New deadline:

"The Unconscious Master: Henry James and Jane Austen=94
2006 ACCUTE CONFERENCE AT YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO

(27 May - 4 June 2006 at 75th Congress of Humanities and Social=20
Sciences; the ACCUTE conference will take place over 3-4 days within=20
that timeframe)

Henry James, himself known as the Master, praised Jane Austen for her=20
"little
master-strokes of imagination," suggesting that the reason for her high=20=

Call for Papers
African American Literature Permanent Session
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
Chicago, Illinois
November 9-12, 2006

The African American Literary Canon:
Rationale and Function, Pros and Cons

CALL FOR PAPERS
SLASH FICTION STUDY DAY

Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Wednesday March 1, 2006

This Study Day will be a slash-friendly forum for discussion of one of the
most vibrant sub-genres of fanfic. Proposals are invited for papers for
panel sessions on slash-related topics and controversies, including, but not
limited to, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter and real person
slash.

The Study Day will take place as part of Cultural eXchanges, a week long
series of events at the Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University.

CALL FOR PAPERS

RELIGION AND NATION

A NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Friday April 7 - Saturday April 8, 2006
Keynote Speaker: John Caputo (Syracuse)
"Beyond Sovereignty: The Weakness of God and the Postmodern Situation"
Reading by Diane Glancy (Macalester College)
Website: http://web.utk.edu/~nexus/
Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS

RELIGION AND NATION

A NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Friday April 7 - Saturday April 8, 2006
Keynote Speaker: John Caputo (Syracuse)
"Beyond Sovereignty: The Weakness of God and the Postmodern Situation"
Reading by Diane Glancy (Macalester College)
Website: http://web.utk.edu/~nexus/
Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2006

INTERNATIONAL RAYMOND CARVER SOCIETY
CALL FOR PAPERS
American Literature Association
17th Annual Conference, May 25-28, 2006
San Francisco, CA
Sender: owner-cfp_at_lists.sas.upenn.edu
Precedence: bulk

THE INTERNATIONAL RAYMOND CARVER SOCIETY is hosting two sessions at the
2006 ALA conference, 25-28th May in San Francisco.

1) A panel of three 20-minute papers on Raymond Carver's fiction and poetry
careers. Papers that address cross-overs between the two are encouraged.

2) A roundtable session of multiple 8-minute presentations on teaching
Raymond Carver's poetry and fiction.

12th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
McGill University, Montreal
Theme: Permeability and Selfhood
March 11-12, 2006

This call for papers is for a panel to be held at Permeability and Selfhood, the
McGill Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, which will take place
March 11-12 at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Writing Death in Nineteenth-Century Literature

12th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
McGill University, Montreal
Theme: Permeability and Selfhood
March 11-12, 2006

This call for papers is for a panel to be held at Permeability and Selfhood, the
McGill Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, which will take place
March 11-12 at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Writing Death in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Dear Colleague,
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We have a great pleasure in inviting you to participate in the fourth =
international conference

LANGUAGE, CULTURE and TECHNOLOGIES=20

at Kaunas University of Technology (http://www.ktu.lt/en/)

Kaunas, LITHUANIA,=20

19-21 May, 2006

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We invite teachers, scholars and postgraduate students to participate =
and to contribute papers to the fourth international conference hosted =
by Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.

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Dear Colleague,
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We have a great pleasure in inviting you to participate in the fourth =
international conference

LANGUAGE, CULTURE and TECHNOLOGIES=20

at Kaunas University of Technology (http://www.ktu.lt/en/)

Kaunas, LITHUANIA,=20

19-21 May, 2006

=20

We invite teachers, scholars and postgraduate students to participate =
and to contribute papers to the fourth international conference hosted =
by Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.

=20

Dear Colleague,
=20

We have a great pleasure in inviting you to participate in the fourth =
international conference

LANGUAGE, CULTURE and TECHNOLOGIES=20

at Kaunas University of Technology (http://www.ktu.lt/en/)

Kaunas, LITHUANIA,=20

19-21 May, 2006

=20

We invite teachers, scholars and postgraduate students to participate =
and to contribute papers to the fourth international conference hosted =
by Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.

=20

The Charles Waddell Chesnutt Association is seeking papers to be
included in two Chesnutt sessions at the American Literature Association
Conference to be held from May 25-28, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency San
Francisco in Embarcadero Center, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA
94111.

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We would be interested in papers focusing on Chesnutt and film from a
variety of perspectives for one session.

Call for Papers
The Comics Work of Neil Gaiman
A special issue of ImageTexT

        Bogazici University, Department of Western Languages and =
Literatures=20

 and IDEA, English Language and Literature Research Association are =
organizing an international conference

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   in Istanbul on April 24-26 2006.=20

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The conference will concentrate on four areas: =20

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literature,

language and linguistics,=20

translation studies=20

cultural studies

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Proposals for papers, panels and workshops of no more than 500 words =
accompanied by