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College English Association National Conference
April 12-14, 2007
New Orleans

We invite papers on Empathy and Ethics in Film and Literature for the 38th
annual meeting of the CEA. The theme may be interpreted broadly, including,
but not limited to, the following: consideration of the portrayal of empathy
and/or ethics in literature and film, examination of the techniques that
elicit empathetic reactions in readers and viewers, and discussion of the
pedagogical uses of film and literature in exploring ethical issues.

Proposals should be submitted via the online database at
http://english.ttu.edu/cea/conftool by November 30.

Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department =
of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, invites scholarly articles for its =
Special Issue XXXVI (2007) devoted to:

        Memory and History: Remembering, Forgetting and Forgiving

We welcome all submissions that address questions or ideas related but =
not limited to the following concepts in language, literature and visual =
expressions:

Amnesia, Melancholia, Nostalgia, Survival, Repression, Narratives of =
Commemoration, Authorities, Temporalities and Places, Cultural Memory =
and the 'Other,' Language Contact,
Diglossia, Historical Linguistics, Individual and National Policies

Postmodern Culture invites submissions for a special issue on "Critical
Theory and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis." We are interested in studies
of the changing aesthetic and political significance of psychoanalytic
thought over the last thirty years. Accepted articles will be due by
June 15, 2007. Direct inquiries to Jan Mieszkowski (mieszkow_at_reed.edu)
or to pmc_at_jefferson.village.virginia.edu.

Artful Strategies/Necessary Risks: The Shifting Borders between Success and
Failure

April 20th and 21st on the campus of California State University, Sacramento

Definitions of failure and success are not bound by timeless, objective
criteria but ultimately lie in the eyes of the observer answering to ever
changing parameters of time and culture. Thus what accounts for success in
one context may well be construed as failure in other contexts, by other
observers, or by succeeding generations. The conference aims to lend a forum
to ideas that examine the shifting borders between success and failure in
literature, the arts, history, anthropology, sociology, law, politics,
religion and related fields.

Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
   
  Another Backlash: Current Responses to Feminist Works
   

Rethinking Resistance: Literature, Religion, and Politics in a Global Context
March 30-31st, 2007
Emory University Graduate Conference
Atlanta, GA

Keynote Speakers: Michael Hardt, Professor of Literature, Duke University
Amy Kaplan, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor in the Humanities,
University of Pennsylvania

Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
  Border Ethics in Literature
   

Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
  Must the (re)turn to ethics involve a turn away from something else, or is ethics inevitably intertwined with other concerns?
   

Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  Arizona State University
  February 16 - 18 2007
   
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
   
   
  The Politics of (Post) Counter Cultural Visual Rhetoric
   

8th Global Conference
Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness

Monday 19th March - Friday 23rd March 2007
Salzburg, Austria

Call for Papers
(please cross post where appropriate)

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding evil and human wickedness. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in the fields of anthropology, criminology, cultural studies, legal studies, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology. Perspectives are sought from those working in the caring professions, the media, prison services, politics, psychiatry and other work-related and vocational areas.

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The journal /qui parle/ is seeking submissions for a special dossier,
"Urban Intercessions: The City as Limit Politics." The dossier will
focus on how we could imagine the effects and conditions of violence or
political force — whether it be legal, racial, geographic, or gendered,
and whether the force be oppressive or emancipatory — within the
specific locality of a metropolitan context, one which is somehow
inflected by local or particular concerns and yet reflects a global,
international, or, at the very least, extra-metropolitan politics. What
role does the city — "modern" or "not" — have in current inter/national
political formations? How does it function as a site of violence or

Papers are sought for a proposed panel for the National Women's Studies
Association Summer 2007 conference to be held in St. Charles, Illinois. If
selected, the panel will be part of the embedded conference sub-theme on
(Im)Migration and Mobility. The panel, tentatively titled, "Bridging the
Body Gap: Mobilizing Embodied Activism for Im(Migrant) Equity," seeks to
examine (im)migration with a particular emphasis on the body. In
particular, the panel seeks to interrogate how (im)migrant bodies are coded
as racialized bodies, 'alien' bodies, threatening bodies, 'illegal' bodies,
etc. Seeking to investigate how an embodied approach to (im)migrant rights

LSU EGSA Mardi Gras Conference on Language and Literature.
Feb. 16-17, 2007
Lod Cook Alumni Center
Baton Rouge, LA

Members Only: Gatekeepers and the Future of Literary Studies

Keynote Speaker: Timothy Brennan, Professor of Comparative Literature,
Cultural Studies, and English, The University of Minnesota.
Selected Publications: Wars of Position: Cultural Politics of Left and
Right (2005), Ed. Music in Cuba (2001), At Home in the World:
Cosmopolitanism Now (1997), .

The English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) welcomes submissions
on a variety of topics relating to language, literature, film,
cultural studies and pedagogy, for its 17th annual EGSA Mardi Gras
Conference.