ethnicity and national identity

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND INDIVIDUAL PAPERS

The 20th Biennial Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS)
Conference 2007
The 11th Biennial Tampere North American Studies Conference

"American Bodies, American Violence"

University of Tampere, Finland
May 24-26, 2007

We are looking for contributions on the theme of violence in/and North America
in various different contexts and fields of study (literature, history, film
studies, gender studies, queer studies, sociology, political studies, media
studies, environmental studies, and so on).

Call for Papers

International Conference:
"Palestine and the First World War - New Perspectives"

The Tel-Hai Academic College in Upper Galilee, Israel, is planning an
international academic conference to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the
Palestine Campaign during the First World War and the British occupation of
Jerusalem in 1917. The conference will be held on 3-6 September 2007 at the
college's campus at Tel-Hai. Official languages: English and Hebrew with
simultaneous translation.

Irish Feminist Thought
13-14 April 2007

Women's Studies Centre, Centre for Irish Studies, Moore Institute (formerly
CSHSHC)
National University of Ireland, Galway

Guest Speakers:
Patricia Coughlan, University College Cork
Myrtle Hill, Queen's University Belfast
                                        

SOFEIR 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS
“Ireland: Going East”

16-17 March 2007
Institut du Monde Anglophone
Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
5, rue de l’Ecole de Médecine
75006 Paris

The Groupe de Recherche en Etudes Irlandaises de l’Université Sorbonne
Nouvelle-Paris 3, will host the annual conference of the SOFEIR (Société Française
d’Etudes Irlandaises) on 16th and 17th March 2007. The theme of the
conference will be: “Ireland: Going East”. Proposals for papers (250 words max.)
should be sent to Wesley Hutchinson and Carle Bonafous-Murat, before 30th
November 2006. Contact: sofeir2007_at_yahoo.fr

College English Association National Conference
April 12-14, 2007
New Orleans

We invite papers on U.S. Latino/a Literary Studies for the 38th annual meeting
of the CEA.

Proposals should be submitted via the online database at
<http://english.ttu.edu/cea/conftool> by November 30th.

When you submit your proposal, you may use a pull-down menu to indicate your
topic. Indicate at that pull-down menu that your submission should be directed
to me, Joseph M. Viera, chair of the Hispanic, Latino/a, Chicano Literature
panels.

To preserve time for discussion, CEA limits presentations to 15 minutes.

Alien/Asian: Enfiguring a Racialized Future

Contributors whose Abstracts on Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone African Oral literary Traditions and Aesthetics; History, Progress and Transition; War, Conflicts, and Trauma; Individuality vs Fringe/Marginal Identities; Masculinist/Feminist (Re)Inscriptions; Present-Past/Future-Present Temporality; Contemporary Modernity and Citizenship (Re)Definitions; and Dilemmas of the Post-Colony/ Nation-States, among others, have been approved are, irrespective of December 31st deadline for final submission of materials, requested to turn in their papers for initial reading and assessment as from October 31st 2006. Please note the changes in website address below. New Contributions may also be considered.

   
  Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
   
  The Ethics of (re)presentation: Imagining Others
   

Seeking one essay addressing diaspora and Native American culture
(broadly conceived), for a collection of essays entitled Transforming
Diaspora. We wish to receive queries/proposal from interested scholars
by November 15, 2006. The full CFP for the essay collection follows.
Send email submissions to robinfield_at_kings.edu.

Transforming Diaspora (Book Collection)

Eds. Parmita Kapadia and Robin Field

*EMERGING PARADIGMS IN THE
SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD*
 First Annual Graduate Conference on Transatlantic and Cultural Studies
*Georgia** State University** and **the Center for Latin American and Latin=
o
Studies
*February 23-24, 2006

*Keynote speaker*

Dr. Ana del Sarto (Ohio State University)

"The Politics of Criticism: Beyond Latin American Cultural Studies?"

Proposals are especially encouraged on ( but not limited to) any aspect of
Literature, Linguistics, Culture, History, and Women Studies.

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*SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:*

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 Call for Papers - Seeing Things: Irish Studies and Visual Culture

Because of the conflict with a major religious holiday, we have moved the dates
for NALS to March 8-10, 2007.
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NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM
March 8-10, 2007

MANY VOICES, ONE CENTER

Call for Proposals

DEADLINE: October 25, 2006

Featured Speakers: Poet, writer, filmmaker Sherman Alexie; artist and sculptor
Brent Learned; activist and author Noenoe Silva; and writer Debra Magpie
Earling

The Jewish Graphic Novel

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CALL FOR PAPERS
  POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
  AND
  AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
  ANNUAL MEETING
   
  APRIL 4-7, 2007
   
  BOSTON MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE
  BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
   
   
  AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES
   
  We invite submissions from individuals or organized panels (3 or 4 persons) focusing on any issue relating to American Indian/First Nation/Indigenous peoples' lives and literatures. We especially invite the participation of native scholars and writers.
   
  UPDATED DEADLINE FOR ALL ABSTRACTS: NOVEMBER 3, 2006
   
   
  FOR INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSIONS: