Call for Papers
Cognitive Approaches to Irish Literature (Panel)
New England American Conference for Irish Studies
University of Connecticut-Storrs, CT 10/21/2006-10/22/2006
 
We invite submissions of papers for a panel that will examine Irish
literature with the tools of cognitive science, cognitive psychology,
and cognitive literary theory. Recent discoveries in cognitive science
have profound implications for literary studies. Cross-disciplinary
scholars have made huge strides in showing how the functioning of the
embodied mind is inherently caught up with the production of literary
material. This panel will draw upon the most provocative insights of

The deadline for papers and abstracts has been extended to July 13.=20

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Call for papers, proposals, and panel suggestions: "Faith and Violence:
Jihad and Holy War" is the theme of the annual Northeast Region
Conference on Christianity and Literature to be held October 20, 21 2006
at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, NY. Keynote address to be
delivered by David S. Reynolds, author of "John Brown, Abolitionist: The
Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights."

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The deadline for papers and abstracts has been extended to July 13.=20

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Call for papers, proposals, and panel suggestions: "Faith and Violence:
Jihad and Holy War" is the theme of the annual Northeast Region
Conference on Christianity and Literature to be held October 20, 21 2006
at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, NY. Keynote address to be
delivered by David S. Reynolds, author of "John Brown, Abolitionist: The
Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights."

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CALL FOR CIRCUS PAPERS
   
  The Thirty-Seventh Annual Convention of
  The Popular Culture Association &
  The American Culture Association will take place
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Plaza
  110 Huntington Avenue
  Boston, Massachusetts 02116
   
  This will be the eleventh meeting of the Popular Culture Association
  Circuses and Circus Culture interest group. We invite papers that
  explore the past and present of circus as literature, art, craft and a
  unique form of popular culture. Circus, a continuously evolving tradition
  of live entertainment, lends itself to scholarship from many perspectives.
   
  Some previous papers:
   

New England Modern Language Association's 38th Convention in Baltimore,
Maryland, March 1-4, 2007.

Native North American Literature: This session welcomes submissions on any
aspect of Native American Studies, including literature, literary
separatism, film, culture, spirituality, language, gender, tribal politics,
race, and ethnicity. Papers addressing the recent critical works by writers
such as Robert Allen Warrior, Thomas King, Daniel Heath Justice, and Robert
A. Williams, Jr. are especially welcome.

Along with abstracts, please include:

Your name
Title of Paper
Institutional Affiliation, if any
Email address

New England Modern Language Association's 38th Convention in Baltimore,
Maryland, March 1-4, 2007.

Native North American Literature: This session welcomes submissions on any
aspect of Native American Studies, including literature, literary
separatism, film, culture, spirituality, language, gender, tribal politics,
race, and ethnicity. Papers addressing the recent critical works by writers
such as Robert Allen Warrior, Thomas King, Daniel Heath Justice, and Robert
A. Williams, Jr. are especially welcome.

Along with abstracts, please include:

Your name
Title of Paper
Institutional Affiliation, if any
Email address

Literature, Readers, and Democracy

"Democracy depends on engagement, a firsthand accounting of what one sees,
what one feels, and what one thinks, followed by the artful practice of
expressing the truth of our times through our own talents, gifts, and
vocations. Question. Stand, Speak. Act." –Terry Tempest Williams, The
Open Space of Democracy

We have extended the deadline for submissions until June 30, 2006.

Call for Papers

"Don't You Have Anything Better To Do?":

Work, Play, Comedy and Humor in English Studies

We have extended the deadline for submissions until June 30, 2006.

Call for Papers

"Don't You Have Anything Better To Do?":

Work, Play, Comedy and Humor in English Studies

*CALL FOR PAPERS*
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Baltimore Panels
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38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

March 1-4, 2007

Baltimore, Maryland
**

In honor of our host city, the NeMLA Board is sponsoring the following
panels that examine authors and texts associated with Baltimore, from
Frederick Douglass and Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Tyler, John Waters
and Barry Levinson:
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
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Baltimore Panels
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38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

March 1-4, 2007

Baltimore, Maryland
**

In honor of our host city, the NeMLA Board is sponsoring the following
panels that examine authors and texts associated with Baltimore, from
Frederick Douglass and Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Tyler, John Waters
and Barry Levinson:
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38th Annual NeMLA Convention, 1-4 Mar. 2007, Baltimore, MD
Panel: Picture Books and Children's Comics: Semiotics of Text and Image
Chair: Vanessa Raney, Michigan State University

If we follow the argument that comics are for children, then what
distinguishes them from picture books? In the last decade, a newer focus on
the semiotics of picture books has begun to inform scholarship on comics.

Yet, for comics specifically written for children, do these reflect similar
patterns as found in picture books? If not, where do children's comics
diverge to be grouped along with comics intended for adults?

Leiden October Conference 2006: The Literary Utopias of Cultural =
Communities, 1790-1945

English Department University of Leiden The Netherlands=20

25 - 27 October 2006

Writing literature is often deemed a solitary enterprise. Literary =
history, however, has proven that, next to famous literary recluses such =
as Thomas Pynchon, there have always existed communities of writers, =
often joined by artists working in different media. From the =
Shelley-Circle to the Bloomsbury group, many of these cultural =
communities engaged with utopian schemes and philosophies in their work. =

38th Annual NeMLA Convention, 1-4 Mar. 2007, Baltimore, MD
Panel: Picture Books and Children's Comics: Semiotics of Text and Image
Chair: Vanessa Raney, Michigan State University

If we follow the argument that comics are for children, then what
distinguishes them from picture books? In the last decade, a newer focus on
the semiotics of picture books has begun to inform scholarship on comics.

Yet, for comics specifically written for children, do these reflect similar
patterns as found in picture books? If not, where do children's comics
diverge to be grouped along with comics intended for adults?