The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (11/1/06; PCA/ACA,
4/4/07-4/7/07)
 
NATIONAL POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE
ASSOCIATIONS 2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
 
 April 4-7, 2007

 Boston Marriott Copley Place
110 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02116
  
 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2006
 
 We welcome papers and presentations on any aspect of the Gothic in
film, literature, or other forms of cultural expression. All critical
approaches are welcome.
 
You can propose an individual paper or a session of three or four
presenters.

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> The T. S. Eliot Society will sponsor two sessions at the 18th Annual
> Conference of the American Literature Association, May 24-27, 2007, at
> the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. Topics are open, though if
> interest warrants, one session may be devoted to Eliot and Auden,
> since
> 2007 is the latter's centennial.
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> Deadline for proposals to Professor William Harmon

CALL FOR PAPERS

The LYRICA SOCIETY FOR WORD-MUSIC RELATIONS is pleased to announce its annua=
l
colloquia at the National Opera Association's 2007 Convention, to be held in
New York City, January 4-7, 2007, at the Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue at
45th Street. Lyrica's sessions will be held on Saturday, January 6th, from
9-11 a.m. and from 2-4 p.m.

To complement the National Opera Association's Legacy Project, which honors
African-American singers, LYRICA's sessions honor African-American composers
and composers of the African diaspora.

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 28th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM,
February 14-17, 2007.

The Area Co-Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on any aspect of the Battlestar Gallactica franchise. Topics could include, but are not limited to the following:

• Core Series
• Novelizations (including graphic novels)
• Fan Fiction
• Card Game (particularly as narrative)

Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, or 500 word panel proposals, including full contact info for all participants, to

C. Jason Smith
jsmith_at_lagcc.cuny.edu

    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.
   
  UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 3, 2006
   
  Politics & Law (PCA) is 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

        AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ITALIAN STUDIES
        Colorado Springs 3-6 May 2007

        We seek proposals for our panel on "Venice in the Literary Imagination"
for the upcoming American Association for Italian Studies conference,
taking place in Colorado Springs from 3-6 May 2007.

LSU EGSA Mardi Gras Conference on Language and Literature.
Feb. 16-17, 2007
Lod Cook Alumni Center
Baton Rouge, LA

Members Only: Gatekeepers and the Future of Literary Studies

Keynote Speaker: Timothy Brennan, Professor of Comparative Literature,
Cultural Studies, and English, The University of Minnesota.
Selected Publications: Wars of Position: Cultural Politics of Left and
Right (2005), Ed. Music in Cuba (2001), At Home in the World:
Cosmopolitanism Now (1997), .

The English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) welcomes submissions
on a variety of topics relating to language, literature, film,
cultural studies and pedagogy, for its 17th annual EGSA Mardi Gras
Conference.

The Philip Larkin Society in association with

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PHILIP LARKIN CENTRE

 FOR POETRY AND CREATIVE WRITING

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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THIRD HULL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

THE WORK OF PHILIP LARKIN

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LARKIN'S ELSEWHERES

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    CALL FOR PAPERS
   
  As Area Chair for the SPORTS AREA
  of the Popular Culture Association and
  the American Culture Association,
  I invite proposals for individual presentations
  or panels to be presented at the
   
  POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
  & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
  2007 JOINT CONFERENCE
   
  to be held at the
   
  BOSTON MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE
  BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
   
  April 4-7, 2007
   
  UPDATED Submission Deadline: 3 November 2006
   
  Papers or presentations should be planned for no more
  than twenty minutes and should emphasize audience

Please note the extended deadline:

Call for Workshops and Papers

D.I.Y. for Girls

Sponsored by the Girls and Their Allies Caucus
National Women's Studies Association
28th Annual Conference
June 28 – July 1, 2007
Pheasant Run, St. Charles, Illinois

Keynote speaker announced:

MATC (Mid-America Theatre Conference)
Changing Theatrical Landscapes:
Mapping New Directions in History, Pedagogy and Practice
For the 21st Century

Hyatt Regency Hotel
Minneapolis, Minnesota
March 1-4, 2007

Mid-America Theatre Conference is pleased to announce that the keynote =
speaker for its March 2007 Conference will be Lou Bellamy, Founder and =
Artistic Director of Penumbra Theatre Company.

MATC is equally pleased to announce that Professor Michal Kobialka, =
Professor and Chair of The Department of Theatre and Dance at the =
University of Minnesota will serve as Respondent for our Theatre History =
Symposium.

UPDATE: Annie Proulx and the Geographical Imagination (11/15/06; =
collection)

Deadline for Proposals Extended to November 15

Annie Proulx and the Geographical Imagination: =20
Rethinking Regionalism, Place, and the Local

London in Text and History, 1400-1700

13-15 September 2007 at Jesus College, Oxford

Organisers: Ian Archer (Oxford), Matthew Davies (Centre for Metropolitan
History, London), Ian Gadd (Bath Spa), Tracey Hill (Bath Spa), Paulina Kewes
(Oxford)

Plenary speakers include: Paul Griffiths, Rob Hulme, Mark Jenner, Mark
Knights and Peter Stallybrass

CALL FOR PAPERS

This conference will focus on the variety of metropolitan identities, and
how these were constructed, represented, and contested by contemporaries
through a variety of media, including text (broadly
defined), visual culture, maps, architecture and performance.

London in Text and History, 1400-1700

13-15 September 2007 at Jesus College, Oxford

Organisers: Ian Archer (Oxford), Matthew Davies (Centre for Metropolitan
History, London), Ian Gadd (Bath Spa), Tracey Hill (Bath Spa), Paulina Kewes
(Oxford)

Plenary speakers include: Paul Griffiths, Rob Hulme, Mark Jenner, Mark
Knights and Peter Stallybrass

CALL FOR PAPERS

This conference will focus on the variety of metropolitan identities, and
how these were constructed, represented, and contested by contemporaries
through a variety of media, including text (broadly
defined), visual culture, maps, architecture and performance.