CALL FOR PROPOSALS for Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars,
Poets, Writers, and Filmmakers. The 37th Annual Symposium of the
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature will be held at
Michigan State University May 10-12, 2007.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS for Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars,
Poets, Writers, and Filmmakers. The 37th Annual Symposium of the
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature will be held at
Michigan State University May 10-12, 2007.

Academic Exchange Quarterly, an independent, peer-reviewed journal of education issues, will produce a special issue on part-time and adjunct teaching in the Summer 2007 issue. Accepted articles appear in online and print editions.
 
Focus:
Part-time or adjunct faculty are a growing portion of the academic labor market, and while research and writing about issues pertinent to this group has risen in the last several years, part-time college teachers and their work remain a concern with many unanswered questions for all stakeholders in higher education. Questions regarding labor issues and quality instruction are always of serious concern. Relevant topics might include, but are not limited to:

  
  Call for Papers:
  The Act of Shifting Borders in the Identity Politics
  Gloría Anzaldúa uses the term mestizaje to describe the embodiment of simultaneous identities and the inherent contradictions for women writers and theorists in belonging to multiple cultures at the same time. The borders that separate these identities perpetually change, reflecting the continual shift that marks identity politics. How do these borders create a cultural identity that transcends the notion of multiple, split cultures? How do cultural borders affect race, class, gender, nationality and ethnicity?
  Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words to Kimberly Eaton at <kimberlyanneaton_at_yahoo.com> via MS word email attachments.

IMAGES OF WAR -WAR OF IMAGES.
If the Enlightenment fostereCALL FOR PAPERS NEW TESTd the ideal of a state
of perpetual peace (Kant), the Anglo-Saxon world constituted itself through
and by warfare. Even now, British and American soldiers are fighting side by
side on various battlefields round the world, to defend liberty and
democracy, concepts derived from the founding documents of their two nations
(Bill of Rights).
The colloquium organized by CRELA (tre de Recherche et d'études sur les
écritures de langue anglaise. Center of Studies and Research on
Anglo-American Literature) on March 23 & 24, 2007 at the University of Nice
Sophia-Antipolis will focus on the issue of war representation, its

 Correspondances Océaniennes

A thematic half-yearly journal promoting Oceanic
cultures based in Nouméa, New-Caledonia. Founded in
2002. Already published: issues on Women, Youth,
Nature, Memory, Literatures, the Body, Creation,
Images, Australia, Departures. Indexed by Austlit
Database and in
Australian Literary Studies 21: 3, May 2004, p.385 &
390; reviewed in Antipodes 17: 2, Dec.2003, p.167-8.

(Founding) Editor : Dr. Jean-François VERNAY

CALL FOR PAPERS:

FEEL FREE TO SEND YOUR PROPOSALS
TO THE EDITOR: vernayj_at_yahoo.com
By 15 September 2006.

THEME: ISLANDS AND INSULARITY.

 Correspondances Océaniennes

A thematic half-yearly journal promoting Oceanic
cultures based in Nouméa, New-Caledonia. Founded in
2002. Already published: issues on Women, Youth,
Nature, Memory, Literatures, the Body, Creation,
Images, Australia, Departures. Indexed by Austlit
Database and in
Australian Literary Studies 21: 3, May 2004, p.385 &
390; reviewed in Antipodes 17: 2, Dec.2003, p.167-8.

(Founding) Editor : Dr. Jean-François VERNAY

CALL FOR PAPERS:

FEEL FREE TO SEND YOUR PROPOSALS
TO THE EDITOR: vernayj_at_yahoo.com
By 15 September 2006.

THEME: ISLANDS AND INSULARITY.

CfP: Secret Harmonies: the Journal of the Anthony Powell Society
(09/04/06)

The year 2005 saw the widely celebrated centenary of the English writer
Anthony Dymoke Powell. In order to further disseminate Powell's work and
introduce him to a new generation of readers, the Anthony Powell Society
is proud to announce the launch of the peer-reviewed, annual Secret
Harmonies: the Journal of the Anthony Powell Society.

Call for Papers

Women in Irish Culture and History

University College Dublin, October 20th-22nd 2006

Call for Papers

Women in Irish Culture and History

University College Dublin, October 20th-22nd 2006

Call for Papers

Race and Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century

28th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA)

Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, March 8-10, 2007

  CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SESSIONS, PANELS, PAPERS
   
  NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE &
  AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
  2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For more information on the PCA/ACA, please
  go to http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.
   
  DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2006
   
  We are considering proposals for sessions organized around
  a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are
  scheduled in 1½ hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers
  per standard session.
   

Call for Papers for [working title] The Story of O: an edited volume on
Oprah Winfrey
by Kimberly Springer and Angela Cotten

CFP: Neo-Victorianism: The Politics and Aesthetics of Appropriation
(31/10/2006; 10/09/2007-12/09/2007)

NEO-VICTORIANISM: THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF APPROPRIATION

"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much
about it." (Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians, 1918)

An international conference hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies at the
University of Exeter, 10-12 September 2007

Keynote speakers: Professor Cora Kaplan, Professor John Sutherland and
Professor Imelda Whelehan

Confirmed participants to include: Regenia Gagnier, Ann Heilmann, Philip
Hensher, Martina Lauster, Brian Maidment, Rick Rylance