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CFP: Sympo(e)sium: Poe's Influence on Writers and Artists (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:33pm
Milton, Paul

Call for submissions for the Sympo(e)sium at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007. We are looking for papers that deal with any aspect of Edgar Allan Poe's work or his influence on writers and artists of any period or national literature. Please send proposals (250 words) or finished papers to Paul Milton at paul.milton_at_ubc.ca or to Department of Critical Studies, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, 3333 University Way, Kelowna, British Columbia, V1V 1V7.
Deadline for submissions: *March 1, 2007*
More information about the conference can be found at http://rmmla.wsu.edu/call/default.asp

UPDATE: Victorian Materialities (2/15/07; NAVSA, 10/10/07-10/13/07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:33pm
Lisa Surridge

Note corrected email addresses:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The North American Victorian Studies Association and the Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada will join forces for a joint
conference to be held 10-13 October 2007. The conference will take
place at the Laurel Point Inn on Victoria's beautiful inner harbour.
Featured presenters include Stephen Arata, Peter Bailey, Kirstie
Blair, Nicholas Daly, Jennifer Green-Lewis, Donald E. Hall, Gail
Turley Houston, Linda K. Hughes, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Seth
Koven, Philippa Levine, Lynda Nead, John Picker, Erika
Rappaport, and Talia Schaffer.

UPDATE: Victorian Materialities (2/15/07; NAVSA, 10/10/07-10/13/07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:33pm
Lisa Surridge

Note corrected email addresses:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The North American Victorian Studies Association and the Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada will join forces for a joint
conference to be held 10-13 October 2007. The conference will take
place at the Laurel Point Inn on Victoria's beautiful inner harbour.
Featured presenters include Stephen Arata, Peter Bailey, Kirstie
Blair, Nicholas Daly, Jennifer Green-Lewis, Donald E. Hall, Gail
Turley Houston, Linda K. Hughes, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Seth
Koven, Philippa Levine, Lynda Nead, John Picker, Erika
Rappaport, and Talia Schaffer.

UPDATE: Victorian Materialities (2/15/07; NAVSA, 10/10/07-10/13/07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:33pm
Lisa Surridge

Note corrected email addresses:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The North American Victorian Studies Association and the Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada will join forces for a joint
conference to be held 10-13 October 2007. The conference will take
place at the Laurel Point Inn on Victoria's beautiful inner harbour.
Featured presenters include Stephen Arata, Peter Bailey, Kirstie
Blair, Nicholas Daly, Jennifer Green-Lewis, Donald E. Hall, Gail
Turley Houston, Linda K. Hughes, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Seth
Koven, Philippa Levine, Lynda Nead, John Picker, Erika
Rappaport, and Talia Schaffer.

CFP: The Crucible in Performance (3/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:33pm
erika.olbricht_at_yale.edu

CFP: _The Crucible_ in Performance
Special session at MLA 2007 (27-30 December, Chicago).

Soliciting papers treating Miller's play and/or adaptations of it, especially
Robert Ward's opera. While I will consider any proposal, I would especially
like to consider papers treating issues of textual problematics across
adaptations, the performance of allegory, Miller's historiography, or the
relationship between politics, history, and theatre/performance.

One page proposals by 1 March to Erika Olbricht: erika.olbricht at yale.edu.
Finished papers should be 15 - 20 minutes.

Erika Olbricht
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale University

CFP: The Crucible in Performance (3/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:33pm
erika.olbricht_at_yale.edu

CFP: _The Crucible_ in Performance
Special session at MLA 2007 (27-30 December, Chicago).

Soliciting papers treating Miller's play and/or adaptations of it, especially
Robert Ward's opera. While I will consider any proposal, I would especially
like to consider papers treating issues of textual problematics across
adaptations, the performance of allegory, Miller's historiography, or the
relationship between politics, history, and theatre/performance.

One page proposals by 1 March to Erika Olbricht: erika.olbricht at yale.edu.
Finished papers should be 15 - 20 minutes.

Erika Olbricht
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale University

CFP: The Crucible in Performance (3/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:33pm
erika.olbricht_at_yale.edu

CFP: _The Crucible_ in Performance
Special session at MLA 2007 (27-30 December, Chicago).

Soliciting papers treating Miller's play and/or adaptations of it, especially
Robert Ward's opera. While I will consider any proposal, I would especially
like to consider papers treating issues of textual problematics across
adaptations, the performance of allegory, Miller's historiography, or the
relationship between politics, history, and theatre/performance.

One page proposals by 1 March to Erika Olbricht: erika.olbricht at yale.edu.
Finished papers should be 15 - 20 minutes.

Erika Olbricht
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale University

UPDATE: Victorian Materialities (2/15/07; NAVSA, 10/10/07-10/13/07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:33pm
Lisa Surridge

Note corrected email addresses:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The North American Victorian Studies Association and the Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada will join forces for a joint
conference to be held 10-13 October 2007. The conference will take
place at the Laurel Point Inn on Victoria's beautiful inner harbour.
Featured presenters include Stephen Arata, Peter Bailey, Kirstie
Blair, Nicholas Daly, Jennifer Green-Lewis, Donald E. Hall, Gail
Turley Houston, Linda K. Hughes, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Seth
Koven, Philippa Levine, Lynda Nead, John Picker, Erika
Rappaport, and Talia Schaffer.

UPDATE: Victorian Materialities (2/15/07; NAVSA, 10/10/07-10/13/07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:33pm
Lisa Surridge

Note corrected email addresses:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The North American Victorian Studies Association and the Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada will join forces for a joint
conference to be held 10-13 October 2007. The conference will take
place at the Laurel Point Inn on Victoria's beautiful inner harbour.
Featured presenters include Stephen Arata, Peter Bailey, Kirstie
Blair, Nicholas Daly, Jennifer Green-Lewis, Donald E. Hall, Gail
Turley Houston, Linda K. Hughes, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Seth
Koven, Philippa Levine, Lynda Nead, John Picker, Erika
Rappaport, and Talia Schaffer.

CFP: Nostalgia and Children's Literature (3/13/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:40pm
Julie Sinn

Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature

Children's Literature Discussion Circle =97 Call For Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
November 2007
Atlanta, Georgia

In order to examine children's literature through the lens of nostalgia,
possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following options:

CFP: Nostalgia and Children's Literature (3/13/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:40pm
Julie Sinn

Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature

Children's Literature Discussion Circle =97 Call For Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
November 2007
Atlanta, Georgia

In order to examine children's literature through the lens of nostalgia,
possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following options:

CFP: Nostalgia and Children's Literature (3/13/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:40pm
Julie Sinn

Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature

Children's Literature Discussion Circle =97 Call For Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
November 2007
Atlanta, Georgia

In order to examine children's literature through the lens of nostalgia,
possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following options:

CFP: Nostalgia and Children's Literature (3/13/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:40pm
Julie Sinn

Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature

Children's Literature Discussion Circle =97 Call For Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
November 2007
Atlanta, Georgia

In order to examine children's literature through the lens of nostalgia,
possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following options:

CFP: Children in Adult Literature (3/7/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:39pm
Cannady, Laurie J.

"A New Angle of Ageism: Examining the Presence and Function of Children
in Adult Literature" is a special session which will be proposed for the
MLA 2007 Conference to be held in Chicago on December 27-30.

CFP: Children in Adult Literature (3/7/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:39pm
Cannady, Laurie J.

"A New Angle of Ageism: Examining the Presence and Function of Children
in Adult Literature" is a special session which will be proposed for the
MLA 2007 Conference to be held in Chicago on December 27-30.

CFP: Children in Adult Literature (3/7/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:39pm
Cannady, Laurie J.

"A New Angle of Ageism: Examining the Presence and Function of Children
in Adult Literature" is a special session which will be proposed for the
MLA 2007 Conference to be held in Chicago on December 27-30.

UPDATE: Paths to Freedom: PA College English Association (1/31/07; PCEA, 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:37pm
TCaruso

DEADLINE EXTENDED; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING STUDENT CONTEST

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pennsylvania College English Association (PCEA) Conference
April 12-14, 2007
Carriage House at Holiday Inn
West Chester, PA

PCEA invites proposals for panels or individual papers for the annual
conference to be held April 12-14, 2007 in West Chester, PA.

UPDATE: Paths to Freedom: PA College English Association (1/31/07; PCEA, 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:37pm
TCaruso

DEADLINE EXTENDED; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING STUDENT CONTEST

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pennsylvania College English Association (PCEA) Conference
April 12-14, 2007
Carriage House at Holiday Inn
West Chester, PA

PCEA invites proposals for panels or individual papers for the annual
conference to be held April 12-14, 2007 in West Chester, PA.

UPDATE: Paths to Freedom: PA College English Association (1/31/07; PCEA, 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:37pm
TCaruso

DEADLINE EXTENDED; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING STUDENT CONTEST

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pennsylvania College English Association (PCEA) Conference
April 12-14, 2007
Carriage House at Holiday Inn
West Chester, PA

PCEA invites proposals for panels or individual papers for the annual
conference to be held April 12-14, 2007 in West Chester, PA.

UPDATE: Waste and Abundance: Critical Readings of Modern Wastelands (UK) (1/31/07; 4/17/07-4/18/07)

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:37pm
Susan Cahill

Keynote speakers announced:

"Waste and Abundance: Critical Readings of Modern Wastelands"
The School of English, Queen's University Belfast
17th and 18th April 2007
Second call for papers
Papers from all perspectives across the Humanities are welcome

Confirmed keynote speakers: Dr Peter Boxall (University of Sussex), Professor Thomas Docherty (University of Warwick), Professor Paul Seawright (University of Ulster), Dr Moynagh Sullivan (NUI Maynooth)

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