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Call for Papers: Vine Deloria, Jr. Memorial Panel
"His Body of Work, in Memoriam: Vine Deloria, Jr."
Native/Indigenous Studies Area
PCA/ACA national conference organizers have indicated a strong
interest in my proposed panel, titled "The Story on the Body:
Textual Tattoos and the Corporeal Canvas".
Panel Description:
Whereas Melville's Queequeg is one of American literature's earliest
fictional tattooed characters, it is Hawthorne's Hester who upends
one of the conventions of the body in literature: Her scarlet "A"
reminds us of the role of her body in the novel, but it is the
adulterous story told on her body that positions Hester herself as a
text to be read.
The Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) of the
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
invites paper submissions for its 5th annual
preconference, entitled "Regeneration and Return:
Performance Studies in New Orleans," to take place
July 25-26. As generations of performance studies
scholars turn – and return – to New Orleans, we seek a
variety of proposals that address the panel topic
described below. While the city of New Orleans is
central to many of the questions presented here, we
welcome scholarship that employs various methodologies
and geographic points of entry.
Panel #2: Staging Race, Staging Place: The Local and
the Diasporic
Call for Papers
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I ANNUAL ASIAN CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ACSA) CONFERENCE
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NEW OLD WORLDS: THE CHANGING FACES OF ASIA
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Assumption University
592 Ramkhamhaeng 24, Hua Mak
10240 Bangkok, Thailand
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Conference dates: SATURDAY-SUNDAY 31.03.2007-01.04.2007
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CFP deadline for submissions: 07.01.2007
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NEW OLD WORLDS: THE CHANGING FACES OF ASIA
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For a special issue on "Women in Power" the multidisciplinary online
journal "gender forum" (http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de), affiliated
with the University of Cologne, Germany, seeks articles discussing
female political leadership. "Women in Power" seeks to instigate this
discussion with two articles by German feminist activist Alice Schwarzer
on Angela Merkel and would like to invite a debate focussing on "Women
in Power" and questions of gender as well as reviews of books about and
by women in leadership positions. The articles by Alice Schwarzer are
available online at
African Literature Association 33rd Annual Conference, March 14-18 2007,
West Virginia University, Conference Theme: African Literature and the
Cultural Dynamics of Globalization. Deadline for Panel/Paper Proposals
is December 1, 2006. All proposals and queriers should be sent to
wvuala_at_mail.wvu.edu/ For additional information, go to
http://www.africanlit.or <http://www.africanlit.or/> or
http://www.wvu.edu/forlang
CALL FOR PAPERS
2007 Conference on Communication and the Environment
June 22 - June 25, 2007 (DePaul University, Chicago)
Proposed Panel: Textually and Technologically Mediated Environmental
Encounters
Reel Bodies:
The Boundaries of the Body in Visual Cultures
A School of English Postgraduate Symposium
Newcastle University
30th March 2007
Keynote Speaker:
Andrew Shail (University of Oxford)
"Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best
other beings encapsulated by skin?" (Donna Haraway).
**Please note: the previously advertised conference is a graduate =
conference**
=93New Worlds, Lost Worlds=94: Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature
McGill University, Montr=E9al
13th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
March 10-11, 2007
The English Graduate Students Association of McGill University is =
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announce its 13th annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, =
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is seeking panel and paper proposals on the theme =93New Worlds, Lost =
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Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature. The conference will be held =
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Montr=E9al, Canada on March 10th-11th, 2007.
Call for Panels and Papers
THE TENTH ANNUAL RED RIVER CONFERENCE ON WORLD LITERATURE
APRIL 20 - 22, 2007
Canonical Texts / Textuality of Canons
We invite papers and panel proposals on topics that investigate any
of the following topics. While we are particularly interested in
proposals that focus on the conference theme, papers and panels on
all aspects of world literature will be considered.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
The University of Florida's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and
the Department of English are pleased to announce the 2007 UF
Conference on Games and Digital Media: "World Building: Space and
Community," which will be held in Gainesville, Florida, on March 1-2,
2007, in conjunction with the annual Conference on Comics, which will
be March 3-4.
ARABESQUES REVIEW is seeking work for our November/December 2006 issue
focusing on writing inspired or informed by the experiences, observations,
and/or daily news and social possibilities of the following topic: "War &
Poetry" and for our January/February 2007 issue "Colors".
We are open to work that covers any of the multitude of ways that our world,
our media, and ourselves mark the public and private, political, and
individual decisions of passage we define and define ourselves around,
defining in the same time the destiny of other people, cultures and nations.
All travel and registration links on our website have now been updated
for 2007.=20
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html
New Areas Added.
Still Accepting Proposals for American Indians Today
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Call for Papers: American Indians Today
Abstract/Proposals by 15 November 2006
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Southwest/Texas Popular & American Popular Culture Associations 28th
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Albuquerque, NM. February 14-17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
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I am seeking proposals for 10-minute presentations on the topic of women
in August Wilson's cycle of plays. I hope to put together a roundtable
for ALA in Boston (May 24-27, 2007) on the often-unappreciated role
women play in Wilson's depiction of twentieth-century African American
experience.
Please send abstracts of approximately 200 words to
beaulieea_at_appstate.edu by December 1, 2006. I would like to include
short papers on 6 or 7 of Wilson's plays, as well as time for discussion
among panelists and audience members.
**Apologies for Cross Posting**
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PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY LEGEND
International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
Twenty-fifth International Conference
Logan, Utah, USA
May 23-27, 2007
The International Society for Contemporary Legend Research is pleased to =
announce that the 2007 Perspectives on Contemporary Legend Twenty-fifth =
International Conference is=20
to be held on the campus of Utah State University, home to the Fife =
Folklore Archives as well as the annual Fife Folklore Workshop and Fife =
Honor Lecture, all three named in honor of Austin and Alta Fife, pioneer =
folklorists of Western (American) and Mormon folklore at Utah State =
University.
The 2007 Texas Tech Comparative Literature Symposium on "America's Asia,
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April 13-14, 2007 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas
Texas Tech University houses the largest Vietnam Archive in the United
States, and West Texas has been home to thousands of Vietnamese/Asian
Americans. Late spring in Lubbock is usually mild and sunny.
Keynote Speakers:
Sheldon Xiao-peng Lu, Comparative Literature Program, UC-Davis;
Rob Wilson, Department of Literature, UC-Santa Cruz;
Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, Asian American Studies Program, UC-Berkeley
Proposal Submission Deadline: January 12, 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS
Jamesian Forms
Deadline extended:
Hollywood and the Culture Wars: A Study Day
1 March 2007, De Montfort University, UK.=20
Call For Papers.
Reminder:
New extended submission deadline - 15 November 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
CULTURAL STUDIES NOW: an international conference
Docklands Campus, University of East London, UK, 19-22 July 2007
Plenary speakers and presenters will include Ien Ang, Rosi Braidotti,
Kuan-Hsing Chen, Jeremy Gilbert, Judith Halberstam, Stuart Hall, Dick
Hebdige, Doreen Massey, Horace Ove, Mitra Tabrizian.
Call for Papers
GLBTQ STUDIES STILL MARKED AS DEVIANT IN THE BIBLE
BELT:
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
(Proposed Panel, SEWSA, UT-Chattanooga, March 22-24,
2007)
---IASA 2007 CALL FOR PAPERSINTERNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2007LISBON, September 20-23, 2007*Seminar Title: Interactive Dimensions between Transatlantic andTranspacific American Studies*Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2006*Papers to be Submitted to: tinarita_at_hum.nagoya-cu.ac.jp*Seminar Organizer: Professor Tatsushi Narita, Nagoya City UniversityDescription:¡ÈTranspacific¡É American studies appears to have been marginalized despitean indispensable role it is expected to play. Even the prevalent sphere ofTransatlantic studies would seem needing redirection. This seminar addressesthose issues which underlie both of admirable Transatlantic studies andemerging Transpacific studies.
CFP: Fact & Fiction: An Anthology of Critical Articles on Australian Literary Studies (25/02/2007, Anthology)
Contributions are invited for an anthology of critical articles on Australian Literature aimed at B.A./M.A./M.Phil students and research scholars in India working in the field of Australian literature. The articles should be of 3000-5000 words and should engage with any one of the areas given below. The articles can be interdisciplinary in nature addressing these themes but keeping in mind that it is a literary anthology.
1. Australian Literary Studies in India
Overview
Challenges
Opportunities
CFP: Gertrude Stein, Authority, and the Patriarchy (1/19/07; journal =
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Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is seeking submissions for =
a special issue on Gertrude Stein, Authority, and the Patriarchy. =
Gertrude Stein's contemptuous disregard for patriarchal order and =
authority has long been a source of productive inquiry for women's =
studies, queer theory, and scholars of literary modernism. Her assertion =
that "there is too much fathering going on" and the recurring critiques =
of hierarchy and convention Stein strategically expresses through poetic =
form, language, and subject matter provide ready fodder for studies of =
cfp:The International Spread of Shakespeare: 01/31/2007; 06/24/2007
The Seventh Triennial Congress of the
Shakespeare Society ofr Southern Africa
June 24 - 27, 2007
wwww.ru.ac.za/institutes/isea/shake/conference
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg College)
John Gillies (University of Essex)
The William Carlos Williams Review is actively seeking submissions. We
invite essays of varying length (12-36 pages) on any aspect of the life
and work of William Carlos Williams, and on his relationship to the
artistic, philosophical, social, and political movements of his day.
New theoretical approaches to Williams's work are particularly
encouraged. Authors may submit manuscripts as Word files or in hard
copy to:
bryce.conrad_at_ttu.edu
Call for papers: World War I in America: Violence, Crime, Masculinity, Genre
I am looking for papers to include on a panel at the ³Space Between²
conference in Annapolis MD, June 7-10, 2007. See conference information at
the bottom of this email.
This panel will explore the relationship(s) between two things that are not
usually connected: World War I and the rise of crime, real and imagined, in
America. Papers might consider war's relationship to the actual rise of
violence in America in the 1920s and 30s, or to the burgeoning popularity of
crime fiction, gangster movies, and film noir. Did the war breed
criminality? Why? Are soldiers future ³criminals²? Or do they have a
Not Your Mother's Feminism
Seeking contributors for a collection on feminist generations, tentatively entitled, "Not Your Mother's Feminism." I am specifically interested in hearing from those women who feel under represented within the struggle(s) for definitional control over the terms of feminist debate taking place in both academic and popular discourse. Contributors will likely be women who are too young to be Second Wave, too old to be Third Wave, and perhaps too theoretically (and academically) oriented to feel entirely "post-feminist."
CALL FOR PAPERS
Pennsylvania College English Association (PCEA) Conference
April 12-14, 2007
Carriage House at Holiday Inn
West Chester, PA
PCEA invites proposals for panels or individual papers for the annual
conference to be held April 12-14, 2007 in West Chester, PA.
PATHS TO FREEDOM
Manuscripts from 5,000 to 10,000 words that reflect on August Wilson's
legacy and contribution to American culture are invited for a special
issue of College Literature. The editors—Cynthia Caywood and Carlton
Floyd of the University of San Diego and Marilyn Elkins of California
State University at Los Angeles—welcome contributions from all
disciplines that engage the full complexity of Wilson's work. We
encourage contributors to explore his work in a variety of ways: for
example, Wilson and history, Wilson and performance, performance
history, Wilson and women, Wilson and music, Wilson and folkways,
Wilson and place, Wilson and the migration narrative, Wilson and the
CALL FOR PAPERS:
CULTURES OF VIOLENCE
Graduate Student Conference
March 9 – 10, 2007
Hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature
University of California, Irvine
Website: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/complit/culturesofviolence/