The William Dean Howells Society invites paper proposals that examine=20
Howells's relationships with women, broadly defined. Possible paper=20
topics may include Howells's own personal life, his fiction and=20
criticism, literary friendships, writings on marriage and sexuality, or=20
editorial work.=20

Please send by January 8, 2006 paper proposals no longer than 500 words=20
and copy of cv to Claudia Stokes at Claudia.stokes_at_trinity.edu or by=20
post to Claudia Stokes, Trinity University, Dept of English, 1 Trinity=20
Place, San Antonio, TX 78212.=20

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Dr. Claudia Stokes

Assistant Professor of English

What makes together? notes on the life of political collectivities
CASAZine #3: Borders, Markets, Movements

Through the work of listening to others, of hearing the force of their
pain and the energy of their anger, of learning to be surprised by all
that one feels oneself to be against; through all of this, a 'we' is
formed and an attachment is made.
-Sarah Ahmed

CALL FOR PAPERS: Responding to Molly in Irish Literature

For the South Central Modern Language Association Annual Conference
SCMLA Annual Conference, October 26th-28th, 2006
Radisson Plaza Hotel, October 26-28, 2006

Please note: the due date has been extended from Dec. 31st, 2005 to Jan.
15th, 2006. Also, please see our website at:
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cts233/friendship/index.html
NYU Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the deparments of Comparative Literature and German

Making Friendship: Bonds, Boundaries, Becomings
April 6-8, 2006

Please note: the due date has been extended from Dec. 31st, 2005 to Jan.
15th, 2006. Also, please see our website at:
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cts233/friendship/index.html
NYU Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the deparments of Comparative Literature and German

Making Friendship: Bonds, Boundaries, Becomings
April 6-8, 2006

African Literature Association
32nd Annual Meeting and Conference

Accra, Ghana

May 17-21, 2006

Calls for papers
Panel title: "Historical Catharsis and Genealogical Consciousness in African Literature"

Panel Topic: Issues in Creative Writing Rocky Mountain MLA Convention
October 12 - October 14, 2006 DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in
Tucson, Arizona

Deadline: March 1, 2006

Our panel can encompass a wide range of presentations on "issues
in"--broadly defined to include the pedagogy of creative writing, the
writing life, and other professional issues to do with the academic
discipline of creative writing, specific or general. This session is
distinct from the poetry and fiction readings held at RMMLA. In order to
be considered for the issues in creative writing panel at RMMLA 2006, please
send an abstract, CV, and cover letter by March 1 to:

Kelan L. Koning

Submissions are invited for a special issue of the _Graduate Journal
of Asia-Pacific Studies_: 'Navigating the Future: Asia-Pacific
pathways.'

Call for essays on Teaching Methodologies in the Humanities and
Sciences, for publication as a special section in Academic Exchange
Quarterly 10 no 2 (Summer 2006). Guest Editor, Jennifer Way, Associate
Professor, Art History, JWay_at_unt.edu. Manuscripts from graduate students
and college and university faculty are especially welcomed. For details,
including instructions for submission, please consult
http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/5method.htm. Deadline: end of February
2006. Early submission is encouraged.

Sorry for repeating the message but much of the former mail
has been changed as illegible.

We are pleased to inform you that between May 13th and May
15th, 2006, Katedra Teorii Literatury [Department of Theory
of Literature] of Instytut Teorii Literatury, Teatru i Sztuk
Audiowizualnych [Institute of the Theory of Literature,
Theatre and Audio-Visual Arts] of Uniwersytet Lodzki [the
University of Lodz] organizes an international conference
devoted to:

Space of a Garden â€" Space of Culture

UPDATE: The Theory and Practice of Life Writing:
Auto/biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in
Post/modern Literature (Turkey) (2/20/06;
4/19/06-4/21/06)

Important Update Concerning Paper Proposals

Symposium, Halic University, Department of American
Culture and Literature

'The Theory and Practice of Life Writing:
Auto/biography, Memoirs and Travel Writing in
Post/modern Literature', Istanbul, April 2006.

We are glad to announce that our symposium has
generated a great deal of international interest. Due
to the volume of proposals we have already received,
we have been forced to set an earlier deadline for
forthcoming proposals.

UPDATE: The Theory and Practice of Life Writing:
Auto/biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in
Post/modern Literature (Turkey) (2/20/06;
4/19/06-4/21/06)

Important Update Concerning Paper Proposals

Symposium, Halic University, Department of American
Culture and Literature

'The Theory and Practice of Life Writing:
Auto/biography, Memoirs and Travel Writing in
Post/modern Literature', Istanbul, April 2006.

We are glad to announce that our symposium has
generated a great deal of international interest. Due
to the volume of proposals we have already received,
we have been forced to set an earlier deadline for
forthcoming proposals.

"Another Slapstick Symposium"

A film conference on American slapstick comedy in the silent era, =
13th-14th May, 2006 organized by BLASA (Belgium Luxembourg American =
Studies Association) and VDFC (Flemish Council for Film Culture)=20

To be held at the Cin=E9math=E8que Royale, Brussels, Belgium

Another Slapstick Symposium sets out to revisit and rethink some of the =
themes and ideas of the original =91Slapstick Symposium=92 organized by =
Eileen Bowser at the Museum of Modern Art in 1985. The conference will =
focus on four broad contexts:

1) slapstick comedy and early film style
2) studios and audiences
3) comedy stars/acting
4) mechanics of the gag and the culture of modernity

Study for the Society of American Women Writers, 3rd International Conference; Sheraton Society Hill; Philadephia, PA; Nov. 8 - 11, 2006.

Women in the Classroom: A Pedagogy Roundtable

This roundtable will address pedagogical issues which arise in teaching undergraduate courses on women writers. Potential participants might consider responding to some of the following questions, or developing their own: