FANTASTIC GENRES II: SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HORROR, AND CHILDREN'S
LITERATURES

KEYNOTE WRITER: JOHN CROWLEY

KEYNOTE CRITIC: JOAN GORDON

LOCATION: SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ, NY

Call for Papers

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"Teaching Medieval Studies in the Two-Year College"

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42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

May 10-13, 2007

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Papers should focus on any aspect of the teaching of Medieval or
Renaissance literature, culture, history, politics, or spirituality in a
two-year college environment. Papers should be no longer than twenty
minutes in length.

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Deadline: September 15, 2006

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Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation, Email address,
Postal address, Telephone number, A/V requirements (if any)

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Contact: Susannah Chewning

Writing by Degrees 2006: The 9th Annual National Graduate Creative Writing
Conference
Binghamton, New York¡XBinghamton University, SUNY
Keynote Speakers, Steve Almond (fiction), Timothy Liu (poetry), Suzanne
Paola Antonetta (creative non-fiction)
Conference Date: October 19-21, 2006
Submmission Deadline: August 1, 2006

Writing by Degrees is seeking creative and academic submissions
demonstrating or contemplating the craft of writing. All applicants must
be currently enrolled as graduate students in order to be eligible.

<>Call for Papers for Children and Childhood Studies Section of The
Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association 2006 Annual Conference
in Baltimore, Maryland, October 27-29, 2006

The MAP/ACA is a regional division of the Popular and American Culture
Associations, which are, in the words of Popular Culture Association
founder Ray Browne, "multi-disciplinary associations interested in new
approaches to the expressions, mass media and all other phenomena of
everyday life."

 From the MAP/ACA home page: http://webhosting.its.psu.edu/mapaca/

<>Call for Papers for Children and Childhood Studies Section of The
Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association 2006 Annual Conference
in Baltimore, Maryland, October 27-29, 2006

The MAP/ACA is a regional division of the Popular and American Culture
Associations, which are, in the words of Popular Culture Association
founder Ray Browne, "multi-disciplinary associations interested in new
approaches to the expressions, mass media and all other phenomena of
everyday life."

 From the MAP/ACA home page: http://webhosting.its.psu.edu/mapaca/

CFP: Polish-German Post-Memory (9/1/06; 4/19-21/07)

POLISH-GERMAN POST/MEMORY: AESTHETICS, ETHICS,
POLITICS

Conference to be held at Indiana University
(Bloomington), April 19-21, 2007

Conference description

CFP: Polish-German Post-Memory (9/1/06; 4/19-21/07)

POLISH-GERMAN POST/MEMORY: AESTHETICS, ETHICS,
POLITICS

Conference to be held at Indiana University
(Bloomington), April 19-21, 2007

Conference description

Call for Papers
    Panel Title: Women's Poetry and the Firesides
    38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
    March 1-4, 2007
    Baltimore, Maryland
    This panel seeks papers that explore the relationship between nineteenth-century women poets and the Fireside poets (or other popular but now non-canonical male poets). I'm particularly interested in papers that explore the way male poets responded to the successes of women poets. Please send a 300-word abstract to higgins_andrew_at_yahoo.com by Sept 15, 2006.
  
  
    Deadline: September 15, 2006
    Abstract of the Panel:

Call for Papers
    Panel Title: Women's Poetry and the Firesides
    38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
    March 1-4, 2007
    Baltimore, Maryland
    This panel seeks papers that explore the relationship between nineteenth-century women poets and the Fireside poets (or other popular but now non-canonical male poets). I'm particularly interested in papers that explore the way male poets responded to the successes of women poets. Please send a 300-word abstract to higgins_andrew_at_yahoo.com by Sept 15, 2006.
  
  
    Deadline: September 15, 2006
    Abstract of the Panel:

Exploring the Renaissance 2007: An International Conference

San Antonio, Texas
March 8-10, 2007

St. Anthony Hotel

Keynote Lecturer, Asuncion Lavrin, Arizona State University
Louis L. Martz Lecturer, Annabel Patterson, Yale University
William B. Hunter Lecturer, Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University

The Heroic Age Issue 11: Baghdad, Byzantium, Aachen, and
Winchester:
Early Medieval Reforms and Reformers

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Preaching and Politics in Early Modern Britain

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A two-day international conference at the Centre for Research in the =
Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, =
3-4 November 2006. =20

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'The sermon properly considered - as theatrical, as fundamentally =
occasional, as literary art inextricably engaged in the public sphere - =
stands poised to take a wholly new place in literary study, and a better =
understood one in historical study.'

(Lori Anne Ferrell and Peter McCullough, 2000)

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How far have we come in the six years since Ferrell and McCullough's =
prediction?=20

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Preaching and Politics in Early Modern Britain

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A two-day international conference at the Centre for Research in the =
Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, =
3-4 November 2006. =20

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'The sermon properly considered - as theatrical, as fundamentally =
occasional, as literary art inextricably engaged in the public sphere - =
stands poised to take a wholly new place in literary study, and a better =
understood one in historical study.'

(Lori Anne Ferrell and Peter McCullough, 2000)

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How far have we come in the six years since Ferrell and McCullough's =
prediction?=20

Another [Art] World: A Journal of Radical Art, Theory and Criticism
Recent developments in the =91art market=92 have forced artists to think =
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beyond exhibiting their works in galleries and museums. These same =20
changes situate biennials and art fairs as the reified site where =20
artists position their work in relation to globalizing economies and =20
hegemonic discourses. Inversely, the market has also created =20
supplementary spaces where artists from the so-called margins may =20
enter into dialogue with those at the center. Nonetheless, this =20
trajectory continues to expand in an extremely inequitable direction, =20=