Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) invites
submissions for the spring 2007 edition of the journal published at
http://www.americanpopularculture.com

Attach submissions and email to editor_at_americanpopularculture.com

Deadline: 1 May 2007

GUIDELINES

 1. Articles must be attached to a brief cover letter in the email text
(containing the author's name, institutional affiliation, and contact
information). Please format in Microsoft Word.

Poe and Periodical Culture. This panel is calling for papers having
to do with any aspect of Poe's work with newspapers and magazines,
esp. papers engaging with recent scholarship that has addressed such
areas as authorship, literary nationalism, the culture of reprints,
copyright, mass production, marginalia, etc.

Send 250-word abstracts to Stephen Rachman
<mailto:rachman_at_msu.edu>rachman_at_msu.edu or Marcy J. Dinius
<mailto:dinius_at_english.udel.edu>dinius_at_english.udel.edu by March 1, 2007.

Poe and Periodical Culture. This panel is calling for papers having
to do with any aspect of Poe's work with newspapers and magazines,
esp. papers engaging with recent scholarship that has addressed such
areas as authorship, literary nationalism, the culture of reprints,
copyright, mass production, marginalia, etc.

Send 250-word abstracts to Stephen Rachman
<mailto:rachman_at_msu.edu>rachman_at_msu.edu or Marcy J. Dinius
<mailto:dinius_at_english.udel.edu>dinius_at_english.udel.edu by March 1, 2007.

We are issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly and
creative submissions for a National Interdisciplinary
Graduate Student Conference entitled "Time/Passages"
to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington from
March 22-24, 2007.

This is an announcement for the NYU Comparative Literature department's
annual graduate student conference, which will be take place between
March 29 (Thurs.) to March 31 (Sat.), 2007. The CFP is posted below. If
you have any questions please contact the organizers at
tracingdebt_at_gmail.com.

Foreclosure and Forgiveness: Tracing Debt in Literature and Culture

A Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
New York University
March Thurs. 29 - Sat.31, 2007

Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS: FEMINISM, ACTIVISM AND THE ACADEMY

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The Women's Studies Committee at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY
invites you to join Activist/Scholar/Publisher Barbara Smith and
Authors/Activists Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards for the First
Annual Saint Rose Women's Studies Regional Conference on Saturday, March
24, 2007.

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This year, we invite scholarly papers, practical workshops and dialogues
by and between feminist and womanist activists, writers and scholars on
themes related to Feminism, Activism and the Academy.=20

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CALL FOR PAPERS: FEMINISM, ACTIVISM AND THE ACADEMY

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The Women's Studies Committee at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY
invites you to join Activist/Scholar/Publisher Barbara Smith and
Authors/Activists Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards for the First
Annual Saint Rose Women's Studies Regional Conference on Saturday, March
24, 2007.

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This year, we invite scholarly papers, practical workshops and dialogues
by and between feminist and womanist activists, writers and scholars on
themes related to Feminism, Activism and the Academy.=20

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Call for papers re: Ana Caro's *Valor, agravio y mujer,* especially =
those focusing on its recent production at Washington's GALA Theater =
under the direction of Hugo Medrano. Please send abstracts by Friday =
Nov. 26th to Maryrica Ortiz Lottman, Assistant Professor of Spanish, =
UNC-Charlotte. mlottman_at_email.uncc.edu

The Department of French at New York University announces its annual =20
Graduate Conference, =93Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory =20=

of Everyday Life=94.

February 16-17, 2007

=93How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.=94Annie =20=

Dillard, The Writing Life

  =93How are we to speak of these =91common things,=92 how to track them =
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down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they =20
remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, =20
finally, speak of what is, of what we are?=94 Georges Perec, Species of =20=

Places and Other Pieces

American Literature Association, Boston, MA 5/24-27
2007;
proposed panel on Edward Everett Hale

CFP: media in transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration
in the
digital age

April 27-29, 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CALL FOR PAPERS (submission deadline: Jan. 5, 2007)

CFP: media in transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration
in the
digital age

April 27-29, 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CALL FOR PAPERS (submission deadline: Jan. 5, 2007)

Call for Panel Proposals for the Hemingway Society Panels at 2007 MLA in
Chicago

The Hemingway Society sponsors two panels each year at the meeting of the
Modern Language Association held in late December.

We invite ideas for panels through the following panel proposal process:

* Submit a 1 page proposal for the panel. The proposal should include
the "Call For Papers" that you would run to solicit papers for the panel and
an explanation of how the panel contributes to current Hemingway
scholarship. Please include the suggested panel title, your name, and your
institutional affiliation.

Live Comedy and Its Audiences

Seeking contributions for an anthology that explores live comedy audiences.=
 The book will include contributions by both scholars and comedians, and wi=
ll focus on the dynamics of audience behaviour. The anthology will cover th=
emes including: cultural and historical differences in comedy audience prac=
tice; the architecture of the audience; the reception of 'low' versus 'high=
' and live versus televised comedy; the subjectivity of audience members an=
d the spread of affect; the two-way relationship between joker and listener=
; and the comedy club as a distinct spatial and emotional environment. Addi=
tional topics also welcome.=20