theory

Giving & Taking Offense
University of Aveiro, Portugal

We are pleased to inform people interested in
attending the two-day conference on "Giving and
Taking Offence" at the University of Aveiro,
Portugal on the 21st and 22nd June 2007 that
proposals will be accepted until the 15th April
2007, and that the following people have agreed
to be our plenary speakers:

Prof. David Lavery, Head of Film and TV Studies
at Brunel University, London, who will be
speaking on "H**y F*****g Sh*t: Profanation,
Parody, and Bleeping American Unreality in The
Onion, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report".

"In arriving at structuralism, literary studies simply join the
general tendency of contemporary thought. Throughout almost the entire
realm of contemporary scholarship the discovery of the dynamic
relations which pervade its material has proven to be an effective
modus operandi ? for example, in the disciplines of the arts and in
general aesthetics, in psychology, sociology, linguistics, economics,
and even in the natural sciences" (J. Mukarovský, 1934)

Current Trends in Narratology, University of Freiburg, Germany

(June 14 - 16, 2007)

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This workshop provides an overview of state-of-the-art research in =
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=B7 Thursday afternoon, June 14: "Narrative and Mediality" =
concentrates not so much on fiction and film (already over-researched) =
but on drama, poetry and other media, or issues of mediality per se in =
narrative and/or narratology. Lectures include:

v Brian Richardson (University of Maryland, College Park) "The =
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Call for Papers
New Voices Graduate Student Conference September 27-29, 2007
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2007

New Voices Maps/Boundaries
Call for papers and special sessions

The New Voices Graduate Student Conference invites proposals considering
the presence, (de)construction, maintenance, persistence, (re)imagining
of Maps/Boundaries.

CFP: The New Criticism (06/15/07; collection)

I welcome abstracts and full essays for a proposed volume on American
"New Criticism." Essays that deal in an original manner with the history
of this movement (including its impact and legacy in higher education,
its connections to Continental formalist movements and authors, etc.)
are especially encouraged, as are essays that address the theoretical
and philosophical implications of New Critical practice. A good general
description of the proposed book's area would be "history of criticism
and theory." I am in talks with Cambridge Scholars Press regarding this
volume, and will submit a formal proposal after I have selected
contributors.

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Panel Topic: Hannah Arendt Today: Politics, Literature, Philosophy
December 27-30, 2007
Chicago, IL

Submission Deadline: March 28, 2007

Call for Papers

CFP: Altered States: On Dreaming, Fantasy, the Pharmakon, and the Real
in Literature and Culture

A special session proposal for the Midwest Modern Language Association
Conference on Realisms, November 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS
"Marxism and Reception Study" panel
2007 RSS CONFERENCE ON RECEPTION STUDY
The University of Missouri at Kansas City,
Thurs, September 27th, through Sat., the 29th, 2007.

Call for Papers
Foreign Language Linguistics Session
2007 RMMLA Convention
Calgary, Alberta, Canada ~ October 4-6, 2007

The 61st Annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association convention will be
held at the Westin in Calgary, Alberta from October 4-6, 2007. We have a full
slate of sessions on a variety of topics relating to language, literature,
film, technical and professional communication, cultural studies and pedagogy.
We hope that you will propose a paper for this convention and join us in
Calgary.

Proposals relating to Foreign Language Linguistics are welcome.

Send you paper proposal by March 25 to:

Open Call For Proposals:

Dance Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand is calling for
proposals for papers/presentations for:

Scopic Bodies:
Dance Studies Research Seminar Series

CALL FOR PAPERS -- PANEL ON LITERARY THEORY

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

Paper proposals sought for panel on literary theory. Proposals are
encouraged on any topic in 19th- and 20th-century literary theory. All
submissions acknowledged by email.

Submission Deadline: March 30, 2007

Please email 500-word proposal and 50 word abstract (in line, no
attachments) to Salah Khan at:
salah_at_techforpeople.net

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Edited by Ronit Frenkel (University of Johannesburg), Pier Paolo
Frassinelli (University of the Witwatersrand), David Watson (University
of Uppsala).

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Hi folks,

Please consider this CFP, and forward it to anyone interested.
Deadline is March 15th. Thank you.

Conference Panel Call for Papers:
Against Embodiment (or, Embodiment and its Discontents)
21st Annual Conference for the Society for Literature,
     Science and the Arts
November 1 – November 4, 2007
Portland, Maine, USA