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CFP: Poetry in the Cyber-Age (4/19/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:39pm
Jaena4_at_aol.com

MMLA '06, 11/09/06 - 11/12/06; Chicago

Call for abstracts on the relationship between poetry and the cyber-age.

Poets, professors, and lovers of poetry in general repeatedly assert that the
book as an aesthetic object has lasting value. But are we kidding ourselves?
 With a readership increasingly reliant on the computer, and a new generation
of students who have never known a time when the Internet was more than a
click away, is it only a matter of time before poetry is primarily an element of
cyberspace? Is this good or bad? With more than a hundred fonts, point
sizes, untold programs and graphic elements, how will the function of the computer
affect the actual forms of poetry?

CFP: Poetry in the Cyber-Age (4/19/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:39pm
Jaena4_at_aol.com

MMLA '06, 11/09/06 - 11/12/06; Chicago

Call for abstracts on the relationship between poetry and the cyber-age.

Poets, professors, and lovers of poetry in general repeatedly assert that the
book as an aesthetic object has lasting value. But are we kidding ourselves?
 With a readership increasingly reliant on the computer, and a new generation
of students who have never known a time when the Internet was more than a
click away, is it only a matter of time before poetry is primarily an element of
cyberspace? Is this good or bad? With more than a hundred fonts, point
sizes, untold programs and graphic elements, how will the function of the computer
affect the actual forms of poetry?

CFP: Poetry in the Cyber-Age (4/19/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:39pm
Jaena4_at_aol.com

MMLA '06, 11/09/06 - 11/12/06; Chicago

Call for abstracts on the relationship between poetry and the cyber-age.

Poets, professors, and lovers of poetry in general repeatedly assert that the
book as an aesthetic object has lasting value. But are we kidding ourselves?
 With a readership increasingly reliant on the computer, and a new generation
of students who have never known a time when the Internet was more than a
click away, is it only a matter of time before poetry is primarily an element of
cyberspace? Is this good or bad? With more than a hundred fonts, point
sizes, untold programs and graphic elements, how will the function of the computer
affect the actual forms of poetry?

CFP: Harriet Martineau (UK) (6/1/06; 4/21/07)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:39pm
Ella Dzelzainis

Call for Papers

Harriet Martineau: Subjects and Subjectivities

21 April 2007

Institute of English Studies, University of London

This interdisciplinary one-day conference considers the making of political, imperial and individual identities in the work of Harriet Martineau (1802-1876). Organized by Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary) and Ella Dzelzainis (Birkbeck) in association with the University of London’s Institute of English Studies, it will be held at the Senate House, Bloomsbury on Saturday 21 April 2007. Confirmed speakers include the leading scholars Catherine Hall (UCL), Deborah Anna Logan (Western Kentucky) and Linda Peterson (Yale).

CFP: Harriet Martineau (UK) (6/1/06; 4/21/07)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:39pm
Ella Dzelzainis

Call for Papers

Harriet Martineau: Subjects and Subjectivities

21 April 2007

Institute of English Studies, University of London

This interdisciplinary one-day conference considers the making of political, imperial and individual identities in the work of Harriet Martineau (1802-1876). Organized by Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary) and Ella Dzelzainis (Birkbeck) in association with the University of London’s Institute of English Studies, it will be held at the Senate House, Bloomsbury on Saturday 21 April 2007. Confirmed speakers include the leading scholars Catherine Hall (UCL), Deborah Anna Logan (Western Kentucky) and Linda Peterson (Yale).

CFP: The Sea and History (Puerto Rico) (7/31/06; CEA-CC, 11/10/06-11/11/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:39pm
CEA-CC

College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Fall 2006 Conference: 10-11 November 2006
"Watery World: Humans and the Sea"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

The CEA-CC invites proposals for a panel titled "The Sea and History".
Please send 200-250 word proposal for a 20-minute paper to Nandita =
Batra at cea_caribbeanchapter_at_hotmail.com by 31 July 2006.

Proposals may be sent by email as part of a text message but not as
attachments. Presenters must be registered members of the CEA-CC at the =
time=20
of the conference.

More information available at
http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/ingles/cea-cc.htm

CFP: The Sea and History (Puerto Rico) (7/31/06; CEA-CC, 11/10/06-11/11/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:39pm
CEA-CC

College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Fall 2006 Conference: 10-11 November 2006
"Watery World: Humans and the Sea"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

The CEA-CC invites proposals for a panel titled "The Sea and History".
Please send 200-250 word proposal for a 20-minute paper to Nandita =
Batra at cea_caribbeanchapter_at_hotmail.com by 31 July 2006.

Proposals may be sent by email as part of a text message but not as
attachments. Presenters must be registered members of the CEA-CC at the =
time=20
of the conference.

More information available at
http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/ingles/cea-cc.htm

CFP: Rock and Roll Culture (6/15/06; MAPACA, 10/26/06-10/28/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Tomkitts_at_aol.com

CFP for Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association, October
26-28, 2006, Baltimore, MD (Wyndham Inner Harbor Hotel) -- Rock and Roll Culture
 
We invite submissions for several sessions on Rock and Roll Culture. Topics
can include but are not limited to artists, albums, CDs, genres,
performances, album art, rock on radio, on television, in commercials, critics,
journals, the record label, box set, fashion, etc. Culture is defined in the
broadest possible sense. Individual papers and complete panels of three or four
presenters are welcomed.
 
Send a 150-word abstract (including AV needs -- but only vcr-dvd/monitor and

UPDATE: Selling Trauma: Post-apartheid(?) and Tourism (4/15/06; USACLALS, 10/27/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Alice D'Amore

UPDATE: The deadline has been extended for selling trauma: post-apartheid(?)
and tourism to (4/15/06; USACLALS, 10/27/06-10/29/06).

CFP: Fissures and Sutures: Sources of Division and Mutual Aid in Postcolonial
Reflections on History and Literature, United States Association for
Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

selling trauma: post-apartheid(?) and tourism

UPDATE: Selling Trauma: Post-apartheid(?) and Tourism (4/15/06; USACLALS, 10/27/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Alice D'Amore

UPDATE: The deadline has been extended for selling trauma: post-apartheid(?)
and tourism to (4/15/06; USACLALS, 10/27/06-10/29/06).

CFP: Fissures and Sutures: Sources of Division and Mutual Aid in Postcolonial
Reflections on History and Literature, United States Association for
Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

selling trauma: post-apartheid(?) and tourism

UPDATE: Selling Trauma: Post-apartheid(?) and Tourism (4/15/06; USACLALS, 10/27/06-10/29/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Alice D'Amore

UPDATE: The deadline has been extended for selling trauma: post-apartheid(?)
and tourism to (4/15/06; USACLALS, 10/27/06-10/29/06).

CFP: Fissures and Sutures: Sources of Division and Mutual Aid in Postcolonial
Reflections on History and Literature, United States Association for
Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

selling trauma: post-apartheid(?) and tourism

CFP: Memory, Forgetting, and Commodification (4/20/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
paige sweet

CFP: Memory, Forgetting, and Commodification (04/20/06; M/MLA,
11/09/06 - 11/12/06)

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

cfp for Special Session: "Memory, Forgetting, and Commodification:
revisiting the relations of culture and politics"

Abstract due: April 20, 2006

UPDATE: Canadian Literature (4/25/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Duncan Lucas

NOTE CHANGE IN SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE:
deadline for abstracts/proposals: April 25, 2006
apologies for the error in the original cfp.
send abstracts (200 words, no attachments) to: lucasd_at_mcmaster.ca

Midwest Modern Language Association, "High and Low Culture"
Chicago, November 9-12, 2006

Canadian Literature Section: "Post-colonialism or Diaspora? Whither =
cultural influence?"=20

CFP: Memory, Forgetting, and Commodification (4/20/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
paige sweet

CFP: Memory, Forgetting, and Commodification (04/20/06; M/MLA,
11/09/06 - 11/12/06)

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

cfp for Special Session: "Memory, Forgetting, and Commodification:
revisiting the relations of culture and politics"

Abstract due: April 20, 2006

UPDATE: Canadian Literature (4/25/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Duncan Lucas

NOTE CHANGE IN SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE:
deadline for abstracts/proposals: April 25, 2006
apologies for the error in the original cfp.
send abstracts (200 words, no attachments) to: lucasd_at_mcmaster.ca

Midwest Modern Language Association, "High and Low Culture"
Chicago, November 9-12, 2006

Canadian Literature Section: "Post-colonialism or Diaspora? Whither =
cultural influence?"=20

UPDATE: Canadian Literature (4/25/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Duncan Lucas

NOTE CHANGE IN SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE:
deadline for abstracts/proposals: April 25, 2006
apologies for the error in the original cfp.
send abstracts (200 words, no attachments) to: lucasd_at_mcmaster.ca

Midwest Modern Language Association, "High and Low Culture"
Chicago, November 9-12, 2006

Canadian Literature Section: "Post-colonialism or Diaspora? Whither =
cultural influence?"=20

CFP: Zizek! The 2007 CCCC Panel (5/1/06; CCCC, 3/21/07-3/24/07)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
michael vastola

CFP: Zizek! The 2007 CCCC Panel (5/1/06)
Conference on College Composition and Communication: Representing Identities
New York, NY 3/21/07-3/24/07

Panel Title: "Welcome to the Desert of Composition Studies:
Contemporary Theory and Disciplinary Identity"

CFP: Zizek! The 2007 CCCC Panel (5/1/06; CCCC, 3/21/07-3/24/07)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
michael vastola

CFP: Zizek! The 2007 CCCC Panel (5/1/06)
Conference on College Composition and Communication: Representing Identities
New York, NY 3/21/07-3/24/07

Panel Title: "Welcome to the Desert of Composition Studies:
Contemporary Theory and Disciplinary Identity"

UPDATE: American Romance Writers (7/15/06; dictionary)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Pregis_at_aol.com

Call for Contributor: Dictionary of Literary Biography
AMERICAN ROMANCE WRITERS

Draft deadline July 15, 2006

Contributors are needed to write an objective, clear, comprehensive account
of the life, career, and literary reputation of the romance writer listed
below:

Catherine Coulter, 5000 words

Those interested in contributing please e-mail the editor of this volume:
Pamela Regis, Professor of English
McDaniel College
2 College Hill
Westminster, MD 21157
pregis_at_mcdaniel.edu

UPDATE: American Romance Writers (7/15/06; dictionary)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Pregis_at_aol.com

Call for Contributor: Dictionary of Literary Biography
AMERICAN ROMANCE WRITERS

Draft deadline July 15, 2006

Contributors are needed to write an objective, clear, comprehensive account
of the life, career, and literary reputation of the romance writer listed
below:

Catherine Coulter, 5000 words

Those interested in contributing please e-mail the editor of this volume:
Pamela Regis, Professor of English
McDaniel College
2 College Hill
Westminster, MD 21157
pregis_at_mcdaniel.edu

CFP: Hyperpolis: Really Useful Media (6/15/06; 10/20/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Deborah Levitt

> Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media
>
> Call for Papers/Proposals
>
> We know too much about media communications technologies as
> instruments of social control.
> We don't know enough about media technologies as instruments of civil
> society
> and cultural development.
> We know too much about media discourses as, on the one hand, "popular
> culture": alienated

CFP: Hyperpolis: Really Useful Media (6/15/06; 10/20/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Deborah Levitt

> Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media
>
> Call for Papers/Proposals
>
> We know too much about media communications technologies as
> instruments of social control.
> We don't know enough about media technologies as instruments of civil
> society
> and cultural development.
> We know too much about media discourses as, on the one hand, "popular
> culture": alienated

CFP: Hyperpolis: Really Useful Media (6/15/06; 10/20/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Deborah Levitt

> Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media
>
> Call for Papers/Proposals
>
> We know too much about media communications technologies as
> instruments of social control.
> We don't know enough about media technologies as instruments of civil
> society
> and cultural development.
> We know too much about media discourses as, on the one hand, "popular
> culture": alienated

CFP: Hyperpolis: Really Useful Media (6/15/06; 10/20/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Deborah Levitt

> Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media
>
> Call for Papers/Proposals
>
> We know too much about media communications technologies as
> instruments of social control.
> We don't know enough about media technologies as instruments of civil
> society
> and cultural development.
> We know too much about media discourses as, on the one hand, "popular
> culture": alienated

CFP: Fortune & Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France, 1553-1715 (grad) (7/14/06; 10/20/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Hosford, Desmond

Call for Papers=20

Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France =
(1553-1715)=20

The Graduate Center, City University of New York
20 October 2006

The Interdisciplinary Group for Seventeenth-Century French Studies at =
the Graduate Center of the City University of New York invites paper =
proposals for its annual student conference. This year=92s conference =
will be held on Friday 20 October 2006. Papers should be 15-20 minutes =
in length.

Distinguished Professor of French Domna C. Stanton will be our keynote =
speaker, and events will include a performance of seventeenth- and =
eighteenth-century French music on period instruments.

CFP: Fortune & Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France, 1553-1715 (grad) (7/14/06; 10/20/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Hosford, Desmond

Call for Papers=20

Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France =
(1553-1715)=20

The Graduate Center, City University of New York
20 October 2006

The Interdisciplinary Group for Seventeenth-Century French Studies at =
the Graduate Center of the City University of New York invites paper =
proposals for its annual student conference. This year=92s conference =
will be held on Friday 20 October 2006. Papers should be 15-20 minutes =
in length.

Distinguished Professor of French Domna C. Stanton will be our keynote =
speaker, and events will include a performance of seventeenth- and =
eighteenth-century French music on period instruments.

CFP: Fortune & Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France, 1553-1715 (grad) (7/14/06; 10/20/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Hosford, Desmond

Call for Papers=20

Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France =
(1553-1715)=20

The Graduate Center, City University of New York
20 October 2006

The Interdisciplinary Group for Seventeenth-Century French Studies at =
the Graduate Center of the City University of New York invites paper =
proposals for its annual student conference. This year=92s conference =
will be held on Friday 20 October 2006. Papers should be 15-20 minutes =
in length.

Distinguished Professor of French Domna C. Stanton will be our keynote =
speaker, and events will include a performance of seventeenth- and =
eighteenth-century French music on period instruments.

CFP: After Katrina: Rebuilding Landscapes, Rebuilding Cultures (5/5/06; 6/16/06-6/17/06)

updated: 
Friday, April 7, 2006 - 2:38pm
Richmond Eustis

International Cultural Studies Conference, "After Katrina: Rebuilding Landscapes, Rebuilding Cultures." Sponsored by the Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies, Louisiana State University, June 16 and 17, Baton Rouge. Papers invited from all disciplines on topics related to cultural loss, preservation and change following natural and manmade disasters. Proposals on diaspora and recovery strategies are especially welcome. Send one page abstracts to reusti3_at_lsu.edu by May 5th. Details will soon be posted at: www.lsu.edu/lacsp/schedule.htm

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