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UPDATE: Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800 (2/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Joshua B. Fisher

Updated Call for Submissions
Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800: From Scholarship to Classroom

Seeking three or four additional proposals for a volume tentatively entitled
Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800: From Scholarship to Classroom. The editors
are looking for 5-6,000 word essays preferably on Restoration or Eighteenth
century topics although essay proposals on the early modern period will be
considered as well.

By presenting a wide range of definitions and theoretical perspectives as
well as a variety of pedagogical strategies and approaches for teaching and
exploring notions of early modern through eighteenth-century ephemera,
contributors will seek to address the following kinds of questions.

UPDATE: Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800 (2/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Joshua B. Fisher

Updated Call for Submissions
Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800: From Scholarship to Classroom

Seeking three or four additional proposals for a volume tentatively entitled
Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800: From Scholarship to Classroom. The editors
are looking for 5-6,000 word essays preferably on Restoration or Eighteenth
century topics although essay proposals on the early modern period will be
considered as well.

By presenting a wide range of definitions and theoretical perspectives as
well as a variety of pedagogical strategies and approaches for teaching and
exploring notions of early modern through eighteenth-century ephemera,
contributors will seek to address the following kinds of questions.

UPDATE: Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800 (2/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Joshua B. Fisher

Updated Call for Submissions
Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800: From Scholarship to Classroom

Seeking three or four additional proposals for a volume tentatively entitled
Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800: From Scholarship to Classroom. The editors
are looking for 5-6,000 word essays preferably on Restoration or Eighteenth
century topics although essay proposals on the early modern period will be
considered as well.

By presenting a wide range of definitions and theoretical perspectives as
well as a variety of pedagogical strategies and approaches for teaching and
exploring notions of early modern through eighteenth-century ephemera,
contributors will seek to address the following kinds of questions.

UPDATE: Battleground States: Scholarship in Times of Crisis (grad) (1/1/06; 3/31/06-4/1/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Adam Franklin

UPDATE: Keynote speakers announced and paper submission
deadline extended to January 1, 2006.

Keynote speaker

Dr. Ann Larabee
Associate Chair, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Associate Professor, American Thought and Language
Michigan State University
Areas of interest: Disaster Studies; Cultural Impacts of
Technology; Cultural Theory; Feminism and Technology; History
of Terrorism

Keynote panelists

UPDATE: Battleground States: Scholarship in Times of Crisis (grad) (1/1/06; 3/31/06-4/1/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Adam Franklin

UPDATE: Keynote speakers announced and paper submission
deadline extended to January 1, 2006.

Keynote speaker

Dr. Ann Larabee
Associate Chair, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Associate Professor, American Thought and Language
Michigan State University
Areas of interest: Disaster Studies; Cultural Impacts of
Technology; Cultural Theory; Feminism and Technology; History
of Terrorism

Keynote panelists

UPDATE: Battleground States: Scholarship in Times of Crisis (grad) (1/1/06; 3/31/06-4/1/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Adam Franklin

UPDATE: Keynote speakers announced and paper submission
deadline extended to January 1, 2006.

Keynote speaker

Dr. Ann Larabee
Associate Chair, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Associate Professor, American Thought and Language
Michigan State University
Areas of interest: Disaster Studies; Cultural Impacts of
Technology; Cultural Theory; Feminism and Technology; History
of Terrorism

Keynote panelists

UPDATE: Battleground States: Scholarship in Times of Crisis (grad) (1/1/06; 3/31/06-4/1/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Adam Franklin

UPDATE: Keynote speakers announced and paper submission
deadline extended to January 1, 2006.

Keynote speaker

Dr. Ann Larabee
Associate Chair, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Associate Professor, American Thought and Language
Michigan State University
Areas of interest: Disaster Studies; Cultural Impacts of
Technology; Cultural Theory; Feminism and Technology; History
of Terrorism

Keynote panelists

UPDATE: Women and Labor (grad) (2/1/06; 3/4/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
amita nijhawan

Please be informed that the new deadline for submission of
abstracts is February 1, 2006. In addition, there are two
cash awards of $200 and $100 resp. for the two best
papers/performances.

The (se)X Factor in Labor

UPDATE: Women and Labor (grad) (2/1/06; 3/4/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
amita nijhawan

Please be informed that the new deadline for submission of
abstracts is February 1, 2006. In addition, there are two
cash awards of $200 and $100 resp. for the two best
papers/performances.

The (se)X Factor in Labor

CFP: English Renaissance Lit (3/1/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Cynthia S. Williams

Call for paper proposals for:

English Renaissance Literature, an affiliate session at the annual meeting of
the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

October 12-14, 2006
Tucson, Arizona
Doubletree Resort Hotel at Reid Park

Papers on any aspect of early modern British literature or culture are welcome.

You do not have to be a member of RMMLA to propose a paper, but you must become
a member by April 1, 2006 to be included in the program.

Send one-page proposals by March 1, 2006 either by Word attachment with RMMLA
in subject line or by mail to:

Cynthia Schoolar Williams
Department of English
Tufts University
Medford MA 02155

Cynthia_S.Williams_at_tufts.edu

UPDATE: Women and Labor (grad) (2/1/06; 3/4/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
amita nijhawan

Please be informed that the new deadline for submission of
abstracts is February 1, 2006. In addition, there are two
cash awards of $200 and $100 resp. for the two best
papers/performances.

The (se)X Factor in Labor

CFP: Margaret Fuller (1/15/06; SSAWW, 11/8/06-11/11/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Jeffrey Steele

Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference
November 8 – 11, 2006; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Margaret Fuller Society invites proposals on any aspect of Margaret
Fuller's work. Especially welcome would be proposals that consider: Fuller
and other 19th-century women writers, Fuller's model of history, Fuller in
New York, Fuller's discourses of liberation, Fuller and Mickiewicz or
Mazzini, Fuller and 19th-century aesthetic theories.
Please email 1-2 page proposals and a curriculum vita to Jeffrey Steele at
jsteele_at_wisc.edu by January 15, 2006. Inquiries and questions welcome.

CFP: Margaret Fuller (1/15/06; SSAWW, 11/8/06-11/11/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Jeffrey Steele

Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference
November 8 – 11, 2006; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Margaret Fuller Society invites proposals on any aspect of Margaret
Fuller's work. Especially welcome would be proposals that consider: Fuller
and other 19th-century women writers, Fuller's model of history, Fuller in
New York, Fuller's discourses of liberation, Fuller and Mickiewicz or
Mazzini, Fuller and 19th-century aesthetic theories.
Please email 1-2 page proposals and a curriculum vita to Jeffrey Steele at
jsteele_at_wisc.edu by January 15, 2006. Inquiries and questions welcome.

CFP: Chicano Literature (Spain) (1/30/06; 5/22/06-5/25/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
V Congreso Internacional en Literatura Chicana

CALL FOR PAPERS
Date for proposals: January 30th, 2006

The organization of the V International Conference on Chicano Literature=20
issues a call for papers to be presented at the conference, to be held at=20
the Institute for North American Studies-University of Alcal=E1, Spain, from=
=20
22-25 May 2006.

Proposals should be 300-500 words and should include the information=20
requested below. Proposals should be sent by January 30th, 2006, to Rosa=20
Mar=EDa Garc=EDa-Barroso=20
(<mailto:congreso.chicanos_at_iuien-uah.net>congreso.chicanos_at_iuien-uah...)=20
or by fax (34) 91 885 5285.

CFP: Chicano Literature (Spain) (1/30/06; 5/22/06-5/25/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
V Congreso Internacional en Literatura Chicana

CALL FOR PAPERS
Date for proposals: January 30th, 2006

The organization of the V International Conference on Chicano Literature=20
issues a call for papers to be presented at the conference, to be held at=20
the Institute for North American Studies-University of Alcal=E1, Spain, from=
=20
22-25 May 2006.

Proposals should be 300-500 words and should include the information=20
requested below. Proposals should be sent by January 30th, 2006, to Rosa=20
Mar=EDa Garc=EDa-Barroso=20
(<mailto:congreso.chicanos_at_iuien-uah.net>congreso.chicanos_at_iuien-uah...)=20
or by fax (34) 91 885 5285.

CFP: Chicano Literature (Spain) (1/30/06; 5/22/06-5/25/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
V Congreso Internacional en Literatura Chicana

CALL FOR PAPERS
Date for proposals: January 30th, 2006

The organization of the V International Conference on Chicano Literature=20
issues a call for papers to be presented at the conference, to be held at=20
the Institute for North American Studies-University of Alcal=E1, Spain, from=
=20
22-25 May 2006.

Proposals should be 300-500 words and should include the information=20
requested below. Proposals should be sent by January 30th, 2006, to Rosa=20
Mar=EDa Garc=EDa-Barroso=20
(<mailto:congreso.chicanos_at_iuien-uah.net>congreso.chicanos_at_iuien-uah...)=20
or by fax (34) 91 885 5285.

CFP: Race and Pedagogy (2/15/06; 9/14/06-9/16/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Tamiko Nimura

Call for Papers
Introduction

The University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA) will host a conference on=20
Race and Pedagogy keynoted by Prof. Cornel West on Sept. 14-16, 2006.=20
The conference will bring together scholars, teachers, and students to=20=

discuss the pedagogical implications of race in higher education,=20
particularly but not exclusively in institutions and programs oriented=20=

CFP: Race and Pedagogy (2/15/06; 9/14/06-9/16/06)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Tamiko Nimura

Call for Papers
Introduction

The University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA) will host a conference on=20
Race and Pedagogy keynoted by Prof. Cornel West on Sept. 14-16, 2006.=20
The conference will bring together scholars, teachers, and students to=20=

discuss the pedagogical implications of race in higher education,=20
particularly but not exclusively in institutions and programs oriented=20=

CFP: Beyond Borders: The Aroostook Review Online (ongoing; journal)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Geraldine Cannon Becker

The Aroostook Review, a new online journal largely developed by students
under the guidance of English faculty at the University of Maine at Fort
Kent, is seeking quality submissions of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and
creative non-fiction for possible publication in its first issue-Spring
2006. Work that is accepted for online publication may be selected for
a yearly print "Best of" issue. We plan to print what readers select as the
best work in each category.

UPDATE: European Silent Cinema (2/20/06; collection)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Young, Gwenda

UPDATE: CFP: European Silent Cinema (02/2006/2006; proposed edited
collection)

Submissions are invited for a book-length collection of essays relating to
European Silent Cinema.

UPDATE: European Silent Cinema (2/20/06; collection)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Young, Gwenda

UPDATE: CFP: European Silent Cinema (02/2006/2006; proposed edited
collection)

Submissions are invited for a book-length collection of essays relating to
European Silent Cinema.

CFP: Philosophy Insights Series (12/31/06; book series)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Mark Addis

Call for proposals Philosophy Insights series

Authors in the Philosophy Insights series at Humanities Ebooks will be =
writing guides which they would expect other academics to recommend to =
their students. In place of summaries and model answers these books will =
provide a stimulating, suggestive yet authoritative introduction to =
matters of debate and interpretation. The series will characteristically =
raise rather more questions than it answers, will set readers thinking =
about questions before proposing answers, and will address some major =
issues dialogically.=20

CFP: Philosophy Insights Series (12/31/06; book series)

updated: 
Friday, December 16, 2005 - 6:09pm
Mark Addis

Call for proposals Philosophy Insights series

Authors in the Philosophy Insights series at Humanities Ebooks will be =
writing guides which they would expect other academics to recommend to =
their students. In place of summaries and model answers these books will =
provide a stimulating, suggestive yet authoritative introduction to =
matters of debate and interpretation. The series will characteristically =
raise rather more questions than it answers, will set readers thinking =
about questions before proposing answers, and will address some major =
issues dialogically.=20

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