gender studies and sexuality

Dear ARM Members and Friends,

ARM's 9th annual conference on "Mothering, Race, Culture, Ethnicity and
Class" featured a full day on Aboriginal Mothering. Truly a first! ARM
Press will be publishing a book on this topic, developed from the
conference.

The book will be edited by Jeanette Corbiere Lavell and Dawn Memee
Lavell-Harvard. (Bios included below)

We are still seeking chapters for this book, particularly in the area of
literature, popular culture, and history. As well, we are particularly
interested
in receiving submissions from perspectives other than 'North American."

(Re)Markable Identities: Confronting, Corrupting, and Conflating Cultural
Discourses
February 24-26, 2006
Arizona State University œ Tempe, Arizona

Queering the Modern:

Please join us for the 60th Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Association to be held in Tucson, Arizona on October
12-14, 2006. This year's Women's Caucus Seminar theme is "Earth, Wind,
Water and Fire: Representations of Gender and Natural Elements in
Literature and Film."

Proposals for 15-minute papers are sought from scholars working in all
areas of literature, film, and gender studies. In keeping with this
year's theme, we welcome studies related to how gender is represented or
understood in connection with the natural world and how such
representations help create or shape individual, class, racial and
ethnic identities or mythologies.

12th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature McGill University,
Montreal
Theme: Permeability and Selfhood
March 11-12, 2006

This call for papers is for a panel to be held at Permeability and Selfhood,
the McGill Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, which will take
place March 11-12 at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Please email paper abstracts of approximately 300 words.

You can direct submissions to melissa.fink_at_mail.mcgill.ca by January 5, 2006.

Thanks for your interest, please let me know if you have any questions.

Melissa Fink
(Panel Chair)

Narrating Gender: Representation and Identity Formation in Contemporary
Autobiography

Trans-- : Negotiations and Resistance

Association of English Graduate Students
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
19th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
April 7 - 8, 2006
Keynote speakers TBA

Call for Papers

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'Wild Irish Girls': A bicentenary conference to mark the publication of =
Sydney Owenson's (Lady Morgan) The Wild Irish Girl and Maria Edgeworth's =
Leonora

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Keynote speakers: James Chandler (University of Chicago) and Claire =
Connolly (Cardiff University)

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A previous call for participants in a roundtable discussion of Contemporary Lesbian Fiction has been broadened in scope to include poetry & drama. The revised call is below.

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Updated Schedule for Plenary Speakers:

Eavan Boland (Thursday February 23, 2006 5:30 p.m.)

Vona Groarke (Friday February 24, 2006 4:30 p.m.)

Margot Backus (TBA)

Conor O'Callaghan (TBA)

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DEADLINE FOR CFP: November 15, 2005

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IRISH STUDIES: GEOGRAPHIES AND GENDERS

American Conference for Irish Studies

2006 Southern Regional Conference

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

February 23-26, 2006

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The Second Annual
Engendering Diversity and Community:
a conference that brings together scholars, activists and community members
to address issues relating to women, gender, and sexuality in all fields.

March 30-31, 2006
University of La Verne

CALL FOR PAPERS

Please submit 250-word proposals for papers, workshops, panels,
roundtable discussions and performances by February 14, 2006 to:

wgss_at_ulv.edu
or
WGSS Conference Committee
c/o Dr. Ann Hills
Miller Hall 203
University of La Verne
1950 Third Street
La Verne, CA. 91750

CALL FOR PAPERS

Michigan Feminist Studies seeks submissions for its 2005-2006 issue: Bodies:
Physical & Abstract

Deadline updated:

Paper proposals are invited for the following seminar at the 2006
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference in
Princeton, NJ:

"Ghosts, Gender, History"

  Seminar Organizer: Sladja Blazan, Humboldt University (Berlin)

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separation of past and present. Some cultures integrate the ghost=20
figure into the present in order to provide a sense of continuity. In=20
literature and film the ghost motif has been directly associated with=20
particular cultural meanings, but has also been used as a plot element=20=

                **extension deadline - November 20th!**

                        "Mothering and Feminism"
                    Call for Papers for ARM Vol. 8.1

**please note we are NOT accepting any more creative submissions for
this issue, please send creative submissions for Vol. 8.2 - "Young
Mothers" by May 1. 2006***

Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing Texts

The Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton is seeking
papers for our 2006 conference to be held February 17th and 18th,
2006. We are interested papers/presentations for the following
suggested panel:

Paper proposals are invited for the following seminar at the 2006
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference in
Princeton, NJ:

"Ghosts, Gender, History"

  Seminar Organizer: Sladja Blazan, Humboldt University (Berlin)

In most cultures the figure of the ghost stands for a forceful=20
separation of past and present. Some cultures integrate the ghost=20
figure into the present in order to provide a sense of continuity. In=20
literature and film the ghost motif has been directly associated with=20
particular cultural meanings, but has also been used as a plot element=20=