Travel Texts:
New Zealand and the South Pacific
 
Organised by the
Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
and the
Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University
 
University of London, 23 June 2007
 
 
Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers on the subject of New
Zealand travel texts for a conference to be held at the University of
London on Saturday 23 June 2007. Keynote speakers will include
Professor Lydia Wevers (Victoria University of Wellington). This
conference is a collaboration between two unique centres and will
look to extend the research being conducted within both the subject

REAL THINGS: MATTER, MATERIALITY, REPRESENTATION
1880 TO THE PRESENT
5-8 July 2007

Proposals for twenty-minute presentations or panels of three to four =20
presenters are invited for a conference entitled =93Real Things: =20
Matter, Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the present,=94 to be held =20=

at the University of York, England and co-sponsored by the University =20=

of Sussex.

Keynote speakers:
Bill Brown
Mary Ann Doane
Hal Foster
Patrick Keiller
Hermione Lee
Edmund White

This conference proposes a re-engagement with representational =20
realism and its objects and effects across a wide range of aesthetic, =20=

REAL THINGS: MATTER, MATERIALITY, REPRESENTATION
1880 TO THE PRESENT
5-8 July 2007

Proposals for twenty-minute presentations or panels of three to four =20
presenters are invited for a conference entitled =93Real Things: =20
Matter, Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the present,=94 to be held =20=

at the University of York, England and co-sponsored by the University =20=

of Sussex.

Keynote speakers:
Bill Brown
Mary Ann Doane
Hal Foster
Patrick Keiller
Hermione Lee
Edmund White

This conference proposes a re-engagement with representational =20
realism and its objects and effects across a wide range of aesthetic, =20=

*UPDATE: Deadline Extended to 26 November, 2006!!!*

CFP: Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture
2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association 28th Annual
Conference

February 14-17, 2007

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
http://albuquerque.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtml

The topic for the Spring 2007 Issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany is =
Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Submissions are due by February 2, 2007 =
to Pamela St. Clair pstclair_at_fastmail.fm or Amanda Golden =
apg3_at_u.washington.edu .

=20

Submissions should be no longer than 2500 words at maximum and shorter =
articles are strongly preferred; articles should be submitted =
electronically, in MS Word format, and in compliance with current MLA =
style.

The topic for the Spring 2007 Issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany is =
Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Submissions are due by February 2, 2007 =
to Pamela St. Clair pstclair_at_fastmail.fm or Amanda Golden =
apg3_at_u.washington.edu .

=20

Submissions should be no longer than 2500 words at maximum and shorter =
articles are strongly preferred; articles should be submitted =
electronically, in MS Word format, and in compliance with current MLA =
style.

LITERARY TOURISM & NINETEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE

An International One-Day Conference

to be held on

Friday, 8th June 2007

Institute for English Studies, University of London, U.K.

CALL FOR PAPERS

LITERARY TOURISM & NINETEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE

An International One-Day Conference

to be held on

Friday, 8th June 2007

Institute for English Studies, University of London, U.K.

CALL FOR PAPERS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 13 November 2006

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
           is calling for contributors to the 'mobile' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 13 November 2006

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
           is calling for contributors to the 'mobile' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.

We are beginning preparation of the projected volume *Approaches to Teaching
**The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber)*, edited by Andrew
Schonebaum and Tina Lu, to be publsihed by MLA and would very much like you
to participate.

We ask that you respond to the brief questionnaire below. We are
particularly interested in your response to the final item concerning
whether you would be willing to contribute an essay to the volume. Like
other similar books published by the MLA, this will contain not only a
discussion of the most important and useful materials available to the
teacher of this work but also a selection of essays by instructors.

We are beginning preparation of the projected volume *Approaches to Teaching
**The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber)*, edited by Andrew
Schonebaum and Tina Lu, to be publsihed by MLA and would very much like you
to participate.

We ask that you respond to the brief questionnaire below. We are
particularly interested in your response to the final item concerning
whether you would be willing to contribute an essay to the volume. Like
other similar books published by the MLA, this will contain not only a
discussion of the most important and useful materials available to the
teacher of this work but also a selection of essays by instructors.

Deaths of Cinema
First Annual Critical Studies Graduate Student Conference
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
March 23-24, 2007, Los Angeles, CA

CFP: English Nineteenth-Century Literature Panel at the Rocky Mountain
MLA Conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (3/1/2007;
10/4/2007-10/6/2007). One- page abstracts dealing with any aspect of
English Nineteenth-Century Literature are welcome. Please also include a
brief CV or equivalent biographical statement. The deadline for
submission is 3/1/2007, and the conference dates are
10/4/2007-10/6/2007. Please note that accepted presenters will need to
be current in their RMMLA dues by 4/1/2007. Abstracts and CVs may be
emailed as Word or RTF attachments to tredennickb_at_gonzaga.edu or sent
via regular mail to Bianca Tredennick, Gonzaga University-Department of