Submissions are invited for a session hosted by the Nathaniel Hawthorne
Society at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference in
Atlanta, 9-11 November 2007.

Subject: Teaching Hawthorne

What do we want our students to learn from Hawthorne's writings? What
strategies do we use in the classroom to make Hawthorne relevant to
students today? All approaches to this topic are welcome. Please send 1-2
page abstracts for 20 minute papers to Gale Temple (gtemple_at_uab.edu) by
March 30, 2007.

Call for Papers – Deadline Extended

Women Writing and Reading: Past and Present, Local and Global

4-6 May 2007 At the Telus Centre
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Call for Papers – Deadline Extended

Women Writing and Reading: Past and Present, Local and Global

4-6 May 2007 At the Telus Centre
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

"Is That A Bomb in His Purse?: Gender, Sexuality, and
Ultraviolence Contemporary Irish Film."

Midwest MLA conference in Cleveland, November 8-11.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/

"Is That A Bomb in His Purse?: Gender, Sexuality, and
Ultraviolence Contemporary Irish Film."

Midwest MLA conference in Cleveland, November 8-11.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/

Proposed Panel
American Anthropological Association (AAA): Nov. 28 – Dec. 2 2007
Washington, DC

Please send paper abstracts (250 words) and direct inquiries to: Lydia
Boyd (lydia.boyd_at_nyu.edu) by March 12th.

Hookin' up (with Jesus): Kinship, Desire, and Love among born-again
young adults in the Global South

Portals, the San Francisco State University's Comparative Literature
Student Association's Literary Journal, is accepting student
submissions of original, critical essays and short poetry translations
that explore comparative literary topics across cultural, regional,
linguistic, and temporal boundaries for the Spring 2007 issue!

Submission Guidelines

Comparative Essays:

German Literature and Culture II. "German Poetry, including translation." W=
e welcome 20-minute papers on any period and all aspects of German-language=
 poetry. Inquiries welcome. Send 200-word abstracts (as e-mail attachments=
) to Geoff Howes, Bowling Green State University (ghowes_at_bgnet.bgsu.edu) an=
d Jeff Vahlbusch, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (vahlbujb_at_uwec.edu) by=
 15 April 2007.
The conference is being held this year in Cleveland, Ohio. For more informa=
tion, see the M/MLA website.

Jefford Vahlbusch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of German
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
vahlbujb_at_uwec.edu
Phone: 715-836-4490

Call for Papers (extended deadline):
"Leisure and the making of knowledge in 18th-century Europe"
31 October – 2 November 2007, University of Hamburg, Germany
http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/fb07/lits/AGWL.html

"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were
they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
Samuel Johnson "Rambler" 177 (November 26, 1751)

CPF for a Special Session at MLA 2007, Chicago:
Centenary of J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World

PATHOLOGIES

Questions of embodiment in literature, arts and sciences

The Inaugural International Conference of the

Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science

August 20-21, 2007

Plenary Speakers:

Tim Armstrong, Kelly Hurley & Jonathan Sawday

CALL FOR PAPERS

        The Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST), a =
peer-refereed=20
journal, is planning a special issue on African American Studies, to be=20=

published in the Fall of 2008.
Essay topics to be considered for this issue include: 1) the=20
historical origins of the Black Studies movement and African American=20
Studies programs and departments in the United States; 2) the state of=20=

African American Studies in Europe; 3) Current trends in African=20
American Studies=97social, political, and economic perspectives; 4)=20
African American Studies and the visual arts; 5) transnational African=20=

CALL FOR PAPERS

        The Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST), a =
peer-refereed=20
journal, is planning a special issue on African American Studies, to be=20=

published in the Fall of 2008.
Essay topics to be considered for this issue include: 1) the=20
historical origins of the Black Studies movement and African American=20
Studies programs and departments in the United States; 2) the state of=20=

African American Studies in Europe; 3) Current trends in African=20
American Studies=97social, political, and economic perspectives; 4)=20
African American Studies and the visual arts; 5) transnational African=20=

John Buchan Revisioned: Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps

A collection of essays re-examining the work and writing of John Buchan =
(1875-1940), later Lord Tweedsmuir, in the context of post-1950 =
appraisals of his work.=20

Timed to appear as Buchan's works come out of copyright in the UK, this =
collection is aimed at students of late nineteenth- to early =
twentieth-century literature and history, and at the general reader. The =
essays will re-evaluate Buchan's work in a post-post-modernist context. =
Jargon will be kept to a minimum.