The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS) invites proposals for individual panels for its 33rd annual meeting to be held at the University of California, Irvine, from Friday, March 24 through Sunday, March 26, 2006. The members of the program committee are J. Sears McGee (UCSB); George Behlmer (University of Washington); Jennifer Andersen (Cal State San Bernardino); and David Lieberman (UC Berkeley).

Scholars and doctoral candidates in every field of British Studies (broadly understood as the study of Britain, its component parts, and its empire) across the arts, humanities and social sciences, are invited to submit proposals of two double-spaced typed pages, accompanied by a brief vita, as an email attachment to: J. Sears McGee (jsmcgee@history.ucsb.edu).

Individual panels, partial panels, or complete panels may be proposed. The deadline for submission is December 15, 2005.

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CFP: Scottish Romanticism and World Literatures at Berkeley, September 7-10, 2006
Deadline: Dec. 15, 2005

The Center for British Studies and the English Department at UC Berkeley are hosting a conference on "Scottish Romanticism and World Literatures" from 7-10 September 2006, jointly organized by Ian Duncan and Murray Pittock. Among the areas we are planning to address in the main conference sessions are the impact of Scottish Romanticism on European literatures, the Anglophone British Empire and the United States; continuities between Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism; relations between Scotland and Ireland, and between Scottish and English Romanticisms; "literature" and the disciplines of the natural and human sciences; the social environments of periodical culture, book production and the literary market; tradition and genre; and sessions on major authors.

Proposals for 25-minute papers are now invited and should take the form of a title and 100-word abstract to be sent to Murray Pittock <m.pittock@manchester.ac.uk> and/or Ian Duncan <iduncan@berkeley.edu> by 15 December 2005.
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