CALL FOR PAPERS: FEMINISM, ACTIVISM AND THE ACADEMY

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The Women's Studies Committee at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY
invites you to join Activist/Scholar/Publisher Barbara Smith and
Authors/Activists Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards for the First
Annual Saint Rose Women's Studies Regional Conference on Saturday, March
24, 2007.

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This year, we invite scholarly papers, practical workshops and dialogues
by and between feminist and womanist activists, writers and scholars on
themes related to Feminism, Activism and the Academy.=20

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Call for papers re: Ana Caro's *Valor, agravio y mujer,* especially =
those focusing on its recent production at Washington's GALA Theater =
under the direction of Hugo Medrano. Please send abstracts by Friday =
Nov. 26th to Maryrica Ortiz Lottman, Assistant Professor of Spanish, =
UNC-Charlotte. mlottman_at_email.uncc.edu

The Department of French at New York University announces its annual =20
Graduate Conference, =93Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory =20=

of Everyday Life=94.

February 16-17, 2007

=93How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.=94Annie =20=

Dillard, The Writing Life

  =93How are we to speak of these =91common things,=92 how to track them =
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down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they =20
remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, =20
finally, speak of what is, of what we are?=94 Georges Perec, Species of =20=

Places and Other Pieces

The Department of French at New York University announces its annual =20
Graduate Conference, =93Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory =20=

of Everyday Life=94.

February 16-17, 2007

=93How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.=94Annie =20=

Dillard, The Writing Life

  =93How are we to speak of these =91common things,=92 how to track them =
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down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they =20
remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, =20
finally, speak of what is, of what we are?=94 Georges Perec, Species of =20=

Places and Other Pieces

DEADLINE DATE EXTENDED for Special Topics Panel ("Mentoring New Faculty in an
Academic Department: The Role of Administrative Leadership") at the 2007
College English Association (CEA) Conference New Orleans—April 12 to April 14,
2007

Topic suggestions, with the role of those in departmental leadership positions
as the focus, might include, but are not limited to, the following:

CFP: media in transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration
in the
digital age

April 27-29, 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CALL FOR PAPERS (submission deadline: Jan. 5, 2007)

CFP: media in transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration
in the
digital age

April 27-29, 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CALL FOR PAPERS (submission deadline: Jan. 5, 2007)

Live Comedy and Its Audiences

Seeking contributions for an anthology that explores live comedy audiences.=
 The book will include contributions by both scholars and comedians, and wi=
ll focus on the dynamics of audience behaviour. The anthology will cover th=
emes including: cultural and historical differences in comedy audience prac=
tice; the architecture of the audience; the reception of 'low' versus 'high=
' and live versus televised comedy; the subjectivity of audience members an=
d the spread of affect; the two-way relationship between joker and listener=
; and the comedy club as a distinct spatial and emotional environment. Addi=
tional topics also welcome.=20

Live Comedy and Its Audiences

Seeking contributions for an anthology that explores live comedy audiences.=
 The book will include contributions by both scholars and comedians, and wi=
ll focus on the dynamics of audience behaviour. The anthology will cover th=
emes including: cultural and historical differences in comedy audience prac=
tice; the architecture of the audience; the reception of 'low' versus 'high=
' and live versus televised comedy; the subjectivity of audience members an=
d the spread of affect; the two-way relationship between joker and listener=
; and the comedy club as a distinct spatial and emotional environment. Addi=
tional topics also welcome.=20

Animals and Agency

(MLA panel arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature
and the Environment)

Proposals are invited for presentations that explore literary
representations of animality, especially those that deal with the
agency and subjectivity of animals.

How do representations of animals undermine or complicate the
boundary that supposedly differentiates animals from humans?

How are animals constructed, and how do they undo those constructions?

Submit 300-word abstracts by March 1, 2007 to Sarah McFarland at
mcfarlands_at_nsula.edu.

Questions are welcome!

Animals and Agency

(MLA panel arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature
and the Environment)

Proposals are invited for presentations that explore literary
representations of animality, especially those that deal with the
agency and subjectivity of animals.

How do representations of animals undermine or complicate the
boundary that supposedly differentiates animals from humans?

How are animals constructed, and how do they undo those constructions?

Submit 300-word abstracts by March 1, 2007 to Sarah McFarland at
mcfarlands_at_nsula.edu.

Questions are welcome!

CFP: Imagination: Public or Private? (2/12/07; 5/17/07 - 5/18/07)

University of Washington Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies/
in conjunction with an interdisciplinary faculty conference "Inventions of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Imaginary since Romanticism"

May 17-18, 2007
Keynote Speaker: David Clark (English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University)

CFP: Imagination: Public or Private? (2/12/07; 5/17/07 - 5/18/07)

University of Washington Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies/
in conjunction with an interdisciplinary faculty conference "Inventions of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Imaginary since Romanticism"

May 17-18, 2007
Keynote Speaker: David Clark (English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University)

UPDATE: C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Native American Literature Symposium, March 8 â€" March 10, 2007
Deadline â€" November 27, 2006

One of the participants in this roundtable had to drop out due to the change in dates for the symposium. We are seeking one or two replacements.

The host facility for the symposium will be the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort,
operated by the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan.

Roundtable on Teaching American Indian Film