CALL FOR SEMINAR PAPERS

TRADITION AND CHANGE IN RURAL SOCIETY
(24-30 September 2006)

Deadline for submissions: 10 July 2006

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The Durrell School of Corfu will hold a seminar on the topic 'Tradition and
Change in Rural Society' at its Library and Study Centre in Corfu, 24-30
September 2006.

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Call for Submissions
Bisexual Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage
Guest Editor: M. Paz Galupo, Ph.D.

Submissions are sought for a special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality.
This special double issue will include theoretical and research articles (peer
reviewed) as well as personal essays and interviews that explore bisexual
perspectives on same-sex marriage or other means of legal recognition of
same-sex relationships. This double issue will be published simultaneously as a book
by The Haworth Press.

Disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches representing a variety of
experiences and perspectives, both positive and negative, will be included.

 
Call for Submissions
Bisexual Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage
Guest Editor: M. Paz Galupo, Ph.D.

Submissions are sought for a special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality.
This special double issue will include theoretical and research articles (peer
reviewed) as well as personal essays and interviews that explore bisexual
perspectives on same-sex marriage or other means of legal recognition of
same-sex relationships. This double issue will be published simultaneously as a book
by The Haworth Press.

Disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches representing a variety of
experiences and perspectives, both positive and negative, will be included.

CALL FOR PANEL AND PAPER PROPOSALS

Latin America Area
2006 Film & History Conference: ³The Documentary Tradition²
November 8th-12th, 2006
Dolce Conference Center, Dallas, TX

Dear cfp.upenn:

I would like to place the following notice in your list:

Literatures in English. June 6-9 2007. Saint Olaf College, Northfield,
MN 55057. Web site: <http://www.stolaf.edu/events/litengconf/> Contact:
Jonathan E. Hill, Department of English, Saint Olaf College, Northfield,
MN 55057. hillj_at_stolaf.edu. 507-646-3448

Thank you.

Jonathan E. Hill
Departmen of English
Saint Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057
hillj_at_stolaf.edu
507-646-3448

Call for papers for a session on Exile and the Narrative Imagination at
2006 NEMLA conference in Baltimore, Meryland. March 01 - March 04,
2007

The session will examine texts by any exiled writer from any country,
dealing with the literary representation of exile.
Papers may focus on exile as a form of modern alienation, as a metaphor
for psychic difference, as an allegory of separation or on modern
exilic politics and emigre conditions.

Please send abstracts to Dr. Agnieszka Gutthy.
Electronic submissions: agutthy_at_selu.edu
Submission deadline: September 15, 2006

Studies in American Naturalism publishes critical essays, documents, notes, bibliographies, and reviews concerning American literary naturalism, broadly conceived. Published twice each year by the International Theodore Dreiser Society and the Department of English, University of North Carolina Wilmington, the journal seeks contributions illuminating the texts and contexts of naturalism across all genres from its nineteenth-century origins to its twentieth- and twenty-first century transformations.

Please see our web site for submission guidelines, our distinguished editorial board, and forthcoming contents. http://www.uncw.edu/san/

Submissions

CFP for Panel on Lessing's Short Stories for the Second International
Doris Lessing Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, U.K, to be held
July 6-8, 2007.

CFP: Fin de Siècle Seminar, 1870-1920 (UK) (7/1/06; 10/12/06 – 6/30/07)

Fin de Siècle is an interdisciplinary seminar series based at the University of
Oxford which aims to develop fresh perspectives on literature, society, and the
arts in England between 1870 and 1920. In the six years since its inception,
the series has provided a vibrant forum for both graduates and established
academics, hosting presentations on subjects as diverse as the 'Aesthetic
Eighties', Jerome K. Jerome and the rise of the literary professional, Oscar
Wilde and archaeology, trouble-making in George Moore's fiction, Robert
Bridges's classical poetry, and the aesthetics of smell in literature and art.

CFP: Fin de Siècle Seminar, 1870-1920 (UK) (7/1/06; 10/12/06 – 6/30/07)

Fin de Siècle is an interdisciplinary seminar series based at the University of
Oxford which aims to develop fresh perspectives on literature, society, and the
arts in England between 1870 and 1920. In the six years since its inception,
the series has provided a vibrant forum for both graduates and established
academics, hosting presentations on subjects as diverse as the 'Aesthetic
Eighties', Jerome K. Jerome and the rise of the literary professional, Oscar
Wilde and archaeology, trouble-making in George Moore's fiction, Robert
Bridges's classical poetry, and the aesthetics of smell in literature and art.

Deadline extended!
                                                 CALL FOR PAPERS

Camera Obscura is planning a special issue titled Fabulous! The Diva
Issue. From actual goddesses to 21st century divinities in film,
television, and popular music, the figure of the diva has captivated,
inspired, and appalled. She (and, maybe, he?) is larger-than-life
and carries with her the cultural and psychic baggage of individuals,
communities, and nations. We are looking for essays (5,000-6,000
words) and shorter "appreciations" (500-1400 words) that consider the
intersection of film, television, or music divas with gender,
sexuality, race/ethnicity, and class.

Deadline extended!
                                                 CALL FOR PAPERS

Camera Obscura is planning a special issue titled Fabulous! The Diva
Issue. From actual goddesses to 21st century divinities in film,
television, and popular music, the figure of the diva has captivated,
inspired, and appalled. She (and, maybe, he?) is larger-than-life
and carries with her the cultural and psychic baggage of individuals,
communities, and nations. We are looking for essays (5,000-6,000
words) and shorter "appreciations" (500-1400 words) that consider the
intersection of film, television, or music divas with gender,
sexuality, race/ethnicity, and class.

 
Call for Papers: American Literature, Literary Theory, and Constitutional
Law
38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1 - 4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland
How might we explain the recent proliferation of scholarly activity taking
place at the intersections of American literature, literary theory, and
Constitutional law? Critical texts that discuss literature and the law usually
utilize fiction to discuss the law and legal system as they are represented in
literature, or they utilize the methodology of literary criticism to assess and
interpret laws as well as legal processes. Most literary critics who engage

Call for Papers for
An Interdisciplinary Conference on

The Flaw

Deadline : August 15th, 2006
Organizers : Agn=E8s Conacher and Catherine Dhavernas
Queen=92s University, Kingston, Canada