Journal of Victorian Culture

Graduate Student Essay Prize

Call for Papers for a Collection of Essays on
"AMITAV GHOSH: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES"

Deadline: 15 April, 2007

Cormac McCarthy's Imaginative Return To The South – Hosted By The English
Department At The University Of Tennessee, Knoxville.

 Conference Dates – April 25th –April 28th 2007

Cormac McCarthy is one of the major authors of contemporary Southern and
American literature. After twenty years of novels set in the southwest
borderlands, McCarthy has revisited the Appalachian setting of his first four
novels in his new work The Road. In response, this conference will reconsider
the relationship of the McCarthy canon to the contemporary Southern and
American literary tradition. Please note that the conference will be held at
the UT conference center in downtown Knoxville.

Deadline for abstracts: April 15.

Religion and Literature, Midwest Modern Language Association: Spiritual
Anarchists and Sacred Troublemakers

CFP: Teaching Literature Through Travel/Study Abroad (2/15/07; RMMLA =20
10/4-6/07)

Teaching Literature through Travel or Study Abroad Courses

Call for Papers:
“Leisure and the making of knowledge in 18th-century Europe”
31 October â€" 2 November 2007, University of Hamburg, Germany
http://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/berichte03_06/AGWL.html

“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”
Samuel Johnson “Rambler” 177 (November 26, 1751)

6th Global Conference
Violence, Contexts and the Construction of Enemies

Wednesday 2nd May - Saturday 5th May 2007
Budapest, Hungary

Call for Papers