theory

I'm looking for contributors for a special session at the 2007 MLA in Chicago.

Special Session: Rereading the Sublime and Beautiful: The 250th Anniversary of Burke's Enquiry

How have contemporary methodologies such as cultural studies and feminist, queer, post-colonial, Marxist, psychoanalytic, and post-structural theories enriched our understanding of Edmund Burke's aesthetics? 500-word abstracts due: 2/28/07. Send your abstract and cv to Ana de Freitas Boe, Ph.D., Department of English, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH 44017.

E-mail submissions to aboe at bw dot edu are preferred.

As the MLA "Call for Papers for 2007 Convention in Chicago" flyer explains:

Literature and Politics Panel

South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)

2007 Conference in Memphis, Tennessee

November 1-3

The Literature and Politics Panel welcomes 500 word abstracts/proposals for
its 2007 Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. The theme of the conference is
"Currents."

Paper topics for the panel are open; however, I am particularly interested
in essays dealing with the following themes:

Queer, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender or Intersexual
Politics in Literature

Marxist & Neo-Marxist Politics in Literature

Ambiguous and Contradicting Politics in Literature

"Cognitive Approaches to Genre"
Cognitive Approaches to Literature Discussion Group
Session
MLA 2007 (Chicago, December 27-30)

The MLA Discussion Group on Cognitive Approaches to
Literature invites papers bridging topics in cognitive
theory and genre theory for our session at the 2007
MLA Convention in Chicago. Send 300-word proposals to
Michael Sinding (msinding_at_rogers.com) by March 1.

A Proposed Special Session for the 2007 MLA Conference in Chicago:
Session Topic: The Medical Humanities

University of North Carolina Wilmington
Graduate English Association Conference
(30-31 March 2007)
>>>The Conference is on 31 March 2007
but we plan to host a Creative Reading the night before.<<<
Sea Change (s): The Evolution of Texts and Their Reception

AMERICAN NAME SOCIETY at MLA, Chicago. Two open
sessions. Fields may include literature, literary
theory, philosophy, linguistics, geography, sociology,
history. Panels may be organized on single authors or
subjects. Abstracts (150 word max) by 03 March to
Kemp Williams <kempw_at_us.ibm.com>

Impasse and Ambivalence: Re-defining Ethics (grad)

The 15th Annual Acacia Conference at California State University, Fullerton

April 6th and 7th, 2007

Submission Deadline Extended to February 15th, 2007.

We welcome papers that focus on other topics besides ethics, as this is a
general graduate conference. We are especially interested in creative works.

Please send proposals of 250-500 words to
acaciaconference_at_gmail.com or acaciagroup_at_gmail.com by February 15th,
2007.

CFP: Queer Space and Time, Gay and Lesbian Caucus
(SCMLA, 11/01/07-11/01/07 Memphis)
    
  Gay and Lesbian Caucus Panel
  South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)
  November 1-3, 2007 in Memphis, TN
    
Papers are now accepted for Gay and Lesbian Caucus
panel at SCMLA in Memphis, Novemeber 1-3 2007. All
proposals will be considered. Papers addressing the
issues of "queer space" and/or "queer time" as
expressed through literature, poetry, drama, film or
theory are especially encouraged.
    
Please submit a brief abstract (no more than 300
words) that includes a title. With your abstract,
please provide your name, institution (if relevant),

Image and the Imagination in the Visual and Verbal Arts

A program of the Society for Critical Exchange in conjunction with the
M/MLA conference in Cleveland, OH, November 8-11, 2007

Submissions are sought for a volume on the topic of "Realism's Others." =
Based on a panel at the March, 2006, meeting of the American Comparative =
Literature Association at Princeton University, this project hopes to =
continue the discussion.=20

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The panel considered realism's creation of, and relationship to, the =
other. Questions discussed include:=20

The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto
invites abstracts for its 18th annual graduate student conference:

?Navigating Interdisciplinarity, Cultivating New Spaces of Comparison?
Date: March 16?17, 2007
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Keynote Speaker: Haun Saussy, Professor of Comparative Literature at
Yale University

***Apologies for cross-posting***

The Past in the Present
History as Practice in Art, Design and Architecture
 
An International Interdisciplinary Conference
Glasgow, 27th-29th October 2007
THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART - DEPT. OF HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES

"Affidavit-Effects: The Novel As/And Written Testimony"

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The Transforming Body in popular culture

University of Southampton, UK, 2007

There has recently been an intensification of interest in the changing body
in popular culture, from films and writing focusing on the makeover
phenomenon or gender reassignment, to reality TV programmes detailing surgical
alteration, to health-, celebrity- and horror-focused narratives presenting
transformation sentimentally or monstrously. These contemporary perspectives are
embedded in a longer history of transformation stories in
classical/post-classical cinema, literature, photography, art and performance.