Call for papers: 'C.S. Lewis: Critic, Christian and creative writer', April
13-14, 2006, University of Manchester, UK

Contributions are invited for a major international and interdisciplinary
conference reassessing the critical, creative and theological work of C. S.
Lewis. This conference is being hosted by the University of Manchester, UK, and
is being planned in conjuction with the Centre for Literature and Belief,
University of Ulster, UK.

Contributors should send a 100-word abstract and brief CV to crawford.gribben
[at] manchester.ac.uk by Friday November 24 2006.

  UPDATE: Proposals due by November 20 (deadline extended from October 20)
   
  CALL FOR PAPERS
  
  "Using Digital Archives in the Classroom"
  SHARP 2007 Conference
  Minneapolis, Minnesota
  July 11-15, 2007
   
  This year's SHARP conference theme is "Open the Book, Open the Mind," which will highlight how books develop and extend minds and cultures, and also how they are opened to new media and new purposes. With this in mind, I will propose a panel on the most current form of literary media: digital archives. Subject to acceptance by the SHARP conference committee.)
   

Call for Papers

18th Annual Conference

American Literature Association

May 24-27, 2007

Boston, Massachusetts

The James Fenimore Cooper Society welcomes submissions for its panel at
the 18th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be
held in Boston, May 24-27, 2007.

of graduate student scholarship.
  Along with your abstract attachment, please include home and office numbers, complete mailing address, e-mail address, AV requirements, and professional affiliation. E-mail submissions are encouraged and more information is available online: http://www.asu.edu/clubs/gsea/sw/.
  Please send no more 350 word abstracts, attention Stacey, to: asu2007symp_at_yahoo.com
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of graduate student scholarship.
  Along with your abstract attachment, please include home and office numbers, complete mailing address, e-mail address, AV requirements, and professional affiliation. E-mail submissions are encouraged and more information is available online: http://www.asu.edu/clubs/gsea/sw/.
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Call for Papers, Presentations, and Participation
15th ANNUAL COMICS ARTS CONFERENCE-CCI

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Abstracts for papers, panels, poster sessions, and slide talks are being =
accepted for a for a joint meeting of scholars and professionals during

Comic-Con International
San Diego, California July 26-29, 2007

We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical =
perspectives, and welcome the participation of academic, independent, =
and fan scholars. We welcome professionals from all areas of the comics =
industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, =
distributors, and journalists.

CALL FOR PAPERS NINTH INTERNATIONAL F. SCOTT FITZGERALD CONFERENCE LONDON,
U.K. 8-14 JULY 2007 The Ninth International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference
will be held in London, from 8 through 14 July 2007. Senate House, near
Russell Square in Bloomsbury, will be the conference center where panels
and plenary sessions will be held.

Proposals are invited on any aspect of Fitzgerald studies. We would,
however, particularly welcome such subjects as Fitzgerald's reputation in
England, the influence of British writers on his work, including Keats,
Conrad, and the Victorian novelists, and British writers of the 1920s whom
Fitzgerald admired.

We are seeking contributions for a collection of essays (to present for
publication in 2007) which will address the status of the workshop model in
creative writing and composition. The workshop model has been around for a
long time. Has it become static or is it alive and well in our writing
classes? What's working and what's not? What is its aim, purpose, and
future? How do teachers keep workshops fresh and productive? What innovative
techniques are used in conjunction with the workshop model?

Contributors should contact Dianne Donnelly-Smith at djsmith_at_mail.usf.edu.

Deadline for submission is 11/08/06.

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, & PANEL PROPOSALS
   
  A NEW POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION AREA
   
  SENIOR CULTURE:
  SENIORS AND AGING IN POPULAR CULTURE
   
  Mission Statement--The purpose of this area within the Popular
  Culture Association will be to sponsor panels, often comparative
  in nature across regions and countries, on the life-styles,
  mores, leisure, organizations, depiction, re-invention and treatment
  of those aged 55 and over both in the past and the present.
   
  This Area will debut at the PCA/ACA Conference in
  Boston, MA, April 4 -7, 2007
   
  Send paper, abstract or panel proposal by November 15 to:
   

Paper proposals are sought for the following seminar at the American
Comparative Literature Association conference on Trans, Pan, Intra: Cultures
in Contact, to be held in Puebla, Mexico, April 19-22:

"Missing Pieces: Theatre, Performance and Circulation in the Americas"

Seminar Organizers:
Sarah J. Townsend, NYU
Kahlil Chaar, NYU

CFP: HBO's Deadwood, Television Area, SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/06; 2/14-17/07)
The 28th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA, February 14-17, 2007, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM.
The SW/TX PCA/ACA annual conference represents one of the nation's largest gatherings of interdisciplinary scholars. A panel is being organized on David Milch's series Deadwood. The following list of topics is meant only to be suggestive and not exclusionary.

The journal /qui parle/ is seeking submissions for a special dossier,
"Urban Intercessions: The City as Limit Politics." The dossier will
focus on how we could imagine the effects and conditions of violence or
political force — whether it be legal, racial, geographic, or gendered,
and whether the force be oppressive or emancipatory — within the
specific locality of a metropolitan context, one which is somehow
inflected by local or particular concerns and yet reflects a global,
international, or, at the very least, extra-metropolitan politics. What
role does the city — "modern" or "not" — have in current inter/national
political formations? How does it function as a site of violence or

The MELUS WOCC(Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the
United States, Women of Color Caucus) invites proposals for a panel at
the MELUS 21st Annual Conference, March 22-25, 2007, hosted by
California State University, Fresno. This session engages with the
overall conference theme of "Work, Migration, and Globalization:
Contested Journeys in Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature."

The MELUS WOCC(Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the
United States, Women of Color Caucus) invites proposals for a panel at
the MELUS 21st Annual Conference, March 22-25, 2007, hosted by
California State University, Fresno. This session engages with the
overall conference theme of "Work, Migration, and Globalization:
Contested Journeys in Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature."