religion

The English Graduate Organization at the University of New Hampshire
would like to announce that it has extended the deadline for proposal
submissions to its 2008 Graduate Conference entitled “Challenging Faith:
Intersections of Belief and Doubt in Literature, Composition, and the
Profession” to be held March 7-8. The new deadline will be December 22,
2007. Papers on both religious and non-religious topics are encouraged.
We intend the conference to cover all matters of “faith,” understood in
its broadest sense and look forward to a rewarding conference experience
for all. Speakers at this year’s conference will be Patricia Bizzell,

The SE Conference on Christianity and Literature will be host its annual
meeting at Wingate University (twenty-five miles east of Charlotte, NC)
on Apr 10-12, 2008. We invite papers of 2000-2500 words on the
conference theme, "Christian Humanism in a Postmodern Age." Suitable
topics include:
*Contemporary fiction or poetry dealing with the future of Christianity
*Literary treatments of encounters between religions
*The emergence of postmodern themes in modern literature
*C.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, or other "public" Christian intellectuals
*Classic expressions of Christian humanism from any period.

Our keynote speaker is Ralph C. Wood. Submit papers to

Call for Papers

Studies in English
Third International IDEA Conference
Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
16-18 April 2008

Call for Papers Deadline has been extended to: 4 January 2008

The Third International IDEA Conference will be held at Ege
University, Izmir, Turkey on 16-18 April 2008. The Conference
will be jointly hosted by Ege University, Department of English
Language and Literature, and English Language and Literature
Research Association of Turkey (IDEA). The Conference will cover
the following four main areas of studies in English:

Literature
Language and Linguistics
Translation Studies
Cultural Studies

Deadline extension: Abstracts now due Dec. 3, 2008

Second Comings and Strange Goings (On): Versions of the Messianic

Seminar Organizers:

Jay Twomey, University of Cincinnati (jay.twomey_at_uc.edu)
W. David Hall, Centre College (wdavid.hall_at_centre.edu)

Call for papers --

GRAVEN IMAGES:
RELIGION IN COMIC BOOKS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
April 11-13, 2008

Presented by the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts and the New
England-Maritimes American Academy of Religion Boston University Department
of Religion

***Keynote Speaker: James Sturm (The Golem’s Mighty Swing, and James
Sturm’s America: God, Gold, and Golems)***

The University of New Hampshire English Graduate Organization is proud to
announce the speakers for our upcoming 2008 Graduate
Conference “Challenging Faith: Intersections of Belief and Doubt in
Literature, Composition, and the Profession” to be held March 7-8. This
year’s speakers will be Patricia Bizzell, Meredith Hall, and Sharon
O’Dair. We are thrilled that they have all agreed to speak on various
aspects of the conference theme. See below for more detailed information
about each speaker.

We are also announcing a change to our proposal deadline; the new
deadline is Monday, December 10th by noon.

American Comparative Literature Association
"Arrivals and Departures"
Long Beach, CA
April 24-27, 2008
 
Seminar: "Secular Religion"
While the debate over secularization, which once seemed settled, has been
reopened, there is no question that religion has changed in the modern
age. The needs and desires expressed in religion, and elements that we
recognize from religion â€"- the desire for transcendence, ritual,
symbolism, the search for meaning, etc. â€"- take on new forms in the arts,
popular culture, theory (philosophy, psychology, anthropology, etc),
private life, politics, and other sites. This seminar concerns the

American Saints and Sainthood in America

Paper proposals on any and all aspects of Catholic sainthood in the
American context are being solicited for a panel on American Saints and
Sainthood in America for the 2008 Spring Conference of the American
Catholic Historical Association Conference to be held April 3-5, 2008 at
St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana.

Demystifying Stigma: The Dilemma of Difference

Call for Papers

The 3rd Muslim Studies Conference
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

Conference Dates: April 3-5

Conference Title: “Muslims, Race and the Public Sphere”

Keynote Speakers: Mahmood Mamdani, Geneive Abdo, and Howard Winant

Demystifying Stigma: The Dilemma of Difference

Call for Papers: College English Association National Conference
39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | PASSAGES

St. Louis, Missouri

March 27-29, 2008

PASSAGES
Inspired by the St. Louis Gateway Arch, CEA pays tribute to St. Louis and
to the many pioneers who passed through its threshold, risking the world
they knew for nothing more (or less) than the promise of a new beginning.
Our theme for the 2008 conference is PASSAGES.

Specs is a journal of contemporary culture and arts at Rollins College.

Specs aims to create sympathetic interfaces between artistic and critical
practices. The journal invokes the spirit of John Dewey, for whom thinking
begins in flux, in the "peculiar combination of the understood and
nonunderstood."

The editors invite submissions of critical and/or creative work for both
the print and web issue, including critical articles, fiction, non-fiction
(of up to 6000 works), poetry (3-5 poems) and artwork.

INTERFACES invites inquiries and proposed essays for an issue on the roles
played by narratives in religious traditions. Proposals may address
themselves to narratives presented either verbally or visually. Those
which address narratives presented in both media are especially welcome.
The issue will concern itself with the distinctive functions of narratives
and the need within traditions for certain basic narratives to be re-told.
Essays may focus upon narratives from any major religious tradition.