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UPDATE: Un/Common Experience: Everyday Life (grad) (12/20/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
NYU French Graduate Conference Organizers ––

New deadline and keynote announcement for the annual graduate
conference of the NYU Department of French:

Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory of Everyday Life

February 16-17, 2007 with keynote speaker KRISTIN ROSS

The everyday is far from ordinary: within the banal lurks the sublime,
the familiar masks the strange. But does the quotidian confine,
define or liberate us?

CFP: (dis)junctions 2007: General Topic (grad) (1/5/07; 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
HELEN LOVEJOY

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
    
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside's
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference
    
Abstract deadline: 1/5/07
    
The framework for (dis)junctions 2007:
Malappropriation Nation might be imagined in relation
to what the 20th century American poet Susan Howe
calls the idea of "Lawlessness," the acting outside of
acceptable boundaries and ideologies. In developing
this year's theme, we are hoping to formulate panels
in which conventional or popular theories are used and
in turn reworked/rethought/re-imagined in ways that

UPDATE: Un/Common Experience: Everyday Life (grad) (12/20/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
NYU French Graduate Conference Organizers ––

New deadline and keynote announcement for the annual graduate
conference of the NYU Department of French:

Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory of Everyday Life

February 16-17, 2007 with keynote speaker KRISTIN ROSS

The everyday is far from ordinary: within the banal lurks the sublime,
the familiar masks the strange. But does the quotidian confine,
define or liberate us?

CFP: New Developments in Textual Culture (UK) (1/6/07; 2/17/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
Stephen Penn

Apologies for cross-posting
CALL FOR PAPERS
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TEXTUAL CULTURE
Department of English Studies, University of Stirling, UK
Saturday 17th February 2007
9.00 am - 5.30 pm
Keynote speakers: Prof. Ron Scollon (Georgetown), Dr Peter D. McDonald (Oxf=
ord)
Textual Culture is a cross-period, interdisciplinary field of enquiry focus=
ed on the production, circulation, and use of texts conceived in material, =
discursive, and economic terms. It brings together several strands of exist=
ing research interest, principally book history, publishing studies, discou=
rse analysis, and reader/audience study. This one-day symposium, intended a=

CFP: (dis)junctions 2007: General Topic (grad) (1/5/07; 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
HELEN LOVEJOY

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
    
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside's
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference
    
Abstract deadline: 1/5/07
    
The framework for (dis)junctions 2007:
Malappropriation Nation might be imagined in relation
to what the 20th century American poet Susan Howe
calls the idea of "Lawlessness," the acting outside of
acceptable boundaries and ideologies. In developing
this year's theme, we are hoping to formulate panels
in which conventional or popular theories are used and
in turn reworked/rethought/re-imagined in ways that

CFP: New Developments in Textual Culture (UK) (1/6/07; 2/17/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
Stephen Penn

Apologies for cross-posting
CALL FOR PAPERS
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TEXTUAL CULTURE
Department of English Studies, University of Stirling, UK
Saturday 17th February 2007
9.00 am - 5.30 pm
Keynote speakers: Prof. Ron Scollon (Georgetown), Dr Peter D. McDonald (Oxf=
ord)
Textual Culture is a cross-period, interdisciplinary field of enquiry focus=
ed on the production, circulation, and use of texts conceived in material, =
discursive, and economic terms. It brings together several strands of exist=
ing research interest, principally book history, publishing studies, discou=
rse analysis, and reader/audience study. This one-day symposium, intended a=

CFP: Beyond the Page: Performing Italian Literature (grad) (1/27/07; 3/9/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
yvonne mattevi

  Beyond the Page: Performing Italian Literature.
   
  The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
  PhD Program in Comparative Literature
  Doctoral Specialization in Italian
   
  Friday, March 9, 2006
   
  "The image is re-presentation,
  Which is to say ultimately resurrection"
  Roland Barthes, Image - Music - Text.
   

CFP: Beyond the Page: Performing Italian Literature (grad) (1/27/07; 3/9/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:52am
yvonne mattevi

  Beyond the Page: Performing Italian Literature.
   
  The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
  PhD Program in Comparative Literature
  Doctoral Specialization in Italian
   
  Friday, March 9, 2006
   
  "The image is re-presentation,
  Which is to say ultimately resurrection"
  Roland Barthes, Image - Music - Text.
   

CFP: Historicizing Fat (4/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Elena Levy-Navarro

"Historicizing Fat"=20

A Proposed Special Session for the 2007 Annual Convention of the Modern =
Language Association

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CFP: Historicizing Fat (4/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Elena Levy-Navarro

"Historicizing Fat"=20

A Proposed Special Session for the 2007 Annual Convention of the Modern =
Language Association

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CFP: Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Rubin, Lance

Call for submissions to a special topics panel devoted to the work of =
Chuck Palahniuk at the Rocky Mountain MLA in Calgary, Alberta, Canada =
October 4-6, 2007. In the spirit of the panel's title, "Fight Club and =
Beyond," papers that explore Palahniuk's other novels -- or which =
discuss Fight Club in the context of his other works -- are encouraged.
=20
Please send proposals (1-2 pages) or finished papers by March 1st as a =
Word attachment to lance.rubin_at_arapahoe.edu or mail hard copies to the =
following address
=20
Lance Rubin, Ph.D.
Humanities Chair=20
Arapahoe Community College
5900 S. Santa Fe Drive
Littleton, CO 80160

CFP: Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Rubin, Lance

Call for submissions to a special topics panel devoted to the work of =
Chuck Palahniuk at the Rocky Mountain MLA in Calgary, Alberta, Canada =
October 4-6, 2007. In the spirit of the panel's title, "Fight Club and =
Beyond," papers that explore Palahniuk's other novels -- or which =
discuss Fight Club in the context of his other works -- are encouraged.
=20
Please send proposals (1-2 pages) or finished papers by March 1st as a =
Word attachment to lance.rubin_at_arapahoe.edu or mail hard copies to the =
following address
=20
Lance Rubin, Ph.D.
Humanities Chair=20
Arapahoe Community College
5900 S. Santa Fe Drive
Littleton, CO 80160

CFP: Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Rubin, Lance

Call for submissions to a special topics panel devoted to the work of =
Chuck Palahniuk at the Rocky Mountain MLA in Calgary, Alberta, Canada =
October 4-6, 2007. In the spirit of the panel's title, "Fight Club and =
Beyond," papers that explore Palahniuk's other novels -- or which =
discuss Fight Club in the context of his other works -- are encouraged.
=20
Please send proposals (1-2 pages) or finished papers by March 1st as a =
Word attachment to lance.rubin_at_arapahoe.edu or mail hard copies to the =
following address
=20
Lance Rubin, Ph.D.
Humanities Chair=20
Arapahoe Community College
5900 S. Santa Fe Drive
Littleton, CO 80160

UPDATE: Japanese and Korean Environmental Literature (Japan) (12/25/06; ASLE, 8/19/07-8/21/07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Bruce

**Please note the amended contact information in the posting below**

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
Japan-Korea Joint Symposium
August 19-21, Kanazawa, Japan

PLACE, NATURE, LANGUAGE
Thinking about ¡ÈNow¡É in Japanese and Korean Environmental Literature

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Ko Un and Kazue Morisaki

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment in Japan
(ASLE-Japan) and ASLE-Korea invite proposals for an international
symposium, Place, Nature, Language: Thinking about ¡ÈNow¡É in Japanese
and Korean Environmental Literature, to be held from August 19-21,
2007, in Kanazawa, Japan.

UPDATE: Japanese and Korean Environmental Literature (Japan) (12/25/06; ASLE, 8/19/07-8/21/07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Bruce

**Please note the amended contact information in the posting below**

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
Japan-Korea Joint Symposium
August 19-21, Kanazawa, Japan

PLACE, NATURE, LANGUAGE
Thinking about ¡ÈNow¡É in Japanese and Korean Environmental Literature

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Ko Un and Kazue Morisaki

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment in Japan
(ASLE-Japan) and ASLE-Korea invite proposals for an international
symposium, Place, Nature, Language: Thinking about ¡ÈNow¡É in Japanese
and Korean Environmental Literature, to be held from August 19-21,
2007, in Kanazawa, Japan.

UPDATE: Japanese and Korean Environmental Literature (Japan) (12/25/06; ASLE, 8/19/07-8/21/07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Bruce

**Please note the amended contact information in the posting below**

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
Japan-Korea Joint Symposium
August 19-21, Kanazawa, Japan

PLACE, NATURE, LANGUAGE
Thinking about ¡ÈNow¡É in Japanese and Korean Environmental Literature

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Ko Un and Kazue Morisaki

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment in Japan
(ASLE-Japan) and ASLE-Korea invite proposals for an international
symposium, Place, Nature, Language: Thinking about ¡ÈNow¡É in Japanese
and Korean Environmental Literature, to be held from August 19-21,
2007, in Kanazawa, Japan.

CFP: Emerson Society Panels at ALA and Thoreau Society Gathering, 2007 (12/30/06; ALA, 5/24/07-5/27/07 & 12/15/06; Thoreau,

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Todd Richardson

American Literature Association. Boston, May 24-27 2007.

=20

ALA Session I: New Approaches to Emerson: Exploring the Family Ties

=20

Acknowledging the recent interest in Emerson's family relationships and
their bearing on our understanding of both Emerson's work and
Transcendentalism, this panel solicits papers exploring those family =
ties,
their rhetorical constructions, and their significance. Abstracts of =
300
words by December 30 to Joe Thomas (jthomas_at_caldwell.edu).

=20

=20

ALA Session II: Emerson on Other Shores: English Traits and Beyond=20

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CFP: Enfance - Childhood (2/16/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:27pm
revfront_at_post.queensu.ca

REVUE FRONTENAC REVIEW

Appel (renouvellement)
Eté 2007 : numéro 20 : « Enfance »

Suite à notre appel de l'année dernière pour ce même numéro 20, nous
renouvelons notre demande afin de recevoir davantage d'articles. Nous
invitons les étudiant-e-s gradué-e-s à soumettre un article écrit en
français ou en anglais pour ce numéro intitulé « Enfance » - terme que
nous définissons comme la période s'achevant aux alentours de l'âge de
treize ans.

Les travaux soumis pourront adopter toutes sortes d'approches critiques et
théoriques. Ils ne devront pas dépasser 20 pages et le format devra
impérativement suivre la norme MLA.

CFP: Enfance - Childhood (2/16/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:27pm
revfront_at_post.queensu.ca

REVUE FRONTENAC REVIEW

Appel (renouvellement)
Eté 2007 : numéro 20 : « Enfance »

Suite à notre appel de l'année dernière pour ce même numéro 20, nous
renouvelons notre demande afin de recevoir davantage d'articles. Nous
invitons les étudiant-e-s gradué-e-s à soumettre un article écrit en
français ou en anglais pour ce numéro intitulé « Enfance » - terme que
nous définissons comme la période s'achevant aux alentours de l'âge de
treize ans.

Les travaux soumis pourront adopter toutes sortes d'approches critiques et
théoriques. Ils ne devront pas dépasser 20 pages et le format devra
impérativement suivre la norme MLA.

CFP: Enfance - Childhood (2/16/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:27pm
revfront_at_post.queensu.ca

REVUE FRONTENAC REVIEW

Appel (renouvellement)
Eté 2007 : numéro 20 : « Enfance »

Suite à notre appel de l'année dernière pour ce même numéro 20, nous
renouvelons notre demande afin de recevoir davantage d'articles. Nous
invitons les étudiant-e-s gradué-e-s à soumettre un article écrit en
français ou en anglais pour ce numéro intitulé « Enfance » - terme que
nous définissons comme la période s'achevant aux alentours de l'âge de
treize ans.

Les travaux soumis pourront adopter toutes sortes d'approches critiques et
théoriques. Ils ne devront pas dépasser 20 pages et le format devra
impérativement suivre la norme MLA.

CFP: Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Slaveries and Freedoms Today (5/1/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:27pm
entertext

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

A Commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807

 

Academic papers and creative submissions are invited for this special issue to mark the two-hundredth anniversary in 2007 of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade.

 

EnterText volume 7 number 2

 

Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Slaveries and Freedoms Today

 

Submissions are invited by 1 May 2007

 

Forms of slavery, quasi-slavery and the abuse or exploitation of one group by another remain widespread in the world today. Questions which might be addressed include:

 

CFP: British Literature since 1900 (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:27pm
aflinn_at_mail.ewu.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

British literature since 1900

This is an open, English-language session on British and postcolonial
literature at the 2007 RMMLA conference, to be held in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada. The conference will run from 4 October to 6 October
2007.

Send a 200 word abstract to Anthony Flinn at aflinn_at_ewu.edu by 1 March
2007, or long before that, for consideration.

Hard copies of submissions may be sent to:

Anthony Flinn
250 Patterson Hall
Dept. of English
Eastern Washington University
Cheney, WA 99004

Details can be found at www.rmmla.org.

CFP: Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Slaveries and Freedoms Today (5/1/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:27pm
entertext

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

A Commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807

 

Academic papers and creative submissions are invited for this special issue to mark the two-hundredth anniversary in 2007 of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade.

 

EnterText volume 7 number 2

 

Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Slaveries and Freedoms Today

 

Submissions are invited by 1 May 2007

 

Forms of slavery, quasi-slavery and the abuse or exploitation of one group by another remain widespread in the world today. Questions which might be addressed include:

 

CFP: Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Slaveries and Freedoms Today (5/1/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:27pm
entertext

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

A Commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807

 

Academic papers and creative submissions are invited for this special issue to mark the two-hundredth anniversary in 2007 of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade.

 

EnterText volume 7 number 2

 

Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Slaveries and Freedoms Today

 

Submissions are invited by 1 May 2007

 

Forms of slavery, quasi-slavery and the abuse or exploitation of one group by another remain widespread in the world today. Questions which might be addressed include:

 

UPDATE: Justice/Ethics and the Postcolonial Location (1/10/07; SGES, 2/15/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:27pm
stacey

of graduate student scholarship.
  Along with your abstract attachment, please include home and office numbers, complete mailing address, e-mail address, AV requirements, and professional affiliation. E-mail submissions are encouraged and more information is available online: http://www.asu.edu/clubs/gsea/sw/.
  Please send no more 350 word abstracts, attention Stacey, to: asu2007symp_at_yahoo.com by January 10, 2007.
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