Romantic and Victorian Entertainments

Graduate Student Literature Conference
University of South Carolina, Columbia

March 23-24, 2007

>From the Grand Tour to gambling, and grand balls to opium dens, nineteenth-century authors represented entertainment in various ways. The virtues and vices of nineteenth-century amusements and leisure activities were themes in both British and American literature of the period, and these areas of life reflected and defined the historical, social, and literary climate of the century.

Deadline Extended to 15 August 2006

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CALL FOR PAPERS (Update)

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2006 Film and History League Conference

"The Documentary Tradition" Dallas 8-12 November 2006
<http://www.filmandhistory.org <http://www.filmandhistory.org/> >

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AREA: Exhibition

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While much has been written about the documentary, we still know
comparatively little about where many were shown, the context(s) of =
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reception, and the venues and exhibitors that booked them.=20

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CALL FOR PAPERS
 
The Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/
American Culture Association will once again be
sponsoring a session on CLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN
POPULAR CULTURE (formerly entitled "Classical Myths in
Recent Literature and Film") at the 28th Annual
meeting to be held February 14-17, 2007 at the Hyatt
Regency Conference Hotel in downtown Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
  
Papers on any aspect of Greek and Roman antiquity in
contemporary culture are eligible for consideration.
Papers focused on the following themes are
particularly welcome:

Rooms of Their Own: Women in the Knowledge Economy and Society
A Royal Society of Canada Conference

2-4 May 2007 At the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Update: Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (dates) is looking for contributors for its inaugural issue to be published online (web site still under construction).

Update: Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (dates) is looking for contributors for its inaugural issue to be published online (web site still under construction).

The animal is something of a hot topic right now: MLA 2006 will
boast no less than three panels
devoted in some way to it. So much of what is being said and done on
the topic, however, is
framed by the question: what is the animal for the human. That is,
this work directly follows
the paradigm set down by Giorgio Agamben in his book L'aperto:
L'uomo e l'animale (2002),
taking the animal to constitute the human. This panel asks: Is there
another way to understand
the animal? And can we find that way (or indeed, ways) in the
eighteenth century?

Please send Abstracts for proposed papers, along with a brief CV, to:
tcbrown_at_umn.edu.

Australian Association for Caribbean Studies International Biennial
Conference, February 7-9 2007: Call for Papers

The next biennial conference of the Australian Association for
Caribbean Studies (AACS)will be held from 7-9 February, 2007 at
Footscray Park campus of Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia).
Proposals of papers of 20-25 minutes duration are invited on the theme
of Caribbean Popular Cultures. Papers that address other Caribbean
topics are also welcome.

Proposals of approximately 200 words should be sent to the conference
convenor by 1 November, 2006 by either email attachment to
karina.smith_at_vu.edu.au or post to:

Australian Association for Caribbean Studies International Biennial
Conference, February 7-9 2007: Call for Papers

The next biennial conference of the Australian Association for
Caribbean Studies (AACS)will be held from 7-9 February, 2007 at
Footscray Park campus of Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia).
Proposals of papers of 20-25 minutes duration are invited on the theme
of Caribbean Popular Cultures. Papers that address other Caribbean
topics are also welcome.

Proposals of approximately 200 words should be sent to the conference
convenor by 1 November, 2006 by either email attachment to
karina.smith_at_vu.edu.au or post to:

Call for Papers
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Reconstruction is proud to announce the publication of its Summer 2006
theme issue, "Water: Resources & Discourses," which can be found at
http://reconstruction.eserver.org. Featured in the issue:

TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) is accepting =
submisstions for the
following five sessions dealing with issues of pedagogy for Kalamazoo =
2007:

I. Teaching TEAMS Texts

II. Apocryphal Apocalypses: Fifteenth-Century =B3Chaucerian=B2 Endings =
in the
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III. Visiting the Middle Ages: Teaching on Site

IV. Acting Up in the Classroom: Teaching Medieval Drama

V. Teaching Middle English Texts: Translation or Original Language? A =
Roundtable Discussion

Please send 200-300 word abstracts by September 1st to:

"Between Future and Fatality:
Utopian and Dystopian Ideas in German Literature, Film, and Culture."

The German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of
Cincinnati and the editors of the graduate student journal Focus on
German Studies present the Eleventh Annual Focus Graduate Student
Conference held on October 27-28, 2006 at the University of Cincinnati

Keynote speaker: THOMAS MEINECKE

Narrative Conference
March 15-18, 2007
Washington, D.C.

For a proposed panel at the 2007 Narrative Conference, I am seeking
papers that explore situations in which the strict distinction
between narrator and author begins to blur. What are the conditions
for and significances of such moments?

Proposals should include 1) a 300-word abstract, 2) a brief vitae
(for panel proposal purposes). Please send proposals (in the body of
email or as Microsoft Word attachment) to Sue Kim at suekim_at_uab.edu
by October 1, 2006.

Call for Papers

Women Writing and Reading: Past and Present, Local and Global

4-6 May 2007
At the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada