Reel Bodies:
The Boundaries of the Body in Visual Cultures
 A School of English Postgraduate Symposium

Newcastle University
30th March 2007

Keynote Speaker:
Andrew Shail (University of Oxford)

"Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best
other beings encapsulated by skin?" (Donna Haraway).

**Please note: the previously advertised conference is a graduate =
conference**

=93New Worlds, Lost Worlds=94: Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature
McGill University, Montr=E9al
13th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
March 10-11, 2007

The English Graduate Students Association of McGill University is =
pleased to=20
announce its 13th annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, =
and=20
is seeking panel and paper proposals on the theme =93New Worlds, Lost =
Worlds=94:=20
Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature. The conference will be held =
in=20
Montr=E9al, Canada on March 10th-11th, 2007.

Call for Panels and Papers

**Please note: the previously advertised conference is a graduate =
conference**

=93New Worlds, Lost Worlds=94: Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature
McGill University, Montr=E9al
13th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
March 10-11, 2007

The English Graduate Students Association of McGill University is =
pleased to=20
announce its 13th annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, =
and=20
is seeking panel and paper proposals on the theme =93New Worlds, Lost =
Worlds=94:=20
Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature. The conference will be held =
in=20
Montr=E9al, Canada on March 10th-11th, 2007.

Call for Panels and Papers

**Please note: the previously advertised conference is a graduate =
conference**

=93New Worlds, Lost Worlds=94: Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature
McGill University, Montr=E9al
13th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
March 10-11, 2007

The English Graduate Students Association of McGill University is =
pleased to=20
announce its 13th annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, =
and=20
is seeking panel and paper proposals on the theme =93New Worlds, Lost =
Worlds=94:=20
Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature. The conference will be held =
in=20
Montr=E9al, Canada on March 10th-11th, 2007.

Call for Panels and Papers

Organization web site:

http://www.iafa.org

*March 14-18, 2007 *

Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel

The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) has a
special division for the literature of children and young adults. Please
consider submitting a proposal on any text (print, multi-media, painting,
film, etc.) intended for children and written in the broad mode of the
fantastic (including magical realism, high fantasy, science fiction,
cyberpunk, ghost stories, folk tales and other traditional literatures,
etc.).

THE TENTH ANNUAL RED RIVER CONFERENCE ON WORLD LITERATURE

APRIL 20 - 22, 2007

Canonical Texts / Textuality of Canons

We invite papers and panel proposals on topics that investigate any
of the following topics. While we are particularly interested in
proposals that focus on the conference theme, papers and panels on
all aspects of world literature will be considered.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

THE TENTH ANNUAL RED RIVER CONFERENCE ON WORLD LITERATURE

APRIL 20 - 22, 2007

Canonical Texts / Textuality of Canons

We invite papers and panel proposals on topics that investigate any
of the following topics. While we are particularly interested in
proposals that focus on the conference theme, papers and panels on
all aspects of world literature will be considered.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

The University of Florida's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and
the Department of English are pleased to announce the 2007 UF
Conference on Games and Digital Media: "World Building: Space and
Community," which will be held in Gainesville, Florida, on March 1-2,
2007, in conjunction with the annual Conference on Comics, which will
be March 3-4.

The University of Florida's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and
the Department of English are pleased to announce the 2007 UF
Conference on Games and Digital Media: "World Building: Space and
Community," which will be held in Gainesville, Florida, on March 1-2,
2007, in conjunction with the annual Conference on Comics, which will
be March 3-4.

ARABESQUES REVIEW is seeking work for our November/December 2006 issue
focusing on writing inspired or informed by the experiences, observations,
and/or daily news and social possibilities of the following topic: "War &
Poetry" and for our January/February 2007 issue "Colors".

We are open to work that covers any of the multitude of ways that our world,
our media, and ourselves mark the public and private, political, and
individual decisions of passage we define and define ourselves around,
defining in the same time the destiny of other people, cultures and nations.

ARABESQUES REVIEW is seeking work for our November/December 2006 issue
focusing on writing inspired or informed by the experiences, observations,
and/or daily news and social possibilities of the following topic: "War &
Poetry" and for our January/February 2007 issue "Colors".

We are open to work that covers any of the multitude of ways that our world,
our media, and ourselves mark the public and private, political, and
individual decisions of passage we define and define ourselves around,
defining in the same time the destiny of other people, cultures and nations.

Antisemitism and English Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS [reminder; apologies for
cross-posting]

Website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/conf/antisemitism/

A major international conference on the histories
and cultures of antisemitism in England, from the
Middle Ages to the present day. To be held at
Birkbeck College, University of London, Bloomsbury,
London: 9-11 July 2007.

Plenary speakers:
Anthony Julius (Birkbeck College/London Consortium,
University of London)
Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London)
Ira Katznelson (Columbia University)

Key questions to be addressed include:

Antisemitism and English Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS [reminder; apologies for
cross-posting]

Website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/conf/antisemitism/

A major international conference on the histories
and cultures of antisemitism in England, from the
Middle Ages to the present day. To be held at
Birkbeck College, University of London, Bloomsbury,
London: 9-11 July 2007.

Plenary speakers:
Anthony Julius (Birkbeck College/London Consortium,
University of London)
Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London)
Ira Katznelson (Columbia University)

Key questions to be addressed include:

The Charles Waddell Chesnutt Association is seeking papers to be=20
included in two Chesnutt sessions at the American Literature Association

Conference to be held from May 24-27, 2007 at The Westin Copley, 10
Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02116.

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 We would like one session to focus on white characters in Chesnutt's
short and/or long fiction (including the more recently published novels
-Evelyn's Husband and A Business Career).

=20

The second session is open at this point: we will determine the topic=20
upon receipt of abstracts.

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If your paper is included in the panel, you must become a member of the
Charles W. Chesnutt Association by March 1, 2007.=20