Threshold now accepting submissions:

Threshold wants short stories, poems, one-act plays, short creative non-fiction, b/w photographs, drawings, and b/w graphics. Submit yours now and be part of the annual publication of the best student work.

HOW: Bring your work to the Department of English, McGaw 255 –bring hard copies of text, originals of art work. Please DO NOT put your name on the work itself: instead, put the title on the work(s), attach an envelope to your submission, and in the envelope put your name, contact information including an e-mail address, and the title(s) of the work(s) you are submitting.

All submissions will be reviewed by an editorial committee. Authors and Artists will be notified by e-mail or phone when works are accepted. Any submissions not published in the magazine will be available for pick-up in the English Department during May.

When: As soon as possible and no later than April 2.

Information:

Dave Welch, editor
Threshold
Dept. of English
McGaw 255
morphemial@hotmail.com

 

The 2004 Graduate Student Conference
Friday, June 11, and Saturday, June 12, 2004

This conference is made possible through the funding of the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium.

Organized and run by graduate students, the conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers are invited in any area of medieval or Renaissance studies. It provides participants the opportunity to present their work in a collegial scholarly forum, to meet students from other institutions and disciplines who will be their future colleagues, and to become familiar with the Newberry Library and its resources.

Those interested in participating should submit a c.v. and two-page abstract by 1 March 2004.

Papers will be selected by an interdisciplinary committee of consortium graduate students. Only one abstract from each author will be considered; submission of an abstract will be considered an agreement by the author to attend the conference if the paper is accepted. Papers which are accepted should be no more than 20 minutes in length and must be submitted by 3 May 2004.

 

The Midwest Modern Language Association

The annual meeting will be held this fall (4-7 November 2004) at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in St. Louis.

The M/MLA convention invites papers and panels from faculty and graduate students in departments of languages and literatures in the midwest, and also offers a series of professionalizing workshops. The 2004 program also features a cluster of special events related to this year’s informal theme, “Performance.” In addition, the returning book exhibit is now organized around the publishing success of members, which the M/MLA will be pleased to celebrate on your department’s behalf.

The M/MLA wants to do more for senior scholars looking to share funded research, for junior faculty preparing convention papers as they approach tenure, and for graduate students finding their voices and anticipating the job market in times no longer flush.

Please check the M/MLA’s website at www.uiowa.edu/~mmla for further information, particularly what session organizers will need to submit by March 1.

Note: If you'd like help proposing a session or a paper, feel free to contact Prof. Bartlett

The 3rd International Student Byron Conference
May 16-24, 2004
Messolonghi Byron Society- Byron Research Center
Honorary President, The Earl of Lytton
Theme: Byron, Romanticism, and the Olympic Spirit
More Info about the Conference and paper specifics

Southern Writers, Southern Writing

University of Mississippi Graduate Student Conference held in conjunction with the Annual Faulkner and Yoknapawpha Conference. The Graduate Students in the Department of English and Southern Studies invite you to submit abstracts on or about the South. Accepted papers will be presented in Oxford, MS on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of July 2004.

Topics for papers or panels are not restricted to literature and may include:

- Race, gender and class and identity
- Materialist and political approaches to texts
- Ecocriticism, nature writing, and the southern landscape
- Religion and spirituality in southern culture and writing
- Folklore, material culture, oral culture, and community
- Theoretical approaches to the South in a global context

Please send one to two-page abstracts of critical work or entire creative works to: Southern Writers, Southern Writing, 207 Somerville Hall, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677. Reading limit is twenty minutes; please include your summer address with your submission. The deadline for submissions is May 17th, 2004. Inquiries or ideas for panels may be e-mailed to swsw@olemiss.edu (Do not e-mail abstracts or other submissions, please.) You may check out the most current information at: http://www.olemiss,edu/conf/swsw

AFFIRMING DIVERSITY CONFERENCE
Saturday, June 5, 2004 Drury Lane, Oak Brook, IL, USA

You are cordially invited to Spirit Magazine's first annual
Affirming Diversity Conference. This conference is designed to
give you the opportunity to network, meet new friends, connect to
professionals, and create new business acquaintances. We look
forward to meeting you!

Individual tickets, tables of 10, corporate sponsorships, and vendor
booths are still available. For more information contact 708-369-2522
or affirmingdiversity@spirit-mag.com. Please tell our Conference
Development team that I referred you.