16th Annual ASEN Conference:=20

"Nations and their Pasts : Representing the Past, Building the Future"=20

28-29 March 2006, London School of Economics=20

CALL FOR PAPERS =20

SEND YOUR <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/conf_prop_2006.htm>
PROPOSAL ONLINE HERE

The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is
holding its 16th Annual Conference, entitled "Nations and their Pasts:
Representing the Past, Building the Future", on Tuesday and Wednesday,
March 28-29, 2006, at the London School of Economics.=20

CFP: Northern English Religious Writers Conference (abstract deadline =
12/1/05; conference dates 06/30/06-07/01/06)

This conference represents the first full-scale opportunity to examine =
the production and circulation of religious texts within the northern =
counties of England between 1100-1500. In recent years critical =
attention has focused on the role played by works by the Yorkshire =
hermit Richard Rolle (c. 1300-49) in revitalising lay spirituality. This =
interdisciplinary event widens the scope of the investigation to =
consider genres as diverse as drama and hagiography, which offer insight =
into religious devotion and practices in the region.

Call for Essays
Project Title: Queer Pop Culture

Call for Essays
Project Title: Queer Pop Culture

Comic Art & Comics Area
Popular Culture Association Conference, April 12-16, 2006
Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel - Atlanta, GA 30303, USA

The Comic Art & Comics Area of the PCA invites all comics scholars to
participate in the 2006 meeting of the Popular Culture Association and
American Culture Association. Details of the conference can be found
at the conference website: <http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~pcaaca>.

Divorce in Film

We are editing a book entitled After Intimacy: The Culture of Divorce in the
West since 1789, contracted for publication in 2006 and consisting of a
collection of commissioned essays from scholars in the US and the UK,
ranging across European and American literature and culture.

The Constance Fenimore Woolson Society invites submissions for its
panel "Trans-Atlantic Woolson" at the next Society for the Study of American
Women Writers conference, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, November 8-11, 2006.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Woolson's
international reception; her European fiction in American publications;
Woolson's travel literature in the context of US foreign policy; comparisons
with her contemporaries (like James or Wharton), perhaps regarding trans-
Atlantic concerns; Woolson and the fin-de-siecle; and Woolson in relation to
any timely European issue. Email proposals of no more than 300 words (within