors are seeking to evaluate the state-of-the-art of new media
writing(s).=20

UPDATE: An End to the New? Re-assessing the Claims for New Media Writing(s) (1/30/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Stewart, Gavin

CONVERGENCE: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES=20
CALL FOR PAPERS Vol 12. no 4.Winter 2006=20

An End to the New? Re-assessing the claims for New Media Writing(s)
=20
Guest-edited by Simon Mills, Gavin Stewart & Sue Thomas=20

The focus of the special issue:

This special edition of Convergence marks the tenth anniversary of the
trAce Online Writing Centre, UK. To commemorate this landmark event, the
guest editors are seeking to evaluate the state-of-the-art of new media
writing(s).=20

CFP: Human Enhancement and Human Rights (1/1/06; 5/26/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
CARRICO, NORMAN DALE

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights"

May 26-28, 2006

Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California

Submit proposals via e-mail by January 1, 2006 to director_at_ieet.org

Sponsored by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the Center for
Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences
   
Much of the criticism of enhancement technologies has focused on the
potential for increased discrimination against women, people of color,
the poor, the differently enabled, or "unenhanced" humans. Some
bioethicists have proposed a global treaty to ban enhancement
technologies as "crimes against humanity."

CFP: Human Enhancement and Human Rights (1/1/06; 5/26/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
CARRICO, NORMAN DALE

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights"

May 26-28, 2006

Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California

Submit proposals via e-mail by January 1, 2006 to director_at_ieet.org

Sponsored by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the Center for
Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences
   
Much of the criticism of enhancement technologies has focused on the
potential for increased discrimination against women, people of color,
the poor, the differently enabled, or "unenhanced" humans. Some
bioethicists have proposed a global treaty to ban enhancement
technologies as "crimes against humanity."

CFP: Human Enhancement and Human Rights (1/1/06; 5/26/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
CARRICO, NORMAN DALE

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights"

May 26-28, 2006

Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California

Submit proposals via e-mail by January 1, 2006 to director_at_ieet.org

Sponsored by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the Center for
Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences
   
Much of the criticism of enhancement technologies has focused on the
potential for increased discrimination against women, people of color,
the poor, the differently enabled, or "unenhanced" humans. Some
bioethicists have proposed a global treaty to ban enhancement
technologies as "crimes against humanity."

UPDATE: Creative Writing Pedagogy (11/15/05; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/8/06-2/11/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Philip Heldrich

UPDATE CFP: Creative Writing Pedagogy
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations Annual Conference
(please forward to interested colleagues and graduate students)

Deadline for Creative Writing Pedagogy
Submissions 11/15/2005

All travel links on the website have been updated for 2006.
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html

New Areas Recently Added for 2006

Still Accepting Proposals for Creative Writing Pedagogy.

Present on a panel or propose a panel of your own:
Philip Heldrich, Creative Writing Pedagogy Chair
Email: pheldrich @sbcglobal.net [spam deterrent: please remove space before @ symbol to reply]

CFP: Time and Memory in Narrative (12/2/05; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Dr Karl Simms

Call for Papers: Time and Memory in Narrative

Proposals are invited for a collection of essays entitled Time and Memory
in Narrative. Papers may address any aspect of the representation of time
and memory in narrative. Philosophical and theoretical perspectives are
encouraged, which may be tested through application to one or several
narrative texts.

CFP: Trollope and Gender (UK) (2/1/06; 7/17/06-7/19/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
hmmarkwi

Trollope and Gender

July 17 – 19 2006

Exeter University, U.K.

Keynote Speakers:

Robert Polhemus, Stanford University

Deborah Denenholz Morse, The College of William and Mary

Mark Turner, King's College, London

Plenary Chair: Regenia Gagnier, Exeter University

Speakers include: Mary Jean Corbett (Miami at Ohio) on Trollope, Gender, and
Ireland; Lauren Goodlad (Illinois, Urbana Champaign) on Trollope, Gender and
Foreign Policy; Margaret Markwick (Exeter) on Trollope's New Men; Kathy
Psomaides (Duke) on Trollope and the Feminist Critique of Liberalism.

CFP: Trollope and Gender (UK) (2/1/06; 7/17/06-7/19/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
hmmarkwi

Trollope and Gender

July 17 – 19 2006

Exeter University, U.K.

Keynote Speakers:

Robert Polhemus, Stanford University

Deborah Denenholz Morse, The College of William and Mary

Mark Turner, King's College, London

Plenary Chair: Regenia Gagnier, Exeter University

Speakers include: Mary Jean Corbett (Miami at Ohio) on Trollope, Gender, and
Ireland; Lauren Goodlad (Illinois, Urbana Champaign) on Trollope, Gender and
Foreign Policy; Margaret Markwick (Exeter) on Trollope's New Men; Kathy
Psomaides (Duke) on Trollope and the Feminist Critique of Liberalism.

CFP: Trollope and Gender (UK) (2/1/06; 7/17/06-7/19/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
hmmarkwi

Trollope and Gender

July 17 – 19 2006

Exeter University, U.K.

Keynote Speakers:

Robert Polhemus, Stanford University

Deborah Denenholz Morse, The College of William and Mary

Mark Turner, King's College, London

Plenary Chair: Regenia Gagnier, Exeter University

Speakers include: Mary Jean Corbett (Miami at Ohio) on Trollope, Gender, and
Ireland; Lauren Goodlad (Illinois, Urbana Champaign) on Trollope, Gender and
Foreign Policy; Margaret Markwick (Exeter) on Trollope's New Men; Kathy
Psomaides (Duke) on Trollope and the Feminist Critique of Liberalism.

UPDATE: Mothering and Feminism (11/20/05; journal issue)

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Association for Research on Mothering

                **extension deadline - November 20th!**

                        "Mothering and Feminism"
                    Call for Papers for ARM Vol. 8.1

**please note we are NOT accepting any more creative submissions for
this issue, please send creative submissions for Vol. 8.2 - "Young
Mothers" by May 1. 2006***

UPDATE: Other Dreams (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Margaret W. Cotter-Lynch

PLEASE NOTE: The submission deadline for abstracts has been extended to
November 30, 2005.

Paper proposals are invited for the following seminar at the 2006
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference in
Princeton, NJ:

Other Dreams

CFP: Body Play: The Changing Relationship Between the Self and Body in the Long Eighteenth Century (grad) (1/5/06; McGill, 3/11/

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Erin Keating

12th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
McGill University, Montreal
Theme: Permeability and Selfhood
March 11-12, 2006=20

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.

CFP: Body Play: The Changing Relationship Between the Self and Body in the Long Eighteenth Century (grad) (1/5/06; McGill, 3/11/

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Erin Keating

12th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
McGill University, Montreal
Theme: Permeability and Selfhood
March 11-12, 2006=20

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.

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