CALL FOR PAPERS
Panel Topic: Cultural Assumptions: Literature, Race, and
Naming
2006 South Central MLA Convention/ American Name Society
Session
October 26-28, 2006
Radisson Plaza Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006
Papers are invited for the American Name Society session
entitled "Cultural Assumptions: Literature, Race, and
Naming," to be presented at the 2006 Convention of the South
Central Modern LanguageAssociation (SCMLA) in Fort Worth, TX
(October 26-28, 2006).
Papers should address the ways American writers use
onamastic tropes to represent the color line, and/or the
ways they challenge the linguistic basis upon which racial

NINETEENTH-CENTURY REPRODUCTION
An interdisciplinary graduate student conference
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
February 24, 2007
Keynote Speaker: TBA
The Nineteenth-Century Forum at Temple University seeks papers for
its first interdisciplinary graduate student conference. Proposals
are invited for 15-20 minute presentations that consider reproduction
in the nineteenth century, broadly construed. Topics might include
but are not limited to:

NINETEENTH-CENTURY REPRODUCTION
An interdisciplinary graduate student conference
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
February 24, 2007
Keynote Speaker: TBA
The Nineteenth-Century Forum at Temple University seeks papers for
its first interdisciplinary graduate student conference. Proposals
are invited for 15-20 minute presentations that consider reproduction
in the nineteenth century, broadly construed. Topics might include
but are not limited to:

NINETEENTH-CENTURY REPRODUCTION
An interdisciplinary graduate student conference
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
February 24, 2007
Keynote Speaker: TBA
The Nineteenth-Century Forum at Temple University seeks papers for
its first interdisciplinary graduate student conference. Proposals
are invited for 15-20 minute presentations that consider reproduction
in the nineteenth century, broadly construed. Topics might include
but are not limited to:

Call for papers for Women of Color Panel at South Central Modern Language Association to be held in Ft. Worth, Texas October 26-28, 2006. Abstracts of 50-100 words due March 15, 2006.
   
  Theme: Coloring the Landscape: Women of Color Changing the Mainstream Culture.
  Submit to: Juluette Bartlett-Pack jfbpack_at_yahoo.com; and Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
  ebrown-guillory_at_uh.edu
   
   
  Call for Paper for African/African American Literature Panel at SCMLA
  Abstracts of 50-100 words
   
  Theme: Rounding up the Strays: Characters and Authors who Wander from the Mainstream
   
  Submit to: Holly Staves stavesh_at_nsula.edu

Call for papers for Women of Color Panel at South Central Modern Language Association to be held in Ft. Worth, Texas October 26-28, 2006. Abstracts of 50-100 words due March 15, 2006.
   
  Theme: Coloring the Landscape: Women of Color Changing the Mainstream Culture.
  Submit to: Juluette Bartlett-Pack jfbpack_at_yahoo.com; and Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
  ebrown-guillory_at_uh.edu
   
   
  Call for Paper for African/African American Literature Panel at SCMLA
  Abstracts of 50-100 words
   
  Theme: Rounding up the Strays: Characters and Authors who Wander from the Mainstream
   
  Submit to: Holly Staves stavesh_at_nsula.edu

CFP: Wikis, Authority and the Public Sphere (3/15/06; MLA '06)

Proposed MLA Special Session organized by Dr. Amit Ray (Department of =20=

Language and Literature) and Erhardt Graeff (Department of =20
Information Technology), Rochester Institute of Technology.

Please send 250-word abstract and CV by March 15th to: axrgsl_at_rit.edu

  "Wikis, Authority and the Public Sphere"

CALL FOR PAPERS: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

                The Fourteenth Annual Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group Symposium
        "World as Stage / Stage as World."
An Interdisciplinary Symposium Across Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Dates:
August 4-5, 2006

Place:
University Club, University of Western Australia, Perth

Keynote Speakers:
Graham Bradshaw, Professor of English, Chuo University
Heather Dubrow, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison

CALL FOR PAPERS

                The Fourteenth Annual Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group Symposium
        "World as Stage / Stage as World."
An Interdisciplinary Symposium Across Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Dates:
August 4-5, 2006

Place:
University Club, University of Western Australia, Perth

Keynote Speakers:
Graham Bradshaw, Professor of English, Chuo University
Heather Dubrow, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Apologies for x-posting. We are calling for papers and
panels on any aspect of discourses of
responsibility/irresponsibility in nineteenth-century
literature and culture. Please find further details on
the conference below.

Call for Papers: Irresponsibility (Singapore,
04/10/06; 9/28-30/06)

Inaugural English Literature Conference:
IRRESPONSIBILITY
Division of English, NTU, Singapore, 28-30 September
2006

Deadline updated to April 1, 2006 from December 31,
2005.

Call for Papers: 'Ealing Revisited' (UK) (06/01/06; 11/04/06)

Call for papers for a one-day conference at the University of Hull, England.

Saturday 4 November 2006

'Ealing Revisited'

The six volumes of the Harry Potter series are filled with both fantasy and
things we can describe as fantastic. This session is designed to explore
those elements in more depth. Please submit a proposal of no more than 250
words by 4/1/06 to phuey_at_ut.edu (please put "SAMLA" in the subject line) or
by mail to Dr. Peggy J Huey, Box 53F, University of Tampa, 401 W. Kennedy
Blvd., Tampa, FL 33606.