The Literature of Africa and the Diaspora Session at SAMLA seeks papers on Conceptions of the Self and Subjectivity.

A full range of approaches to and perspectives on the topic is encouraged.

Please send 200-250 word proposals for 20-minute papers to

Walter Collins, Session Chair
University of South Carolina, Lancaster
476 Hubbard Drive
Lancaster, SC 29720

OR email to <collinsw_at_sc.edu> by 1 March 2006

In order for the proposal to be considered, include the following information:

Our apologies for cross-postings.
French text to follow.

Call for Papers

"A Certain Difficulty of Being" in 2006: Comparing and Translating the
Literatures of Canada and Québec
7th Annual Comparative Canadian Literature Graduate Student Conference
in collaboration with
Le Groupe de recherche sur l'édition littéraire au Québec (GRÉLQ)
Le groupe Bibliographie d'études comparées des littératures canadienne,
québécoise et étrangères.

Thursday March 30, 2006
Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS
Seventeenth Southeast Conference in Foreign Languages and literatures
March 2-4, 2006
Stetson University, DeLand Florida
Abstracts for papers to be presented at the 2006 Conference are now
being considered. SCFLL welcomes papers on all aspects of literature,
linguistics, civilization, film and pedagogy pertaining to foreign
languages. Please send abstracts (including titles) of ca. 200 words to
the address below.
Those wishing to organize a session are requested to send the name of
the proposed session, the name of the participants, and the titles of
the papers.
 Deadline : Submissions will be considered till January 15, 2006
Reading time for each paper: 20 minutes

AMERICAN FICTION OF THE 1990S. Abstracts are invited for a collection of essays on American fiction of the 1990s, which has been commissioned by Routledge. Primary authors and texts should be mostly those taught, well known, award-winning, literary (the collection is designed for senior-level undergraduate courses). Essays may focus on a single text or author or may group texts or authors under a coherent, relevant topic. Essays will be assigned to one of the following themes, which form the organizing sections of the book: Geographies, Ethnicities, Memories, Sexualities, Technologies. What are the distinguishing features and exciting achievements of American fiction of the 1990s with regard to such categories?

CFP for panel: Filipino Transnationality and U.S. Imperialism

American Studies Association Annual Meeting
The United States from Inside and Out: Transnational American Studies
Oakland, CA
Oct. 12-15, 2006
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/AmericanStudiesAssn/annualmeeting/

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945

Originally published as Precursors and Aftermaths:
  Literature in English, 1914-1945

Special Topics Issue in 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945

Originally published as Precursors and Aftermaths:
  Literature in English, 1914-1945

Special Topics Issue in 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945

Originally published as Precursors and Aftermaths:
  Literature in English, 1914-1945

Special Topics Issue in 2007

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The Toni Morrison Society invites proposals for 2 panels at the 2006 =
American Literature Association Conference, May 25-28, San Francisco, =
California. Email 200 word proposals to address below by 15 Jan. 2006.

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Columbia Early Modern Colloquium Spring Conference - "Early Modern
Histories"
Keynote Speaker: Annabel Patterson

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Columbia Early Modern Colloquium invites abstracts for its
inaugural graduate student conference entitled "Early Modern
Histories", to be held on 5 May 2006 in New York City.

We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines, with a
special interest in work of an interdisciplinary nature. Possible
paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Women Within and Without Community
Women's Studies Panel

Call for Essays

Seeking essays for an interdisciplinary collection tentatively titled “The Shield of Perseus: Essays on the Apotropaic.”

The apotropaic (Gr., “to turn away from”) constitutes a class of rituals intended to ward off evil. Jane Ellen Harrison investigated their presence in ancient Greek religion, but the term has wide application in the humanities. The apotropaic often uses the horrible to repel the horrible (e.g., the evil eye, the head of Medusa); thinkers as diverse as Freud, Paglia, Derrida, and Spivak have found it a topic worthy of comment.

Call for Essays

Seeking essays for an interdisciplinary collection tentatively titled “The Shield of Perseus: Essays on the Apotropaic.”

The apotropaic (Gr., “to turn away from”) constitutes a class of rituals intended to ward off evil. Jane Ellen Harrison investigated their presence in ancient Greek religion, but the term has wide application in the humanities. The apotropaic often uses the horrible to repel the horrible (e.g., the evil eye, the head of Medusa); thinkers as diverse as Freud, Paglia, Derrida, and Spivak have found it a topic worthy of comment.

Call for Papers

MASCULINITIES IN THE LONG MIDDLE AGES

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at the CUNY Graduate =
Center

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March 17, 2006

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: We are very pleased to announce that our keynote =
speaker will be Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University).

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>From peasants to kings and from knights to merchants, ideas about =
masculinity were varied and complex during the medieval era. For this =
one-day conference, we invite papers from all academic disciplines that =
probe questions surrounding male-ness and masculinities from late =
antiquity through the early modern period.

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