A Symposium in Rhetoric: "Milton's Paradise Lost"

Open to Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities

Texas Woman's University - Denton, Texas

Where: ACT Bldg. 2nd Floor

When: February 24, 2006

We are seeking proposals for papers addressing the scholarship and life of
John Milton, specifically his epic poem, Paradise Lost and its applications
to today's world. In what ways is Paradise Lost beneficial to today's
scholar? What current issues can benefit from the study of PL or Milton? How
could Milton's work be taught to the modern student? Issues could include:

Plenary speaker and website announced:

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CALL FOR PAPERS: SAMUEL R. DELANY - A CRITICAL SYMPOSIUM
SUNY Buffalo
March 23-4, 2006
Deadline: January 15, 2006

"Samuel R. Delany: A Critical Symposium" is a conference intended to provide
an interdisciplinary forum for world-class scholars and innovative writers to
discuss and celebrate Delany's work. As such, it will be the first event of its kind
in the United States.

Plenary speaker and website announced:

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CALL FOR PAPERS: SAMUEL R. DELANY - A CRITICAL SYMPOSIUM
SUNY Buffalo
March 23-4, 2006
Deadline: January 15, 2006

"Samuel R. Delany: A Critical Symposium" is a conference intended to provide
an interdisciplinary forum for world-class scholars and innovative writers to
discuss and celebrate Delany's work. As such, it will be the first event of its kind
in the United States.

Update: Proposal Deadline Extended to 1/15/2006

CFP: Robinson Jeffers and Change (1/15/06; 2/17/06-2/19/06)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Evolution, Revolution and Change: Social and Natural Forces in Jeffers's
Poetry

ROBINSON JEFFERS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Brazil Ranch, Big Sur, California, Friday-Sunday, February 17-19, 2006

Jeffers was interested in timeless forces at work in the individual, in
nature, the cosmos, in cultures. One might say that Jeffers's poetic career
was inspired and in fact turned on his attempt to deal with, understand, and

Note: the deadline for submissions to this panel has been changed to
January 6th, 2006.

A Symposium in Rhetoric: "Kairos & Film Studies"
Open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas
Area Universities
Texas Woman's University - Denton, Texas
ACT Bldg. 2nd Floor
February 24, 2006

Call for Papers
Intermarriage in American Indigenous History: Explorations in Power and
Intimacy in North America
A Special Issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

Due date for Receipt of Papers is June 1, 2006

Guest Editors:
Cathleen D. Cahill (History, University of New Mexico) cdcahill_at_unm.edu
Jacki Rand (History and American Indian and Native Studies, University
of Iowa)
     jackirand_at_uiowa.edu
Kerry Wynn (History, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign)wynn_at_uiuc.edu

Call for Papers
Intermarriage in American Indigenous History: Explorations in Power and
Intimacy in North America
A Special Issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

Due date for Receipt of Papers is June 1, 2006

Guest Editors:
Cathleen D. Cahill (History, University of New Mexico) cdcahill_at_unm.edu
Jacki Rand (History and American Indian and Native Studies, University
of Iowa)
     jackirand_at_uiowa.edu
Kerry Wynn (History, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign)wynn_at_uiuc.edu

Call for Papers
Intermarriage in American Indigenous History: Explorations in Power and
Intimacy in North America
A Special Issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

Due date for Receipt of Papers is June 1, 2006

Guest Editors:
Cathleen D. Cahill (History, University of New Mexico) cdcahill_at_unm.edu
Jacki Rand (History and American Indian and Native Studies, University
of Iowa)
     jackirand_at_uiowa.edu
Kerry Wynn (History, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign)wynn_at_uiuc.edu

Please note that information on the keynote speaker for the conference has been
updated.

*****Please forward widely to graduate students. Thanks!*****

CALL FOR PAPERS

The graduate program in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University will host the
conference:

RISK AND BREAKDOWN: SHIFTING THE STUDY OF CULTURE
Duke University, Durham, NC
Friday, March 31, 2006

http://culturalanthropology.duke.edu/news/Riskandbreakdown.html

WESTERNS:=20
MOVIES FROM HOLLYWOOD AND PAPERBACK WESTERNS
A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS

Editor: Paul Varner, Oklahoma Christian University
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press

Call For Papers

Topics might include B.M. Bower, Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, Max Brand,
Clarence Mulford, Pulp Westerns, John Ford, Anthony Mann, Feminist,
Structuralist and Postmodern critical perspectives on Westerns.
Especially interested in critical essays over recent commercial Western
paperbacks and very recent Western films.

Deadline: May 1, 2006

WESTERNS:=20
MOVIES FROM HOLLYWOOD AND PAPERBACK WESTERNS
A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS

Editor: Paul Varner, Oklahoma Christian University
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press

Call For Papers

Topics might include B.M. Bower, Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, Max Brand,
Clarence Mulford, Pulp Westerns, John Ford, Anthony Mann, Feminist,
Structuralist and Postmodern critical perspectives on Westerns.
Especially interested in critical essays over recent commercial Western
paperbacks and very recent Western films.

Deadline: May 1, 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS

Gender ? Laughter ? Media

International and Interdisciplinary Conference
August 24-26, 2006, Kamloops, B.C., Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS

Gender ? Laughter ? Media

International and Interdisciplinary Conference
August 24-26, 2006, Kamloops, B.C., Canada

Call For Papers
Boundaries: critical and creative responses

Department of English and Drama

June 3rd 2006
10.30 am - 5.00 pm

The conference will be organized around a number of panels, each featuring
three twenty-minute papers, scheduled across the day. We hope that the day
will be as much about discussion as presentation, so postgraduates who do
not wish to present a paper are also strongly encouraged to attend.

We encourage creative and critical responses to the idea of boundaries,
which may include, but are not limited to, the following interpretations: