5th Annual CAFE Conference
Call for Proposals
February 9-10, 2007
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

"The University and the Community: Exploring the Connection"

Proposals are invited for the 5th Annual CAFE Conference, sponsored by the
Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA. The theme for this year's conference is the
connection between the university and the community, particularly the ways
schools can work with and for the community in efforts to create a more
democratic, equitable and socially-just world.

The deadline for abstracts has now been extended to December 15, 2006. =20
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Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric ***Open to faculty, graduates,=
 and undergraduates*** The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation =
of North Texas Area Universities Texas A&M University-Commerce February 23,=
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The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels dea=
ling with contemporary issues of the five canons of rhetoric--invention, ar=
rangement, style, memory, delivery--which we define broadly to incorporate =
a wide variety of research interests.=20
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We welcome submissions from all areas including but not limited to: Rhetori=

MEN AND MADNESS: Representing Male Psychopathology and Mental Disorder in
Modern and Contemporary Culture
 
 
English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
28 - 30 June 2007
 
 
Confirmed keynote speakers:
 
Susan Bordo, University of Kentucky
Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich
Richard Collier, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mark Micale, University of Illnois
Sally Shuttleworth, University of Oxford
 
 
Traditionally it has been women and other social groups marked by an alleged
Œdifference¹ from standards of sanity and reason who have been most
vulnerable to designations of Œmadness¹. The twentieth-century rise of

MEN AND MADNESS: Representing Male Psychopathology and Mental Disorder in
Modern and Contemporary Culture
 
 
English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
28 - 30 June 2007
 
 
Confirmed keynote speakers:
 
Susan Bordo, University of Kentucky
Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich
Richard Collier, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mark Micale, University of Illnois
Sally Shuttleworth, University of Oxford
 
 
Traditionally it has been women and other social groups marked by an alleged
Œdifference¹ from standards of sanity and reason who have been most
vulnerable to designations of Œmadness¹. The twentieth-century rise of

The 15th Annual Acacia Conference at California State University, Fullerton

The 15th Annual Acacia Conference at California State University, Fullerton

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Proposals accepted through Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The Department of English, Saint Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota,
will host a conference on "Literatures in English," June 6-9, 2007. We
invite proposals for papers, panels, discussion sessions and other
formats through which the conference topic might be addressed.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Proposals accepted through Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The Department of English, Saint Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota,
will host a conference on "Literatures in English," June 6-9, 2007. We
invite proposals for papers, panels, discussion sessions and other
formats through which the conference topic might be addressed.

PATHOLOGIES

Questions of embodiment in literature, arts and sciences

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The Inaugural International Conference of the=20

Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science

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August 20-21, 2007

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Plenary Speakers:

Tim Armstrong, Kelly Hurley & Jonathan Sawday

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PATHOLOGIES

Questions of embodiment in literature, arts and sciences

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The Inaugural International Conference of the=20

Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science

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August 20-21, 2007

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Plenary Speakers:

Tim Armstrong, Kelly Hurley & Jonathan Sawday

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Call for Essay, Media Production, Poem or Play

"Reinventing Paulo Freire"

Paulo Freire Institute
University of California Los Angeles
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

Proposals are invited for a unique essay contest sponsored by the Paulo
Freire Institute, UCLA. The theme is "reinventing Paulo Freire."

Call for papers

Byron at the Theatre

Friday-Saturday 11th-12th May 2007

Clifton Campus, Nottingham Trent University

A one-and-a-half day conference held by the English Department, Nottingham Trent University, in association with the Newstead Abbey Byron Society, and the Midlands Romantic Seminar.

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting"

Of the Romantics, Byron was the most committed to writing plays: Manfred; Marino Faliero; Sardanapalus; The Two Foscari; Cain; The Deformed Transformed, to name but a few. We welcome papers addressing any aspect of Byron at the Theatre. Subjects could include

We are publishing a book on Indian Literature (Indian Writing in English)
dedicated to our teacher and head Dr B S Valke by the end of December.

We invite papers of high literary standards by scholars who would especially
like to present Poststructuralist Perspective on Indian Literature.

The papers must be maximum 3500 words in length, written in 12 font size
with double line spaces and enough margins on all the sides.

Works quoted must be duly acknowledged and reflected in the bibliography.
Please follow the MLA Style of writing, and ensure that your paper consists
of end notes.

The deadline for submission has been extended till the 20th of December.

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