Irish Literature Panel=20
English Literature Conference - Singapore:
IRRESPONSIBILITY
28-30 September 2006 NTU Singapore
Jorge Luis Borges once claimed that "the Irish have always been the =
iconoclasts of the British Isles." Bearing Borges' suggestion in mind, =
it is hoped that this panel will address the perception of Irish =
literature as a category of writing that has frequently been provocative =
to formal and social norms. As Irish writers have been pivotal in the =
dominant, frame-breaking, literary categories of this century, like =
Modernism (Yeats, Joyce, Beckett) and Postmodernism (Joyce, Beckett, =
Flann O'Brien, Banville), a discussion on irresponsibility has =

Irish Literature Panel=20
English Literature Conference - Singapore:
IRRESPONSIBILITY
28-30 September 2006 NTU Singapore
Jorge Luis Borges once claimed that "the Irish have always been the =
iconoclasts of the British Isles." Bearing Borges' suggestion in mind, =
it is hoped that this panel will address the perception of Irish =
literature as a category of writing that has frequently been provocative =
to formal and social norms. As Irish writers have been pivotal in the =
dominant, frame-breaking, literary categories of this century, like =
Modernism (Yeats, Joyce, Beckett) and Postmodernism (Joyce, Beckett, =
Flann O'Brien, Banville), a discussion on irresponsibility has =

Calls for Papers: Caribbean Literature: Racialized Voices, Hybridized
Identities (Anthology 2/21/2006)

We invite essays on the diasporic implications of multiracial and
multicultural characters and their hybrid cultural consciousness in
Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean texts. The site of the diasporic cultures
may be in the Caribbean itself or in transnational locationsin the
Metropole or in the various sites of migration common to Caribbean nationals.

Calls for Papers: Caribbean Literature: Racialized Voices, Hybridized
Identities (Anthology 2/21/2006)

We invite essays on the diasporic implications of multiracial and
multicultural characters and their hybrid cultural consciousness in
Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean texts. The site of the diasporic cultures
may be in the Caribbean itself or in transnational locationsin the
Metropole or in the various sites of migration common to Caribbean nationals.

Plenary speaker and conference web site announced:

Update: Representation in Art and Science (London; June 22-3,
2006)

Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism: Representation in Art and Science

Two-day conference in London, 22-23 June 2006

Deadline for Submissions: 1 March 2006

Keynote speakers: Catherine Elgin (Harvard University), James
Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago/University
College Cork, Ireland) and John Hyman (University of Oxford)

Organisers: Roman Frigg (LSE) and Matthew Hunter (Courtauld
Institute of Art/University of Chicago)

 Call for Papers: Modern Irish Gothic (Collection of essays)
E=F3in Flannery (ed.) eoin.flannery_at_ul.ie <mailto:eoin.flannery_at_ul.ie>=20

The College English Association of Ohio (CEAO) invites panels, papers,
and roundtables for our conference theme of: "Strategies for
teaching, learning and scholarship in literature and composition".
Topics might
include: articulation, licensure, two- and four- year institutions,
cohorts, pedagogy, technology, composition, upper-division writing,
rhetoric, literature, secondary and post-secondary institutions,
collaboration, writing centers, or other related topics. Papers on
other topics will also be considered.

CEAO welcomes proposals from graduate students, adjunct and part-time
instructors, full-time faculty, as well as individuals living/working
both inside Ohio and outside Ohio.

Call for Papers=20

Research Training Study Day: Memory, Illness and the Body

Venue: Institute of Romance and Germanic Studies, University of London

Date: Friday, 12 May 2006

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Papers are invited from UK-registered research students in modern
languages and related fields for a research training study day on
'Memory, Illness and the Body.' =20

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Call for Papers=20

Research Training Study Day: Memory, Illness and the Body

Venue: Institute of Romance and Germanic Studies, University of London

Date: Friday, 12 May 2006

=20

Papers are invited from UK-registered research students in modern
languages and related fields for a research training study day on
'Memory, Illness and the Body.' =20

=20

Call for Papers=20

Research Training Study Day: Memory, Illness and the Body

Venue: Institute of Romance and Germanic Studies, University of London

Date: Friday, 12 May 2006

=20

Papers are invited from UK-registered research students in modern
languages and related fields for a research training study day on
'Memory, Illness and the Body.' =20

=20

Jazz Music in African-American Literature and Poetry

Panel Chair: David R. DiSarro

Call for papers on jazz music in African-American literature and poetry
for the seventh annual graduate English conference entitled
“Encountering the Text: Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, and Writing” at
Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT on Saturday,
April 22 from 9:00 a.m. â€" 4:30 p.m.

Jazz Music in African-American Literature and Poetry

Panel Chair: David R. DiSarro

Call for papers on jazz music in African-American literature and poetry
for the seventh annual graduate English conference entitled
“Encountering the Text: Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, and Writing” at
Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT on Saturday,
April 22 from 9:00 a.m. â€" 4:30 p.m.

"Eliot Weinberger's Essays as Cultural Translations"

Eliot Weinberger is one of our great translators and editors, but he's
also a remarkable essayist, creating substantial forms of assemblage,
collage, and cultural translation that emerge from the shifting
confluences of languages, idioms, and practices. Papers addressing
Weinberger as essayist and cultural translator are requested. Please
send brief abstracts – 50-100 words – Fred Arroyo, arroyof_at_slu.edu as a
Word Document attachment.

Fred Arroyo, PhD.
Assistant Professor of English
Department of English
3800 Lindell Blvd.
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO 63108
314-977-3509

Session Title: Literature and Religion

RMMLA Convention

October 12 - October 14, 2006

DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona

Deadline: March 15, 2006

 
  I would like to invite submissions for the session on Literature and Religion. Papers can address a wide range of perspectives by focusing on specific writers and works that explore religious identity, its place in secular societies, and the way it impacts the national collective.
   
  A range of topics may include:
  - Religious identity
  - Religion and nation
  - Secularism
  - Fundamentalism
  - Religion and revolution
  -Institutionalized Religion