In keeping with the 2007 conference theme, "Currents", the 2007
Regular Session on Australasian Literatures at SCMLA will focus on
"Australasian Currents." Our panel seeks to explore the current
conversation occurring between people from the Australian, New Zealand,
and South Pacific regions.
     Of particular interest is how people from the Australasian region
are using one or more form/s of creative expression (such as poetry,
fiction, narrative, film, music, art, etc) as a vehicle to represent
themselves and/ or others.
     Topics include, but are not limited to how these creative
endeavors have influenced and/ or critiqued religion, race, gender,

U.S.-Philippines Postcoloniality and Culture (grad)

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6-7, 2007
University of California, Riverside

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at
(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation at the
University of California, Riverside’s annual graduate
humanities conference. Submissions from all disciplines are
welcomed.

CFP: Rewriting the Body (grad) (1/5/07; disjunctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

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This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, =
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University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference, =
April 7-8, 2006. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation =
Nation," this panel attempts to explore how the body as cultural text is =
rewritten through acts of (re)appropriation, misappropriation, passing, =
mimicry, and resignification.

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Papers from all periods and areas are welcome. Suggested topics include

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Juridical bodies

Virtual bodies

Historical, narrative, and/or developmental bodies

CFP: Rewriting the Body (grad) (1/5/07; disjunctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

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This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, =
the=20

University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference, =
April 7-8, 2006. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation =
Nation," this panel attempts to explore how the body as cultural text is =
rewritten through acts of (re)appropriation, misappropriation, passing, =
mimicry, and resignification.

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Papers from all periods and areas are welcome. Suggested topics include

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Juridical bodies

Virtual bodies

Historical, narrative, and/or developmental bodies

CALL FOR PAPERS

Contributors are sought for a new book on 'A History of Sexual Perversion
1650-1850'. We specifically seek articles within the boundaries of history
of sexuality which examine so-called sexual 'perversions'; this might
include any sexual behaviour which was considered perverse or 'abnormal' for
its time and would include certain heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian,
transgender, transvestite etc. practices; and why was such behaviour was
seen as 'abnormal', 'perverse' or threatening; subjects for discussion might
be considered include bestiality, flagellation, sex with children, fetishes,
sado-masochism etc.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Contributors are sought for a new book on 'A History of Sexual Perversion
1650-1850'. We specifically seek articles within the boundaries of history
of sexuality which examine so-called sexual 'perversions'; this might
include any sexual behaviour which was considered perverse or 'abnormal' for
its time and would include certain heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian,
transgender, transvestite etc. practices; and why was such behaviour was
seen as 'abnormal', 'perverse' or threatening; subjects for discussion might
be considered include bestiality, flagellation, sex with children, fetishes,
sado-masochism etc.

The Eighth Annual Graduate English Conference
Michael J. Adanti Student Center
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT
Saturday, April 21, 2007
9:00 am-4:30 pm
Encountering the Text:
Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, Writing

Call for Paper Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 3-6, 2007.

The Romanian Studies Association of America (RSAA), an organization
affiliated to the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association is inviting
papers for a panel on Romanian and Eastern-European Women Writers of the
19th and 20th century.
Please send a one-page abstract or12 page paper and vita by 1 March,
2007 to Professor Anca Munteanu, Le Moyne College, 1419 Salt Springs
Road, Syracuse, NY 13214 or electronically to munteanu_at_lemoyne.edu

CFP: Alternative Gothic (grad) (1/5/07; disjunctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

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This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, =
the=20

University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference, =
April 7-8, 2006. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation =
Nation," this panel asks how we might consider the Gothic in forms other =
than the novel.

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V Conference of English Methodology
 University of Valladolid, Spain.

19 -21 April 2007

Submissions are invited on the topic of Applied Linguistics, Contrastive
Linguistics, English Language Methodology.

Deadline for submission of abstracts is February 28^th , 2007.
Conference venue: English Studies Department.University of Valladolid.
Spain.

We are hoping that some papers dealing with the topic of the Conference
will be published in 2007.
Please send your abstract (about 200 words) and a short bio with
publications to:

Dr. Leonor Pérez Ruiz,
English Studies Department

University of Valladolid

Spain

NEW Demeter Press Call for Papers - Book on Queer Parenting..PLEASE
 CIRCULATE WIDELY

Attached and below is a New CFP from Demeter Press - Queer Parenting
(edited by Rachel Epstein)..PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
http://www.yorku.ca/crm/DEMETER%20PRESS/Queer%20Parenting%20cfp%2007.htm

                            CALL FOR PAPERS

    Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on

                            QUEER PARENTING

                      Publication Date: Fall, 2008
                         Editor: Rachel Epstein

NEW Demeter Press Call for Papers - Book on Queer Parenting..PLEASE
 CIRCULATE WIDELY

Attached and below is a New CFP from Demeter Press - Queer Parenting
(edited by Rachel Epstein)..PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
http://www.yorku.ca/crm/DEMETER%20PRESS/Queer%20Parenting%20cfp%2007.htm

                            CALL FOR PAPERS

    Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on

                            QUEER PARENTING

                      Publication Date: Fall, 2008
                         Editor: Rachel Epstein

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Rabelais

For the series Approaches to Teaching World Literature, the Publications =
Committee of the MLA has approved development of the title Approaches to =
Teaching the Works of Rabelais, ed. Floyd Gray and Todd W. Reeser.=20

As with all the titles in this book series, the MLA would be grateful =
for responses to a brief questionnaire that focuses on your experience =
teaching Rabelais in any kind of course, whether in French or in =
translation. The published volume will acknowledge all respondents. The =
last section of the survey asks about your possible interest in =
contributing an essay to the volume. =20

CFP: 19th-Century British Masculinities (grad) (1/5/07; disjunctions, =
4/6/07-4/7/07)

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This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, =
the=20

University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference, =
April 6-7, 2006. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation =
Nation," this panel attempts to explore the various and often =
conflicting configurations of British masculinity that appeared during =
the nineteenth century.

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Papers from all historical and theoretical perspectives are welcome. =
Suggested topics in masculinity include

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Civil humanism

Effeminacy

Consumption, lack, and excess