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*Home and Abroad: Transnational **England**, 1750-1850*
* *A One-Day, Summer Conference at Oxford University
Friday, 28 July 2006
_Invited Speakers Include_:
Fiona Stafford (Somerville College, Oxford University)
Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Université de Montréal)
College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Fall 2006 Conference: 10-11 November 2006
"Watery World: Humans and the Sea"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
The CEA-CC invites proposals for a panel titled "The Sea and History".
Please send 200-250 word proposal for a 20-minute paper to Nandita =
Batra at cea_caribbeanchapter_at_hotmail.com by 31 July 2006.
Proposals may be sent by email as part of a text message but not as
attachments. Presenters must be registered members of the CEA-CC at the =
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of the conference.
More information available at
http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/ingles/cea-cc.htm
UPDATE: The deadline has been extended for selling trauma: post-apartheid(?)
and tourism to (4/15/06; USACLALS, 10/27/06-10/29/06).
CFP: Fissures and Sutures: Sources of Division and Mutual Aid in Postcolonial
Reflections on History and Literature, United States Association for
Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
selling trauma: post-apartheid(?) and tourism
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (NOTE CHANGE OF DATE)
Venue: The University of Northampton, Avenue Campus, 6 St George's =
Avenue, Northampton NN2 6JD.
Tel: 01604 735500. Website: http://www.northampton.ac.uk/
Date: PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE: 3-4 July 2007 (07/03/07)
Hosted by: The Centre for Contemporary Fiction and Narration in the =
English Department of The University of Northampton, and the editors of =
the Journal of Postcolonial Writing in association with the publishers, =
Taylor and Francis, and the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.
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REROUTING THE POSTCOLONIAL
M/MLA Standing Panel
American Literature II: Literature After 1870
Here is the Call for Papers in Plain Text
Howard Meltzer
[Re]Configurations: Arts, Humanities, and Technology in the Urban
Environment
We invite individual papers and session proposals addressing the conference
theme from all possible disciplinary angles, such as its representation in
literature, the visual arts, political essays, or scientific and
philosophical writings. We welcome submissions for poster or portfolio
presentation and musical performance as well.
In addition to the conference theme, papers on all other aspects of the
interaction of technology, science, and the humanities are welcome.
CFP for a proposed special session for the 2006 Midwest Modern Language
Association convention in Chicago, November 9-12, 2006: "Geo-Graphing Modernism."
College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Fall 2006 Conference: 10-11 November 2006
"Our Watery World: Humans and the Sea"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
The CEA-CC invites proposals for a panel titled "The Sea in =
Representation: Representation and the Sea."
Papers may focus on representation of the sea in literature, art, film, =
myth, etc.
Please send 200-250 word proposal to Vartan Messier at
cea_caribbeanchapter_at_hotmail.com by 31 July 2006. Proposals may be sent =
by
email as part of a text message but not as attachments. Presenters must =
be
registered members of the CEA-CC at the time of the conference.
College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Fall 2006 Conference: 10-11 November 2006
"Our Watery World: Humans and the Sea"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
The CEA-CC invites proposals for a panel titled "Empire and the Sea."
Please send 200-250 word proposal to Nandita Batra at
cea_caribbeanchapter_at_hotmail.com by 31 July 2006. Proposals may be sent =
by
email as part of a text message but not as attachments. Presenters must =
be
registered members of the CEA-CC at the time of the conference.
More information available at
http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/ingles/cea-cc.htm
Announcing a new series from Ashgate Publishing Company—
Transculturalisms, 1400–1700
Series Editors: Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College; Jyotsna G. Singh,
Michigan State University; and Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami
Transnationalism and the New Local: Refiguring Latina/o Literature, Culture and Identity
Updated Submission Deadline for Abstracts: May 15, 2006
College English Association - Caribbean Chapter
Fall 2006 Conference: 10-11 November 2006
"Our Watery World: Humans and the Sea"
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
The CEA-CC invites proposals for a panel titled "The Sea as Frontier."
Please send 200-250 word proposal to Nandita Batra at
cea_caribbeanchapter_at_hotmail.com by 31 July 2006. Proposals may be sent by
email as part of a text message but not as attachments. Presenters must be
registered members of the CEA-CC at the time of the conference.
More information available at
http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/ingles/cea-cc.htm
CFP: Travel and Tourism (6/15/06; MAPACA; 10/27-29/06)
The Mid-Atlantic Popular / American Culture Association (MAPACA) will
be holding its 17th Annual Conference in Philadelphia from October 26
to the 29th. This is a wide-ranging conference that usually features
over 90 panels and 270 presenters. For full information about the
conference, please go to www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette.
The conference features roughly 35 "areas," ranging from Architecture
to Television, from Shakespeare to Cartoons. We usually run 3 or 4
panels in the "Travel and Tourism" area, and I invite you to submit a
proposal.
=B3Unstable Zones: Self and Other in British Narratives of First Encounters=B2
An International Conference on British Narratives of Exploration
22 - 23 March 2007
Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Lyon, France
IDENTITIES IN THE MAKE: MIGRATION AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (15 May 2006; 17-18 November 2006; Madrid, Spain)
*11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CANADIAN STUDIES, SPANISH ASSOCIATION
FOR CANADIAN STUDIES. MADRID, 17-18 NOVEMBER 2006. MORE INFO AT
WWW.ESTUDIOSCANADIENSES.ORG
*CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE PANEL *Uprootings / Regroundings: Migrations in
Canadian Literature.*
The New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA)
invites papers for our annual one-day conference:
Crash / Landings: Friction and Flow in the American City
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Deadline for abstracts: Monday, May 1, 2006
TRANSITIONAL SPACES & PLACES:
EXPLORING BOUNDARIES, BORDERS, & INTERSECTIONS
Fordham University
New York City
October 6-8, 2006
Keynote Speaker: TBA
CFP: Fissures and Sutures: Sources of Division and Mutual Aid in Postcolonial
Reflections on History and Literature, United States Association for
Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
selling trauma: post-apartheid(?) and tourism
Apartheid ended more than ten years ago; regardless, bulletholes in the
stained glass of Regina Mundi remain, long after the June 1976 Soweto school
uprisings, as do the lime mines on Robben Island, the squatter camps in Soweto
and Cape Town, and the to-be-furnished space for representing the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission in the Apartheid Museum on the skirts of
Johannesburg.
Deadline extended:
UPDATE: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/31/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)
ROMANTICISM, ENVIRONMENT, CRISIS
23-27 June 2006
Centre for Romantic Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Lawrence Buell, Cheryll Glotfelty, James C. McKusick, George Monbiot, Kate
Soper.
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Romanticism, Environment, Crisis" will highlight the continuing urgency
of the Romantic text at a time when changes in our biosphere threaten to
realize Romanticism's prophetic anxieties, its darkest imaginings.
CFP: Second International Doris Lessing Conference (08/31/06;07/07/07-09/07/07)
Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Doris Lessing is a writer who, in her early career, concentrated on Africa
and African politics then subsequently turned toward England, feminism, and
speculative fiction. This panel will explore Lessing's continued engagement
with African politics from "The Grass Is Singing" and "Going Home" to "Under
My Skin" and "African Laughter," as well as her more recent
journalism/reviews.
Submit one-page abstracts by August 31, 2006 to: anneserafin_at_earthlink.net
and jcairnie_at_uoguelph.ca
NEASECS (Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) 2006; Nov. 9-12, 2006; Salem, Massachusetts.
CFP deadline: Apr. 15, 2006
Panel title: "Colonialism and Knowledge-Making in Eighteenth-Century Europe"
Eighteenth-century colonial expansion gave birth to, enabled, and systematized several European bodies of knowledge: encounters with non-European populations gave rise to large-scale classifications of race in European scientific discourse; a vast and growing body of travel writing produced ethnographies and encyclopedic treatises on peoples and cultures of the globe; scientific exploration abroad aided the development of European natural science.
CALL FOR PAPERS.
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Conference 2006
November 10-11, 2006
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006
The Travel Writing/Writing Travel panel of PAMLA
invites proposals for papers and presentations on this
topic. Proposals that open the topic to multiple
perspectives and interpretations are welcome.
Please submit a 500-word proposal and a 50-word
abstract as a WORD or
RTF attachment via e-mail to:
sengupta.nandini_at_gmail.com
For more information please see the PAMLA website:
www.pamla.org.
5th Global Conference
Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship
Monday 3rd July - Thursday 6th July 2006
Mansfield College, Oxford
Final Call for Papers
Environments, Sustainability and Technologies
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to explore the role of ecology and environmental ideas in the context of contemporary society and international politics, and assess the implications for our understandings of fairness, justice and global citizenship.
Graduate Student Conference:
The New School for Social Research
CFP: What Remains: Living Through Ruins, Thinking Through Empire
(grad) (3/31/06; 5/11/06-5/12/06)
"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony
rubbish?" ~ T.S. Eliot, 'The Wasteland'
Call for Papers
We are soliciting papers from graduate students in anthropology,
history, geography, literature, sociology, and other relevant
disciplines related to our focus on empire and ruins. The deadline for
submission of abstracts is March 31, 2006. For more information,
questions or submissions, please e-mail David Bond or Joseph DeStefano
at: RuinsConference2006_at_gmail.com
Deadline Extended to March 27th for Proposals on
Interdisciplinary Scholarly and Creative Work
Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Conference:
.Dangerous Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist
Connections and Activisms in Local and Global Contexts.
University of Maryland
May 24-26, 2006
Website: www.freewebs.com/wsgo2006conference
Featuring plenary sessions and workshops by feminist educator
Dr. Peggy McIintosh, feminist postcolonial theorist Dr.
Sangeeta Ray, feminist sociologist Dr. Karen Rosenblum, and
Black feminist scholar Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall.
CALL FOR PAPERS
2006 ALSC Conference, San Francisco, California, October 13-15 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS
2006 ALSC Conference, San Francisco, California, October 13-15 2006
Call for Papers--SAMLA special session: The Geography of Film Noir: Space,
Place, City, Country
We have updated the following CFP to include a call for creative writers =
to submit their work.
CALL FOR PAPERS (Update)
"Sharp Eyes" IV:
Writing the Land: John Burroughs and His Legacy
June 5-9, 2006
The John Burroughs Nature Writing Conference & Seminar at
The State University of New York at Oneonta
CFP: Coloring Outside the Lines: Blurring Borders (03/17/06; 04/22/06)
The Associated Graduate Students in English (AGSE) at California State University, Northridge will hold its annual graduate student conference on Saturday, April 22nd, 2006 in Jerome Richfield Hall Room 319.
This year's conference title is "Coloring Outside the Lines: Blurring Borders.†We are looking for papers that explore the theme of borders and their incarnations and transformations including, but not limited to: border crossings, blurrings, violations, tensions, disruptions, transgressions, transactions and/or dissolutions.