postcolonial

CALL FOR PAPERSThe 8th Forum of Critical StudiesAsking Big Questions Again

24 - 25 January 2020

Venice, Italy

Deadline for Paper Proposals: 5th of December 2019

We are hoping to organise an open-to-public seminar on "Cantonese and Education", which will take place on Thursday 28 November 2019 (tentative, venue TBA). We are looking for speakers to speak for 15 minutes about any aspects that relates to the theme.

Topics may include language, social and liberal studies classes, creative expression, global access, politics on campus, and more. The speakers will also be asked to give comments on others' presentations.

If you are interested in participating, please send a title of your short paper and some initial thoughts to Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (tammyh@hkbu.edu.hk) by Friday 1 November 2019.

The first bilingual and interdisciplinary academic journal on Hong Kong, Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press), is now accepting articles for a special issue, Gender and Sexuality on Hong Kong Screens, curated with Professor Gina Marchetti (HKU) and scheduled for publication in Spring 2020. Hong Kong cinema opens up a “pivotal place as a public platform for the consideration of Chinese identity, sexual orientation, and gender roles in the digital age,” write the editors of Hong Kong Screenscapes (HKU Press, 2011).

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Fourth Annual Global Souths Conference

Formerly the Deep South in the Global South Conference

March 19-21, 2020

University of Louisiana-Lafayette

Lafayette, Louisiana

“Doing southern studies is unmasking and refusing the binary thinking--‘North’/‘South,’ nation/South, First World/Third World, self/other--that postcolonial studies has taught us is the most damaging rhetorical structure of empire. Doing southern studies is thinking geographically, thinking historically, thinking relationally, thinking about power, thinking about justice, thinking back.”             --Scott Romaine & Jennifer Rae Greeson

Discussing the epic and the novel, Mikhail Bakhtin refers to a “historical struggle of genres” that underwrites “the establishment and growth of a generic skeleton of literature.” Literature as a diverse discursive domain consists of various forms and genres that shape and functionalize it. There is a thin line between specific literary forms and genres. Is novel a form or genre? If novel is a form, we can think of particular genres of the novel such as gothic, whodunit, comedy, historical drama and so on. On the other hand, if novel is a genre, there are literary forms such as realism, naturalism, pastiche, parody, etc.