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
Classroom=20

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

This panel invites papers on any aspect of the works of John Milton. Send one-page abstracts to Wm Moeck, English Dept., Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY 11530 (or moeckw_at_ncc.edu)

The Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) is a scholarly organization for professionals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other modern languages. For more information its March 2007 conference in Baltimore, Maryland please visit the following site:

http://www.nemla.org/index.html

CFP: "Splintering studies?: Eighteenth-century studies and women's studies,
gender studies, queer studies, lesbian studies..."
ASECS 2007, Atlanta, GA (March 22-25)

Contact: Bonnie Latimer (engbl_at_leeds.ac.uk)
Deadline: 15 September 2006

The second annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for a two-day graduate
student conference focusing on the theme "Performing (In)Visibility."

The second annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for a two-day graduate
student conference focusing on the theme "Performing (In)Visibility."

For a panel to be proposed for the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media
Studies conference, we invite proposals for presentations interrogating
the work of Slavoj Zizek in relation to film and media
studies--especially as this involves the year's conference plenary
theme ("Media in the Public Sphere").

Please send proposal to both "arestivo_at_gsu.edu" and
"rcante_at_email.unc.edu" by August 14th.

Don't hesitate to email us with preliminary inquiries.

Thanks,
Angelo Restivo and Rich Cante

Series title: The Cultural History of Reading; Volume One - The United
States. Volume Two - The World.

Publisher: Greenwood

Due Date: Summer 2007

Editors: Sara Quay Ph.D. (the United States) and Gabrielle Watling Ph.D.
(World)

Audience: The series is designed as a reference for an undergraduate
readership.

November 2006 International Digital Media and Arts Association Conference
"Work in Progress/Rate of Change"
http://idmaa.org/idmaaNovember2006/

Call for Papers

The Aroostook Review, a new online literary journal at the University of =
Maine at Fort Kent, is seeking quality submissions of original poetry, =
fiction, non-fiction/creative non-fiction, photography and art for =
possible publication.=20

2nd Global Conference
Future Literature, Future Art: Probing the Boundaries of Criticism

Thursday 30th November - Saturday 2nd December 2006
Cracow, Poland

Call for Papers
(please cross post where appropriate)

 This conference aims to take stock of the genealogy of current literary and artistic practices and their critical adjuncts with a view to speculating on future developments in both literature, art and criticism. An inter-disciplinary approach will be adopted so as to provide the basis for dialogue between the various disciplines currently inputting into literary, artistic and critical production.