FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

                             GREAT WRITING
              the International Creative Writing Conference

                            10th Great Year!

Great Writing, the UK's international Creative Writing Conference invites
papers/creative work/panel suggestions for this very special 10th Year
Conference.

                            GREAT WRITING 2007

                    Friday 29th June – Sunday 1st July

                       UNIVERSITY OF WALES, BANGOR

The organizers will consider creative work as well as papers on creative
writing
teaching, creative writing theory and method, and on contemporary writers and
their work.

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on
Sociology and Folklore in the Fantastic for the 28th
Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in
the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 28 is on gender and sexuality in the
fantastic, and while papers relating to this theme are
encouraged, proposals on any topics are welcome. The
conference will be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
from March 14 - 17, 2007 at the Wyndham Fort
Lauderdale Airport Hotel. For more information and
updates about the conference, please visit
www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the
following topics:

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on
Sociology and Folklore in the Fantastic for the 28th
Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in
the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 28 is on gender and sexuality in the
fantastic, and while papers relating to this theme are
encouraged, proposals on any topics are welcome. The
conference will be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
from March 14 - 17, 2007 at the Wyndham Fort
Lauderdale Airport Hotel. For more information and
updates about the conference, please visit
www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the
following topics:

>From Oscar Wilde to Kelly Osborne, Jean Genet to Judy Garland, 'Querelle' to
'the Sound of Music' …

Forum, the University of Edinburgh's postgraduate online journal, invites
papers for its spring 2007 issue: Camp!

>From Oscar Wilde to Kelly Osborne, Jean Genet to Judy Garland, 'Querelle' to
'the Sound of Music' …

Forum, the University of Edinburgh's postgraduate online journal, invites
papers for its spring 2007 issue: Camp!

Call For Papers:*Grey's Anatomy* Collection

Edited by: Cynthia Burkhead (University of North Alabama) and Hillary Robson
(Middle Tennessee State University), with a preface written by David Lavery
(Brunel University).

Call for Papers for a Special Edition of African Studies

Feminism and Contemporary Culture in South Africa?

Call for Papers for a Special Edition of African Studies

Feminism and Contemporary Culture in South Africa?

Call for Papers
Portsmouth, Virginia
June 15-17, 2007

Conference Theme: "Barnstorming Across America: Local Stars and National Heroes played each other in the era of the Negro Leagues."

Papers can include all topics related to barnstorming (particularly in the south), Leon Day, Ray Dandridge, Jud Wilson and other Virginians in 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, and 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.

Call for Papers

Studies in Sound: Listening in the Age of Visual Culture
Graduate Student Conference
The University of Iowa
February 22-24, 2007

Proposal deadline: November 17, 2006

Keynote speaker: Caryl Flinn, Professor of Women?s Studies at The
University of Arizona and author of The New German Cinema: Music,
History and the Matter of Style and Strains of Utopia: Gender,
Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music.

Performance: The Audible Picture Show, audio works for a ?dark cinema.?

Call for Papers

Studies in Sound: Listening in the Age of Visual Culture
Graduate Student Conference
The University of Iowa
February 22-24, 2007

Proposal deadline: November 17, 2006

Keynote speaker: Caryl Flinn, Professor of Women?s Studies at The
University of Arizona and author of The New German Cinema: Music,
History and the Matter of Style and Strains of Utopia: Gender,
Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music.

Performance: The Audible Picture Show, audio works for a ?dark cinema.?

Submission due date, November 15, 2006.

Call for Papers: Film Area, a long-standing, well-represented area
with outstanding past presentations. Southwest/Texas Popular
Culture/American Culture Association 27th Annual Conf., held in
beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The 2005 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will meet February 14 - 17, 2007
at the Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel in downtown ABQ. Join us this
year, as a returning participant or for your first-time.

We welcome any aspect of film studies, prospective topics include:

FILM:

Call for Papers

2007 Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference

Hosted by the University of Florida Graduate Student Philosophical =
Society

March 23rd - 24th, 2007

Keynote Address: Jonathan Schaffer (UMASS Amherst)

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Email address for the electronic submission of papers: =
southeast-philosophy-conference_at_phil.ufl.edu

We welcome the submission of papers of high quality in any area of =
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Paper Submissions should adhere to the following guidelines:

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conference is:

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NEW ORLEANS AS THE REFERENCE POINT

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