Call for Papers: "Comparative Literature: Open Topic" Panel at the 2006
SCMLA Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, October 26-28, 2006.

**Please send your paper or 500-word abstract to Marina Alexandrova at
maralex_at_mail.utexas.edu by March 15th, 2006.

//For more information please refer to the SCMLA official website:

http://www.ou.edu/scmla/FWRegAll.htm

Sincerely,

Marina Alexandrova,
University of Texas at Austin

ESSE 8 London 29 August - 2 September 2006=20

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Seminar Call for Papers:

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"The Writer, the Collection and the Museum"

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Call for Papers

CFP: "Religious Narrative and Post-Secularity"

NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Friday April 7 - Saturday April 8, 2006
Keynote Speaker: John Caputo (Syracuse)--"Beyond Sovereignty: The =20
Weakness of God and the Postmodern Situation"
Reading by Diane Glancy (Macalester College)
Website: http://web.utk.edu/~nexus/
Deadline for Submissions: February 10, 2006

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We are seeking creative and/or critical submissions for a panel on issues of transformation and space. This panel will
occur as part of the Association of English Graduate Students' 19th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, entitled "Trans--
: Negotiations and Resistance," to be held at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Possible papers might engage theories of space and/or specific spaces; literary or literal spaces; public or private
spaces; etc. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary papers, and papers that address the following questions:
How are spaces transformed? How do spaces transform? What are the benefits and/or limitations of thinking of space in
terms of transformation?

Proposals are still being accepted for the Northern California
Renaissance Conference, to be held on April 29,2006, at Mills College in
  Oakland, CA. We welcome papers on a broad variety of topics,
including literature, culture, art and music.

The keynote speaker will be Patricia Parker, professor of English and
Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Professor Parker is the
author of Inescapable Romance: Studies in the Poetics of a Mode;
Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property; and Shakespeare on the
the Margins; as well as co-editor of several essay collections,
including Women, Race and Writing in the Early Modern Period and
Shakespeare and the Question of Theory.

We are seeking creative and/or critical submissions for a panel on issues of transformation and space. This panel will
occur as part of the Association of English Graduate Students' 19th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, entitled "Trans--
: Negotiations and Resistance," to be held at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Possible papers might engage theories of space and/or specific spaces; literary or literal spaces; public or private
spaces; etc. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary papers, and papers that address the following questions:
How are spaces transformed? How do spaces transform? What are the benefits and/or limitations of thinking of space in
terms of transformation?

Dear all, please find below a CFP for a Children's Geographies (and
Children's Studies) conference at The University of Northampton in
September of this year.

Call for Papers

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CHILDREN'S GEOGRAPHIES

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7th and 8th September 2006

Centre for Children and Youth

The University of Northampton

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Convenors:

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Faith Tucker, John Horton, Peter Kraftl, Sarah Armstrong

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Themes:

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