27th Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
March 15-19, 2006
Wyndham Ft. Lauderdale Airport Hotel
Dania, Florida

Guest of Honor: Charles Vess
Guest Scholar: M. Thomas Inge
Special Guest Writer: Kathleen Ann Goonan

Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2005

conference:
    27th annual SW/TX/PCA/ACA
    albuquerque's hyatt regency
    february 8-11, 2006
panel:
    the small town in literature, film, & music
length:
    20 minutes
due:
    november 15, 2005
send to:
    sara jane richter
    dean of liberal arts
    oklahoma panhandle state university
    box 430
    goodwell, ok 73939
    580.349.1473 (fax)
    saraj_at_opsu.edu

European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference, April 7-10,
2006, Nicosia, Cyprus): "Conformism, Non-conformism, and Anti-conformism in
the Culture of the United States"

European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference, April 7-10,
2006, Nicosia, Cyprus): "Conformism, Non-conformism, and Anti-conformism in
the Culture of the United States"

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEP 15/05

POSTER VERSION AT http://www.andrewlesk.com/canadian.poetry

CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

COUNTERING CONSUMERISM:
RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR RESPONSES

20 - 22 APRIL 2006

VENUE: GRADUATE CENTRE,
LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

An interdisciplinary conference linking the themes of 'Spirituality' and
'Consumerism' is being organised as the major culminating event of an
ESRC/AHRB Cultures of Consumption Phase Two research project on
'Alternative
Hedonism and the Theory and Politics of Consumption'. The project is being
undertaken by Professor Kate Soper and Dr. Lyn Thomas within the
Institute for
the Study of European Transformations (ISET) at London Metropolitan
University.

CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

COUNTERING CONSUMERISM:
RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR RESPONSES

20 - 22 APRIL 2006

VENUE: GRADUATE CENTRE,
LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

An interdisciplinary conference linking the themes of 'Spirituality' and
'Consumerism' is being organised as the major culminating event of an
ESRC/AHRB Cultures of Consumption Phase Two research project on
'Alternative
Hedonism and the Theory and Politics of Consumption'. The project is being
undertaken by Professor Kate Soper and Dr. Lyn Thomas within the
Institute for
the Study of European Transformations (ISET) at London Metropolitan
University.

Society For Cinema and Media Studies

Vancouver

March 2-5, 2006

Reconciliation and Unification: Cinematic Reponses to E.U. Expansion

2006 NEMLA Women's Caucus Best Essay Award

Call for Papers:
Women's Caucus Best Essay in Women's Language and Literature Award
Given for a 20-25 page essay, based on a paper presented at 2005 NEMLA
Convention in Boston, using women's centered approaches (concentrating
on women characters or women authors, using feminist analysis). The
essay may not be submitted to another journal for the duration of the
award's deliberation.

Deadline 11/15/05

Submissions to:

Oneida Sanchez

osanchez_at_bmcc.cuny.edu

or mail to:
132-40 Sanford Ave., Apt.4-D, Flushing, NY 11355
 

The author's name, address, and academic affiliation should appear only
on a separate cover sheet.

"Shakespeare and the Haunted Spaces of Modernity"

A session to be held at "Space, Haunting, Discourse," an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the
Department of English at Karlstad University, Sweden, June 15-18, 2006.

Session Description:

Shakespeare's plays have been a near constant reference for definitions of modernity. They are also crucial to
conceptions of haunting. How can we articulate these two strands?

2006 NEMLA Women's Caucus Best Essay Award

Call for Papers:
Women's Caucus Best Essay in Women's Language and Literature Award
Given for a 20-25 page essay, based on a paper presented at 2005 NEMLA
Convention in Boston, using women's centered approaches (concentrating
on women characters or women authors, using feminist analysis). The
essay may not be submitted to another journal for the duration of the
award's deliberation.

Deadline 11/15/05

Submissions to:

Oneida Sanchez

osanchez_at_bmcc.cuny.edu

or mail to:
132-40 Sanford Ave., Apt.4-D, Flushing, NY 11355
 

The author's name, address, and academic affiliation should appear only
on a separate cover sheet.

This session, entitled "Parallel Universes in Chrétien de Troyes" seeks to foster a lively discussion on different approaches to the works of Chrétien de Troyes: e.g., literary analysis, codicological studies, text/ image relations. Topics which explore comparisons and contrasts within Chrétien's romances (sacred/ profane; masculine/ feminine; lyric/narrative; etc.) will also be welcome. Depending on number of submissions, a second session may be organized. Send proposals by the end of August, 2005 to: SJ_Murray_at_baylor.edu. (Sessions organized by Sarah-Jane Murray, Baylor U., and Paul Creamer, Columbia U.)
 
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Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Annual Convention

Philadelphia, PA

March 2-5, 2006

Call for Papers:

Panel: "The Memory of the Body in Asian American Diasporic Literature"

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS:

Third International Conference on Cultural Diversity

in English-speaking Countries (3-ICCD)

10th - 12th May 2006

A Coru=F1a, Spain.

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The Department of English Philology at the University of A Coru=F1a, =
Spain, is organising the Third International Conference on Cultural =
Diversity in English-speaking Countries, to be held from 10th - 12th May =
2006 at the Faculty of Philology, Campus da Zapateira, A Coru=F1a.=20

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