Maryland Graduate Forum: History as Text, Text as History
   
Conference: February 23rd & February 24th
Deadline for abstract submission: December 15th,2006
email contact: mgsforum_at_gmail.com

   We are very pleased and honored to announce that our
   keynote speaker will be Dr Tom Bishop (NYU), Gould
   Professor of French Literature and director of the
   Center for French Civilization and Culture.

NEW DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2007

postscript: a journal of graduate criticism and theory
is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal
published annually by graduate students in the
Department of English Language and Literature at
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Students either
currently enrolled in a post-graduate program or
having recently graduated from one are invited to
submit papers for a special issue exploring the mall
and its itinerant shoppers.

The Digital Americanists--a new professional organization created to
support the study of American literature and culture using digital
media--invite proposals for 20-minute papers to be presented at the
American Literature Association's annual meeting in Boston, MA, May
24-27, 2007.

Panel Title: The Changing Profession in the Digital Age

C A L L S F O R C O N F E R E N C E P A P E R S

Travel Literature and India

C A L L S F O R C O N F E R E N C E P A P E R S

Travel Literature and India

CFP: Emerson Society Graduate Student Paper Award
Provides up to $500 to support travel to present a paper at an Emerson
Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference
(May 2007) or the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 2007).
Submit a 250-word paper abstract by Dec. 15, 2006 to Joe Thomas,
JThomas_at_caldwell.edu

UPDATE: Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives

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New areas added.

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To: Shakespeareans

re: 7th Triennial Congress of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa:24-27 June
2007:Rhodes University, Grahamstown:

               THE INTERNATIONAL SPREAD OF SHAKESPEARE

                  http:www.ru.ac.za/shakespeare OR
      http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/isea/shake/conference.html

To: Shakespeareans

re: 7th Triennial Congress of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa:24-27 June
2007:Rhodes University, Grahamstown:

               THE INTERNATIONAL SPREAD OF SHAKESPEARE

                  http:www.ru.ac.za/shakespeare OR
      http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/isea/shake/conference.html

UCLA's film, television, and digital media e-journal, Mediascape, is
now accepting submissions for the Features, Reviews, Columns and Meta
sections of its next issue. This journal, a place for articles
pertaining to visual culture, is peer-reviewed and published on an
annual table. The deadline for the next issue is the 1st of January,
2007.

The journal /qui parle/ is seeking submissions for a special dossier,
"Urban Intercessions: The City as Limit Politics." The dossier will
focus on how we could imagine the effects and conditions of violence or
political force — whether it be legal, racial, geographic, or gendered,
and whether the force be oppressive or emancipatory — within the
specific locality of a metropolitan context, one which is somehow
inflected by local or particular concerns and yet reflects a global,
international, or, at the very least, extra-metropolitan politics. What
role does the city — "modern" or "not" — have in current inter/national
political formations? How does it function as a site of violence or

The Asian American Literary Labyrinth: Theorizing Disciplinary Boundaries
(American Literature Association/Circle of Asian American Literary Studies)

Fatih University
2nd Annual Transdisciplinary Literary and Cultural Studies Conference
Metamorphosis and Place:

May 24-26, 2007
Istanbul

This conference seeks to address the myriad definitions of ethics and how it
is represented in literature and other texts. The moment of ethical
decision often occurs at the point of impasse, of dilemma, of crisis that
springs from the space between two opposing ideas, when an easy or
prescriptive decision is not possible. Rather, each impasse requires an
ethical, scriptive fluidity whose focus is social as well as personal;
ambivalence, therefore, emerges as an ethical response to such a crisis. To
be sure, though, this space is difficult to occupy, much less sustain. In
Gayatri Spivak's words, "ethics is the experience of the impossible." What