³Unstable Zones: Self and Other in British Narratives of First Encounters²
An International Conference on British Narratives of Exploration

22 - 23 March 2007

Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Lyon, France

³Unstable Zones: Self and Other in British Narratives of First Encounters²
An International Conference on British Narratives of Exploration

22 - 23 March 2007

Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Lyon, France

The concept of "the beautiful young man," as clearly recognized in such works
as Herman Melville's "Billy Budd" and Edward Albee's "The American Dream," is
a pervasive archetype in American literature, and it problematizes,
challenges and queers heteronormative paradigms of representation. This panel seeks to
explore iterations of the archetype and how it informs a broader contextual
understanding of other American literary concepts such as R.W. B. Lewis'
"American Adam." Sponsored by the NEMLA LGBT Caucus. Submissions, inquiries, and
250-300 word abstracts may be sent electronically (in MSWord format as an
attachment) to Donald P. Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University:

 
CALL FOR PAPERS

SLASH 2: THE 2nd DMU FANFICTION STUDY DAY

Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Tuesday 27th February 2007

10.00 am - 6.00 pm

After the success of last year's Slash Fiction Study Day, Slash 2 offers
another slash-friendly forum for discussion of the most exciting
developments in fanfic.

The effect of cityscapes on the creative imagination has in recent years
become one of the countless concerns of contemporary cultural criticism, but
surprisingly little attention has been paid to the medieval roots of the
perception of urban environments. Building upon the considerable recent work
on the city in the Middle Ages, this session aims to address this critical
vacuum by bringing together papers that discuss the relationship of town and
country in the medieval imagination. Can we sustain a belief in an ultimate
and insurmountable otherness of the medieval imagination or are the medieval
and postmodern views of cityscapes in fact two sides of the same coin? I

EDMUND BURKE AND THE BUSINESS OF AFFECTION
The English Faculty, University of Oxford
26-27 June 2007

2007 sees the 250th anniversary of the publication of Edmund Burke's
'Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime
and the Beautiful'. To mark the occasion there will be a two-day
academic conference on Burke at the English Faculty, Oxford
University. Accommodation will be available to delegates at St.
Catherine's College, Oxford. The conference is scheduled for the last
week of June 2007 (Tuesday and Wednesday 26th-27th).

Call for Papers

Mystery and Detective Fiction

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

This open session welcomes proposals concerning any aspect of mystery
and detective fiction. Please send abstracts or completed papers,
preferably as Microsoft Word attachments to e-mail, to Bob Winston at
winston_at_dickinson.edu or by mail to Department of English, Dickinson
College, P.O. Box 17013-2896.

Please include:
Name and Affiliation
E-mail address
Postal Address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any)

DEADLINE: September 15, 2006

Call for Papers

Mystery and Detective Fiction

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

This open session welcomes proposals concerning any aspect of mystery
and detective fiction. Please send abstracts or completed papers,
preferably as Microsoft Word attachments to e-mail, to Bob Winston at
winston_at_dickinson.edu or by mail to Department of English, Dickinson
College, P.O. Box 17013-2896.

Please include:
Name and Affiliation
E-mail address
Postal Address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any)

DEADLINE: September 15, 2006

Northeast Modern Language Association March 1-4.
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Call for papers: "Earth, Air, Water, Fire: Twentieth Century Poetics of
Simplicity"

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Much of the best known and most widely admired poetry of the last
hundred years displays, even flaunts, its bookishness, its elaborate and
often thrilling systems of allusion and symbology, its theoretical
sophistication. The best of this work, from the high modernists to the
language poets, is both dazzling and exhilarating. We love this stuff,
for itself no doubt, and rightly, but possibly also for the way the
arcana make us feel useful to our students.

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'evolutions': a two-day international conference hosted by the School
of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh,
22-23 September 2006.

CFP Panel:Panel Call: Intelligent/Divine: Religion versus Rationality?

Medieval Popular Culture
  CALL FOR PAPERS
   
  The Medieval Popular Culture area
  of the Popular Culture Association invites
  abstracts for the next annual meeting:
   
  APRIL 4 - 7, 2007
  BOSTON, MA
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
   
  Submissions are welcome on any aspect of popular culture
  in the Middle Ages, as well as on medieval themes, motifs,
  and medievalism in modern popular culture.
   
  We are also soliciting submissions for the following panels:
   
  TEACHING ROUNDTABLE: How to use popular culture
  to teach the Middle Ages, including films, comics, novels
  and other cultural products.
   
  PROTEAN ARTHUR: Explore

CFP=3A =93Chick Lit=2E=94 Area
Abstract/Proposals by 15 November 2006
Southwest/Texas Popular =26 American Culture Associations 28th Annual =

Conference
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Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque=2C NM 87102
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those interested are encouraged to participate=2E (Graduate =

students/future teachers are particularly welcome to participate or =

register to attend the conference=2E) Listed below are some suggestions =

for possible presentations=2C but topics not included here are also =

Proposals are sought for essays to be published in an edited collection titled Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition. Please see the description of the proposed collection below. Cambridge Scholars Press has expressed interest in publishing this collection; negotiations for publication will be completed later this year, and completed essays will be due in late 2006.

Description:

CFP: Reference book on American popular fiction (no deadline; book)

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