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CFP: Making Sense Of: Dying and Death 5 (UK) (3/26/07; 7/9/07-7/12/07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 11:58pm
Dr Rob Fisher

5th Global Conference
Making Sense Of: Dying and Death

Monday 9th July - Thursday 12th July 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research and
publications project aims to create a forum for examining the links
between living and dying, and some of the contradictions and paradoxes
that arise in our attitudes to death.

Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are also warmly invited
on any of the following indicative themes (or their combinations):

CFP: Rhetoric and Science (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:35pm
HELEN LOVEJOY

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.

(dis)junctions is now proud to welcome our two
speakers. On Friday, April 6th, Dr. Bonnie Zimmerman
of SDSU will be joining us. Dr. Karen Tongson, USC,
will be speaking on Saturday, April 7th.

This panel is concerned with the question of how
science and scientific dialogues have influenced
national rhetoric. Some questions we seek to
examine are:

CFP: Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship 6 (UK): (3/9/07; 7/2/07-7/5/07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:35pm
Dr Rob Fisher

6th Global Conference
Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship

Monday 2nd July - Thursday 5th July 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers
Environments, Sustainability and Technologies

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to
explore the role of ecology and environmental ideas in the context of
contemporary society and international politics, and assess the
implications for our understandings of fairness, justice and global
citizenship.

CFP: Michigan Feminist Studies: Knowledge (2/9/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:35pm
Carrie Hintz

Michigan Feminist Studies invites submissions for its 2006-2007 issue
on the theme of "Knowledge." Feminist theory and practice have long
been concerned both with how knowledge is constituted and with what
types of types of knowledge are valued. Moreover, feminist analysis
has reflexively examined its own production and evaluation of
knowledge. This volume of Michigan Feminist Studies seeks to further
engage the concept of knowledge broadly conceived, exploring new areas
of inquiry and revisiting established ones from new angles. We
encourage submissions that draw linkages between gender and other
social identities, including, but not limited to race, sexual

CFP: Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease 6 (UK) (3/26/07; 7/9/07-7/12/07)

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 10:34pm
Dr Rob Fisher

6th Global Conference
Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease

Monday 9th July - Thursday 12th July 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers

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.

CFP: Pathologies: Scientific and Cultural Representations of the Normal and Abnormal (grad) (1/29/07; 3/16/07-3/17/07)

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:00pm
Andrew Klein

Pathologies:
  Scientific and Cultural Representations of the
  Normal and the Abnormal
   
  Rice University
  March 16–17, 2007
   
  Keynote Speaker: Rachel Adams, Ph.D., associate professor of English and American Literature and associate director of American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of several books and essays, including Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination and editor of The Masculinity Studies Reader.
   

CFP: Nineteenth-Century Nature Writing (3/1/07; PAMLA, 11/2/07-11/3/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 1:53am
Campbell, Elizabeth

Call for papers

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference--2007
November 2-3, 2007
Western Washington University
Bellingham, Washington

Special Session:

Nineteenth-Century Nature Writing

Paper proposals sought for a panel on 19th-century nature writing.
Proposals are encouraged that address this topic within a literary,
philosophical, theological, ecological, or scientific framework. All
submissions acknowledged by email.

Submit to this special session by emailing ecampbell_at_oregonstate.edu.
Proposals should be two-pages (500 words) and should be submitted
electronically in the body of an email or as an attachment in .doc or
.pdf format by March 1.

UPDATE: Time/Passages (grad) (2/1/07; 3/22/07-3/24/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 1:25am
IU English Department GSAC

UPDATE: Please note that we have extended the deadline
to February 1, 2007, and have updated information
about email submissions and our keynote speaker.

We are issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly and
creative submissions for a National Interdisciplinary
Graduate Student Conference entitled "Time/Passages"
to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington from
March 22-24, 2007.

CFP: Race and Video Games (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 1:25am
Tanner

Race and Video Games=20

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at =
(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation, the University of =
California Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on =
April 6-7, 2007.=20

CFP: Nature and the Wilderness (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 10:51pm
mbrow001_at_student.ucr.edu

CFP: Nature and the Wilderness (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions 4/6/07-4/7/07)

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference, which will be held April 6-7, 2007. This year's theme is "Malappropriation Nation."

CFP: Race, Ethnicity, and American Reform Movements (3/1/06; MLA '07)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 10:51pm
Michael Tavel Clarke

Modern Language Association Convention 2007

Proposals Due Mar. 1

Call for Papers:

This panel will explore how different ethnic or racial groups have
responded to twentieth-century mainstream or government-sponsored social
and economic reform initiatives such as prohibition, work-place safety,
consumer safety, urban planning, anti-trust efforts, child labor reform,
prostitution regulation, civil liberties protection, social purity
campaigns, eugenics, immigration reform, obscenity prohibition, welfare,
affirmative action, environmental protection, business regulation, etc.

Please send 1-page abstracts to one of the addresses below. E-mail
submissions are encouraged.

CFP: New York College English Association (2/5/07; 4/13/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 10:20pm
Thomas G. Olsen

CFP: New York College English Association Spring Conference

 

LITERATURE AND EVOLUTION / LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION

 

                                                                        
                                    April 13-14, 2007

 

The State University of New York

New Paltz, New York

__________

 

Keynote Speaker: Ed Sanders

Poet, musician, creative chronicler of the 1960s and biographer of Allen
Ginsberg

 

CFP: American Globalism (grad & undergrad) (2/18/07; 3/30/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 10:19pm
Jessica Rivait

Y/X Undergraduate and Graduate Research Conference
Boundaries and Balance: Globalism and “America”
Call for Papers
The American Studies Program/Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
Friday, March 30, 2007, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tyrone Williams (Xavier University, OH)

UPDATE: Rewriting the Body (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 10:19pm
Nowell Marshall

UPDATE: deadline extended until 2/16/07

Rewriting the Body (grad) (2/16/07; disjunctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference,
April 6-7, 2007. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation
Nation," this panel attempts to explore how the body as cultural text is
rewritten through acts of (re)appropriation, misappropriation, passing,
mimicry, and resignification.

Papers from all periods and areas are welcome. Suggested topics include

CFP: Feeling Science (3/15/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 10:19pm
Martha Stoddard-Holmes

The Division for Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association
is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Chicago,
December 2007:
 

FEELING SCIENCE
What's the use of feeling to science, or science to feeling? Hippocratic medicine to romantic science to neuroscience and beyond; scientific theories of affect; conversations with literature/film. Abstract/complete paper by March 15 to Martha Stoddard Holmes (mstoddar_at_csusm.edu <mailto:mstoddar_at_csusm.edu> ) AND Laura Dassow Walls (wallsld_at_gwm.sc.edu <mailto:wallsld_at_gwm.sc.edu> ).

 

CFP: The Meaning of Food (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 10:19pm
Robin Somers

CFP: The Meaning of Food: How What We Eat Shapes Cultural,
Environmental, Political, and Literary Paradigms (3/1/07; RMMLA,
10/4/07-106/07)

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CFP: Local Natures - Global Responsibilities (2/15/07; 5/17/07-5/20/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler

CALL FOR PAPERS

=93LOCAL NATURES, GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITIES=93

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Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New =
Literatures of
English (ASNEL) /

Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f=FCr die Neuen Englischsprachigen =
Literaturen
(GNEL)

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena,

May 17-20, 2007

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CFP: Cultural Representations of Psychiatry (Poland) (2/25/07; 5/18/07-5/19/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Katrzyna Szmigiero

Swietokrzyska Academy in Piotrkow Trybunalski (Poland)

English Philology Department

Invites all the interested scholars to participate in an international
two-day conference:

Cultural representations of psychiatry and mental illness

18th – 19th May 2007

The suggested topics might include but are not limited to:

Representations of the mentally ill in cinema and literature (shell-shock
and other posttraumatic shock disorders, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar
disorder, eating disorders, substance-abuse related illnesses, suicide)

Representations of the doctor-patient relationships

Gender and madness

Writing as a symptom/writing as a cure

UPDATE: Utopian Spaces, Utopian Places (grad) (1/20/07; 3/9/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
rmwepler_at_brandeis.edu

-Plenary speakers announced
-Submission deadline extended
-Conference website now online

The Fourth Annual English Department Graduate Conference at Brandeis
University
?Utopian Spaces, Utopian Places?

March 9, 2007

Plenary Speakers
Mary Baine Campbell, Brandeis University
Marina Leslie, Northeastern University

?Utopian Spaces, Utopian Places,? an interdisciplinary conference,
will interrogate the concept of utopia across a broad spectrum of
historical, theoretical, and literary contexts.

UPDATE: Artciencia (1/28/07; journal issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 - 10:26pm
irene aparicio

artciencia=2Ecom, Revista de Arte, Ci=EAncia e Comunica=E7=E3o (ISSN 16=
46-3463)

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Volume II, Issue 5, November 2006-January 2007 is released at=20
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Published quarterly since August 2005, artciencia=2Ecom publishes autho=
rs` articles and artworks on art-science-communication=2E Recent issue =
includes:

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h Arendt,=A0=A0Frida Kahlo, Cyberpunk Aesthetics, Art and Robotic, Port=
uguese Classic Comedy, Picturing the Clima(t)ic

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=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 - =A0Thesis: =A0Post-Human and Freedom of the Portugues=
e Press;

UPDATE: Environmental Science Fiction (1/10/07; ASLE, 6/12/07-6/16/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 - 10:25pm
ERIC C OTTO

ASLE 2007 Proposed Roundtable, or Panel Environmental Science Fiction: Genre and Possibility Ecocriticism has indeed branched out to include literatures not typically associated with &quot;nature writing.&quot; In an effort to continue this extension of ecocriticism into other genres, this roundtable/panel will explore the contributions of science fiction (SF) to environmental thought and ecological understandings. 250-word proposals are invited for a roundtable/panel that will examine SF as a literature well-suited to express the concerns of environmentalism and to explore humanity's place in ecological systems.

CFP: Built Spaces: Earth-Sky and Human Praxes (1/20/07; 4/27/07-4/29/07)

updated: 
Saturday, December 16, 2006 - 1:15am
DAVID MACAULEY

Call for Papers
International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place

Built Spaces: Earth-Sky and Human Praxes

APRIL 27-29, 2007 &mdash; Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center: Duquesne University

The material expression of the human life-world is constructed by establishing patterns oriented through, and by, the earth-sky relation. Human socio-cultural praxes manifest spatially through establishing the fundamental spatiality, &ldquo;a level&rdquo;&mdash;an equilibrium that is formed through the collusion of the upright posture of the lived-body and the earthly horizon, marking the measure of the earth-sky relation and human experience.

UPDATE: Ecocriticism and Science (1/5/07; ASLE, 6/12/07-6/16/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:53am
Feder, Helena

Panel proposal for the upcoming conference of the Association for the =
Study of Literature and Environment at Wofford College, South Carolina, =
June 12-16 2007

Ecocriticism and Science: Sociobiology, Evolutionary Biology, and the =
Question of Culture

UPDATE: Japanese and Korean Environmental Literature (Japan) (12/25/06; ASLE, 8/19/07-8/21/07)

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:38pm
Bruce

**Please note the amended contact information in the posting below**

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
Japan-Korea Joint Symposium
August 19-21, Kanazawa, Japan

PLACE, NATURE, LANGUAGE
Thinking about ¡ÈNow¡É in Japanese and Korean Environmental Literature

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Ko Un and Kazue Morisaki

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment in Japan
(ASLE-Japan) and ASLE-Korea invite proposals for an international
symposium, Place, Nature, Language: Thinking about ¡ÈNow¡É in Japanese
and Korean Environmental Literature, to be held from August 19-21,
2007, in Kanazawa, Japan.

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