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CFP: Disability Theory and Performance (2/11/06; NCA, 11/15/06-11/19/06)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Christopher Smit

Seeking contributing participants on a panel/program titled:
"Performing Authenticity: Disability Narratives and Dialogue." We seek
to interrogate key issues of representation, evocation, embodied
knowing. Scholars who perform and/or study disability through
enactment of the "other" or who do so in their own everyday
performance(s) of self are invited to submit a proposed paper,
performance, or combination of both. We are interested in hearing from
performance studies scholars/practitioners. We are also very interested
in hearing from persons in disability studies who wish to join the
conversation. Submit your proposed title and abstract along with

CFP: Dangerous Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and Activisms in Local and Global Contexts (3/1/06; 5/24/

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Kimberly Williams

Invitation for Proposals on Interdisciplinary Scholarly and
Creative Work

Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Conference: .Dangerous
Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and
Activisms in Local and Global Contexts.
 
University of Maryland
May 24-26, 2006

Website: www.freewebs.com/wsgo2006conference

Featuring plenary sessions and workshops by feminist educator
Dr. Peggy McIintosh, feminist postcolonial theorist Dr.
Sangeeta Ray, and Black feminist scholar Dr. Beverly Guy-
Sheftall.

CFP: Dangerous Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and Activisms in Local and Global Contexts (3/1/06; 5/24/

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Kimberly Williams

Invitation for Proposals on Interdisciplinary Scholarly and
Creative Work

Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Conference: .Dangerous
Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and
Activisms in Local and Global Contexts.
 
University of Maryland
May 24-26, 2006

Website: www.freewebs.com/wsgo2006conference

Featuring plenary sessions and workshops by feminist educator
Dr. Peggy McIintosh, feminist postcolonial theorist Dr.
Sangeeta Ray, and Black feminist scholar Dr. Beverly Guy-
Sheftall.

CFP: Dangerous Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and Activisms in Local and Global Contexts (3/1/06; 5/24/

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Kimberly Williams

Invitation for Proposals on Interdisciplinary Scholarly and
Creative Work

Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Conference: .Dangerous
Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and
Activisms in Local and Global Contexts.
 
University of Maryland
May 24-26, 2006

Website: www.freewebs.com/wsgo2006conference

Featuring plenary sessions and workshops by feminist educator
Dr. Peggy McIintosh, feminist postcolonial theorist Dr.
Sangeeta Ray, and Black feminist scholar Dr. Beverly Guy-
Sheftall.

CFP: 19th-Century English Literature (3/1/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Ranum, Ingrid

CALL FOR PAPERS

Panel Topic: 19th-Century English Literature
Rocky Mountain MLA Convention, 60th Annual Meeting
October 12-14, 2006
The DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona

Submission Deadline: 1 March 2005

Paper proposals sought for the RMMLA panel on 19th-Century English
Literature. Papers on all aspects of 19th-Century English or British
Literature will be considered.
 

Email or send (postmark) 300-word abstracts by March 1, 2006 to:

Ingrid Ranum
Department of English
Gonzaga University
E. 502 Boone Ave.
Spokane, WA 99258
ranum_at_gonzaga.edu

CFP: Dangerous Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and Activisms in Local and Global Contexts (3/1/06; 5/24/

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Kimberly Williams

Invitation for Proposals on Interdisciplinary Scholarly and
Creative Work

Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Conference: .Dangerous
Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and
Activisms in Local and Global Contexts.
 
University of Maryland
May 24-26, 2006

Website: www.freewebs.com/wsgo2006conference

Featuring plenary sessions and workshops by feminist educator
Dr. Peggy McIintosh, feminist postcolonial theorist Dr.
Sangeeta Ray, and Black feminist scholar Dr. Beverly Guy-
Sheftall.

CFP: Dangerous Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and Activisms in Local and Global Contexts (3/1/06; 5/24/

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Kimberly Williams

Invitation for Proposals on Interdisciplinary Scholarly and
Creative Work

Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Conference: .Dangerous
Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and
Activisms in Local and Global Contexts.
 
University of Maryland
May 24-26, 2006

Website: www.freewebs.com/wsgo2006conference

Featuring plenary sessions and workshops by feminist educator
Dr. Peggy McIintosh, feminist postcolonial theorist Dr.
Sangeeta Ray, and Black feminist scholar Dr. Beverly Guy-
Sheftall.

CFP: 19th-Century English Literature (3/1/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Ranum, Ingrid

CALL FOR PAPERS

Panel Topic: 19th-Century English Literature
Rocky Mountain MLA Convention, 60th Annual Meeting
October 12-14, 2006
The DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona

Submission Deadline: 1 March 2005

Paper proposals sought for the RMMLA panel on 19th-Century English
Literature. Papers on all aspects of 19th-Century English or British
Literature will be considered.
 

Email or send (postmark) 300-word abstracts by March 1, 2006 to:

Ingrid Ranum
Department of English
Gonzaga University
E. 502 Boone Ave.
Spokane, WA 99258
ranum_at_gonzaga.edu

CFP: American Literature I: Literature Before 1900 (3/15/06; SCMLA, 10/26/06-10/28/06)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
ABeebe_at_mail.uttyl.edu

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<p>Call for Papers<br>
<br>
SCMLA (South Central Modern Language Association) Conference<br>
Forth Worth, TX<br>
October 26-28, 2006<br>
<br>
Panel: American Literature I: Literature Before 1900<br>
<br>
OPEN TOPIC -- All abstracts dealing with novels, short stories, and poems written before 1900 are welcome.<br>
<br>
Please send 500-word abstract and brief CV to Ann Beebe at abeebe_at_mail.uttyl.edu<br>
Deadline: March 15, 2006<br>
<br>
Ann Beebe, Ph. D.<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
Department of Literature and Languages<br>

CFP: Dismemberment in Drama / Dismemberment of Drama (3/1/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Lance Norman

 From Euripides’ Bacchae to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus to Sarah
Kane’s Cleansed bodily dismemberment has proven to be a dramatic trope
which transcends period or cultural distinctions. The 2006 M/MLA drama
panel welcomes submissions which critically address the stakes of
dismemberment in drama. This might take the form of an analysis of a
particular play or a contemporary look at dramatic theories of dismemberment
from Nietzsche’s conception of Dionysian drama to Artaud’s Theatre of
Cruelty. Broader approaches from theories of mimesis to performance studies
which work toward the dismemberment of drama as a genre will also be

CFP: Dismemberment in Drama / Dismemberment of Drama (3/1/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Lance Norman

 From Euripides’ Bacchae to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus to Sarah
Kane’s Cleansed bodily dismemberment has proven to be a dramatic trope
which transcends period or cultural distinctions. The 2006 M/MLA drama
panel welcomes submissions which critically address the stakes of
dismemberment in drama. This might take the form of an analysis of a
particular play or a contemporary look at dramatic theories of dismemberment
from Nietzsche’s conception of Dionysian drama to Artaud’s Theatre of
Cruelty. Broader approaches from theories of mimesis to performance studies
which work toward the dismemberment of drama as a genre will also be

CFP: Dismemberment in Drama / Dismemberment of Drama (3/1/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Lance Norman

 From Euripides’ Bacchae to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus to Sarah
Kane’s Cleansed bodily dismemberment has proven to be a dramatic trope
which transcends period or cultural distinctions. The 2006 M/MLA drama
panel welcomes submissions which critically address the stakes of
dismemberment in drama. This might take the form of an analysis of a
particular play or a contemporary look at dramatic theories of dismemberment
from Nietzsche’s conception of Dionysian drama to Artaud’s Theatre of
Cruelty. Broader approaches from theories of mimesis to performance studies
which work toward the dismemberment of drama as a genre will also be

CFP: Teaching Shakespeare (5/1/06; ACA/PCAS, 10/5/06-10/7/06)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Miller, Emily

CFP: Teaching Shakespeare

=20

American Culture/Popular Culture Association in the South Conference

                        Savannah, Georgia October
5-7, 2006

            Deadline: May 1, 2006

=20

Proposals sought for a session on teaching Shakespeare to today's
undergraduates. Papers might focus on topics such as course design,
methodology, the challenges presented by particular plays, etc. Send
abstracts (100-150 words) by May 1, 2006, to Prof. Emily Miller,
Department of English and Fine Arts, Virginia Military Institute,
Lexington, Virginia 24450 or e-mail them to millerep_at_vmi.edu. Maximum
reading time for papers: twenty minutes.

CFP: Teaching Shakespeare (5/1/06; ACA/PCAS, 10/5/06-10/7/06)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Miller, Emily

CFP: Teaching Shakespeare

=20

American Culture/Popular Culture Association in the South Conference

                        Savannah, Georgia October
5-7, 2006

            Deadline: May 1, 2006

=20

Proposals sought for a session on teaching Shakespeare to today's
undergraduates. Papers might focus on topics such as course design,
methodology, the challenges presented by particular plays, etc. Send
abstracts (100-150 words) by May 1, 2006, to Prof. Emily Miller,
Department of English and Fine Arts, Virginia Military Institute,
Lexington, Virginia 24450 or e-mail them to millerep_at_vmi.edu. Maximum
reading time for papers: twenty minutes.

CFP: Journal of Buddhist Ethics (no deadline; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Aaron Ogletree

    Call for Book Reviewers
   
   If there is a book on Buddhism that you are interested in reviewing contact the Journal of Buddhist Ethics (JBE). The Journal of Buddhist Ethics is an academic journal dedicated entirely to Buddhist ethics, and is innovative in adopting a totally electronic mode of publication. We welcome writers from diverse backgrounds that can and are willing to provide fresh insight into recently published books.

CFP: Journal of Buddhist Ethics (no deadline; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Aaron Ogletree

    Call for Book Reviewers
   
   If there is a book on Buddhism that you are interested in reviewing contact the Journal of Buddhist Ethics (JBE). The Journal of Buddhist Ethics is an academic journal dedicated entirely to Buddhist ethics, and is innovative in adopting a totally electronic mode of publication. We welcome writers from diverse backgrounds that can and are willing to provide fresh insight into recently published books.

CFP: 100 Years of Satchel Paige: Reality and Myth (3/17/06; 7/6/06-7/9/06)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:31pm
Timothy Rives

9th Annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference
Kansas City, Missouri
July 6-9, 2006

Conference Theme: "100 Years of Satchel Paige: Reality and Myth."

Papers can include all topics related to Satchel Paige, the Kansas City Monarchs, images and myths related to the Negro Leagues and all other Negro League topics. Papers are encouraged from all disciplines.

Proposals for individual papers should include an abstract of no more than 350 words, a brief curriculum vitae with contact information. Graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals.

All presentations will be considered and reviewed for possible publication after the conference.

Proposals due March 17, 2006

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