We are looking for responses, both creative and critical, to Virgil's The
Georgics for a book collection. We are open to the type of response-it can
be very loosely related to Virgil's work, a direct critical response, or
even a translation. Send your responses or questions to wallegre_at_iun.edu.

Revised description:

I'm putting together a special session for the Chicago MLA in 2007.  The
session will explore experimental writing in the Midwest from a critical
standpoint as it has emerged in the past twenty-five years.  I invite anyone
who is interested to send me an abstract of 250 words concerning your
proposed topic.  I don't have anything specific in mind, so I'm interested
in seeing what people will come up with from any "experimental" genre.
 Please submit abstracts to wallegre_at_iun.edu by 3/15/07

The conference website is now open at www.emsah.uq.edu.au/after. =20
Deadline for submission of proposals for papers and panels: April 16 =
2007. =20
Secure online registration available, and details of publications to =
follow from the conference. =20
=20
Mourning & its Hospitalities | (after ...)
a three-day international conference at the University of Queensland, =
Australia
July 18-20 2007

followed by
Hospitalities of Literature | (teaching after ...)
a one-day symposium on teaching
July 21 2007

Plenary speakers include:

*The Graduate Association of French and Italian Students*

*is pleased to announce its*

*20th Annual Symposium*

Books, Texts and Readers in French and Italian Studies

March 23-24, 2007

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Keynote speaker
Michael H. Shank

Dear Professors and Colleagues,

On behalf of Mester XXXVI, I would like to call your attention to our =20
Special Issue on Memory and History and our EXTENDED DEADLINE for =20
submissions *March 1, 2007.* Please, forward this message to any group =20
and individuals you think might be interested in this topic. If you =20
have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Thank you very much for your time,

Jasmina

Jasmina Arsova, C. Phil
Editor-in-Chief 2006-2007
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
4310 Rolfe Hall / Box 951532
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1532
Office Tel: (310) 825-6014 / Fax: (310) 206-4757
E-mail: jasmina_at_humnet.ucla.edu / mester_at_ucla.edu

Dear Professors and Colleagues,

On behalf of Mester XXXVI, I would like to call your attention to our =20
Special Issue on Memory and History and our EXTENDED DEADLINE for =20
submissions *March 1, 2007.* Please, forward this message to any group =20
and individuals you think might be interested in this topic. If you =20
have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Thank you very much for your time,

Jasmina

Jasmina Arsova, C. Phil
Editor-in-Chief 2006-2007
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
4310 Rolfe Hall / Box 951532
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1532
Office Tel: (310) 825-6014 / Fax: (310) 206-4757
E-mail: jasmina_at_humnet.ucla.edu / mester_at_ucla.edu

  Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
November 2-3, 2007
Western Washington University
Bellingham, Washington

  "The New Criticism: Formalist Literary Theory and Practice in America."

Paper proposals sought for an approved special-session panel on American
New Criticism. Proposals may address issues ranging from the theory and
practice of American formalist critics to the history and impact of
formalism in higher education. (Proposals that address movements and
authors beyond the panel's American context may also be considered.)

The Society for Reformation Research (SRR:
website at http://www.reformationresearch.org/ ),
a North American scholarly organization and
partner group to the Verein für
Reformationgeschichte, is concerned with
furthering scholarly research on the Protestant
and Catholic Reformations and all other aspects
of religious life in the early modern era.
Following our mandate, we will sponsor a variety
of sessions at the 2007 annual meeting of the
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference held in
Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), from October 24-28 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

Call for submissions for the Sympo(e)sium at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007. We are looking for papers that deal with any aspect of Edgar Allan Poe's work or his influence on writers and artists of any period or national literature. Please send proposals (250 words) or finished papers to Paul Milton at paul.milton_at_ubc.ca or to Department of Critical Studies, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, 3333 University Way, Kelowna, British Columbia, V1V 1V7.
Deadline for submissions: *March 1, 2007*
More information about the conference can be found at http://rmmla.wsu.edu/call/default.asp

CFP for a special session at MLA 2007 Chicago on
"George Bernard Shaw and History"

CFP "Recontextualized Images" (grad) (2/16/07;
(dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

CFP "Recontextualized Images" (grad) (2/16/07;
(dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

CFP: _The Crucible_ in Performance
Special session at MLA 2007 (27-30 December, Chicago).

Soliciting papers treating Miller's play and/or adaptations of it, especially
Robert Ward's opera. While I will consider any proposal, I would especially
like to consider papers treating issues of textual problematics across
adaptations, the performance of allegory, Miller's historiography, or the
relationship between politics, history, and theatre/performance.

One page proposals by 1 March to Erika Olbricht: erika.olbricht at yale.edu.
Finished papers should be 15 - 20 minutes.

Erika Olbricht
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale University

Note corrected email addresses:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The North American Victorian Studies Association and the Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada will join forces for a joint
conference to be held 10-13 October 2007. The conference will take
place at the Laurel Point Inn on Victoria's beautiful inner harbour.
Featured presenters include Stephen Arata, Peter Bailey, Kirstie
Blair, Nicholas Daly, Jennifer Green-Lewis, Donald E. Hall, Gail
Turley Houston, Linda K. Hughes, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Seth
Koven, Philippa Levine, Lynda Nead, John Picker, Erika
Rappaport, and Talia Schaffer.