Pataphysica 4, "Pataphysica e Alchimia 2," will follow in the
footsteps of Pataphysica 2, "Pataphysica e Alchimia," in
presenting Part 2 of Alfred Jarry's final, unfinished novel The
She-Dragon (1907), again in the form of an annotated literal
translation highlighting Jarry's use of alchemical and
mythological symbolism. It will again be edited and introduced
by Dr. Faustroll, and submissions should be sent for
consideration to faustroll1_at_juno.com. "Juno," as everyone
knows, is the Roman counterpart to the Greek Hera, who
represented the Earth in the same way that her husband Zeus
stood for the sky, suggesting that this e-mail address is a way
of contacting "Faustroll on Earth."

The last two decades have seen three significant paradigm shifts. First,
there is a movement to deconstruct in order to reconstruct the super
physical world of consciousness in relation to the post human body - data
made flesh. Secondly, the academic disciplines commonly grouped under the
headings of humanities and arts have seen a shift from the textual to the
performative. The arts and humanities have in common that they study
expressions of the experience of being human. It is precisely that
experience that is at the centre of the third paradigm shift, in the
interdisciplinary scientific study of consciousness. The insights of
consciousness studies are important to performance and theatre on at least

Deadline extended:

                The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
(RMMRA) invites submission of abstracts for its annual meeting. The
conference is being hosted by Darin Merrill and Brigham Young
University-Idaho, in Rexburg, ID.=20

We have extended the deadline for submissions to this conference to February 28, 2006. The call for papers is reproduced below.

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Deadline extended:

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
 Dear Colleague,

We have a great pleasure in inviting you to participate in the fourth
international conference

 LANGUAGE, CULTURE and TECHNOLOGIES

at Kaunas University of Technology (http://www.ktu.lt/en/)

 Kaunas, LITHUANIA

 19-21 May, 2006

 We invite teachers, scholars and postgraduate students to participate and
to contribute papers to the fourth international conference hosted by Kaunas
University of Technology, Lithuania.

Deadline extended:

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
 Dear Colleague,

We have a great pleasure in inviting you to participate in the fourth
international conference

 LANGUAGE, CULTURE and TECHNOLOGIES

at Kaunas University of Technology (http://www.ktu.lt/en/)

 Kaunas, LITHUANIA

 19-21 May, 2006

 We invite teachers, scholars and postgraduate students to participate and
to contribute papers to the fourth international conference hosted by Kaunas
University of Technology, Lithuania.

UPDATE: CFP: The Literature of Trauma: Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal
Perspectives
(3/15/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)
Call For Papers
The Literature of Trauma: Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal perspectives.
October 12-14, 2006
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 60th Annual Convention,
DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona.

Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction announces a special issue
focusing on Alice Munro's short fiction. ESTSF seeks readable articles
derived from your teaching experience. Articles can be shorter and more
focused on practice without endnotes or a works cited page or can be
longer scholarly articles documented with endnotes and a works cited
page. We avoid abstract theory but do accept readable critical
articles. ESTSF seeks to be practical in its emphasis on pedagogy and
applied theory. Suggested length: 500-5000 words. Previously featured
writers include Willa Cather, Jack London, Flannery O'Connor, John
Updike, Mark Twain, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Ray Bradbury. ESTSF is a peer

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.