" Images of France in American Popular Culture "

Symposium of the French Association of American Studies, to be held
May 24-26 2007 in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale Francois Mitterand);

CFP for the Popular Culture workshop:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Interdisciplinary Conference on the Study of Canadian Literature

TransCanada Two: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
October 11-14, 2007

Keynote Speakers

REY CHOW

JANINE BRODIE • PETER KULCHYSKI

Plenary Speakers

JEFF DERKSEN
DANIELLE FULLER
GRAHAM HUGGAN
LYNETTE HUNTER
TSEEN KHOO
HARTMUT LUTZ
& OTHERS TO BE CONFIRMED

Call for seminar papers for the American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Conference 2007, "Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact"
Puebla, Mexico
April 19-22, 2007

Deadline: 1 November 2006

Seminar Title: A New Global Poetics?

Call for seminar papers for the American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Conference 2007, "Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact"
Puebla, Mexico
April 19-22, 2007

Deadline: 1 November 2006

Seminar Title: A New Global Poetics?

CALL FOR PAPERS: Sexual perversions 1650-1850.

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Contributors are sought for a new book on 'A History of Sexual =
Perversion
1650-1850'. We specifically seek articles within the boundaries of =
history of sexuality which examine so-called sexual 'perversions'; this =
might include any sexual behaviour which was considered perverse or =
'abnormal' for its time and would include certain heterosexual, =
homosexual, lesbian, transgender, transvestite etc. practices; and why =
was such behaviour was seen as 'abnormal', 'perverse' or threatening; =
subjects for discussion might be considered include bestiality, =
flagellation, sex with children, fetishes, sado-masochism etc.=20

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Sexual perversions 1650-1850.

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Contributors are sought for a new book on 'A History of Sexual =
Perversion
1650-1850'. We specifically seek articles within the boundaries of =
history of sexuality which examine so-called sexual 'perversions'; this =
might include any sexual behaviour which was considered perverse or =
'abnormal' for its time and would include certain heterosexual, =
homosexual, lesbian, transgender, transvestite etc. practices; and why =
was such behaviour was seen as 'abnormal', 'perverse' or threatening; =
subjects for discussion might be considered include bestiality, =
flagellation, sex with children, fetishes, sado-masochism etc.=20

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Collegiate Culture: Higher Education & Pedagogy Area
   
  2007 PCA/ACA National Conference
   
  April 4 – 7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  Submission Deadline: 15 November 2006
   
  Submissions on all topics encouraged, with a special interest in:
   
  --The student experience, such as but not limited to:
   
          Majoring in the liberal arts: What to do with that English degree?
          The culture wars, campus style
          Binge drinking: hype, myth, or epidemic?
          Greek Revival: no future for fraternities and sororities?
          Whatever happened to old-fashioned social activism?
   

CALL FOR PAPERS
Romance Fiction: Rumpled Sheets
Romance Writers & Writing
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Annual Regional Conference
February 14-17, 2007
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Conference Hotel:
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1-505-842-1234
Fax: 1-505-766-6710
Individual presenters and panelists are invited to examine the popular
culture of romance writers & romance writing for the association's annual regional
conference. This conference will provide you with a wonderful opportunity to
share scholarly interests and to gain insights into romance fiction with

Seeking one essay addressing diaspora and Native American culture
(broadly conceived), for a collection of essays entitled Transforming
Diaspora. We wish to receive queries/proposal from interested scholars
by November 15, 2006. The full CFP for the essay collection follows.
Send email submissions to robinfield_at_kings.edu.

Transforming Diaspora (Book Collection)

Eds. Parmita Kapadia and Robin Field

13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
     
  "Angry Young (Wo)Men": Theatrical Violence as Ethical Debate

In late 1995, two significant events changed the theatrical landscape:
John Osborne (Look Back in
Anger) died, and Sarah Kane's play Blasted premiered at the Royal Court
Theatre in London. The timing
was somewhat serendipitous—as one of the original "Angry Young Men"
left this world, one of the "New
Brutalists" made her mark on it.

13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
     
  "Angry Young (Wo)Men": Theatrical Violence as Ethical Debate

In late 1995, two significant events changed the theatrical landscape:
John Osborne (Look Back in
Anger) died, and Sarah Kane's play Blasted premiered at the Royal Court
Theatre in London. The timing
was somewhat serendipitous—as one of the original "Angry Young Men"
left this world, one of the "New
Brutalists" made her mark on it.

13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
     
  "Angry Young (Wo)Men": Theatrical Violence as Ethical Debate

In late 1995, two significant events changed the theatrical landscape:
John Osborne (Look Back in
Anger) died, and Sarah Kane's play Blasted premiered at the Royal Court
Theatre in London. The timing
was somewhat serendipitous—as one of the original "Angry Young Men"
left this world, one of the "New
Brutalists" made her mark on it.

Artful Strategies/Necessary Risks: The Shifting Borders between Success =
and Failure

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April 20th and 21st on the campus of California State University, =
Sacramento

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*
     The editors of the **Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, forthcoming in
2008 from Facts on File, are seeking contributors. We encourage prospective
authors to consult our website (see below) for available entries. ****
     Our encyclopedia is intended as a guide to bestselling contemporary
fiction, covering those works typically neglected by more "literary"
guides. **We include entries on authors whose work has reached, or
consistently come very close to, the annual "top 10" list of bestsellers
during roughly the past 25 years (1980 to the present), along with entries
on a representative selection of individual works which have reached "top