For a collection of essays entitled 'British Jewish Women Writers',
contracted for publication in 2007, I am seeking essays on the fiction of
G.B. Stern, Bernice Rubens, Elaine Feinstein and Eva Figes. Completed
essays will be due in by February 28, 2006.

Please send an abstract of 250 words and CV by October 30, 2005 to
N.D.Valman_at_soton.ac.uk, or contact me for further information/discussion.

Dr Nadia Valman
Lecturer in English
School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BJ
UK

For a collection of essays entitled 'British Jewish Women Writers',
contracted for publication in 2007, I am seeking essays on the fiction of
G.B. Stern, Bernice Rubens, Elaine Feinstein and Eva Figes. Completed
essays will be due in by February 28, 2006.

Please send an abstract of 250 words and CV by October 30, 2005 to
N.D.Valman_at_soton.ac.uk, or contact me for further information/discussion.

Dr Nadia Valman
Lecturer in English
School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BJ
UK

Dear colleagues:
Please see below a call for papers
(with apologies for cross-posting).
Thank you,
Susan Imbarrato
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"EARLY AMERICAN CARTOGRAPHIES"

      March 2-4, 2006, at the Newberry Library:

A conference sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists; the
Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies, Hermon Dunlap Smith
Center for the History of Cartography, D'Arcy McNickle Center for
American Indian History, and Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family
and Community History; and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal
Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame.

Reading the Regions/Writing the Regions/Teaching the Regions

The 37th Annual College English Association Conference
San Antonio, Texas
April 6-8, 2006

Keynote: W. J. T. Mitchell, editor, Critical Inquiry

As regional writing, ecocriticism, and communities become increasingly
important in contemporary culture, the 2006 CEA Conference invites papers
and panels that explore—and celebrate—all aspects of geographical,
historical, cultural, and ideological regions.

Lynne Edwards and Katy Stevens, Co-Editors of Watcher Junior: The
Undergraduate Journal of Buffy Studies, are pleased to announce that the
first issue of Watcher Junior is now online at www.watcherjunior.tv.

Please note deadline extension, to 9/18/05.

Modern History: Constructions of the Past in American Literary=20
Modernisms. What role did visions of history play in the formation of=20
and work by American modernist movements (Harlem Renaissance, Southern=20
Renaissance, expatriates, poets, leftists, etc)? How did writers such as =

Hughes, Ransom, Stein, Williams, and Le Seuer construct the past, and to =

what ends? All topics and approaches, including interdisciplinary ones,=20
welcome. E-mail 250-500 word abstracts to Ben Railton=20
<barailton_at_hotmail.com< by=20
September 18, 2005.

[For further possible inspiration, here's the write-up submitted to=20
NEMLA:]

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations

27th Annual Conference

Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 8-11, 2006

http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/

Panels, round tables, workshops now forming in over 60 subject areas. The SW/TEX PCA/ACA annual conference represents one of the nation's largest gatherings of interdisciplinary scholars:

Abstract/Proposals to Area Chairs by 15 November 2005.

See http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/

Hotel (book early as space goes quickly):

WORD AND IMAGE (ASECS, March 30-April 2, 2006)

This panel seeks to investigate the interaction between verbal and visual
languages in the art and literature of eighteenth-century Europe. Approaches
may draw upon such diverse fields as art history and image theory, cultural
studies, literary theory, visual semiotics, book history and print culture.
Some possible topics include: portraits in the text, engraving, illustrated
narratives and cartography, verbal description, and film adaptations of
eighteenth-century works. The objective is to engage in a stimulating dialogue
on the mutual collaboration of these two very rich forms of expression.

WORD AND IMAGE (ASECS, March 30-April 2, 2006)

This panel seeks to investigate the interaction between verbal and visual
languages in the art and literature of eighteenth-century Europe. Approaches
may draw upon such diverse fields as art history and image theory, cultural
studies, literary theory, visual semiotics, book history and print culture.
Some possible topics include: portraits in the text, engraving, illustrated
narratives and cartography, verbal description, and film adaptations of
eighteenth-century works. The objective is to engage in a stimulating dialogue
on the mutual collaboration of these two very rich forms of expression.

CFP: Literature for Children and Adolescents

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College English Association National Conference

Reading the Regions / Writing the Regions / Teaching the Regions

San Antonio, Texas, April 6-8, 2006

=20

Deadline for all proposals: October 15, 2005

=20

We invite papers/panels on Literature for Children and Adolescents for=20

the 37th Annual meeting of the College English Association. Members of
CEA are a collegial bunch, and we welcome participation by folks outside
English and by graduate students. This year's conference theme is
Regions.=20

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Medieval Academy of America
Graduate Student Committee

CALL FOR PANELLISTS
Across the Pond: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Job Market

Medieval Academy of America
Graduate Student Committee

CALL FOR PANELLISTS
Across the Pond: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Job Market

Call for Papers

Computers & Writing/Composition/Rhetoric (Composition and Rhetoric Area)

Popular Culture Assocation/American Culture Association Conference

Atlanta, GA
April 12-15, 2006

W/ apologies for cross postings.

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The conference 'Technologies of Memory in the Arts' focuses on art as a
cultural and technological practice to process and construct the past in
the present. Central questions to this conference are: How do art and
artistic practices function as technologies of memory? How are cultural
artefacts implicated in complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of
recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesia?