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ESSE 8: LONDON 29 August -- 2 September 2006

SEMINAR CALL FOR PAPERS
British & European: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill
Submissions accepted until March 1, 2006
Fashioning Fiction (grad): University of Stirling (UK)
Abstract Deadline: 03/10/06
Conference Dates: 05/27/06 - 05/28/06
'What a strange power there is in clothing' - Isaac Bashevis Singer
CALL FOR PAPERS
TV Fiction Exchange: Local/Regional/National/Global.
An International Conference.
Contributors include:
Professor Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney
David Bianculli, NY Daily News television critic and author of
Teletiteracy
Dr David Lavery, Middle-State Tennessee University
Mark Lawson, Guardian television critic and writer
Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU Cheshire).
Dates: Tuesday 5 - Friday 8 September 2006.
Call for papers: 'Chaucer and Time'
The Third London Chaucer Conference will be taking place at the University of London Senate House, Bloomsbury, London, England, on 19-20 April 2007. Proposals for papers are welcome, and should relate to an aspect of the Conference theme.
Relevant topics include
Global Cities - An Interdisciplinary Conference
Hosted by the Deanery of Humanities and organised by the Narrated Spaces Research Group
Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool, 29th-30th June 2006
CFP date extended to: 31.03.06
Conference website: http://hopelive.hope.ac.uk/mahumanities/GolbalCities/index.htm
Plenary speakers: Professor Alan Gilbert (University College London), Professor Gregory Lee (Jean Moulin University, Lyon III), Professor Bill Chambers (Liverpool Hope University)
Inaugural English Literature Conference:
IRRESPONSIBILITY
Division of English, NTU, Singapore, 28-30 September
2006
Deadline extended:
CONFERENCE
Englishness: Embodiment, Identity and the Hero(in)eic
28-29th September 2006
Universitat de les Illes Balears (Palma Majorca Spain)
International Institute for the Study of Englishness
http://web.mac.com/theorists/iWeb/IISE/
email: contact_at_iise.co.uk
The major theme for the conference is: The Englishness of Heroines
and Heroes Symbolism, Embodiment, Narratives & Identities
ESSE 8 London 29 August - 2 September 2006=20
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Seminar Call for Papers:
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"The Writer, the Collection and the Museum"
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Dear all, please find below a CFP for a Children's Geographies (and
Children's Studies) conference at The University of Northampton in
September of this year.
Call for Papers
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CHILDREN'S GEOGRAPHIES
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7th and 8th September 2006
Centre for Children and Youth
The University of Northampton
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Convenors:
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Faith Tucker, John Horton, Peter Kraftl, Sarah Armstrong
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Themes:
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Deadline extended:
5th Global Conference
Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease
Wednesday 12th July - Saturday 15th July 2006
Mansfield College, Oxford
Call for Papers
(please cross post where appropriate)
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore the processes by which we attempt to create meaning in health, illness and disease. The project will examine the models and metaphors we use to understand our experiences of health and illness (looking particularly at perceptions of the body), and to evaluate the diversity of ways in which we creatively struggle to make sense of such experiences and express ourselves across a range of media.
UPDATE: Standing Committee
Latitude(s): Nomadic Imagination and Transnational Spaces in Europe
(Second call)
This is the first cfp for 'British Screens Now', an international conference to be held at
Manchester Metropolitan University and Cornerhouse Cinema Manchester, UK.
Deadline for abstracts: 31st March 2006.
'British Screens Now' will address, in the broadest sense, screen media produced and consumed in
Britain. Bringing together practitioners and scholars, it will look forward and backwards in an
attempt to promote an understanding of what appears on British screens, how it gets there and how it
is consumed. The conference will also encourage a sustained reassessment of what actually
constitutes 'British screens' in increasingly global contexts.
Major strands of the conference will be:
The last two decades have seen three significant paradigm shifts. First,
there is a movement to deconstruct in order to reconstruct the super
physical world of consciousness in relation to the post human body - data
made flesh. Secondly, the academic disciplines commonly grouped under the
headings of humanities and arts have seen a shift from the textual to the
performative. The arts and humanities have in common that they study
expressions of the experience of being human. It is precisely that
experience that is at the centre of the third paradigm shift, in the
interdisciplinary scientific study of consciousness. The insights of
consciousness studies are important to performance and theatre on at least
Deadline extended:
LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
Dear Colleague,
We have a great pleasure in inviting you to participate in the fourth
international conference
LANGUAGE, CULTURE and TECHNOLOGIES
at Kaunas University of Technology (http://www.ktu.lt/en/)
Kaunas, LITHUANIA
19-21 May, 2006
We invite teachers, scholars and postgraduate students to participate and
to contribute papers to the fourth international conference hosted by Kaunas
University of Technology, Lithuania.
Fashioning Fiction (grad): University of Stirling (UK)=20
Abstract Deadline: 03/10/06
Conference Dates: 05/27/06 =96 05/28/06=20
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Deadline extended:
IASIL Sydney - Thursday 20 July to Sunday 23 July 2006 inclusive
http://www.iasil.org/sydney/
Reply to irish_at_unsw.edu.au
This is a Second and FINAL Call for Papers for the 2006 meeting of the
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.
Proposals are warmly invited on the general conference theme: exploring
'intertextuality' in all its forms in Irish literature and culture. Papers
on any other aspect of Irish writing (in English and/or Irish) are also very
welcome.
Please submit a title and 200 word abstract to irish_at_unsw.edu.au by 18
February, 2006.
Papers should not exceed 20 minutes duration.
Latitude(s): Nomadic Imagination and Transnational Spaces in Europe
(Second call)
CFP: Citizenship, Nation and Identity in the Long Nineteenth-Century (postgrad)
(UK): (31/03/06: 16-18/06/06)
Date: 17 - 18 June 2006
Call for papers: Incorporation in Literature
University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Conference
*Response, Remembrance, Representation:
A Dialogue between Postwar Jewish Literatures*
Universities of Antwerp and Ghent, 6-7 November 2006
*Extended deadline for submission: 20 February 2006.
Speakers: Emily Budick, Michael F Bernard-Donals, Bridget Kevane,
Phyllis Lassner, Cheryl Malcolm, Thomas Nolden, Ranen Omer-Sherman,
Derek Rubin, Sue Vice, and others.*
Papers are invited for a two-day comparative literature conference on
postwar Jewish writing in North America and Western Europe.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Theology and Religious Studies or Theology vs Religious Studies?
St Anne's College, University of Oxford, 6-7 July 2006-01-18
Call for papers deadline: 31 January 2006
Keynote speakers: David Ford (Cambridge), Kim Knott (Leeds), Gavin
D'Costa (Bristol), James Cox (Edinburgh)
Papers are welcome on a range of topics including (but not limited to):
the Relationship between Theology and Religious Studies; the Future of
Theology; the Future of Religious Studies; the Place of Theology /
Religious Studies in the University; Teaching Theology (trends and
methods); Teaching Religious Studies (trends and methods).
The Ritual and Rhetoric of Queenship, 1250-1650
Canterbury Christ Church University
(Kent)
Thursday 24 August 2006
This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the ritual and rhetoric of
queenship in late medieval and early modern England.
We hope to encourage debate on the image and representation of queens, and on
the cultural and political narratives of queenship. Possible themes might
include:
the ritual construction of queenship;
queenship, identity and power;
holy and sainted queens;
royal motherhood;
queens as intercessors and patrons;
queens in translation.
Call for Papers:
***Fundamentalism and Literature - Global/Local***
An International Conference at the
University of Muenster, Germany, November 19-22, 2006
NEW DEADLINE TO RECEIVE ABSTRACTS
Utopian Studies Society
7th International Conference
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (Spain)
July 6-8, 2006.
Organized by the Department of English & German Studies and the
T-CLAA/ICARUS Research Group, on behalf of the USS, the conference
seeks to be a transversal, interdisciplinary meeting for scholars of
all fields who have an interest in Utopian Studies (literature,
cinema, philosophy, history, political science, economics,
architecture, art, etc.).
CALL FOR PAPERS
Venue: The University of Northampton, Avenue Campus, 6 St George's =
Avenue, Northampton NN2 6JD.=20
Tel: 01604 735500. Website: http://www.northampton.ac.uk/
Date: 4-5 November 2006 (i.e. 11.04.06-11.05.06)
Hosted by: The Centre for Contemporary Fiction and Narration in the =
English Department of The University of Northampton, and the editors of =
the Journal of Postcolonial Writing in association with the publishers, =
Taylor and Francis, and the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.
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REROUTING THE POSTCOLONIAL
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
SECOND INTERNATIONAL DORIS LESSING CONFERENCE
Friday 6th - Sunday 8th July 2007
Supported by the Doris Lessing Society and the Contemporary Women's
Writing Network (an English Association Special Interest Group)
The Guest of Honour, Doris Lessing, will be introducing the conference.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Clare Hanson, University of Loughborough
Professor Virginia Tiger, University of Rutgers
Professor Dennis Walder, Open University
DORIS LESSING: NATION, POLITICS AND IDENTITY
Call for Papers:
'Progressive Narratives of Sexual Pessimism'
Workshop, part of the ISSEI 10th Conference
"The European Mind: Narrative and Identity"
University of Malta
24–29 July 2006
= Workshop description =
(See also: http://www.flwi.ugent.be/tclaes/claes/issei/issei_home.htm)
Commenting on the Zippergate scandal that rocked the USA by the end of the
90-ties, the well-known British conservative culture-critic Roger Scruton
made the following observation:
College English Association - Caribbean Chapter=20
Spring 2006 Conference: 24-25 March 2006=20
"Secrets and Lies"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez=20
Deadline for proposals extended to 31 January 2006
The CEA-CC invites proposals (for 20-minute paper) on any aspect of the =
topic, including, but not limited to the aesthetics of lies/secrets; =
Public vs. Private Secrets, Secret Histories; Political Secrets; Secret =
Agents, Espionage, Treason; Secret Identities; Secret Societies; Secret =
Codes; Gender Codes; Family Secrets, White Lies; Institutional Lies; =
Lying under oath; Cultural Perceptions of Lies; Lies vs. Truth; =
Constructions of Truth; Half-Truths; Hidden Truths, etc.=20
DURRELL SCHOOL OF CORFU
CALL FOR SEMINAR PAPERS
"THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN GREECE:
POLITICS, LITERATURE, SOCIETY"
The Durrell School of Corfu will hold a seminar on the topic 'The Emergence
of Modern Greece: Politics, Literature, Society' at its Library and Study
Centre in Corfu, 21-27 May 2006.