ethnicity and national identity

Fluidity of Place: Creative and Analytical Interpretation of Place as Fluid 

deadline for abstract: 

October 22, 2018

conference:

November 9, 2018

contact email: 

egsafallconference@gmail.com

In this place we want your home or where you’ve left it.

We want your travels, your definitions, your dream homes,  your place in place—your rank. 

Not limited but may include a critical take on a novel, poem, film, art, or place. 

How water represents a way to erase.

Not limited but may include your specific coordinates. 

Your quiet place, that water.

Call for creative proposals for NeMLA 2018 in Washington D.C. March 21-24, 2019.

This creative session asks participants to write through a Portuguese and/or Canadian perspective in regards to borders, postcolonialism, saudade or 'the North'. The work focuses on understandings of these themes; the idea is to bring together a blend a contemporary national and/or personal views. The participant should write on either Portugal or Canada; there can be a Luso-Canadian view but this is not required for all entries. The goal is to understand and question nationhood through geography (landscapes), politics (economy), and culture (the self and the community).

Chair: Angela Ferreira, University of Alberta

                                                                              International Conference on Film Studies: "Identity, Projection and the Other" 9 February, 2019 - London, UKLondon Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

CALL FOR PAPERS – Indigenous Writing and Culture of North America – Canada and the United States

The Literary Encyclopedia at www.litencyc.com is looking for qualified writers to enhance its coverage of Indigenous writing and culture of the United States and Canada. The list below is not comprehensive or final, and new proposals of writers/ works/context essays that are not currently listed in our database are also welcome. However, we will prioritize articles on writers and works frequently studied in university courses, and those that are highly topical and well-known.

Yugoslavia’s ties with German-speaking countries are deeply rooted in history. From the Austro-Hungarian Empire, through to the Gastarbeiter program of the 1960s and 1970s, various historical political connections account for why a great number of Yugoslavs live in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland today. In more recent times, the geographical proximity of German-speaking countries made these an accessible safe haven for refugees fleeing Yugoslavia during the wars of the 1990s. To this day, the Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001) remain the most brutal and violent conflict in post-1945 Europe. Following the cessation of violence in the Balkans, many of these refugees returned home, while others chose to stay in their new, adoptive homeland.