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UPDATE: Domesticating Discontent (grad) (1/25/06; 3/10/06-3/11/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:49pm
W. Mark Giles

Domesticating Discontent

[NOTE EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTION FROM PREVIOUS POSTINGS]

Abstracts are invited for "Domesticating Discontent," a panel intended as
part of The Widening Gyre: Literature, Politics, the Future. This is the
2006 Free Exchange graduate student conference at the University of Calgary
in Calgary, AB, Canada (10-11 March 2006).
See http://www.english.ucalgary.ca/FreeExchange/CFPan%20Page.html for
conference information.

UPDATE: Domesticating Discontent (grad) (1/25/06; 3/10/06-3/11/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:49pm
W. Mark Giles

Domesticating Discontent

[NOTE EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTION FROM PREVIOUS POSTINGS]

Abstracts are invited for "Domesticating Discontent," a panel intended as
part of The Widening Gyre: Literature, Politics, the Future. This is the
2006 Free Exchange graduate student conference at the University of Calgary
in Calgary, AB, Canada (10-11 March 2006).
See http://www.english.ucalgary.ca/FreeExchange/CFPan%20Page.html for
conference information.

UPDATE: Domesticating Discontent (grad) (1/25/06; 3/10/06-3/11/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:49pm
W. Mark Giles

Domesticating Discontent

[NOTE EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTION FROM PREVIOUS POSTINGS]

Abstracts are invited for "Domesticating Discontent," a panel intended as
part of The Widening Gyre: Literature, Politics, the Future. This is the
2006 Free Exchange graduate student conference at the University of Calgary
in Calgary, AB, Canada (10-11 March 2006).
See http://www.english.ucalgary.ca/FreeExchange/CFPan%20Page.html for
conference information.

UPDATE: Domesticating Discontent (grad) (1/25/06; 3/10/06-3/11/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:49pm
W. Mark Giles

Domesticating Discontent

[NOTE EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTION FROM PREVIOUS POSTINGS]

Abstracts are invited for "Domesticating Discontent," a panel intended as
part of The Widening Gyre: Literature, Politics, the Future. This is the
2006 Free Exchange graduate student conference at the University of Calgary
in Calgary, AB, Canada (10-11 March 2006).
See http://www.english.ucalgary.ca/FreeExchange/CFPan%20Page.html for
conference information.

UPDATE: Domesticating Discontent (grad) (1/25/06; 3/10/06-3/11/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:49pm
W. Mark Giles

Domesticating Discontent

[NOTE EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTION FROM PREVIOUS POSTINGS]

Abstracts are invited for "Domesticating Discontent," a panel intended as
part of The Widening Gyre: Literature, Politics, the Future. This is the
2006 Free Exchange graduate student conference at the University of Calgary
in Calgary, AB, Canada (10-11 March 2006).
See http://www.english.ucalgary.ca/FreeExchange/CFPan%20Page.html for
conference information.

CFP: Anglo-Saxon England (grad) (2/1/06; (dis)junctions, 4/7/06-4/8/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:49pm
Amanda Uvalle

CFP: (dis)junctions: Anglo-Saxon England: Power and Leadership
   
  This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the University of California Riverside's 13th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 7-8, 2006.
   
  We invite papers on medieval literature from the Anglo-Saxon period dealing with the changing nature of power. How do the shifting monarchies and the church view power and leadership? Who is in charge as society faces constant change? Proposals from all disciplines are welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
  -The power of kings
  -Invading pagans
  -Invading missionaries
  -Church and state
  -Roman power/influence
  -Bede

UPDATE: British Border Crossing (3/17/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:49pm
Cynthia M. VanSickle

                  Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA): English Literature 1800-1900
  November 9-12, 2006
  Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois
   
  British Border Crossing: Romantic and Victorian (Inter)Textuality and the Destabilization of Boundaries
   
  We invite paper and panel proposals that examine the destabilization of boundaries and borders arising within the intertextual space of British Literature between 1800 and 1900. Proposals may address any type of boundary or border destabilized within the literary texts of this period, including, among others, the various genres, disciplines, genders, races, geographies, cultures, religions, laws, sciences, and governments.
   

UPDATE: British Border Crossing (3/17/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:49pm
Cynthia M. VanSickle

                  Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA): English Literature 1800-1900
  November 9-12, 2006
  Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois
   
  British Border Crossing: Romantic and Victorian (Inter)Textuality and the Destabilization of Boundaries
   
  We invite paper and panel proposals that examine the destabilization of boundaries and borders arising within the intertextual space of British Literature between 1800 and 1900. Proposals may address any type of boundary or border destabilized within the literary texts of this period, including, among others, the various genres, disciplines, genders, races, geographies, cultures, religions, laws, sciences, and governments.
   

CFP: Anglo-Saxon England (grad) (2/1/06; (dis)junctions, 4/7/06-4/8/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:49pm
Amanda Uvalle

CFP: (dis)junctions: Anglo-Saxon England: Power and Leadership
   
  This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the University of California Riverside's 13th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 7-8, 2006.
   
  We invite papers on medieval literature from the Anglo-Saxon period dealing with the changing nature of power. How do the shifting monarchies and the church view power and leadership? Who is in charge as society faces constant change? Proposals from all disciplines are welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
  -The power of kings
  -Invading pagans
  -Invading missionaries
  -Church and state
  -Roman power/influence
  -Bede

UPDATE: British Border Crossing (3/17/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:49pm
Cynthia M. VanSickle

                  Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA): English Literature 1800-1900
  November 9-12, 2006
  Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois
   
  British Border Crossing: Romantic and Victorian (Inter)Textuality and the Destabilization of Boundaries
   
  We invite paper and panel proposals that examine the destabilization of boundaries and borders arising within the intertextual space of British Literature between 1800 and 1900. Proposals may address any type of boundary or border destabilized within the literary texts of this period, including, among others, the various genres, disciplines, genders, races, geographies, cultures, religions, laws, sciences, and governments.
   

UPDATE: Robert Penn Warren's Nonfiction Narrative Voice (1/25/06; ALA, 5/25/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 8:10pm
OVERALL, KERI

Deadline extended:

The Robert Penn Warren section at ALA seeks papers on the narrative voice in Warren's nonfiction or the relation of Warren's nonfiction essays or works to his fiction or poetry.

 

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

 

Please send 100-250 word proposals for 20-minute papers by email to keri.overall_at_tccd.edu by 25 January 2006.

 

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

 

UPDATE: Robert Penn Warren's Nonfiction Narrative Voice (1/25/06; ALA, 5/25/06-5/28/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 8:10pm
OVERALL, KERI

Deadline extended:

The Robert Penn Warren section at ALA seeks papers on the narrative voice in Warren's nonfiction or the relation of Warren's nonfiction essays or works to his fiction or poetry.

 

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

 

Please send 100-250 word proposals for 20-minute papers by email to keri.overall_at_tccd.edu by 25 January 2006.

 

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

 

CFP: Where Is White Culture...Other Than at the Gap? (3/31/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
chris bell

Where Is White Culture … Other Than at the Gap?

Call for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
9-12 November 2006
Chicago, Illinois

Elaine: You're black. You said we were an interracial
couple.
Darryl: We are. Because you're Hispanic.
Elaine: I am?
Darryl: Aren't you?
Elaine: No. Why would you think that?
Darryl: Your name's Benes, your hair, and you kept
taking me to those Spanish restaurants.
Elaine: That's because I thought you were black.
Darryl: Why would you take me to a Spanish restaurant
because I'm black?
Elaine: I don't think we should be talking about this.

CFP: Where Is White Culture...Other Than at the Gap? (3/31/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
chris bell

Where Is White Culture … Other Than at the Gap?

Call for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
9-12 November 2006
Chicago, Illinois

Elaine: You're black. You said we were an interracial
couple.
Darryl: We are. Because you're Hispanic.
Elaine: I am?
Darryl: Aren't you?
Elaine: No. Why would you think that?
Darryl: Your name's Benes, your hair, and you kept
taking me to those Spanish restaurants.
Elaine: That's because I thought you were black.
Darryl: Why would you take me to a Spanish restaurant
because I'm black?
Elaine: I don't think we should be talking about this.

CFP: Representations of the Environmental Crisis (grad) (3/15/06; 5/12/06-5/13/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
Michael Mikulak

Graduate student conference panel--please distribute.

As part of the second annual graduate student conference—"Natural and
National Crises: The Shifting Sands of the Literary"-- being held at the
English department of l'Université de Montréal, on May 12-13th, 2006, this
panel is being organized around one of the effects that the nation itself is
in crisis.

The Wretched Earth: From Monkeywrenching to Green Consumption, Tactics and
Rhetoric in the Environmental Movement.

CFP: Representations of the Environmental Crisis (grad) (3/15/06; 5/12/06-5/13/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
Michael Mikulak

Graduate student conference panel--please distribute.

As part of the second annual graduate student conference—"Natural and
National Crises: The Shifting Sands of the Literary"-- being held at the
English department of l'Université de Montréal, on May 12-13th, 2006, this
panel is being organized around one of the effects that the nation itself is
in crisis.

The Wretched Earth: From Monkeywrenching to Green Consumption, Tactics and
Rhetoric in the Environmental Movement.

CFP: Representations of the Environmental Crisis (grad) (3/15/06; 5/12/06-5/13/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
Michael Mikulak

Graduate student conference panel--please distribute.

As part of the second annual graduate student conference—"Natural and
National Crises: The Shifting Sands of the Literary"-- being held at the
English department of l'Université de Montréal, on May 12-13th, 2006, this
panel is being organized around one of the effects that the nation itself is
in crisis.

The Wretched Earth: From Monkeywrenching to Green Consumption, Tactics and
Rhetoric in the Environmental Movement.

CFP: Representations of the Environmental Crisis (grad) (3/15/06; 5/12/06-5/13/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
Michael Mikulak

Graduate student conference panel--please distribute.

As part of the second annual graduate student conference—"Natural and
National Crises: The Shifting Sands of the Literary"-- being held at the
English department of l'Université de Montréal, on May 12-13th, 2006, this
panel is being organized around one of the effects that the nation itself is
in crisis.

The Wretched Earth: From Monkeywrenching to Green Consumption, Tactics and
Rhetoric in the Environmental Movement.

CFP: Turkish Cinema Anthology (5/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
Bergen-Aurand, Brian K

Turkish Cinema: Aesthetics, Culture, History
Call For Papers

With the recent international success of such films as Head-On, Distant,
and The Waiting Room has come a renewed interest in Turkish Cinema.

CFP: Turkish Cinema Anthology (5/1/06; collection)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
Bergen-Aurand, Brian K

Turkish Cinema: Aesthetics, Culture, History
Call For Papers

With the recent international success of such films as Head-On, Distant,
and The Waiting Room has come a renewed interest in Turkish Cinema.

UPDATE: Going Awry (grad) (1/23/06; 3/23/06-3/25/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
ashley miller

Keynote speaker announced:

Announcing an updated call for papers:

"Going Awry": A National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

March 23rd, 24th, and 25th, 2006
Indiana University—Bloomington

The English Department at Indiana University would like to encourage
submissions to our annual graduate student conference. We are seeking a
broad range of scholarly and creative submissions pertaining to our
conference theme, "Going Awry."

UPDATE: Going Awry (grad) (1/23/06; 3/23/06-3/25/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
ashley miller

Keynote speaker announced:

Announcing an updated call for papers:

"Going Awry": A National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

March 23rd, 24th, and 25th, 2006
Indiana University—Bloomington

The English Department at Indiana University would like to encourage
submissions to our annual graduate student conference. We are seeking a
broad range of scholarly and creative submissions pertaining to our
conference theme, "Going Awry."

UPDATE: Going Awry (grad) (1/23/06; 3/23/06-3/25/06)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
ashley miller

Keynote speaker announced:

Announcing an updated call for papers:

"Going Awry": A National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

March 23rd, 24th, and 25th, 2006
Indiana University—Bloomington

The English Department at Indiana University would like to encourage
submissions to our annual graduate student conference. We are seeking a
broad range of scholarly and creative submissions pertaining to our
conference theme, "Going Awry."

CFP: Community Literacy Journal Call for Reviews (3/15/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
Sarah Truax

The peer-reviewed Community Literacy Journal seeks book and/or
multimedia reviews for our inaugural, Fall 2006, issue. We are
soliciting reviews of books and/or multimedia, along with book/
multimedia suggestions for review, that address any social, cultural,
rhetorical, or institutional aspects of community literacy.

We invite you to submit reviews that you feel should be included in
our budding conversation about literacy work that exists outside
mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in
institutionalized programs devoted to adult education or lifelong
learning or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be
found in more informal, ad hoc projects.

CFP: Traduzione Tradizione? Paths in the European Literary Polysystem (6/15/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, January 16, 2006 - 7:40pm
enrico monti

Call for Journal Submissions

RiLUNe - Review of Literatures of the European Union=20
RiLUnE (http://www.rilune.org) is a refereed, bilingual journal =
publishing scholarly articles which examine the development of a =
European cultural and literary conscience.

For its 4th monographic issue, we are now calling for articles on the =
topic "Traduzione Tradizione? Paths in the European Literary =
Polysystem". Articles can be in any of the following languages of the =
European Union: French, German, English, Italian and Spanish.

=20

Deadline for abstracts (500 words): March 31, 2006
Deadline for articles: June 15, 2006

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