M E S T E R
2006 Call for Papers, General Issue
Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its upcoming 35th
anniversary issue to be published in June 2006.

Our new volume will be open to any topic related to the scope of the
journal. Mester publishes critical articles, interviews, and book
reviews in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish-American,
Brazilian, Chicano, and Latina/o literatures and linguistics. Mester
also welcomes articles in other disciplines such as Comparative
Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Articles may be
written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.

I am soliciting proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of English
Seventeenth-Century lyric poetry for a session at the Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association (RMMLA).

The annual meetings of the RMMLA will take place from October 12 until
October 14, 2006 in Tucson, Arizona.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words either as WORD or RTF
attachments via e-mail or via regular mail. All submissions must be
received by midnight on March 1, 2006. I'll e-mail notification of
acceptance by March 15, 2006.

Please send proposals to Eileen Abrahams at ei_at_vownet.net
or to

Announcing the First Annual InterDisciplines Graduate Student Conference at
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

Inter-disciplining the Body

Call for Papers

NeoAmericanist
Online Student Journal for American Studies

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The editors of NeoAmericanist, an online multi/inter-disciplinary journal
for the study of America, are issuing a call for papers among interested
Undergraduate and Graduate students. We are accepting original ARTICLES as
well as book and film REVIEWS from Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level
students on the comprehensive topic of America. The submission DEADLINE fo=
r
the next issue is JANUARY 1ST 2006.

Call for Papers

NeoAmericanist
Online Student Journal for American Studies

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The editors of NeoAmericanist, an online multi/inter-disciplinary journal
for the study of America, are issuing a call for papers among interested
Undergraduate and Graduate students. We are accepting original ARTICLES as
well as book and film REVIEWS from Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level
students on the comprehensive topic of America. The submission DEADLINE fo=
r
the next issue is JANUARY 1ST 2006.

Call for papers for the "Intersections of Location and Literature in 19th and 20th Century
American Milieus" panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (Oakland,
California, 2006). This panel focuses on relationships between place, author and text, involving
ideas of interaction that link artistic, social, physical, emotional and/or temporal spaces.
Themes can include, but are not limited to: questions of public and private; readings of the
palimpsestic; multiculturalisms; blurs and borders in physical, psychological, sexual, spiritual
and class lines; submission and resistance; the situated subject, as in we how we "act from" and

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CFP: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/17/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)

ROMANTICISM, ENVIRONMENT, CRISIS

23-27 June 2006
Centre for Romantic Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Romanticism, Environment, Crisis" will highlight the continuing urgency
of the Romantic text at a time when changes in our biosphere threaten to
realize Romanticism's prophetic anxieties, its darkest imaginings.

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CFP: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/17/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)

ROMANTICISM, ENVIRONMENT, CRISIS

23-27 June 2006
Centre for Romantic Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Romanticism, Environment, Crisis" will highlight the continuing urgency
of the Romantic text at a time when changes in our biosphere threaten to
realize Romanticism's prophetic anxieties, its darkest imaginings.

International Conference « BORDERLINES and BORDERLANDS II »
organized by the Resarch Center « Espaces/Ecritures » - Université Paris
X -

June 22, 23 and 24, 2006
Université de Paris X
Salle des Conférences – Bât. B

 
                                         
                      BORDERLINES and BORDERLANDS II

Call for Papers

Sexuality Out of Place
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

March 31st—April 1st 2006, Earlham College

The 2006 "Sexuality Out of Place" conference is focused on examining the
relationship of space, place, and geography with sexuality; it interested in
exploring the different ways the location of identity plays out when
sexuality, sexual difference, and geography are taken seriously. This
conference will welcome graduate work—historical and contemporary—focused on
discourse, narratives, and practices of sexuality understood through the
prism of place and space, including

*A Symposium in Rhetoric: "Kairos & Film Studies"*

*Open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars*

The Federation Rhetoric Committee

of the Federation of North Texas Area Universities

Texas Woman's University - Denton, Texas

ACT Bldg. 2nd Floor
February 24, 2006

The William Faulkner Society will sponsor two panels at the 2006 American
Literature Association conference, to be held May 25-28 in San
Francisco. We welcome papers on all topics relating to the work of William
Faulkner, but would be especially interested in presentations addressing
Faulkner and postcoloniality; Faulkner and "things"; Faulkner and the West;
Faulkner and form.

Please send abstracts by e-mail attachment to Faulkner Society president
Anne Goodwyn Jones: agjones_at_olemiss.edu. The deadline for submissions is
January 15, 2006.

Surrealism and the American West Conference
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, October 26-7, 2006;
<http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmesch/SurrWesthome.htm>

Latin American Perspectives invites submissions for a special issue
devoted to Narratives of Collective Memory in Latin America.

The central theme of this special issue of Latin American Perspectives
is to interrogate the diverse forms of articulation of cultural memory
in Latin America in the Post-dictatorship period.