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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

Call for submissions for the Flannery O'Connor session at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007. Theme: "Flannery O'Connor's Influence North of the 49th." General papers on O'Connor are welcome, but in particular those that explore O'Connor's (acknowledged) influence on Canadian authors Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, W.P. Kinsella, Jack Hodgins, Hugh Hood, and others. Please send proposals or finished papers to Dr. Irwin Streight at _streight-i_at_rmc.ca_ or to Department of English, Royal Military College of Canada, PO Box 17000, Stn Forces, Kingston, ON Canada K7K 7B4.

Deadline for submissions: *March 1, 2007*

New: UPDATE: Deadline Extension for Proposals to December 1, 2006.

New: Early Registration Discount now in effect.

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 27th Annual Conference
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca

CFP: Creative Writing Pedagogy
  (please forward to interested colleagues and graduate students)
                      
Topics of Interest: Pedagogy related to campus literary magazines, classroom approaches and special issues of concern for the teaching of creative writing in all genres, and interdisciplinary approaches to creative writing. See below for more interest areas.

  Platform
  Postgraduate e-Journal of Theatre & Performing Arts
  Platform is an electronic journal devoted to postgraduates, postdoctoral researchers, and entry-level academics in the fields of theatre and performing arts. Platform is run by postgraduates for postgraduates, and is based at the Department of Drama, Royal Holloway, University of London.
   
  The first issue of Platform is now online!
   
  Call for Papers
   
  We invite submissions for the second issue of Platform. The pivotal theme is "Theatres of Resistance." Given the wide-ranging and confrontational nature of the topic, we welcome papers that explore a variety of issues such as the following:
  
   Politics and performance

Due to some technical problems with the email account
associated with submissions we have extended the deadline
for submissions to FemTAP 2.1: Race, Gender, and Social
Justice to Nov. 15, 2006 When submitting a manuscript,
please put "manuscript" or "submission" in your subject
line.

CFP: Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Deadline for Submissions EXTENDED to November 15,2006

Submission Guidelines: email attachment only to
ikerlee_at_unm.edu; Chicago manual style w/limited endnotes;
full guidelines at www.femtap.com

Due to some technical problems with the email account
associated with submissions we have extended the deadline
for submissions to FemTAP 2.1: Race, Gender, and Social
Justice to Nov. 15, 2006 When submitting a manuscript,
please put "manuscript" or "submission" in your subject
line.

CFP: Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Deadline for Submissions EXTENDED to November 15,2006

Submission Guidelines: email attachment only to
ikerlee_at_unm.edu; Chicago manual style w/limited endnotes;
full guidelines at www.femtap.com

American Literature Association Annual Convention
Boston, 5/24/07-5/27/07

Call for Papers: WILLIAM WELLS BROWN

Despite his significance as the first African-American novelist and =20
as an anti-slavery lecturer, autobiographer, poet, editor, historian, =20=

travel writer, and dramatist, William Wells Brown has received =20
surprisingly little critical attention. For a proposed panel at ALA =20
2007, I am seeking papers of twenty minutes in length on any aspect =20
of Brown=92s work.

Please send proposals (ca. 300 words) and brief CV to Dawn Coleman at =20=

dcolema7_at_utk.edu by 5 January 2007. Inquiries welcome.

CFP: Comparative Canadian Literature in the Twenty-First Century (06/30/07;
journal issue)

Apologies for cross-postings...

CALL FOR PAPERS: ANGLO-FRENCH CINEMATIC RELATIONS SINCE 1930.

An International conference hosted by the Department of Film Studies,
Southampton University, and supported by the AHRC.
September 14 - 16 2007

Keynote addresses will be given by Pam Cook, Sarah Street, Robert Tombs
and Ginette Vincendeau.

Addressing the question of how psychoanalytic theories might speak
about "race," Hortense Spillers gives the term "African Oedipus" to a
model of cultural self-formation which recognizes the status of the
"father" as a social function rather than a biological genitor ("'All
the Things You Could Be by Now if Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your
Mother': Psychoanalysis and Race"). For Spillers, the term "African
Oedipus" mediates a sociosymbolic order characterized by shifting
specular relations rather than by the fixed hierarchical positions and
meanings attributed to the father, the mother and the child within the
traditional Freudian model. The term "African Oedipus" is also linked

Addressing the question of how psychoanalytic theories might speak
about "race," Hortense Spillers gives the term "African Oedipus" to a
model of cultural self-formation which recognizes the status of the
"father" as a social function rather than a biological genitor ("'All
the Things You Could Be by Now if Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your
Mother': Psychoanalysis and Race"). For Spillers, the term "African
Oedipus" mediates a sociosymbolic order characterized by shifting
specular relations rather than by the fixed hierarchical positions and
meanings attributed to the father, the mother and the child within the
traditional Freudian model. The term "African Oedipus" is also linked

Addressing the question of how psychoanalytic theories might speak
about "race," Hortense Spillers gives the term "African Oedipus" to a
model of cultural self-formation which recognizes the status of the
"father" as a social function rather than a biological genitor ("'All
the Things You Could Be by Now if Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your
Mother': Psychoanalysis and Race"). For Spillers, the term "African
Oedipus" mediates a sociosymbolic order characterized by shifting
specular relations rather than by the fixed hierarchical positions and
meanings attributed to the father, the mother and the child within the
traditional Freudian model. The term "African Oedipus" is also linked

CALL FOR PAPERS

La volonté de paraître:

The Cult and Cultivation of Appearances
in French and Francophone Literature and Culture

23-24 February 2007, Yale University