The animal is something of a hot topic right now: MLA 2006 will
boast no less than three panels
devoted in some way to it. So much of what is being said and done on
the topic, however, is
framed by the question: what is the animal for the human. That is,
this work directly follows
the paradigm set down by Giorgio Agamben in his book L'aperto:
L'uomo e l'animale (2002),
taking the animal to constitute the human. This panel asks: Is there
another way to understand
the animal? And can we find that way (or indeed, ways) in the
eighteenth century?

Please send Abstracts for proposed papers, along with a brief CV, to:
tcbrown_at_umn.edu.

Australian Association for Caribbean Studies International Biennial
Conference, February 7-9 2007: Call for Papers

The next biennial conference of the Australian Association for
Caribbean Studies (AACS)will be held from 7-9 February, 2007 at
Footscray Park campus of Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia).
Proposals of papers of 20-25 minutes duration are invited on the theme
of Caribbean Popular Cultures. Papers that address other Caribbean
topics are also welcome.

Proposals of approximately 200 words should be sent to the conference
convenor by 1 November, 2006 by either email attachment to
karina.smith_at_vu.edu.au or post to:

Australian Association for Caribbean Studies International Biennial
Conference, February 7-9 2007: Call for Papers

The next biennial conference of the Australian Association for
Caribbean Studies (AACS)will be held from 7-9 February, 2007 at
Footscray Park campus of Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia).
Proposals of papers of 20-25 minutes duration are invited on the theme
of Caribbean Popular Cultures. Papers that address other Caribbean
topics are also welcome.

Proposals of approximately 200 words should be sent to the conference
convenor by 1 November, 2006 by either email attachment to
karina.smith_at_vu.edu.au or post to:

Call for Papers
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Reconstruction is proud to announce the publication of its Summer 2006
theme issue, "Water: Resources & Discourses," which can be found at
http://reconstruction.eserver.org. Featured in the issue:

TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) is accepting =
submisstions for the
following five sessions dealing with issues of pedagogy for Kalamazoo =
2007:

I. Teaching TEAMS Texts

II. Apocryphal Apocalypses: Fifteenth-Century =B3Chaucerian=B2 Endings =
in the
Classroom=20

III. Visiting the Middle Ages: Teaching on Site

IV. Acting Up in the Classroom: Teaching Medieval Drama

V. Teaching Middle English Texts: Translation or Original Language? A =
Roundtable Discussion

Please send 200-300 word abstracts by September 1st to:

"Between Future and Fatality:
Utopian and Dystopian Ideas in German Literature, Film, and Culture."

The German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of
Cincinnati and the editors of the graduate student journal Focus on
German Studies present the Eleventh Annual Focus Graduate Student
Conference held on October 27-28, 2006 at the University of Cincinnati

Keynote speaker: THOMAS MEINECKE

Narrative Conference
March 15-18, 2007
Washington, D.C.

For a proposed panel at the 2007 Narrative Conference, I am seeking
papers that explore situations in which the strict distinction
between narrator and author begins to blur. What are the conditions
for and significances of such moments?

Proposals should include 1) a 300-word abstract, 2) a brief vitae
(for panel proposal purposes). Please send proposals (in the body of
email or as Microsoft Word attachment) to Sue Kim at suekim_at_uab.edu
by October 1, 2006.

Call for Papers

Women Writing and Reading: Past and Present, Local and Global

4-6 May 2007
At the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

CFP: "Splintering studies?: Eighteenth-century studies and women's studies,
gender studies, queer studies, lesbian studies..."
ASECS 2007, Atlanta, GA (March 22-25)

Contact: Bonnie Latimer (engbl_at_leeds.ac.uk)
Deadline: 15 September 2006

SOCIETY OF EARLY AMERICANISTS (SEA & OIEAHC) CONFERENCE 2007
Williamsburg, Virginia June 7-10, 2007

PANEL: Technologies of Exchange in the Early Americas

The second annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for a two-day graduate
student conference focusing on the theme "Performing (In)Visibility."

The second annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for a two-day graduate
student conference focusing on the theme "Performing (In)Visibility."

Series title: The Cultural History of Reading; Volume One - The United
States. Volume Two - The World.

Publisher: Greenwood

Due Date: Summer 2007

Editors: Sara Quay Ph.D. (the United States) and Gabrielle Watling Ph.D.
(World)

Audience: The series is designed as a reference for an undergraduate
readership.

Now accepting abstracts by Sept. 15th for a panel entitled "Baltic
Studies: Historical and Cultural Contexts," any topic, for the 42nd
International Congress on Medieval Studies on May 10-13, 2007. Abstracts
(300 words max.) can be sent to Raymond Zarins at rzarins_at_cox.net.

Please forward this CFP to your graduate students and colleagues who would
be interested. For questions, please write Kim Zarins (kz23_at_cornell.edu)
or Raymond Zarins (rzarins_at_cox.net).

Please see the website for additional information.
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/