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CFP: [18th] Sexual Transgressions (6/15/08; GEMCS, 11/20/08-11/23/08)

updated: 
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 4:16pm
Teresa Saxton

The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
November 20â€"23, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Conference Theme: "Appetite, Desire, and Gargantuan Pleasures"

I am seeking papers for the following panel:

Sexual Transgressions

This panel seeks papers that examine representations of sexual
transgressions in early modern art and literature. Of particular interest
are papers that examine lust, effeminacy, debauchery, sexual excess,
homoeroticism, sexual violence, and/or violations of sexual propriety.

CFP: [Renaissance] Sexual Transgressions (6/15/08; GEMCS, 11/20/08-11/23/08)

updated: 
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 4:16pm
Teresa Saxton

The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
November 20â€"23, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Conference Theme: "Appetite, Desire, and Gargantuan Pleasures"

I am seeking papers for the following panel:

Sexual Transgressions

This panel seeks papers that examine representations of sexual
transgressions in early modern art and literature. Of particular interest
are papers that examine lust, effeminacy, debauchery, sexual excess,
homoeroticism, sexual violence, and/or violations of sexual propriety.

CFP: [Romantic] Excess of the Imagination (6/15/08; GEMCS, 11/20/08-11/23/08)

updated: 
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 4:10pm
Misty Krueger

The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
November 20â€"23, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Conference Theme: "Appetite, Desire, and Gargantuan Pleasures"

I am seeking papers for the following panel:

Excess of the Imagination

CFP: [18th] Excess of the Imagination (6/15/08; GEMCS, 11/20/08-11/23/08)

updated: 
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 4:10pm
Misty Krueger

The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
November 20â€"23, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Conference Theme: "Appetite, Desire, and Gargantuan Pleasures"

I am seeking papers for the following panel:

Excess of the Imagination

CFP: [Gender Studies] Women Writing Space: Representations of Gender and Space in post-1850 British Womenâs Writing

updated: 
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 3:15pm
Arina Lungu

This one-day conference invites papers from a range of disciplines,
reflecting the scope of contemporary feminist interest in spatial
configurations. The conference will address the issue of “how British
women writers represent space”, considering questions such as, how do
women writers construct literary space? What types of spaces/places are
represented in works by women? How are received notions of space/place
interpreted, accepted, or contested? How do we theorise the textual
spaces in women’s writing?

We welcome papers covering British women’s writing over a period ranging
from the mid-19th century to the present. Topics may include, but are not
limited to:

CFP: [American] CFP: Lincoln's Era: The Role of Religion in the Underground Railroad (Cincinnati: Nov.6-8, 2008)

updated: 
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 1:19pm
Jana Evans Braziel

CALL FOR PAPERS
7th Annual National Conference on the Underground Railroad
 
Lincoln’s Era
The Role of Religion in the Underground Railroad
November 6-8, 2008 / Cincinnati, Ohio
 
Coinciding with the Lincoln Bicentennial and the opening of "Lincoln: The
Constitution and the Civil War" (exhibit created by the National
Constitution Center), the conference will explore the roles of religion
and people of faith working against the institution of slavery during the
1800s, as well as the provocative debate over Lincoln and racism. The
conference also foregrounds the roles of faith in the anti-slavery
movement with a special focus on Abraham Lincoln’s evolution and

UPDATE: [General] (Re)Connections: Bridging Boundaries and Creating Byways (EAPSU, 10/17-10/18/08)

updated: 
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 12:50pm
Curt Herr

EAPSU 2008
Call for Papers

(Re)Connections: Bridging Boundaries and Creating Byways

The 2008 EAPSU (English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities) Conference will be held
at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania October 17-18, 2008.

We invite proposals from faculty and graduate students for presentations, roundtable
discussions, and workshops that address attempts to decrease fragmentation, create
connections, and bridge together unique and creative themes in academic work and life in higher
education.

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