postcolonial

Please, kindly announce this for us:

                                                            SIGNPOST POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE

                                                     26th - 28th April 2007
                                                    Department of English
                                                    University of Yaounde 1
                                                             Cameroon

COLONIAL EDUCATION IN AFRICAN LITERATURES

Among other things, the colonial school-whether in Anglophone,
Francophone or Lusophone Africa--led to the creation of new human types
as well as new social structures and interactions. How is colonial
education represented in African literatures? What was (and has been)
its overall impact? In what ways did the colonial school affect human
interactions? How did the colonizer use the educational apparatus? How
did the colonized react to and use the school? What are the contemporary
manifestations or vestiges of the colonial curriculum?

II International Conference on Nation and Identity in 19th* and 20th*
Century Literature in English.September 20th * 21st, 2007San Antonio
Catholic University, Murcia (Spain)Additional information, including
confirmed speakers, accomodation information and a registration form is
available online
at:http://www.ucam.edu/unidcentral/idiomas/Events/005/Index.htm
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Elvira Jensen-Casado,
Unidad Central de Idiomas,=20
Universidad Cat=F3lica San Antonio,=20
Campus de los Jer=F3nimos
30107 Guadalupe, Murcia, Espa=F1a.
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Division on Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature
Call for Papers
2007 MLA

Ethnic Studies-Is it postcolonial? Presentations on the confluences,
contradictions, and conflicts between U.S. ethnic studies and postcolonial
studies, especially regarding "internal colonization"; decolonization; and
the problem of "post." Abstracts by March 20 to Jesse Alemán (jman_at_unm.edu).

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Dr. Jesse Alemán
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of English
MSC 03 2170
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
(505) 277-3103 (office)
(505) 277-0021 (fax)

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

ESF-LiU Conference

Literature for Europe: European Identities and European Literature in a =
Globalizing World

Vadstena Klosterhotell, Sweden
12-16 May 2007

Chaired by: Theo L. D'haen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)

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Call for Papers: Connection & Disconnection (Comparative Literature)
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), October 4-6, 2007
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Please submit 200-250 word abstracts
Deadline: March 1
to Yurika Tamura, yurika_at_email.arizona.edu.

We are seeking papers that explore sense of connection, disconnection,
identity and dislocation in literature from interdisciplinary perspective.
Topics suggested (but not limited to):

Transnationalism
Issues such as Gneder, Race and Class
Canonization
Post-colonialism
Forms/genres of literature (Blogs, letters, commercial website, etc.)

This is an UPDATED call for papers to contribute to an article collection on African American and
Afro-Caribbean Women Writers.

We are soliciting manuscripts that critically examine contemporary works by African American and
Afro-Caribbean women writers. Manuscripts should explore factors that shape African American
women's identities and trace processes of memory formation as they occur in domestic and public
spheres.

Specifically, we are looking for submissions which address the following areas of influence:

religion
mythologies
magical realism
gender and sexualities
sites of eating and the role of food
historiography
violence
family
vocation/profession

Submissions are invited for this special session proposal for the 2007 MLA convention, which will be held in Chicago on 12/27/07 - 12/30/07.
   

Association of University English Teachers of South Africa/ SAACLALS/ SAVAL CONFERENCE 2007
   
  8 - 11 July 2007,
   
  UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL, HOWARD COLLEGE, DURBAN
  
WORLDS, TEXTS, CRITICS
   
  Deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 April 2007.
  
Website: http://academic.sun.ac.za/english/AUETSA2007/
  SPECIAL PANEL MAGICAL REALISM: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Convenor: Faisal Marrouki
  email (fmarrouki_at_yahoo.com)