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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: New Deadline for Submissions - 1/31/07

Polygraph Issue 19

Issue Editor: Russ Leo

TENTATIVE TITLE: Augustine, our Contemporary

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

Poetics of the Artifact

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.

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

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"

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 Absent Artifact: Manipulations of Lack

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:

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.

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:

CALL FOR PAPERS

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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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UPDATE: The deadline for submissions has been extended until the 25th of January 2007.

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 (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.