CFP: Landscape & the Lyric (3/31/06; ALSC, 10/13/06-10/15/06)
CALL FOR PAPERS
2006 ALSC Conference, San Francisco, California, October 13-15 2006
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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.
Call for Papers
E/Im/Migration and Culture
15-17 September 2007
Isýk University, Sile (Istanbul, Turkey)
Fourth Cultural Studies Conference
co-organized by the
Cultural Studies Association (Turkey) and the
Department of International Relations of Isýk University
Due to a very unfortunate error, the original cfp (see below) mistakingly
stated that panel presenters must hold a Ph.D. Submissions are of course
invited from anyone interested in presenting on the panel, regardless of
educational or professional status. My sincere apologies for the error.
CALL FOR PAPERS: W. G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel (3/25/2006; MLA '06)
Abstracts are invited for a proposed special session at the annual Modern
Language Association Conference in Philadelphia, PA, 27-30 December 2006.
Racing Across Borders: National and Transnational Narratives
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Centennial House, UC Santa Barbara
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 15, 2006
Website: http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/conference/grad2006/
Keynote Speaker: Shelley Streeby, Associate Professor of American
Literature, UC San Diego
Winner of the 2003 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize for _
Sensations: Class, Empire and the Production of Popular Culture_ (UC
Press, 2002).
Globalization as Culture?
The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Literature and
Linguistics is proud to announce its 3rd Annual Graduate Student
Conference: "Globalization as
Culture?" to be held all day Friday, April 28, 2006 in Royce Hall 306,
UCLA. The distinguished keynote speaker will be Prof. Francine R.
Masiello from University of California Berkeley.
New deadline announcement
Plenary speakers announced:
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CFP: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/17/06; 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.
CALL FOR PAPERS: W. G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel (3/25/2006; MLA '06)
Abstracts are invited for a proposed special session at the annual Modern
Language Association Conference in Philadelphia, PA, 27-30 December 2006.
University of Chicago
Department of English
October 27-28, 2006
Visiting and Revisiting: Literature as a Special Form of Knowledge
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Mary Poovey, Professor, Department of
English; Director, Institute for the History of the Production
of Knowledge, New York University
Deadline for submissions: April 3, 2006
CFP: Transnational Education: Imperialism, Race, and Human Nature in
the American Context (3/15/06; MLA '06)
Proposed MLA Special Session organized by Anna Mae Duane, University
of Connecticut, and Lucia Hodgson, University of Southern California.
Please send 250-word abstract and cv by March 15th to lhodgson_at_usc.edu.
We have now extended the deadline for abstracts to 31 March 2006 and
confirmed our plenary speakers. See full revised CFP below.
Literary London 2006: Representations of London in Literature
An Interdisciplinary Conference
Hosted by The Department of English, Maritime Campus, University of
Greenwich, London.
13th to 14th July 2006
Plenary speakers: Professor Jack Lynch (Rutgers University), Professor
Jonathan Schneer (Georgia Institute of Technology), Professor David
Skilton (Cardiff University)
Call for Papers
The PAMLA Conference dates have been changed to 11/10-11/11/2006.
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference (PAMLA)
Panel Topic: Victorian Nature Writing
November 10-11, 2006 (updated due to change in conference schedule)
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006
Paper proposals sought for a panel on Victorian nature writing.
Proposals are encouraged that address this topic within a literary,
philosophical, theological, ecological, or scientific framework. All
submissions acknowledged by email.
CFP: Romanticism, Environment, Crisis (UK) (3/17/06; 6/23/06-6/27/06)
ROMANTICISM, ENVIRONMENT, CRISIS
23-27 June 2006
Centre for Romantic Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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.
Ecocriticism has found Romanticism to be crucial ground. How do green
readings of Romantic texts help us understand contemporary environmental
crisis? What is the relation between ecocriticism and environmentalism,
between literature and science?
Shakespeare and Shakespeare Criticism: "Trans-Atlantic
Shakespeare."
ISTW Call For Papers
The fifth International Society for Travel Writing
conference, "Roughing It," will be held in Denver, Colorado, September
29-October 1, 2006.
VSAWC 2006: The Global Victorians: Interdisciplinary and Transnational
Approaches to the Victorian Era
Through our academic conversation among scholars, writers, and students in the Intermountain West, we aim to foster a greater understanding of the creative connections that exist between ourselves and the spaces we inhabit—whether local or global, contemporary or historical.
Deadline extended:
Title Effects: Writing Through Watershed
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Graduate English Association Conference
Saturday, April 1, 2006
Invitation 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, and Black feminist scholar Dr. Beverly Guy-
Sheftall.
We are seeking creative and/or critical submissions for a panel on issues of transformation and space. This panel will
occur as part of the Association of English Graduate Students' 19th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, entitled "Trans--
: Negotiations and Resistance," to be held at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Possible papers might engage theories of space and/or specific spaces; literary or literal spaces; public or private
spaces; etc. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary papers, and papers that address the following questions:
How are spaces transformed? How do spaces transform? What are the benefits and/or limitations of thinking of space in
terms of transformation?
Dear all, please find below a CFP for a Children's Geographies (and
Children's Studies) conference at The University of Northampton in
September of this year.
Call for Papers
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CHILDREN'S GEOGRAPHIES
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7th and 8th September 2006
Centre for Children and Youth
The University of Northampton
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Convenors:
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Faith Tucker, John Horton, Peter Kraftl, Sarah Armstrong
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Themes:
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Department of Germanic & Romance Studies
University of Delhi, Delhi - 110007
Tel: 27666426, 27667725 Ext.1296
E-mail: grs.du.in_at_gmail.com
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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SEMINAR:
Rites of Passage: Exploring changes in the travel motif=20
2-4 March 2006
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UPDATE: Standing Committee
Latitude(s): Nomadic Imagination and Transnational Spaces in Europe
(Second call)
"Every region neere": Explorations in gendered, generic, historical, and
geographic regions, 1500-1700
I have recently been contacted by Cambridge Scholars Press about possibly
editing a volume on early modern approaches to region, and I am interested in
soliciting abstracts for contributions that consider gendered, generic, or
geographic regions in early modern texts.
Racing Across Borders:
National and Transnational Narratives
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Centennial House, UC Santa Barbara
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2006
Website: http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/conference/grad2006/
Keynote Speaker: Shelley Streeby, Professor of Literature, UC San Diego;
Winner of the 2003 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize for
_American Sensations: Class, Empire and the Production of Popular
Culture_ (UC Press, 2002).
Latitude(s): Nomadic Imagination and Transnational Spaces in Europe
(Second call)
Please send abstracts by Feb. 1, 2006.
DIS-UNITED EMPIRES
INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON BRITISH AND UNITED
STATES IMPERIALISM
IN AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE
MIDDLE EAST
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA
MAY 15-18, 2006
Call for Papers