Call for Papers

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Title: Textuality and Terror

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How may we define this broad term, "terror", beyond the direct =
experience of extreme fear? As a term in itself, how has it evolved to =
contemporary usage, and what are its limits? Is it best defined =
dialectically in relation to a nation or element of authority? Or is it =
characterized by a lack of apparent structure, which threatens the =
possibility of structuration itself? What is the relation of terror to =
political order, or does it necessarily have to be related? How can =
terror change the significance of a place (i.e. "ground zero" and Iraq) =
and what are the implications of this change? =20

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Call for Papers

=20

Title: Textuality and Terror

=20

How may we define this broad term, "terror", beyond the direct =
experience of extreme fear? As a term in itself, how has it evolved to =
contemporary usage, and what are its limits? Is it best defined =
dialectically in relation to a nation or element of authority? Or is it =
characterized by a lack of apparent structure, which threatens the =
possibility of structuration itself? What is the relation of terror to =
political order, or does it necessarily have to be related? How can =
terror change the significance of a place (i.e. "ground zero" and Iraq) =
and what are the implications of this change? =20

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Proposed Session for the 2007 MLA: Sponsored by the Committee on
Teaching as a Profession

Topic: The Undergraduate Student as Scholar

How is research effectively integrated into undergraduate capstone
courses/upper-level seminars? What are ways to envision undergrads
as scholars? How can upper-level courses be structured/reconceived
to create students who are scholars?

Abstracts of 250 words to Laura Behling at lbehling_at_gustavus.edu by
March 9, 2007. Please note that presenters must be current MLA members.

Laura L. Behling, Ph.D.
Department of English
Gustavus Adolphus College
800 W. College Avenue
St. Peter, MN 56082
(507) 933-6090
Fax: 507-933-6066

CFP: Panel Session Association of Business Communication MLA 2007

ABC will sponsor two panels at MLA on Business, Professional & Technical Communication (Chicago, December 26-30, 2007)

We seek panel session proposals on any aspect of this field, including connection with linguistics, cultural studies, and literature. 1-2 page abstracts and CV should be emailed no later than March 05, 2007 to Katherine Wills (kwills_at_iupui.edu). We are amenable to a wide scope of proposal topics, especially those with interdisciplinary perspectives such as business and literacy, professional writing and pedagogy, training of graduate students in business writing, technology and international business.

CFP: 2007 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
Cleveland, Ohio, November 8-11, 2007

Poetry & Popular Culture

First call for papers

Feast! An interdisciplinary conference on food in text and image

To be held by the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative
Industries, University of Wales, Bangor, 24-25 November 2007

Proposals are welcome for papers which focus on the use of food in both
text and image, whether that be in manuscript, book, film or media/new
media form.

Please send titles and abstracts of no more than 500 words by 1st June
2007 to Dr. Samantha Rayner, NIECI, University of Wales, Bangor,
Gwynedd, LL57 2DG, UK. Email: s.rayner_at_bangor.ac.uk.

First call for papers

Feast! An interdisciplinary conference on food in text and image

To be held by the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative
Industries, University of Wales, Bangor, 24-25 November 2007

Proposals are welcome for papers which focus on the use of food in both
text and image, whether that be in manuscript, book, film or media/new
media form.

Please send titles and abstracts of no more than 500 words by 1st June
2007 to Dr. Samantha Rayner, NIECI, University of Wales, Bangor,
Gwynedd, LL57 2DG, UK. Email: s.rayner_at_bangor.ac.uk.