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UPDATE: Trans–– : Negotiations and Resistance (grad) (1/20/06; 4/7/06–4/8/06)

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Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 2:46pm
Mary-Ann Davis

Trans --: Negotiations and Resistance

19th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
Association of English Graduate Students
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
April 7 - 8, 2006

UPDATES:
* Keynote speakers
* Abstract deadline extension
* Conference website
* CFP

***KEYNOTE SPEAKERS***

We are pleased to announce critical keynote speaker Juana Maria Rodriguez, and creative keynote speaker Pireeni Sundaralingam, with Colm O'Riain.

CFP: The Place of Music in Science Fiction and Fantasy (3/1/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 2:46pm
Seo-Young Jennie Chu

Modern Language Association Annual Convention
December 27 - 30, 2006
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The MLA Discussion Group on Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic
Literature invites submissions for a panel titled "The Place of Music in
Science Fiction and Fantasy."

Topics might include (but are not limited to):

* Defining "science-fiction music." What makes a work of music
"science-fictional"? Possible subtopics: micropolyphony, symmetrical
divisions of the octave, experimental musical technologies (e.g., the
Ondes Martenot).

* The relationship of music to other nonverbal arts (e.g., painting,
architecture, photography) in science fiction and fantasy.

CFP: Reading Code (3/17/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 2:46pm
Rita Raley

The Media & Literature discussion group is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Philadelphia, December 2006:

"Reading Code"

Papers on the aesthetics, politics, and poetics of code; machine translation; relations between natural languages & programming languages; codework; protocols; genetic code and biomedia; operational text.

Abstracts and brief CVs by March 17 to Rita Raley <raley at english.ucsb.edu>.

CFP: Reading Code (3/17/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 2:46pm
Rita Raley

The Media & Literature discussion group is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Philadelphia, December 2006:

"Reading Code"

Papers on the aesthetics, politics, and poetics of code; machine translation; relations between natural languages & programming languages; codework; protocols; genetic code and biomedia; operational text.

Abstracts and brief CVs by March 17 to Rita Raley <raley at english.ucsb.edu>.

CFP: Reading Code (3/17/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 2:46pm
Rita Raley

The Media & Literature discussion group is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Philadelphia, December 2006:

"Reading Code"

Papers on the aesthetics, politics, and poetics of code; machine translation; relations between natural languages & programming languages; codework; protocols; genetic code and biomedia; operational text.

Abstracts and brief CVs by March 17 to Rita Raley <raley at english.ucsb.edu>.

CFP: Reading Code (3/17/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 2:46pm
Rita Raley

The Media & Literature discussion group is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Philadelphia, December 2006:

"Reading Code"

Papers on the aesthetics, politics, and poetics of code; machine translation; relations between natural languages & programming languages; codework; protocols; genetic code and biomedia; operational text.

Abstracts and brief CVs by March 17 to Rita Raley <raley at english.ucsb.edu>.

CFP: Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication (5/15/06; 9/14/06-9/17/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 2:46pm
Shawn Martin

[Apologies for Cross Posting, but please feel free to distribute widely]..

Call for Papers:
Bringing Text Alive:
The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication

The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) project was founded at the University of
Michigan in 1999 to reinvent scholarship by creating fully searchable texts
of thousands of titles printed across three hundred years and two continents
of English and American history.

CFP: Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication (5/15/06; 9/14/06-9/17/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 2:46pm
Shawn Martin

[Apologies for Cross Posting, but please feel free to distribute widely]..

Call for Papers:
Bringing Text Alive:
The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication

The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) project was founded at the University of
Michigan in 1999 to reinvent scholarship by creating fully searchable texts
of thousands of titles printed across three hundred years and two continents
of English and American history.

CFP: Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication (5/15/06; 9/14/06-9/17/06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 2:46pm
Shawn Martin

[Apologies for Cross Posting, but please feel free to distribute widely]..

Call for Papers:
Bringing Text Alive:
The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication

The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) project was founded at the University of
Michigan in 1999 to reinvent scholarship by creating fully searchable texts
of thousands of titles printed across three hundred years and two continents
of English and American history.

CFP: Critical Issues in Nabokov Scholarship (3/1/06; MLA '06)

updated: 
Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 2:46pm
Pifer, Ellen

Critical Issues in Nabokov Scholarship: any topic addressing
interpretive strategies, theoretical issues, the relationship of
Nabokov's fiction to his personal statements and/or essays, etc. 1-page
abstracts or 20-min. papers by 1 Mar.; Ellen Pifer (epifer_at_udel.edu).

Ellen Pifer
Professor of English & Comparative Literature
English Department, 322 Memorial Hall
University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
Tel: 302-831-6965/Fax: 302-831-1586
Email: epifer_at_udel.edu

CFP: Motherhood (3/1/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 3:12pm
llbroder_at_aol.com

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Session Title: Literary Criticism: Examining Motherhood
Rocky Mountain MLA Convention (RMMLA)
October 12-14, 2006
DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona
 
Proposals are invited for the Literary Criticism panel of the 60th annual RMMLA conference.
 
This panel will explore representations of motherhood in literature by viewing them through the multiple lenses provided by literary criticism. Some approaches to this topic might include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
-Feminist
-Marxist
-Postcolonial
-Historical
-Biographical
-Psychoanalytic
-Poststructuralist
-Queer
-Reader-Response
 

CFP: Motherhood (3/1/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 3:12pm
llbroder_at_aol.com

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Session Title: Literary Criticism: Examining Motherhood
Rocky Mountain MLA Convention (RMMLA)
October 12-14, 2006
DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona
 
Proposals are invited for the Literary Criticism panel of the 60th annual RMMLA conference.
 
This panel will explore representations of motherhood in literature by viewing them through the multiple lenses provided by literary criticism. Some approaches to this topic might include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
-Feminist
-Marxist
-Postcolonial
-Historical
-Biographical
-Psychoanalytic
-Poststructuralist
-Queer
-Reader-Response
 

CFP: Motherhood (3/1/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 3:12pm
llbroder_at_aol.com

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Session Title: Literary Criticism: Examining Motherhood
Rocky Mountain MLA Convention (RMMLA)
October 12-14, 2006
DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona
 
Proposals are invited for the Literary Criticism panel of the 60th annual RMMLA conference.
 
This panel will explore representations of motherhood in literature by viewing them through the multiple lenses provided by literary criticism. Some approaches to this topic might include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
-Feminist
-Marxist
-Postcolonial
-Historical
-Biographical
-Psychoanalytic
-Poststructuralist
-Queer
-Reader-Response
 

UPDATE: Identity Works: Order and Diversity in Literary Studies (1/16/06; 3/3/06-3/4/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 3:12pm
Caley Ehnes

Updates: CFP, Deadlines for proposals and registration

CFP: Deadline for proposals in January 16, 2006 (however, late submissions
may be accepted for consideration up to Friday January 20, 2006).  

The University of Victoria's 7th Annual English Graduate Students Conference
invites proposals for this year's conference, entitled "Identity Works:
Order and Diversity in Literary Studies," to be held at the University of
Victoria from March 3rd to 4th, 2006.

What does it mean to talk about identity in literature and literary
studies?  This year's conference attempts to interrogate constructions,
definitions, categories, and fictions of identity as they are used in
literary studies. 

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