DEADLINE EXTENDED to DECEMBER 15, 2006

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Call for Papers: Culture of Fandom=20

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

28th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico

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February 14-17, 2007

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The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New
Mexico at the Hyatt Regency downtown. Join us this year, as a returning
or first-time participant, as we celebrate a new future on Route 66 at
this regional popular culture conference. Further details regarding the
conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can
be found at http://www.swtexaspca.org.

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Romantic and Victorian Entertainments
(UPDATE: Deadline Extension)

Graduate Student Literature Conference
University of South Carolina, Columbia
 
March 23-24, 2007
 
Keynote Speaker: Barry J. Faulk, Associate Professor of English, Florida State University, author of Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture

Plenary Speakers: David S. Shields, Professor of English and McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina

Anthony Jarrells, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina

CALL FOR PAPERS

EnterText volume 6 number 3

Open Issue

Submissions for this edition are invited by 1 July 2007. Interdisciplinary papers as well as submissions from a single discipline are invited. Work on any topic within the journal's remit (historical, cultural and social studies and creative work) is welcome in a variety of formats, including:

* scholarly articles (normally up to 8,000 words)
* short 'notes and comments' pieces
* commentaries on documents
* creative submissions of any kind suitable for electronic publication, including artwork, photography, poetry, short stories, drama scripts, screenplays, and multi-media submissions (still and moving images and sound-clips)

***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY***
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Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

February 14-17, 2007

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association's=20
28th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM

Proposals for both Panels and Individual Papers are now being accepted
for the Native/Indigenous Studies Area. Listed below are some
suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are
welcome and encouraged. =20

FINAL DEADLINE DECEMBER 12, 2006.

***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY***
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Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

February 14-17, 2007

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association's=20
28th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM

Proposals for both Panels and Individual Papers are now being accepted
for the Native/Indigenous Studies Area. Listed below are some
suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are
welcome and encouraged. =20

FINAL DEADLINE DECEMBER 12, 2006.

Final Extension:
  
  A Violent (Re) turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications and Situations"
  13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  February 15-17, 2007
  Arizona State University
   
   

2007 American Literature Association Conference, May 24-27 in Boston

CFP: AHRC Postgraduate Conference
 
Redefining Conflict in Post-Cold War Media
 
School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, UK
 
March 29-30th, 2007
 
Since the end of the Cold War, scholarship has provided new definitions of
conflict that have attempted to reconfigure the identity of the 'enemy' or
'other'. Whether in the realm of personal interaction or political
engagements, the changing nature of global politics in the post-Cold War era
has fundamentally impacted the many ways people see themselves in relation
to others. This inter-disciplinary conference encourages fresh scrutiny of

CFP: AHRC Postgraduate Conference
 
Redefining Conflict in Post-Cold War Media
 
School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, UK
 
March 29-30th, 2007
 
Since the end of the Cold War, scholarship has provided new definitions of
conflict that have attempted to reconfigure the identity of the 'enemy' or
'other'. Whether in the realm of personal interaction or political
engagements, the changing nature of global politics in the post-Cold War era
has fundamentally impacted the many ways people see themselves in relation
to others. This inter-disciplinary conference encourages fresh scrutiny of

Southwest Graduate English Symposium – 2007
   
   
  The Gothic and the Sublime: Romanticism and Reason
   
  As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
  delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
  which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
  I collected some of their Proverbs. – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790
   
  How should we read these famous lines from Blake's masterpiece? What is the place of Reason in religion? Passion in morality? The Gothic in the Sublime – and vice versa?
   

Southwest Graduate English Symposium – 2007
   
   
  The Gothic and the Sublime: Romanticism and Reason
   
  As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
  delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
  which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
  I collected some of their Proverbs. – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790
   
  How should we read these famous lines from Blake's masterpiece? What is the place of Reason in religion? Passion in morality? The Gothic in the Sublime – and vice versa?
   

CONF./CFP- E/Im/Migration and Culture, 15-17 Sept. 2007, Istanbul, Turkey

DEADLINE eadline extended to 15 December 2006

Call for Papers

E/Im/Migration and Culture
15-17 September 2007
Isik University, Sile (Istanbul, Turkey)

Fourth Cultural Studies Conference

Co-organized by the Cultural Studies Association (Turkey) and the
Department of International Relations of Isik University

Southwest Graduate English Symposium – 2007
   
   
  The Gothic and the Sublime: Romanticism and Reason
   
  As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
  delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
  which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
  I collected some of their Proverbs. – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790
   
  How should we read these famous lines from Blake's masterpiece? What is the place of Reason in religion? Passion in morality? The Gothic in the Sublime – and vice versa?
   

    13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2007
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
   
   
  Southwest Graduate English Symposium – 2007
   
  Only Human?: Medical Biology vs. The Social Model of Disability
   
  In her 1999 book Female Forms, Carol Thomas suggests that disability studies and activism would benefit from a social model approach to definitions of disability, as opposed to the long-standing contention that disability, impairment, and its effects are biological, physiological, anatomical—in short, medical.