Sponsored Session at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2006
 
The John Donne Society welcomes 15-20 minute papers on any aspect of John Donne studies. Scholars who would like to contribute may send 300-word abstracts/proposals and Abstract Cover Sheet

< http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/41cfp/forms/Abstract_Cover_Sheet.pdf >

to the session chair:

        Dr. Scott D. Vander Ploeg < scott.vanderploeg_at_kctcs.edu <mailto:scott.vanderploeg_at_kctcs.edu> >.

BY SEPTEMBER 15

Deadline extended:

The University of Durham's Online Journal
POSTGRADUATE ENGLISH:
A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English in the UK and Europe

Invites postgraduates studying in the UK and Europe to submit papers of not
more than 7000 words on a topic of YOUR CHOICE in the broad range of English
Studies for issue 12 (September 2005) of our refereed online journal. Papers
must conform to the MLA guidelines for presentation and be received no later
than

EXTENDED DEADLINE: AUGUST 7, 2005.

PANEL PROPOSAL: SCMS conference, Vancouver BC March 2006
Tony Jackson, Associate Prof of English, Grad Coordinator
University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Out of time: fiction film and the non-chronological plot

This panel will explore the nature and implications of fiction films
that feature non-chronological plots. In recent years we have had
interesting new additions to this mode of filmic storytelling: in the
US, Pulp Fiction, 21 Grams, and Memento for example. What can we learn
about filmic storytelling, temporality in film, and therefore
storytelling and temporality in general by studying such films? All
theoretical orientations welcome.

CFP: Forum on Mark Twain's "The War Prayer" in Mark Twain Studies #2
To be published January 2007

The English Department at Mohamed I University in
Oujda, Morocco is delighted to announce its 2nd
International Symposium on Minorities and Minor
Literatures to be held 11-12 March 06. This year we
welcome interdisciplinary paper proposals on topics
related to "The Ethics and Politics of de/constructing
identity in literature, art, and the humanities".
We are particularly interested in the following:
The ways in which literary texts uphold or dismantle
the identity categories of race, nation, class,
gender, etc.; the strategies through which literary
texts or art works acknowledge and negotiate cultural
difference; and the ways in which they contribute to

The English Department at Mohamed I University in
Oujda, Morocco is delighted to announce its 2nd
International Symposium on Minorities and Minor
Literatures to be held 11-12 March 06. This year we
welcome interdisciplinary paper proposals on topics
related to "The Ethics and Politics of de/constructing
identity in literature, art, and the humanities".
We are particularly interested in the following:
The ways in which literary texts uphold or dismantle
the identity categories of race, nation, class,
gender, etc.; the strategies through which literary
texts or art works acknowledge and negotiate cultural
difference; and the ways in which they contribute to

 Filming the Ethnic City

We're looking for papers that consider films that portray ethnic communities
in urban environments. Papers could look at one film or a number of films.
We are particularly interested in analysis concerned with the movement of
ethnic populations since the mid-1970s, as the international economy is
becoming increasingly globalized.=

Please send a 200-300 word abstract and a brief cv to either
Stan Corkin Stanley.corkin_at_uc.edu
or
Jana Braziel Jana.Braziel_at_uc.edu

Deadline is August 15.

Illness and Disability as Gothic Monstrosity: Anxious Representations
of Physical Difference (Essay Collection)

Illness and Disability as Gothic Monstrosity: Anxious Representations
of Physical Difference (Essay Collection)

CFP--(update) International Conference on Realism and Naturalism in Film
Studies

The AIZEN (International Association devoted to Zola and Naturalism) and the
City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Program in Film Studies solicit
submissions for a jointly-sponsored conference on "Realism and Naturalism in
Film Studies" to be held at the:

CUNY Graduate Center,
New York City, USA
MAY 5th--6th, 2006

> CFP: Henry James reference book (no deadline; book)
>
> Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for schools and
> libraries, is seeking a scholar to write a one-volume reference book on
> Henry James, focusing on critical analysis of his works. The ideal author
> will have a Ph.D., broad knowledge of James's life and works, and an
> ability to write clearly and succinctly for students in both high school

CALL FOR PAPERS: Many Floridas: Women Envisioning Change
A Conference Hosted by the Florida Consortium for Women's Studies
April 6-8, 2006
Tampa, Florida

Call for papers:
Looking Both Ways:
Bisexuality and the Media
A Special Double Issue of the Journal of Bisexuality

Guest Editors:
Dr. Keith Dorwick, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Dr. Jonathan Alexander, The University of Cincinnati

Literature/Film Quarterly, the longest-standing publication devoted to
adaptation studies, is soliciting essays on any topic related to film
adaptaions. Topics include, but are not limited to, Explorations of
the wide-ranging intertextuality of literature and film;Locating
specific texts and adaptations of them within their own cultural
moment;Analysis of why, how, and to what effect particular texts are
adapted, made new, or remade;Analysis of the intersection,
inter-illumination, and collision of different media.Articles on
individual movies, on different cinematic adaptations of a single
literary work, on a director's style of adaptation, on the "cinematic"