Masks and Passing in African American Literature
  Panel Chair: Valerie B. McKee
  Call for Papers on Masks and Passing in African American Literature
for the seventh annual graduate English conference entitled
"Encountering the Text: Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, and Writing" at
Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT on Saturday,
April 22 from 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  Possible topics include, but are not limited to, interpretations of
literary texts regarding themes of "passing," and the character type of the "tragic mulatto."
  Panels will be one and a half hours long. Presentations will be 15 –
20 minutes long (papers should be 6 – 8 pages in length). A proposal

PAECE Katrina UPDATE: Extended deadline April 30th 2006

and additional emphasis on: current Katrina - related issues=20

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Call For Papers: Creative Pieces on Hurricane Katrina

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Claflin University's Performing Arts for Effective Civic Education
Program (PAECE) is calling for ORIGINAL creative and research based
works addressing key civic and political issues related to the recent
tragedy in the Gulf Coast. PAECE is a US Department of Education -
FIPSE funded program that seeks to enhance civic knowledge,
responsibility and engagement, via the performing arts. =20

"Female Novelists Constructing Masculinities"

Now is the time of Spinoza. A surge of interest in the work of
Benedict Spinoza surfaced in the second half of the twentieth
century. In disciplines spanning the humanities scholars continue to
turn their attention to the writings of this seventeenth-century
philosopher for insights into current problematics in such areas as
cultural studies, political philosophy, social theory, literary
theory and criticism, and feminist theory. Spinoza's ontology is
absolutely singular in the history of philosophy. Additionally, his
epistemology and ethics outlined in The Ethics, his hermeneutics and
prescient proto-semiotics offered in The Theologico-Political

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"Gender and Interaction: Real and Virtual women in a male world"
1 day workshop at AVI 2006
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Date: 23 May 2006
Location: Venice, Italy
Submission Deadline: 19 March 2006 - Extended deadline
 
Web-site: http://www.informatics.manchester.ac.uk/~antonella/gender/
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"Gender and Interaction: Real and Virtual women in a male world"
1 day workshop at AVI 2006
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Date: 23 May 2006
Location: Venice, Italy
Submission Deadline: 19 March 2006 - Extended deadline
 
Web-site: http://www.informatics.manchester.ac.uk/~antonella/gender/
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Susan M. Hunter and Sheryl I. Fontaine invite 500 word abstracts for, Extending Our Reach of Influence: Composition Specialists in Positions of University Administration, a book of essays from members of the discipline who have moved to positions of administration within departments and in the university. Email abstracts (attached as a Word document) to SusanHunter_at_clayton.edu <mailto:SusanHunter_at_clayton.edu> or sfontaine_at_fullerton.edu <mailto:sfontaine_at_fullerton.edu> by June 1st, 2006.

Essays should focus on issues including but not limited to:

New Voices Graduate Student Conference
September 28-30, 2006
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA

 Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2006

New Voices on the Human Condition
Call for papers and special sessions

LEGITIMATING CULTURES, CULTURES OF LEGITIMACY: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
To: CFP_at_english.upenn.edu

  LEGITIMATING CULTURES, CULTURES OF LEGITIMACY:
  AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
   
  Bucharest University, Romania
    November 23-25, 2006
   
  Organizers:
    Mircea Martin, Bucharest University, Romania
  Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
   
    The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for addressing issues related to the notion of "legitimacy" across discourses, cultural practices, and traditions. We are primarily interested in papers theorizing the construction and representation of the "legitimate?" in particular contexts.
  

LEGITIMATING CULTURES, CULTURES OF LEGITIMACY: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
To: CFP_at_english.upenn.edu

  LEGITIMATING CULTURES, CULTURES OF LEGITIMACY:
  AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
   
  Bucharest University, Romania
    November 23-25, 2006
   
  Organizers:
    Mircea Martin, Bucharest University, Romania
  Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
   
    The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for addressing issues related to the notion of "legitimacy" across discourses, cultural practices, and traditions. We are primarily interested in papers theorizing the construction and representation of the "legitimate?" in particular contexts.
  

Please update the CFP with the following.

CFP: Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old (deadline 08/31/06; 05/07)
We invite proposals on Northrop Frye and theory (2007 marks the
fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Anatomy of Criticism),
Frye as Canadian, social, or religious critic.
Please send a 300-500 word proposal (hardcopies in triplicate) and a
50-word bio blurb to:
Doctor David Rampton, Symposium Chair
Department of English, University of Ottawa
70 Laurier Avenue East, 3rd floor
Ottawa ON K1N 6N5 Canada
Fax: (613) 562-5990
Email: drampton_at_uottawa.ca

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Irish Feminist Futures Postgraduate Conference
27th May 2006
University College Cork
Deadline for Abstracts: 28th April 2006
Contact: susan.cahill_at_ucd.ie <mailto:susan.cahill_at_ucd.ie> and
claire.bracken_at_ucd.ie <mailto:claire.bracken_at_ucd.ie>

Who will shape the future of Irish women's studies? What possibilities does
this future hold?

Irish Feminist Futures Postgraduate Conference
27th May 2006
University College Cork
Deadline for Abstracts: 28th April 2006
Contact: susan.cahill_at_ucd.ie <mailto:susan.cahill_at_ucd.ie> and
claire.bracken_at_ucd.ie <mailto:claire.bracken_at_ucd.ie>

Who will shape the future of Irish women's studies? What possibilities does
this future hold?