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Studies in American Naturalism publishes critical essays, documents, notes, bibliographies, and reviews concerning American literary naturalism, broadly conceived. Published twice each year by the International Theodore Dreiser Society and the Department of English, University of North Carolina Wilmington, the journal seeks contributions illuminating the texts and contexts of naturalism across all genres from its nineteenth-century origins to its twentieth- and twenty-first century transformations.

Please see our web site for submission guidelines, our distinguished editorial board, and forthcoming contents. http://www.uncw.edu/san/

Submissions

We are looking for a few papers in particular areas to fill out the
program for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Conference in Philadelphia from November 8-11, 2006. If you are
interested in any of these topics, please contact me--Dawn Keetley
(dek7_at_lehigh.edu). A draft of the conference program can be found on
the organization's website: www.ssaww.org.

1. Frances E. Watkins Harper as a Philadelphia writer

2. Late seventeenth and eighteenth century American women writers

3. Louise Erdrich

4. Eighteenth or nineteenth century women writers in a
transnational/global context

5. Contemporary Chicana writing

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Call for Papers

"Ghosts of the Nineteenth Century"

38^th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

March 1-4, 2007

Baltimore, Maryland

Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 2007 Convention, March
1-4, Baltimore

"Men at Home: Masculine Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America"

Call for Papers
    Panel Title: Women's Poetry and the Firesides
    38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
    March 1-4, 2007
    Baltimore, Maryland
    This panel seeks papers that explore the relationship between nineteenth-century women poets and the Fireside poets (or other popular but now non-canonical male poets). I'm particularly interested in papers that explore the way male poets responded to the successes of women poets. Please send a 300-word abstract to higgins_andrew_at_yahoo.com by Sept 15, 2006.
  
  
    Deadline: September 15, 2006
    Abstract of the Panel:

Panel Title: The African American West

Conference: Western American Literature Association, Boise, Idaho,
October 25-28, 2006.

This panel will examine the various ways that African American
experience in the American West has been depicted and imagined. We will
emphasize the wide range of those experiences, from the earliest black
pioneers to contemporary writers who have lived in or written about the
West. Papers that focus on the depiction of African American experience
in other media (film, television, etc.) than literature are also
welcome.

Please send 250-300 word abstract with name, address, affiliation,
email, phone, fax, and A/V requests by June 7, 2006 to:

For a book collection of essays, The Body in Medical Culture, please
send the abstract of completed essays of about 25 pages on any aspect of
the medicalized body in the 18th or 19th centuries. Europe, Britain or
North America considered. 250 word abstract due by June 15. Send to
etklaver_at_siu.edu.

Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (TALTP) is looking for contributors for its inaugural issue to be published online (web site still under construction).

The Death in American Culture area of the Mid Atlantic American/Popular Culture Conference, October 27-29, 2006 in Baltimore MD is soliciting paper proposals.

Papers are welcome on any aspect of American cultural responses to death. Paper proposals may be from any appropriate discipline and cover any historical period. General topic areas include but are not limited to the following:

1. Attitudes toward and practices relating to death, including the medicalization of death, the social construction of death, death in art and literature, funeral customs, the evolution of the funeral business and the cemetery, changing attitudes toward the dead body and its disposal, and burial and mourning practices.

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VIII SAAS Conference. La Coruña, Spain March 2007

Call for papers

The 2007 SAAS Conference (Spanish Association for American Studies) will be
held in La Coruña, Spain, in Spring, 28-30 March 2007. Under the theme
"American Secrets: The Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in American Culture",
 the Program Committee invites colleagues to submit proposals for individual
papers, on diverse aspects of this topic, within the following proposed
panels:

Revisiting Slave Narratives II

Call for contributions

« Les Carnets du Cerpac »
Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III (France)

British Association for American StudiesAnnual Conference 2007
Centre for American Studies, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
CALL FOR PAPERS

The BAAS Annual Conference for the year 2007 will be hosted by the Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester, from 19-22 April 2007.

2007 marks the tenth birthday of the Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester so we are particularly pleased to host the conference this year. It also promises to be a very interesting year for reflecting on American history and culture given that it will be 400 years after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia and 50 years since Little Rock and Sputnik.