Lumos 2006: A Harry Potter Symposium
Call for Proposals

Lumos 2006 will be a symposium for adult fans and
scholars of the Harry Potter novels. We aim to promote
scholarly analysis of the books, to provide a forum of
discussion for fans of those works, and to provide
professional development opportunities for teachers
and librarians.

Proposals are sought for presentations, papers,
moderated panels, workshops and posters on any topic
relating to the Harry Potter novels and/or the fan
community.

Literary and Media Studies:
Discussion of themes within the Harry Potter books and
films

Call for submission of articles for a special issue of _Life Writing_
on "Mixed Race, Hybrid, Transnational: Writing Lives in National and
Global Frames."
 
The editors invite articles that theorize and read mixed race, hybrid,
and transnational subjects represented in all forms of life
writing—autobiography, memoir, biography, diaries, letters,
autobiographical novels, other forms of creative non-fiction, and
more. We are open to new research on hybridity, multiple
subjectivities, interculturalism, flexible citizenships, and all forms
of crossings and overlapping identities and narratives, and are
particularly interested in studies that recuperate historical and

Call for submission of articles for a special issue of _Life Writing_
on "Mixed Race, Hybrid, Transnational: Writing Lives in National and
Global Frames."
 
The editors invite articles that theorize and read mixed race, hybrid,
and transnational subjects represented in all forms of life
writing—autobiography, memoir, biography, diaries, letters,
autobiographical novels, other forms of creative non-fiction, and
more. We are open to new research on hybridity, multiple
subjectivities, interculturalism, flexible citizenships, and all forms
of crossings and overlapping identities and narratives, and are
particularly interested in studies that recuperate historical and

Call for Papers: Linguistics Area
2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

The 27th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA
February 8-11, 2006
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque=20
Albuquerque, New Mexico

The 2006 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New
Mexico at the Hyatt Regency downtown. Further details regarding the
conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can
be found at http://www.swtexaspca.org.

Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne

Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur les Langues,
  les Littératures, la Lecture et L'Élaboration de la Pensée

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

L'interprétation au pluriel /
The Plurality of Interpretation

The Editors at Your Black Eye: An e-Journal for Critical Consciousness, are pleased to announce the publication of our second issue, available now at www.yourblackeye.org. We currently invite submissions for our third issue, with particulars as follows:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR NEXT ISSUE

The theme for the third issue is "Working." The sub-theme is "Werkel."

For the main theme, we invite submissions from any perspective and any genre that directly or indirectly treat the idea of
work—see basic submission guidelines below.

CALL FOR PAPERS
For an edition of scholarly essays on William Faulkner and the Visual Arts=20
Deadline for submissions:
15 February 2006
Editor: Randall S. Wilhelm

CFP: Eat, Drink, and Be Hungry: Ireland and Consumption
Eighth Annual Grian Conference
3-5 March 2006
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University

Bless us, O Cleric, famous pillar of learning,
Son of honey-bag, son of juice, son of lard,
Son of stirabout, son of porridge, son of fair-speckled clusters of fruit,
Son of smooth clustering cream, son of buttermilk, son of curds[.] (trans.
Kuno Meyer)

CFP: The Politics and the Political in Books for Children and Young Adults

Submissions are invited for a session on "Anglo-Saxon Space: Spiritual,
Material, Textual" at the 41st International Congress on Medieval
Studies, 4-7 May 2006, in Kalamazoo.

Paper Call

Please, note that the website for the journal has changed:
http://dfm.unileon.es/i&t.
Information about submissions has been included in the site.
I'm sorry about any inconvenience this mistake on my part may have caused
possible contributors.

CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE NOVEMBER 30TH 2005

Please post the following announcement.

CFP: Fourth International Women and the Silent Screen Conference

University of Guadalajara in the beautiful colonial city of Guadalajara,
Mexico June 7 through June 10, 2006. Following the first Women and the
Silent Screen Conference, held in Utrecht in 1999, the second in Santa
Cruz, CA in 2001, and the third in Montreal in 2004, the Guadalajara
conference will include scholarly panels and workshops that advance
research on historical and theoretical issues related to women and
silent cinema from 1898 through 1937. The Call for Papers in English and
Spanish will be posted shortly.

Thanks.

Joanne Hershfield

Twentieth Century Literature Conference
Louisville, KY
2/23 – 2/25 2006

The International Vladimir Nabokov Society will be sponsoring two panels
at the conference this year:

1. Open panel: Vladimir Nabokov

Papers welcome on any aspect of Nabokov's work. Preference will be given
to papers that do not discuss _Lolita_.

2. Religion, Spirits, and Spirituality in Nabokov's Writings

This panel asks for papers that address the presence of religion, spirits,
and/or spirituality in Nabokov's work.

Areas of interest might include, but are not limited to: