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deadline is MARCH 15, 2007. Please send Abstracts to mrohweder_at_gmail.com

Updated CFP:

UPDATE: deadline extended until 2/16/07

Rewriting the Body (grad) (2/16/07; disjunctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference,
April 6-7, 2007. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation
Nation," this panel attempts to explore how the body as cultural text is
rewritten through acts of (re)appropriation, misappropriation, passing,
mimicry, and resignification.

Papers from all periods and areas are welcome. Suggested topics include

UPDATE: deadline extended until 2/16/07

Rewriting the Body (grad) (2/16/07; disjunctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference,
April 6-7, 2007. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation
Nation," this panel attempts to explore how the body as cultural text is
rewritten through acts of (re)appropriation, misappropriation, passing,
mimicry, and resignification.

Papers from all periods and areas are welcome. Suggested topics include

Call for Papers

2007Annual PAAS Conference

7-10 November 2007

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND AMERICAN CULTURAL PRACTICE

Call for Papers

"Celebrating Memories & Visual Cultures"

ZIFF Conference, Zanzibar July 2-4, 2007

ZIFF will be celebrating its tenth anniversary with another grand
cultural festival from 30th June to 8th July, 2007, under the overall
theme of "Celebration of Waters and Dreams." It is a moment of
reflection on where we have come from, where we are at, and where we are
going.

As part of what has become a tradition, ZIFF will organise another
conference to celebrate the occasion on the conference theme focusing
specifically on "Celebrating Memories & Visual Cultures."

Call for Papers

"Celebrating Memories & Visual Cultures"

ZIFF Conference, Zanzibar July 2-4, 2007

ZIFF will be celebrating its tenth anniversary with another grand
cultural festival from 30th June to 8th July, 2007, under the overall
theme of "Celebration of Waters and Dreams." It is a moment of
reflection on where we have come from, where we are at, and where we are
going.

As part of what has become a tradition, ZIFF will organise another
conference to celebrate the occasion on the conference theme focusing
specifically on "Celebrating Memories & Visual Cultures."

Seeking papers for the MLA convention in Chicago, December 27-30, 2007

"Re-Mapped Lives: The Partition of British India." Papers
investigating, using literature and film, how the Partition experience
of communal violence and mass displacement has shaped postcolonial
societies and subjectivities in South Asia.

Please submit 300-word abstracts to Debali
Mookerjea-Leonard(dmookerj_at_gmail.com) by March 1.

Thanks,
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

Seeking papers for the MLA convention in Chicago, December 27-30, 2007

"Re-Mapped Lives: The Partition of British India." Papers
investigating, using literature and film, how the Partition experience
of communal violence and mass displacement has shaped postcolonial
societies and subjectivities in South Asia.

Please submit 300-word abstracts to Debali
Mookerjea-Leonard(dmookerj_at_gmail.com) by March 1.

Thanks,
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2007 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held Saturday, June 9, 2007, in Toronto, Ontario, at the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, one of the most important collections of fantastic literature in the world.

We invite proposals for papers in any area of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, including:

-studies of individual works and authors;
-comparative studies;
-studies that place works in their literary and/or
         cultural contexts.

For the 2007 MLA Convention, December 27-30 in Chicago:

*Ending the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1807-2007. * To mark the
bicentennial: tellings of the Middle Passage; stories of resistance;
the U.S. South in the Black Atlantic. In literature of any relevant
period. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Jennifer Rae Greeson (greeson_at_princeton.edu).

*Filming the U.S. South. * Silver-screen Souths: race, location,
segregation, and film history; visualizing the plantation; myths and
counter-myths; spectacle and violence. Abstracts by 10 Mar.; Jennifer
Rae Greeson (greeson_at_princeton.edu).

The Division for Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association
is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Chicago,
December 2007:
 

FEELING SCIENCE
What's the use of feeling to science, or science to feeling? Hippocratic medicine to romantic science to neuroscience and beyond; scientific theories of affect; conversations with literature/film. Abstract/complete paper by March 15 to Martha Stoddard Holmes (mstoddar_at_csusm.edu <mailto:mstoddar_at_csusm.edu> ) AND Laura Dassow Walls (wallsld_at_gwm.sc.edu <mailto:wallsld_at_gwm.sc.edu> ).

The Division for Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association
is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Chicago,
December 2007:
 

FEELING SCIENCE
What's the use of feeling to science, or science to feeling? Hippocratic medicine to romantic science to neuroscience and beyond; scientific theories of affect; conversations with literature/film. Abstract/complete paper by March 15 to Martha Stoddard Holmes (mstoddar_at_csusm.edu <mailto:mstoddar_at_csusm.edu> ) AND Laura Dassow Walls (wallsld_at_gwm.sc.edu <mailto:wallsld_at_gwm.sc.edu> ).

UPDATE: New Deadline for Submissions - 1/31/07

Polygraph Issue 19

Issue Editor: Russ Leo

TENTATIVE TITLE: Augustine, our Contemporary

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