New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan invites presentation proposals
for the Interdisciplinary Conference:

New York: City in Motion

This day-long conference will take place on Friday, March 10, 2006, in
NYIT's state-of-the-art conference facility near Columbus Circle. The
organizers welcome and encourage technology-enhanced presentations.

We seek presenters who will share their scholarship and perspectives on the
City of New York as examined through the ideas of movement, mobility, and
transformation. Panels and presentations may address motion either
literally or figuratively as suggested by but not limited to the following
categories:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Point of the Human: Gestures, Intentionality, and the =20
Possibilities of Literary Criticism

a seminar at the

American Comparative Literature Association 2006 Annual Meeting

"The Human and Its Others" at Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006

Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2005

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Point of the Human: Gestures, Intentionality, and the =20
Possibilities of Literary Criticism

a seminar at the

American Comparative Literature Association 2006 Annual Meeting

"The Human and Its Others" at Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006

Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2005

* Call for Papers *
The New York College English Association Conference
Marymount College of Fordham University
Tarrytown, NY April 28-29, 2006
Resistance to Tyranny:
Representing the Struggle for Human Rights in Literature
 
In an interview with Amnesty International, Chilean writer and activist Ariel Dorfman
explains that, despite efforts to silence survivors of human rights violations, "Somehow the
stories do come out, those voices do come out. I am not their voice: I make a space for
those voices, a bridge." Dorfman's insights raise questions about the role of literature in
the struggle for human rights. How do writers represent often unspeakable crimes against

CFP: Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at the
University of Chicago
April 7, 2006
Keynote speaker: George Levine, Rutgers

Below is an updated text for the CFP for the Samuel Delany conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS: SAMUEL R. DELANY - A CRITICAL SYMPOSIUM
SUNY Buffalo
March 23-4, 2006
Deadline: January 15, 2006

"Samuel R. Delany: A Critical Symposium" is a conference intended to provide
an interdisciplinary forum for world-class scholars and innovative writers to
discuss and celebrate Delany's work. As such, it will be the first event of its kind
in the United States.

Below is an updated text for the CFP for the Samuel Delany conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS: SAMUEL R. DELANY - A CRITICAL SYMPOSIUM
SUNY Buffalo
March 23-4, 2006
Deadline: January 15, 2006

"Samuel R. Delany: A Critical Symposium" is a conference intended to provide
an interdisciplinary forum for world-class scholars and innovative writers to
discuss and celebrate Delany's work. As such, it will be the first event of its kind
in the United States.

"Aestheticism: De-humanizing or Re-humanizing Art, the Artist, and the
Artistic Receptor?"
ACLA 2006, Princeton University, 3/23/06 - 3/26/06

Deadline has already passed, but has been extended to
11/28/05. Decisions will be announced at the beginning of
December.

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Deadline has already passed, but has been extended to
11/28/05. Decisions will be announced at the beginning of
December.

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Deadline has already passed, but has been extended to
11/28/05. Decisions will be announced at the beginning of
December.

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                        CFP_at_english.upenn.edu
                         Full Information at
                     http://cfp.english.upenn.edu
         or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj_at_english.upenn.edu
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        CFP: The Faust Legend and the Human (11/30/05; ACLA,
3/23/06-3/26/06)

Dr.Iclal C. Vanwesenbeeck
Assistant Professor, English
240 Fenton Hall
Office phone: 673-3859
Email: Iclal.Vanwesenbeeck_at_fredonia.edu

Deadline extended:

CALL FOR PAPERS

SHARP Conference
11-14 July 2006
The Netherlands

Session on:
Editing the Early Modern: Women as Writers, Editors and Scholars

We are proposing a panel exploring the challenges and discoveries involved in central aspects of editing early modern literature: when scholars edit the works of early modern women writers; and when scholars investigate the history of the first generations of women scholars and editors of this period.