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Architecture Conferences & Calls for Papers
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Classical Studies Conferences & Calls for Papers
Ambiguous Bodies: Sex, Gender and Ovid: A Graduate Student Conference (U. Chicago, Feb. 21-22, 1997) (call for papers) Thanks for assistance in maintaining this page to
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Conferences & Calls for Papers (Cultural Studies)
Body Modification Conference (April 24-26, 2003, Macquarie U., Sydney, Australia; "The aim of this conference is explore the many and varied ways in which bodies are modified, selves are formed and transformed, and culturally specific knowledges and practices are mediated and transfigured")
Calls for Papers / Conferences (Sarah Zupko)
Conferences and Upcoming Events (Robin Markowitz)
Crossroads in Cultural Studies: Second International Conference (Tampere, Finland, June 28 - July1, 1998) 
Cultural Studies and Historical Approaches: Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
Cultural Frictions Conference: Conference Proceedings (Georgetown U.)
Cultural Violence (George Washington U., March 7-8, 1997) ("conference will assemble members from many different academic disciplines to explore the ways in which 'culture' can act as a violent force both to construct and to marginalize difference and to constrain individual expression")
(Dis)placing Nationalisms (May 18, 1996, U. California, Irvine) (online papers for graduate-student conference exploring "the way in which not only texts, but music, visual culture and film contribute to, are implicated in, and work against the formation of the concepts of nation, nationality, and national
Globalization From Below: Contingency and Contestation in Historical Perspective (Feb. 5-8, 1998, Duke U.) 
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Conference (Oct. 7-10, Coral Gables, Florida) 
Legacies Conference (Sept. 27-29, 1996, U. Toronto) (call for papers for conference on "cultural manifestations of inheritance in the period 1780-1901")
Online Conference on Postcolonial Theory (April 14, 1997, National U. Singapore) (full-texts of papers)
Postcolonial Conferences and New Publications in Post-Colonial Studies (U. Bourgogne, France)
(conference) Rights to the City: Citizenship, Democracy and Cities in a Global Age -- An International Symposium (June 26-28, 1998, York U., Canada) 
Terminals: The Cultural Production of Death (U. California, Santa Barbara, Nov. 12-13, 1996) (conference on the interface between the cultural and technological construction of death)
Trauma and Memory: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (May 22-24, 1998, U. New South Wales, Australia) (includes abstracts of papers)
Violence, Incorporated: 7th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium (March 12-14, 1998, Kansas State U.) 
Why the Big Suit? The Fabric(ation) of History: Cincinnati Graduate Conference on Literature and Culture (U. Cincinnati, April 19, 1997) ("the reality, myth and construction of history in literature, the visual arts, and popular culture")
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Conferences & Calls for Papers (Cyberculture)
ETHICOMP98: Fourth International Conference on Ethical Issues of Information Technology (March 25-27, 1998, Erasmus U., The Netherlands) 
Events and Conferences (Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies)
Fifth International Conference on Cyberspace (June 6-9, Madrid) (in Spanish) (Fundación Arte y Tecnologia de Telefonica)
Rhetorics and Politics of the Information Society: Behind the Theories, Visions, Texts, and Programs (June 28-July 1, 1998, Tampere, Finland / July 26-Aug. 1, 1998, Montreal) (International Social Science Council, Standing Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis)
Virtual Communities
Homepage 
1998 Virtual Communities Conference (Bath, England, 25-26 March 1999)
1999 Conference (Programme) (Bath, England, 25-26 March) 
2000 Conference (Programme) 
2001 Conference (Westminster, Central London 20-21 June) 
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Drama Studies Conferences
Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
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Conferences (Ecocriticsm and Ecoliterature)
Environmental Studies Association of Canada (call for Papers for Environmental Arts and Performance,May 28-30, 2002, U. Toronto)
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French Literature Conferences
From Manuscript to CD-Rom: Reexamining Text, Image, and Performance (UCSB, Feb. 16-17, 1996) (announcement & call for papers) (UCSB French & Italian Dept.)
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General Humanities Conferences & Calls for Papers
Crossing Boundaries: An International Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference (April 17-19, 1998, U. Sheffield, UK) 
Humanities West (info on lecture series featuring eminent humanities scholars at Humanities West in San Francisco; includes links to related resources) (Jetty & Dick Bullis)
Intersections, George Washington U., Mar. 30, 1996 (interdisciplinary graduate student conference "to facilitate dialogue across traditional disciplinary boundaries"; John Guillory is the keynote speaker)
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History Conferences & Calls for Papers
Assoc. of History & Computing: Conferences Page 
HoBo: The site formerly known as History of the Book @ Oxford ("Dedicated webspace for History of the Book events and resources throughout the UK") (Ian Gadd, Oxford U.)
Regionalism and Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Queen's U. of Belfast, April 4-6, 1997) (Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland)
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Literary Studies Conferences & Calls for Papers
General Literary Studies Conferences & Calls for Papers
Calls for Papers: Master-List (UPenn gopher)
Calls for Papers
U. Penn. Call for Papers Page (U. Penn English Dept.)
Cultural Studies and Historical Approaches 
Eighteenth Century 
Gender Studies and Sexuality 
Graduate Conferences 
Humanities Computing and the Internet 
Medieval 
Renaissance 
Romantic 
Calls for Papers: Theatre 
Theory 
Twentieth Century and Beyond 
Victorian 
Imagination and the Adapted Mind: The Prehistory and Future of Poetry, Fiction, and Related Arts: Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Aug. 26-29, 1999 (conference in which "humanistic participants will address aspects of the imaginative arts that might eventually illuminate the nature of the cognitive systems which produce and process cultural representations while the cognitive scientists
Intersections, George Washington U., Mar. 30, 1996 (interdisciplinary graduate student conference "to facilitate dialogue across traditional disciplinary boundaries"; John Guillory is the keynote speaker)
Women Writing Identity in Nonfiction (call for essays "for a collection of essays that will consider identity as it is constructed and revealed in non-fiction writings by women")
Conferences (Anglo-Saxon & Medieval Studies)
Conference Calendar  (Medieval Academy of America; global, multi-disciplinary listing of medieval conferences)
Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
International Conference on Medieval Studies (Medieval Institute, Western Michigan U. Kalamazoo)
International Medieval Congress Leeds (Institute of Medieval Studies, Leeds U.)
France & England in the Later Middle Ages (3-5 April 2005)(Center for Medieval Studies U. of York)
New England Medieval Conference 
New Directions 2: The Early Middle Ages Today (Medieval Studies, Harvard U.)
Midwest Medieval History Conference 
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Arizona State U. Tempe)
Medieval Association of the Pacific 
Cultural Frictions Conference: Medieval Studies in Post-Modern Contexts (Web-mounted, interactive conference held at Georgetown U., Wash. D.C., Oct. 27-28, 1995; includes online versions of the papers)
Conferences (Renaissance Literature)
Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
The Renaissance Computer (June 19-20, 1998, St. Andrews U., Scotland) 
Second Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society, Sept. 1-3, 1998, U. Stirling, Scotland 
Conferences (18th-C. Literature)
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Conference (Oct. 7-10, Coral Gables, Florida) 
Conferences (Romantic Literature) (many of these links are from the well-kept Romanticism On The Net Conferences page)
American Conference on Romanticism 1998: Cross-Currents in Romanticism (Oct. 16-18, 1998, U. Calif., Santa Barbara) 
Building Romanticism: The Archi'text'ure of Nature, Nation, Narration (U. Georgia, Jan. 22-25, 1998) 
Call for Papers for the Romantics Division Sessions at the 1999 MLA Convention (this CFP did not appear in the MLA Newsletter)
Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
The Canon and the Web: Reconfiguring Romanticism in the Information Age (site for a special session at the Dec. 1996 Modern Language Assoc. convention) (Laura Mandell & Alan Liu)
Coleridge Summer Conference 1998 (Somerset, July 23-29) 
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies 15th Annual Conference, "Centers and Peripheries" (April 6-8, 2000, Yale U.) 
John Clare: New Approaches & Voices (July 18, 1998, Nottingham Trent U., UK) 
Mary Shelley: Parents, Peers, Progeny (Sept. 12-14, 1997, Anglia Polytechnic U.) 
NASSR (homepage for the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism; includes links to current and upcoming conferences)
Prometheus Unplugged? Romanticisms Past and Future (Emory U., April 12-14, 1996)
Homepage (Third annual Graduate Student Conference in Romanticism. The virtual side of the conference features online papers plus a unique Web-aware MOO powered by a downloadable client-program called
Conference MOO (telnet site; for full benefits of the MOO, use
Prometheus Unplugged Conference Center (online copies of conference papers)
Romanticism Links 
Re-Orienting Romanticism (Australian National U., April 15-17, 1998) 
Romantic Drama in Place: Geography, Scene, Milieu: A Symposium (April 10-12, 1998, U. Texas, Austin) 
Romanticism On the Net: Conferences Page (Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Oxford U.)
Romanticism and its Others: Fifth Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) (Oct. 23-26, 1997, McMaster U.) 
Scott, Scotland and Romanticism: Sixth Meeting of the International Scott Conference (July 21-25, 1999, U. Oregon) 
Spectres of Romanticism (June 24, 1998, U. Liverpool) (postgraduate conference of the British Assoc. for Romantic Studies)
Ways of Seeing: The Nineteenth Century (June 22-24, 2000, U. Parix-X, Nanterre) (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies & U. Paris-X, Nanterre)
Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Feb. 18-20, 1999, U. Colorado, Boulder) 
Conferences (Victorian Literary Studies)
Beauty in the Nineteenth Century (Second Annual 19th-C. Cross-Disciplinary Conference, Sept. 19-20, 1997, U. Toronto) 
Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies 15th Annual Conference, "Centers and Peripheries" (April 6-8, 2000, Yale U.) 
The Rossettis: Cosmopolitans in Victorian London (July 9-10 2001, St. Johns C., Cambridge U.) 
Ways of Seeing: The Nineteenth Century (June 22-24, 2000, U. Parix-X, Nanterre) (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies & U. Paris-X, Nanterre)
Conferences (Modern British & American Literature)
Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
Conferences (Contemporary British & American Literature)
Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
(conference) Don DeLillo: "At the Edges of Perception" (March 25-26, 1998, Rutgers U.) 
Conferences on American Literature
American Studies Opportunities & Announcements (listings of calls for papers, conference programs, fellowships, jobs, and other professional opportunities for American Studies faculty and students) (American Studies Assoc. / American Studies Crossroads Project)
Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
African-American Literature Conferences
African-American Literature: Calls for Papers (U. Penn)
Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
Literary Theory Conferences & Calls for Papers
After Postmodernism (Nov. 14-16, 1997, U. Chicago) 
Gender Studies and Sexuality: Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
Geomancy: Navigating the Future of Theory (Trent U., Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, March 7, 1997) (graduate-student conference on theory and space)
Imagination and the Adapted Mind: The Prehistory and Future of Poetry, Fiction, and Related Arts: Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Aug. 26-29, 1999 (conference in which "humanistic participants will address aspects of the imaginative arts that might eventually illuminate the nature of the cognitive systems which produce and process cultural representations while the cognitive scientists
International Association for Semiotic Studies 6th Congress (Guadalajara, Mexico, July 13-18, 1997 (announcement)
Theory: Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
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Philosophy Conferences
20th World Congress of Philosophy -- Paideia: Philosophy Educating Humanity (Aug. 10-16, 1998, Boston) (multilingual site)
Chance: The Event in the Desert (Nov. 8-10, 1996) ("a philosophical rave and summit meeting between artists and philosophers, chaosophists and croupiers, mathematicians and musicians at Whiskey Pete's Casino in the Nevada desert"; featuring Jean Baudrillard and Allucquere Roseanne Stone)
Conferences, Workshops, and Calls for Papers (Liverpool index; gopher)
Philosophy of Science and Mathematics Events in Britain (Brendan Larvor, U. Liverpool)
The Production of Philosophy: Aesthetics, Practice, Invention (Villanova U., April 19, 1997) ("This conference is devoted to exploring the relationship of the aesthetic to philosophical thinking and to asking about the implications of an aesthetic re-composition of philosophy")
Second Annual New York City International Conference on the History of Philosophy and Religion (May 1-3, 1998, Hunter C., NYC) 
Terminals: The Cultural Production of Death (U. California, Santa Barbara, Nov. 12-13, 1996) (conference on the interface between the cultural and technological construction of death)
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Politics and Government Studies Conferences
Activism and the Academy: Opening Dialogues (March 27-28, 1998, George Washington U.) ("we have two major goals for this conference: one, to initiate communication with activists who can inform academic inquiry; and, two, to explore ways in which academic inquiry can benefit activists")
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Science, Technology & Culture Conferences
Actor Network and After (Keele U., UK, July 10-11, 1997) ("Actor-network theory grew up in science and technology studies as an attempt to understand 'materiality' - the ways in which social and technical relations are embodied and perform themselves in the ordering and re-ordering of texts, artefact
Biotechnology, Culture, and the Body (April 24-26, 1997, U. Wisconson, Milwaukee) Thanks for assistance in maintaining this page to
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Technology of Writing Conferences
Advanced Visual Interfaces (May 25-27, 1998, Italy) 
Beyond Gutenberg: Hypertext and the Future of the Humanities (Yale Univ. Conference, May 1994)
Digital Resources for the Humanities (Sept. 14-15, 1997, Oxford U.) (online papers)
Ed-Media / Ed-Telecom: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, & Telecommunications (June 20-25, 1998, Freiburg, Germany) 
From Manuscript to CD-Rom: Reexamining Text, Image, and Performance (UCSB, Feb. 16-17, 1996) (announcement & call for papers) (UCSB French & Italian Dept.)
Humanities Computing and the Internet: Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
Teaching Communication Skills in a Technological Era (Monash U., Australia, Sept. 16-17, 1996) (Anita Jawary)
Untangling the Web (April 26, 1996, U. Calif. Santa Barbara) ("This conference will explore ways that librarians can make the best use of the world wide web in all its theoretical and practical aspects, including organizing and evaluating resources, managing a web server, and using the web for reference, techn
Western Humanities Conference 1997: Information, Technology and the Humanities (Oct. 17-19, 1997, U. California, Riverside) (includes live online events) Thanks for assistance in maintaining this page to


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