The William Dean Howells Society invites paper proposals that examine=20
Howells's relationships with women, broadly defined. Possible paper=20
topics may include Howells's own personal life, his fiction and=20
criticism, literary friendships, writings on marriage and sexuality, or=20
editorial work.=20

Please send by January 8, 2006 paper proposals no longer than 500 words=20
and copy of cv to Claudia Stokes at Claudia.stokes_at_trinity.edu or by=20
post to Claudia Stokes, Trinity University, Dept of English, 1 Trinity=20
Place, San Antonio, TX 78212.=20

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Dr. Claudia Stokes

Assistant Professor of English

What makes together? notes on the life of political collectivities
CASAZine #3: Borders, Markets, Movements

Through the work of listening to others, of hearing the force of their
pain and the energy of their anger, of learning to be surprised by all
that one feels oneself to be against; through all of this, a 'we' is
formed and an attachment is made.
-Sarah Ahmed

CALL FOR PAPERS: Responding to Molly in Irish Literature

For the South Central Modern Language Association Annual Conference
SCMLA Annual Conference, October 26th-28th, 2006
Radisson Plaza Hotel, October 26-28, 2006

Please note: the due date has been extended from Dec. 31st, 2005 to Jan.
15th, 2006. Also, please see our website at:
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cts233/friendship/index.html
NYU Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the deparments of Comparative Literature and German

Making Friendship: Bonds, Boundaries, Becomings
April 6-8, 2006