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Singapore/Malaysian Literature in English Panel
English Literature Conference - Singapore:
IRRESPONSIBILITY
28-30 September 2006 NTU Singapore
UPDATE - CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline extended to April 10, 2006
CLOSE RELATIONS: THE =91SPACES=92 OF GREEK AND ROMAN THEATRE
An international, multi-disciplinary conference linking theatre and=20
performance studies, archaeology, classical studies and reception=20
studies
September 20-23, 2006 at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Convenors: Prof. Frank Sear, Paul Monaghan, Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Proposals for presentations of 20 or 40 minutes duration, including=20
title and abstract of up to 200 words must be received by April 10,=20
2006
Pressure to Experiment
A two day international conference on experimentation in contemporary writing
Organised by the Centre for Contemporary Writing
To be held at the University of Southampton, UK on
28th and 29th September 2006
This conference explores the role of literary experimentation in contemporary
writing. After nearly a hundred years of modernism we ask what purpose and
meaning we now attribute to experimentation in fiction, in poetry and in
critical thought. Specific questions to be addressed include:
What are the contemporary aesthetic, political, and cultural pressures on
experimentation?
College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Fall 2005 Conference: 10-11 November 2006
"Our Watery World: Humans and the Sea"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
The CEA-CC invites proposals for a panel titled "Monster and Monstrosities
of the Seas." Please send 200-250 word proposal to Vartan Messier at
cea_caribbeanchapter_at_hotmail.com by 31 July 2006. Proposals may be sent by
email as part of a text message but not as attachments. Presenters must be
registered members of the CEA-CC at the time of the conference.
More information available at
http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/ingles/cea-cc.htm
=B3Unstable Zones: Self and Other in British Narratives of First Encounters=B2
An International Conference on British Narratives of Exploration
22 - 23 March 2007
Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Lyon, France
Update - extended deadline
(Another) Slapstick Symposium
A film conference on American slapstick comedy in the silent era, 13th-14th
May, 2006 organized by BLASA (Belgium Luxembourg American Studies
Association), the University of Antwerp (American Studies Group) and VDFC
(Flemish Council for Film Culture)
To be held at the Cinematheque Royale, Brussels, Belgium
(Another) Slapstick Symposium sets out to revisit and rethink some of the
themes and ideas of the original Slapstick Symposium organized by Eileen
Bowser at the Museum of Modern Art in 1985. The conference will focus on
four broad contexts:
Conference Name: 1st John Dos Passos International Conference
Name of organizing/sponsoring society or organization: CENTRO CULTURAL =
JOHN
DOS PASSOS, Direc=E7=E3o Regional dos Assuntos Culturais
Name of contact person: Miguel Oliveira
Enquiries e-mail: <mailto:1DosPassosConference_at_sapo.pt>
1DosPassosConference_at_sapo.pt
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Website address: http://johndospassosconf.sc14.info/
Conference start date: 12 October 2006
Last day of conference: 14 October 2006
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 May 2006
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City where conference will be held: Funchal (Madeira Island)
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Country: Portugal
The 14th METU British Novelists Seminar
Jeanette Winterson and her Work
will be held on=20
14-15 December 2006
at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Call for Papers=20
You are invited to send proposals for 20-minute presentations on any =
topic directly related to this year's Seminar topic.=20
Proposals of no more than 250 words should be sent to the conference =
organiser at one of the addresses given below by 15th September. =20
The papers presented at the seminar will be published in a Proceedings.=20
Congreso de la Asociaci=F3n Espa=F1ola de Estudios Canadienses
17 y 18 de noviembre de 2006 en la Residencia La Cristalera de la=20
Universidad Aut=F3noma de Madrid.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Panel: Ecocriticism and the Interaction between the Global and the Local =
in Recent Canadian Literature and Art.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
CASA meeting 2006
CONSTRUCTING SOCIAL CHANGE
Desire and Utopia, Art, Knowledge and Direct Action
Date: 22 June 2006 - 26 June 2006
Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
IDENTITIES IN THE MAKE: MIGRATION AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (15 May 2006; 17-18 November 2006; Madrid, Spain)
*11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CANADIAN STUDIES, SPANISH ASSOCIATION
FOR CANADIAN STUDIES. MADRID, 17-18 NOVEMBER 2006. MORE INFO AT
WWW.ESTUDIOSCANADIENSES.ORG
*CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE PANEL *Uprootings / Regroundings: Migrations in
Canadian Literature.*
MEMORY, NARRATIVE, AND FORGIVENESS:
REFLECTING ON TEN YEARS OF SOUTH AFRICA'S TRUTH
AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
Sponsored by the Institute of English Literature, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China
October 13-15, 2006
Call for Papers 2006
The Institute of English Literature, Zhejiang University, cordially invites your active
participation in an international symposium on Sinology and Sino-West cultural relations
and exchanges to be held in Hangzhou, October 13-15, 2006.
CFP: Contemporary British and Irish Literary Landscapes: Re-Reading Pat Barker
Call for papers for a one-day conference at University of Hertfordshire,
England
Friday 24th November, 2006
This one-day conference is the first of a series entitled Contemporary
British and Irish Literary Landscapes. The inaugural conference explores
the work of Pat Barker.
Deadline extended:
UPDATE: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/31/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)
ROMANTICISM, ENVIRONMENT, CRISIS
23-27 June 2006
Centre for Romantic Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Lawrence Buell, Cheryll Glotfelty, James C. McKusick, George Monbiot, Kate
Soper.
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Romanticism, Environment, Crisis" will highlight the continuing urgency
of the Romantic text at a time when changes in our biosphere threaten to
realize Romanticism's prophetic anxieties, its darkest imaginings.
BLAKE AND CONFLICT
A Two Day Conference at University College, Oxford
22-23 September, 2006
Call for Papers
For the majority of William Blake's life, Britain was a nation at war.
Countries, individuals, and ideologies clashed in the ferment of the
American, French, and Industrial Revolutions. Britain experienced
unprecedented levels of mobilisation, chronic food shortages, mass
demonstrations, and the repression of civil liberties.
CFP: Second International Doris Lessing Conference (08/31/06;07/07/07-09/07/07)
Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Doris Lessing is a writer who, in her early career, concentrated on Africa
and African politics then subsequently turned toward England, feminism, and
speculative fiction. This panel will explore Lessing's continued engagement
with African politics from "The Grass Is Singing" and "Going Home" to "Under
My Skin" and "African Laughter," as well as her more recent
journalism/reviews.
Submit one-page abstracts by August 31, 2006 to: anneserafin_at_earthlink.net
and jcairnie_at_uoguelph.ca
Call for Papers :
International Symposium : Faith, Myth & Literary Creation since 1850
Lille Catholic University, Lille, France 18th/19th May 2007
Call For Papers
2006 Tertiary Writing Network Colloquium
Thursday and Friday, 7-8 December, 2006
Napier, New Zealand
The conference website may be found at http://twn.massey.ac.nz
We invite those working and teaching in the fields of academic writing,
writing across the curriculum, ESOL, creative writing, and writing
support to submit a presentation proposal related to the theme: "Old
Text / Nu Txt: Writing for a Change."
CFP: The Politics of Waste/The European Association for the Study of =
English Conference (ESSE 8) (UK) (8/29/06 =96 9/2/06)
ESSE 8 Conference
London (Senate House)
29 August =96 2 September 2006
Seminar: The Politics of Waste
Abstract Deadline: 31 March 2006 (400 words)
College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Fall 2005 Conference: 10-11 November 2006
"Watery World: Humans and the Sea"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
The CEA-CC invites proposals for a panel titled "Ecocriticism and the =
Endangered Sea".
Please send 200-250 word proposal to Vartan Messier at =
cea_caribbeanchapter_at_hotmail.com by 31 July 2006.
Proposals may be sent by email as part of a text message but not as
attachments. Presenters must be registered members of the CEA-CC at the =
time=20
of the conference.
More information available at
http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/ingles/cea-cc.htm
PLEASE POST REVISED CFP / DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 MARCH 2006
Women and poetry in the 21st Century: Kicking Daffodils III
Two-day conference: 6th and 7th September 2006, University of the West of
England, Bristol
F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Keynote Speakers: Medbh McGuckian and Marion Wynne-Davies
Including contributions from: Elaine Feinstein, Deryn Rees-Jones, Diane
Middlebrook, Robyn Bolam, Kate Clanchy, Michelene Wandor, Tracy Brain, Fiona
Sampson, Georgia Scott, Zina Rohan, Cheryl Malcolm.
College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Fall 2006 Conference: 10-11 November 2006
"Watery World: Humans and the Sea"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
CALL FOR PAPERS
Bogazici University and National Association of Ethnic Studies
November 15-17, Bogazici University, ISTANBUL
CFP: Transnational Perspectives: Intersections of Race, Ethnicity and
Religion
Istanbul is one of the world's major cities with a long history of
diverse cultures, races and religions living together in harmony. Throughout
history, this kaleidoscopic city has managed to create harmony from discord. In
this city where different cultures intersect and interact, we aim to bridge
together different perspectives on a cross-cultural platform and inspire a new
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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS
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"Gender and Interaction: Real and Virtual women in a male world"
1 day workshop at AVI 2006
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Date: 23 May 2006
Location: Venice, Italy
Submission Deadline: 19 March 2006 - Extended deadline
Web-site: http://www.informatics.manchester.ac.uk/~antonella/gender/
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LEGITIMATING CULTURES, CULTURES OF LEGITIMACY: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
To: CFP_at_english.upenn.edu
LEGITIMATING CULTURES, CULTURES OF LEGITIMACY:
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Bucharest University, Romania
November 23-25, 2006
Organizers:
Mircea Martin, Bucharest University, Romania
Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for addressing issues related to the notion of "legitimacy" across discourses, cultural practices, and traditions. We are primarily interested in papers theorizing the construction and representation of the "legitimate?" in particular contexts.
CALL=20
FOR PAPERS
Crossing=20
America
=A1=AFs=20
Internal Borders:=20
The=20
41st Annual International Conference of the American Studies Association of=
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Korea
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(ASAK), Oct. 27-28, 2006 in=20
Seoul
Irish Feminist Futures Postgraduate Conference
27th May 2006
University College Cork
Deadline for Abstracts: 28th April 2006
Contact: susan.cahill_at_ucd.ie <mailto:susan.cahill_at_ucd.ie> and
claire.bracken_at_ucd.ie <mailto:claire.bracken_at_ucd.ie>
Who will shape the future of Irish women's studies? What possibilities does
this future hold?
UPDATED INFORMATION:
Please note that DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 21ST
APRIL 2006.
The organisers of the following conference are delighted to inform
prospective attendees that a publisher has expressed an interest in
releasing a collection of edited essays or proceedings from the
Fashioning Fiction conference. We also have organised a celidh in The
Queen's Hotel: http://www.queenshotelscotland.com/ . For further
information visit www.fashioningfiction.stir.ac.uk .