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Dear Colleagues,

The Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies, University of Kent =
at Canterbury, UK, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference: Medieval =
Children 1200-1500, on 17-18 June 2006. Keynote and featured speakers =
include Prof. Nicholas Orme (History, Exeter, UK), and Prof. Peter =
Beidler (English, Lehigh, US).

(Please help circulate this email.)

Dear Colleagues,

The Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies, University of Kent =
at Canterbury, UK, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference: Medieval =
Children 1200-1500, on 17-18 June 2006. Keynote and featured speakers =
include Prof. Nicholas Orme (History, Exeter, UK), and Prof. Peter =
Beidler (English, Lehigh, US).

Please note update: Keynote Speaker announced.

Panel sponsored by the Edith Wharton society

Physicality in Edith Wharton's Writing and Life

Papers on all aspects of physicality (eroticism, food, pain, pleasure,
addiction, smell, temperature etc.) are welcome.
Please send 300-400 word abstracts by January 5, 2006 to:

Prof. Hildegard Hoeller
Associate Professor of English
College of Staten Island--City University of New York
e-mail: hilhllr_at_aol.com
mail: 29 Gail Court, Staten Island NY 10306

American Comparative Literature Association Conference 2006 (Princeton
University, March 23-26)

Ecocriticism and its Postcolonial Futures
Seminar Organizer(s): George Handley, Brigham Young University; Elizabeth
DeLoughrey, Cornell University

CHARCOAL CANONS

Race and Faith in African American Literature

Call for Submissions

As chords of a song are composed of very specific notes that create a
recognizable sound to those who are familiar with music, so has most forms
of African American literature, even the most diametrically opposed works,
created similar "sounds" in their discourse on race and faith.

THE SOCIETE DES PROFESSEURS FRANÇAIS ET FRANCOPHONES D'AMERIQUE
                                                                    (SPFFA)

                            Announces its Eighth International Colloquium

                                  "Creation and Reality in the French Idiom
                                                                 and
                                    The Centennial of Léopold Sédar Senghor"