ethnicity and national identity

Call for Papers

We are organizing panels and seeking papers for them on Asian
literature, including Asian film, for the 9th International Conference
on Intercultural Communication to be held at California State
University, Fullerton, July 24-28, 2003. Papers on any topic relevant
to Asian literature and film are invited, but we are particularly
interested in those which focus on over-crossing phenomena in Asian
literature and film, such as:

International relationships
Inter-Asian influences
Literary affinities between the old and new
Intertextuality

>Contributors are being sought for the Dictionary of
>Literary Biography Volume on Asian American Authors,
>edited by Deborah L. Madsen. Entries are due July 1st,
>2003. The list of unassigned writers follows.
>
>If you are interested in contributing, please contact
>Prof. Madsen at:
><mailto:deborah.madsen_at_ntlworld.com>deborah.madsen_at_ntlworld.com
>

Call for papers/editors

ALTITUDE
altitude_at_api-network.com

Introducing Altitude, a new e-journal. The ambition of the Altitude
project is to work in a collaborative, interdisciplinary and international
context, in the field of Australian Studies. As part of the API Network it
is committed to the ideal of democratising knowledges, concerned with
enabling and provoking vibrant and exploratory textual conversations
amongst new and emerging critical and scholarly writing.

Call for Papers: Literary Aesthetics and Theory in Asian American
Writing (12/15/02; 05/01/03; collection)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Max Kade
German-American Electronic Library
Volume 1

A Publication of the German-American Studies Program,
University of Cincinnati

This new electronic library series will publish original works of
scholarship in German-American Studies, e.g.: German-American history,
language, literature, and culture.

Proposals particularly suited to electronic publication will be given
special consideration. This includes research that effectively incorporates
multimedia material, worthy projects that would not normally be published in
print form due to size or cost constraints, and interactive projects that
are completely multimedia-based.

Dear all,

The Journal Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (RAEI) seeks
submissions for the forthcoming special issue on "New Literatures in
English". The aim of this collection of essays is to explore the
different labels that have been used within the fields of the so-called
Postcolonial Studies, Commonwealth Studies and, more recently, New
Literatures in English. We particularly welcome scholarly manuscripts
both on creative writing and theoretical debates dealing with the
following topics:

-Nation, migration, diaspora

-Gender

-Ethnicity

-Cultural identity

-Globalization

-Use of literary genres

CALL FOR PAPERS
Chinese America: History and Perspectives
Founded by Chinese American studies pioneer, Him Mark
Lai, Chinese America is the only journal dedicated to
the publication of articles and primary source
materials concerning the history of Chinese in the
Americas. Specialists in the study of Chinese
migration and settlement from all disciplinary
approaches are encouraged to submit original articles
for publication.
Past contributors include leading scholars such as
Wang Gungwu, Him Mark Lai, Ron Takaki, Sucheng Chan,
Judy Yung along with the work of up-and-coming junior
scholars and historically-minded community leaders.
Chinese America is published annually through the

Call for Abstracts

Essay Collection Geomodernisms: 'Race,' Modernism, Modernity
This collection seeks a select group of essays that interpret modernism as
one phenomenon of an uneven modernity, that is, a modernism emerging at
different times and places within such contradictory forces as technology,
diaspora, global capitalism, nationalism, and poly-lingualism. We are
especially seeking essays that probe the interlocking of cultural
aesthetics and geo-politics, taking into consideration the local and global
dimensions of a particular modernism.

>Manuscripts are sought for a new series published by
>LIT Verlag (Berlin), entitled CAALS (Contributions to
>Asian American Literary Studies). This series of
>monographs or collections of essays is the first of
>its kind edited in Europe and aims to create an
>international forum for the interdisciplinary
>discussion of Asian American Literary Studies.
>Contextualizing the Asian American experience in

Professor Jacob George
Director, Centre for Canadian Studies
& Editor, Journal of Indo-Canadian Studies
Union Christian College,
Alwaye-683 102
Kerala, India.

April 26, 2001

Dear Professor,

Greetings from the Centre for Canadian Studies, Union Christian College,
Alwaye, Kerala, India.

CALL FOR AUTHORS

A few authors are still available for the forthcoming volume of the
Dictionary of Literary Biography dedicated to "Twenty-first Century British
and Irish Novelists." This volume will contain a wide array of authors who
are making their reputations today but will likely write well into the
twenty-first century.

Julie Myerson (6,000 words)
Livi Michael (6,000 words)
Philip Hensher (4,000 words)
Kate O’Riordon (4,000 words)
Emma Donoghue (4,000 words)
Peter Cunningham (6,000 words)
Michael Collins (4,000 words)
James Ryan (4,000 words)
Toby Litt (4,000 words)
Ahdaf Soueif (4,000 words)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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Journal of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association / Revue de la
Soci^?t^? canadienne des ^?tudes lesbiennes et gaies

Call for Submissions

Issues 2 (2000) and 3 (2001)

torquere warmly invites submissions of completed scholarly papers or
creative writing to be published in our forthcoming issues

Aims and Scope