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Announcing the North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference

TRUE OR FALSE?

FEBRUARY 3-4, 2006
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT
CHAPEL HILL

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

* fact and fiction
* forgery
* perception and reality
* theater and verisimilitude
* portraiture, hagiography, (auto)biography
* memory and nostalgia
* mystical experiences
* witchcraft and magic
* judicial procedures
* scientific explanation
* the True Faith, heresy, and false religions
* writing history

Call for Proposals

Computers & Writing Online 2006: Making Knowledge on the Digital =
Frontier

February 6 to 28, 2006=20

Proposals Due: 30 November 2005

We are pleased to announce Computers & Writing Online 2006: Making =
Knowledge
on the Digital Frontier-a conference for all educators. This conference
occurs completely online and complements the face-to-face conference =
that
will be held in May at Texas Tech University.

Although the deadline for proposals has passed, later submissions will be
considered.

The Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic, is pleased to announce an
International conference:

Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries

Although the deadline for proposals has passed, later submissions will be
considered.

The Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic, is pleased to announce an
International conference:

Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries

Although the deadline for proposals has passed, later submissions will be
considered.

The Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic, is pleased to announce an
International conference:

Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries

CALL FOR PAPERS: Panel=20
=20
" ' A Roman Virgin' : Beatrice Cenci as historical and literary icon in
Italian and Foreign Literature, 1599 - present -=20
 'Vergine Romana': Beatrice Cenci, icona letteraria e storica nella
letteratura italiana e straniera, 1599 - al presente "

CALL FOR PAPERS
"Animals and Globalization"
Seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association 2006
Conference
March 23-26, 2006
Princeton, NJ
Proposals due November 30, 2005
Conference Website: http://webscript.princeton.edu/~acla06/site/

REBECCA WEST'S FICTION AND NON-FICTION. Essays are sought for a
collection on Rebecca West's fiction and non-fiction. They are to be
published as a third volume of studies of underrated British and Irish
novelists, edited by Gill Davies, David Malcolm and John Simons. A
volume on Ronald Firbank's fiction was published by The Edwin Mellen
Press in 2004 (ISBN: 0-7734-6555-3); one on Sylvia Townsend Warner's
writing is due for publication by Mellen in 2006. Essays should be
approximately 5000 words long and may be on any aspect of West's
writing. Please send abstracts of proposed essays (500 words) with a
brief professional cv by e-mail to David Malcolm, Professor of English

CALL FOR PAPERS

�Producing the Human in the Politics of Life and Death�

Panel for the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2006: �The Human and its Others,� Princeton University, Princeton NJ, March 23-26, 2006

Deadline for paper proposals: November 30, 2005

Paper proposals are invited for the following seminar at the 2006 ACLA Conference: �Producing the Human in the Politics of Life and Death.�

Producing the Human in the Politics of Life and Death

Apologies for cross-posting
 

CFP: Lives Lived in Theory: Autocritical Interventions in Life Writing

What interests me today is not strictly called either 'literature'
or 'philosophy'... 'autobiography' is perhaps the least
inadequate name.

                                    --Jacques Derrida

CALL FOR PAPERS

�Producing the Human in the Politics of Life and Death�

Panel for the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2006: �The Human and its Others,� Princeton University, Princeton NJ, March 23-26, 2006

Deadline for paper proposals: November 30, 2005

Paper proposals are invited for the following seminar at the 2006 ACLA Conference: �Producing the Human in the Politics of Life and Death.�

Producing the Human in the Politics of Life and Death

The editors of ESQ: A JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE are now
considering new essays for possible publication in late 2006 and 2007
issues. We invite submission of original articles and notes on
nineteenth-century American literature, welcome work grounded in a
wide range of theoretical and critical perspectives, and encourage
inquiries proposing submissions and projects. Essays will be reviewed
thoughtfully and promptly.

Electronic submissions, in Rich Text or Microsoft Word format, are
preferred; send to argerj_at_mail.wsu.edu.

ACLA 2006, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, 23 - 26 MARCH, 2006

Re/Valuing the =93Human=94

Animal Symbolicum =97 Homo Sapiens=96 Barbarian =97 Human =97 Woman =97 =
Overman =20
=97 Counter-Human =97 Fellow-Human =97 Inhuman =97 Subhuman =97 =
Being-There =97 =20
Being-With =97 Human Rights =97 Bare Life =97 Singularity =97 Immanent =97=
 =20
Silence =96

=93The =93I=94 is a placeholder for the human voice.=94

This list, which could be expanded, testifies to the struggle we face =20=

as we try to assert ourselves in and through language. We find words =20
for ourselves or for others. And we act on those words. Therefore, we =20=

Deadline extended:

Call for abstracts for essays for publication in the upcoming =
collection: Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives (edited by Susan =
Osborn, Rutgers University).=20