ethnicity and national identity

Below is a second reminder of our call for papers.
You'll also notice that we are now soliciting book reviews in addition to
original essays for the journal.
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 Please Forward... deadline approaching.

 Call for Papers: Special theme issue of 'Reconstruction: Studies in
Contemporary Culture'

 'Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture' is an open access,
electronic,
 peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing cultural studies work from
emerging
 and established scholars worldwide.

 We now invite submissions for our special-theme issue tentatively titled,
 "Threatening Bodies: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race"

Editor seeks a few more essays for an edited collection tentatively entitled
"Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers, edited by
Joyce Harte.
 
At the invitation of Cambridge Scholars Press, I am submitting for
publication a book of critical scholarly essays on the topic of loss and mourning in
the writings of Caribbean women writers. Most of the essays for the book
derive from papers given at a conference of the North East Modern Language
Association in March 2006.
 
The consideration of loss and mourning in Caribbean women's writing is an
exciting new discourse emerging fefore us and, while there is a considerable

Call for Papers

Race and Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century

28th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA)

Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, March 8-10, 2007

 
UPDATE: Please note the following keynote speakers --

SALA 2006 Conference Keynote Address: Gaurav Desai

SALA MLA Sessions: a Round Table on "Secularism and its Relation to
Minorities" will be held, featuring Ketu Katrak, Amitava Kumar, Aamir
Mufti, R. Radhakrishnan, Rajeswari Sundar Rajan, and Bruce Robbins.

The deadline for abstracts remains July 1, 2006.
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Call for Papers for SALA's (South Asian Literary Association) 7th Annual
Conference (December 26 and 27, 2006; to be held in conjunction with the
MLA)

Greetings all,

The University of Sydney Celtic Studies Foundation will hold the Sixth
Australian Celtic Conference at the University of Sydney, Australia, from
July 18 - 21, 2007.

The conference theme is 'The Celts in Legend and Reality, ancient and
modern'. We hope to attract papers from all and any disciplines relating to
the area of Celtic Studies, whether orientated toward ancient, medieval, or
modern periods, and in all fields, from those interested in literature
studies, to history, law, art, and religion.

CFP - =AB African Literature in the 21Ist century: Out of the =
post-colonial and beyond=BB 5/1-5/2007 - Tamanrasset, Algeria. (deadline =
for propositions 9/5/06

 Contact:

 benaouda.lebdai_at_univ-angers.fr =20

The conference is jointly organised by the university of Angers, =
research group GRILUA, and the university of Algiers, Algeria. All =
papers will be given in French.

Propositions (300 words) along with a short bio-bibliography, to be sent =
by the 5th September 2006 to: M. Ben LEBDAI, university of Angers : =
(anglophone African literature)=20

Call for Papers
Cognitive Approaches to Irish Literature (Panel)
New England American Conference for Irish Studies
University of Connecticut-Storrs, CT 10/21/2006-10/22/2006
 
We invite submissions of papers for a panel that will examine Irish
literature with the tools of cognitive science, cognitive psychology,
and cognitive literary theory. Recent discoveries in cognitive science
have profound implications for literary studies. Cross-disciplinary
scholars have made huge strides in showing how the functioning of the
embodied mind is inherently caught up with the production of literary
material. This panel will draw upon the most provocative insights of

Call for Submissions

(Re)Considering Mario Puzo: His Life and Works

Voices in Italian Americana is a semi-annual literary
and cultural review devoted to the dissemination of
information concerning the contributions of and about
Italian Americans to the cultural and art worlds of
North America.

We invite submissions of critical essays from scholars
on the texts of Mario Puzo to be published in a
special issue in the Fall of 2008.

Call for Papers
   
  Critical Essays on « Cameroon Literature in English :
  The Novel and Drama »
   
           Since the publication in 1993 of the collection of essays Anglophone Cameroon Writing by Lyonga, Breitinger and Butake, the Cameroon literary landscape has been enriched with new titles in English, Especially in the genres of the novel and drama. Almost on a monthly basis, there are book launches particularly in Yaounde, Buea and Bamenda. However, this outburst of literary creativity has not, it seems to us, been matched by serious critical judgments which could serve both the creative writers and the general reading public. This book project is intended to fill that vacuum.
   

Sage of Consciousness Volume 2 Issue 3
Sage of Consciousness E-zine
ISSN 1555-192X
An international online thematic ezine and journal created by a volunteer
group of writers and artists.

Theme for Volume 2 Issue 3: Traveling: Multicultural Minglings

UNAUSTRALIA

The Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference
Dec. 6-8 2006

Call for papers:

If things are 'un-Australian' it must be because they come from UNAUSTRALIA.
Where is it? Who lives there? How does it come to be? What is its past and
what is its future?

While raising some very local questions of critique and desire, the theme is
open to international perspectives and interpretations. Do other places have
their own unplaces? What goes on there?

UNTHEMED papers are also welcome.

Speakers:

CALL FOR PANEL AND PAPER PROPOSALS

Latin America Area
2006 Film & History Conference: ³The Documentary Tradition²
November 8th-12th, 2006
Dolce Conference Center, Dallas, TX

Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora invites scholars from
all fields to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the independence of Ghana.
 The issue is set for publication in the summer of 2007. When Ghana began
the first African nation to gain it independence from England, it not only
set the stage for the liberation of Africa, but it precipitated cultural
changes across the African Diaspora and, indeed, across the globe. Essays
are solicited the literary and cultural legacy of Ghanaian independence in
Ghana, in Africa, in the African Diaspora and throughout the world. We
seek papers on individual works, authors and genres as well previously
unpublished creative works.

Deadline extended to 06/12/2006 submit to: jtdawson_at_andrew.cmu.edu

The English Department at Carnegie Mellon University and Unseam'd
Shakespeare Company (Pittsburgh, Pa) with the participation of the August
Wilson Center for African American Culture invite academics, artists and
graduate students to participate in a day-long symposium:

Bridges or Fences: Diversity on the American Stage
(Re-engaging the Wilson-Brustein Debates)

June 24, 2006
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pa