PATHOLOGIES

Questions of embodiment in literature, arts and sciences

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The Inaugural International Conference of the=20

Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science

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August 20-21, 2007

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Plenary Speakers:

Tim Armstrong, Kelly Hurley & Jonathan Sawday

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The 15th Annual Acacia Conference at California State University, Fullerton

The 15th Annual Acacia Conference at California State University, Fullerton

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Proposals accepted through Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The Department of English, Saint Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota,
will host a conference on "Literatures in English," June 6-9, 2007. We
invite proposals for papers, panels, discussion sessions and other
formats through which the conference topic might be addressed.

Call for Essay, Media Production, Poem or Play

"Reinventing Paulo Freire"

Paulo Freire Institute
University of California Los Angeles
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

Proposals are invited for a unique essay contest sponsored by the Paulo
Freire Institute, UCLA. The theme is "reinventing Paulo Freire."

We are publishing a book on Indian Literature (Indian Writing in English)
dedicated to our teacher and head Dr B S Valke by the end of December.

We invite papers of high literary standards by scholars who would especially
like to present Poststructuralist Perspective on Indian Literature.

The papers must be maximum 3500 words in length, written in 12 font size
with double line spaces and enough margins on all the sides.

Works quoted must be duly acknowledged and reflected in the bibliography.
Please follow the MLA Style of writing, and ensure that your paper consists
of end notes.

The deadline for submission has been extended till the 20th of December.

The deadline for the submission of proposals has been extended to 15th =
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Papers are invited for a collection of essays on the theme/notion of =
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Call for papers

Byron at the Theatre

Friday-Saturday 11th-12th May 2007

Clifton Campus, Nottingham Trent University

A one-and-a-half day conference held by the English Department, Nottingham Trent University, in association with the Newstead Abbey Byron Society, and the Midlands Romantic Seminar.

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting"

Of the Romantics, Byron was the most committed to writing plays: Manfred; Marino Faliero; Sardanapalus; The Two Foscari; Cain; The Deformed Transformed, to name but a few. We welcome papers addressing any aspect of Byron at the Theatre. Subjects could include

Please note the new dates:

Victorian Secrets

University of Alabama
Fall 2007: November 9-11

Keynote Speaker:
John Kucich (Rutgers University)

Conference Website:
        http://bama.ua.edu/~apionke/VI2007/VI2007welcome.htm

The deadline for the submission of proposals has been extended to 15th =
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Papers are invited for a collection of essays on the theme/notion of =
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FIRST INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CONFERENCE IN INDIA:
  "The Child and the Fantastic: Readings in children's fantasy literature",
  Children's Literature Association India (CLAI) International Conference
  Hotel Trichur Towers, Thrissur, Kerala, Southern India
  March 26, 2007 to March 28, 2007
  Conference Organizer, Anto Thomas, St. Thomas College, Calicut University, Kerala, India
   

Reading Daniel Deronda
University of Bristol, UK
31 August - 1 September 2007

Keynote speakers:  Valentine Cunningham and John Rignall

This interdisciplinary conference will focus on George Eliot's Daniel
Deronda in order to explore wider themes and debates provoked by the novel.
It will provide an opportunity for scholars engaged in research on the
nineteenth century to discuss a single book that embodies a breadth of
concerns within literature of the period. Lifelong Learning students will
also participate in this conference.

Updated (read: =93extended=94) deadline, revised address.

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CFP: Delmore Schwartz and Others (12/30/06; ALA, 5/24/07-5/27/07)

Proposed Panel for American Literature Association (ALA) Conference

May 24-27, 2007, Boston

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Delmore Schwartz and Others

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CFP: Law and Literature in the Postcolony (01/31/07; 07/08/07 - 07/11/07)

Special panel on 'Law and Literature': "Worlds, Texts, Critics" conference

Date/Place: July 8th to 11th / Durban, South Africa, University of Kwazulu-Natal.

Possibilities for papers include, but are not limited to:

Representations of law in postcolonial literature
Theorising postcolonial 'Law and Literature'
Law, ethics and postcolonial literature
Law and subjectivity in the postcolony
Human rights in/and postcolonial literature
Multiculturalism and postcoloniality
Law, literature and truth commissions
Trauma, witnessing and the law
Law and violence after September 11