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CFP: Neglected Southern Writers/Raymond Andrews (10/15/06; 2/23/07-2/24/07)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
Emily Wright

CALL FOR PAPERS, 19TH SOUTHERN WRITERS SYMPOSIUM, February 23-24, 2007, METHODIST COLLEGE, FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, FEATURED SPEAKER: TRUDIER HARRIS. The theme of the next Southern Writers Symposium will be NEGLECTED SOUTHERN WRITERS. We invite papers and panels describing the works of little-known southern writers and exploring their relationship to the southern literary canon.

CFP: Romance (11/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
Leslie Fife

NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE &
  AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
  2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For more information on the PCA/ACA, please
  go to http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.
   
  DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2006
   
  We are considering proposals for sessions organized around
  a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are
  scheduled in 1½ hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers
  per standard session.
   
  Should you or any of your colleagues be interested in submitting

CFP: Romance (11/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
Leslie Fife

NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE &
  AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
  2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
   
  April 4-7, 2007
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For more information on the PCA/ACA, please
  go to http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.
   
  DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2006
   
  We are considering proposals for sessions organized around
  a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are
  scheduled in 1½ hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers
  per standard session.
   
  Should you or any of your colleagues be interested in submitting

CFP: Words & Notes in the 19th Century (UK) (11/1/06; 7/2/07-7/3/07)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
Geoffrey Chew

CALL FOR PAPERS

Words and Notes in the Nineteenth Century (London, 2-3 July 2007)

Focusing on a century that fostered a growth industry in musical writing
of many kinds (musical novels, programme notes, musical poetry, music
appreciation texts, journalism, scientific treatises, biography, etc.),
this conference seeks to address three main questions. How is music
conceptualized in various textual situations/locations between c.1789 and
1914? How can we best approach the relationships between music and texts?
In what ways might comparative study of different languages, genres or
cultural contexts help us explore the workings of word-music
relationships?

CFP: The Animal in 17th and 18th Century America (9/15/06; OIEAHC & SEA, 6/7/07-6/10/07)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
Michael Ziser

CALL FOR PAPERS

2007 Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OIEAHC) and
Society of Early Americanists (SEA) Conference
June 7 to June 10th, 2007
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia
(conference website:
http://www.wm.edu/oieahc/conferences/13thannual/panel_list.cfm)

The Animal in 17th and 18th Century America
(link to panel webpage:
http://www.wm.edu/oieahc/conferences/13thannual/panel_details.cfm?PanelID=93)

CFP: Jack London's Life and Works (11/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
Louise E.Wright

Papers on any aspect of Jack London's life and works are invited for
the 2007 Popular Culture Association Conference. The conference will
be held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts
from 4-7 April. Please submit an abstract of 150-200 words by 1
November 2006 to:

Louise E. Wright
Area Chair, Jack London's Life and Works
3334 Midvale Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19129
lewright_at_dca.net

For further information, please visit the PCA/ACA website at
http://www.popularculture.org

CFP: The Merry Widow: Rethinking Widowhood in History, Culture, and Society (UK) (12/31/06; 7/7/07-7/9/07)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
McAvoy E.

THE MERRY WIDOW: RETHINKING WIDOWHOOD IN HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
=20
Papers and full sessions for a strand on medieval widowhood are =
currently
being sought for a conference hosted by the Centre for Research into =
Gender
in Culture and Society (GENCAS) at the University of Wales, Swansea =
July
7th-9th, 2007.

Keynote Speakers:=20
Veena Talwar Oldenburg, Professor of History, Baruch College, CUNY
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Professor of German Literature, Exeter College,
Oxford
Dr Anneke Mulder-Bakker, Fellow in Medieval History, University of =
Leiden,
Netherlands
Susie Boyt, Novelist

CFP: Queer(ing) Melodrama (8/1/06; SCMS, 3/8/07-3/11/07)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
Mcharper65_at_aol.com

2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Chicago, IL
March 8-11, 2007

I am currently seeking papers for the following panel:

Queer(ing) Melodrama

Recent theories of genre encourage thinking of melodrama not as a singular
generic category, but as a sustained modality in all popular American films
(among other national industries). As such, melodrama would possess a
democratizing potential for personifying social forces within a visual realm, thus
contesting the ideologies and binaries that produce cultural "others."

CFP: The Merry Widow: Rethinking Widowhood in History, Culture, and Society (UK) (12/31/06; 7/7/07-7/9/07)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
McAvoy E.

THE MERRY WIDOW: RETHINKING WIDOWHOOD IN HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
=20
Papers and full sessions for a strand on medieval widowhood are =
currently
being sought for a conference hosted by the Centre for Research into =
Gender
in Culture and Society (GENCAS) at the University of Wales, Swansea =
July
7th-9th, 2007.

Keynote Speakers:=20
Veena Talwar Oldenburg, Professor of History, Baruch College, CUNY
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Professor of German Literature, Exeter College,
Oxford
Dr Anneke Mulder-Bakker, Fellow in Medieval History, University of =
Leiden,
Netherlands
Susie Boyt, Novelist

CFP: Politis & Law (11/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
Leslie Fife

NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE &
  AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
  2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
   
  April 4 – 7, 2007
   
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
  Boston, Massachusetts
   
  For more information on the PCA/ACA, please
  go to http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.
   
  DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2006
   
  We are considering proposals for sessions organized
  around a theme, special panels, and/or individual
  papers. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots,
  ideally with four papers or speakers per standard session.
   
  TOPICS: any topics relating to politics, law and popular

CFP: Queer(ing) Melodrama (8/1/06; SCMS, 3/8/07-3/11/07)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
Mcharper65_at_aol.com

2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Chicago, IL
March 8-11, 2007

I am currently seeking papers for the following panel:

Queer(ing) Melodrama

Recent theories of genre encourage thinking of melodrama not as a singular
generic category, but as a sustained modality in all popular American films
(among other national industries). As such, melodrama would possess a
democratizing potential for personifying social forces within a visual realm, thus
contesting the ideologies and binaries that produce cultural "others."

CFP: The Merry Widow: Rethinking Widowhood in History, Culture, and Society (UK) (12/31/06; 7/7/07-7/9/07)

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2006 - 11:12am
McAvoy E.

THE MERRY WIDOW: RETHINKING WIDOWHOOD IN HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
=20
Papers and full sessions for a strand on medieval widowhood are =
currently
being sought for a conference hosted by the Centre for Research into =
Gender
in Culture and Society (GENCAS) at the University of Wales, Swansea =
July
7th-9th, 2007.

Keynote Speakers:=20
Veena Talwar Oldenburg, Professor of History, Baruch College, CUNY
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Professor of German Literature, Exeter College,
Oxford
Dr Anneke Mulder-Bakker, Fellow in Medieval History, University of =
Leiden,
Netherlands
Susie Boyt, Novelist

CFP: The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference (8/25/06; 11/6/06-11/9/

updated: 
Monday, June 26, 2006 - 11:18pm
BRENNAN, SARAH

Please find the CFP for The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference below, and acknowledge receipt of this submission. If further information is needed, please let me know.
Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Sarah Brennan
__________________________________________________________________
THE AFRICAN PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE ON THE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Dedicated to Nicolás Guillén and Gwendolyn Brooks
November 2006

Paper/Proposal DEADLINE: AUGUST 25, 2006

CFP: The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference (8/25/06; 11/6/06-11/9/

updated: 
Monday, June 26, 2006 - 11:18pm
BRENNAN, SARAH

Please find the CFP for The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference below, and acknowledge receipt of this submission. If further information is needed, please let me know.
Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Sarah Brennan
__________________________________________________________________
THE AFRICAN PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE ON THE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Dedicated to Nicolás Guillén and Gwendolyn Brooks
November 2006

Paper/Proposal DEADLINE: AUGUST 25, 2006

CFP: The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference (8/25/06; 11/6/06-11/9/

updated: 
Monday, June 26, 2006 - 11:18pm
BRENNAN, SARAH

Please find the CFP for The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference below, and acknowledge receipt of this submission. If further information is needed, please let me know.
Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Sarah Brennan
__________________________________________________________________
THE AFRICAN PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE ON THE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Dedicated to Nicolás Guillén and Gwendolyn Brooks
November 2006

Paper/Proposal DEADLINE: AUGUST 25, 2006

CFP: The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference (8/25/06; 11/6/06-11/9/

updated: 
Monday, June 26, 2006 - 11:18pm
BRENNAN, SARAH

Please find the CFP for The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference below, and acknowledge receipt of this submission. If further information is needed, please let me know.
Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Sarah Brennan
__________________________________________________________________
THE AFRICAN PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE ON THE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Dedicated to Nicolás Guillén and Gwendolyn Brooks
November 2006

Paper/Proposal DEADLINE: AUGUST 25, 2006

CFP: Literature, Criticism and the Space Between in Contemporary Writing (12/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Monday, June 26, 2006 - 11:17pm
M.E.Llewellyn_at_liverpool.ac.uk

Critical F(r)iction? Literature, Criticism and the Space Between in Contemporary
Writing

"Generally, an English Lit degree trains you to be a useless member of the
modern world and that's what I'm being in the only way I know how." - Zadie
Smith

Essays are invited for a proposed collection on the theme of critical
f(r)iction, a term which denotes the potential
possibilities/opportunities/conflicts/problems in the work of critics who write
fiction, and creative writers who are also literary critics.

CFP: Literature, Criticism and the Space Between in Contemporary Writing (12/15/06; collection)

updated: 
Monday, June 26, 2006 - 11:17pm
M.E.Llewellyn_at_liverpool.ac.uk

Critical F(r)iction? Literature, Criticism and the Space Between in Contemporary
Writing

"Generally, an English Lit degree trains you to be a useless member of the
modern world and that's what I'm being in the only way I know how." - Zadie
Smith

Essays are invited for a proposed collection on the theme of critical
f(r)iction, a term which denotes the potential
possibilities/opportunities/conflicts/problems in the work of critics who write
fiction, and creative writers who are also literary critics.

CFP: Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers (7/31/06; collection)

updated: 
Monday, June 26, 2006 - 11:17pm
Guygirl1_at_aol.com

Editor seeks a few more essays for an edited collection tentatively entitled
"Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers, edited by
Joyce Harte.
 
At the invitation of Cambridge Scholars Press, I am submitting for
publication a book of critical scholarly essays on the topic of loss and mourning in
the writings of Caribbean women writers. Most of the essays for the book
derive from papers given at a conference of the North East Modern Language
Association in March 2006.
 
The consideration of loss and mourning in Caribbean women's writing is an
exciting new discourse emerging fefore us and, while there is a considerable

CFP: Representation of Sex and Sexuality in Recent Caribbean Women's Writing (9/15/06; NEMLA, 3/1/07-3/4/07)

updated: 
Monday, June 26, 2006 - 11:17pm
JHarte_at_bmcc.cuny.edu

Since the 1990s, recent Anglophone Caribbean writing has broken the
literary mold set by the text of the 1950s onwards by foregrounding the
trope of sex and sexuality, along with the relational categories of race,
class, and gender to give a fuller understanding of Caribbean reality.
There is now a pressing need for critical, scholarly, examination of this
new dimension of Caribbean literature.

I invite papers that examine the representation of sex and sexuality as
illustrated in the poetry, fiction, and autobiographical work of
contemporary women writers of the Anglophone Caibbean.

CFP: Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers (7/31/06; collection)

updated: 
Monday, June 26, 2006 - 11:17pm
Guygirl1_at_aol.com

Editor seeks a few more essays for an edited collection tentatively entitled
"Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers, edited by
Joyce Harte.
 
At the invitation of Cambridge Scholars Press, I am submitting for
publication a book of critical scholarly essays on the topic of loss and mourning in
the writings of Caribbean women writers. Most of the essays for the book
derive from papers given at a conference of the North East Modern Language
Association in March 2006.
 
The consideration of loss and mourning in Caribbean women's writing is an
exciting new discourse emerging fefore us and, while there is a considerable

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