This call is for the Irish literature panel affiliated with the annual
South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference to be held November
6-8, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia.

This session seeks to explore the ways in which death, dying, or the denial
of death show up in modern to contemporary Irish literature. Papers may
include studies of the practices of and attitudes toward death and/or
memorialization, the link that exists between living and dying, the
contradictions and paradoxes that exist in attitudes towards death, the
ways in which the finality of death is denied, avoided, or confronted in
life, etc.

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference
November 6-7, 2009
San Francisco State University, California

Seeking papers on any aspect of English literature and culture since 1700.
 Open to a variety of topics and theoretical approaches.

Please submit 500-word proposals and 50-word abstracts by March 15, 2009,
at the following site:
http://www.pamla.org/2009/proposals

For more information about PAMLA and the conference please visit
http://www.pamla.org. Questions about the panel may be addressed to
Heather Wozniak, hwoz_at_ucla.edu.

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference
November 6-7, 2009
San Francisco State University, California

Seeking papers on any aspect of English literature and culture since 1700.
 Open to a variety of topics and theoretical approaches.

Please submit 500-word proposals and 50-word abstracts by March 15, 2009,
at the following site:
http://www.pamla.org/2009/proposals

For more information about PAMLA and the conference please visit
http://www.pamla.org. Questions about the panel may be addressed to
Heather Wozniak, hwoz_at_ucla.edu.

International Virginia Woolf Society Call for Papers for the 2009 MLA Convention, Philadelphia, Dec.
27-30.
 "Twenty-First Century Woolf." Papers on Woolf's continued relevance in and for the new century;
topics might include transnationalism, new feminisms, the current war(s), emerging commercial
strategies, blogs and the common reader, etc. Submit 300-500 word abstract by March 15, 2009
to Elizabeth Outka at eoutka_at_richmond.edu, using the subject line "Woolf MLA panel."

Memories of War: Representations of Military Violence and Its Consequences
in Literature, Film and Popular Culture

A conference organized jointly by the Polish Institute and the English
Institute of the University of GdaÅ"sk, Poland

17-19 September 2009 in GdaÅ"sk, Poland

Call for Papers:
Marxism East and West

Proposed Special Session Panel
MLA Convention, Dec. 27-30, 2009
Philadelphia, PA

Call for Papers:
Marxism East and West

Proposed Special Session Panel
MLA Convention, Dec. 27-30, 2009
Philadelphia, PA