twentieth century and beyond

Graduate student conference panel--please distribute.

As part of the second annual graduate student conference—"Natural and
National Crises: The Shifting Sands of the Literary"-- being held at the
English department of l'Université de Montréal, on May 12-13th, 2006, this
panel is being organized around one of the effects that the nation itself is
in crisis.

The Wretched Earth: From Monkeywrenching to Green Consumption, Tactics and
Rhetoric in the Environmental Movement.

Call for Journal Submissions

RiLUNe - Review of Literatures of the European Union=20
RiLUnE (http://www.rilune.org) is a refereed, bilingual journal =
publishing scholarly articles which examine the development of a =
European cultural and literary conscience.

For its 4th monographic issue, we are now calling for articles on the =
topic "Traduzione Tradizione? Paths in the European Literary =
Polysystem". Articles can be in any of the following languages of the =
European Union: French, German, English, Italian and Spanish.

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Deadline for abstracts (500 words): March 31, 2006
Deadline for articles: June 15, 2006

1968: Global Resistance and Local Knowledge
Graduate Student Conference

Modern History and Literature Program, Casperson School of Graduate Studies
Drew University, Madison New Jersey
November 3-4, 2006
Email: 68hist_at_drew.edu
Website: http://groups.drew.edu/68hist

Topic announced:

George Bernard Shaw at 150: Theater, Criticism, Contemporanity

Call for Journal Submissions

RiLUNe - Review of Literatures of the European Union
RiLUnE (http://www.rilune.org) is a refereed bilingual journal publishing scholarly articles which examine the development of a European cultural and literary conscience.

For its 5th monographic issue, we are now calling for articles on the topic "Digital Literatures in Europe: State of the Art". Articles can be in any of the following languages of the European Union: French, German, English, Italian and Spanish.

Deadline for abstracts (500 words): March 31, 2006
Deadline for articles: June 15, 2006

Digital Literatures in Europe: State of the Art

The English V section (20th Century) at SAMLA seeks papers on=20
"Multicultural Britain."

The UK in the past hundred years has become an increasingly=20
multicultural society: how has this caused us to read Britishness=20
differently? Topics for papers in this panel might include but are not=20=

limited to:

The literature of Black Britain
Multiculturalism and governmental devolution
Multiculturalism, Britain, and the =91new Europe=92
Imperial hangover
Britain as an island in the Black Atlantic
The Irish in Britain
=91British=92 versus =91English=92 cultural identity
Scottish and Welsh writing
The British literary canon and the politics of anthologies

Proposals, abstracts and papers in Religion and Popular Culture are asked
for Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/Ameerican Culture Association Oct. 27-28 2006.
Particularly interested in papers on Mel Gibson's The Passion, the Left Behind
Series by Tim LaHaye, and the conservative religious critique of modern
culture as well as responses to that critique. Contact Richard Currie at
RCu8598882_at_aol.com or currie @postbox. csi. cuny. edu.

1st Annual Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies Conference:
Shifting Gender Identities in the Face of War, Globalization, and
Natural Disaster
March 30-31, 2006
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA

Call for Proposals

The 2006 GCWS conference is an event organized by graduate students for
graduate students working in the field of Women's and Gender Studies. It
is a 2-day event where students and faculty will gather to present and
discuss cutting-edge student work, workshop ideas, and network to share
skills and resources and build community. We are currently
inviting proposals
for three presentation formats: Individual Paper, Pre-Formed Panel, and
Poster Session.

Popular Culture Section:
The Accidental Detective/Detection by Accident

***Please note that we have extended the submission deadline to
January 31, 2006****

The 8th Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group
?Spaces of Dissent: The Borders of Transnational Dreams?
Keynote Speakers: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Peter Hitchcock
March 30-April 1, 2006 at the University of Florida

CFP: "POSTMODERNISM AND NARRATOLOGY" (1 March; 27-30 December 2006)

Proposed Special Session for the 2006 MLA Convention in Philadelphia,
December 27-30, 2006=20

This proposed panel deals with the impressive range of odd strategies of =
narration and the deconstruction of traditional story parameters in =
postmodernist fiction. Proposals for papers by 1 March to: =
Greta.Olson_at_anglistik.uni-freiburg.de

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Bitte beachten Sie meine neue Email Adresse: greta.olson_at_gmx.net=20
Please make note of my new email address: greta.olson_at_gmx.net

Dr. Greta Olson=20
Tel.: ++49-761-26080
Fax: ++49-761-2922536

Note: The updated deadline for submissions is January 20, 2006.=20

The Katherine Anne Porter Society, a member society of the American =
Literature Association, issues a call for papers for a session at the =
ALA 2006 conference in San Francisco, CA. Entitled "Katherine Anne =
Porter and the Artist," the session will consider the variety of ways =
that Porter explored the role of the artist in her fiction and =
non-fiction. Possible subjects include, but are not limited to, Porter's =
artist figures, Porter's literary criticism, Porter's reflections on the =
creative process, and Porter's aesthetics.=20

CFP: Art Objects and Women's Words: Women's Ekphrastic Writing (3/1/06; MLA '06, 12/27/06-12/30/06)

Call For Papers for a proposed Special Session

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Annual meeting December 27-30, 2006, in Philadelphia

Art Objects and Women's Words: Women's Ekphrastic Writing

This goal of this panel is to explore how female authors have produced verbal representations of visual representations.