Papers (15-20 minutes) are invited for the Film and Literature session of
the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association annual conference,
meeting Nov 2-3, 2007 at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA.
Papers in all areas are welcome, but especially those with an emphasis on
gender and sexuality and/or the reception of ancient cultures on screen.
Send a 500 word proposal (double spaced) and a 50-word abstract to Ruby
Blondell (blondell_at_u.washington.edu) by March 15, 2007. Inquiries are
welcome.

The Midwest Modern Language Association is soliciting essay submissions for
the Fall 2007 issue of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language
Association. The topic for this issue will be "High & Low / Culture." The
deadline for submissions is March 31, 2007.

To ensure that the Journal is accessible to the broad membership, essays
should be written in English and, when text in other language is quoted,
translations in English should be provided. Submissions should not exceed
8,000 words.

Possible topics might include:

The Society for Textual Scholarship (www.textual.org) is organizing the
following panel at the 2007 MLA Convention in Chicago:

ARCHIVE TROUBLE
The archive (broadly conceived, specifically rendered) as a site of
loss, overspill, forgery, chaos, and anxiety -- in any period -- and the
consequences for scholarship, editing, cultural practice, and textual
theory. Email proposals to Andrew Stauffer (astauff_at_bu.edu) by March 6.

Andrew Stauffer
Department of English
Boston University

Call for Contributors
About Raymond Williams: Critical Perspectives
Arising from a recent successful conference in Vienna (for further =20
information please visit http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/AAUTEweb/) =20=

dealing with the life, the work and the reception of the work of =20
Raymond Williams, several publishers have expressed an interest in =20
publishing a new collection of essays on this highly influential =20
British critic, author and teacher. In finalising our proposal, the =20
editors (Lawrence Grossberg, Roman Horak and Monika Seidl) would like =20=

Call for Contributors
About Raymond Williams: Critical Perspectives
Arising from a recent successful conference in Vienna (for further =20
information please visit http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/AAUTEweb/) =20=

dealing with the life, the work and the reception of the work of =20
Raymond Williams, several publishers have expressed an interest in =20
publishing a new collection of essays on this highly influential =20
British critic, author and teacher. In finalising our proposal, the =20
editors (Lawrence Grossberg, Roman Horak and Monika Seidl) would like =20=

Call for Papers

2007 ALSC Conference, Chicago, IL, October 12-14, 2006