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CFP: Orientalism and Terrorism (2/15/07; 5/26/07-6/2/07)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 10:51pm
Pavan Kumar

               __________________________________

                       CALL FOR PAPERS

      Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, May 26 - June 2,
      2007, Saskatoon, Canada.

      Session title: Orientalism and Terrorism

      Organizer: Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Department of Sociology, University of
      Saskatchewan

      Discussant: Dr. Ron Wheeler, Department of Political Studies, University
      of Saskatchewan.

                (for Canadian Association of Geographers)

Session Description:

CFP: Life Writing Panels for 2007 MLA Convention (3/10/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 10:50pm
Craig Howes

Here are the three calls for papers for this=20
year's Modern Language Association, which will be=20
held from December 27 to 30 in Chicago. Note=20
that the deadline is early March. For more=20
information, please contact the person listed as the panel convener.

Please forward this call to any other lists that might be appropriate.

* * *

Panels for 2007 MLA Convention =96
Division on Autobiography, Biography and Life Writing

UPDATE: Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations (3/7/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 10:19pm
DrJSDailey_at_aol.com

The Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations is seeking proposals for papers
for the 2007 Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago on December
27-30.

Session 1
W.H. Auden and Music. On the 100th anniversary of his birth, Lyrica
invites submissions on Auden as lyricist and librettist, and on composers
who set his texts. Both formal and historical approaches are welcome.

Session 2
Prima la musica, poi le parole. Which is more important, words or music?
Papers may focus on either or both sides of this age-old aesthetic
argument, in any historical period or geographical context.

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: Literary Pedagogy for Myth, Magic, Ritual, Religion (3/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:56pm
Roberta Sabbath

A Special Session is proposed for the MLA 2007
conference in Chicago.

"Reading the Wind: Literary Pedagogy for Myth, Magic,
Ritual, Spirituality, Religion in African, Middle
Eastern, Asian, trans-American Texts" explores
alternatives to post-colonial, Lacanian, and
post-structuralist readings.

Panelists are welcomed who can address the
supersensible dimension of a specific work from the
above geographic areas using its spiritual, religious,
cosmological, or philosophical context.

UPDATE: Life in the Story, Wright State Graduate Conference (grad) (1/29/07; 3/31/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:56pm
Brian Leingang

New Proposal Deadline: January 29, 2007

Conference Theme: Life in the Story

March 31, 2007
Wright State University Graduate Conference
Dayton Ohio

Keynote Speaker: Ralph Keyes, professor Antioch College and author of
THE COURAGE TO WRITE.

Open to graduate students in all English concentrations: Literature,
Composition & Rhetoric, TESOL, Creative Writing, Linguistics.

CFP: Fucking Artifacts (2/2/07; Calgary Free Exchange, 3/16/07-3/18/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:56pm
odfpercy_at_ucalgary.ca

Spring Cleaning:
Rediscovering and Revitalizing the Artifact
University of Calgary Free Exchange Graduate Conference
16-18 March 2007
Calgary, Alberta
For more information, please visit Free Exchange at www.english.ucalgary.ca

Fucking Artifacts: Re-examining the Roles of Expletives in Culture and
Academia

Much Wine had past with grave discourse, Of who Fucks who, and who does
worse.
                                Lord Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions

How in the fuck should I know?
                                William Burroughs, Naked Lunch

CFP: The Organ as Artifact (2/2/07; Calgary Free Exchange, 3/16/07-3/18/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:56pm
odfpercy_at_ucalgary.ca

Spring Cleaning:
Rediscovering and Revitalizing the Artifact
University of Calgary Free Exchange Graduate Conference
16-18 March 2007
Calgary, Alberta
For more information, please visit Free Exchange at www.english.ucalgary.ca

The Organ as Object / The Metonymy of Anatomy

Body parts are easier to remove than thoughts.
                                                Suzette Mayr, "Scalps"

CFP: The Nomadic Artifact (2/2/07; Calgary Free Exchange, 3/16/07-3/18/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:55pm
odfpercy_at_ucalgary.ca

Spring Cleaning:
Rediscovering and Revitalizing the Artifact
University of Calgary Free Exchange Graduate Conference
16-18 March 2007
Calgary, Alberta
For more information, please visit Free Exchange at www.english.ucalgary.ca

The Nomadic Artifact

Nomadism: a kind of critical consciousness that resists settling into
socially coded modes of thought and behaviour...it produces the subversion
of set conventions.
               Rosi Braidotti quoted in Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy's
Writing in Our Time

CFP: Literature and Other Arts (3/1/07; RMMLA, 10/4/07-10/6/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
Andrew Albin

The Literature and Other Arts Panel of the Rocky Mountain MLA invites the submission of papers/presentations for its session at the 61st annual convention, this year held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on October 4-6, 2007.

Paper/Presentation Topic:
Any aspect of literature as it relates to other arts, in practice or in theory.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

CFP: 2007 MLA-CEA Call for Panel Proposals (1/24/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
favilamc_at_jmu.edu

________________
As an affiliate-organization of the Modern Language
Association, CEA sponsors two panels at the annual MLA
convention. We are now accepting proposals for panel topics
(not completed panels) for the 2007 MLA conference.
Sender: owner-cfp_at_lists.sas.upenn.edu
Precedence: bulk

By submitting a proposal, panel organizers agree to
advertise their topic nationally through the UPenn CFP list
and at least one other specialized listserv.

CEA members are invited to send a proposed topic in the form
of a cfp to Marina Favila at

favilamc_at_jmu.edu or
FAX 1-540-568-2983

CFP: Intertexuality: Conversations Between the Sheets (grad) (1/5/07; 3/30/07-3/31/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:00pm
english-grad-conf_at_utulsa.edu

Intertexuality: Conversations Between the Sheets
English Graduate Student Conference
The University of Tulsa
March 30-31, 2007

Call for papers and panels:

"Conversations Between the Sheets" is concerned with the direct and/or indirect discourse between texts that takes place when authors (whoever an author may be—from a single writer or coauthors to a community of editors, publishers, booksellers, etc.) interact with each other—alluding, referencing, paraphrasing, quoting, borrowing, sharing, stealing, extending, challenging, or opposing each others' ideas. Whether it is in the form of support, abuse, or simply recognition of ideas between writers, texts converse with each other.

UPDATE: Cultures of Violence (grad) (1/15/07; 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Cultures OfViolence

Deadline extended:

Please forward this to anyone who might be interested. Apologies for
cross-postings.

CULTURES OF VIOLENCE
Graduate Student Conference
April 6-7, 2007
*PLEASE CIRCULATE*

CFP: Trauma Narratives (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
HELEN LOVEJOY

Trauma Narratives
 
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.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
traumatic narratives. Papers may examine any aspect
of trauma narratives, including specific texts and/or
critical and cultural frameworks for such texts. How
are traumatic events articulated in our current
cultural moment? How do cultural understandings of
trauma effect understandings of self? How do trauma
narratives influence and change notions of healing?

Other potential topics include:

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

=20

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

=20

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CFP: 17th New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASIA) International Conference (New Zealand) (6/1/07; 11/22/07-11/25/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
H Johnson

1st call for papers.

17th New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASIA) International Conference,
University of Otago, 22-25 November 2007. This will be an open,
multidisciplinary conference. Participants are invited to submit panel or
paper proposals presenting original research on any Asian-related topic.
Proposals for panels are welcome. Paper abstracts, single-spaced and no
longer than 200 words, must be submitted before 1 June 2007 to
<nzasia.conference_at_stonebow.otago.ac.nz>. Full conference details can be
found at <http://www.nzasia.org.nz> (conference website will be updated in
February 2007, and followed by 2nd call for papers).

UPDATE: The Avant Garde (1/15/07; 3/30/07-3/31/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Anderson, Crystal

Deadline Extended to January 15, 2007!

 

What's Avant-Garde About the Avant-Garde?

The Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Colloquium

University of Kansas

 

March 30-31, 2007

 

CFP: Gothic Science Fiction (grad) (UK) (1/31/07; 4/28/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:59pm
Wasson, Sara

CFP: Gothic Science Fiction (graduate) (UK) (1/31/07; 4/28/07)

Organised by the School of Creative Industries, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.

This one-day conference looks to bring together graduate students and early career researchers to discuss science fiction with a gothic slant. We invite short (20 minute) paper proposals focusing on identifying, untangling, or savouring gothic elements in science fiction, both past and present, and across a range of media - written texts, film, graphic novels, and visual media are all invited.

CFP: Utopia and Dystopia Panel (grad) (1/15/07; McGill, 3/10/07-3/11/07)

updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 10:58pm
Amanda Cockburn

CFP: Imaginary Worlds: Utopias and Dystopias in Literature

McGill University Annual Graduate Conference, March 10-11, 2007.
Montreal, Quebec.

This panel invites papers that focus on the representation of utopias
and dysopias in literature. Papers may address the social, political,
economical, economic, and cultural locations of ideal worlds or
nightmare worlds from a wide variety of periods and places and from all
parts of the world. Possible topics may include, but are not limited
to:

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