travel writing

³Unstable Zones: Self and Other in British Narratives of First Encounters²
An International Conference on British Narratives of Exploration

22 - 23 March 2007

Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Lyon, France

Atlantikos is an online peer-reviewed journal published by graduate students in the English department at Michigan State University. It represents the most recent work by the most active graduate scholars in the field of Transatlantic Studies, broadly defined as the study of textual, cultural, and performative productions that have multiple resonances across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. We are now accepting essays written by graduate students and others in the field of Transatlantic Studies for publication in our fall 2006 and spring 2007 issues. We encourage both traditional and innovative scholarship addressing critical, cultural, and theoretical issues related to the field.

Call for Papers

Panel Title: Romantic Landscapes

38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

Proposals are sought for papers dealing with the relation between landscape
and literary works during the Romantic era (1789-1832). Of particular
interest are papers that examine literary works in relation to other
accounts of landscapes, such as maps, tour guides, surveys, travelogues,
court documents, other poems, etc. Please send 250-300 word abstracts by
e-mail to Frank.Duba_at_millersville.edu.

Call for papers for a session on Exile and the Narrative Imagination at
2006 NEMLA conference in Baltimore, Meryland. March 01 - March 04,
2007

The session will examine texts by any exiled writer from any country,
dealing with the literary representation of exile.
Papers may focus on exile as a form of modern alienation, as a metaphor
for psychic difference, as an allegory of separation or on modern
exilic politics and emigre conditions.

Please send abstracts to Dr. Agnieszka Gutthy.
Electronic submissions: agutthy_at_selu.edu
Submission deadline: September 15, 2006

Kathy Acker, Transatlanticism and the Transnational

edited by Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol

Brown and the Bayou: Politics, Writing, and Borderlands in the=20
Postrevolutionary Circumatlantic World

Hellenic Association for American Studies
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
School of English
  HELAAS Graduate Student International Conference Inaugural
March 15-18, 2007
  Ex-centric Narratives, Identity and Multivocality in Anglo-American Cultures
  CALL FOR PAPERS
  The Hellenic Association for American Studies, and the Department of American Literature and Culture of the School of English of Aristotle University aim to bring together Greek and foreign graduate students (MA & PhD) as well as young scholars at the start of their careers from various fields and disciplines to a conference which is organized at the Aristotle University Campus.

CFP: Evolutions of Oceanic Traversal: from Slavery to the Present

For a session at "evolutions" conference,Edinburgh,U.K,Sept: 22-23.

Evolutions of Oceanic Traversal: from Slavery to the Present

CALL FOR PAPERS
   
  Revisiting the Nineteenth Century: The World, the Body, the Text
  The 14th Annual Conference
  of the R.O.C. English & American Literature Association
   
  National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TAIWAN, The Republic of China
  November 24~25, 2006
   

CALL FOR PAPERS

English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities

EAPSU 2006 CONFERENCE

Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

October 20, 21, and 22, 2006

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LITERATURE, WRITING, AND THE NATURAL WORLD

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Featured Speaker: Bill McKibben

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We invite proposals for individual papers or panels from faculty and =
graduate students. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

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Nature Writing

Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism

Literature and the Natural Sciences/Natural History

Literature and Evolution

Literature and Environmental Studies

Literature and Natural Disasters

Literature, the Environment, and Disease

The American Studies Graduate Committee at the University of Texas at Austin calls for papers for
its upcoming graduate conference, "The American Environment: Within and Without," to be held in
Austin on September 28-29, 2006.

"Environment" is a term which invites myriad interpretations in varied contexts. Our conference
theme urges participants to explore the American environment both inside and across these
different contexts. We encourage the consideration of all types of environments, including the
musical, literary, religious, political, psychological, natural, built, social, and transnational,
and those which merge or transcend these types.

7th Graduate Conference in Erlangen
Deadline: August 31st 2006
November 3rd - 5th 2006
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Kochstr. 4, 91054 Erlangen
Germany

For your Information and Distribution I have attached here a call for =
papers
for the BorderPolitics of Whiteness Conference. Hope to see you there!

The Department of Critical and Cultural Studies and the Australian =
Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association are pleased to announce

THE BORDERPOLITICS OF WHITENESS CONFERENCE

December 11-13
Carlton Crest Hotel, Sydney

KEYNOTES (secured as of now)

Professor David Theo Goldberg, Director, University of California =
Humanities Research Institute

Professor Cheryl Harris, Law, University of California, Los Angeles. =20

Associate Professor Joseph Pugliese, Critical and Cultural Studies, =
Macquarie University

Call for Papers

UPDATE

2006 ALSC Conference, Hotel Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco, California,
October 13-15 2006

April 7, 2006

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) has re-issued its
call for papers for the seminar sections of the 2006 ALSC Conference
Program. The panels are not open for submissions at this time.

The submissions deadline for all three seminars has been extended to April
30.

Additional prospective members and current members alike are heartily
invited to apply.

Please see below for details.

Seminars