CALL FOR PAPERS

      Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, May 26 - June 2,
      2007, Saskatoon, Canada.

      Session title: Orientalism and Terrorism

      Organizer: Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Department of Sociology, University of
      Saskatchewan

      Discussant: Dr. Ron Wheeler, Department of Political Studies, University
      of Saskatchewan.

                (for Canadian Association of Geographers)

Session Description:

                          CALL FOR PAPERS

      Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, May 26 - June 2,
      2007, Saskatoon, Canada.

      Session title: Orientalism and Terrorism

      Organizer: Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Department of Sociology, University of
      Saskatchewan

      Discussant: Dr. Ron Wheeler, Department of Political Studies, University
      of Saskatchewan.

                (for Canadian Association of Geographers)

Session Description:

The Midwest Modern Language Association is soliciting individual paper
abstracts on the topic of "Revisiting Realisms" for its annual convention,
to be held in Cleveland from November 8-11, 2007. 250-word abstracts should
be emailed to mmla_at_uiowa.edu by March 1, 2007. Accepted abstracts will be
assembled into panels by the M/MLA president.

Possible paper topics might include:

The Midwest Modern Language Association is soliciting individual paper
abstracts on the topic of "Revisiting Realisms" for its annual convention,
to be held in Cleveland from November 8-11, 2007. 250-word abstracts should
be emailed to mmla_at_uiowa.edu by March 1, 2007. Accepted abstracts will be
assembled into panels by the M/MLA president.

Possible paper topics might include:

Call for Panel Submissions:
Literature and Trauma: Testimony and Witness in Holocaust and Ethnic American Literature Panel,
RMMLA Conference,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
October 4-6, 2007
 
Please Email abstracts or full-length papers, along with a c.v. by March 1, 2007 to: Joy Viveros, University of the Pacific, jviveros_at_pacific.edu.
 
Papers invited on intersections between Holocaust literature-fiction and non-fiction and ethnic American literatures.
 
Of particular interest are papers that engage these questions:

Call for Papers

2007 ALSC Conference, Chicago, IL, October 12-14, 2006

CALL-FOR-SUBMISSIONS: CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, Volume Five

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CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual is a publication dedicated to the
interdisciplinary study and artistic appreciation of the South (broadly
defined) and Southern culture.=20

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MELUS is now accepting proposals for the following two panels at MLA
(December 27-30, 2007, Chicago):

1. Multi-ethnic Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersections

Ecofeminism sees a relationship among nature, women, and people of color.
How have multi-ethnic texts contributed to the ecofeminist or eco-political
agenda? What theoretical and practical issues are involved?

2. Trans/nation: Race, Ethnicity, Citizenship and the State of American
Literature

How have current studies on globalization/transnationalism impacted
our conceptions of American ethnic literatures? How have globalization
and transnationalism redefined 21st-century multi-ethnic American
literary studies?

MELUS is now accepting proposals for the following two panels at MLA
(December 27-30, 2007, Chicago):

1. Multi-ethnic Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersections

Ecofeminism sees a relationship among nature, women, and people of color.
How have multi-ethnic texts contributed to the ecofeminist or eco-political
agenda? What theoretical and practical issues are involved?

2. Trans/nation: Race, Ethnicity, Citizenship and the State of American
Literature

How have current studies on globalization/transnationalism impacted
our conceptions of American ethnic literatures? How have globalization
and transnationalism redefined 21st-century multi-ethnic American
literary studies?

From: Yesod-Fredrick Douglas Knowles < knowlesf1_at_southernct.edu >

Panel Title: Literature, People of Color and the HIV/Aids Pandemic
(graduate)
Conference: The Eighth Annual SCSU Graduate English Conference, Michael
J. Adanti Student Center, Southern Connecticut State University, New
Haven, CT, Saturday, April 21, 2007, 9:00 am-4:30 pm

Call For Papers:

From: Yesod-Fredrick Douglas Knowles < knowlesf1_at_southernct.edu >

Panel Title: Literature, People of Color and the HIV/Aids Pandemic
(graduate)
Conference: The Eighth Annual SCSU Graduate English Conference, Michael
J. Adanti Student Center, Southern Connecticut State University, New
Haven, CT, Saturday, April 21, 2007, 9:00 am-4:30 pm

Call For Papers:

The Milton Society of America is sponsoring a session at MLA 07 in
Chicago, "John Milton: Land, Space, and Place," and invites topics that
include topography, exterior and interior space, visibilia and
invisibilia, spiritual space, etc. Send 1-page detailed proposal by 15
March to Mary Fenton (mfenton_at_email.wcu.edu).

Call for papers for
 
The Modern Language Association
Annual Convention 2007
Chicago
27-30 December 2007
 
Deadline: 15 March 2007
 
Session Title: Translation and the Humanities
 
The MLA Discussion Group on Translation invites papers on the Humanities'
dependency on translation vis-à-vis transmission of ideas, literary
concepts and categories, and the translated text in the classroom.
 
Please send 250-word abstracts to the Discussion Group Chair, Corinne
Scheiner (cscheiner_at_coloradocollege.edu).
 
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Corinne Scheiner
Maytag Associate Professor
Comparative Literature
The Colorado College

Call for Papers

2007 ALSC Conference, Chicago, IL, October 12-14, 2006