Call For Contributors ? The Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature

Contributors are sought for a reference work that will be published by
Greenwood Press in 2008.

The work, tentatively titled, The Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature,
will consist of approximately 200 entries. Each entry will vary in
length from 500-3000 words. The entire volume will be approximately
180,000 words or 400 pages and will be illustrated.

ESF-LiU Conference

Literature for Europe: European Identities and European Literature in a =
Globalizing World

Vadstena Klosterhotell, Sweden
12-16 May 2007

Chaired by: Theo L. D'haen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)

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Working Papers on the Web

Poetry and Translation Issue

Call for Papers, Reviews and Creative Work

Abstracts of circa 300 words are invited on the theme of 'Poetry and
Translation' for a special issue of Working Papers on the Web,
scheduled to be published in June 2008.

ESF-LiU Conference

Literature for Europe: European Identities and European Literature in a =
Globalizing World

Vadstena Klosterhotell, Sweden
12-16 May 2007

Chaired by: Theo L. D'haen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)

=20

GENDER, TIME, GEOGRAPHY:
THE WRITER'S REPUTATION

(3-8 June 2007)
Corfu, Greece

DEADLINE EXTENSION: March 1, 2007

http://www.durrell-school-corfu.org

For its June seminar, "The Writer's Reputation," the Durrell School of Corfu
is extending its deadline for general submissions and invites proposals that
address the following topics in particular:

  -- the role of Translation in developing reputation

  -- the relationship between reputation and the literary canon

  -- case studies focusing on 'forgotten' writers, especially with regard to
nationalism, sexualities, and gender

GENDER, TIME, GEOGRAPHY:
THE WRITER'S REPUTATION

(3-8 June 2007)
Corfu, Greece

DEADLINE EXTENSION: March 1, 2007

http://www.durrell-school-corfu.org

For its June seminar, "The Writer's Reputation," the Durrell School of Corfu
is extending its deadline for general submissions and invites proposals that
address the following topics in particular:

  -- the role of Translation in developing reputation

  -- the relationship between reputation and the literary canon

  -- case studies focusing on 'forgotten' writers, especially with regard to
nationalism, sexualities, and gender

The correct deadline for the calls for submissions for the 7th Biennial
Southern Women Writers Conference at Berry College, Rome, GA, on Sept.
26-27 is APRIL 2, 2007 (not March 19).

REMINDER & EXTENDED DEADLINES

MSA 9—GEOGRAPHIES OF VISUAL AND LITERARY CULTURES
November 1-4 2007
Long Beach, California

CALL FOR SEMINAR, ROUNDTABLE, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

On behalf of=20

Visual Studies Graduate Students

University of California, Irvine

Call for Papers: Import/Export
Octopus (Volume 3) Fall 2007=20
www.octopusjournal.org
Deadline for Submissions: April 15, 2007

We invite abstracts for a collection of essays on male beauty to be
published by Cambridge Scholarly Publishing. Save for the Greeks, Romans and
the contemporary art historian, very little has been said about beauty and
its relationship to men and masculinities. To its credit, masculinity
studies itself has surely emerged as a field of study and has covered much
ground in the last thirty years: we have understood masculinity as a
category for analysis and, like femininity, as a social construction; we
have supported and also challenged the "crisis" in masculinity; we have
studied it both with and without "men"; we have considered masculinity's

Call for Papers
Ruskinian Theatre
Contemporary Issues in Theatre Historiography
University of Birmingham (UK), 6-7 July, 2007
Proposals are invited for papers and respondents for a two day
colloquium sponsored by the History Department at Lancaster University
(UK), the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham
(UK), and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).
This colloquium is part of the AHRC funded project: Ruskinian Theatre:
the Aesthetics of the Nineteenth-Century London Popular Stage,
1870-1900, which seeks to investigate the interrelationships and
influences of John Ruskin's aesthetic and social theories on the popular

We invite abstracts for a collection of essays on male beauty to be
published by Cambridge Scholarly Publishing. Save for the Greeks, Romans and
the contemporary art historian, very little has been said about beauty and
its relationship to men and masculinities. To its credit, masculinity
studies itself has surely emerged as a field of study and has covered much
ground in the last thirty years: we have understood masculinity as a
category for analysis and, like femininity, as a social construction; we
have supported and also challenged the "crisis" in masculinity; we have
studied it both with and without "men"; we have considered masculinity's

Call for Papers
Ruskinian Theatre
Contemporary Issues in Theatre Historiography
University of Birmingham (UK), 6-7 July, 2007
Proposals are invited for papers and respondents for a two day
colloquium sponsored by the History Department at Lancaster University
(UK), the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham
(UK), and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).
This colloquium is part of the AHRC funded project: Ruskinian Theatre:
the Aesthetics of the Nineteenth-Century London Popular Stage,
1870-1900, which seeks to investigate the interrelationships and
influences of John Ruskin's aesthetic and social theories on the popular

CFP: Various Topics: UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies London Summer
2007 Research Seminar Series (UK) (variable deadline; 06/13; 06/27;
07/11;07/25; 08/01).

UK Network London Summer 2007 Research Seminar Series Call for Papers

This series is co-convened for UKNMFS by Dr. Alex Murray (University College
London), Martyn Colebrooke (University of Hull), Steven Barfield (University
of Westminster), and Prof. Philip Tew (Brunel University). The UK Network
for Modern Fiction Studies Summer Seminar Series 2007 is to be held at 309
Regent Street, the University of Westminster, London, UK.