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CFP: [Rhetoric-Composition] 2008 Annual Conference of the SUNY Council on Writing

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Monday, December 17, 2007 - 7:02pm
cathleen rowley

 

Inevitable Intersections: Writing at the Crossroads of Public and Private
Discourse in the 21st Century
 
2008 Annual Conference of the SUNY Council on Writing
April 25-26, 2008

Stony Brook University

 Keynote Speaker, Sondra Perl, Professor of English, Lehman College, CUNY
Graduate Center
Guest Workshop Leader, Sheridan Blau, Professor, Teachers’ College,
Columbia University

UPDATE: [Children] Wind in the Willows

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Monday, December 17, 2007 - 7:01pm
Donna Rae White

Extended deadline: January 31, 2008

In honor of the 100th anniversary of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the
Willows, Jackie C. Horne and Donna R. White are soliciting essays for a
proposed volume in the Children’s Literature Association’s Centennial
Studies Series. The series seeks to reexamine children’s classics from a
contemporary perspective. All critical and theoretical approaches are
welcome. Possible topics include the following:

CFP: [Professional] The End of Creative Writing?

updated: 
Monday, December 17, 2007 - 2:02pm
Dr David Kennedy

CALL FOR PAPERS

The End of Creative Writing?
Challenges and Contexts for the XXIst Century
12th-14th September 2008

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Michelene Wandor
author of The Author Is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing
Reconceived

AND

Professor Graeme Harper, University of Bangor

The Department of English at the University of Hull (UK) invites
submissions for a three-day conference on the teaching of creative writing
on 12th-14th September 2008.

UPDATE: [American] Dreiser at ALA

updated: 
Monday, December 17, 2007 - 1:25pm
Roark Mulligan

The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two sessions at the
American Literature Association 19th Annual Conference, May 22-25, 2008, in
San Francisco. Papers on all aspects of Dreiser's writing and related
topics are welcome.
 
Please submit proposals or papers via e-mail before January 14, 2008, to
the vice president and program chair of the Dreiser Society:
 
Roark Mulligan
International Dreiser Society
105 N. Sulgrave Ct.
Williamsburg, VA 23185
757-229-3697
mulligan_at_cnu.edu
 
Audio-visual equipment: The ALA will normally provide the following: slide
projectors and screens, vcr-dvd equipment, cd or cassette tape players, and

CFP: [20th] Science fiction and fantasy papers

updated: 
Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 8:19pm
Joe R. Christopher

The Science Fiction and Fantasy session of the South Central Modern
Language Association will be held in San Antonio, Texas, during the
convention dates of November 6-8, 2008. Papers should have a reading
time of no more than twenty minutes (i.e., about ten pages double-
spaced). Papers or abstracts should be submitted to me, as chair, by
March 14, 2008. My deadline for submitting a program to the SCMLA office
is April 4, so I will reply with all acceptances and rejections about
that date. The program can hold four papers. (The number of proposals
has varied greatly in recent years, but usually no more than ten come in--
and certainly sometimes less.) No theme or assigned approach is required

CFP: [General] Violence and Representation

updated: 
Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 7:29pm
Beverly Voloshin

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)Conference

7-8 November 2008

Hosted by Pomona College, Claremont, CA

CFP: [Film] The Intrusion of Technology (5/1/08; 10/30-11/2/08)

updated: 
Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 3:33am
Cynthia Miller

Call for Papers
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY â€" THE INTRUSION OF TECHNOLOGY Area
2008 Film & History Conference
“Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond”
October 30-November 2, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
Second-Round Deadline: May 1, 2008

AREA: The Gods Must Be Crazy â€" The Intrusion of Technology

CFP: [American] Raymond Carver Sessions 2008 ALA 22/05/2008-25/05/2008

updated: 
Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 11:17pm
Sandra Lee Kleppe

The International Raymond Carver Society is sponsoring two sessions at the
2008 ALA conference in San Francisco, May 22-25.

Round Table Session: "Raymond Carver's Life: Does It Matter?"
Panel: "Raymond Carver and the Aesthetic of the Quotidian."

For more information and instructions on how to submit a proposal, please
consult our website and click on the Call for Papers button:

www.internationalraymondcarversociety.org

Final deadline for submissions:

UPDATE: [American] ALA: Edgar A. Poe panels

updated: 
Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 9:15pm
Susan Amper

Perplexed by Poe

>From puzzles and contradictions to literary disguise to outright hoaxing,
Poe's work relentlessly frustrates our effort to read it. Abstracts are
solicited for 15-20 minute papers examining instances and aspects of the
puzzling across the range of Poe's work. Panel sponsored by the Poe
Studies Association at the 2008 American Literature Association
Conference in San Francisco, May 22-25.
Please send 250 word abstracts and brief C.V. by to Susan Amper at
susanamper_at_yahoo.com or susan.amper_at_bcc.cuny by January 10, 2008

Poe and the Middle East

UPDATE: [Postcolonial] NEXUS: Collected and Collective Identities

updated: 
Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 7:11pm
Teresa Saxton

CALL FOR PAPERS: NEW DEADLINE
Collected and Collective Identities
A NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Friday 28 - Saturday March 29, 2008
Website: http://web.utk.edu/~nexus/

Keynote Speaker: Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University)
Creative Speaker: Shelley Jackson (www.ineradicablestain.com)

Deadlines for Submission: UPDATED January 15, 2008

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] NEXUS: Collected and Collective Identities

updated: 
Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 7:10pm
Teresa Saxton

CALL FOR PAPERS: NEW DEADLINE
Collected and Collective Identities
A NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Friday 28 - Saturday March 29, 2008
Website: http://web.utk.edu/~nexus/

Keynote Speaker: Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University)
Creative Speaker: Shelley Jackson (www.ineradicablestain.com)

Deadlines for Submission: UPDATED January 15, 2008

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