Fabricated Heroes and Homefronts: Considerations of Technology, Gender and
Myth in Literature and Culture

Edited by Lisa DeTora and Elizabeth Abele

CFP: "PERFORMING SPACE: /PLACING/ 21ST C DIGITAL LITERATURE" (3/10/06;
MLA '06)

Proposed Special Session for the 2006 MLA Convention in Philadelphia,
December 27-30, 2006

                   A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

                READING CALLALOO, EATING CALLALOO

                   A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

                READING CALLALOO, EATING CALLALOO

Proposed panel: The 'New Woman' and the Literature of the 1920s

 *deadline for proposals: April 15th, 2006

One significant cultural transformation rapidly solidified in the
aftermath
of the Great War was the emergence of the New Woman. Smoking, drinking,=

Papers are sought for the inaugural volume of a new peer-reviewed
journal, "After Culture: Emergent Anthropologies." The first issue is
planned for release in September 2006, and thereafter will be
published semiannually (in March and September) and made available
free through the internet (URL forthcoming).

          This is a cfp from the Doris Lessing Society for one of their two sponsored panels at this year's MLA Convention in Philadelphia from 27-30 December. Please send proposals by 15 March. Papers may address other authors alongside Lessing. Presenters must be members of the MLA and of the Doris Lessing Society ($16 US; for details visit website: http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/raschke/doris_lessing_society/).
   
  Panel Title: Trauma and the Works of Doris Lessing
   

 
Deadline extension/nouvelle date limite

Equinoxes 2006
 Call For Conference Papers
 "La consommation littéraire / Literary Consumption"
     
 "Je ne sacrifie que a moy (aux dieux poinct) et a cestuy mon Ventre le plus grand de tous les Dieux." – Rabelais, Le Quart Livre.

 The Department of French Studies at Brown University announces its 14th annual Graduate Conference

 March 17-18, 2006

M E S T E R
2006 Call for Papers, General Issue
Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department
of Spanish and
Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its upcoming 35th anniversary
issue to be
published in June 2006.

Our new volume will be open to any topic related to the scope of the
journal. Mester publishes critical articles, interviews, and book
reviews in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish-American,
Brazilian, Chicano, and Latina/o literatures and linguistics. Mester
also welcomes articles in other disciplines such as Comparative
Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Articles may be
written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.

M E S T E R
2006 Call for Papers, General Issue
Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department
of Spanish and
Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its upcoming 35th anniversary
issue to be
published in June 2006.

Our new volume will be open to any topic related to the scope of the
journal. Mester publishes critical articles, interviews, and book
reviews in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish-American,
Brazilian, Chicano, and Latina/o literatures and linguistics. Mester
also welcomes articles in other disciplines such as Comparative
Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Articles may be
written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.

Call for Proposals for MLA 06, Division of Disability Studies Session:

Pain and Disability. Pain and problems of representation, pain and
theories of embodiment, pain and disability studies models. Abstract
and short biography by March 1st to Petra Kuppers (pkuppers_at_bryant.edu).

Petra Kuppers
>From September 2006: Associate Professor, English Department, Faculty Associate, Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Until then, on leave:
Associate Professor of Performance Studies
Bryant University

Artistic Director of The Olimpias Performance Research Projects
www.olimpias.net

"Speaking in Tongues": A Study in African-American Literary Discourse,
Culture, and Rhetoric

"Speaking in Tongues": A Study in African-American Literary Discourse,
Culture, and Rhetoric

 
BOOK
Call for chapters on the influence of second wave feminism on the arts in
Britain.
Editor Dimple Godiwala
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Press
Deadline for chapters 30 April 2006
Feminism in Britain has permeated every art form, from drama, dance and
music to the so-called 'low-brow' culture: popular culture. It is seen as a
transgressive force and has influenced culture immeasurably since the second wave
of 60s feminism. Are women equal in the fields of art? Do they still have to
struggle for recognition within the matrix of the various institutions? Who
wields the power in British drama for example? How different is it in the