Immigration is a phenomenon that contemporary societies struggle with. In this context the figure of the foreigner is a good scenario to explore the dynamics and tensions of cultures in contact. The liminal perspective provided by the outsider adds a new interpretation of our own reality, questioning the foundations of the canonical culture and our own identities. "What appear to be cultural units-human beings, words, meanings, ideas, philosophical systems, social organizations-are maintained in their apparent unity only through an active process of exclusion, opposition, and hierarchization.

NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS: OCTOBER 10, 2006. PLEASE
EMAIL CUNYCOMPLIT.CONFERENCE_at_GMAIL.COM

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Envisioning Home

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Prof. Joshua Landy (Stanford)

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Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature

November 3 & 4, 2006

The Graduate Center of CUNY

365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016

www.beautifulnovember.com

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to be sponsored by the Don DeLillo Society and presented at:

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The 35th Annual 20th Century Literature & Culture Conference=20

University of Louisville, USA, 22nd - 24th February 2007=20

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DeLillo's fiction has much to say about masculinity - how it is
presented through mediated images; whether it is inherent or acted out
and how it functions in relation to family members and others. The panel
organiser would be pleased to receive proposals for papers on any aspect
of masculinity within DeLillo's fiction. Fruitful areas might include:

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CFP: Cinematic Homesick Blues (10/15/06; SASA,
2/14/07-2/18/07)

This panel for the Southern American Studies Association
(SASA) will explore filmic uses of the blues and southern
music as an ethnic and/or regional signifier. Of particular
interest is the blues as signifier not only of place but of
time, i.e., blues as signifier for nostalgia and/or the
past. Other areas of interest include but are not limited
to: the filmic relationship between visual images and the
blues, diegetic versus nondiegetic uses of the blues, and
transcultural uses of the blues.

> >CALL FOR PAPERS
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> >>LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SECTION
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> >Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters
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> >MARCH 9-10 2007, Location: Ferris State University, Big Rapids
Michigan
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> >Grad Students Welcome!
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> >British, American, Ethnic, Comparative literature, literature and
> film

FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.)
hosted by the Portland Center for Cultural Studies

Portland, Oregon (Portland State University) April 19-21, 2007

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its =20
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Cultural Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, =20
sociology, geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, =20
cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist =20
studies, postcolonial studies, media and film studies, material =20
culture studies, performance and visual arts studies.

2007 Festival Of Original Theatre: Dissolving Borders.

Graduate Centre For Study of Drama, Univeristy of Toronto.

February 16-19

We invite papers and artistic presentations that examine themes
surrounding intercultural
performance for the 2007 Festival Of Original Theatre: Dissolving
Borders. This
conference and performance based festival sets out to interrogate the
concept of
intercultural performance by creating a forum for discussion between theatre
practitioners and the academic community while addressing the ever-
expanding definition
of culture and the question of what constitutes a cultural group in theatre.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

The Margaret Atwood Society invites submissions for its annual panel at
the 20th-Century Literature and Culture Conference at the University of
Louisville (February 22-24, 2007).

Papers that look at any aspect of Margaret Atwood's work(s) will be
considered. Please submit a 250-500 word abstract by October 5, 2006.
Electronic submissions preferred.

Send abstracts to:
Dr. Karma Waltonen
President, Margaret Atwood Society
Department of English
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
kjwaltonen_at_ucdavis.edu

FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.)
hosted by the Portland Center for Cultural Studies

Portland, Oregon (Portland State University) April 19-21, 2007

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its =20
Fifth Annual Meeting from all areas and topics of relevance to =20
Cultural Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, =20
sociology, geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, =20
cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist =20
studies, postcolonial studies, media and film studies, material =20
culture studies, performance and visual arts studies.

FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.)
hosted by the Portland Center for Cultural Studies

Portland, Oregon (Portland State University) April 19-21, 2007

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its =20
Fifth Annual Meeting from all areas and topics of relevance to =20
Cultural Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, =20
sociology, geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, =20
cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist =20
studies, postcolonial studies, media and film studies, material =20
culture studies, performance and visual arts studies.

FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.)
hosted by the Portland Center for Cultural Studies

Portland, Oregon (Portland State University) April 19-21, 2007

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its =20
Fifth Annual Meeting from all areas and topics of relevance to =20
Cultural Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, =20
sociology, geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, =20
cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist =20
studies, postcolonial studies, media and film studies, material =20
culture studies, performance and visual arts studies.

Call for Papers
Reconstructing Histories, 1550-1850
Group for Early Modern Cultura1 Studies
February 22-25, 2007
Chicago, Illinois
Submission Deadline Extended to October 10, 2006

Saw Palm, a Florida-themed literary e-journal, invites submissions of
?book reviews for its inaugural issue. We're looking for reviews of
Florida work, which may include work from anywhere that concerns itself
with Florida (images, people, themes), or work from Florida writers not
obviously about someplace else. Please email submissions in the body of
the message and a brief bio to sawpalm_at_cas.usf.edu or hard copies to
Saw Palm, c/o John Fleming, Department of English, CPR 107, University of
South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL 33620-5550. All mail
submissions must include a SASE. No previously published work.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as ?we are notified of

Updated CALL FOR PAPERS/Kubrick Collection

We are updating our call for papers for a collection of essays (to be
published by McFarland and Company ) which will address the work of
Stanley Kubrick from a variety of new and fresh perspectives. In
general, we are particularly interested in essays that synthesize
analyses of several Kubrick films as they relate to a particular
topic, rather than single film studies. We particularly
encourage original, groundbreaking analysis and discussions of
overlooked aspects of Kubrick's work.

Preference will be given to essays that are already completed or
nearing completion.

Chapters will
include, but are not limited to the following subjects: