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<font color="#0000FF">of interest? pass on as you wish <br>
- Chris <br><br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><h2><b>The Traveller's
Poem</b></h2><br><br>
full name / name of organization: <br>
Society for American Travel Writing<br>
contact email: <br>
vogel@kutztown.edu<br><br>
The Society for American Travel Writing seeks paper proposals for a panel
to be hosted at the 2012 American Literature Association Conference to be
held at the Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, CA, May
24-27 2012. <br><br>
From the early eighteenth century with Ebenezer Cooke and Richard Lewis
to the twenty-first century with Campbell McGrath and Mark Doty, American
poets have made their travels, both near and far, a subject for their
work. The SATW invites presentations on travel poetry for the 2012 annual
conference. We seek compelling presentations on travel poetry
representing all eras of the American experience; regional, national, and
international travel; and lyric, narrative, or other poetic forms. One
question we are interested in exploring is how poetry can be distinctive
in its representation of travel. <br><br>
Please send 300 word proposals by January 15, 2012 to Andrew Vogel at
<a href="mailto:vogel@kutztown.edu">vogel@kutztown.edu</a> or Melanie
Scriptunas at <a href="mailto:mscript@udel.edu">mscript@udel.edu</a>. For
further information, please consult the ALA website at
<a href="http://www.americanliterature.org">www.americanliterature.org</a>
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IABA-L: A LIST FOR LIFE WRITING<br>
International Auto/Biography Association<br>
<a href="http://www.theiaba.org/">http://www.theiaba.org/<br><br>
</a>Craig Howes, list manager<br>
craighow@hawaii, biograph@hawaii.edu<br>
Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai'i at Manoa<br>
On Facebook:
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/CBRHawaii">
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<font size=4><b>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>
CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT THE ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI,
GREECE, OCTOBER 19-20, 2012<br><br>
</b></font>To be organized by the Department of English, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki and The Department of English Language and
Literature, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.<br><br>
Co-organizers: Valerie Kennedy (Bilkent) and Katerina Kitsi
(Thessaloniki)<br><br>
CHARLES DICKENS: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS<br><br>
In Dickens?s bicentenary year we wish to invite proposals for papers on
crucial thresholds, moments of transition, and life cycles as these are
represented, questioned or complicated in Dickens's writings. We invite
contributions that explore these topics, including but not limited to
papers which focus on the following:<br>
1)Births (birth rituals; births of boys vs. birth of girls; legitimacy
and illegitimacy; birth and class identity vs. innate identity);<br>
2)Marriages (marriage and money; marriage and love; sadistic and
masochistic marriages; marriage and theatrical performance);<br>
3)Deaths (death by murder; death by drowning or 'accident'); funerals and
theatrical performance; death and gender and social class).<br><br>
Guest speakers:<br>
Michael Hollington<br>
One other (to be announced)<br><br>
Please send an abstract of 250 words to both Valerie Kennedy
(<a href="mailto:kennedy@bilkent.edu.tr">kennedy@bilkent.edu.tr</a>) and
Katerina Kitsi (<a href="mailto:katkit@auth.gr">katkit@auth.gr</a>) by
May 15th 2012.<br><br>
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IABA-L: A LIST FOR LIFE WRITING<br>
International Auto/Biography Association<br>
<a href="http://www.theiaba.org/">http://www.theiaba.org/<br><br>
</a>Craig Howes, list manager<br>
craighow@hawaii, biograph@hawaii.edu<br>
Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai'i at Manoa<br>
On Facebook:
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/CBRHawaii">
http://www.facebook.com/CBRHawaii</a></b> <br><br>
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