The American Humor Studies Association at SAMLA seeks papers on "The
Unspeakable as a Laughing Matter." As the recent film "The Aristocrats"
shows yet again, dirty can be funny. So can the shocking, the horrid,
the appalling, the repulsive, and the unspeakable, which can be spoken
if there is the right balance of absurdity, wit, and (perhaps) horror
behind it. This panel is open to studies of such humor, whether in
popular jokes, in literature, in film, on television, or the internet.
Presentations may range from discussions of specific authors whose works
trangress through humor, of films or television shows that revel in bad
taste for satiric or moral purposes, of the need for offensive jokes to

The American Humor Studies Association at SAMLA seeks papers on "The
Unspeakable as a Laughing Matter." As the recent film "The Aristocrats"
shows yet again, dirty can be funny. So can the shocking, the horrid,
the appalling, the repulsive, and the unspeakable, which can be spoken
if there is the right balance of absurdity, wit, and (perhaps) horror
behind it. This panel is open to studies of such humor, whether in
popular jokes, in literature, in film, on television, or the internet.
Presentations may range from discussions of specific authors whose works
trangress through humor, of films or television shows that revel in bad
taste for satiric or moral purposes, of the need for offensive jokes to

The 60th annual RMMLA convention will be held at the
DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park, Tucson, AZ from October
12 â€" 14, 2006.

Call for Papers for the 2006 SAMLA Convention Hemingway Society Panel

"The Feminine in Hemingway"

The Victorians and the Arab World: Creative Connections

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Friday 13-Saturday 14 April 2007

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School of English, University of Leeds, UK

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SLRF 2006 at the University of Washington (Seattle)

The Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) is a prestigious and internationally
renowned conference which brings together researchers in second language
acquisition (SLA) from all over the world. It is the premier conference on SLA
in North America providing a venue for established scholars and graduate
students to present work on a wide variety of theoretical and empirical issues
in SLA including cognitive, linguistic and sociolinguistic SLA research
conducted in both laboratory and classroom settings.

Dates of the Conference: October 6th-8th, 2006
Deadline for Abstracts: April 15th, 2006

Announcing a new book series from Ashgate Publishing

Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies

Series Editors:

Kevin Hutchings, Canada Research Chair in Romantic Studies and Associate
Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia

Julia M. Wright, Canada Research Chair in European Studies and Associate
Professor of English, Dalhousie University

Call for Book Proposals: Intertheory Press

Intertheory is an academic press specializing in critical theoretical
texts within the humanities and cultural studies.

http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/%7Enr03/InterTheory%20Press.htm

Book proposals should include, at a minimum, the following information:

1. Table of contents and chapter-by-chapter descriptions (one page per
chapter)

CFP: Contemporary Gothic (grad) (2/1/06; disjunctions, 4/7/06-4/8/06)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at Disjunctions, the
University of California,
Riverside's 13th Annual Humanities Conference, April 7-8, 2006. In keeping
with this year's
theme, Lost in Translation, this panel attempts to investigate how
contemporary Gothic authors
translate, deviate, and/or innovate the Gothic form.

Papers addressing Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Anne
Rice, Poppy Z. Brite,
and Anne Bishop, as well as others are welcome as are all theoretical
approaches.

 CALL FOR PAPERS

Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society (AAHGS)

 Annual Conference 2006
"The Legacy of our Roots: A Heritage for the Future"

    The Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society (AAHGS)
     announces the 2006 Conference Call for Papers to be presented at our=20
next annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, 26-29 October
     2006.

   The AAHGS Conference endeavors each year to provide the premier> =20
opportunity to explore standard and innovative methods, resources,
     and strategies centered around African-American, Caribbean, Native
     American genealogy and the expansive history of the African in the
     Diaspora.

 CALL FOR PAPERS

Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society (AAHGS)

 Annual Conference 2006
"The Legacy of our Roots: A Heritage for the Future"

    The Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society (AAHGS)
     announces the 2006 Conference Call for Papers to be presented at our=20
next annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, 26-29 October
     2006.

   The AAHGS Conference endeavors each year to provide the premier> =20
opportunity to explore standard and innovative methods, resources,
     and strategies centered around African-American, Caribbean, Native
     American genealogy and the expansive history of the African in the
     Diaspora.

  CFP: Editing, Publishing, and Transmitting Meaning
   
  (dis)junctions: lost in translation
  April 7-8, 2006
  University of California, Riverside
   
  This panel will explore bibliographical problems surrounding editing and publishing texts. Many changes are made to works from manuscript form to published material. How is meaning translated from an author's original work to its published form.
   
  Possible topics include but are not limited to:
  -How are early modern texts which are reprinted with modernized language and grammar affected by these changes? How are these "updates" useful?

CFP: Neil Gaiman (grad) (2/1/06; disjunctions, 4/7/06-4/8/06)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at Disjunctions, the
University of California,
Riverside's 13th Annual Humanities Conference, April 7-8, 2006. In keeping
with this year's
theme, Lost in Translation, this panel attempts to investigate how Neil
Gaiman's work translates
into academia.

Although he is probably best known for his Sandman series of graphic novels,
Gaiman is
also an acclaimed novelist. In an attempt to unify Gaiman's canon, this
panel welcomes readings
of both the Sandman and of his novels: Neverwhere, Good Omens, Stardust,
American Gods,
Coraline, and Anansi Boys.

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at the (dis)junctions conference, the University of California
Riverside's 13th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 7-8,
2006: Lost in Translation.