13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2007
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
   
   
  Southwest Graduate English Symposium – 2007
   
  Only Human?: Medical Biology vs. The Social Model of Disability
   
  In her 1999 book Female Forms, Carol Thomas suggests that disability studies and activism would benefit from a social model approach to definitions of disability, as opposed to the long-standing contention that disability, impairment, and its effects are biological, physiological, anatomical—in short, medical.
   

British Association for Romantic Studies Postgraduate Conference
University of Leeds, 10 March 2007

Romanticism and Heroism

Call for Papers

I want a hero: an uncommon want
  When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
  The age discovers he is not the true one;
Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,
  I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan.

                              Byron, Don Juan, Canto I, (ll.1-6)

CFP: The Graphic Novel: Histories, Audiences, Methods. (Graduate
Student Conference, 4/21/07). This panel solicits papers (6-8 pages
long; 15-20 minute presentations) on various aspects of the graphic
novel: the histor(ies) of this genre (and relation to comics); the
dominant use of history and autobiography; political stances;
feminist/queer/class dimensions; the implications of the changing/
widening audiences; considerations of methods and methodologies of
analysis and production, and emerging "canon."
        The Eighth Annual Graduate English Conference:
        "Encountering the Text: Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, Writing"
        Michael J. Adanti Student Center

CFP: The Graphic Novel: Histories, Audiences, Methods. (Graduate
Student Conference, 4/21/07). This panel solicits papers (6-8 pages
long; 15-20 minute presentations) on various aspects of the graphic
novel: the histor(ies) of this genre (and relation to comics); the
dominant use of history and autobiography; political stances;
feminist/queer/class dimensions; the implications of the changing/
widening audiences; considerations of methods and methodologies of
analysis and production, and emerging "canon."
        The Eighth Annual Graduate English Conference:
        "Encountering the Text: Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, Writing"
        Michael J. Adanti Student Center

DEADLINE EXTENDED to DECEMBER 15, 2006

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Call for Papers: Sports Culture, Film and Literature

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

28th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico

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February 14-17, 2007

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The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New
Mexico at the Hyatt Regency downtown. Join us this year, as a returning
or first-time participant, as we celebrate a new future on Route 66 at
this regional popular culture conference. Further details regarding the
conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can
be found at: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/

CFP: The Graphic Novel: Histories, Audiences, Methods. (Graduate
Student Conference, 4/21/07). This panel solicits papers (6-8 pages
long; 15-20 minute presentations) on various aspects of the graphic
novel: the histor(ies) of this genre (and relation to comics); the
dominant use of history and autobiography; political stances;
feminist/queer/class dimensions; the implications of the changing/
widening audiences; considerations of methods and methodologies of
analysis and production, and emerging "canon."
        The Eighth Annual Graduate English Conference:
        "Encountering the Text: Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, Writing"
        Michael J. Adanti Student Center

CALL FOR PAPERS

A Commemoration of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807

Academic papers and creative submissions are invited for this special issue to mark the two-hundredth anniversary in 2007 of London's abolition of the infamous Atlantic trade.

EnterText volume 7 number 1

Abolition's Bicentenary: The Black Atlantic Then and Now

Submissions are invited by 1 March 2007

British Association for Romantic Studies Postgraduate Conference
University of Leeds, 10 March 2007

Romanticism and Heroism

Call for Papers

I want a hero: an uncommon want
  When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
  The age discovers he is not the true one;
Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,
  I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan.

                              Byron, Don Juan, Canto I, (ll.1-6)

Call for Papers: Film & History
Abstracts/Proposals by 15 December 2006 (Final Extended Deadline)

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations' 28th Annual
Conference
Albuquerque, NM, February 14-17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: (505) 842-1234
Fax: (505) 766-6710
http://albuquerque.hyatt.com

  The Ethics of Passing
   
  The concept of "passing" is not new to the American landscape. While racial/ethnic passing may be the most widely recognized form of passing, recent acceptance of queer and transgender studies reveals passing as more than a matter of skin color. The most general question, what are the ethics involved and undermined in participating in passing, opens the door to many other questions surrounding this issue. Does the actor always have control over her/his own ability to pass? What does it mean that someone can be passed without desiring such recognition? What kind of responsibility is involved in revealing ethnic, sexual, or gender "authenticity" if even the notion of the authentic has become problematic?

Final Extension

    13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2007
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
   
  Off the Map: Ecocriticism Beyond Borders

"Ecological thinking about literature requires us to take the nonhuman
world as seriously as previous modes of criticism have taken the human realm of society and culture. That, it seems to me, is ecocriticism's greatest challenge and its greatest opportunity."
- Glen A. Love, "Ecocriticism and Science"

Deadline extended for a proposed panel on Edward P. Jones at the eighteenth annual conference of
the American Literature Association to be held in Boston, May 24-27, 2007.

Papers that focus on his short fiction are particularly encouraged, though papers on his novel, The
Known World, will be considered. All approaches are welcome.

Please email 200 word abstracts and a CV no later than January 10, 2007 to Gregory Miller,
University of California at Davis (glmiller_at_ucdavis.edu)

The William Faulkner Society invites proposals for individual papers or
complete panels, topics open, for the American Literature Association
Conference to be held in Boston, May 24-27, 2007. The Society will sponsor
two panels at ALA. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to
John T. Matthews, President, The Faulkner Society, at jtmattws_at_bu.edu no
later than January 15, 2007. Preliminary inquiries are welcomed.

  The Ethics of Feminist Coalitional Politics