New due date:

            In an interview with Amnesty International , Chilean writer and activist Ariel Dorfman explains
            that, despite efforts to silence survivors of human rights violations, "Somehow the stories do come
            out, those voices do come out. I am not their voice: I make a space for those voices, a bridge."
            Dorfman's insights raise questions about the role of literature in the struggle for human rights.
             How do writers represent often unspeakable crimes against humanity and create a cultural memory that
            recognizes the forgotten or marginalized voices from the past? What does it mean to bear witness
            through literature?

New due date:

            In an interview with Amnesty International , Chilean writer and activist Ariel Dorfman explains
            that, despite efforts to silence survivors of human rights violations, "Somehow the stories do come
            out, those voices do come out. I am not their voice: I make a space for those voices, a bridge."
            Dorfman's insights raise questions about the role of literature in the struggle for human rights.
             How do writers represent often unspeakable crimes against humanity and create a cultural memory that
            recognizes the forgotten or marginalized voices from the past? What does it mean to bear witness
            through literature?

Histories of Representation: 19th-Century France and 21st- Century =
Culture

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Histories of Representation: 19th-Century France and 21st- Century =
Culture

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Announcement of Keynote Speaker
  New Submission Deadline
   
  Keynote Speaker: Professor James Kincaid
  James Kincaid is Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California. His recent works include Annoying the Victorians (1995), Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting (1998), and A history of the African-American people (proposed) by Strom Thurmond : a novel (as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid) (2004).

Representing the Crowd in U.S. Literatures and Cultures

New England American Studies Association Conference: "Homeland
In/Securities: Race and Citizenship in the United States"
September 15-16, 2006
University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
 

Papers are sought from scholars working in literature, gender studies
and/or film to present 15-minute papers on representations of gender and
the natural world.
The 60th Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association will be held in Tucson, Arizona on October 12-14, 2006.
Deadline for proposals: March 1, 2006.

Please forward proposals to:

Precious McKenzie Stearns (Session Chair)
Department of English, CPR 107
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33620
or via email: pmmckenz_at_mail.usf.edu

and

Papers are sought from scholars working in literature, gender studies
and/or film to present 15-minute papers on representations of gender and
the natural world.
The 60th Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association will be held in Tucson, Arizona on October 12-14, 2006.
Deadline for proposals: March 1, 2006.

Please forward proposals to:

Precious McKenzie Stearns (Session Chair)
Department of English, CPR 107
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33620
or via email: pmmckenz_at_mail.usf.edu

and

2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
November 8-12, 2006
www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: Science and Documentaries

Filmmakers who identify themselves as documentary makers have, throughout
the history of the form, made films that represent scientific themes. This
can be seen to have occurred at four levels:

Deadline changed:

The call for papers for the "Place in American Indian History, Literature &
Culture" conference, 29th-31st March 2006
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/schools/humanities/conferences/american_indian.html
has now closed. However delegates who simply wish to attend and not give a
paper may still register until 28th February 2006.

Deadline changed:

The call for papers for the "Place in American Indian History, Literature &
Culture" conference, 29th-31st March 2006
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/schools/humanities/conferences/american_indian.html
has now closed. However delegates who simply wish to attend and not give a
paper may still register until 28th February 2006.

DIFFERENCE REFRAMED: REFLECTIONS ON THE LEGACIES OF FEMINIST ART
HISTORY AND VISUAL CULTURE

One-day conference at the University of Sussex, UK
Saturday 16 September 2006

Confirmed Speaker: Professor Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds, UK.

CALL FOR PAPERS
(abstract deadline: 12 May 2006)

DIFFERENCE REFRAMED: REFLECTIONS ON THE LEGACIES OF FEMINIST ART
HISTORY AND VISUAL CULTURE

One-day conference at the University of Sussex, UK
Saturday 16 September 2006

Confirmed Speaker: Professor Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds, UK.

CALL FOR PAPERS
(abstract deadline: 12 May 2006)

(dis)junctions 2006: lost in translation
University of California Riverside
April 7-8, 2006
Keynote Speaker: Professor James Kincaid

The University of California Riverside's annual (dis)junctions conference is
extending the deadline for submissions to Tuesday, February 28, 2006. If
you have an idea that you wanted to submit, but missed the original deadline
of Feb. 1, we will now be accepting abstracts until the 28th of February.

CFP: Alternative Representations of Father/Son Relationships (dis)junctions:
(grad) (2/28/06; 4/7/06-4/8/06)

(dis)junctions; Lost in Translation (April 7-8, 2006)