Borderlines XI: Call for Papers

Minds and Mentalities

Papers from postgraduates in medieval studies and related fields are
invited for the eleventh annual Borderlines conference, 'Minds and
Mentalities', to be held at Queen's University Belfast on April
13-15, 2007. The title is intended to embrace as wide a range of
research interests as possible, with papers being welcome from all
disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. Thus,
prospective speakers are encouraged to interpret this title with
reference to any specialism; including literature, theology,
philosophy, historiography, psychology, performance, material
culture, the history of ideas, and art history.

Extended Deadline: December 1

Proposals for Film Areas, including Theory, Adaptation, and Production

Call for Papers: Film Area, a long-standing, well-represented area
with outstanding past presentations. Southwest/Texas Popular
Culture/American Culture Association 27th Annual Conf., held in
beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will meet February 14 - 17, 2007
at the Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel in downtown ABQ. Join us this
year, as a returning participant or for your first-time.

We welcome any aspect of film studies, prospective topics include:

FILM:

CALL FOR PAPERS

MECHADEMIA 3: Limits of the Human
Editor: Frenchy Lunning
Associate Editors: Thomas LaMarre, Michelle Ollie, Christopher Bolton

American Literature Association
Boston, May 24-27, 2007
 
Proposed Panel: Teaching American Regionalism/Local Color
 
Over the past two decades, literary critics--Richard Brodhead, Donna
Campbell, June Howard, Amy Kaplan, Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse, and
Stephanie Foote, to name but a few--have opened up new and compelling (and
often competing) ways of understanding regional and local color writing of
the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but as has been the case
with critical re-evaluations of the generic categories of realism and
naturalism, these reappraisals have left us in a certain flux as to what
makes a text an example of regionalism and/or local color and what such

The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society will hold its IX Annual Conference in beautiful Harrodsburg and Springfield (Saint Catharine College), Kentucky, April 21-23, 2007. The conference headquarters -- site of the opening banquet, keynote session, and annual business meeting -- is the lovely and legendary Beaumont Inn (http://www.beaumontinn.com/), in historic Harrodsburg. Academic paper sessions will be held at Saint Catharine College, just outside of Springfield, Roberts's hometown.

Call for Papers: Culture and Identity Issue

Call for Papers: Culture and Identity Issue

Edwin Arlington Robinson?s (1869-1935) most popular poems consistently
appear in numerous American poetry anthologies and high school
textbooks, his Collected Poems are carried by ?big box? bookstores, and
one of his poems was even the subject of the Simon and Garfunkel song
?Richard Cory.? Scott Donaldson?s forthcoming biography demonstrates
that Robinson remains a figure of literary interest. However, the
scarcity of recent critical work is remarkable; Donaldson?s biography
is the first in more than sixty years. So why does Robinson?s poetry
encourage so little critical attention if he was and is still a public,
published poet? This proposed ALA panel is soliciting 400-600 word

Edwin Arlington Robinson?s (1869-1935) most popular poems consistently
appear in numerous American poetry anthologies and high school
textbooks, his Collected Poems are carried by ?big box? bookstores, and
one of his poems was even the subject of the Simon and Garfunkel song
?Richard Cory.? Scott Donaldson?s forthcoming biography demonstrates
that Robinson remains a figure of literary interest. However, the
scarcity of recent critical work is remarkable; Donaldson?s biography
is the first in more than sixty years. So why does Robinson?s poetry
encourage so little critical attention if he was and is still a public,
published poet? This proposed ALA panel is soliciting 400-600 word

African Literature Association Conference
March 14-18, 2007

Panel: "Telling Otherwise: Re-Writing / Re-Visioning in Africa and the
African Diaspora"

African Literature Association Conference
March 14-18, 2007

Panel: "Telling Otherwise: Re-Writing / Re-Visioning in Africa and the
African Diaspora"

Call for Papers (CFP)
Intersections 2007: What's Right / Right Now?
A Critical & Creative Graduate Student Conference
Hosted by the Students of the Joint Graduate Programme
in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities

CFP Deadline: January 12, 2007
Conference Date: March 23-25, 2007
Location: Ryerson University - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Intersections 2007: What's Right / Right Now?
The Ethics and Ethoi of Critical Thought and Practice in the 21st Century
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Call for Papers (CFP)
Intersections 2007: What's Right / Right Now?
A Critical & Creative Graduate Student Conference
Hosted by the Students of the Joint Graduate Programme
in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities

CFP Deadline: January 12, 2007
Conference Date: March 23-25, 2007
Location: Ryerson University - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Intersections 2007: What's Right / Right Now?
The Ethics and Ethoi of Critical Thought and Practice in the 21st Century
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UPDATE: "Music and Tradition" at SW/TX-PCA/ACA 14-17 Feb 2007 (Dec 1)

The 28th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA

February 14-17, 2007

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

The SW/TEX PCA/ACA annual conference represents one of the nation's largest gatherings of interdisciplinary scholars, with a particular interest in critical examinations of non-traditional or cross-disciplinary topics. The deadline for proposals has been extended to December 1.