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Call For Papers

International Committee, Children's Literature AssociationThe International Committee of the Children's Literature Association is planning a special country focus panel on Iran, to be presented at the Children's Literature Association Conference in Claremont, California, June 8–11, 2006. The committee invites papers that focus on any aspect of Iranian children's literature. Three or four papers will be selected; the papers should not exceed the twenty-minute reading time.

The Association will sponsor one scholar from Iran to present a paper at this panel. The winner will receive up to US $2,000 toward documented expenses in connection with the conference (to be given to the participant in US dollars during the conference). In addition to the grant, the participant will also receive a one-year gift membership to the Association. The participant must present his or her paper in person and in English.

While the grant will be awarded only to an indigenous scholar, the committee strongly encourages ChLA members interested in this region to submit papers to this panel.

The paper, with an accompanying cover letter, should be submitted to the International Committee, Children's Literature Association, P.O. Box 138, Battle Creek, MI 49016-0138, USA; fax +269-965-3568; or electronically to kkiessling@childlitassn.org. The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2005.

Call For Papers

The 14th Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference

March 23–26, 2006
The University of Florida

Deadline September 30, 2005

This year's theme, "(Re)Collecting British Women Writers," encourages interdisciplinary approaches to writers of the period, with a special interest in issues related to archival scholarship and memory and how those issues manifest themselves in collections, exhibitions, and canons.

We are very pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be Talia Schaffer (CUNY-Queens College), Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick), and Lynne Vallone (Texas A&M University).

We encourage proposals focusing on but not limited to:

Collections and Archives:

• Politics of display and archiving
• Textual and physical collections
• Intersections of written and visual arts
• Collecting in the (pseudo)sciences
• Exhibiting the empire
• The family: children's culture
• Collections and archives in the classroom

(Re)envisioning the Canon:

• Recovering women's writing
• Intersections between canonical and non-canonical writers
• Intersections between male and female writers
• De-marginalizing and de-centering groups, texts, crafts
• Theatrical adaptations of canonical and non-canonical texts
• Women's access to words: female literacies and publishing
• Children's literature in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries
• Transatlantic links in children's culture

Influence and Textual Memory:

• Colony and the empire
• Nation, nationality, and the body
• Life writing: journals and letters
• Travel narratives
• Gendered intertexualities
• Subjectivity, agency, and authorship
• Family as a microcosm or metaphor
• The politics of historical representation

Please submit 1–2 page abstracts for individual presentations and panelproposals (including the name of a moderator) by September 30, 2005. Please do not include any identifying information in your abstract.

Proposals may be submitted via an online form at http://www.english.ufl.edu/bwwc/cfp_submission.shtml after July 1, 2005.

Proposals may also be sent via regular mail (include a cover sheet with your name, mailing address, email address, phone number, and institutional affiliation) to:

British Women Writers Conference
University of Florida
Department of English
P.O. Box 117310
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7310

For more information about the conference, please visit our website at http://www.english.ufl.edu/bwwc.

Call For Papers

27th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Organization web site: http://www.iafa.org

The 27th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, at the Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel on March 15–19, will focus on the fantastic in media other than the written word or film, including comics and graphic novels, web design and photo manipulation, cover art and illustration, picture books and pulps, film posters and CD covers, trading cards and tarot cards, cityscapes and landscapes, maps and tattoos and costuming, not to mention the stuff you...