cultural studies and historical approaches

To whom it may concern:
  Paper proposals are being accepted for the upcoming Graduate Student
Conference "Alles in Ordnung?", to be held April 1st, 2006, at Columbia
University's Germanic Languages Department. The organizers would be most
appreciative if you would post the following on your graduate student
list-serve. The deadline for abstract submissions is February 1st, 2006.
 For further information, please contact Patrick Gallagher at
columbia.ordnung_at_gmail.com.
 ___________________________

*Grad Student Conference*

*Columbia University, April 1st, 2006*

*"Alles in Ordnung?" : Civil Order and Its Breakdowns*

Call for Papers for the University of Dayton LitFest, February 17 and 18,
2006

You are invited to submit paper or panel proposals for the University of
Dayton’s LitFest, to be held at the University of Dayton, February 17 and
18, 2006. Organized by Department of English graduate students, the UD
LitFest has brought academic and creative submissions together since 2001.
Conference attendees will have the opportunity to attend a reading by
award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni (who is appearing in Dayton as part of a
celebration of the life of Daytonian Paul Laurence Dunbar) as part of the
conference registration fee of $30. Transportation to and from the reading
will be provided.

  CFP: Eros/Pornography Areas
   
  2006 National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations'
  Joint Conference
   
  Atlanta Marriott Marquis
  April 12 – 15, 2006
   
  Submission Deadline: Dec. 7, 2005
   
  The Eros & Pornography area of the National PCA/ACA Conference is interested in receiving submissions/abstracts for next year's conference at the beautiful Atlanta Marriott Marquis hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.
   
  We are interested in ANY topics related to this area, including:
   
  --Erotic Images in Literature, any period
  --Internet & Pornography
  --Eros & Mythology

Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing texts
The Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton is seeking papers
for our 2006 conference to be held February 17 and 18, 2006. We are
interested in papers/presentations for the following suggested panel:
Power/Desire in Fiction
Is possession of power, or the possibility of wielding/using power affected
by desire? Do the powerful experience/fulfill/define desire? Do the powerful
depend on being desired, reject being the object of desire, or both?
We are accepting completed paper submissions only, no abstracts, please.
Creative writing/productions/performance contributions are encouraged to

ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others

Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006

Topographies and Temporalities of the Human
Seminar Organizer(s): Dale Shin, York University

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DIS-UNITED EMPIRES: INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON
BRITISH AND UNITED STATES IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA, THE
CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE MIDDLE EAST

QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA

MAY 15-18, 2006

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Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing texts
The Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton is seeking papers
for our 2006 conference to be held February 17 and 18, 2006. We are
interested in papers/presentations for the following suggested panel:
Motion and Money in Literature
How have economic structures/strictures put pressure on groups and/or
individuals to become rooted in a place, or disperse across regions, countries, and
continents? Have some groups/individuals become newly rooted elsewhere? Have
some individuals/groups found the capability/desire/need/pressure to move
often? To stay? How do writings reflect/interrogate the effect/affect of such
movement or stasis?

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Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing texts
The Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton is seeking papers
for our 2006 conference to be held February 17 and 18, 2006. We are
interested in papers/presentations for the following suggested panel:
 
 
Expressions of Mourning
How is mourning, as dealt with in literature and art, an expression of
individual loss/desire/power/identity and community loss/desire/power/identity?
How do the two aspects of individual and community conflict and/or engage with
each other?
 
We are accepting completed paper submissions only, no abstracts, please.

American Comparative Literature Association Conference: "The Human
and Its Others." March 23-26, 2006 at Princeton University

Seminar Panel: Human Rights: "Lost" in Translation?

Seminar Organizer: J. Paul Narkunas, Pratt Institute

Dear ARM Members and Friends,

ARM's 9th annual conference on "Mothering, Race, Culture, Ethnicity and
Class" featured a full day on Aboriginal Mothering. Truly a first! ARM
Press will be publishing a book on this topic, developed from the
conference.

The book will be edited by Jeanette Corbiere Lavell and Dawn Memee
Lavell-Harvard. (Bios included below)

We are still seeking chapters for this book, particularly in the area of
literature, popular culture, and history. As well, we are particularly
interested
in receiving submissions from perspectives other than 'North American."

Abolitionist Places

I'm inviting papers for a panel "Abolitionist Places" to be proposed
for the American Studies Association 2006 meeting in Oakland, CA,
October 12-15, 2006.