The University of Durham's Online Journal
POSTGRADUATE ENGLISH:
A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English in the UK and Europe

Invites postgraduates studying in the UK and Europe to submit papers of not
more than 7000 words on a topic of YOUR CHOICE in the broad range of English
Studies for issue 14 (September 2006) of our refereed online journal. Papers
must conform to the MLA guidelines for presentation and be received no later than

DEADLINE: JULY 14, 2006.

This journal publishes papers from PhD or any other research students
ONLY. Please, when submitting your work, include the following information in
the email: name of University, full title of program, title of essay.

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

Callaloo invites you to submit formal articles, informal essays, and other
kinds of texts (including visual and creative writing) about

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

as a writer and friend in a Special Issue of the journal to be devoted to
this distinguished American writer.

Each manuscript or other contribution should be submitted following the
Callaloo submission guidelines and postmarked no later than Friday, April
20, 2007, to:

Callaloo/Octavia Butler Issue
Department of English
Texas A&M University
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

Callaloo invites you to submit formal articles, informal essays, and other
kinds of texts (including visual and creative writing) about

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

as a writer and friend in a Special Issue of the journal to be devoted to
this distinguished American writer.

Each manuscript or other contribution should be submitted following the
Callaloo submission guidelines and postmarked no later than Friday, April
20, 2007, to:

Callaloo/Octavia Butler Issue
Department of English
Texas A&M University
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227

Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred and the Sublime

Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia
May 10-12, 2007

Keynote Speakers: David Lyle Jeffrey, Baylor University; Maxine Hancock,
Regent College

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited on any aspects of the topics of suffering, the sacred,
and the sublime in literature from a Christian perspective.
Interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approaches to these topics are
encouraged.

Topics may include:

American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, =
October 27-28, 2006, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA.

"Which Direction Ireland?"

UPDATE: All Areas have CFPs up and ready.=20
Dear Film and Culture scholars,=20
The Film & History web site now carries over 50 areas of study for=20
the November conference. Check out the site and the detailed CFPs=20
available for our 8-12 Conference on =E2=80=9CThe Documentary Tradition.=
=E2=80=9D=20
www.filmandhistory.org=20
Here is a hint of the variety of topics under the main rubric of =20
DOCUMENTARY=20
Genres, Styles, and Aesthetics (13 areas)=20
Individual Filmmakers (18 areas)=20
Classics (3 areas)=20
Eras and Places (3 areas)=20
Social Documentaries and Topics (6 areas)=20
National Traidtions (10 areas)=20

CFP: Popular Culture, the Marketplace and Feminine Self-Fashioning Panel,
10/27-29/06

"A Rose by Any Other Name: Female Self-Fashioning and the Marketplace" is a
session of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association's
annual conference. The dates are 10/27/06 -10/29/06 in Baltimore, MD. For
more information, please go to: http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/.

Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines

12 - 14 April 2007 (deadline for submissions 1 Sept 06)
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan South Wales UK

Keynotes confirmed
Anne Bogart, SITI Company
Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

Call for Papers (please cross post where appropriate)

Improvisation is integral to arts practice. This conference provides a
structure and a space for artists/practitioners/teachers/scholars to
share ideas and debate about the application and relevance of
improvisation in arts practice today.

Panel Title:
 
Fairy Tale Visions and (Re)Visions

NeMLA Conference: Baltimore, MD
Conference Dates: 03/01/07-03/04/07
Proposals due to Panel Chair by: 09/15/06

Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines

12 - 14 April 2007 (deadline for submissions 1 Sept 06)
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan South Wales UK

Keynotes confirmed
Anne Bogart, SITI Company
Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

Call for Papers (please cross post where appropriate)

Improvisation is integral to arts practice. This conference provides a
structure and a space for artists/practitioners/teachers/scholars to
share ideas and debate about the application and relevance of
improvisation in arts practice today.

The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor a panel at the American Literature
Symposium on American Fiction in San Diego on September 28-30, 2006.

Please send two-page proposals on any aspect of Edith Wharton's fiction by
July 7, 2006 to Margaret Murray at drmpm_at_snet.net.

No audiovisual equipment will be available for this symposium. The
conference fee is $120, which includes two meals and two receptions. A full
description of the symposium, together with registration form and lodging
information, is available on the American Literature Association web site:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/otherconfs.html

The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor a panel at the American Literature
Symposium on American Fiction in San Diego on September 28-30, 2006.

Please send two-page proposals on any aspect of Edith Wharton's fiction by
July 7, 2006 to Margaret Murray at drmpm_at_snet.net.

No audiovisual equipment will be available for this symposium. The
conference fee is $120, which includes two meals and two receptions. A full
description of the symposium, together with registration form and lodging
information, is available on the American Literature Association web site:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/otherconfs.html

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

INTREPID VISIONARY: BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD, NOVELIST, POET, AND SCULPTOR

*American Modernism: Cultural Transactions*
Oxford Brookes University, UK
22-23 September 2006

A major interdisciplinary conference examining the scope and impact of
America Modernism in literature, cinema and the visual arts

Sessions on Ethnicity and Culture, T.S. Eliot. Anglo-American Modernism,
the American Avant-garde, Edith Wharton, and Transnational Modernism

visit the website @
http://www.ah.brookes.ac.uk/conferences/americanmodernism/

Speakers include:
Cassandra Laity, Tim Armstrong, Janet Beer, Laura Marcus, Paul Giles and
Steven Mathews