“LitFest 2007: The Digital Revolution in Poetry and Prose.”

Call for Papers for the University of Dayton’s LitFest, April 13th and
14th, 2007

You are invited to submit paper or panel proposals for the University of
Dayton’s LitFest, to be held at the University of Dayton, April 13th and
14th, 2007. Organized by Department of English graduate students, the UD
LitFest has brought academic and creative submissions together since 2001.

We seek papers on the following:

The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) will hold its 2007
Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Pacific Coast Conference on British
Studies (PCCBS), in San Francisco, California, from Friday, November 9 to
Sunday, November 11, 2007.

The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) will hold its 2007
Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Pacific Coast Conference on British
Studies (PCCBS), in San Francisco, California, from Friday, November 9 to
Sunday, November 11, 2007.

The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) will hold its 2007
Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Pacific Coast Conference on British
Studies (PCCBS), in San Francisco, California, from Friday, November 9 to
Sunday, November 11, 2007.

Dear friends,

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue: Jan Hendrick van den Berg's Metabletics and Phenomenology

Guest edited by
Robert D. Romanyshyn, PhD

Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, =
Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology and the Arts
http://www.janushead.org

For more details, please see the submission guidelines page at Janus =
Head:
http://www.janushead.org/jhguidelines.cfm

Thank you,
Brent Dean Robbins
Editor-in-Chief
Janus Head

Call for Papers: Surf Culture

Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference

Honolulu, HI

May 25-27, 2007

Chaminade University of Honolulu

Panel and individual paper proposals are now being accepted for the Surf =
Culture Area of the inaugural Oceanic Popular Culture Association =
Conference. All topics and proposals will be considered, and those =
treating the conference theme of "Work and Play" will be especially =
welcome. Possible areas of focus might include surf history, culture, =
literature, music, design evolution, etc.

Some Example Topics:

Rite and Ritual: the signification of surfing in early Polynesian =
cultures

CALL FOR PAPERS =20

Ben Jonson in the 21st Century
Special Topics Session, RMMLA 2007, Calgary, 4-6 October, 2007

Second year Special Topics Session anticipating the new Cambridge =
Jonson. Papers on any topic in Jonson studies invited.

Send a 200-500-word abstract to:=20
barbara.cobb_at_murraystate.edu
by 1 March, 2007.=20

Hard copy submissions may be sent to: Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State =
University, 7C Faculty Hall, Murray, KY 42071.

Conference information and CFP may be found at www.rmmla.org
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CALL FOR PAPERS (Including performances, designs, exhibitions,
installations)

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Sacred, Liminal and Secular Space(s).

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Faculty of Creativity and Culture

School of Arts and Media, Annual One Day Interdisciplinary Conference.

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Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, April 21st 2007.

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How have scholars and practitioners interpreted and appropriated space
within their work and research?=20

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CALL FOR PAPERS (Including performances, designs, exhibitions,
installations)

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Sacred, Liminal and Secular Space(s).

=20

=20

Faculty of Creativity and Culture

School of Arts and Media, Annual One Day Interdisciplinary Conference.

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Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, April 21st 2007.

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How have scholars and practitioners interpreted and appropriated space
within their work and research?=20

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The English Department at The University of Alabama is inviting
proposals for its biannual symposium to be held March 29-30, 2007.
Entitled "Eruptions of Funk," the symposium will provide a venue in
which scholars and artists can engage issues specifically related to
African American cultural memory. Featured speakers include:

Mark Anthony Neal
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Rickey Vincent
Kalamu ya Salaam
Tracie Morris
Cheryl Keyes

61st Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
October 4-6, 2007, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Website: rmmla.wsu.edu

Call for papers
Literature and Religion Session
We welcome submission of proposals for individual papers that consider,
but are not limited to, the relationship of literature to the following
issues:

Reproduction of national/religious ideology
Religious archetypes
Religion and gender/sexuality/race
Colonialism/postcolonialism/ neocolonialism and religion
Representations of the messianic or the apocalyptic
Religion and the family/national imaginary

Call for Papers
 
The Toni Morrison Society is hosting panels at the American Literature Association conference to be held in Boston, MA, May 24-27, 2007. Papers are being solicited for the panels listed below.
 
 
Toni Morrison: The Foreigner's Home
 

Authenticity and the Lyric Voice

Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre
Oxford Brookes University
May 12-13, 2007

Call for Papers

'Authenticity and the Lyric Voice' is a two-day colloquium taking place =
at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, over the weekend of May 12-13, =
2007.

The colloquium is hosted by the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre and is open =
to anyone with an interest in modern and contemporary poetry, regardless =
of whether or not they have any academic affiliation. Graduate students =
are also welcome to submit proposals.

We welcome papers which engage with any aspect of this topic, but the =
focus should be on twentieth- and/or twenty-first-century poetry.

Announcement & Call for submissions

A new, special issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception
studies, a new journal which aims to provide an on-line, interdisciplinary forum
for the fields of audience and reception studies, is now available.