First Annual Graduate Conference on Transantlantic and Cultural
Studies Georgia State University October 20-21, 2006

Keynote speaker
Dr. Ana del Sarto (Ohio State University)

Proposals are especially encouraged on (but not limited to) any aspect
of Literature, Linguistics, Culture, History,and Women Studies.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

Send a 300-word proposal by email to espaga_at_gmail.com (subject line:
Emerging Paradigms) by July 14, 2006.
A cover letter listing the following:
Name, title of the paper, telephone number,
mailing and email address, and a one-page CV.
Papers should be submitted in Spanish or English.

CFP: Evolutions and Genre

for a session at "evolutions" conference, Edinburgh,U.K., 22-23 September 2006

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Submissions are invited on any aspect on Virginia Woolf=92s _Orlando_ . =
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otherwise open issue. Submissions must be received by the end of June.=20
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Department of English, R.L.A. College, University of Delhi,=20
Post Box 5205, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi-110 021, India=20
<grtaneja47_at_hotmail.com>; <inbetween_at_rediffmail.com>

British Association for American StudiesAnnual Conference 2007
Centre for American Studies, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
CALL FOR PAPERS

The BAAS Annual Conference for the year 2007 will be hosted by the Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester, from 19-22 April 2007.

2007 marks the tenth birthday of the Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester so we are particularly pleased to host the conference this year. It also promises to be a very interesting year for reflecting on American history and culture given that it will be 400 years after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia and 50 years since Little Rock and Sputnik.

British Association for American StudiesAnnual Conference 2007
Centre for American Studies, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
CALL FOR PAPERS

The BAAS Annual Conference for the year 2007 will be hosted by the Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester, from 19-22 April 2007.

2007 marks the tenth birthday of the Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester so we are particularly pleased to host the conference this year. It also promises to be a very interesting year for reflecting on American history and culture given that it will be 400 years after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia and 50 years since Little Rock and Sputnik.

The Gay Lesbian Transgender and Queer area of the Mid Atlantic
American/Popular Culture Conference (Baltimore MD, October 27-29, 2006)
welcomes proposals on the representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, transsexual, and transvestite communities in popular culture.
 We encourage discussion of such issues in any medium of popular culture,
such as TV, movies, Internet and computer games, journalism, billboards
and advertising, comics and graphic novels, stand up comedy, novels,
nonfiction literature, music, theatre or politics and punditry.
Some topics such abstracts might explore include the following:
self-discovery, life phases, cross-group alliances, and family in LGBTQ

The Marxist Literary Group will be holding its annual Institute on
Culture and Society at Georgetown University, June 8-12. This year's
theme, "The Materialist Suture," is intended to focus discussion on the
ties that bind cultural and theoretical production to their material
conditions of possibility. As always, however, any proposal that
engages seriously with Marxist thought will be considered. Panels
already accepted include "New French Marxism," "The Dialectical Image
Revisited," "Recent Russian Research on the Repressions of the 1930s in
the USSR," "New Feminist Marxisms," "What is the 'Corporate
University,'" "Marxism and Animal Studies," "Progressive Nostalgia:

CALL FOR PAPERS â€" THE GOTHIC AND ADDICTION

CALL FOR PAPERS â€" THE GOTHIC AND ADDICTION

CFP: Gynaecology and British Culture, 1500 - 2000

Proposals are currently being sought for a collection of essays exploring the
history of British gynaecology between 1500 and 2000. The collection will be
edited by Andrew Mangham (University of Sheffield) and Greta Depledge (Birkbeck
College, University of London). We are particularly interested in essays with
an interdisciplinary approach. Possible subjects include, though are not
limited to:

CFP: Gynaecology and British Culture, 1500 - 2000

Proposals are currently being sought for a collection of essays exploring the
history of British gynaecology between 1500 and 2000. The collection will be
edited by Andrew Mangham (University of Sheffield) and Greta Depledge (Birkbeck
College, University of London). We are particularly interested in essays with
an interdisciplinary approach. Possible subjects include, though are not
limited to:

CFP: Gynaecology and British Culture, 1500 - 2000

Proposals are currently being sought for a collection of essays exploring the
history of British gynaecology between 1500 and 2000. The collection will be
edited by Andrew Mangham (University of Sheffield) and Greta Depledge (Birkbeck
College, University of London). We are particularly interested in essays with
an interdisciplinary approach. Possible subjects include, though are not
limited to:

Deadline Extended:

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UPDATE: Postmodern Stages And Beyond -- The Deadline for Paper =
Proposals has been extended to May 30, 2006.

NOTE: At this stage we are especially interested in essays about early =
Twentieth-Century playwrights -- such as Pirandello -- who were quick to =
adopt metatheatrical features which would eventually fall under the =
stylistic rubric of postmodernism.

Postmodern Stages And Beyond:
Early Meta-theatrical Innovation and Late-Postmodern Debate

Deadline Extended:

=20

UPDATE: Postmodern Stages And Beyond -- The Deadline for Paper =
Proposals has been extended to May 30, 2006.

NOTE: At this stage we are especially interested in essays about early =
Twentieth-Century playwrights -- such as Pirandello -- who were quick to =
adopt metatheatrical features which would eventually fall under the =
stylistic rubric of postmodernism.

Postmodern Stages And Beyond:
Early Meta-theatrical Innovation and Late-Postmodern Debate