/Eighteenth-Century Fiction/, an international quarterly published in French and
English devoted to the critical and historical investigation of imaginative
prose of the period 1660-1832.

Call for Papers: “Modernism and Economics”

Panel proposal for the 9th Modernist Studies Association Conference in Long Beach, CA (November 1-4, 2007).

"Trauma and the American Revolution: Representing Rupture." This panel
will examine literary representations of the American Revolution from
the point of view of trauma and historical rupture. What is the
significance of those representations, which imagine the revolutionary
era in terms of absence, ambiguity, loss, and the crisis of identity?
One of our most famous tales involving the revolution, Washington
Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," for example, figures the war as a central
and productive absence in the text. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Legends of
the Province House contemplates the implications of the war in terms
that often evoke the reader's sympathy for those who under go what

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The First Biennial ASLE-UK Graduate Conference
‘Modern Environments: Contemporary Readings in Green Studies’

7-8 September 2007
The University of Glasgow

Papers are sought for a proposed panel on "The Utopianism of Kim
Stanley Robinson" to be delivered at the 32nd Annual Society for
Utopian Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 4-7, 2007.
Papers on any aspect of utopianism in Robinson's work will be
considered; examinations of his more recent work are particularly
encouraged. For more information about the Society for Utopian
Studies, including programs of past meetings, go to
http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/.

Electronic submissions preferred. Send abstracts or proposals of no
more than 250 words by April 20, 2007 to:

Performance and Spirituality:

The Journal of the Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality

CFP: "Delineating the Field": Submission Deadline, May 15, 2007.

(The Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality is an emerging
research center that operates in association with the Martin E. Segal Theatre
Center of The Graduate Center, of the City University of New York.)

Performance and Spirituality:

The Journal of the Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality

CFP: "Delineating the Field": Submission Deadline, May 15, 2007.

(The Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality is an emerging
research center that operates in association with the Martin E. Segal Theatre
Center of The Graduate Center, of the City University of New York.)