bibliography and history of the book

Call for papers: Lexicography discussion group session, MLA 2007, Chicago

150 Years of the OED

Please distribute.

Women Writing and Reading: Past and Present, Local and Global

4-6 May 2007 At the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

extended deadline for essays: Feb. 5, 2007

Transverse, a graduate literary journal of the Centre for Comparative
Literature at the University of Toronto, invites submissions of essays
for the next issue, to be published in Spring 2007. Transverse is a
paper-based journal with a pdf version available on-line at
www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/journal.htm

MLA Prose Fiction paper call for December 2007 meeting in Chicago:

NARRATIVE AND IMAGE (3 panels)

Narrative against, with, through, alongside the visual in media such as
dance, film, graphic novels, photography, comics, painting, diagrammatics,
hypertext, anime, etc. 500 word proposals due by 1 March; electronic
format. Please email to Judith L. Sensibar <jlsensibar_at_earthlink.net>

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Michelle Massé
Professor of English & Women's and Gender Studies
Associate Chair, Department of English
Chair, MLA Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee
Editor, SUNY Feminist Theory and Criticism series
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Note corrected email addresses:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The North American Victorian Studies Association and the Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada will join forces for a joint
conference to be held 10-13 October 2007. The conference will take
place at the Laurel Point Inn on Victoria's beautiful inner harbour.
Featured presenters include Stephen Arata, Peter Bailey, Kirstie
Blair, Nicholas Daly, Jennifer Green-Lewis, Donald E. Hall, Gail
Turley Houston, Linda K. Hughes, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Seth
Koven, Philippa Levine, Lynda Nead, John Picker, Erika
Rappaport, and Talia Schaffer.

The deadline for paper proposals for the following conference has been
extended to 31 January 2007.

*Collectors and Collecting: Private Collections and their Role in
Libraries*

Proposals are invited for papers for a conference to be held at Chawton
House Library on 19 and 20 July 2007. The event is jointly organised by
Chawton House Library, the University of Southampton English Department,
and Goucher College, Baltimore.

The deadline for submissions has been extended until January 31,
2007. Please submit proposals to the email address at the bottom of
this call.
 
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on the Archive of the
Future/the Future of the Archive

CALL FOR PAPERS

The North American Victorian Studies Association and the Victorian
Studies Association of Western Canada will join forces for a joint
conference to be held 10-13 October 2007. The conference will take
place at the Laurel Point Inn on Victoria's beautiful inner harbour.
Featured presenters include Stephen Arata, Peter Bailey, Kirstie
Blair, Nicholas Daly, Jennifer Green-Lewis, Donald E. Hall, Gail
Turley Houston, Linda K. Hughes, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Seth
Koven, Philippa Levine, Lynda Nead, John Picker, Erika
Rappaport, and Talia Schaffer.

Howells's Reviews

For a panel in the program of the 2007 American Literature Association
annual convention, the William Dean Howells Society invites paper
proposals that examine the work of William Dean Howells in reviews.
Possible topics may include Howells's own publications as a book
reviewer, other critics' reviews of Howells's work, or Howells's
responses to the work of other reviewers. Please send by January 16,
2007 paper proposals no longer than 500 words and copy of cv to Claudia
Stokes at Claudia.stokes_at_trinity.edu or by post to Claudia Stokes,
Trinity University, Dept of English, 1 Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX
78212

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Dr. Claudia Stokes

Panel proposals for "New Reading Interfaces," an MLA session sponsored
by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (Chicago, December
2007).

Description: This panel will address reading in the context of networked
and multimedia communication environments. Possible topics include text
visualizations, alternative interfaces, immersive or VR environments for
text. Proposals welcome from both practical (design, coding) and
theoretical perspectives.

Type of submission wanted: abstracts + 1-2 pp. CV
Deadline: March 16
Contact: Rita Raley <raley at english.ucsb.edu>

Spring Cleaning:
Rediscovering and Revitalizing the Artifact
University of Calgary Free Exchange Graduate Conference
16-18 March 2007
Calgary, Alberta
For more information, please visit Free Exchange at www.english.ucalgary.ca

Dress as Artifact

Digital Archiving
 
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.

CALL FOR PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, PANELS AND PARTICIPANTS

THE JOINT JOURNALISM HISTORIANS CONFERENCE
(The American Journalism Historians Association and the AEJMC History Division joint spring meeting)

When: SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007
Time: 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Place: Kimball Hall, New York University, 246 Greene Street, New York, NY
Cost: $40

CALL FOR PAPERS

O brave new world:

Epochal Legacies and Identity in _Renaissance_ and _Early Modern_ Literatures

Panel to be hosted by McGill University's 13th Annual Graduate
Conference on Language and Literature (New Worlds, Lost Worlds:
Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature), in Montreal QC, March
10-11, 2007.