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CFP: 2nd Intl Symposium on Minorities and Minor Literatures (Morocco) (11/31/05; 3/11/06-3/12/06)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Mr larbi touaf

The English Department at Mohamed I University in
Oujda, Morocco is delighted to announce its 2nd
International Symposium on Minorities and Minor
Literatures to be held 11-12 March 06. This year we
welcome interdisciplinary paper proposals on topics
related to "The Ethics and Politics of de/constructing
identity in literature, art, and the humanities".
We are particularly interested in the following:
The ways in which literary texts uphold or dismantle
the identity categories of race, nation, class,
gender, etc.; the strategies through which literary
texts or art works acknowledge and negotiate cultural
difference; and the ways in which they contribute to

CFP: 2nd Intl Symposium on Minorities and Minor Literatures (Morocco) (11/31/05; 3/11/06-3/12/06)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Mr larbi touaf

The English Department at Mohamed I University in
Oujda, Morocco is delighted to announce its 2nd
International Symposium on Minorities and Minor
Literatures to be held 11-12 March 06. This year we
welcome interdisciplinary paper proposals on topics
related to "The Ethics and Politics of de/constructing
identity in literature, art, and the humanities".
We are particularly interested in the following:
The ways in which literary texts uphold or dismantle
the identity categories of race, nation, class,
gender, etc.; the strategies through which literary
texts or art works acknowledge and negotiate cultural
difference; and the ways in which they contribute to

CFP: Filming the Ethnic City (8/15/05; SCMS, 3/2/06-3/5/06)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Stan Corkin

 Filming the Ethnic City

We're looking for papers that consider films that portray ethnic communities
in urban environments. Papers could look at one film or a number of films.
We are particularly interested in analysis concerned with the movement of
ethnic populations since the mid-1970s, as the international economy is
becoming increasingly globalized.=

Please send a 200-300 word abstract and a brief cv to either
Stan Corkin Stanley.corkin_at_uc.edu
or
Jana Braziel Jana.Braziel_at_uc.edu

Deadline is August 15.

CFP: Filming the Ethnic City (8/15/05; SCMS, 3/2/06-3/5/06)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Stan Corkin

 Filming the Ethnic City

We're looking for papers that consider films that portray ethnic communities
in urban environments. Papers could look at one film or a number of films.
We are particularly interested in analysis concerned with the movement of
ethnic populations since the mid-1970s, as the international economy is
becoming increasingly globalized.=

Please send a 200-300 word abstract and a brief cv to either
Stan Corkin Stanley.corkin_at_uc.edu
or
Jana Braziel Jana.Braziel_at_uc.edu

Deadline is August 15.

CFP: Romantic Fiction: Satin Sheets (11/15/05; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/8/06-2/11/06)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
UdonLover_at_aol.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

Romance Fiction: Satin Sheets

Romance Writers & Writing

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Annual Regional Conference
February 8-11, 2006
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Conference Hotel:
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
phone: 1.505.842.1234
fax: 1.505.766.6710

UPDATE: Realism and Naturalism in Film Studies (10/15/05; 5/5/06-5/6/06)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
RSinger736_at_aol.com

CFP--(update) International Conference on Realism and Naturalism in Film
Studies

The AIZEN (International Association devoted to Zola and Naturalism) and the
City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Program in Film Studies solicit
submissions for a jointly-sponsored conference on "Realism and Naturalism in
Film Studies" to be held at the:

CUNY Graduate Center,
New York City, USA
MAY 5th--6th, 2006

CFP: Henry James Reference Book (no deadline; book)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Jeff Soloway

> CFP: Henry James reference book (no deadline; book)
>
> Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for schools and
> libraries, is seeking a scholar to write a one-volume reference book on
> Henry James, focusing on critical analysis of his works. The ideal author
> will have a Ph.D., broad knowledge of James's life and works, and an
> ability to write clearly and succinctly for students in both high school

CFP: Henry James Reference Book (no deadline; book)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Jeff Soloway

> CFP: Henry James reference book (no deadline; book)
>
> Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for schools and
> libraries, is seeking a scholar to write a one-volume reference book on
> Henry James, focusing on critical analysis of his works. The ideal author
> will have a Ph.D., broad knowledge of James's life and works, and an
> ability to write clearly and succinctly for students in both high school

CFP: Literature/Film Quarterly (ongoing; journal)

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Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Literature Film Quarterly

Literature/Film Quarterly, the longest-standing publication devoted to
adaptation studies, is soliciting essays on any topic related to film
adaptaions. Topics include, but are not limited to, Explorations of
the wide-ranging intertextuality of literature and film;Locating
specific texts and adaptations of them within their own cultural
moment;Analysis of why, how, and to what effect particular texts are
adapted, made new, or remade;Analysis of the intersection,
inter-illumination, and collision of different media.Articles on
individual movies, on different cinematic adaptations of a single
literary work, on a director's style of adaptation, on the "cinematic"

CFP: Literature/Film Quarterly (ongoing; journal)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Literature Film Quarterly

Literature/Film Quarterly, the longest-standing publication devoted to
adaptation studies, is soliciting essays on any topic related to film
adaptaions. Topics include, but are not limited to, Explorations of
the wide-ranging intertextuality of literature and film;Locating
specific texts and adaptations of them within their own cultural
moment;Analysis of why, how, and to what effect particular texts are
adapted, made new, or remade;Analysis of the intersection,
inter-illumination, and collision of different media.Articles on
individual movies, on different cinematic adaptations of a single
literary work, on a director's style of adaptation, on the "cinematic"

CFP: Duras and Cinema (9/1/05; anthology)

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Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Julie Beaulieu

CALL FOR PAPERS

Marguerite Duras and Cinema (anthology)
Co-editors: Julie Beaulieu and Rosanna Maule

Il y a des films qui restent, il y a des films qui se dissipent dans les
heures qui suivent leur vision. (Marguerite Duras, Les yeux verts,
1980).

Abstract

CFP: Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers in the Literary Marketplace (11/30/05; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Earl Yarington

Cambridge Scholars Press has contacted me and would like me to submit a book proposal on my proposed Society for the Study of American Women Writers panel titled "Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace." Though I can only accept four papers for the conference, I need about twelve to fifteen papers for the book. I would like to get the book proposal out before the end of this year; therefore, please note the deadline listed below. The focus of the book will be on the American marketplace and how women writers dealt with their editors ("gentlemen publishers"). In other words, how did the woman writer's relationship with the publisher influence or change her work?

CFP: The Poetry of Walt Whitman: Critical Perspectives (10/10/05; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
KanwarDinesh Singh

CALL FOR PAPERS: WALT WHITMAN (10 Oct 2005; Book)

Scholarly papers are invited for consideration for
publication in a volume on the poetry and philosophy
of WALT WHITMAN.
The Contributors are required to mail the abstracts of
their papers/essays along with their detailed biodata
to the Volume-editor on the following address:

K. Dinesh Singh
[Lecturer,Department of English,Government College,
Sanjauli,SHIMLA: 171 006 H.P. INDIA.]

Correspondence Address:
# 3, CECIL QUARTERS, CHAURA MAIDAN, SHIMLA: 171004 HP
INDIA.
e-mail: kanwardineshsingh_at_yahoo.co.in.
Deadline: 10 October 2005.

CFP: Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers in the Literary Marketplace (11/30/05; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Earl Yarington

Cambridge Scholars Press has contacted me and would like me to submit a book proposal on my proposed Society for the Study of American Women Writers panel titled "Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace." Though I can only accept four papers for the conference, I need about twelve to fifteen papers for the book. I would like to get the book proposal out before the end of this year; therefore, please note the deadline listed below. The focus of the book will be on the American marketplace and how women writers dealt with their editors ("gentlemen publishers"). In other words, how did the woman writer's relationship with the publisher influence or change her work?

CFP: The Poetry of Walt Whitman: Critical Perspectives (10/10/05; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
KanwarDinesh Singh

CALL FOR PAPERS: WALT WHITMAN (10 Oct 2005; Book)

Scholarly papers are invited for consideration for
publication in a volume on the poetry and philosophy
of WALT WHITMAN.
The Contributors are required to mail the abstracts of
their papers/essays along with their detailed biodata
to the Volume-editor on the following address:

K. Dinesh Singh
[Lecturer,Department of English,Government College,
Sanjauli,SHIMLA: 171 006 H.P. INDIA.]

Correspondence Address:
# 3, CECIL QUARTERS, CHAURA MAIDAN, SHIMLA: 171004 HP
INDIA.
e-mail: kanwardineshsingh_at_yahoo.co.in.
Deadline: 10 October 2005.

CFP: Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers in the Literary Marketplace (11/30/05; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Earl Yarington

Cambridge Scholars Press has contacted me and would like me to submit a book proposal on my proposed Society for the Study of American Women Writers panel titled "Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace." Though I can only accept four papers for the conference, I need about twelve to fifteen papers for the book. I would like to get the book proposal out before the end of this year; therefore, please note the deadline listed below. The focus of the book will be on the American marketplace and how women writers dealt with their editors ("gentlemen publishers"). In other words, how did the woman writer's relationship with the publisher influence or change her work?

CFP: Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers in the Literary Marketplace (11/30/05; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Earl Yarington

Cambridge Scholars Press has contacted me and would like me to submit a book proposal on my proposed Society for the Study of American Women Writers panel titled "Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace." Though I can only accept four papers for the conference, I need about twelve to fifteen papers for the book. I would like to get the book proposal out before the end of this year; therefore, please note the deadline listed below. The focus of the book will be on the American marketplace and how women writers dealt with their editors ("gentlemen publishers"). In other words, how did the woman writer's relationship with the publisher influence or change her work?

CFP: Walter Mosley (11/1/05; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Derek Maus

CALL FOR PAPERS: Collection of critical articles on Walter Mosley

DEADLINE: 500-word abstracts or complete manuscripts by 11/1/05
EDITORS: Owen Brady (Clarkson University) and Derek Maus (SUNY Potsdam)

CFP: Walter Mosley (11/1/05; collection)

updated: 
Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:35pm
Derek Maus

CALL FOR PAPERS: Collection of critical articles on Walter Mosley

DEADLINE: 500-word abstracts or complete manuscripts by 11/1/05
EDITORS: Owen Brady (Clarkson University) and Derek Maus (SUNY Potsdam)

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