CALL FOR PAPERS

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Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New =
Literatures of
English (ASNEL) /

Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f=FCr die Neuen Englischsprachigen =
Literaturen
(GNEL)

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena,

May 17-20, 2007

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CALL FOR PAPERS

=93LOCAL NATURES, GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITIES=93

=20

Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New =
Literatures of
English (ASNEL) /

Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f=FCr die Neuen Englischsprachigen =
Literaturen
(GNEL)

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena,

May 17-20, 2007

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Papers are solicited for a collection of critical essays tentatively titled: Crowned with Laurel: Critical Essays on African American Pulitzer Prize Wining Literature . This collection of essays will examine eleven works by African Americans that have won the country's most prestigious award. Those works are:
   
  1950: Poetry—Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
  1970: Drama—No Place to Be Somebody by Charles Gordone
  1978: Fiction—Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
  1982: Drama—A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller
  1983: Fiction—The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  1987: Fiction—Fences by August Wilson
  1987: Poetry—Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
  1988: Fiction—Beloved by Toni Morrison

Papers are solicited for a collection of critical essays tentatively titled: Crowned with Laurel: Critical Essays on African American Pulitzer Prize Wining Literature . This collection of essays will examine eleven works by African Americans that have won the country's most prestigious award. Those works are:
   
  1950: Poetry—Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
  1970: Drama—No Place to Be Somebody by Charles Gordone
  1978: Fiction—Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
  1982: Drama—A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller
  1983: Fiction—The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  1987: Fiction—Fences by August Wilson
  1987: Poetry—Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
  1988: Fiction—Beloved by Toni Morrison

The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation,
the University of California Riverside's 14th Annual
Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7, 2007.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
the 20th cent. American poets known as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
poets. Papers on any writer considered to be a member
of this school are invited, as are pieces exploring
any issue or discussion surrounding L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
poetry.

Also encouraged are creative works in the unique style
of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets.

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
Global Context

Issue One, Fall 2007
³Race and Coalition²

The editorial staff of the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
invites submissions for its inaugural issue on the subject of ³Race and
Coalition.² Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the
field of race and ethnic studies by using a ³classic² piece as a point of
departure for a reconsideration of critical issues within the contemporary
economic, political, and cultural terrain.

The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation,
the University of California Riverside's 14th Annual
Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7, 2007.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
the 20th cent. American poets known as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
poets. Papers on any writer considered to be a member
of this school are invited, as are pieces exploring
any issue or discussion surrounding L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
poetry.

Also encouraged are creative works in the unique style
of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets.

We are looking for papers for a proposed independent panel at this =
year's American Literature Association conference in Boston (May 24-27, =
2007, Memorial Day weekend). Papers should focus on American literature =
written during the years of the current Bush administration. Ideally, =
papers will look at how recent American literature intersects with the =
events and policy decisions of the past six years including, but =
certainly not limited to, the events of September 11th, American =
military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, the environment, the =
"Third Great Awakening" and the increased influence of the religious =
right, Enron and other corporate scandals, the USA Patriot Act, the role =

Swietokrzyska Academy in Piotrkow Trybunalski (Poland)

English Philology Department

Invites all the interested scholars to participate in an international
two-day conference:

Cultural representations of psychiatry and mental illness

18th – 19th May 2007

The suggested topics might include but are not limited to:

Representations of the mentally ill in cinema and literature (shell-shock
and other posttraumatic shock disorders, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar
disorder, eating disorders, substance-abuse related illnesses, suicide)

Representations of the doctor-patient relationships

Gender and madness

Writing as a symptom/writing as a cure

Swietokrzyska Academy in Piotrkow Trybunalski (Poland)

English Philology Department

Invites all the interested scholars to participate in an international
two-day conference:

Cultural representations of psychiatry and mental illness

18th – 19th May 2007

The suggested topics might include but are not limited to:

Representations of the mentally ill in cinema and literature (shell-shock
and other posttraumatic shock disorders, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar
disorder, eating disorders, substance-abuse related illnesses, suicide)

Representations of the doctor-patient relationships

Gender and madness

Writing as a symptom/writing as a cure

Deadline extended:

The First International Making Books, Shaping Readers Conference
University College, Cork, April 18th - 20th 2007
http://www.ucc.ie/en/mbsr

Theme: "Making an Audience (Medieval)"

We have had a fantastic response to our conference CFP, but to complete our
programme we are looking for a panel of medievalists, with papers focused on
the theme of the conference. We are also delighted to confirm that Prof John
Thompson (QUB) and Prof Bill Bell (Edinburgh) will be our plenary speakers.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy session will have three or four
twenty-minute papers at the South Central Modern Language Association
meeting in Memphis TN next November. 500-word abstracts (or full drafts)
should be submitted to Joe R. Christopher, English Department, Box T-0300,
Tarleton State University, Stephenville TX 76402
<jchristopher_at_tarleton.edu> by March 14, 2007. The theme of the whole
conference is "Currents," but no tie-in is necessary. For information
about the conference generally, check the SCMLA website; for specific
queries, email Christopher.

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This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

Deadline extended:

The First International Making Books, Shaping Readers Conference
University College, Cork, April 18th - 20th 2007
http://www.ucc.ie/en/mbsr

Theme: "Making an Audience (Medieval)"

We have had a fantastic response to our conference CFP, but to complete our
programme we are looking for a panel of medievalists, with papers focused on
the theme of the conference. We are also delighted to confirm that Prof John
Thompson (QUB) and Prof Bill Bell (Edinburgh) will be our plenary speakers.