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     The editors of the **Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, forthcoming in
2008 from Facts on File, are seeking contributors. We encourage prospective
authors to consult our website (see below) for available entries. ****
     Our encyclopedia is intended as a guide to bestselling contemporary
fiction, covering those works typically neglected by more "literary"
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during roughly the past 25 years (1980 to the present), along with entries
on a representative selection of individual works which have reached "top

"New Worlds, Lost Worlds": Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature
McGill University, Montréal
13th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
March 10-11, 2007

The English Graduate Students Association of McGill University is pleased to
announce its 13th annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, and
is seeking panel and paper proposals on the theme "New Worlds, Lost Worlds":
Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature. The conference will be held in
Montréal, Canada on March 10th-11th, 2007.

Call for Panels and Papers

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Special Issue on Education and Transformative Pedagogy

UPDATE: Deadline for submissions extended to November 15 2006

Call for Plays: ATHE Religion and Theatre Focus Group
"Sore Spots"

In the human body, soreness is a symptom of stress. It can indicate rapid
growth or long neglect, the beginning of repair or the end of exertion.
Religion both generates and heals sore spots. Not only institutional
religions but all forms of spiritual practices and beliefs can be used to
probe wounds, or as a salve; they can medicate, or can celebrate recovery.

"New Worlds, Lost Worlds": Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature
McGill University, Montréal
13th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
March 10-11, 2007

The English Graduate Students Association of McGill University is pleased to
announce its 13th annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, and
is seeking panel and paper proposals on the theme "New Worlds, Lost Worlds":
Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature. The conference will be held in
Montréal, Canada on March 10th-11th, 2007.

Call for Panels and Papers

13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
   
  Off the Map: Ecocriticism Beyond Borders

"Ecological thinking about literature requires us to take the nonhuman
world as seriously as previous modes of criticism have taken the human realm of society and culture. That, it seems to me, is ecocriticism's greatest challenge and its greatest opportunity."
- Glen A. Love, "Ecocriticism and Science"

13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
   
  Off the Map: Ecocriticism Beyond Borders

"Ecological thinking about literature requires us to take the nonhuman
world as seriously as previous modes of criticism have taken the human realm of society and culture. That, it seems to me, is ecocriticism's greatest challenge and its greatest opportunity."
- Glen A. Love, "Ecocriticism and Science"

College English Association National Conference
April 12-14, 2007
New Orleans, Louisiana

We invite papers on Afro-Caribbean literature for the 38th annual meeting of the CEA.

We welcome individual and panel presentation proposals that address Afro-Caribbean literatures in general, includingâ€"but not limited toâ€"the following possible themes:

College English Association National Conference
April 12-14, 2007
New Orleans, Louisiana

We invite papers on Afro-Caribbean literature for the 38th annual meeting of the CEA.

We welcome individual and panel presentation proposals that address Afro-Caribbean literatures in general, includingâ€"but not limited toâ€"the following possible themes:

*EMERGING PARADIGMS IN THE
SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD*
 First Annual Graduate Conference on Transatlantic and Cultural Studies
*Georgia** State University** and **the Center for Latin American and Latin=
o
Studies
*February 23-24, 2006

*Keynote speaker*

Dr. Ana del Sarto (Ohio State University)

"The Politics of Criticism: Beyond Latin American Cultural Studies?"

Proposals are especially encouraged on ( but not limited to) any aspect of
Literature, Linguistics, Culture, History, and Women Studies.

* *

*SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:*

Get a Registration form online at:

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CFP: bpNichol + 20 (04/01/2007; journal issue)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Deadlines: 1 December 2006 for proposals; 1 April 2007 for finished essays
Journal: Open Letter, A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory
Guest Editor: Lori Emerson

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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.