general announcements

CFP: Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture
2008 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association 29th Annual Conference

February 13-16, 2008

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
http://albuquerque.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtml

College English Association National Conference March 27-29, 2008 St.
Louis, Missouri

We invite papers for a panel on Food and the Literary Imagination for the
39th annual meeting of the CEA. The conference theme is “Passages,” and
some suggested topics for this panel are aspects of food in regard to
travel, rites of passage, heroic quests, mythic journeys, coming-of-age,
and so forth. Discussion may include fiction, non- fiction, poetry, drama,
or film.

Proposals should be submitted via the online database at
http://english.ttu.edu/cea/conftool by November 1, 2007.

Fat Studies is becoming an interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary field of
study that confronts and critiques cultural constraints against notions
of “fatness” and “the fat body”; explores fat bodies as they live in, are
shaped by, and remake the world; and creates paradigms for the development
of fat acceptance or celebration within mass culture.

College English Association National Conference March 27-29, 2008 St.
Louis, Missouri

We invite papers on Trauma and Literature for the 39th annual meeting of
the CEA. While human suffering has been a subject of literature from its
earliest time, modern understanding of trauma, including its
manifestations and the human response to them, offers a more thorough
understanding of these texts than has historically been available to the
critic.

CFP: Professional Panel on Feminism in the Classroom (9/15/07; NEMLA,
4/10/08-4/13/08)

Call for Papers

2008 North Eastern Modern Language Association
Convention in Buffalo, New York
Date: April 10-13, 2008

Deadline for Abstract: September 15, 2007

Please e-mail a one-page abstract as a MS Word attachment to
christy.wenger_at_lehigh.edu or via regular mail to

Christy Wenger
Lehigh University
35 Sayre Dr.
English Department, 101 Drown Hall
Bethlehem, PA 18015

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation

Email address

Postal address

Telephone number

A/V requirements (if any)

Below please find the Performance Studies Focus Group's Call for
Papers/Proposals for ATHE 2008 in Denver. Please feel free to circulate.
Sincerely yours,
Peter Civetta
Conference Planner - PSFG
 
Call for Proposals: PSFG/ATHE 2008
 
The Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) of the Association for Theatre
in Higher
Education (ATHE) invites proposals for panels, seminars, roundtable
discussions,
performances, workshops, and other innovative sessions for the annual
ATHE
Conference, which will be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Denver,
Colorado, 31 July â€"3
August 2008.
 
ATHE 2008's conference theme "Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 16th annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media
(MCLLM) will be held February 29 and March 1, 2008, at Northern Illinois
University in DeKalb, Illinois, to coincide with African American History
Month and Women's History Month.

Confirmed keynote speakers: David Bevington (of the University of
Chicago) on race and gender in Shakespeare, and Russ Castronovo (of the
University of Wisconsin at Madison) on American and African American
history including the military-industrial complex.

Proposals are solicited for fifteen- to twenty-minute papers from
scholars at all career stages, from beginning graduate students to
established and senior scholars.

CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS
31st Annual New Jersey College English Association Conference
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 07079

Keynote Speaker: Edward Halsey Foster

The New Jersey College English Association is soliciting panels and papers
considering a broad range of literary and composition topics for its annual
conference. The NJCEA brings together those interested in language,
literature, pedagogy, and other aspects of the teaching and study of
literature and writing.

College English Association National Conference
March 27-29, 2008
St. Louis, Missouri

We invite submissions for the 39th annual meeting of the CEA:

RIVERS at CEA

All the rivers run to the sea, and this year SEA at CEA focuses on the
literature of riversâ€"passages that feature the river itself, river craft,
and the craft of moving on moving waterâ€"by raft, steamboat, keelboat; by
pole, paddle, or portage; by slave, slaver, sailor, or salmon. Papers on
the rich literary histories of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers are
especially appropriate to our meeting at their confluence in St. Louis.

Call for Papers

7th Annual Louisiana Conference on Language and Literature
February 21-23, 2008
Hilton Garden Inn Lafayette, Louisiana

Keynote Speakers:

Elizabeth Nuñez, Award-winning novelist; co-editor of Stories from Blue
Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad and Black Writers in
the 90s; and literary critic.

Jeanne Moskal, Author of Studies of Blake and Shelley, Editor of
Keats-Shelley Journal; Founding President of the International Society for
Travel Writing, and Editor of the series Writing Travel

http://english.louisiana.edu/laconference

&Now: A Festival of Literature and Art

April 15-17, 2008

Chapman University, Orange, CA

http://www.andnowfestival.com/

Submit proposals for papers by November 1st, 2007 to
submissions_at_andnowfestival.com.

Anyone can submit a proposal. You do not need to be associated with an
academic or any other institution. Graduate Students may apply as
individuals or as students of an institution.

You can propose:

* To do a reading or performance from your own innovative or conceptual
fiction, poetry, or other creative work.

Call for Papers for a NYCEA sponsored CEA Special Topics Panel on
"Literature and the Healing Arts / Literature and Medicine" at the 39th
College English Association (CEA) Conference St. Louisâ€"27-29 March 2008

We welcome submissions of both past NYCEA papers previously presented at
the NYCEA Conference on this theme, OR new submissions on the topic of this
special session: "Literature and the Healing Arts / Literature and Medicine.”

We also welcome full panel proposals fitting the above panel topic.

Call for Papers for a NYCEA sponsored CEA Special Topics Panel on
"Literature and Criminal Justice" at the 39th College English Association
(CEA) Conference St. Louisâ€"27-29 March 2008

We welcome submissions of both past NYCEA papers previously presented at
the NYCEA Conference on this theme, OR new submissions on the topic of this
special session: "Literature and Criminal Justice."

We also welcome full panel proposals fitting the above panel topic.

It is our desire to be able to field at the CEA conference a number of
panels on this theme with the intent of creating a subset of scholarly
communities, originally arising out of the NYCEA affiliate, within the
larger CEA conference community.

Call for Papers for a NYCEA sponsored CEA Special Topics Panel on "Anatomy
of Violence in Literature" at the 39th College English Association (CEA)
Conference St. Louisâ€"27-29 March 2008

We welcome submissions of both past NYCEA papers previously presented at
the NYCEA Conference on this theme, OR new submissions on the topic of this
special session: "Anatomy of Violence in Literature."

We also welcome full panel proposals fitting the above panel topic.