travel writing

5th GALWAY CONFERENCE ON COLONIALISM: SETTLER COLONIALISM

Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway

27-30 June 2007

CFP: Foreign Attraction or Repulsion: National and Literary Perspectives of
the Latin American Writer Abroad.
(11/1/06; ACLA, 04/19/07-04/22/06)

ACLA 2007: "Trans, Pan, Intra: Cultures in Contact."

April 19-22, 2007, Puebla, Mexico

Epicurean Movements: Translating and Transporting Ancient Materialism
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Puebla,
Mexico, April 19-22, 2007

Contesting Transoceanic Natural Histories

Seminar Organizers: Adam Miyashiro and Oscar Fernandez
Affiliations: The Pennsylvania State University and Portland State University

The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Annual Meeting 2007: Puebla, Mexico

April 19-22, 2007
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006

Description: This interdisciplinary panel seeks to address
critical issues in the theory and practice of “natural history,” a formal
mode of encyclopedic writing that described everything perceived as
“natural” from the perspective of their writers.

CFP: Interdisciplinary Studies of the El Paso-Juarez Border Region =
(1/11/06; ACLA, Puebla, Mexico, 4/19/06-4/22/07)
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"Interdisciplinary Studies of the El Paso-Juarez Border Region" at the =
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting in Puebla, =
Mexico, April 17-19, 2007

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This seminar will examine cultural theories and practices as they relate =
to the border cities of El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Chihuahua. The mode =
of inquiry will be interdisciplinary.=20

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Natural History & the Fabrication of Facts
ACLA Annual Conference, Puebla, Mexico, April 19-22, 2007

Deadline for proposal submissions: November 30, 2006

CFP: The Transcultural South in Film; (10/15/06; SASA,
2/14/07-2/18/07)
This panel for the Southern American Studies Association
conference will explore filmic intersections between the
culture of the U.S. South and the cultures of other
locations around the globe. Among many potential topics,
papers might investigate invocations of the American South
in films produced outside the U.S. or they might explore how
films set in the American South represent, reflect, or
sublimate multicultural interactions within the region.

> >CALL FOR PAPERS
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> >>LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SECTION
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> >Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters
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> >MARCH 9-10 2007, Location: Ferris State University, Big Rapids
Michigan
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> >Grad Students Welcome!
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> >British, American, Ethnic, Comparative literature, literature and
> film

Please note the extended deadline:

UPDATE: Geography and the Book of Nature: The Natural World in
Transition, 1300-1600

Date correction: the conference will take place on 14-15 July 2007.

Sebastian Sobecki
Geography and the Book of Nature Congress
Department of English
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
Phone: +49 234 32 28 518
book-of-nature-2007_at_rub.de

UPDATE: China Abroad: Travels, Spaces, Subjects (collection)

Update: Call for Papers

Please note we have extened the deadline for abstracts to September 31, 2006.
There is also an extended list of confirmed conference speakers.
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Transnationalism, Activism, Art
March 8-11, 2007
University of Toronto

Writing Landscape
An Inter-disciplinary Symposium for Scholars in the Arts and Humanities
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Monday, 19 March 2007, Stewart House, University College London

We invite proposals for papers at an inter-disciplinary one-day symposium on
'Writing Landscape'. The symposium will explore the relationship between
landscape and creative writing, paying particular attention to the process of
writing and reading. The symposium would appeal to scholars from a range of
disciplines, including literary studies, geography, cultural studies, history,
gender studies, creative writing and philosophy.

CALL FOR PAPERS:
The Riddle of Devolutionary Identity: A One-Day Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Warwick, Humanities Research Centre (HRC)
~ Saturday 18th November 2006

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Michael Gardiner, Chiba University, Japan.
Prof. Stephen Knight, Cardiff University.
Prof. Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick.

Also: David Morley, poet and director of the Warwick Writing Programme.