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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>From
John Briggs:</blockquote><br>
This just in from the <b>Association of Literary
Scholars and Critics</b>. The Fall meeting will be in San
Francisco. Non-members are encouraged to consider this opportunity.
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><div align="center"><font face="verdana" size=5><b>Call
for Papers</b></font> <font size=5><br>
</font><font size=5 color="#FF0000"><b>UPDATE</b></font><br>
May 12, 2006<br>
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<font face="verdana" size=1>The ALSC Conference Committee has re-issued
its call for papers for the two of the <b>seminar</b> sections of the
2006 <b>ALSC Conference Program</b>. The third seminar is not open for
submissions at this time, nor are the panels.<br>
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<font face="verdana" size=1 color="#FF0000"><b>The submissions deadline
for seminars one and two have been extended to June 30. <br>
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<font face="verdana" size=1>Additional prospective members and current
members alike are heartily invited to apply. Please see below for
details.<br>
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2006 Seminars<br>
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<font face="verdana" size=1>The 2006 Conference in San Francisco will
continue the tradition established in 2004 of offering seminars designed
to increase participation of the membership in the conference and give
them another excellent reason for attending. Modeled on what has worked
successfully for such organizations as the Shakespeare Association of
America and the Modernist Studies Association, these three seminars will
each be led by a distinguished member of the Association. <br>
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<font face="verdana" size=1>Each seminar will have fifteen (15)
guaranteed places, and each person accepted for a seminar will receive an
official letter of invitation to the conference and will be listed in its
program. Seminar participants will write brief position papers (2-4 pages
maximum, double-spaced), and will circulate their papers to the other
participants and read all the papers prior to the conference. The listing
of the titles in the conference program should help participants obtain
travel funding for the conference from their home colleges and
universities. Senior scholars are eligible to apply for these seminars,
but graduate students and junior faculty especially are encouraged to do
so; and we hope that senior scholars and others will spread the word and
encourage their graduate students and junior colleagues to apply. The
three seminars will run concurrently. Those admitted as participants in
each seminar will participate in the actual discussion, but anyone at the
conference is welcome to attend one of the seminars <i>as an auditornot
a participant</i>provided there is sufficient room. <br>
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<font face="verdana" size=1><b>Submission form and deadline. A few places
remain in each of the two noted seminars, and the deadline is hereby
extended to June 30,</b></font> with applicants advised to send in their
abstracts as soon as possible. Abstracts should be no longer than a
paragraph or half a page. They should be submitted only by e-mail, to
both (1) the chair of the panel or seminar and (2) the Association's
office at <a href="mailto:alsc@bu.edu"><b>alsc@bu.edu</a></b>. On the
e-mail's Subject line please give your name and other information in the
form, "ALSC 2006, [name of the session] abstract by [your
name]."<br><br>
<font face="verdana" size=1>Association membership is required for
participation in the conference. Student memberships cost $25 (proof of
student status is required). Standard new memberships cost $35 for the
first calendar year. Visit
<a href="http://www.bu.edu/literary/membership/index.html"><b>http://www.bu.edu/literary/membership/index.html</a></b>
for details on ALSC membership. Visit <a href="https://www.bu.edu/literary/membership/onlineform.html"><b>https://www.bu.edu/literary/membership/onlineform.html</a></b> to access our secure online form for membership subscription.<br>
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<font face="verdana" size=1><b><i>Seminar One: Pleasures of the Imagination in Science Fiction</i></b></font><br>
Chair: Paul K. Alkon (University of Southern California)<br>
This seminar will focus on the imaginative pleasures of science fiction rather than on its didactic concerns or its uses as grist for the cultural-studies mills. What in fact are the imaginative pleasures of science fiction (if any)? How are they manifested and to what ends? Please send abstracts of papers that address these and related questions by concentrating on a single noteworthy work of science fiction to Paul K. Alkon, Department of English, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354. (<a href="mailto:alkon@usc.edu"><b>alkon@usc.edu</a></b>)<br><br>
<font face="verdana" size=1><b><i>Seminar Two: The Personal Voice in Literary Criticism</i></b></font><br>
Chair: James W. Earl (English, University of Oregon).<br>
This seminar will discuss the use (and abuse) of the personal voice in literary criticism. What limits on self-presentation should we observe in our critical writing? When is the flagrantly subjective voice justified? When does literary criticism become opinion, personal essay, or belles lettres? Who are the best (and worst) examples? Anyone interested in participating should send an abstract to James W. Earl, Department of English, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 (<a href="mailto:jwearl@uoregon.edu"><b>jwearl@uoregon.edu</a></b>)<br><br>
<div align="center"><font face="verdana" size=1><b>Conference Program Committee:</b></font><br>
Tom Clayton, Chair, <i>University of Minnesota</i><br>
M.J. Fitzgerald, <i>University of Minnesota</i><br>
Jay L. Halio, <i>University of Delaware</i><br>
Dan Hooley, <i>University of Missouri</i><br>
Barbara Packer, <i>UCLA</i><br>
Caterina Salabč, <i>University of Rome "La Sapienza"<br>
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<div align="center"><font face="verdana" size=1>Graduate students:<br>
John M. Oliver, <i>University of California, Santa Barbara</i><br>
Robert Stark, <i>University of Minnesota<br>
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FULL PROGRAM T.B.A.</font></b></div>
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