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CFP: Gothic Science Fiction (grad) (UK) (1/31/07; 4/28/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Wasson, Sara

CFP: Gothic Science Fiction (graduate) (UK) (1/31/07; 4/28/07)

Organised by the School of Creative Industries, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.

This one-day conference looks to bring together graduate students and early career researchers to discuss science fiction with a gothic slant. We invite short (20 minute) paper proposals focusing on identifying, untangling, or savouring gothic elements in science fiction, both past and present, and across a range of media - written texts, film, graphic novels, and visual media are all invited.

CFP: Teaching Toni Morrison (3/31/07; MMLA, 11/8/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Melissa Daniels

Teaching Toni Morrison

Calls for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
8-11 November 2007
Cleveland

This panel seeks papers that address pedagogical responses to Toni Morrison. Proposals should
explore/discuss the following issues:

·Representations of black male masculinity
·Sexuality
·Whiteness
·Class difference
·Gender
·Community
·Canon formation: Where do we situate Morrison in the teaching of American and/or African-American
literatures?

Email 200 word abstracts, full-length papers, or questions by March 31, 2007 to:

Melissa Daniels
PhD Student
Department of English,
Northwestern University
m-daniels_at_northwestern.edu

CFP: Teaching Toni Morrison (3/31/07; MMLA, 11/8/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Melissa Daniels

Teaching Toni Morrison

Calls for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
8-11 November 2007
Cleveland

This panel seeks papers that address pedagogical responses to Toni Morrison. Proposals should
explore/discuss the following issues:

·Representations of black male masculinity
·Sexuality
·Whiteness
·Class difference
·Gender
·Community
·Canon formation: Where do we situate Morrison in the teaching of American and/or African-American
literatures?

Email 200 word abstracts, full-length papers, or questions by March 31, 2007 to:

Melissa Daniels
PhD Student
Department of English,
Northwestern University
m-daniels_at_northwestern.edu

CFP: Teaching Toni Morrison (3/31/07; MMLA, 11/8/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Melissa Daniels

Teaching Toni Morrison

Calls for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
8-11 November 2007
Cleveland

This panel seeks papers that address pedagogical responses to Toni Morrison. Proposals should
explore/discuss the following issues:

·Representations of black male masculinity
·Sexuality
·Whiteness
·Class difference
·Gender
·Community
·Canon formation: Where do we situate Morrison in the teaching of American and/or African-American
literatures?

Email 200 word abstracts, full-length papers, or questions by March 31, 2007 to:

Melissa Daniels
PhD Student
Department of English,
Northwestern University
m-daniels_at_northwestern.edu

CFP: William Carlos Williams Review: Special Issue on Williams and Dada (9/1/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Todd Giles

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              From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
                        CFP_at_english.upenn.edu
                         Full Information at
                     http://cfp.english.upenn.edu
         or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj_at_english.upenn.edu
         ==========================================================
Received on Sat Jan 06 2007 - 17:59:01 EST

CFP: William Carlos Williams Review: Special Issue on Williams and Dada (9/1/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Todd Giles

         ==========================================================
              From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
                        CFP_at_english.upenn.edu
                         Full Information at
                     http://cfp.english.upenn.edu
         or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj_at_english.upenn.edu
         ==========================================================
Received on Sat Jan 06 2007 - 17:59:01 EST

CFP: Teaching Toni Morrison (3/31/07; MMLA, 11/8/07-11/11/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Melissa Daniels

Teaching Toni Morrison

Calls for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
8-11 November 2007
Cleveland

This panel seeks papers that address pedagogical responses to Toni Morrison. Proposals should
explore/discuss the following issues:

·Representations of black male masculinity
·Sexuality
·Whiteness
·Class difference
·Gender
·Community
·Canon formation: Where do we situate Morrison in the teaching of American and/or African-American
literatures?

Email 200 word abstracts, full-length papers, or questions by March 31, 2007 to:

Melissa Daniels
PhD Student
Department of English,
Northwestern University
m-daniels_at_northwestern.edu

CFP: American Art and Cinema of the Late 1960s and 1970s (1/22/07; 4/27/07-4/28/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
arust_at_berkeley.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

Documentation, Demonstration, Dematerialization:
American Art and Cinema of the Late 1960s and 1970s

Keynote address by J. Hoberman, cultural critic & author

April 27-28, 2007 (rescheduled from November 2006)
University of California, Berkeley

The late 1960s and 1970s mark a period of dramatic change in the visual
culture of the United States, from avant-garde art and filmmaking
practices to documentary, Hollywood cinema, and the dissemination of
video. This is, after all, the period when:

CFP: American Art and Cinema of the Late 1960s and 1970s (1/22/07; 4/27/07-4/28/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
arust_at_berkeley.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

Documentation, Demonstration, Dematerialization:
American Art and Cinema of the Late 1960s and 1970s

Keynote address by J. Hoberman, cultural critic & author

April 27-28, 2007 (rescheduled from November 2006)
University of California, Berkeley

The late 1960s and 1970s mark a period of dramatic change in the visual
culture of the United States, from avant-garde art and filmmaking
practices to documentary, Hollywood cinema, and the dissemination of
video. This is, after all, the period when:

CFP: William Carlos Williams Review: Special Issue on Williams and Dada (9/1/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Todd Giles

         ==========================================================
              From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
                        CFP_at_english.upenn.edu
                         Full Information at
                     http://cfp.english.upenn.edu
         or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj_at_english.upenn.edu
         ==========================================================
Received on Sat Jan 06 2007 - 17:59:01 EST

UPDATE: Chess in the Schools and Communities: International Conference (Scotland) (3/31/07; 8/30/07-9/1/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
Dod Forrest

Final call for papers.

Deadline for submission of abstracts now 31st March 2007.

Notification of acceptance by 27th April 2007.

         ==========================================================
              From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
                        CFP_at_english.upenn.edu
                         Full Information at
                     http://cfp.english.upenn.edu
         or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj_at_english.upenn.edu
         ==========================================================
Received on Sat Jan 06 2007 - 17:58:53 EST

UPDATE: Chess in the Schools and Communities: International Conference (Scotland) (3/31/07; 8/30/07-9/1/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
Dod Forrest

Final call for papers.

Deadline for submission of abstracts now 31st March 2007.

Notification of acceptance by 27th April 2007.

         ==========================================================
              From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
                        CFP_at_english.upenn.edu
                         Full Information at
                     http://cfp.english.upenn.edu
         or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj_at_english.upenn.edu
         ==========================================================
Received on Sat Jan 06 2007 - 17:58:53 EST

CFP: Digital Poetry (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
HELEN LOVEJOY

Digital Poetry
 
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
digital poets and poetry. These papers can examine
texts by the authors and/or relevant critical works.
How have new technologies influenced and changed the
poetic genre? How has digital poetry called for a
questioning of traditional understandings of poetic
texts?

Potential topics include:

CFP: Digital Poetry (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
HELEN LOVEJOY

Digital Poetry
 
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
digital poets and poetry. These papers can examine
texts by the authors and/or relevant critical works.
How have new technologies influenced and changed the
poetic genre? How has digital poetry called for a
questioning of traditional understandings of poetic
texts?

Potential topics include:

CFP: Digital Poetry (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
HELEN LOVEJOY

Digital Poetry
 
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
digital poets and poetry. These papers can examine
texts by the authors and/or relevant critical works.
How have new technologies influenced and changed the
poetic genre? How has digital poetry called for a
questioning of traditional understandings of poetic
texts?

Potential topics include:

CFP: Digital Poetry (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
HELEN LOVEJOY

Digital Poetry
 
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
digital poets and poetry. These papers can examine
texts by the authors and/or relevant critical works.
How have new technologies influenced and changed the
poetic genre? How has digital poetry called for a
questioning of traditional understandings of poetic
texts?

Potential topics include:

CFP: The Ninth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (no deadline noted; 6/21/07-6/23/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
British Graduate Shakespeare C

The Ninth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference will soon be opening for registration on the 22nd of January 2007. Until then why not check out the website for details of guest speakers, Stratford-upon-Avon and last year's conference programme?

www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/britgrad2007

 The Ninth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference
 21-23 June 2007
The Shakespeare Institute
Mason Croft, Church Street
Stratford-upon-Avon, WARKS
CV37 6HP England

CFP: Embodying Shakespeare (New Zealand) (9/1/07; 2/7/08-2/10/08)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
Brett D. Hirsch

"EMBODYING SHAKESPEARE."
        Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference
        7-10 February 2008
        University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Confirmed Speakers:
        Bruce Smith, University of Southern California
        Gail Kern Paster, Folger Shakespeare Library
        Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANEL SESSIONS

CFP: Embodying Shakespeare (New Zealand) (9/1/07; 2/7/08-2/10/08)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
Brett D. Hirsch

"EMBODYING SHAKESPEARE."
        Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference
        7-10 February 2008
        University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Confirmed Speakers:
        Bruce Smith, University of Southern California
        Gail Kern Paster, Folger Shakespeare Library
        Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANEL SESSIONS

CFP: The Ninth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (no deadline noted; 6/21/07-6/23/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
British Graduate Shakespeare C

The Ninth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference will soon be opening for registration on the 22nd of January 2007. Until then why not check out the website for details of guest speakers, Stratford-upon-Avon and last year's conference programme?

www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/britgrad2007

 The Ninth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference
 21-23 June 2007
The Shakespeare Institute
Mason Croft, Church Street
Stratford-upon-Avon, WARKS
CV37 6HP England

CFP: Embodying Shakespeare (New Zealand) (9/1/07; 2/7/08-2/10/08)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
Brett D. Hirsch

"EMBODYING SHAKESPEARE."
        Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference
        7-10 February 2008
        University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Confirmed Speakers:
        Bruce Smith, University of Southern California
        Gail Kern Paster, Folger Shakespeare Library
        Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANEL SESSIONS

UPDATE: Foreclosure and Forgiveness (grad) (1/10/07; NJCEA, 3/29/07-3/31/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
Magali Armillas-Tiseyra

UPDATE: the CFP due date for the NYU Comparative Literature graduate student conference ("Foreclosure and Forgiveness: Tracing Debt in Literature and Culture," 2007) has been moved to January 10, 2007. Please send all abstracts to tracingdebt-at-gmail.com; use "Tracing Debt" in the subject line.

Foreclosure and Forgiveness: Tracing Debt in Literature and Culture

A Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
New York University
March Thurs. 29 - Sat.31, 2007
  
 Call for Papers

CFP: 19th c. Am. Women Poets (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
HELEN LOVEJOY

19th C. American Women Poets
 
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
19th C. American Women Poets. These papers can examine
texts by the authors and/or relevant critical and
biographical works.

Potential topics include:

CFP: Utopia and Dystopia Panel (grad) (1/15/07; McGill, 3/10/07-3/11/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
Amanda Cockburn

CFP: Imaginary Worlds: Utopias and Dystopias in Literature

McGill University Annual Graduate Conference, March 10-11, 2007.
Montreal, Quebec.

This panel invites papers that focus on the representation of utopias
and dysopias in literature. Papers may address the social, political,
economical, economic, and cultural locations of ideal worlds or
nightmare worlds from a wide variety of periods and places and from all
parts of the world. Possible topics may include, but are not limited
to:

CFP: Utopia and Dystopia Panel (grad) (1/15/07; McGill, 3/10/07-3/11/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
Amanda Cockburn

CFP: Imaginary Worlds: Utopias and Dystopias in Literature

McGill University Annual Graduate Conference, March 10-11, 2007.
Montreal, Quebec.

This panel invites papers that focus on the representation of utopias
and dysopias in literature. Papers may address the social, political,
economical, economic, and cultural locations of ideal worlds or
nightmare worlds from a wide variety of periods and places and from all
parts of the world. Possible topics may include, but are not limited
to:

CFP: Rerouting the Postcolonial (UK) (3/2/07; 7/3/07-7/4/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
Tolan Fiona

Call for Papers

=20

REROUTING THE POSTCOLONIAL

The University of Northampton, UK, 3-4 July 2007 (07/03/07 - 07/04/07)

=20

To mark the re-launch of the journal World Literature Written in English =
as the Journal of Postcolonial Studies, The Centre for Contemporary =
Fiction and Narrative, University of Northampton, and the Journal of =
Postcolonial Writing, in association with Taylor and Francis publishers =
and the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, hosts:

Keynote Speakers -=20

=20

Simon Gikandi =20

Patrick Williams=20

Elleke Boehmer=20

Alastair Niven

UPDATE: Utopian Spaces, Utopian Places (grad) (1/20/07; 3/9/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
rmwepler_at_brandeis.edu

-Plenary speakers announced
-Submission deadline extended
-Conference website now online

The Fourth Annual English Department Graduate Conference at Brandeis
University
?Utopian Spaces, Utopian Places?

March 9, 2007

Plenary Speakers
Mary Baine Campbell, Brandeis University
Marina Leslie, Northeastern University

?Utopian Spaces, Utopian Places,? an interdisciplinary conference,
will interrogate the concept of utopia across a broad spectrum of
historical, theoretical, and literary contexts.

CFP: Rerouting the Postcolonial (UK) (3/2/07; 7/3/07-7/4/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
Tolan Fiona

Call for Papers

=20

REROUTING THE POSTCOLONIAL

The University of Northampton, UK, 3-4 July 2007 (07/03/07 - 07/04/07)

=20

To mark the re-launch of the journal World Literature Written in English =
as the Journal of Postcolonial Studies, The Centre for Contemporary =
Fiction and Narrative, University of Northampton, and the Journal of =
Postcolonial Writing, in association with Taylor and Francis publishers =
and the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, hosts:

Keynote Speakers -=20

=20

Simon Gikandi =20

Patrick Williams=20

Elleke Boehmer=20

Alastair Niven

UPDATE: Utopian Spaces, Utopian Places (grad) (1/20/07; 3/9/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
rmwepler_at_brandeis.edu

-Plenary speakers announced
-Submission deadline extended
-Conference website now online

The Fourth Annual English Department Graduate Conference at Brandeis
University
?Utopian Spaces, Utopian Places?

March 9, 2007

Plenary Speakers
Mary Baine Campbell, Brandeis University
Marina Leslie, Northeastern University

?Utopian Spaces, Utopian Places,? an interdisciplinary conference,
will interrogate the concept of utopia across a broad spectrum of
historical, theoretical, and literary contexts.

CFP: Rerouting the Postcolonial (UK) (3/2/07; 7/3/07-7/4/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
Tolan Fiona

Call for Papers

=20

REROUTING THE POSTCOLONIAL

The University of Northampton, UK, 3-4 July 2007 (07/03/07 - 07/04/07)

=20

To mark the re-launch of the journal World Literature Written in English =
as the Journal of Postcolonial Studies, The Centre for Contemporary =
Fiction and Narrative, University of Northampton, and the Journal of =
Postcolonial Writing, in association with Taylor and Francis publishers =
and the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, hosts:

Keynote Speakers -=20

=20

Simon Gikandi =20

Patrick Williams=20

Elleke Boehmer=20

Alastair Niven

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