All travel and registration links on our website have now been updated for
2007.

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http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html

New Areas Added.

Still Accepting Proposals for Chick Lit. Panel

Proposal Deadline: November 15, 2006

Call For Papers: "Chick Lit." Area

Abstract/Proposals by 15 November 2006

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 28th Annual
Conference

Albuquerque, NM February 14-17, 2007

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque

330 Tijeras

Albuquerque, NM 87102

Changing the Nation: Günter Grass in International Perspective

An International Conference at the University of Liverpool, UK
5-7 September 2007

Confirmed speakers: Avi Primor (Israeli Ambassador to the FRG, 1993-99) Patrick
O'Neill (Queen's, Canada), Krishna Winston (Wesleyan, US) Michael Minden
(Cambridge, UK), Julian Preece (Kent, UK), Karen Leeder (Oxford, UK), Volker
Neuhaus (Cologne, Germany)

CFP: LATINO/A FOCUS GROUP DEBUT PANEL
The Latino/a Focus Group of the Association
for Theatre in Higher Education
(ATHE) invites submissions for its competitively selected Debut
Panel from
scholars who have not yet published articles or presented at
a national
conference. The postmark deadline for submissions is February 1, 2007.
Papers should be an appropriate length for a fifteen-minute presentation
(typically about eight pages) and address Latino/a American or Latin
American subject matter. Transnational, comparative, and diasporic
approaches are welcome.

CFP: LATINO/A FOCUS GROUP DEBUT PANEL
The Latino/a Focus Group of the Association
for Theatre in Higher Education
(ATHE) invites submissions for its competitively selected Debut
Panel from
scholars who have not yet published articles or presented at
a national
conference. The postmark deadline for submissions is February 1, 2007.
Papers should be an appropriate length for a fifteen-minute presentation
(typically about eight pages) and address Latino/a American or Latin
American subject matter. Transnational, comparative, and diasporic
approaches are welcome.

Call for Papers

International Conference:
"Palestine and the First World War - New Perspectives"

The Tel-Hai Academic College in Upper Galilee, Israel, is planning an
international academic conference to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the
Palestine Campaign during the First World War and the British occupation of
Jerusalem in 1917. The conference will be held on 3-6 September 2007 at the
college's campus at Tel-Hai. Official languages: English and Hebrew with
simultaneous translation.

The Feeding Tube: Watching What We Eat on TV

Mourning & its Hospitalities | (after …)
a three-day international conference at the University of Queensland,
Australia
July 18-20 2007

followed by
Hospitalities of Literature | (teaching after ...)
a one-day symposium on teaching
July 21 2007

Plenary speakers include:

* J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Professor of English, Department of
English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine
* Derek Attridge, Professor of English, Department of English and
Related Literatures, University of York