John N. King and James K. Bracken of The Ohio State University will direct

Call for Papers

Reading: Images, Texts, Artefacts - Call for Papers
Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference
Graduate School of Humanities, Cardiff University 28 - 29 June 2007

This international conference is being organised by doctoral students for doctoral students and will consider how concepts of reading impact on different areas of research.

"Reading" is intended to be interpreted in a wide sense, to include the reading of, for example images, buildings, inscriptions, theatre, music or dance performances and other creative productions, as well as books and manuscripts.

Call for Papers

Reading: Images, Texts, Artefacts - Call for Papers
Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference
Graduate School of Humanities, Cardiff University 28 - 29 June 2007

This international conference is being organised by doctoral students for doctoral students and will consider how concepts of reading impact on different areas of research.

"Reading" is intended to be interpreted in a wide sense, to include the reading of, for example images, buildings, inscriptions, theatre, music or dance performances and other creative productions, as well as books and manuscripts.

CFP for the 2007 Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies Conference to be held October 25-28, 2007 at Dartmouth College.
The conference theme is "Transatlantic Destinies: Connections and
Disconnections across the Atlantic Seaboard in the Eighteenth Century."

_Traveling Songs: Lyric in the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century_

CFP for the 2007 Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies Conference to be held October 25-28, 2007 at Dartmouth College.
The conference theme is "Transatlantic Destinies: Connections and
Disconnections across the Atlantic Seaboard in the Eighteenth Century."

_Traveling Songs: Lyric in the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century_

I'm looking for contributors for a special session at the 2007 MLA in Chicago.

Special Session: Rereading the Sublime and Beautiful: The 250th Anniversary of Burke's Enquiry

How have contemporary methodologies such as cultural studies and feminist, queer, post-colonial, Marxist, psychoanalytic, and post-structural theories enriched our understanding of Edmund Burke's aesthetics? 500-word abstracts due: 2/28/07. Send your abstract and cv to Ana de Freitas Boe, Ph.D., Department of English, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH 44017.

E-mail submissions to aboe at bw dot edu are preferred.

As the MLA "Call for Papers for 2007 Convention in Chicago" flyer explains:

For a proposed special session at MLA 2007:

Black Literature in the Early (Mid)West.

Pre-1900, "West" defined broadly, reflecting changing "frontier" boundaries. The Black press, slave narratives from the (Mid)West, African/Native interactions, Thomas Detter, the Repository of Religion and Literature, the Elevator, the Pacific Appeal, etc.

Abstracts by 28 February 2007 to Eric Gardner (gardner_at_svsu.edu).

For a proposed special session at MLA 2007:

Black Literature in the Early (Mid)West.

Pre-1900, "West" defined broadly, reflecting changing "frontier" boundaries. The Black press, slave narratives from the (Mid)West, African/Native interactions, Thomas Detter, the Repository of Religion and Literature, the Elevator, the Pacific Appeal, etc.

Abstracts by 28 February 2007 to Eric Gardner (gardner_at_svsu.edu).

For a proposed special session at MLA 2007:

Black Literature in the Early (Mid)West.

Pre-1900, "West" defined broadly, reflecting changing "frontier" boundaries. The Black press, slave narratives from the (Mid)West, African/Native interactions, Thomas Detter, the Repository of Religion and Literature, the Elevator, the Pacific Appeal, etc.

Abstracts by 28 February 2007 to Eric Gardner (gardner_at_svsu.edu).

Association of University English Teachers of South Africa/ SAACLALS/ SAVAL CONFERENCE 2007
   
  8 - 11 July 2007,
   
  UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL, HOWARD COLLEGE, DURBAN
  
WORLDS, TEXTS, CRITICS
   
  Deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 April 2007.
  
Website: http://academic.sun.ac.za/english/AUETSA2007/
  SPECIAL PANEL MAGICAL REALISM: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Convenor: Faisal Marrouki
  email (fmarrouki_at_yahoo.com)
   

Association of University English Teachers of South Africa/ SAACLALS/ SAVAL CONFERENCE 2007
   
  8 - 11 July 2007,
   
  UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL, HOWARD COLLEGE, DURBAN
  
WORLDS, TEXTS, CRITICS
   
  Deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 April 2007.
  
Website: http://academic.sun.ac.za/english/AUETSA2007/
  SPECIAL PANEL MAGICAL REALISM: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Convenor: Faisal Marrouki
  email (fmarrouki_at_yahoo.com)
   

Call for Panel Submissions:
"British Literature after 1900" Panel,
RMMLA Conference,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
October 4-6, 2007

Submissions are invited on an engaging topic responding to British,
Irish, Commonwealth, or Post-colonial Literature written after 1900 to
the panelchair, Anthony Flinn, at aflinn_at_mail.ewu.edu by March 1,
2007. These submissions should be 300-word electronic abstracts,
formatted as a standard Word document or RTF.

Everyone submitting an abstract will be notified about acceptance by
March 15, 2007.

Call for Panel Submissions:
"British Literature after 1900" Panel,
RMMLA Conference,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
October 4-6, 2007

Submissions are invited on an engaging topic responding to British,
Irish, Commonwealth, or Post-colonial Literature written after 1900 to
the panelchair, Anthony Flinn, at aflinn_at_mail.ewu.edu by March 1,
2007. These submissions should be 300-word electronic abstracts,
formatted as a standard Word document or RTF.

Everyone submitting an abstract will be notified about acceptance by
March 15, 2007.

WYNDHAM LEWIS: MODERNITY AND CRITIQUE
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