CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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Re-Visioning the Culture Warsâ€"From Mapplethorpe to the Pelosi Agenda:
The Homo(n)e(u)rotic Politics of American Culture
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2008 Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association Annual
Conference
March 19-22, 2008
San Francisco , California
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The Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association will
hold their joint annual conference at the San Francisco Marriott between
March 19-22, 2008. The conference serves as an important site of
creative, intellectual, and cultural exchange and encourages a wide
variety of participants to stimulate dialogue across disciplines. The

    Buffalo State College is proud to announce the 2008 Postgraduate
(Graduate Student) Child and the Book Conference in Buffalo, New York,
16th Mayâ€"18th May 2008. We are looking for proposals from graduate/
postgraduate students for twenty minute papers. Although papers will be
accepted for consideration on any aspect of children’s literature, the
main focus and theme of the conference is Social Justice and Children’s
Literature. We hope to publish the best of the conference papers from
each of the social justice categories below in a special issue of the
Lion and the Unicorn on Children’s Literature and Social Justice. If you

Challenging Faith: Intersections of Belief and Doubt in Literature,
Composition, and the Profession
A graduate conference hosted by the University of New Hampshire English
Graduate Organization
March 7-8, 2008
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, US

Keynote speakers TBA

        This graduate conference will explore the topic of faith
(understood in its broadest sense), how that topic has evolved, and how
it is being discussed within the disciplines of English. We seek to cover
the following areas of inquiry, though these questions are intended to
spur and not limit thinking on the subject of faith:

Boca~the South Florida Graduate Student Journal of Linguistics is now
accepting papers for their Spring 2008 issue.
 
GUIDELINES:

· Submissions are due November 18, 2007.

· The 2008 Spring Publication will have a thematic focus of Bilingualism
and Culture.

· Topics which address this issue, from any linguistic (or related)
subfield, will be considered.

· Papers may be submitted in any language, so long as we are able to
secure an appropriate reviewer.

· Submissions should be no more than 25 pages, or approximately 7,000
words, and should follow the most recent APA guidelines.

· A separate title page should include the author's name and address.

The Popular Culture and American Culture Associations (PCA/ACA) will hold a joint national meeting
in San Francisco on March 19-22, 2008.

Panels and individual papers on aspects of Chicana and Chicano culture are encouraged for our
2008 meeting. The “Chicana/Chicano Culture: Literature, Film, Theory” area tends to be
multicultural and interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary, and panels and individual papers may explore
pracically any issues relevant to Chicana and Chicano cultural studies. Inquiries are welcome.

Please send inquiries or (approximately 100-word) proposals BY NOVEMBER 9 to Scott Baugh, area
chair.

Susquehanna University invites undergraduate scholars and writers to
participate in “Imagination-Self-Other,” its fourth annual Undergraduate
Literature and Creative Writing Conference.

“Imagination-Self-Other” welcomes creative and/or critical engagement with
issues that include but are not limited to the following:

* Imagining difference
* Imagination and liberation
* Imagining race, class, gender, sexuality
* Borderlands of self and other
* The failure of imagination
* Imagination and intersectionality
* Literary representations of self/other
* Genres of the self: Lyric, memoir, biography
* Identity, nation, globalization
* Imagination and subjectivity