postcolonial

Call for Papers
Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association,
Calgary,Alberta, Canada, October 3-6, 2007.

Session: Australian Film and Literature
Call for theoretically informed papers focusing on any aspect of
Australian film, literature, or popular culture.

Please send a one-page abstract or 12 page paper and vita to:

Professor Liahna Armstrong
Central Washington University
lotus_at_cwu.edu

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Professor Liahna Armstrong
Department of English
Central Washington University
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7558
Office phone: 509-963-1738
Dept. phone: 509-963-1546
Fax: 509-963-1561

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Postcolonial Green

This collection proceeds from our conviction that postcolonial theorists =
and ecocritics have a great deal to gain from one another. At present, =
however, postcolonial theory lacks a dimension of eco-critique despite =
the fact that many postcolonial issues are also issues of environmental =
crisis. Ecocriticism still retains a local and regional focus on place =
at the expense of a global vision that recognizes international =
interdependence, and has privileged =93first world=94 blind spots in its =
assumptions about how best to value nature.=20

Why We Move: Economic, Environmental, Cultural and Political Dimensions of
International Migration

International Center
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
April 13-14, 2007

Call For Papers

The Puerto Rican/Latin American Studies Department at John Jay College
of Criminal Justice is currently soliciting papers and presentations for
its international conference on "Dominican Haitians Representations:
Migrations, Citizenship and Human Rights" to take place from February
22-23, 2007 in New York City. Currently, an estimated 500,000 Haitian
immigrants and Dominican-Haitians are living in the Dominican Republic
without any form of identification, which leave them exposed to summary
deportation to Haiti. The Dominican Republic and Haiti share an island
in the Caribbean Sea; with a legacy of colonialism, foreign
interventions, migrations and long history of political and social

**Please note: the previously advertised conference is a graduate =
conference**

=93New Worlds, Lost Worlds=94: Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature
McGill University, Montr=E9al
13th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
March 10-11, 2007

The English Graduate Students Association of McGill University is =
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announce its 13th annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, =
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is seeking panel and paper proposals on the theme =93New Worlds, Lost =
Worlds=94:=20
Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature. The conference will be held =
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Montr=E9al, Canada on March 10th-11th, 2007.

Call for Panels and Papers

The 2007 Texas Tech Comparative Literature Symposium on "America's Asia,
Asia's America"=20

April 13-14, 2007 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas

Texas Tech University houses the largest Vietnam Archive in the United
States, and West Texas has been home to thousands of Vietnamese/Asian
Americans. Late spring in Lubbock is usually mild and sunny.

Keynote Speakers:

Sheldon Xiao-peng Lu, Comparative Literature Program, UC-Davis;

Rob Wilson, Department of Literature, UC-Santa Cruz;

Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, Asian American Studies Program, UC-Berkeley

Proposal Submission Deadline: January 12, 2007

Call for Papers

International Conference:
"Palestine and the First World War - New Perspectives"

The Tel-Hai Academic College in Upper Galilee, Israel, is planning an
international academic conference to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the
Palestine Campaign during the First World War and the British occupation of
Jerusalem in 1917. The conference will be held on 3-6 September 2007 at the
college's campus at Tel-Hai. Official languages: English and Hebrew with
simultaneous translation.

LSU EGSA Mardi Gras Conference on Language and Literature.
Feb. 16-17, 2007
Lod Cook Alumni Center
Baton Rouge, LA

Members Only: Gatekeepers and the Future of Literary Studies

Keynote Speaker: Timothy Brennan, Professor of Comparative Literature,
Cultural Studies, and English, The University of Minnesota.
Selected Publications: Wars of Position: Cultural Politics of Left and
Right (2005), Ed. Music in Cuba (2001), At Home in the World:
Cosmopolitanism Now (1997).

"Beyond the Gate: Exploring the Horizons of World Literature"

"Battleground States 2007: Intersections Of Poetics And Politics"

Call for seminar papers for the American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Conference 2007, "Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact"
Puebla, Mexico
April 19-22, 2007

Deadline: 1 November 2006

Seminar Title: A New Global Poetics?

American Comparative Literature Association
"Trans, Pan, Intra: Cultures in Contact" Conference
Puebla, Mexico
19-22 April 2007

Seminar: "Rethinking the Pacific Imaginary: Militarism, Geopolitics, and
Emergent Asia/Pacific/US Cultural Production" (seminar chair: Rob Wilson,
University of California, Santa Cruz)

Call for Essay Proposals for MLA Volume on Teaching Anglophone Caribbean
Literature
 
 
For the MLA Options for Teaching Series, the Publications Committee has
approved development of the volume Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature,
edited by Supriya M. Nair. Essay proposals are invited for the following
projected sections of the volume:

Deadline extended to 16 October 2006

Atenea, a multidisciplinary bilingual journal on the humanities and
social sciences, features essays, books reviews, and some fiction and
poetry.

URL: http://www.uprm.edu/atenea

The editorial board invites submissions for publication for a special
issue (June 2007) on "(Post) Colonialism and (Trans) Nationalism."
Submissions in either English or Spanish are welcome (see the guidelines
below):

Call for Papers and Expressions of Interest

 in an Upcoming Symposium on

"Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Representation, and Power in Colonial and
Post-Colonial Cultures"

Thursday 12 April 2007

University of Queensland

Colonialism produces its fair share of celebrities, yet the meanings, forms,
and functions of celebrities within colonial and post-colonial cultures have
received little scholarly attention.

The Postcolonial Research Group of the University of Queensland invites
expressions of interest in, and proposals for papers for, a symposium on
Celebrity Colonialism to be held at the University of Queensland in April
2007.