Abstracts invited: "Breaking New Ground on Andrew Lytle," a proposed
session for the American Literature Association's annual conference in
San Francisco, 25-28 May 2006.

After a decade of near-obscurity, Andrew Nelson Lytle has reemerged as a
pertinent figure in southern literary history. In the work of Richard
Gray, for instance, Lytle's career serves as a handy example of how a
southern cultural and literary orthodoxy came to be. The fiction,
however, remains largely neglected. To begin a remedy, this session
seeks new interpretations and new approaches. Possible topics for papers
might include:

Call for Papers for the Panel
Images and Communities - Methodological Issues and Empirical Analysis of
Mediated Societies
At the Conference Media and Money, Helsinki 3-4 February 2005.

The CSA conference (April 19-22, 2006) will again feature a series of
seminars. Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion
sessions for which participants write brief ''position" papers that are
circulated prior to the conference. Those interested in participating in
(rather than leading) a seminar should consult the list of seminars below.

The CSA conference (April 19-22, 2006) will again feature a series of
seminars. Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion
sessions for which participants write brief ''position" papers that are
circulated prior to the conference. Those interested in participating in
(rather than leading) a seminar should consult the list of seminars below.

The CSA conference (April 19-22, 2006) will again feature a series of
seminars. Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion
sessions for which participants write brief ''position" papers that are
circulated prior to the conference. Those interested in participating in
(rather than leading) a seminar should consult the list of seminars below.

Deadline extended:
 
Tempus Fuget: CALL FOR PAPERS

Film & History
at
Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA in Albuquerque

The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association
invites papers examining all aspects of Film & History
for its annual conference to be held February 8-11, 2006
at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Last year, this area was very popular and brought
like-minded scholars together on a topic of common interest.

Possible Areas for consideration include,
but are not limited to:

THE UPSTART CROW: A SHAKESPEARE JOURNAL

Call for Papers: "SHAKESPEARE ACROSS THE ARTS"

THE UPSTART CROW is currently accepting submissions for Volume XXV (2005),
on "Shakespeare Across the Arts." Diverse critical approaches to this
subject are welcome, especially performance-based, historical, and
theoretical methodologies.

Papers might investigate interdisciplinary contexts for the study of
Shakespeare, including visual and performance arts; film and other media;
and scientific and practical arts. Submissions focusing on the thematizing
of the arts in Shakespeare's writings, as well as those focusing on
adaptations / appropriations of Shakespeare across the arts, are
encouraged.

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Dear Colleagues,

The Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies, University of Kent =
at Canterbury, UK, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference: Medieval =
Children 1200-1500, on 17-18 June 2006. Keynote and featured speakers =
include Prof. Nicholas Orme (History, Exeter, UK), and Prof. Peter =
Beidler (English, Lehigh, US).

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Dear Colleagues,

The Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies, University of Kent =
at Canterbury, UK, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference: Medieval =
Children 1200-1500, on 17-18 June 2006. Keynote and featured speakers =
include Prof. Nicholas Orme (History, Exeter, UK), and Prof. Peter =
Beidler (English, Lehigh, US).

Panel sponsored by the Edith Wharton society

Physicality in Edith Wharton's Writing and Life

Papers on all aspects of physicality (eroticism, food, pain, pleasure,
addiction, smell, temperature etc.) are welcome.
Please send 300-400 word abstracts by January 5, 2006 to:

Prof. Hildegard Hoeller
Associate Professor of English
College of Staten Island--City University of New York
e-mail: hilhllr_at_aol.com
mail: 29 Gail Court, Staten Island NY 10306

Please note update: Keynote Speaker announced.

American Comparative Literature Association Conference 2006 (Princeton
University, March 23-26)

Ecocriticism and its Postcolonial Futures
Seminar Organizer(s): George Handley, Brigham Young University; Elizabeth
DeLoughrey, Cornell University

THE SOCIETE DES PROFESSEURS FRANÇAIS ET FRANCOPHONES D'AMERIQUE
                                                                    (SPFFA)

                            Announces its Eighth International Colloquium

                                  "Creation and Reality in the French Idiom
                                                                 and
                                    The Centennial of Léopold Sédar Senghor"

CHARCOAL CANONS

Race and Faith in African American Literature

Call for Submissions

As chords of a song are composed of very specific notes that create a
recognizable sound to those who are familiar with music, so has most forms
of African American literature, even the most diametrically opposed works,
created similar "sounds" in their discourse on race and faith.