Essays about place

Call for proposals
for the 38th annual meeting of the
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature

Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars, Creative Writers, and
Filmmakers
May 8-10, 2008
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Scott Russell Sanders has written recently, “We’re likely to flood, pave,
poison, or otherwise abuse land if we think of it merely as property or as
raw material for human designs. To think of land more intimately, more
reverently, we need the help of art.”

The Apothecary's Chest: Magic, Art & Medication
24th November 2007
University of Glasgow, UK
Deadline for Papers: 31 August 2007

This one-day symposium aims at bringing together experienced academics and
postgraduate students to discuss the evolution of the notions of mysticism,
knowledge and superstition in the way they are intertwined in both science
and literary imagination in the figure of healers such as the apothecary,
the alchemist, the shaman.

The website for the "Stanley Cavell and Literary Criticism" conference,
to be held in Edinburgh on May 9-11 2008, is now up and running. The link
is as follows: http://www.lifelong.ed.ac.uk/stanleycavell/index.htm

Andrew Taylor
English Literature
University of Edinburgh

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The Idea of America in Nineteenth-Century British Culture, 1776-1914

The Institute of English Studies, University of London 27th-28th June 2008

With the support of the Centre for Victorian Studies, Royal Holloway,
University of London and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies,
Birkbeck College, University of London

Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Tim Barringer, Kate Flint, John Mee, Clare Pettitt and Mark Philp

Call for Papers

The fifteenth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take
place March 6-8 2008 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites one-page abstracts of
proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art,
and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly
appropriate to the conference’s broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are
welcome.

Kalamazoo '08 Session: Revisiting the Seven Deadly Sins

The recent interest in affect across literary studies, and especially in
the political recuperation of “ugly feelings,” calls for a
reconsideration of medieval theorizations of the sins, and for attention
to be paid to the way that medieval discourses have shaped our ideas
about emotion, sin, and virtue. This session will ideally focus on a
variety of medieval discoursesâ€"theological, philosophical, legal,
penitential, mystical, poeticâ€"that use sin as a way of thinking through
ethical and formal problems.