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CFP: Language, Culture, and Technologies (Lithuania) (1/25/06; 5/19/06-5/21/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 3:26pm
Ruta Veteryte

Dear Colleague,
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We have a great pleasure in inviting you to participate in the fourth =
international conference

LANGUAGE, CULTURE and TECHNOLOGIES=20

at Kaunas University of Technology (http://www.ktu.lt/en/)

Kaunas, LITHUANIA,=20

19-21 May, 2006

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We invite teachers, scholars and postgraduate students to participate =
and to contribute papers to the fourth international conference hosted =
by Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.

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CFP: Studies in English (Turkey) (12/20/05; 4/24/06-4/26/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 3:26pm
Isil BAÞ

        Bogazici University, Department of Western Languages and =
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 and IDEA, English Language and Literature Research Association are =
organizing an international conference

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                "STUDIES IN ENGLISH"=20

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   in Istanbul on April 24-26 2006.=20

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The conference will concentrate on four areas: =20

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literature,

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translation studies=20

cultural studies

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Proposals for papers, panels and workshops of no more than 500 words =
accompanied by

CFP: Criminal Kairos (12/1/05; FRS, 2/24/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 3:26pm
Donna M. Souder

The Texas Woman's University English Rhetoric Graduate Organization (TWU
ERGO) is sponsoring a special panel (or panels, if submissions warrant) on
"Criminal Kairos" at the 2006 Federation Rhetoric Symposium to be held
February 24, 2006 on the TWU campus in Denton, Texas.

 

CFP: Engendering Diversity and Community: Women & Gender Conference (2/14/06; 3/30/06-3/31/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 3:26pm
MONICA8812_at_aol.com

The Second Annual
Engendering Diversity and Community:
a conference that brings together scholars, activists and community members
to address issues relating to women, gender, and sexuality in all fields.

March 30-31, 2006
University of La Verne

CALL FOR PAPERS

Please submit 250-word proposals for papers, workshops, panels,
roundtable discussions and performances by February 14, 2006 to:

wgss_at_ulv.edu
or
WGSS Conference Committee
c/o Dr. Ann Hills
Miller Hall 203
University of La Verne
1950 Third Street
La Verne, CA. 91750

CFP: Intersections: Emerging Spaces, Transforming Scapes (grad) (1/20/06; 3/24/06-3/26/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 3:26pm
Peter Ryan

 
Please circulate this CFP to all potentially interested graduate scholars.
Thank you and please accept apologies for cross-posting.

Peter Ryan
Intersections 2005 Conference Chair
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EMERGING SPACES, TRANSFORMING SCAPES
Intersections 2006: A Graduate Student Creative Conference
Call For Proposals (CFP)

CFP DEADLINE: Friday, January 20th, 2006

Hosted by the students of the Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture
York University and Ryerson University
Toronto, Canada
March 24-26, 2006

EMERGING SPACES, TRANSFORMING SCAPES

CFP: Tele-technologies and Postcolonialism (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 3:25pm
Kristian VanHaesendonck

Call for papers: "Exappropriating the Human: Tele-technologies,
Postcolonialism, and Their Convergence in Contemporary Globalization,"
seminar at the 2006 ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Conference, Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006. The goal of this seminar is to reflect upon the
dehumanizing and uprooting capacity of language through the concept of
"exapropriation," a term coined by Derrida in his later works. The term
exappropriation, when applied to language, expresses the double move of how
language puts the human in place (hands it the qualities that are proper to it, appropriation) and at the same time

CFP: Humanism and the Global Hybrid (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:18pm
mina karav

Humanism and the Global Hybrid=20

ACLA 2006, Princeton University, 3/23/06 - 3/26/06

Seminar Organizers: Dr. Assimina Karavanta, National & Kapodistrian =
University of Athens, Greece & Dr. Nina Morgan, Kennesaw State =
University

CFP: The Relevances of Raymond Williams (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
Keith O'Regan

Paper proposals are invited for the following seminar at the American
Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference in Princeton, NJ,
23-26 March, 2006:

The Relevances of Raymond Williams
Seminar Organizer: Keith O'Regan, York University, koregan_at_yorku.ca

CFP: Creation and Reality in the French Idiom (12/31/05; 3/24/06-3/25/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 2:17pm
SPFFA Colloque 2006

THE SOCIETE DES PROFESSEURS FRANÇAIS ET FRANCOPHONES D'AMERIQUE
                                                                    (SPFFA)

                            Announces its Eighth International Colloquium

                                  "Creation and Reality in the French Idiom
                                                                 and
                                    The Centennial of Léopold Sédar Senghor"

UPDATE: Poetry as Theory, Theory as Poetry (12/1/05; NJCEA, 3/18/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 1:47pm
Burt Kimmelman

There are still open slots on a panel whose title is "Poetry as Theory,
Theory as Poetry," which will be a part of the annual conference of the New
Jersey College English Association, to be held at Seton Hall University in
South Orange, NJ on March 18, 2006 (see entire conference Call for Papers
here: http://faculty.ucc.edu/english-chewning/cfp.htm). Abstracts for the
"Poetry as Theory, Theory as Poetry" panel should be e-mailed to Burt
Kimmelman at kimmelman_at_njit.edu, by December 1, 2005. To learn more about
the New Jersey College English Association go to: http://njcea.org.

CFP: Face(s) of the Other (grad) (12/20/05; 4/6/06-4/8/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 1:46pm
Neli Koleva

Call for Papers:

Rice University
Humanities Graduate Conference

Face(s) of the Other

Keynote Address by Reda Bensmaia, Brown University

April 6-8, 2006
Rice University, Houston, TX

CFP: MLS Reviews: Freud, New Penguin Translations (2/1/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 1:46pm
Juang, Richard M.

Modern Language Studies (MLS) would like to solicit reviews of the new
Penguin translations of Freud's works. Reviewers should be aware of the
differences between the new translations and the Standard Edition. We
encourage reviewers to discuss issues of translation and their
consequences for psychoanalytic literary studies and/or the study of
Freud in a literary context.

Reviews may range from 1500-3000 words. Longer reviews may also be
possible.

Reviewers must be members of the Northeast Modern Language Association
(www.nemla.org) by the time of publication.

CFP: TRAFFIC: mobility, flows, transgression (grad) (12/31/05; 3/10/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 1:46pm
parent_at_brandeis.edu

TRAFFIC: mobility, flows, transgression

March 10, 2006

Plenary Speaker: Professor John Plotz, Brandeis University

The Third Annual English Graduate Conference at Brandeis University

Traffic will be an interdisciplinary conference that explores the movement of
persons, cultural products, objects, and ideas between different contexts:
nations, cultures, territories, class positions, gender identities, racial
boundaries, urban and rural spaces, and political ideologies.

UPDATE: Gender, Ghosts, History (11/30/05, ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

updated: 
Friday, November 11, 2005 - 1:46pm
Sladja Blazan

Deadline updated:

Paper proposals are invited for the following seminar at the 2006
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference in
Princeton, NJ:

"Ghosts, Gender, History"

  Seminar Organizer: Sladja Blazan, Humboldt University (Berlin)

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separation of past and present. Some cultures integrate the ghost=20
figure into the present in order to provide a sense of continuity. In=20
literature and film the ghost motif has been directly associated with=20
particular cultural meanings, but has also been used as a plot element=20=

CFP: Time and Memory in Narrative (12/2/05; collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Dr Karl Simms

Call for Papers: Time and Memory in Narrative

Proposals are invited for a collection of essays entitled Time and Memory
in Narrative. Papers may address any aspect of the representation of time
and memory in narrative. Philosophical and theoretical perspectives are
encouraged, which may be tested through application to one or several
narrative texts.

UPDATE: Other Dreams (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:14pm
Margaret W. Cotter-Lynch

PLEASE NOTE: The submission deadline for abstracts has been extended to
November 30, 2005.

Paper proposals are invited for the following seminar at the 2006
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference in
Princeton, NJ:

Other Dreams

CFP: Politicizing Texts (grad & undergrad) (12/16/05; Acacia, 2/17/06-2/18/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:13pm
Acacia Group

Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing Texts

Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton is seeking
papers for our 2006 conference.

The Acacia Group requests your input and ideas for our upcoming Acacia
Conference titled "Politicizing Texts," to be held February 17th and
18th, 2006. We are interested in topics and panel suggestions that
explore mechanisms of power at work in or influencing the production
of /reading of texts.

CFP: Substitution (grad) (1/6/06; 4/6/06-4/7/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:13pm
french.sesdef_at_utoronto.ca

The "Société des Études supérieures du Département d'Études françaises"
(S.E.S.D.E.F.) at the University of Toronto announces a

~ CALL FOR PAPERS ~

11th Annual Student Conference, French Graduate Studies
April 6th & 7th, 2006

Substitution: Equivalence, fluctuation, disproportion

CFP: (En)compass(ing) Language in Literature Studies (grad) (12/18/05; 3/31/06-4/1/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:13pm
Brandon Hernsberger

Call for Papers from Graduate Students

 

"(En)compass(ing) Language: Interplay Within English Studies"

 

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

March 31st through April 1st

 

Sponsored by: Texas Tech University's Graduate English Society

Co-Chairs: Brandon Hernsberger and Elizabeth Porter

 

Address: GES Conference

                                    Texas Tech University

                                    Department of English, Box 43091

                                    Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091

CFP: Theatricality, History, Theory (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:13pm
Martin Harries

Call for Papers:

Theatricality, History, Theory

The seminar will be part of the American Comparative Literature Association Conference at Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey, March 23-26, 2006.

Seminar Organizers: Martin Harries, New York University; Andrew Parker, Amherst College

CFP: The Politics of Memory (grad) (1/9/06; 3/31/06-4/2/06)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 10:13pm
annarita primier

The Centre for Comparative Literature

at the University of Toronto

invites abstracts for its 17th annual graduate student conference

The Politics of Memory

to be held from

March 31st to April 2, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

Papers may address interdisciplinary issues related to, but not limited to, the following questions:

 

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