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CFP: Callaloo: Nathan A. Scott, Jr. (3/5/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:47am
Callaloo

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

The Editor of Callaloo invites you to submit formal articles, informal
essays, and other kinds of text (including visual and creative writing)
about

Nathan A. Scott, Jr.

as scholar, professor, literary critic, mentor, and friend in a special
issue of the journal to be devoted to this distinguished man of letters.

This special issue of Callaloo is designed to document and explore the
numerous contributions Nathan A. Scott, Jr. has made to religious and
literary studies.

Each manuscript or other contributions should be postmarked no later than
Monday, March 5th, 2007 to:

UPDATE: The Ambrose Bierce Project (8/15/06; e-journal)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Craig Warren

UPDATE: In addition to the essays already solicited, The Ambrose Bierce Project (http://www.ambrosebierce.org) is seeking literary briefs on the following short stories:

"A Son of the Gods"
"One Kind of Officer"
"A Tough Tussle"
"The Coup de Grâce"
"One Officer, One Man"
"Parker Adderson, Philosopher"
"An Affair of Outposts"
"Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General"
"A Horseman in the Sky?
"Killed at Resaca"
"The Damned Thing"
"Moxon's Master"
"The Man and the Snake"

UPDATE: The Ambrose Bierce Project (8/15/06; e-journal)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Craig Warren

UPDATE: In addition to the essays already solicited, The Ambrose Bierce Project (http://www.ambrosebierce.org) is seeking literary briefs on the following short stories:

"A Son of the Gods"
"One Kind of Officer"
"A Tough Tussle"
"The Coup de Grâce"
"One Officer, One Man"
"Parker Adderson, Philosopher"
"An Affair of Outposts"
"Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General"
"A Horseman in the Sky?
"Killed at Resaca"
"The Damned Thing"
"Moxon's Master"
"The Man and the Snake"

CFP: Industrial/Corporate/Educational Film (7/20/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Faye Riley

Call for Papers
 
2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition" Dallas 8-12 November, 2006
www.filmandhistory.org
 
AREA: Industrial/Corporate/Educational Film

Industrial/corporate/educational films, a category of non-fiction film, have
been a marginalized area of film study. Industrial/corporate/educational
films are viewed by thousands in schools, in corporations and in sales
meetings, yet the film companies, the filmmakers and the films themselves
receive little attention. This area seeks to explore the
industrial/corporate/educational film companies, the filmmakers and the
films.

CFP: General Papers and Research Methods (grad) (7/14/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
pgeng.submissions_at_durham.ac.uk

The University of Durham's Online Journal
POSTGRADUATE ENGLISH:
A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English in the UK and Europe

Invites postgraduates studying in the UK and Europe to submit papers of not
more than 7000 words on a topic of YOUR CHOICE in the broad range of English
Studies for issue 14 (September 2006) of our refereed online journal. Papers
must conform to the MLA guidelines for presentation and be received no later than

DEADLINE: JULY 14, 2006.

This journal publishes papers from PhD or any other research students
ONLY. Please, when submitting your work, include the following information in
the email: name of University, full title of program, title of essay.

CFP: General Papers and Research Methods (grad) (7/14/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
pgeng.submissions_at_durham.ac.uk

The University of Durham's Online Journal
POSTGRADUATE ENGLISH:
A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English in the UK and Europe

Invites postgraduates studying in the UK and Europe to submit papers of not
more than 7000 words on a topic of YOUR CHOICE in the broad range of English
Studies for issue 14 (September 2006) of our refereed online journal. Papers
must conform to the MLA guidelines for presentation and be received no later than

DEADLINE: JULY 14, 2006.

This journal publishes papers from PhD or any other research students
ONLY. Please, when submitting your work, include the following information in
the email: name of University, full title of program, title of essay.

CFP: Callaloo: Octavia E. Butler (4/20/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Callaloo

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

Callaloo invites you to submit formal articles, informal essays, and other
kinds of texts (including visual and creative writing) about

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

as a writer and friend in a Special Issue of the journal to be devoted to
this distinguished American writer.

Each manuscript or other contribution should be submitted following the
Callaloo submission guidelines and postmarked no later than Friday, April
20, 2007, to:

Callaloo/Octavia Butler Issue
Department of English
Texas A&M University
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227

CFP: Callaloo: Octavia E. Butler (4/20/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Callaloo

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

Callaloo invites you to submit formal articles, informal essays, and other
kinds of texts (including visual and creative writing) about

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

as a writer and friend in a Special Issue of the journal to be devoted to
this distinguished American writer.

Each manuscript or other contribution should be submitted following the
Callaloo submission guidelines and postmarked no later than Friday, April
20, 2007, to:

Callaloo/Octavia Butler Issue
Department of English
Texas A&M University
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227

CFP: Callaloo: Octavia E. Butler (4/20/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Callaloo

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

Callaloo invites you to submit formal articles, informal essays, and other
kinds of texts (including visual and creative writing) about

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

as a writer and friend in a Special Issue of the journal to be devoted to
this distinguished American writer.

Each manuscript or other contribution should be submitted following the
Callaloo submission guidelines and postmarked no later than Friday, April
20, 2007, to:

Callaloo/Octavia Butler Issue
Department of English
Texas A&M University
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227

CFP: Christianity and Literature (12/15/06; CCL, 5/10/07-5/12/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Holly Faith Nelson

Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred and the Sublime

Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia
May 10-12, 2007

Keynote Speakers: David Lyle Jeffrey, Baylor University; Maxine Hancock,
Regent College

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited on any aspects of the topics of suffering, the sacred,
and the sublime in literature from a Christian perspective.
Interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approaches to these topics are
encouraged.

Topics may include:

CFP: Christianity and Literature (12/15/06; CCL, 5/10/07-5/12/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Holly Faith Nelson

Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred and the Sublime

Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia
May 10-12, 2007

Keynote Speakers: David Lyle Jeffrey, Baylor University; Maxine Hancock,
Regent College

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited on any aspects of the topics of suffering, the sacred,
and the sublime in literature from a Christian perspective.
Interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approaches to these topics are
encouraged.

Topics may include:

CFP: Popular Culture and Feminine Self-Fashioning (7/15/06; MAPACA, 10/27/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Elizabeth Dill

CFP: Popular Culture, the Marketplace and Feminine Self-Fashioning Panel,
10/27-29/06

"A Rose by Any Other Name: Female Self-Fashioning and the Marketplace" is a
session of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association's
annual conference. The dates are 10/27/06 -10/29/06 in Baltimore, MD. For
more information, please go to: http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/.

CFP: Popular Culture and Feminine Self-Fashioning (7/15/06; MAPACA, 10/27/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Elizabeth Dill

CFP: Popular Culture, the Marketplace and Feminine Self-Fashioning Panel,
10/27-29/06

"A Rose by Any Other Name: Female Self-Fashioning and the Marketplace" is a
session of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association's
annual conference. The dates are 10/27/06 -10/29/06 in Baltimore, MD. For
more information, please go to: http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/.

CFP: Popular Culture and Feminine Self-Fashioning (7/15/06; MAPACA, 10/27/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Elizabeth Dill

CFP: Popular Culture, the Marketplace and Feminine Self-Fashioning Panel,
10/27-29/06

"A Rose by Any Other Name: Female Self-Fashioning and the Marketplace" is a
session of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association's
annual conference. The dates are 10/27/06 -10/29/06 in Baltimore, MD. For
more information, please go to: http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/.

UPDATE: Over 50 areas under "The Documentary Tradition" (8/15/06; 11/8/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
RollinsPC_at_aol.com

UPDATE: All Areas have CFPs up and ready.=20
Dear Film and Culture scholars,=20
The Film & History web site now carries over 50 areas of study for=20
the November conference. Check out the site and the detailed CFPs=20
available for our 8-12 Conference on =E2=80=9CThe Documentary Tradition.=
=E2=80=9D=20
www.filmandhistory.org=20
Here is a hint of the variety of topics under the main rubric of =20
DOCUMENTARY=20
Genres, Styles, and Aesthetics (13 areas)=20
Individual Filmmakers (18 areas)=20
Classics (3 areas)=20
Eras and Places (3 areas)=20
Social Documentaries and Topics (6 areas)=20
National Traidtions (10 areas)=20

CFP: Popular Culture and Feminine Self-Fashioning (7/15/06; MAPACA, 10/27/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Elizabeth Dill

CFP: Popular Culture, the Marketplace and Feminine Self-Fashioning Panel,
10/27-29/06

"A Rose by Any Other Name: Female Self-Fashioning and the Marketplace" is a
session of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association's
annual conference. The dates are 10/27/06 -10/29/06 in Baltimore, MD. For
more information, please go to: http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/.

CFP: Improvisation Continuums (UK) (9/1/06; 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Dennis R \(HLaSS\)

Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines

12 - 14 April 2007 (deadline for submissions 1 Sept 06)
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan South Wales UK

Keynotes confirmed
Anne Bogart, SITI Company
Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

Call for Papers (please cross post where appropriate)

Improvisation is integral to arts practice. This conference provides a
structure and a space for artists/practitioners/teachers/scholars to
share ideas and debate about the application and relevance of
improvisation in arts practice today.

CFP: Improvisation Continuums (UK) (9/1/06; 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Dennis R \(HLaSS\)

Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines

12 - 14 April 2007 (deadline for submissions 1 Sept 06)
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan South Wales UK

Keynotes confirmed
Anne Bogart, SITI Company
Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

Call for Papers (please cross post where appropriate)

Improvisation is integral to arts practice. This conference provides a
structure and a space for artists/practitioners/teachers/scholars to
share ideas and debate about the application and relevance of
improvisation in arts practice today.

CFP: Improvisation Continuums (UK) (9/1/06; 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Dennis R \(HLaSS\)

Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines

12 - 14 April 2007 (deadline for submissions 1 Sept 06)
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan South Wales UK

Keynotes confirmed
Anne Bogart, SITI Company
Stephen Nachmanovitch, Free Play

Call for Papers (please cross post where appropriate)

Improvisation is integral to arts practice. This conference provides a
structure and a space for artists/practitioners/teachers/scholars to
share ideas and debate about the application and relevance of
improvisation in arts practice today.

CFP: Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric (12/1/06; 2/23/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Elise Flanagan

Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities
Texas A&M University-Commerce
February 23, 2007

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of the five canons of rhetoric--invention,
arrangement, style, memory, delivery—which we define broadly to incorporate
a wide variety of research interests.

CFP: Edith Wharton (7/7/06; ALA Symposium, 9/28/06-9/30/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Donna Campbell

The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor a panel at the American Literature
Symposium on American Fiction in San Diego on September 28-30, 2006.

Please send two-page proposals on any aspect of Edith Wharton's fiction by
July 7, 2006 to Margaret Murray at drmpm_at_snet.net.

No audiovisual equipment will be available for this symposium. The
conference fee is $120, which includes two meals and two receptions. A full
description of the symposium, together with registration form and lodging
information, is available on the American Literature Association web site:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/otherconfs.html

CFP: Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric (12/1/06; 2/23/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Elise Flanagan

Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities
Texas A&M University-Commerce
February 23, 2007

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of the five canons of rhetoric--invention,
arrangement, style, memory, delivery—which we define broadly to incorporate
a wide variety of research interests.

CFP: Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric (12/1/06; 2/23/07)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Elise Flanagan

Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric
***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities
Texas A&M University-Commerce
February 23, 2007

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels
dealing with contemporary issues of the five canons of rhetoric--invention,
arrangement, style, memory, delivery—which we define broadly to incorporate
a wide variety of research interests.

CFP: Edith Wharton (7/7/06; ALA Symposium, 9/28/06-9/30/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Donna Campbell

The Edith Wharton Society will sponsor a panel at the American Literature
Symposium on American Fiction in San Diego on September 28-30, 2006.

Please send two-page proposals on any aspect of Edith Wharton's fiction by
July 7, 2006 to Margaret Murray at drmpm_at_snet.net.

No audiovisual equipment will be available for this symposium. The
conference fee is $120, which includes two meals and two receptions. A full
description of the symposium, together with registration form and lodging
information, is available on the American Literature Association web site:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/otherconfs.html

CFP: Mary Braddon Collection (no deadline noted; collection)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Jessica Cox

**CALL FOR PAPERS**

FOR A PROPOSED ESSAY COLLECTION ON
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

Possible topics for articles might include:

· Braddon and the literary marketplace
· Braddon and the theatre
· Braddon's twentieth century fiction
· Adaptations of Braddon's novels
· Braddon and the sensation school
· Representations of gender in Braddon's work
· Braddon's literary influences
· Braddon's influence on other writers
· Autobiographical elements of Braddon's fiction
· Braddon's writing as social commentary
· Braddon's significance/legacy as a Victorian woman writer

Articles should be between 5000 and 7000 words in length, and should be sent
to:

UPDATE: Ecocriticism in the 21st century (UK) (6/30/06; 9/8/06-9/10/06)

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:46am
Rupert Hildyard

'DISCORDANT HARMONIES: Ecocriticism in the 21st century'

ASLE UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2006
8th - 10th September 2006
University of Lincoln, England, U.K.

Updated call for papers: deadline June 30th 2006

The perception that we are living at a time of deepening ecological
crisis is now urgent and pervasive. What do literature and culture have
to say at this moment in the history of human relationships with our
environment?

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