Call for Papers
Mennonite/s Writing: Beyond Borders
Bluffton University
Oct. 26-29, 2006
Keynote: Kathleen Norris=20
Featured writers and critics: Rudy Wiebe, Jean Janzen, John Ruth, Di
Brandt, Julia Kasdorf, Hildi Froese Tiessen, Jeff Gundy, Ann Hostetler,
G. C. Waldrep, Keith Ratzlaff, and many others.=20
Proposals for scholarly papers, creative writing presentations, and
panels are sought for the fourth in a series of conferences on Mennonite
writing in the U.S. and Canada. Building on that tradition and the
burgeoning of both creative work by and about Mennonites and critical
studies of that literature, the conference will both celebrate and

CALL FOR PAPERS: AEEA 2006
The Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas (1300-1800) (AEEA)
invites abstracts for its 2006 Conference held in conjunction with the
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT) in Washington, D.C., on
September 21-23, 2006. The keynote speaker will be Christopher Wilson, an
expert on Carmelite iconography and professorial lecturer of Art History at
George Washington University. Karen Berman, of Georgetown University, and
Hugo Medrano, of Gala Theater in Washington, D.C.
(http://www.galatheatre.org/), will direct plays by early modern Spanish
women. A theater workshop will be held at Gala Theater following the

CALL FOR PAPERS: AEEA 2006
The Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas (1300-1800) (AEEA)
invites abstracts for its 2006 Conference held in conjunction with the
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT) in Washington, D.C., on
September 21-23, 2006. The keynote speaker will be Christopher Wilson, an
expert on Carmelite iconography and professorial lecturer of Art History at
George Washington University. Karen Berman, of Georgetown University, and
Hugo Medrano, of Gala Theater in Washington, D.C.
(http://www.galatheatre.org/), will direct plays by early modern Spanish
women. A theater workshop will be held at Gala Theater following the

Call for Papers: American Indian Literatures & Cultures

Popular Culture Association

and

American Culture Association

Annual Meeting

April 12 – 16, 2006

Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel

Atlanta, Georgia

We invite submissions from individuals or organized panels (3 or 4 persons) focusing on any issue relating to American Indian/First Nation/Indigenous peoples' lives and literatures. We especially invite the participation of native scholars and writers.

DEADLINE FOR ALL ABSTRACTS:

NOVEMBER 1st, 2005

FOR INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSIONS:

--200-250 word abstract [presentation title--10 words maximum]

I invite papers for a panel to be held at the fifteenth annual Cultural
Studies Conference at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, March
9-11. Papers can be on a wide variety of topics related to the conference
theme of privacy and secrecy and the public sphere.

Second Call for Papers

RLS2006: Transatlantic Stevenson

Conference web site (please note new web address):

http://www.brocku.ca/english/rls2006/main.aspx

Irish Children's Literature: National and International Contexts

IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Annual Conference

17 and 18 FEBRUARY 2006

Venue: Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines, Dublin 6

Irish Children's Literature: National and International Contexts

Utopian Studies Society
7th International Conference
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (Spain)
July 6-8, 2006.

Organized by the Department of English & German Studies and the
T-CLAA/ICARUS Research Group, on behalf of the USS, the conference seeks to
be a transversal, interdisciplinary meeting for scholars of all fields who
have an interest in Utopian Studies (literature, cinema, philosophy,
history, political science, economics, architecture, art, etc.).

The Rhetoric and Composition Section invites you--and all interested faculty
and students--to present recent scholarly work at the 2006 meeting of the
Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, & Letters (MASAL). Both individual paper
and panel presentations are welcome. Topics may include, but are not
limited to

* assessment

* technology

* basic writing

* service learning

* honors writing

* literacy

* gender and composition

* critical pedagogy

* responding to writing

* history of rhetoric

* postmodernism

* composition and the university

DEADLINE EXTENDED for the 15th annual Cultural Studies Conference at
Kansas State University.

TOPIC: PRIVACY (and Secrecy)
NEW DEADLINE: October 24, 2005

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Historian George Chauncey, author of _Gay New York_ and _Why Marriage_
Poet Susan Hahn, author of _Self/Pity_, _Holiday_, _Confesssion_

More details available at conference website: http://www.k-state.edu/
english/symposium/index.html

Send 1 page abstracts for 15 minute presentations to:

Michele Janette
Associate Professor and
Director, Program in Cultural Studies
English Department, KSU
mjanette_at_ksu.edu

The Center for British Studies and English Department at Berkeley are
hosting a conference on 'Scottish Romanticism and World Literatures' from
7-10 September 2006, jointly organized by Ian Duncan and Murray Pittock.
Among the areas we are planning to address in the main conference sessions
are the impact of Scottish Romanticism on European literatures, the
Anglophone British Empire and the United States; continuities between
Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism; relations between Scotland and
Ireland, and between Scottish and English Romanticisms; "literature" and
the disciplines of the natural and human sciences; the social environments

Submissions for a session titled "How and Why We Teach Poe in 2006" are
invited by the Poe Studies Association at the American Literature
Association Conference, May 25-28, 2006, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco
in Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, CA. For information on the
conference, visit
<http://www.americanliterature.org/>www.americanliterature.org.

The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware
is pleased to announce its call for papers for the Fourth Annual
Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars (MCSES) to be held
Saturday, March 18, 2006 at the
Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library in Winterthur, Delaware.

Submissions for a session titled "How and Why We Teach Poe in 2006" are
invited by the Poe Studies Association at the American Literature
Association Conference, May 25-28, 2006, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco
in Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, CA. For information on the
conference, visit
<http://www.americanliterature.org/>www.americanliterature.org.