Call for Papers--Deadline extended to February 8 =20

MENNONITE/S WRITING:
BEYOND BORDERS

Bluffton University
Oct. 26-29, 2006

Keynote: Kathleen Norris

Featured writers and critics: Rudy Wiebe, Jean Janzen, John Ruth, Di
Brandt, Julia Kasdorf, Hildi Froese Tiessen, Ann Hostetler, Jeff Gundy,
G. C. Waldrep, Keith Ratzlaff and many others.

Now also committed to appear: Nathan Bartel, J. L. Conrad, Todd Davis,
Cheryl Denise, Rhoda Janzen, Janet Kauffman, Joanne Lehman, Evie Yoder
Miller, Shari Wagner, Linda Wendling, and others.

Outskirts: feminisms along the edge
is a feminist cultural studies journal published online twice yearly.=20
It provides a space in which new and challenging critical material from=20=

a range of disciplinary perspectives and addressing a range of feminist=20=

topics and issues are brought together to discuss and contest=20
contemporary and historical issues involving women and feminisms.=20
Submissions are always welcome

Outskirts: feminisms along the edge
is a feminist cultural studies journal published online twice yearly.=20
It provides a space in which new and challenging critical material from=20=

a range of disciplinary perspectives and addressing a range of feminist=20=

topics and issues are brought together to discuss and contest=20
contemporary and historical issues involving women and feminisms.=20
Submissions are always welcome

NEW, EXTENDED DEADLINE!!!!

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS
Canadian Comparative Literature Association
Association canadienne de litt=E9rature compar=E9e

YORK UNIVERSITY
May 28-30, 2006.

The City, Comparatively

We invite papers, or proposals for papers, on the following subjects:
Nous vous invitons =E0 soumettre des communications ou des projets de=20
communications
sur l'un des sujets suivants:

spatial imaginings
the legacy of Freud (on the 150th anniversary of Freud=92s birth)
landscapes, urban and rural
the urban sublime

Re-imagining the Ivory Tower: Perspectives and Praxis

Joe Berry's Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change =
Higher Education presents strategies for empowering adjunct faculty. =
Roundtable session addresses visions and strategies. Brief abstract by =
March 1 to Kandace Brill Lombart. =
lombart1_at_canisius.edu<mailto:lombart1_at_canisius.edu>=20

This roundtable session is being sponsored by the Modern Language =
Association's Part-Time Faculty Member's Discussion Group. The 2006 =
National Modern Language Association Convention will be held in =
Philadelphia, 27-30 December.

Update: Abstracts or proposals due June 1 for Religion and Popular Culture
panel at Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
to Richard Currie at either RCu8598882_at_aol.com or Currie_at_postbox.csi.cuny.edu.

**With apologies for cross-posting.**
As engagements with "Romantic Science" become increasingly varied and
complex, references to the life and works of Erasmus Darwin appear
with increasing frequency in a multitude of contexts. Similarly,
treatments of Darwin's connections to contemporary literary figures,
as well as reexaminations of his own status as a popular poet,
suggest that sustained attention to Darwin can further enrich our
understandings of the relation between poetry and science. Papers
exploring any aspect of these issues in Darwin's works will be
considered. Possible topics may include: Darwin and Evolutionary
Thought; Poetics of Zoology and/or Botany; Darwin and the Lives of

**With apologies for cross-posting.**
As engagements with "Romantic Science" become increasingly varied and
complex, references to the life and works of Erasmus Darwin appear
with increasing frequency in a multitude of contexts. Similarly,
treatments of Darwin's connections to contemporary literary figures,
as well as reexaminations of his own status as a popular poet,
suggest that sustained attention to Darwin can further enrich our
understandings of the relation between poetry and science. Papers
exploring any aspect of these issues in Darwin's works will be
considered. Possible topics may include: Darwin and Evolutionary
Thought; Poetics of Zoology and/or Botany; Darwin and the Lives of

The AnaChronisT,

a peer-reviewed yearbook published by the Department of English Studies,
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary,

invites research papers and interviews on literatures in
English for its next issue, to be published in December 2006. All topics
acceptable. Papers are to be submitted by Monday, 3 April 2006.

The AnaChronisT welcomes submissions by graduate and doctoral students as
well as academics. The requirements of application are as follows:

- the text in Word or RTF document format sent to the following e-mail
address: anachronist_at_freemail.hu (your paper should not exceed 10,000 words,
including footnotes);

Writing Macao:
creative text and teaching

Call for Fourth Number:
Submissions are now sought for the fourth number of Writing Macao: creative
text and teaching, a special issue on Collaboration in Creative Writing, to
appear later in 2006 and already under construction.

Call For Papers: Research - Pedagogy - History
Accepted Panel at: Gender Across Borders II: Research Subjects
Friday & Saturday, April 21 & 22, 2006
Institute for Research & Education on Women and Gender
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Panel Organizer: Voichita Nachescu nachescu_at_buffalo.edu.
Moderator (proposed): Greg Dimitriadis.

Call for Submissions

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Outsights: Images of Italian Americans in Other Literatures

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"Voices in Italian Americana" is a semi-annual literary and cultural =
review
devoted to the dissemination of information concerning the contributions =
of
and about Italian Americans to the cultural and art worlds of North =
America.

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We invite submissions of critical essays from scholars in all ethnic
literatures and films to be published in a special issue in the Fall of
2006.=20

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CFP - REFRACTORY: A JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA
SPECIAL ISSUE: NARRATIVE AND THE MOVING IMAGE

The online journal REFRACTORY is seeking contributions regarding
narrative in relation to audiovisual media (cinema, television and new
media). We invite a variety of approaches and topics, but are
particularly interested in essays that explore new areas and objects of
narrative study, or offer new perspectives on existing debates.

Fashioning Fiction (grad): University of Stirling (UK)=20
Abstract Deadline: 03/10/06
Conference Dates: 05/27/06 =96 05/28/06=20

=91What a strange power there is in clothing=92 =96 Isaac Bashevis Singer