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Call for Papers: Domesticity and Narrative

For a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal _Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative_ (Winter 2007), the guest editor is soliciting contributions that address issues of domesticity and narrative as a mode of storytelling. The guest editor envisions essays that explore this topic in narrative film, on television, and in popular literature including advertising and nonfiction texts.
 
Essays should be between 10 to 15 double-spaced, typed pages (approximately 3,300 to 6,000 words) including notes and works cited, and should be formatted according to MLA style.

Please email all submissions to the guest editor as Word attachments.
Deadline: March 1, 2006

ACLA 2006 Conference Theme:
The Human and Its Others
ACLA 2006 Conference:
Princeton University
March 23-26, 2006
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2005

www.acla.org

Three Panel Series (Stream) Title:

Sacred Other: Boundaries and Pores in the Tanakh, New
Testament, and Qur'an
Seminar Organizer: Roberta Sabbath, University of
Nevada, Las Vegas

Topic: The Washington and Jefferson College Review

We invite clearly written, thoughtful, researched essays that examine
aspects and types of utopias and dystopias: historical, literary,
speculative, political, etc. We are interested in everything from
communities like Old Economy, New Harmony, and Old Salem; works by authors
such as Swift, More, Butler, Orwell, Huxley, Atwood, and Le Guin; and films
like Bladerunner and Metropolis.

All submission will be acknowledged and assessed by at least four members of
the issue's board in a blind review. For more information about our journal,
visit www.washjeff.edu/topic.

  Call for Papers:
  CFP: Rutgers University-Camden English Graduate Student Conference
  in Camden, NJ (home of Walt Whitman!) close to Philadelphia, PA
   
  Re-visioning the Canon
  Visit our website at http://clam.rutgers.edu/~rcegsa/rcegsc/
   
  Rutgers-Camden English Graduate Student Association (RCEGSA) invites papers from graduate students for an interdisciplinary conference on the theme of "Re-visioning the Canon". Papers may demonstrate a wide range of approaches including, but not restricted to:
    Children's literature
  Gothic Literature
  Multicultural approaches
  Theory and criticism's place in the "canon"

The Politics of Affect in Trauma Texts

Trans-- : Negotiations and Resistance

Association of English Graduate Students
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
19th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
April 7 - 8, 2006
Keynote speakers TBA

ACLA 2006, Princeton University
The Human and Its Others

Seminar title: Human Communities and their Others

COUNTER-MOVEMENTS
Institutions of difference

A two-day conference to be held at the
University of Portsmouth 24-25 July 2006

Confirmed international speakers: J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine;
Samuel Weber, Northwestern University; Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern
California; Tom Keenan, Bard College; Christopher Fynsk, University of Aberdeen;
Herman Rapaport, University of Southampton; Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex;
John Schad, University of Loughborough.

CALL for PAPERS and PROPOSALS

 New England Women's Studies Association 2006 Annual Conference (NEWSA)

WOMEN & JUSTICE

Deadline: December 9=20

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Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

Representations of Women Women and War

Laws of the body Reproductive Health

Bodies of Law Women and Mental =
Health

Movements toward Justice Women and Religion

Women and Leadership Women and Technology

Race and Justice Sex Work

Sex Trafficking Engendering Power

THE SOCIETY FOR UTOPIAN STUDIES
2006 CALL FOR PAPERS

31st Annual Meeting
Antlers Hilton Hotel
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Oct. 12-15, 2006

The Society for Utopian Studies invites you to submit abstracts for any of
the following:

* a paper (between 15-20 minutes)
* a panel (usually of 3 papers)
* an informal panel on a topic (e.g., 3 presenters, or a presenter and 2 or
3 respondents)
* a presentation or performance of creative work on any topic related to
utopian studies.

Hyperworld: Language, Culture and History

27-29 September 2006
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

12th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
Arizona State University – February 24-26, 2006

(Re)Markable Identities: Confronting, Corrupting, and Conflating Cultural
Discourses
PANEL: Broken Bodies: The Discourse of Disability

Dear colleagues:

Here is the second Call for Papers for the Conference on the Ethics of Fiction
that will take place in Zaragoza from March 30 to April 1, 2006. Please note
the extension for the submission of papers; the new deadline is now January
10. We hope to see you all in Zaragoza.

Best,

Silvia Martínez Falquina
Dpto. de Filología Inglesa y Alemana
Universidad de Zaragoza
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
c/ Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza
Tel: +34 976762790

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

THE ETHICS OF FICTION IN CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE IN ENGLISH

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Updated Schedule for Plenary Speakers:

Eavan Boland (Thursday February 23, 2006 5:30 p.m.)

Vona Groarke (Friday February 24, 2006 4:30 p.m.)

Margot Backus (TBA)

Conor O'Callaghan (TBA)

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DEADLINE FOR CFP: November 15, 2005

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IRISH STUDIES: GEOGRAPHIES AND GENDERS

American Conference for Irish Studies

2006 Southern Regional Conference

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

February 23-26, 2006

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