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CALL FOR PAPERS
THE CHILD AND THE BOOK
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE
7-9 APRIL 2006, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND
Forging the Local and the Global
9-12 July 2006
University of Stellenbosch
Western Cape, South Africa
Although the deadline for proposals has passed, later submissions will be
considered.
The Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic, is pleased to announce an
International conference:
Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries
Electrifying Experimentation: Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain
A One-Day Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Sheffield, UK
25 February 2005
CALL FOR PAPERS
SHARP Conference
11-14 July 2006
The Netherlands
Session on:
Editing the Early Modern: Women as Writers, Editors and Scholars
We are proposing a panel exploring the challenges and discoveries involved in central aspects of editing early modern literature: when scholars edit the works of early modern women writers; and when scholars investigate the history of the first generations of women scholars and editors of this period.
Technology, Performance & Identity:
Mediation, Remediation and the Politics of Self
A multidisciplinary conference
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK
Department of Arts and Media 8th annual conference
Friday 28th April 2006
Keynote Speaker: Tanya Krzywinska
co-editor of ScreenPlay: cinema/videogames/interfaces
& co-author of Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders
Sound Effects: the Oral/Aural Dimensions of Literatures in English
University of St Andrews, 5-8 July 2006
Please note an extension to the deadline for proposals for papers.
These will now be considered if received by the 31st of December
2005. Also speakers now include Derek Attridge, Douglas Dunn, John
Miles Foley, Andy Orchard, Patricia Parker and Don Paterson.
Revised call for papers below:
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference, Durham UK, 6-9
July 2006
REVISED CFP
Due to a number of questions concerning the relation of music to the conference,
please note that this conference is entirely interdisciplinary, and not
specifically music-related. We welcome and encourage abstracts from all
disciplines. In light of this, a new deadline for the submission of abstracts
has been set at 30 November 2005. Notification of final decision on abstracts
will be made in December.
Bennett Zon
Call for Papers
Paper or panel proposals are invited on any aspect of creativity in the long
nineteenth-century.
7th Global Conference
Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness
Monday 13th March - Friday 17th March 2006
Salzburg, Austria
Call for Papers
(please cross post where appropriate)
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding evil and human wickedness. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in the fields of anthropology, criminology, cultural studies, legal studies, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology. Perspectives are sought from those working in the caring professions, the media, prison services, politics, psychiatry and other work-related and vocational areas.
Dear Colleagues,
This is a call for papers for an approved panel on "New Directions in
Partition Scholarship" for the 19th European Conference on Modern South
Asian Studies (ECMSAS 2006) to be held between 27-30 June 2006, at
Leiden, the Netherlands.
New Directions in Partition Scholarship
European Nightmares – An International Conference on European Horror Cinema
June 1st – 3rd 2006
Manchester Metropolitan University, MIRIAD, UK (http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/visualculture/inc)
CFP: Iain (M.) Banks(UK) (02/28/06; 09/02/06) Call for papers for a
one-day conference hosted at University of Westminster, London England.
The UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies in partnership with the
University of Hull invites proposals for papers and panels for our Iain
(M.) Banks conference to be held on Saturday 2nd September 2006 at the
University of Westminster, London. This is the first UK conference to
focus solely on Iain Banks and coincides with the publication of his
latest novel.
Confirmed speakers include:
Tim Middleton
James Kneale
CALL FOR PAPERS
12th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference
17th-18th February 2006
University of Bristol, UK
'Invention and Discovery'
We are pleased to invite papers from postgraduate medievalists on the theme
of Invention and Discovery in the Middle Ages (c.500AD - c. 1500AD). This
is a period with which ideas of Invention and Discovery resonate in many
ways, including (but not limited to):
'Trading Books - Trading Ideas' - SHARP 2006
July 11-14, 2006
The Netherlands
The fourteenth annual conference of the Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) will be held at the National
Library of The Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) in The Hague and in
Leiden, The Netherlands, on 11-14 July 2006. The Conference will be
organized by the National Library in cooperation with the Universities of
Leiden, Utrecht, Nijmegen and Amsterdam.
Betwixt and Between II: Memory and Cultural Translation
Queen's University Belfast, April 18-21, 2006
The School of English and School of Languages, Literatures and Arts, =20
in association with the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry invite papers =20=
on:
Memory and Cultural Translation
In recent years, the cultural and historical work of memory has been =20
of considerable interest to scholars working in all areas of the =20
humanities.
This conference wishes to explore ways in which translation and cross-=20=
Medea, the notorious infanticidal non-Greek wife of Jason, is a figure from Classical mythology who challenges the boundaries of behaviour and understanding and has proved both a creative and an intellectual challenge for countless writers, artists, composers and performing artists since Euripides and before.
We invite proposals for papers for the
cross- and interdisciplinary conference:
Medea: Mutations and Permutations of a Myth
Clifton Hill House, Bristol, UK
17th - 19th July 2006
Jointly organised by the Universities of Bristol and Nottingham
INCS
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
NINETEENTH-CENTURY CREATIVITY
6 - 9 JULY 2006
The University of Durham, UK
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Music
School of Music
St Chad?s College
Call for Papers
Paper or panel proposals are invited on any aspect of creativity in the long
nineteenth-century.
INCS is an association of scholars working in history, gender studies,
the arts,
anthropology, science, philosophy, literature and other disciplines
devoted to
the interdisciplinary exploration of nineteenth-century culture and its
relation
to our contemporary world.
KEYNOTES will be announced in due course.
16th Annual ASEN Conference:=20
"Nations and their Pasts : Representing the Past, Building the Future"=20
28-29 March 2006, London School of Economics=20
CALL FOR PAPERS =20
SEND YOUR <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/conf_prop_2006.htm>
PROPOSAL ONLINE HERE
The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is
holding its 16th Annual Conference, entitled "Nations and their Pasts:
Representing the Past, Building the Future", on Tuesday and Wednesday,
March 28-29, 2006, at the London School of Economics.=20
CFP: Northern English Religious Writers Conference (abstract deadline =
12/1/05; conference dates 06/30/06-07/01/06)
This conference represents the first full-scale opportunity to examine =
the production and circulation of religious texts within the northern =
counties of England between 1100-1500. In recent years critical =
attention has focused on the role played by works by the Yorkshire =
hermit Richard Rolle (c. 1300-49) in revitalising lay spirituality. This =
interdisciplinary event widens the scope of the investigation to =
consider genres as diverse as drama and hagiography, which offer insight =
into religious devotion and practices in the region.
Trajectories of Commitment and Complicity: Knowledge, Politics, Cultural =
Production <<ole0.bmp>> Wednesday, 29 March - Friday, 31 March 2006 =
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The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) invites proposals for =
the international workshop, Trajectories of Commitment and Complicity, =
to be held between 29th - 31st of March, 2006 in Amsterdam, the =
Netherlands. This interdisciplinary workshop will be dedicated to =
exploring the concepts of commitment and complicity as they manifest =
themselves at the intersections of knowledge, politics and cultural =
production.
The Mind's Eye: Perspectives on Word and Image
University College London English Postgraduate Conference
17 February 2006
UPDATE: The conference organizers are pleased to announce Dr Peter de
Bolla of King's College, Cambridge, as a confirmed keynote speaker.
The fourth annual postgraduate conference at University College London
seeks papers that address the relationship between the verbal and
visual in literary texts.
My apologies, there was a typographical error in the due date for abstracts in the previous CFP for the Wenshan Conference. The correct date for abstrats is Nov. 15, 2005. The conference date is March 11, 2006.
The correct CFP is as follows:
The 6th Wenshan Conference on English and American Literature
English Department, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Conference Date: March 11, 2006
Abstracts Due: Nov. 15, 2005
Conference Theme: "Situated Knowledges: Literature of Belief, Believing, and the Unbelievable"
PLEASE NOTE REVISED EMAIL ADDRESS FOR ABSTRACTS, AND NEW WEBSITE ADDRESS.
g.dow_at_soton.ac.uk and Suzan.vanDijk_at_let.uu.nl
website address www.databasewomenwriters.nl
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Translators, Interpreters, Mediators: Women Writers 1700-1900
UPDATE: Deadline for submissions of abstracts has been extended to 11/7/2005
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
LITERARY STUDIES IN OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING
Ierapetra, Greece, 7-9 April 2006
The research team openLit (http://www.openlit.gr),
which operates under the auspices of the School of
Humanities, The Hellenic Open University, is pleased
to announce an International Conference on
Literary Studies in Open and Distance Learning
University Programs.
Ovid's Metamorphoses in English Poetry
(University of Salzburg)
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2006
Call for Papers
“IV International and Interdisciplinary Conference Alexander von
Humboldt and Zheng He, 2006â€
“Travel Literature and from the Americas, Europe and China from all
Centuriesâ€
2006 年第四届美洲,欧洲, ä¸å›½æ—…游, 探险文献国际大会
纪念亚利山大.冯. æ´ªå ¡, éƒ'å'ŒæŽ¢é™©å…ˆé©±
June 12-16, 2006
in Xi’an China
Speakers announced:
5th MESEA Conference
The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas
May 18-20, 2006, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Call for Papers
Speakers:
Myriam Chancy, Writer and independent scholar
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim University of California, Santa Barbara
Jeremy D. Popkin University of Kentucky
Joan-Pau Rubiés London School of Economics and Political Science
ETHNIC LIFE WRITING AND HISTORIES
SAIT Conference
March 17th & 18th 2006
Institute of English Studies, University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Rue de l¹Ecole de Médecine, Paris 75006, France.
³Frames & framing²
Call for Papers Irish Association of American Studies 2006
Queen's University Belfast
31 March & 1 April 2006
AMERICAN PROHIBITIONS
Please find below a call for papers:
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Call For Papers: Re-mapping the American South, 01/30/06; 10/08/06-10/10/=
06
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A Two-Day Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 8-1=
0 September, 2006.
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Proposals for 20-minute presentations or panels of three to four presente=
rs are invited for a conference on Re-mapping the American South, to take=
place at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 8-10 Septem=
ber, 2006.
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