With Swinburne's 2009 centennial approaching, we would like you to consider
contributing to a new collection of essays that will celebrate Swinburne and
Swinburne scholarship. As our main goal in this collection is to explore the
less familiar regions of Swinburne corpus, we invite essays that focus on the
poetry, prose, and criticism published after 1870 and especially during the
Putney period. Essays may address, but are not confined to, the following
issues:
--Swinburne's later formal and generic experimentalism
--treatment and redefinition of Romantic tropes
--manipulation of classical and medieval myth
--mature philosophical and spiritual concerns
--modulating visions of sexuality

Male Sexuality in the Female Mind =96 from Aphra Behn to Annie Proulx

We are putting together a collection of essays that focus on how male=20
sexuality has been represented by women writers, from Aphra Behn=92s=20
post-Restoration drama to Annie Proulx=92s Brokeback Mountain). The=20
objective of the study is to highlight, trace and analyze=20
representations of male desire and sexuality through texts (literary,=20
cinematic, cyber, etc) in order to explore how male sexuality is and=20
has been imagined and re-imagined by women writers. It is hoped and=20
expected that the collection will find a readership both inside and=20
outside academia.

The Research Group for the Study of the Literature of
Concentration Camps at Wilfrid Laurier University
seeks articles for a collective volume on the
Literature of Survivors of Concentration Camps
world-wide.

CFP: Disability in African Fiction

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Proposals are invited for a panel on the above subject for presentation
at the forthcoming MLA convention in Chicago. While all approaches,
topics and methodologies are welcome, efforts should be made to
critically examine the concept of high or low culture in African
fiction, especially as it relates to disabled characters. The
question, Is There a High or Low Culture in an Oral Society will
hopefully be answered by examining, through selected fictional
portraits, how certain illnesses/handicaps reflect the perceptions of
individuals that are situated in high or low culture.=20

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CFP: Disability in African Fiction

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Proposals are invited for a panel on the above subject for presentation
at the forthcoming MLA convention in Chicago. While all approaches,
topics and methodologies are welcome, efforts should be made to
critically examine the concept of high or low culture in African
fiction, especially as it relates to disabled characters. The
question, Is There a High or Low Culture in an Oral Society will
hopefully be answered by examining, through selected fictional
portraits, how certain illnesses/handicaps reflect the perceptions of
individuals that are situated in high or low culture.=20

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I am proposing the following panel for the 8th annual Modernist Studies =
Conference in Tulsa (October 19-22, 2006). This panel will look closely =
at how modernist science is constructed and challenged from various =
interdisciplinary perspectives.=20
Bruno Latour asked the question of whether we have ever been modern. =
Does a modern science exist?
How have arguments for the social constructedness of scientific fact =
affected visions of a modernist science? Does the scientific method =
inherently engender the modern subject as free beings? Papers that deal =
specifically with the issue of whether modern science has been =
deconstructed in terms of actual scientific practice are especially =

UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE OF APRIL
14, 2006
   
Call for papers: Classics: Greek
   
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Conference 2006 (PAMLA)
  
Standing panel: Classics: Greek

This standing panel welcomes papers about the
English-language *representations* of Greek
literatures
and cultures. As this classic culture has had profound
effects on the development of Western philosophy, art,
culture, and religion as it is expressed in the
English speaking world, an exploration of its
resonances in literatures, art, and mass media through
the ages and including today are welcomed.

CALL FOR PAPERS

American Movie Masculinity

UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE OF APRIL
14, 2006
   
Call for papers: Classics: Greek
   
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Conference 2006 (PAMLA)
  
Standing panel: Classics: Greek

This standing panel welcomes papers about the
English-language *representations* of Greek
literatures
and cultures. As this classic culture has had profound
effects on the development of Western philosophy, art,
culture, and religion as it is expressed in the
English speaking world, an exploration of its
resonances in literatures, art, and mass media through
the ages and including today are welcomed.

CALL FOR PAPERS

American Movie Masculinity

UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE OF APRIL
14, 2006
   
Call for papers: Classics: Greek
   
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Conference 2006 (PAMLA)
  
Standing panel: Classics: Greek

This standing panel welcomes papers about the
English-language *representations* of Greek
literatures
and cultures. As this classic culture has had profound
effects on the development of Western philosophy, art,
culture, and religion as it is expressed in the
English speaking world, an exploration of its
resonances in literatures, art, and mass media through
the ages and including today are welcomed.

New deadline:

 Rereading the New Criticism

Commentators such as Gerald Graff and Mark Jancovich have noted that, since
the demise in the 1960s of the New Critical hegemony, contemporary critical
discourse has often promoted misunderstandings of New Critical projects.
The image of the New Criticism as ahistorical formalism, they suggest,
misrepresents the New Critics' commitment to practices and epistemologies
distinctive to literature; their engagement with social and historical
issues; and their cultural politics. These recent critiques encourage
rereading the work of the New Critics from a new perspective-one that
maintains critical distance on received ideas about their methods.

UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE OF APRIL
14, 2006
   
Call for papers: Classics: Greek
   
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Conference 2006 (PAMLA)
  
Standing panel: Classics: Greek

This standing panel welcomes papers about the
English-language *representations* of Greek
literatures
and cultures. As this classic culture has had profound
effects on the development of Western philosophy, art,
culture, and religion as it is expressed in the
English speaking world, an exploration of its
resonances in literatures, art, and mass media through
the ages and including today are welcomed.

Caryl Phillips: 25 Years of Writing
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University of Li=E8ge (Belgium)
1st and 2nd December 2006
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Strange Fruit, Caryl Phillips's first play, came out twenty-five years =
ago, in 1981. This publication marked the beginning of an impressive =
body of writing which so far includes eight award-winning novels, three =
volumes of essays, two anthologies, two screenplays and three other =
stage plays, as well as several unpublished dramatic pieces and =
countless press articles.=20
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To celebrate this anniversary the CEREP (Centre d'enseignement et de =
recherche en =E9tudes post-coloniales) of the University of Li=E8ge =