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CFP: Journal of Interactive Drama for April 2007 Issue (ongoing; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 8:57pm
Brian David Phillips

JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE DRAMA

A Multi-Discipline Peer-Reviewed Journal of
Scenario-Based Theatre-Style Interactive Drama Freeform Live Action Roleplaying Games

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Currently seeking submissions for the next issue the JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE DRAMA to be published in April. Accepting ongoing submissions throughout the year.

CFP: Journal of Interactive Drama for April 2007 Issue (ongoing; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 8:57pm
Brian David Phillips

JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE DRAMA

A Multi-Discipline Peer-Reviewed Journal of
Scenario-Based Theatre-Style Interactive Drama Freeform Live Action Roleplaying Games

CALL FOR PAPERS

________________________________________

Currently seeking submissions for the next issue the JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE DRAMA to be published in April. Accepting ongoing submissions throughout the year.

UPDATE: 21st Century Literature: Now through History (grad) (3/10/07; 3/24/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 8:57pm
Brian Whalen

UPDATE: We are now accepting CREATIVE PANELS or presentations for our =20=

conference. MA or MFA students have the opportunity to read their =20
creative work at a conference devoted to 21st Century Literature. =20
Deadline for abstracts is fast approaching, but there are still slots =20=

available for papers.

=9321st Century Literature: Now through History=94

Madison Conference -- March 24, 2007

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

             These imponderables are what I am finally concerned with =20=

=96 our sense of the ground under and around us, our=85 sense of =20=

UPDATE: 21st Century Literature: Now through History (grad) (3/10/07; 3/24/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 8:57pm
Brian Whalen

UPDATE: We are now accepting CREATIVE PANELS or presentations for our =20=

conference. MA or MFA students have the opportunity to read their =20
creative work at a conference devoted to 21st Century Literature. =20
Deadline for abstracts is fast approaching, but there are still slots =20=

available for papers.

=9321st Century Literature: Now through History=94

Madison Conference -- March 24, 2007

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

             These imponderables are what I am finally concerned with =20=

=96 our sense of the ground under and around us, our=85 sense of =20=

CFP: Rhetorical Approaches to Literature (3/10/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 8:57pm
Raymond Craig

Call for Papers: Special Topic "Rhetorical Approaches to Literature" for the
Rocky Mountain MLA Conference to be held in Calgary October 4-6, 2007. For
conference information: http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/

Seeking papers for this special session that employ or comment upon using
rhetorical tools in the criticism of literature, particularly those that
discuss the affordances and constraints of rhetorical approaches to
literature are welcome.

Please send abstract (e-mail submissions preferred) by MARCH 10, 2007 to

Raymond.craig_at_kent.edu

Or to Raymond Craig
Department of English
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44224

CFP: Rhetorical Approaches to Literature (3/10/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 8:57pm
Raymond Craig

Call for Papers: Special Topic "Rhetorical Approaches to Literature" for the
Rocky Mountain MLA Conference to be held in Calgary October 4-6, 2007. For
conference information: http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/

Seeking papers for this special session that employ or comment upon using
rhetorical tools in the criticism of literature, particularly those that
discuss the affordances and constraints of rhetorical approaches to
literature are welcome.

Please send abstract (e-mail submissions preferred) by MARCH 10, 2007 to

Raymond.craig_at_kent.edu

Or to Raymond Craig
Department of English
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44224

CFP: Scottish Literature and the Union (3/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 8:57pm
Sharon Alker

The 2007 MLA convention will be in Chicago. The Scottish Literature
Discussion Group panel session will be on:

'Scottish Literature and the Union'

In the context of the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Union, and the 10th
anniversary of the devolution referendum, we invite papers (15 mins) on the
interaction of Scottish literature, history and politics.

1-page proposals by 1st March to j.corbett_at_englang.arts.gla.ac.uk

John
Dr. Sharon Alker
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Whitman College
Walla Walla WA.
99362

CFP: Scottish Literature and the Union (3/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 8:57pm
Sharon Alker

The 2007 MLA convention will be in Chicago. The Scottish Literature
Discussion Group panel session will be on:

'Scottish Literature and the Union'

In the context of the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Union, and the 10th
anniversary of the devolution referendum, we invite papers (15 mins) on the
interaction of Scottish literature, history and politics.

1-page proposals by 1st March to j.corbett_at_englang.arts.gla.ac.uk

John
Dr. Sharon Alker
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Whitman College
Walla Walla WA.
99362

CFP: Hawthorne Society Panel at SAMLA (3/30/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 7:44pm
Gale Temple

Submissions are invited for a session hosted by the Nathaniel Hawthorne
Society at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference in
Atlanta, 9-11 November 2007.

Subject: Teaching Hawthorne

What do we want our students to learn from Hawthorne's writings? What
strategies do we use in the classroom to make Hawthorne relevant to
students today? All approaches to this topic are welcome. Please send 1-2
page abstracts for 20 minute papers to Gale Temple (gtemple_at_uab.edu) by
March 30, 2007.

CFP: Christianity, Love, and Desire (3/12/07; AAA,11/28/07-12/2/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 7:43pm
Lydia Cabell Boyd

Proposed Panel
American Anthropological Association (AAA): Nov. 28 – Dec. 2 2007
Washington, DC

Please send paper abstracts (250 words) and direct inquiries to: Lydia
Boyd (lydia.boyd_at_nyu.edu) by March 12th.

Hookin' up (with Jesus): Kinship, Desire, and Love among born-again
young adults in the Global South

CFP: Christianity, Love, and Desire (3/12/07; AAA,11/28/07-12/2/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 7:43pm
Lydia Cabell Boyd

Proposed Panel
American Anthropological Association (AAA): Nov. 28 – Dec. 2 2007
Washington, DC

Please send paper abstracts (250 words) and direct inquiries to: Lydia
Boyd (lydia.boyd_at_nyu.edu) by March 12th.

Hookin' up (with Jesus): Kinship, Desire, and Love among born-again
young adults in the Global South

CFP: Graduate Student Comparative Literature Journal Portals (grad) (3/2/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 7:43pm
jessie ferguson

Portals, the San Francisco State University's Comparative Literature
Student Association's Literary Journal, is accepting student
submissions of original, critical essays and short poetry translations
that explore comparative literary topics across cultural, regional,
linguistic, and temporal boundaries for the Spring 2007 issue!

Submission Guidelines

Comparative Essays:

CFP: Graduate Student Comparative Literature Journal Portals (grad) (3/2/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 7:43pm
jessie ferguson

Portals, the San Francisco State University's Comparative Literature
Student Association's Literary Journal, is accepting student
submissions of original, critical essays and short poetry translations
that explore comparative literary topics across cultural, regional,
linguistic, and temporal boundaries for the Spring 2007 issue!

Submission Guidelines

Comparative Essays:

CFP: Norman Mailer Conference (4/15/07; 10/11/07-10/13/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 7:23pm
Vince, Raymond

CALL FOR PAPER ABSTRACTS

NORMAN MAILER SOCIETY CONFERENCE

OCTOBER 11-13, 2007

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The Program Committee seeks proposals for panel presentations during the
Fifth Annual Conference of the Norman Mailer Society, to be held in
Provincetown, MA.

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CFP: German Poetry, including Translation (4/15/07; M/MLA, 11/8/07-11/10/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 7:09pm
Vahlbusch, Jefford B.

German Literature and Culture II. "German Poetry, including translation." W=
e welcome 20-minute papers on any period and all aspects of German-language=
 poetry. Inquiries welcome. Send 200-word abstracts (as e-mail attachments=
) to Geoff Howes, Bowling Green State University (ghowes_at_bgnet.bgsu.edu) an=
d Jeff Vahlbusch, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (vahlbujb_at_uwec.edu) by=
 15 April 2007.
The conference is being held this year in Cleveland, Ohio. For more informa=
tion, see the M/MLA website.

Jefford Vahlbusch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of German
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
vahlbujb_at_uwec.edu
Phone: 715-836-4490

UPDATE: Leisure and the Making of Knowledge in 18th-century Europe (Germany) (3/16/07; 10/31/07-11/2/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 7:09pm
Felix Sprang

Call for Papers (extended deadline):
"Leisure and the making of knowledge in 18th-century Europe"
31 October – 2 November 2007, University of Hamburg, Germany
http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/fb07/lits/AGWL.html

"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were
they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
Samuel Johnson "Rambler" 177 (November 26, 1751)

UPDATE: Leisure and the Making of Knowledge in 18th-century Europe (Germany) (3/16/07; 10/31/07-11/2/07)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 7:09pm
Felix Sprang

Call for Papers (extended deadline):
"Leisure and the making of knowledge in 18th-century Europe"
31 October – 2 November 2007, University of Hamburg, Germany
http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/fb07/lits/AGWL.html

"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were
they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
Samuel Johnson "Rambler" 177 (November 26, 1751)

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