postcolonial

Submission Deadline: March 9, 2007.
Please send submissions to: richardjeffreynewman_at_verizon.net

Call for papers: The Society for Critical Exchange, an Affiliate
organization of the Modern Language Association, is sponsoring two sessions
at the 2007 MLA in Chicago.

Writing Empires I: Composition and the Expansion of English
Writing programs as "empire-building" enterprises for English studies;
movements toward independence of writing programs from English programs;
WAC/WID as resituating English studies.

Writing Empires II: Writing Histories and Theories
Technologies, practices, and pedagogies of writing in the histories of
19th- and 20th-century imperialism, anti-imperial movements, and globalization.

Abstracts and brief bio to kurt.koenigsberger_at_case.edu by 18 March.

Call for papers for

The Modern Language Association Annual Convention 2007
Chicago
27-30 December 2007

Deadline: 17 March 2007
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Special Session: Caribbean American Women Writers
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Abstracts are invited for presentations on novels written by women of (Anglo=
, Franco, Hispanic) Caribbean descent. How so these women rewrite, revise, r=
etell the histories of these nations?=20
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Please send 1-page abstracts.
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Thank you,
Sincerely,
Vanessa K. Vald=C3=A9s
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

Call for Papers:

*Thinking Alterity: celebrating Ananda Devi's and Mauritian Women's Writing=
s
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Universit=E9 catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve/ Belgium), 30 November
2007

Keynote speakers : Ananda Devi and Fran=E7oise Lionnet

Call for Papers: Papers dealing with Experiences in Post/Colonial
Education Systems as depicted in literature are sought for the
Literatures of Africa and the Diaspora regular session at the South
Atlantic Modern Language Association which will meet in Atlanta, GA on
Nov. 9-11, 2007.

Papers might include childhood experiences through experiences in
higher education and might make use of any number of theoretical
frameworks.

The deadline for 250-word proposals is March 15, 2007.

Please send inquiries and proposals electronically to:

Dr. Walter Collins, session coordinator
Assistant Professor of French and English
collinsw_at_sc.edu