postcolonial

Women Writing Syria: Resilience, Solidarity, Movement

Call for Submissions

How do Syrian women writers, poets and artists imagine Syria, both before and after the revolution and war? Can we imagine Syria without war? Can Syria – as a site that is at once shared, divided and contested – inspire us to bring it into being through creative writing and arts? Could we make this imagined Syria a concrete reality? How can Syrian women’s narratives and voices be heard?

We invite contributions from Syrian women writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, playwrights and cross-genre writers writing in English, Arabic and Turkish for the forthcoming anthology Women Writing Syria. Visuals by artists are also welcome.

4th Ventana Conference on Latin America: 

Decolonial Dialogues from, within and beyond the Global Margins

5th-7th October 2022

University of York, United Kingdom

"Home and Homelessness in the Ecologies of Daily Life"

PAMLA 2022, Los Angeles

Panel Chairs: Paula Cucurella (UC Riverside) and Tyler M. Williams (Midwestern State University)

Panel Abstract: 

This edited volume seeks to examine how sexual violence and feminist interventions in South Asia and the Diaspora have been articulated in the context of but, more importantly, in opposition to the #MeToo Movement. We seek to understand how the feminist movement has radically diverged from the assimilationist discourse of the #MeToo Movement and, consequently, the Global North. The #MeToo movement has not made an impact at the grassroots level because it is hinged on the victim-survivor to speak up. In an era where the Global North has been a model for influencing change in the Global South, there has been an inconspicuous absence of recognition and impact of the #MeToo Movement.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
FOR
BOOK PUBLICATION BY AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHER

The Ineffable Temporal: Coordinates of Time in the (Indian) Literary

Edited by
Ritwick Bhattacharjee
Srinjoyee Dutta

A 2 Day International Children’s & Young Adult Literature Conference
Organised by Jadavpur University, Department of English in collaboration with The
Association for Children’s Literature in South Asia
Dates: 5 - 6 August 2022
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31st May 2022
Conference Location: Zoom

Utopia and Ecotone: Contemporary Stakes

Ecotones #8

Ghent University, Belgium, 29 September – 1 October 2022

In partnership with

EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), DIRE (Université de La Réunion), MFO (CNRS)

https://emma.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/valorisation-partenariats/programmes-...́ens-et- internationaux/ecotones

Conference venue: Ghent University, Belgium

Dates: 29 September – 1 October 2022

Gardening is generally considered as an affective-material labor whereby, plants, soil, matter, and objects are transformed—through practices of care, love, and attention—into new well-planned landscapes, vegetation, and a good harvest.  Even though early writing, in Latin and Greek was more concerned with agriculture than gardening, writing about gardens has a long history in France and England, an tends to be rhetorical — in an attempt to tie the beauty and harmony found in great landscapes to higher artistic pursuits.

In this course, students will explore the ways in which sf writers deny mainstream representations of gender, sexuality, culture, nationality, and race by crafting stories that pulls in, rather than leaves out underrepresented groups of people. During the course we will focus on texts either by sf writers or about sf that allow us to re-think the mainstream. Through the focus on these texts we will ultimately assess the extent to which literature, particularly sf, acts as a vehicle for socio-cultural, and ideological change. 

As we read, view, and discuss these texts, we will pursue the following:

Learning Objectives:

Taking the Mic:
Black British Spoken Word Poetry Since 1965
Aesthetics, Activisms, Auralities

Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK.
Friday 18th November 2022

Keynote Speakers: Carolyn Cooper, Professor Emerita, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
and TBA

Deadline for Abstracts: 15th June 2022

NEW UPDATED DEADLINE! ! !  MAY 20th

Karyn Hixson is a graduate fellow at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Her research centers on African American female political activism, linguistic justice, and anti-racist pedagogies utilizing visual rhetoric of civil rights movements of the late 19th and 20th Centuries.  

Call for Papers – Midwest Modern Language Association 2022 Conference

"Un/Making Graphic History:
BD and Narratives of Resistance in French"

Call for Papers

‘The British Empire, Scotland, and Indian Famines: A Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network’ presents two conferences on

The British Empire and Colonial Famines: History, Culture, Critique

University of Edinburgh and IIIT Guwahati

Sep 8-9, 2022 and Jan 7-8, 2023