Kenneth Florey, Organizer
The Seventh Annual Graduate English Conference
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT
Saturday, April 22, 2006
9:00 am-4:30 pm
Encountering the Text:
Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, Writing

Updated Call for Submissions
Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800: From Scholarship to Classroom

Seeking three or four additional proposals for a volume tentatively entitled
Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800: From Scholarship to Classroom. The editors
are looking for 5-6,000 word essays preferably on Restoration or Eighteenth
century topics although essay proposals on the early modern period will be
considered as well.

By presenting a wide range of definitions and theoretical perspectives as
well as a variety of pedagogical strategies and approaches for teaching and
exploring notions of early modern through eighteenth-century ephemera,
contributors will seek to address the following kinds of questions.

Updated Call for Submissions
Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800: From Scholarship to Classroom

Seeking three or four additional proposals for a volume tentatively entitled
Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800: From Scholarship to Classroom. The editors
are looking for 5-6,000 word essays preferably on Restoration or Eighteenth
century topics although essay proposals on the early modern period will be
considered as well.

By presenting a wide range of definitions and theoretical perspectives as
well as a variety of pedagogical strategies and approaches for teaching and
exploring notions of early modern through eighteenth-century ephemera,
contributors will seek to address the following kinds of questions.

Updated Call for Submissions
Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800: From Scholarship to Classroom

Seeking three or four additional proposals for a volume tentatively entitled
Rethinking Ephemera 1550-1800: From Scholarship to Classroom. The editors
are looking for 5-6,000 word essays preferably on Restoration or Eighteenth
century topics although essay proposals on the early modern period will be
considered as well.

By presenting a wide range of definitions and theoretical perspectives as
well as a variety of pedagogical strategies and approaches for teaching and
exploring notions of early modern through eighteenth-century ephemera,
contributors will seek to address the following kinds of questions.

UPDATE: Keynote speakers announced and paper submission
deadline extended to January 1, 2006.

Keynote speaker

Dr. Ann Larabee
Associate Chair, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Associate Professor, American Thought and Language
Michigan State University
Areas of interest: Disaster Studies; Cultural Impacts of
Technology; Cultural Theory; Feminism and Technology; History
of Terrorism

Keynote panelists

UPDATE: Keynote speakers announced and paper submission
deadline extended to January 1, 2006.

Keynote speaker

Dr. Ann Larabee
Associate Chair, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Associate Professor, American Thought and Language
Michigan State University
Areas of interest: Disaster Studies; Cultural Impacts of
Technology; Cultural Theory; Feminism and Technology; History
of Terrorism

Keynote panelists

Please be informed that the new deadline for submission of
abstracts is February 1, 2006. In addition, there are two
cash awards of $200 and $100 resp. for the two best
papers/performances.

The (se)X Factor in Labor

Call for paper proposals for:

English Renaissance Literature, an affiliate session at the annual meeting of
the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

October 12-14, 2006
Tucson, Arizona
Doubletree Resort Hotel at Reid Park

Papers on any aspect of early modern British literature or culture are welcome.

You do not have to be a member of RMMLA to propose a paper, but you must become
a member by April 1, 2006 to be included in the program.

Send one-page proposals by March 1, 2006 either by Word attachment with RMMLA
in subject line or by mail to:

Cynthia Schoolar Williams
Department of English
Tufts University
Medford MA 02155

Cynthia_S.Williams_at_tufts.edu

Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference
November 8 – 11, 2006; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Margaret Fuller Society invites proposals on any aspect of Margaret
Fuller's work. Especially welcome would be proposals that consider: Fuller
and other 19th-century women writers, Fuller's model of history, Fuller in
New York, Fuller's discourses of liberation, Fuller and Mickiewicz or
Mazzini, Fuller and 19th-century aesthetic theories.
Please email 1-2 page proposals and a curriculum vita to Jeffrey Steele at
jsteele_at_wisc.edu by January 15, 2006. Inquiries and questions welcome.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Date for proposals: January 30th, 2006

The organization of the V International Conference on Chicano Literature=20
issues a call for papers to be presented at the conference, to be held at=20
the Institute for North American Studies-University of Alcal=E1, Spain, from=
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22-25 May 2006.

Proposals should be 300-500 words and should include the information=20
requested below. Proposals should be sent by January 30th, 2006, to Rosa=20
Mar=EDa Garc=EDa-Barroso=20
(<mailto:congreso.chicanos_at_iuien-uah.net>congreso.chicanos_at_iuien-uah...)=20
or by fax (34) 91 885 5285.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Date for proposals: January 30th, 2006

The organization of the V International Conference on Chicano Literature=20
issues a call for papers to be presented at the conference, to be held at=20
the Institute for North American Studies-University of Alcal=E1, Spain, from=
=20
22-25 May 2006.

Proposals should be 300-500 words and should include the information=20
requested below. Proposals should be sent by January 30th, 2006, to Rosa=20
Mar=EDa Garc=EDa-Barroso=20
(<mailto:congreso.chicanos_at_iuien-uah.net>congreso.chicanos_at_iuien-uah...)=20
or by fax (34) 91 885 5285.

Call for Papers
Introduction

The University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA) will host a conference on=20
Race and Pedagogy keynoted by Prof. Cornel West on Sept. 14-16, 2006.=20
The conference will bring together scholars, teachers, and students to=20=

discuss the pedagogical implications of race in higher education,=20
particularly but not exclusively in institutions and programs oriented=20=

UPDATE: CFP: European Silent Cinema (02/2006/2006; proposed edited
collection)

Submissions are invited for a book-length collection of essays relating to
European Silent Cinema.

On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Jan Lauwers's =
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Gent (Belgium), Academia Press, 2007.