Women’s Connection
College English Association National Conference
March 27-29, 2008
St. Louis, Missouri

CALL FOR PAPERS
NINETEENTH-CENTURY GENDER STUDIES
SUMMER 2008
SUBMISSION DATE: March 1, 2008

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is a peer-reviewed, online journal
committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender
studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture. The
journal is a collaborative effort that brings together advanced graduate
students and scholars from a variety of universities to create a unique
voice in the field. We endorse a broad definition of gender studies and
welcome submissions that consider gender and sexuality in conjunction
with race, class, place and nationality.

39th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 10-13, 2008
Buffalo, New York

Session at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference in
Buffalo, New York, April 10 - 13, 2008. Call for Papers.
TOPIC: The Image of the Prostitute in Film, Literature, Drama, and Popular
Culture Roundtable. Send abstracts to Ted Price, pricet_at_mail.montclair.edu
 and Vincenzo Bollettino bollettinov_at_mail.Montclair.edu Open to Graduate
Students too.
       Further elaboration of this panel: The Oldest Profession: The Whys
and Wherefores for the continued fascination of this subject in Literature,
Drama, & Film. For example: O'Neill's Anna Christie, Dostoyevsky's Crime
and Punishment & Notes from Underground,Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession,

Announcing
The Euro Pop Award
$200 Award for best Graduate paper on Europeann Popular Culture presented
at the 2008 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference.

Conference Dates: February 13-16, 2008

Send paper as Word Document to Jack Hutchens: jackhutchens_at_yahoo.com
Deadline for paper is November 30th.

Possible areas of study include film, music, literature, photography, folk
culture, art, comic books, parades, etc.

See http://www.h-net.org/~swpca for details on the conference.

In The House of Mirth, Lily Bart, while visiting Lawrence Selden's
apartment, declares "How delicious to have a place like this all to one's
self! What a miserable thing it is to be a woman." Here, Lily speaks to
the unwritten rule that women of her set cannot live alone. Although her
declaration is somewhat flippant, it speaks to her desire to have a space,
whether physical or metaphorical, of her own, a space where she can live
according to her own desires rather than following those of society. This
panel will explore the role of physical and metaphorical spaces in Edith
Wharton's novels. The panel will specifically address Wharton's female

This panel seeks to understand how Buddhism broadly defined works as a
method (for what?), as a set of cultural forms and traditions (for whom?),
or as an occasionally-fashionable meme useful to a multiplicity of purposes
in the United States. While the panel is open to a broad selection of
approaches and topics, submissions should consider these phenomena in the
context of cultural and social production in America.

General information about the conference can be found here:
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/

Please submit proposals of roughly 200 words by 15 November 2007 to Daniel
Gustav Anderson at dander5 at gmu.edu, or by snail mail to: