CALL FOR PAPERS
Northeastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA5 Conference
March 2-5, 2006
Philadelphia, PA.
 
Phantom Processions and Runaway Trains: How Narrative Structures are Linked
to Models of the Psyche
 
 
The metaphor of a ³train of thought² is an old and accepted one. with sanity
as the ability to maintain the train of rational causation, and madness, the
breakdown of that train.
David Hume compares the mind to a theatre, and suggests that thoughts are a
series of phantom performers who pass in procession on the stage of the
mind. Like Hume, Freud sees the psyche as a space; in the ²topographical

Northeast Modern Language Association Convention

Philadelphia

March 2-5, 2006

Mixed Media in Contemporary Poetry

Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe

International Conference

Frankfurt University, Germany - June 1-3, 2006

Convenors:

Elisabeth Bekers (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Sissy Helff (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Daniela Merolla (University of Leiden, the Netherlands)

Graduate Student Conference Natural and National Crises: Re-thinking the Relationship between Literature and Crisis
Date: May 5th, 6th 2006.

Université de Montréal,

Département d'études anglaises.

Guest lecturer: Dionne Brand

Deadline for submitting panel proposals: September 26th 2005
Deadline for submitting papers: January 15th 2006

The contemporary world system of global capitalist expansion that is producing new imperialisms around the globe will remain imperialist throughout the visible future, unless we learn how to "cross borders" from a dominating and imperialising past and present to a more "democratic" and just future society.

Graduate Student Conference Natural and National Crises: Re-thinking the Relationship between Literature and Crisis
Date: May 5th, 6th 2006.

Université de Montréal,

Département d'études anglaises.

Guest lecturer: Dionne Brand

Deadline for submitting panel proposals: September 26th 2005
Deadline for submitting papers: January 15th 2006

The contemporary world system of global capitalist expansion that is producing new imperialisms around the globe will remain imperialist throughout the visible future, unless we learn how to "cross borders" from a dominating and imperialising past and present to a more "democratic" and just future society.

Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe

International Conference

Frankfurt University, Germany - June 1-3, 2006

Convenors:

Elisabeth Bekers (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Sissy Helff (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Daniela Merolla (University of Leiden, the Netherlands)

Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe

International Conference

Frankfurt University, Germany - June 1-3, 2006

Convenors:

Elisabeth Bekers (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Sissy Helff (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Daniela Merolla (University of Leiden, the Netherlands)

Northeast Modern Language Association Convention

Philadelphia

March 2-5, 2006

Mixed Media in Contemporary Poetry

CFP: 37th Annual NEMLA Convention (Sept. 15, 2005; Philadelphia, March 2-5, 2006). Paper proposals are being accepted for the 37th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, March 2-5, 2006. Papers are being sought on various topics in English, the Modern Languages, drama and film, Cultural Studies, pedagogy, and related fields. Papers or abstracts must be submitted to individual panel chairs. See http://www.nemla.org/cfp.html or look on the NEMLA web page at www.nemla.org for specific topics and other information regarding the organization and the upcoming convention.

Below you will find information for Nebula's Special Call
for Paper. Unfortunately, we are not able to post the
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Below you will find information for Nebula's Special Call
for Paper. Unfortunately, we are not able to post the
hyperlinks embedded to the CFP in this email. Please visit
the following page if you choose to view this CFP with the
hyperlinks intact.

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Call for Papers: "Drama and/after Postmodernism"

The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
(CDE) announces its 15th Annual Conference (May 25-28, 2006): "Drama
and/after Postmodernism". It will be organized by the Chair of
English Literature at the University of Augsburg and held at a
conference venue in the town centre of Augsburg, Germany.

Call for Papers: "Drama and/after Postmodernism"

The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
(CDE) announces its 15th Annual Conference (May 25-28, 2006): "Drama
and/after Postmodernism". It will be organized by the Chair of
English Literature at the University of Augsburg and held at a
conference venue in the town centre of Augsburg, Germany.

Modern History: Constructions of the Past in American Literary
Modernisms. What role did visions of history play in the formation of
and work by American modernist movements (Harlem Renaissance, Southern
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,
welcome. E-mail 250-500 word abstracts to Ben Railton
<barailton@hotmail.com<http://www.nemla.org/barailton@hotmail.com>> by
September 15, 2005.