Call for Papers:

Emerging Scholars Symposium
2007 Mid-America Theatre Conference
March 1-4, 2007
Minneapolis, MN
Hyatt Regency Hotel

Two Emerging Scholar Debut Panels: One Graduate and One Undergraduate

& & & Call for Papers & & &

Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture Area

of

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Assn.

&

Southwest/Texas American Culture Assn.

2007 Annual Conference

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque & Albuquerque, New Mexico

February 14-17, 2007

For more details, visit the Association's web site at

http://www.swtexaspca.org/

This conference explores both the poetry and the music of Ivor Gurney.
Papers are invited on either aspect of his work, and we particularly
welcome papers which look at both his writing and his composition. We are
also interested in papers which look at the context within which Gurney was
writing -- music history, literary history, medical history, his literary
and musical circles or influences, etc.

The conference will be held in Cambridge, England, 9 to 10 September 2007.
We hope to include a concert of Gurney's songs by tenor Andrew Kennedy.

This conference explores both the poetry and the music of Ivor Gurney.
Papers are invited on either aspect of his work, and we particularly
welcome papers which look at both his writing and his composition. We are
also interested in papers which look at the context within which Gurney was
writing -- music history, literary history, medical history, his literary
and musical circles or influences, etc.

The conference will be held in Cambridge, England, 9 to 10 September 2007.
We hope to include a concert of Gurney's songs by tenor Andrew Kennedy.

CALL FOR PAPERS
   
  "The Caribbean Without Borders"
   
  3/20/07-3/22/07 at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras Campus
   
  Graduate Student Conference on Caribbean Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
   
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Velma Pollard
   
  Organized by the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, Graduate Students of the Department of English, College of Humanities
   
  Possible topics include:
   
  Caribbean Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
  Creole Linguistics and Writing in Creole
  Caribbean Music
  Asian Caribbean Experience
  Canadian Caribbean Experience
  Caribbean Migrations
  Gender and Representation

College English Association National Conference
April 12-14, 2007, New Orleans

CEA invites papers on Medieval British Literature for its 38th annual
meeting in New Orleans. The conference theme this year is "Empathy and
Ethics." Proposals addressing this theme are especially encouraged, but
any topic addressing Medieval British literature will be considered.

CALL FOR PAPERS
   
  "The Caribbean Without Borders"
   
  3/20/07-3/22/07 at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras Campus
   
  Graduate Student Conference on Caribbean Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
   
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Velma Pollard
   
  Organized by the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, Graduate Students of the Department of English, College of Humanities
   
  Possible topics include:
   
  Caribbean Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
  Creole Linguistics and Writing in Creole
  Caribbean Music
  Asian Caribbean Experience
  Canadian Caribbean Experience
  Caribbean Migrations
  Gender and Representation

Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania (50 minutes north of
Harrisburg) invites undergraduate scholars and writers to participate in its
third annual Undergraduate Literature and Creative Writing Conference,
February 19, 2007. The conference is free of charge.

The keynote speaker this year is Michael Bérubé, Paterno Family Professor in
Literature at Pennsylvania State University. The poet John Hoppenthaler,
will conclude the conference with an evening reading.

*Due to unexpected circumstances, the Oregon Rhetoric Conference will be
postponed until October 12-13, 2007. Please look for the CFP early next
year and direct inquiries to Nancy Knowles nknowles_at_eou.edu
<mailto:nknowles_at_eou.edu> or 541-962-3795. We apologize for any
inconvenience. *
* *
*Call for Proposals*
*Oregon**'s 15th Annual Conference on Rhetoric and Composition*
&
*The First Annual Conference on Multiwriting, Alternative
Composition/Rhetoric, and Community Service Learning*

*Friday and Saturday, October 12-13, 2007 (new date)*
Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Oregon

CFP: The Food Business

As you may have noticed, the Greenwood Publishing Group has become
one of the leading publishers of books on the cultural side of food.
A complete listing of Greenwood's food studies titles can be found
at: <http://www.greenwood.com/search/text_search.asp?
txtqs=food&select=book&page=1>.

CFP: Mothering and Popular Culture (collection)

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I am looking for papers for an edited collection, under provisional
contract with McGill-Queen's University Press, tentatively called
Mediated Moms: Mothering and Popular Culture.

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The proposed scholarly volume will examine the topic of mothers,
mothering, and motherhood within and across all forms of twentieth- and
twenty-first century popular cultures. Possible areas to consider
include, but are not limited to, the following:=20

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-TV shows, including talk shows, family dramas, sitcoms, and cartoons;=20

-print and electronic journalism and celebrity rags;=20

-Internet sites including blogs and homepages;=20

CFP: Mothering and Popular Culture (collection)

=20

I am looking for papers for an edited collection, under provisional
contract with McGill-Queen's University Press, tentatively called
Mediated Moms: Mothering and Popular Culture.

=20

The proposed scholarly volume will examine the topic of mothers,
mothering, and motherhood within and across all forms of twentieth- and
twenty-first century popular cultures. Possible areas to consider
include, but are not limited to, the following:=20

=20

-TV shows, including talk shows, family dramas, sitcoms, and cartoons;=20

-print and electronic journalism and celebrity rags;=20

-Internet sites including blogs and homepages;=20

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0/06=0APapers :06/30/07=0AWinner of a National Book Critics Circle Award a=
nd many other awards, Louise Erdrich (1954 - ) is an internationally known =
contemporary American author. Although she is recognized as a poet, essayis=
t, and children's fiction writer, she is best known for her North Dakota sa=
ga: to date nine novels consistently compared to Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha s=
aga. These novels raise significant issues relating to gender, written genr=
es, authorship, and categorization of Native American literature. The latte=
r question of literary placement is particularly relevant. Erdrich is consi=

CALL FOR PAPERS

The UCD O¹Kane Centre for Film Studies in conjunction with the Clinton
Institute for American Studies, UCD, the Humanities Institute, UCD, the
Irish Program, Boston College, the Huston School of Film and Digital Media
and the School of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia
invite proposals for papers to be given at the:

SCREENING IRISH-AMERICA CONFERENCE

To be held at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, UCD

13-15 April 2007

Proposals covering all aspects of Irish-American Screen Studies, from the
Early and Silent period through to New Media Technologies would be welcomed.
Scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to submit proposals.