The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (11/1/05; PCA/ACA,
4/12/06-4/15/06)

NATIONAL POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE
ASSOCIATIONS 2005 JOINT CONFERENCE

April 12-15, 2006
Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA 30303
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2005

We welcome papers and presentations on any aspect of the Gothic in film,
literature, or other forms of cultural expression. All critical
approaches are welcome.

You can propose an individual paper or a panel session of three or four
presenters.

New deadline: October 31, 2005

Hemingway Society member Mark Ott is seeking innovative and challenging
essays addressing the topic of "Ernest Hemingway and the Geography of
Memory" for a book he is interested in editing.

The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee is seeking submissions for a two-day graduate student
conference focusing on the theme "Archival Bodies" to be held on February
10-11, 2006, in conjunction with the Center for 21st Century Studies and its
2005-06 research theme "States of Autonomy."

The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee is seeking submissions for a two-day graduate student
conference focusing on the theme "Archival Bodies" to be held on February
10-11, 2006, in conjunction with the Center for 21st Century Studies and its
2005-06 research theme "States of Autonomy."

The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee is seeking submissions for a two-day graduate student
conference focusing on the theme "Archival Bodies" to be held on February
10-11, 2006, in conjunction with the Center for 21st Century Studies and its
2005-06 research theme "States of Autonomy."

Call for Papers: International Medieval Congress
Leeds, 10th-13th July, 2006
Special Thematic Strand: Emotion and Gesture

Proposals are invited for the following session:

Text Formatting as Written Gesture in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

The Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group of the Graduate Center, City University of NY, invites proposals for papers for its second annual conference. This conference, Secrets and Lies, will be held on April 28th, 2006 in New York City. We encourage scholars of all disciplines to submit papers related to the period inclusive of the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, and we especially welcome papers with an interdisciplinary methodology. This conference will focus on dissonances between private and public selves as represented in texts and other cultural productions of the early modern era. Possible topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

Emotional lives

Lies of the body

Humiliation

Shame

The Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group of the Graduate Center, City University of NY, invites proposals for papers for its second annual conference. This conference, Secrets and Lies, will be held on April 28th, 2006 in New York City. We encourage scholars of all disciplines to submit papers related to the period inclusive of the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, and we especially welcome papers with an interdisciplinary methodology. This conference will focus on dissonances between private and public selves as represented in texts and other cultural productions of the early modern era. Possible topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

Emotional lives

Lies of the body

Humiliation

Shame

Dear all:

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, the 4th European Biannual Conference of the
Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts is ready for boarding now:
http://www.slsa.nl

Deadline for submissions of papers and panels: 5 Dec 05.

The conference is organised around 11 thematic streams. For a short
description, possible topics and calls for co-panelists click "Streams" on
the menu.

The site is still under construction: so please check back regularly for
new information on plenary sessions and other events, hotels, calls for
co-panelists, payment arrangements, etc.

Meanwhile, do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions:
rossini_at_slsa.nl

Dear all:

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, the 4th European Biannual Conference of the
Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts is ready for boarding now:
http://www.slsa.nl

Deadline for submissions of papers and panels: 5 Dec 05.

The conference is organised around 11 thematic streams. For a short
description, possible topics and calls for co-panelists click "Streams" on
the menu.

The site is still under construction: so please check back regularly for
new information on plenary sessions and other events, hotels, calls for
co-panelists, payment arrangements, etc.

Meanwhile, do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions:
rossini_at_slsa.nl

Crossing the Line Between Public and Private in Early Modern England. I am inviting papers for a panel on issues of privacy in Early Modern England for the Cultural Studies Conference at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS March 9-11, 2006. The topic is broad and may include (but is not limited to) issues such as: the private/public nature of coterie literature, government surveillance and the limits of personal privacy, public performances of private concerns, the inversion of private and public in royal spectacle, and private writing in a public setting. E-mail a 200-word abstract and a brief bio by October 24 to Kimball Smith, Department of English, Kansas State University at dksmith_at_ksu.edu

College English Association National Conference
April 6-8, 2006
San Antonio, Texas

'Haunting, War and Conflict' - a session to be held at 'Space, Haunting,
Discourse,' an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Department =
of
English at Karlstad University, Sweden, June 15-18, 2006.

Session description:

The realm of the ghostly has figured as a repeated referent in histories =
of
war and conflict - from the pre-modern practice of invoking ghosts and
spirits to assist in combat, to notions of the ghosts of dead soldiers =
and
citizens haunting battlefields and sites of destruction, to the =
portrayal of
Al Qaeda as constituting a type of 'phantom enemy'.

Call for Papers: Early Modern Ecostudies