First Call for Papers

Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading
A conference at the University of Birmingham, UK

1 & 2 September 2007

Keynote Speakers:
Janice Radway (Duke University) & Elizabeth Long (Rice University)

Book groups, Lit Blogs, on-line bookstores, book festivals, reader
magazines, 'One Book, One Community,' Reader's Guides, 'Richard & Judy's
Book Club,' Book TV, 'Canada Reads,' the 'Nancy Pearl Action Figure,'
'Tuesday Night Book Club,'... reading is hot!

The John Donne Society welcomes papers for a sponsored session at the ICMS, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 2007. Please send hard copy of (300 word) abstract and cover sheet as per ICMS form ( http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/42cfp/forms.html <https://webmail.kctcs.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/42cfp/forms.html> ) by/before September 15, 2006 to Scott Vander Ploeg at the address below. Submissions should also be sent by email attachment (MS Word preferred) to Scott's email address.

The John Donne Society welcomes papers for a sponsored session at the ICMS, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 2007. Please send hard copy of (300 word) abstract and cover sheet as per ICMS form ( http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/42cfp/forms.html <https://webmail.kctcs.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/42cfp/forms.html> ) by/before September 15, 2006 to Scott Vander Ploeg at the address below. Submissions should also be sent by email attachment (MS Word preferred) to Scott's email address.

    ACA/PCA National Conference
  Boston 2007

American Art and Architecture
Call for Papers

The Art and Architecture Area of the American Culture Association
is seeking papers on any aspect of "Visual Culture of the Americas"
  for the annual conference in Boston, April 4 to 7, 2007.

Papers on topics related to questions of
identity, patriotism and nationalism
within the broader categories of
Latino, Native, African American and Canadian art and architecture
will be considered.

We are especially interested in papers which offer
  a cross-disciplinary perspective. Open sessions for papers
  on American arts of a less specific theme are also planned.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ON DIFFICULTY
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Lowe
Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, San Diego

18th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Organization Conference
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006

CFP: Cultural Cummings, Poetic Resistance, and Modernism (9/15/06; Louisville,
2/22/07-2/24/07)

CFP: Cultural Cummings, Poetic Resistance, and Modernism (9/15/06; Louisville,
2/22/07-2/24/07)

We invite contributions to the ASECS 2007 seminar

"Genres of Experience and Genres of History: Eighteenth-Century Texts
as Archive, Historiography and Fiction"

ODD WOMEN OUT: SPINSTERS IN THE 20th C. BRITISH NOVEL

Panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, =
Baltimore, 1-4 March 2007

"The position of the unmarried woman--unless, of course, she is =
somebody's mistress, is of no interest whatsoever to the readers of =
modern fiction."
                                    --Barbara Pym, A Very Private Eye, =
1972

    CALL FOR ADVERTISING AREA PAPERS
   
  2007 PCA/ACA National Joint Conference
   
  But before invading Boston . . .
  First submit your paper as soon as possible
   
  THEN, PACK YOUR BAGS FOR THE ...
   
  2007 PCA Conference: April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place Boston, Mass.
   
  INQUIRIES:
  Dr. Sammy R. Danna
  Loyola University Chicago
  820 North Michigan Avenue
  Chicago, Illinois 60611
  OFFICE: 312.915.6554
  FAX: 312.915.8593
   
  SEND ALL ENTRIES BY E-Mail:
  sdanna_at_luc.edu
   
  Submit all Papers by E-Mail
   
  SUBMISSIONS: Please send titles, by E-Mail, along with

CFP: 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
North American Studies (7/31/06; journal issue)

Call for journal submissions

Autumn 2006: Open Issue

49th Parallel is an interdisciplinary e-journal of the
University of Birmingham (UK) devoted to American and
Canadian studies that looks to promote innovative and
challenging academic work. The journal takes its name
from the 1,270 mile border separating USA and Canada,
and in this sense is keen to encourage dialogues and
debates which transcend the boundaries of customary
theoretical approaches to the culture, history, and
politics of the North American continent.

CFP: 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
North American Studies (7/31/06; journal issue)

Call for journal submissions

Autumn 2006: Open Issue

49th Parallel is an interdisciplinary e-journal of the
University of Birmingham (UK) devoted to American and
Canadian studies that looks to promote innovative and
challenging academic work. The journal takes its name
from the 1,270 mile border separating USA and Canada,
and in this sense is keen to encourage dialogues and
debates which transcend the boundaries of customary
theoretical approaches to the culture, history, and
politics of the North American continent.

Call for papers: The Culture of Adoption

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Deadline: 28 July 2006

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publish authors' articles or artworks about Art, Science, Art and Scien=
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-Technology, Art, Science and Human Body
- New Media, Video and Computer Games
- Ethics, Bioethics, and Art and Science