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Call for Papers: American History and Culture area
  Southwest/Texas Popular Culture / American Culture Associations
  28th Annual Conference, February 14-17, 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
   
  The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in vibrant downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, just steps from historic Route 66. Further details about the conference are available at
  http://www.h-net.org/~swpca.
   

Final call for submissions for the following panel of the annual Northeast Modern Language Association conference:

Cultural Exchange in Native and European American Literatures

How have Native and European American writers negotiated the contact zone? Papers from all periods and genres in American literature are invited. Possible topics might include transculturation, assimilation, hybridity and cultural difference; accounts of captivity, colonization and sovereignty; examples of performing identity and "playing Indian;" sites of translation and cultural (mis)representation; issues of redaction, voice, authority and textual mediation.

The deadline for the panel has not changed, but the title and the parameters of the for submission have changed slightly.
 
 
 
Belles, Bitches, and Everything in Between: Reconstructing Southern Womanhood in Literature of the American South

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

 March 1-4, 2007

Baltimore, Maryland

NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM
April 5-7, 2007

MANY VOICES, ONE CENTER

Call for Proposals

DEADLINE: October 25, 2006

With literature as a crossroads where many forms of knowledge meet—art, history,
politics, science, religion—we welcome once again spirited participation on all
aspects of Native American studies. We invite proposals for individual papers,
panel discussions, readings, exhibits, demonstrations, and workshops.

This year we are pleased to announce two new awards to be made in 2007:
The Beatrice Medicine for Scholarship in American Indian Studies and
The Morning Star Award for Creative Writing

Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
(1900-present) invites submissions to its journal Americana: The Journal of
American Popular Culture.

We encourage you to visit the journal at
http://www.americanpopularculture.com to see the kinds of material we are
interested in publishing.
 
If you would like to submit to the journal, send an explanatory email that
includes your institutional affiliation to
editor_at_americanpopularculture.com.

Attach the essay you would like to be considered to that email. Please make
sure your article conforms to the following guidelines:

Society of Early Americanists and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture conference
June 7, 2007-June 10, 2007, Williamsburg, Virginia

Panel: Signatures and the Self: Material Marks of Identity

Update: Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (dates) is looking for contributors for its inaugural issue to be published online (web site still under construction).

A Callaloo Call For Papers

The Cultures and Letters of the Black Diaspora

Author sought for chapter 6 of the Cultural History of Reading (Greenwood,
2007).

The Cultural History of Reading examines written documents (books,
pamphlets, treatises, plays, poems, essays etc.) that shaped, and were
shaped by, crucial cultural events throughout the world and in the United
States.

For more information, please contact Dr. Sara Quay, Editor at
squay_at_endicott.edu

___________________________________

Sara E. Quay, Ph.D.

Dean, School of Education & Chair, Humanities

Endicott College

376 Hale Street

Beverly, MA 01915

office: 978/232-2200

Fax: 978/232-3100

Paper proposals are requested for a one-day regional American Studies
colloquium intended to reflect and develop the vitality of the discipline in
the South West of England. Long an area with distinctive maritime, military,
ethnic and cultural connections to North America, the South West also contains
a number of HE institutions with well-established American Studies programmes
and expertise. The colloquium aims to bring together researchers from across
the region to present their current work, and to explore areas of potential
cross-institutional collaboration. The day will include an open-forum
discussion on the future of the discipline in UK Higher Education

Deadline amended:

Call for Papers

Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance

Volume 4.1, Spring 2007

"Nations Speaking: Indigenous Performances Across the Americas"
(Tentative Title)

Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance seeks essays for a special

issue, to be guest-edited by Christy Stanlake. We welcome essays that

explore performance in, and performative aspects of, the indigenous

communities of the Americas, including North, Central, and South

America. Over the past two decades, American Indian theatre has been

actively growing, at both a grassroots level and in professional

theatre. Along with the increase in theatrical work has been a growing

LITERARY HORIZONS JOURNAL
   
  An examination of a people's past reveals the present day's progress, and illuminates their future. For its premiere issue, the Literary Horizons Journal, a journal dedicated to publishing the work of graduate students, is soliciting papers that analyze the evolution of themes, symbols, and images in African American Literature.
   
  The topics may include but are not limited to:
   
  * The value of education, from Frederick Douglass to Robert Stepto
  * The representation of African American religion in literature
  * The interaction between African Americans and people of other
    racial backgrounds as embodied in literary works

Seeking contributors to write signed entries for a "Critical Companion to Henry James" (under contract for publication in early 2008). This reference volume will cover more than 60 works of fiction, travel writing, and cultural criticism (1000-10,000 words per topic), as well as biography, selected correspondence, and "related persons, places, and events" (another 60-plus entries). Please send expressions of interest, with CV attached, to both editors: Kendall Johnson (kjohnso1_at_swarthmore.edu) and Eric Haralson (eharalson_at_notes.cc.sunysb.edu). A headword list, contributor guidelines and deadlines, and sample entries will follow.

CFP: Edith Wharton and the Material Cultures of the Book edited collection:
deadlines extended (abstracts, 1 October 2006; contributions, 1 April 2007).

Contributors are encouraged to interpret the idea of the material culture of
the book as widely as they wish, drawing upon research from sociology,
economic and social history, literary theory, bibliography, book history,
philosophy and anthropology. I would particularly welcome contributors seeking to
examine Wharton’s publication, production, dissemination and place in book
history and material culture outside of an American context. Some topics that you
might wish to discuss include: