Writing by Degrees 2006: The 9th Annual National Graduate Creative Writing
Conference
Binghamton, New York¡XBinghamton University, SUNY
Keynote Speakers, Steve Almond (fiction), Timothy Liu (poetry), Suzanne
Paola Antonetta (creative non-fiction)
Conference Date: October 19-21, 2006
Submmission Deadline: August 1, 2006

Writing by Degrees is seeking creative and academic submissions
demonstrating or contemplating the craft of writing. All applicants must
be currently enrolled as graduate students in order to be eligible.

The Literature/Film Association announces that its annual conference
will take place at Towson University, Towson, MD from November 3-5,
2006. Papers are invited from all areas of literature/film studies,
including adaptations and remakes, literature/film theory, history and
film, genre topics, social issues (including race, class, and gender
studies), auteur studies, and individual film analyses.

<>Call for Papers for Children and Childhood Studies Section of The
Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association 2006 Annual Conference
in Baltimore, Maryland, October 27-29, 2006

The MAP/ACA is a regional division of the Popular and American Culture
Associations, which are, in the words of Popular Culture Association
founder Ray Browne, "multi-disciplinary associations interested in new
approaches to the expressions, mass media and all other phenomena of
everyday life."

 From the MAP/ACA home page: http://webhosting.its.psu.edu/mapaca/

CFP: Polish-German Post-Memory (9/1/06; 4/19-21/07)

POLISH-GERMAN POST/MEMORY: AESTHETICS, ETHICS,
POLITICS

Conference to be held at Indiana University
(Bloomington), April 19-21, 2007

Conference description

CFP: Polish-German Post-Memory (9/1/06; 4/19-21/07)

POLISH-GERMAN POST/MEMORY: AESTHETICS, ETHICS,
POLITICS

Conference to be held at Indiana University
(Bloomington), April 19-21, 2007

Conference description

Call for Papers
    Panel Title: Women's Poetry and the Firesides
    38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
    March 1-4, 2007
    Baltimore, Maryland
    This panel seeks papers that explore the relationship between nineteenth-century women poets and the Fireside poets (or other popular but now non-canonical male poets). I'm particularly interested in papers that explore the way male poets responded to the successes of women poets. Please send a 300-word abstract to higgins_andrew_at_yahoo.com by Sept 15, 2006.
  
  
    Deadline: September 15, 2006
    Abstract of the Panel:

Call for Papers
    Panel Title: Women's Poetry and the Firesides
    38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
    March 1-4, 2007
    Baltimore, Maryland
    This panel seeks papers that explore the relationship between nineteenth-century women poets and the Fireside poets (or other popular but now non-canonical male poets). I'm particularly interested in papers that explore the way male poets responded to the successes of women poets. Please send a 300-word abstract to higgins_andrew_at_yahoo.com by Sept 15, 2006.
  
  
    Deadline: September 15, 2006
    Abstract of the Panel:

Exploring the Renaissance 2007: An International Conference

San Antonio, Texas
March 8-10, 2007

St. Anthony Hotel

Keynote Lecturer, Asuncion Lavrin, Arizona State University
Louis L. Martz Lecturer, Annabel Patterson, Yale University
William B. Hunter Lecturer, Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University

The Heroic Age Issue 11: Baghdad, Byzantium, Aachen, and
Winchester:
Early Medieval Reforms and Reformers

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Preaching and Politics in Early Modern Britain

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A two-day international conference at the Centre for Research in the =
Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, =
3-4 November 2006. =20

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'The sermon properly considered - as theatrical, as fundamentally =
occasional, as literary art inextricably engaged in the public sphere - =
stands poised to take a wholly new place in literary study, and a better =
understood one in historical study.'

(Lori Anne Ferrell and Peter McCullough, 2000)

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How far have we come in the six years since Ferrell and McCullough's =
prediction?=20

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Preaching and Politics in Early Modern Britain

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A two-day international conference at the Centre for Research in the =
Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, =
3-4 November 2006. =20

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'The sermon properly considered - as theatrical, as fundamentally =
occasional, as literary art inextricably engaged in the public sphere - =
stands poised to take a wholly new place in literary study, and a better =
understood one in historical study.'

(Lori Anne Ferrell and Peter McCullough, 2000)

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How far have we come in the six years since Ferrell and McCullough's =
prediction?=20

Another [Art] World: A Journal of Radical Art, Theory and Criticism
Recent developments in the =91art market=92 have forced artists to think =
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beyond exhibiting their works in galleries and museums. These same =20
changes situate biennials and art fairs as the reified site where =20
artists position their work in relation to globalizing economies and =20
hegemonic discourses. Inversely, the market has also created =20
supplementary spaces where artists from the so-called margins may =20
enter into dialogue with those at the center. Nonetheless, this =20
trajectory continues to expand in an extremely inequitable direction, =20=

"The Anti-Hero: Because Good Doesn't Have to Be Nice"

A panel at the 2007 convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association=
,
March 1-3, Baltimore MD.

Call for Papers

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"Teaching Medieval Women"

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38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

March 1-4, 2007

Baltimore, Maryland

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Papers should address any aspect of teaching medieval women, including
teaching the texts and subjects associated with women (female authors,
protagonists, subjects, and audiences) in medieval literature, as well
as the act of teaching medieval women themselves (issues of literacy and
the education of women). Papers should be no longer than twenty minutes
in length.

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Deadline: September 15, 2006

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