The Sidney Society will sponsor three open sessions on Philip Sidney and his Circle at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan). The conference website is here: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/

May 13-16, 2010

Abstracts are invited on any subject dealing with Philip Sidney and his circle. As ever, we encourage proposals from newcomers as well as established scholars.

Papers should be limited to twenty minutes in reading time. Please do not submit an abstract to two different sessions of the conference in the same year.

The notion of "state-sponsored literatures" carries with it the inevitable suggestion that political control limits creativity and hence lowers literary quality. Without denying that this has been often the case, a panel at AAS 2010 is being organized to explore the limits of this thesis in modern China. Papers are expected to focus on how state-literati relations from the late Qing through the present have resulted in both conformity and innovation, through re-imaginings of the proper relationship between literature and society. Those interested in presenting a paper should contact Daniel Fried, dfried@ualberta.ca

SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN, a quarterly academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and early modern drama in performance, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, is currently scheduling theatre reviews for issues in 2010 and 2011. Please contact the theatre review editor Jeremy Lopez (associate professor, Department of English, University of Toronto) for scheduling and submission guidelines: jeremy.lopez@utoronto.ca. For further information about the journal see also http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/shakespeare_bulletin/book_reviews.html.

The Fall 2010 issue of ANQ: American Notes and Queries will treat the topic of Women Devotional Writers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Notes and short articles (5,000 words max.) are invited that address sources and allusions, that report newly discovered manuscript texts or offer print text emendations, or that analyze fluctuations in literary reputation. Guest editors: Kate Narveson (Luther College) and Anne Lake Prescott (Barnard College). Deadline for submission: May 15, 2010.

The Spring 2011 issue of ANQ: American Notes and Queries will address the question of James Baldwin's influence on American letters. Submissions (5,000 words max.) are invited that identify or clarify instances of Baldwin's own indebtedness; that present tighly focused, historically based interpretations of his texts; or that document Baldwin's influence upon the texts of other writers. Deadline for submission: Nov. 15, 2010

This conference, organised jointly by Lucy Cavendish College and Anglia Ruskin University, is aimed at all those with an interest in Heyer's historical novels, whether academics or general readers. It will include formal papers and more informal discussion sessions. We would welcome papers on any aspect of Heyer's historical novels. Possible topics might include:

- her sources and influences
- theoretical approaches to her works
- her critical and popular reception
- gender, sexuality and class
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Proposals for 20 minute papers should be sent to sarah.brown@anglia.ac.uk by 15 July 2009.

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IEEE MENS 2009

International Workshop on Management of
Emerging Networks and Services

12-14 October 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia

http://www.iet.ntnu.no/workshop/mens2009/