ethnicity and national identity

Scholars working in Latin American literary studies, North American =
(including U.S. or American) studies, and Island studies or creole =
languages and literatures are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute =
papers on the above topic. Possible approaches include but are not =
limited to the construction of race in Americas writing; slavery, =
abolition, and rights movements across the Americas; slave rebellion, =
nationalism, and revolution; diaspora and transculturation; =
hybridities/"purities"; creolization and Americas/New World writing.=20
This panel is part of a series of linked events at the convention on the =
topic projected to include a featured speaker and a symposium of invited =

Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Philadelphia, Nov. 8-11, 2006

White Writing Red, Red Writing White

I invite abstracts for a proposed panel that explores literature by
white women encountering Native Americans and literature by Native
American women encountering whites. Ideally, the panel will cover a
range of periods and genres; I am particularly interested in material
written before 1960. Possible topics include inter-racial marriage,
"civilization" and the frontier, teachers and students, religious
conversion, national and tribal identity.

Please send one-page abstract and one-page c.v. to Lynn Domina at
dominalm_at_delhi.edu by Jan. 20.

Contributions are invited for a collection of essays on teaching the
Middle Eastern and North African novel. The volume is divided into two
main sections: the first devoted to theoretical approaches and the second
to the different course and institutional contexts in which the novels are
taught; the volume will also include a section on resources for teachers
of the Middle Eastern and North African novel. One-page abstracts and
brief bios are invited by 1 February 2006. Queries welcome:
<Lahoucine.Ouzgane_at_ualberta.ca>

African Literature Association
32nd Annual Meeting and Conference

Accra, Ghana

May 17-21, 2006

Calls for papers
Panel title: "Historical Catharsis and Genealogical Consciousness in African Literature"

[A technical problem led to the omission of the text of the previous copy
of this CFP -ed.]

    CFP: "Black Authenticity—Authentic Blackness" (07/15/06; essay collection)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Date for proposals: January 30th, 2006

The organization of the V International Conference on Chicano Literature
issues a call for papers to be presented at the conference, to be held at
the Institute for North American Studies-University of Alcalá, Spain, from
22-25 May 2006.

The Literature of Africa and the Diaspora Session at SAMLA seeks papers on Conceptions of the Self and Subjectivity.

A full range of approaches to and perspectives on the topic is encouraged.

Please send 200-250 word proposals for 20-minute papers to

Walter Collins, Session Chair
University of South Carolina, Lancaster
476 Hubbard Drive
Lancaster, SC 29720

OR email to <collinsw_at_sc.edu> by 1 March 2006

In order for the proposal to be considered, include the following information:

"Authentic" Difference: Race and the Politics of Regionalism

Call for Papers
Introduction

The University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA) will host a conference on=20
Race and Pedagogy keynoted by Prof. Cornel West on Sept. 14-16, 2006.=20
The conference will bring together scholars, teachers, and students to=20=

discuss the pedagogical implications of race in higher education,=20
particularly but not exclusively in institutions and programs oriented=20=

DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR ALL FRS SUBMISSIONS UNTIL JANUARY 6th, 2006!

 <mailto:jjohnson6_at_mail.twu.edu> <mailto:jljohn71_at_verizon.net>

A Symposium in Rhetoric: "Ethnicity & Kairos"

Open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area
Universities

Texas Woman's University - Denton, Texas

Where: ACT Bldg. 2nd Floor

When: February 24, 2006

*apologies for cross-posting*

*please circulate widely*

Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) 19th Annual Conference

July 14-15th, 2006

University of Bradford, UK

The focus of the Conference will be on making links between theory and action, academics and activists. Conference themes will be interdisciplinary, and reflect both United Kingdom and International diversities. Streams include but do not restrict papers to identity, sexuality, diversity and:

* Social care
* European studies
* Race, ethnicity,
* Disability and ability
* Heterosexuality, sexuality, identity
* Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transsexual identity
* Criminal Justice

Call for Papers
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            The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars invites=20
abstracts for the 10th Anniversary International Conference =E2=80=9CThe Car=
ibbean=20
Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining/Theorizing/Creating=E2=80=9D to be held M=
ay 30-June 3,=20
2006, at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
            Sample Panel Topics:
            The Creative Theoretical
            Caribbean Feminist Theory
            The Caribbean Imaginary
            Orality and the Creative Imagination
            Imagining Progressive Futures
            One Caribbean in the Vision of Writers and Artists

CFP: Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
May 25-28, 2006

The Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature=20=

Association seeks proposals for several panels at the American=20
Literature Association=92s 17th annual conference at the Hyatt Regency=20=

San Francisco, CA May 25-28, 2006.

Unless otherwise noted, those interested in submitting a paper should=20
send a one-page abstract with your name, position, affiliation, and=20
contact information to Latina/o Literature and Culture Society co-chair=20=

Tanya Gonz=E1lez at tgonzale_at_ksu.edu by January 16, 2006.

UPDATE: International conference on literature exploring immigration, emigration and the experience of Wales (1/6/06; 4/7/06-4/9/06)
Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, Wales, UK

Please note new deadline for submissions 2006

TRAVELLING TO NEW WORLDS: IMMIGRATION, EMIGRATION AND THE EXPERIENCE OF WALES
The Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English
7-9 April 2006

Keynote: Professor David Punter