UPDATE: Extended deadline for submissions: March 30,
2007.

Me, Myself & Eye: Mediating Identity (Graduate
Conference)

4 May 2007, La Trobe University
 
Spend a day at an interdisciplinary conference
organised by postgraduates from the English Department
at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

We are interested in:

The Journal of Employability and The Humanities is for everyone in the
Humanities. As a bi-annual, refereed journal produced in collaboration
with the Centre for Employability Through the Humanities (ceth), at the
University of Central Lancashire, its intention is to create space for a
dialogue between Humanities and employability. We want to hear your
experiences of teaching, developing and researching employability and
stress that prior knowledge of employability literature and models is
not necessary. We do, however, also encourage contributions from the
experienced practitioner or theorist. We also welcome contributions from
students (undergraduate, postgraduate and mature) about their work and

Call for Papers: South Central Modern Language Association, 64th Annual
Convention, Nov. 1-3, 2007, Memphis, Tennessee
AMERICAN LITERATURE II: LITERATURE AFTER 1900: Musical Currents in American
Literature. This session welcomes papers that consider the rich interplay
between music and literary texts.
Chair: Doris Davis, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, Dept. of English,
Texarkana, TX 75505; <mailto:doris.davis_at_tamut.edu>doris.davis_at_tamut.edu
Secretary: Scott Peller, Wayne State U

Doris Davis
Professor of English
Texas A&M University-Texarkana
P.O. Box 5518
Texarkana, TX 75505

Papers sought for a special MLA session in Chicago 2007, addressing historical in contemporary American fiction.

Call For Contributors ? The Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature

Contributors are sought for a reference work that will be published by
Greenwood Press in 2008.

The work, tentatively titled, The Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature,
will consist of approximately 200 entries. Each entry will vary in
length from 500-3000 words. The entire volume will be approximately
180,000 words or 400 pages and will be illustrated.

Call For Contributors ? The Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature

Contributors are sought for a reference work that will be published by
Greenwood Press in 2008.

The work, tentatively titled, The Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature,
will consist of approximately 200 entries. Each entry will vary in
length from 500-3000 words. The entire volume will be approximately
180,000 words or 400 pages and will be illustrated.

ESF-LiU Conference

Literature for Europe: European Identities and European Literature in a =
Globalizing World

Vadstena Klosterhotell, Sweden
12-16 May 2007

Chaired by: Theo L. D'haen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)

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Working Papers on the Web

Poetry and Translation Issue

Call for Papers, Reviews and Creative Work

Abstracts of circa 300 words are invited on the theme of 'Poetry and
Translation' for a special issue of Working Papers on the Web,
scheduled to be published in June 2008.

GENDER, TIME, GEOGRAPHY:
THE WRITER'S REPUTATION

(3-8 June 2007)
Corfu, Greece

DEADLINE EXTENSION: March 1, 2007

http://www.durrell-school-corfu.org

For its June seminar, "The Writer's Reputation," the Durrell School of Corfu
is extending its deadline for general submissions and invites proposals that
address the following topics in particular:

  -- the role of Translation in developing reputation

  -- the relationship between reputation and the literary canon

  -- case studies focusing on 'forgotten' writers, especially with regard to
nationalism, sexualities, and gender

GENDER, TIME, GEOGRAPHY:
THE WRITER'S REPUTATION

(3-8 June 2007)
Corfu, Greece

DEADLINE EXTENSION: March 1, 2007

http://www.durrell-school-corfu.org

For its June seminar, "The Writer's Reputation," the Durrell School of Corfu
is extending its deadline for general submissions and invites proposals that
address the following topics in particular:

  -- the role of Translation in developing reputation

  -- the relationship between reputation and the literary canon

  -- case studies focusing on 'forgotten' writers, especially with regard to
nationalism, sexualities, and gender

The correct deadline for the calls for submissions for the 7th Biennial
Southern Women Writers Conference at Berry College, Rome, GA, on Sept.
26-27 is APRIL 2, 2007 (not March 19).

The correct deadline for the calls for submissions for the 7th Biennial
Southern Women Writers Conference at Berry College, Rome, GA, on Sept.
26-27 is APRIL 2, 2007 (not March 19).

Call for Papers
Ruskinian Theatre
Contemporary Issues in Theatre Historiography
University of Birmingham (UK), 6-7 July, 2007
Proposals are invited for papers and respondents for a two day
colloquium sponsored by the History Department at Lancaster University
(UK), the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham
(UK), and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).
This colloquium is part of the AHRC funded project: Ruskinian Theatre:
the Aesthetics of the Nineteenth-Century London Popular Stage,
1870-1900, which seeks to investigate the interrelationships and
influences of John Ruskin's aesthetic and social theories on the popular

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Visual Studies Graduate Students

University of California, Irvine

Call for Papers: Import/Export
Octopus (Volume 3) Fall 2007=20
www.octopusjournal.org
Deadline for Submissions: April 15, 2007