Revaluation, Subversion, Nostalgia: Contemporary Echoes of the Bible

This collection seeks to fill an interdisciplinary space that is=20
currently relatively empty. There are a number of collections that=20
deal with the =93Bible as literature,=94 collections on specific =
writers=92=20
use of the Bible, and collections that might be categorized as =93how-to=94=
=20
guides (i.e. how to teach the Bible as literature, how to think about=20
the Bible in literary terms, how to think about the use of the Bible in=20=

literature as a perpetuation of a particular=97often normative=97set of=20=

ideas). What we don=92t have many of are collections that address when,=20=

Panel proposal for the 14th Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British
Women Writers Conference, "(Re)Collecting British Women Writers, March 23-26,
2006, The University of Florida, Gainesville.

Deadline extended:

2006 College English Association (CEA) Conference, San Antonio, Texas
April 6-April 8, 2006

The NYCEA is sponsoring a Special session on "Doors of
Perception: Vision, Imagination, and Reaction in/to Literature"

Please note the following updates:
Our keynote speakers will be WJT Mitchell and Rolondo Hinojosa-Smith

We have also changed our submission procedure, now using an online
proposal submission website.

Deadline extended:

2006 College English Association (CEA) Conference, San Antonio, Texas
April 6-April 8, 2006

The NYCEA is sponsoring a Special session on "The 'I' of the
Beholder: Narrative Voice and Imagined Reality"

Please note the following updates:
Our keynote speakers will be WJT Mitchell and Rolondo Hinojosa-Smith

We have also changed our submission procedure, now using an online
proposal submission website.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Culture of Reading, past and present

 APPROVED PANEL IN THE LITERATURE & SOCIETY SECTION and possible collection of essays for publication

FOR THE AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION

PCA/ACA ANNUAL MEETING, April 12th-15th, 2006

ATLANTA MARRIOTT MARQUIS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA

DEADLINE: OCT 21, 2005.

Call for contribution for a special issue of "Les carnets du Cerpac" =
(journal of Commonwealth studies at the University of Montpellier III, =
France). Proposals (a title, a summary and a small bio) should be sent =
to teulie7_at_club-internet.fr or teulie_at_up.univ-aix.fr before October 30 =
2005. After acceptance of the proposal, the article will be due for the =
end of February 2006. Publication: Autumn 2006.

Abstract:

Sciences, the Empire and the Commonwealth

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Call for contribution for a special issue of "Les carnets du Cerpac" =
(journal of Commonwealth studies at the University of Montpellier III, =
France). Proposals (a title, a summary and a small bio) should be sent =
to teulie7_at_club-internet.fr or teulie_at_up.univ-aix.fr before October 30 =
2005. After acceptance of the proposal, the article will be due for the =
end of February 2006. Publication: Autumn 2006.

Abstract:

Sciences, the Empire and the Commonwealth

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College English Association National Conference
April 6-8, 2006
San Antonio, Texas

We invite papers and panel proposals on African-American literature for the
37th annual meeting of CEA. The general conference theme is "Regions."
Proposals that offer new and inventive readings on African-American
literature will be considered. Please interpret the conference theme
broadly.

College English Association National Conference
April 6-8, 2006
San Antonio, Texas

We invite papers and panel proposals on African-American literature for the
37th annual meeting of CEA. The general conference theme is "Regions."
Proposals that offer new and inventive readings on African-American
literature will be considered. Please interpret the conference theme
broadly.

Deadline extended:

Call for Papers:

I am organizing a panel on =93Privacy and Women=92s Issues=94 for the =
KSU =20
Cultural Studies Conference on =93Privacy=94 next March (March 9-11, =20
2006, in Manhattan, Kansas).

Possible topics include the history of women=92s legal status as =20
private individuals, the relationship between privacy and gender =20
across different cultures and historical periods, the role of public =20
institutions (including laws) in upholding or curtailing women=92s =20
privacy, the ways privacy might be or has been used to reduce women=92s =20=

freedoms, etc.

If you are interested in participating in this panel, please send a 1-=20=

Call for Papers:

I am organizing a panel on =93Privacy and Women=92s Issues=94 for the =
KSU =20
Cultural Studies Conference on =93Privacy=94 next March (March 9-11, =20
2006, in Manhattan, Kansas).

Possible topics include the history of women=92s legal status as =20
private individuals, the relationship between privacy and gender =20
across different cultures and historical periods, the role of public =20
institutions (including laws) in upholding or curtailing women=92s =20
privacy, the ways privacy might be or has been used to reduce women=92s =20=

freedoms, etc.

If you are interested in participating in this panel, please send a 1-=20=

CFP: Motorcycle Life and Culture
Abstract/Proposals by 15 November 2005
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 27th Annual =
Conference
Albuquerque, NM February 8-11, 2006
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
Panels now forming for presentations on Motorcycling Culture in all its =
various forms and manifestations. Papers about any aspect of =
motorcycling life are welcome, including travel narratives that involve =
motorcycling. Please send an abstract (of 300 words or less) of your =
presentation to the address below. Graduate students/future teachers are =

Papers are solicited for a panel on South Asian Studies for the annual Association of Asian American Studies conference (AAAS). See below for the conference description, but also feel free to propose papers more broadly, as the inclusion of South Asian Americans continues to expand the AAAS.

Please email me by October 1, 2005, with:

-an abstract for your paper

-a brief cv, highlighting especially your previous paper presentations

-the best way to contact you

Best,

anupama jain

anupama jain * Assistant Professor of English * Union College * Schenectady, NY 12308

>From the conference announcement: