13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
     
  "Angry Young (Wo)Men": Theatrical Violence as Ethical Debate

In late 1995, two significant events changed the theatrical landscape:
John Osborne (Look Back in
Anger) died, and Sarah Kane's play Blasted premiered at the Royal Court
Theatre in London. The timing
was somewhat serendipitous—as one of the original "Angry Young Men"
left this world, one of the "New
Brutalists" made her mark on it.

Call for Papers - Wider Screen 02/2007 - The cinema of Aki and Mika
Kaurismäki

The films of Finnish directors Aki and Mika Kaurismäki are multifaceted
texts that balance between a variety of cultural tropes. The films are
simultaneously national and international; they deal with Finnish national
myths alongside the globalisation of national culture; the films blur the
distinctions between high culture and low culture both in terms of thematics
and aesthetics; they circulate the globe in both commercial and festival
releases, gaining widely discrepant critical and commercial receptions.

  13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
   
   
  Southwest Graduate English Symposium – 2007
   
  Only Human?: Medical Biology vs. The Social Model of Disability
   
  In her 1999 book Female Forms, Carol Thomas suggests that disability studies and activism would benefit from a social model approach to definitions of disability, as opposed to the long-standing contention that disability, impairment, and its effects are biological, physiological, anatomical—in short, medical.
   

Blake at 250: Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Birth of William Blake
   
  The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, The King's Manor, University of York
   
  30 July—1 August 2007
   
  First Call for Papers
   

  13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
   
   
  Southwest Graduate English Symposium – 2007
   
  Only Human?: Medical Biology vs. The Social Model of Disability
   
  In her 1999 book Female Forms, Carol Thomas suggests that disability studies and activism would benefit from a social model approach to definitions of disability, as opposed to the long-standing contention that disability, impairment, and its effects are biological, physiological, anatomical—in short, medical.
   

   
  Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
   
  The Ethics of (re)presentation: Imagining Others
   

Blake at 250: Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Birth of William Blake
   
  The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, The King's Manor, University of York
   
  30 July—1 August 2007
   
  First Call for Papers
   

The Emily Dickinson International Society is sponsoring two panel sessions =

at ALA in May, 2007. Please send proposals by January 10 to the session=20
organizers, Marianne Noble and Cindy MacKenzie. (mnoble_at_american.edu,=20
cindy.mackenzie_at_uregina.ca) The conference will take place in Boston, May =

24-27, 2007. For further information about the conference, go to=20
www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2

Panel #1: Teaching Dickinson
What are the challenges and rewards of teaching Dickinson?s poetry. What=20
strategies have worked, and which have not? What makes Dickinson popular=20
(or not) with students?

The Emily Dickinson International Society is sponsoring two panel sessions =

at ALA in May, 2007. Please send proposals by January 10 to the session=20
organizers, Marianne Noble and Cindy MacKenzie. (mnoble_at_american.edu,=20
cindy.mackenzie_at_uregina.ca) The conference will take place in Boston, May =

24-27, 2007. For further information about the conference, go to=20
www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2

Panel #1: Teaching Dickinson
What are the challenges and rewards of teaching Dickinson?s poetry. What=20
strategies have worked, and which have not? What makes Dickinson popular=20
(or not) with students?

CFP: “'I’ve been a woman I-don’t know-how-many-times': A Critical Tribute to
the Work of Octavia E. Butler"
Essay collection, ed. Patricia Melzer

Call For Papers=20

Postcolonial Green

This collection proceeds from our conviction that postcolonial theorists =
and ecocritics have a great deal to gain from one another. At present, =
however, postcolonial theory lacks a dimension of eco-critique despite =
the fact that many postcolonial issues are also issues of environmental =
crisis. Ecocriticism still retains a local and regional focus on place =
at the expense of a global vision that recognizes international =
interdependence, and has privileged =93first world=94 blind spots in its =
assumptions about how best to value nature.=20

Call For Papers=20

Postcolonial Green

This collection proceeds from our conviction that postcolonial theorists =
and ecocritics have a great deal to gain from one another. At present, =
however, postcolonial theory lacks a dimension of eco-critique despite =
the fact that many postcolonial issues are also issues of environmental =
crisis. Ecocriticism still retains a local and regional focus on place =
at the expense of a global vision that recognizes international =
interdependence, and has privileged =93first world=94 blind spots in its =
assumptions about how best to value nature.=20

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Call for papers

"West of One's Roots: Ethno-cultural Spaces in John Fante' Works and His
Reception between Italy and the US"

Quaderni del '900 is soliciting papers written by young scholars on John
Fante's life and works to be published in a special issue devoted to this
American author of Italian origins, alternatively described as "my god"
(Charles Bukowski), "a writer as American as Huckleberry Finn" (Carey
McWilliams), "the Italian American Hemingway" (Fred Gardaphé), "inspired by
Verga, D'Annunzio, and Pirandello" (Emilio Cecchi).

Essays sought for an edited collection on twentieth-century Faust texts, =
films, adaptations, etc. in Europe, Americas, and elsewhere.
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Completed essays will be 6,000-7,000 words in length and due
in March 2007. The collection will come out of Cambridge Publishers =
Press in 2008.

Please send 1-2 page proposals and a short biography by December 18, =
2006 to the editor, vanwesen_at_fredonia.edu