M/MLA; Chicago, 11/9/06-11/12/06
Conference theme: High & Low Culture

"After Highbrow/Lowbrow: Shakespearean Cultural Capital" (Proposed
Special Session)

MLA Convention 2006
Philadelphia, PA

Special Session: Teaching the British Literature Survey

The panel solicits proposals for papers on individual approaches to teaching
the British Literature Survey or on topics related to this most
widely-taught course, such as: the historical origins of the course; its
place within English Department curricula; the major anthologies; canonicity
and text selection; periodization; implicit or explicit meta-narratives;
language, literature, and national identity; necessity or desirability of
the course; student reception; pedagogical strategies; etc. All submissions
to be considered for prospective volume on the topic.

Deadline extended:

UPDATE: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/31/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)

ROMANTICISM, ENVIRONMENT, CRISIS

23-27 June 2006
Centre for Romantic Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Lawrence Buell, Cheryll Glotfelty, James C. McKusick, George Monbiot, Kate
Soper.

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Romanticism, Environment, Crisis" will highlight the continuing urgency
of the Romantic text at a time when changes in our biosphere threaten to
realize Romanticism's prophetic anxieties, its darkest imaginings.

Deadline extended:

UPDATE: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/31/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)

ROMANTICISM, ENVIRONMENT, CRISIS

23-27 June 2006
Centre for Romantic Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Lawrence Buell, Cheryll Glotfelty, James C. McKusick, George Monbiot, Kate
Soper.

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Romanticism, Environment, Crisis" will highlight the continuing urgency
of the Romantic text at a time when changes in our biosphere threaten to
realize Romanticism's prophetic anxieties, its darkest imaginings.

Call for Papers:=20
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference=20
University of California, Riverside=20
Riverside, CA=20
10-11 November 2006=20

 *** Henry James on Politics, Culture and Society ***

Proposals welcome for 15-minute paper presentations concerning Henry =
James's writings on politics, culture and society. This includes his =
creative work, literary essays, travel writing, and other non-fiction =
(e.g., essays on British geopolitics, WWI, etc.).

Please email 500-word proposals along with a 50 word abstract=20
(in-message or as attachment) to: rgdavidson_at_csuchico.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS: Word, Image, and Ideology in Habsburg Europe
October 19-21, 2006 in Denver, Colorado

Early Modern Image and Text Society (EMIT)

Keynote speakers: Emilie Bergmann, University of California at
Berkeley, and Frederick de Armas, University of Chicago

Summer 2006 Fellowship Call for Proposals
Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

The University of Southern California's Institute for Multimedia
Literacy is pleased to announce a third annual Fellowship program for
summer 2006 to foster innovative research for its digital publishing
venture, Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular.

The American South

=20

Popular Culture Association in the South / American Culture Association
in the South

October 5-7, 2006

Marriott Savannah Riverfront

Savannah, Georgia

=20

Proposals are welcome for individual presentations or entire sessions
(traditional presentations, roundtables, or other configurations) on any
aspect of the American South for the 2006 PCAS/ACAS joint conference in
Savannah.

=20

While all topics and approaches will be considered, we are especially
interested in scholarly proposals in the following areas:

=20

Art - including "outsider" art

Literature - including popular writing

Music

Foodways

CALL FOR PAPERS: Word, Image, and Ideology in Habsburg Europe
October 19-21, 2006 in Denver, Colorado

Early Modern Image and Text Society (EMIT)

Keynote speakers: Emilie Bergmann, University of California at
Berkeley, and Frederick de Armas, University of Chicago

CFP for the annual meeting of Northeast American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, hosted by Salem State College, Salem,
Massachusetts, Nov 9-12, 2006:

                Gender and Crime in 18c Popular Culture

Call for Papers
Essay Collection: Teaching Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose

The H.D. International Society has some exciting news about a project =
important to the study of H.D. The Co-Chairs of the H.D. Society, =
Annette Debo and Lara Vetter, have received approval from MLA to begin =
work on Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose, notice of which =
appeared in the latest MLA Newsletter. We are in the process of sending =
out questionnaires to teachers of H.D. that ask for information about =
how you teach H.D. and request abstracts for short essays to be =
considered for that volume. We would very much like you to participate. =
 Please email me your name and institutional address so that we can =

The H.D. International Society has some exciting news about a project =
important to the study of H.D. The Co-Chairs of the H.D. Society, =
Annette Debo and Lara Vetter, have received approval from MLA to begin =
work on Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose, notice of which =
appeared in the latest MLA Newsletter. We are in the process of sending =
out questionnaires to teachers of H.D. that ask for information about =
how you teach H.D. and request abstracts for short essays to be =
considered for that volume. We would very much like you to participate. =
 Please email me your name and institutional address so that we can =

The H.D. International Society has some exciting news about a project =
important to the study of H.D. The Co-Chairs of the H.D. Society, =
Annette Debo and Lara Vetter, have received approval from MLA to begin =
work on Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose, notice of which =
appeared in the latest MLA Newsletter. We are in the process of sending =
out questionnaires to teachers of H.D. that ask for information about =
how you teach H.D. and request abstracts for short essays to be =
considered for that volume. We would very much like you to participate. =
 Please email me your name and institutional address so that we can =