We are beginning preparation of the projected volume *Approaches to Teaching
**The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber)*, edited by Andrew
Schonebaum and Tina Lu, to be publsihed by MLA and would very much like you
to participate.

We ask that you respond to the brief questionnaire below. We are
particularly interested in your response to the final item concerning
whether you would be willing to contribute an essay to the volume. Like
other similar books published by the MLA, this will contain not only a
discussion of the most important and useful materials available to the
teacher of this work but also a selection of essays by instructors.

We are beginning preparation of the projected volume *Approaches to Teaching
**The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber)*, edited by Andrew
Schonebaum and Tina Lu, to be publsihed by MLA and would very much like you
to participate.

We ask that you respond to the brief questionnaire below. We are
particularly interested in your response to the final item concerning
whether you would be willing to contribute an essay to the volume. Like
other similar books published by the MLA, this will contain not only a
discussion of the most important and useful materials available to the
teacher of this work but also a selection of essays by instructors.

Deaths of Cinema
First Annual Critical Studies Graduate Student Conference
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
March 23-24, 2007, Los Angeles, CA

CFP: English Nineteenth-Century Literature Panel at the Rocky Mountain
MLA Conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (3/1/2007;
10/4/2007-10/6/2007). One- page abstracts dealing with any aspect of
English Nineteenth-Century Literature are welcome. Please also include a
brief CV or equivalent biographical statement. The deadline for
submission is 3/1/2007, and the conference dates are
10/4/2007-10/6/2007. Please note that accepted presenters will need to
be current in their RMMLA dues by 4/1/2007. Abstracts and CVs may be
emailed as Word or RTF attachments to tredennickb_at_gonzaga.edu or sent
via regular mail to Bianca Tredennick, Gonzaga University-Department of

The 9th annual Graduate Student Conference hosted by the programmes in Comparative Literature, Spanish and Theory & Criticism, "Drawing a Blank," invites 200-300 word proposals for 20 minute presentations in English, Spanish and French. The deadline is December 31st, 2006. Please email proposals and a brief CV to Naqaa Abbas and Amy Hondronicols at drawingablank_at_uwo.ca.
 
Drawing a Blank

 
Call for Papers

9th Annual Graduate Conference

Hosted by Comparative Literature, Spanish and Theory & Criticism
The University of Western Ontario: London, Ontario

March 22-24, 2007

The 9th annual Graduate Student Conference hosted by the programmes in Comparative Literature, Spanish and Theory & Criticism, "Drawing a Blank," invites 200-300 word proposals for 20 minute presentations in English, Spanish and French. The deadline is December 31st, 2006. Please email proposals and a brief CV to Naqaa Abbas and Amy Hondronicols at drawingablank_at_uwo.ca.
 
Drawing a Blank

 
Call for Papers

9th Annual Graduate Conference

Hosted by Comparative Literature, Spanish and Theory & Criticism
The University of Western Ontario: London, Ontario

March 22-24, 2007

Storytellers and friends of storytelling: Please post the following call for papers, or pass it on to someone who is interested.
This year, at The Eleventh Annual Cape Breton University Storytelling Symposium, we are planning to have more time for stories. The nature of the focus for this year's get together makes this a logical choice. We are looking forward to an enthusiastic response.
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL
CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY STORYTELLING SYMPOSIUM

CFP for a special issue of Persuasions On-Line Papers due by March 1st

Persuasions On-Line, a peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to
scholarship on Jane Austen, solicits papers for a special issue on the
most recent film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice: the 2005 Focus
Features film starring Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen.

CFP for a special issue of Persuasions On-Line Papers due by March 1st

Persuasions On-Line, a peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to
scholarship on Jane Austen, solicits papers for a special issue on the
most recent film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice: the 2005 Focus
Features film starring Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen.

Storytellers and friends of storytelling: Please post the following call for papers, or pass it on to someone who is interested.
This year, at The Eleventh Annual Cape Breton University Storytelling Symposium, we are planning to have more time for stories. The nature of the focus for this year's get together makes this a logical choice. We are looking forward to an enthusiastic response.
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL
CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY STORYTELLING SYMPOSIUM

College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Spring 2007 Conference: 29-30 March 2007
"Of Mice and Men: Animals in Human Perception"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

Evelyn Scott and Her Contemporaries - American Modernism

Panel sponsored by The Evelyn Scott Society for the American=20
Literature Association 18th Annual Conference (May 24-27, 2007; Boston)=20

Paper proposals are sought which explore any of the various aspects of
the American modernist experience including, but not limited to: the
relationship of art and artist, the new woman, Pound's exhortation to
"make new," "the Greenwich Village revolt, the Stieglitz group, the
European expatriate scene, the art colonies of Taos and Santa Fe,
feminism, anarchism, the rise of literary communism and . . . the
Southern Renaissance."

Submit 100-word proposals by January 1, 2007 via USPS or email to:

Call for Papers: Frost and His Legacy
(ALA Boston, MA, May 24-27, 2007; Proposals by December 1, 2006)
The Robert Frost Society invites proposals that address either the=20
understanding that later poets have had of Frost?s legacy or the=20
understanding Frost had of his legacy or of his debt to previous=20
generations. One- or two-page proposals should be sent to Michael L.=20
Manson mmanson_at_american.edu. Please include your name, institutional=20
affiliation, and any AV needs in the proposal. Proposals must be received =

by December 15, 2006.=20

UPDATE

Cerpac (Research Centre for Commonwealth Studies)
http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/cerpac

Novembre 8-9-10, 2007, Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III), France

Guest writers: Bernardine EVARISTO and Karen KING-ARIBISALA
Keynote speakers: John McLeod (University of Leeds, UK) and Gerry
TURCOTTE (University of Wollongong, Australia)