postcolonial

ESF-LiU Conference

Literature for Europe: European Identities and European Literature in a =
Globalizing World

Vadstena Klosterhotell, Sweden
12-16 May 2007

Chaired by: Theo L. D'haen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)

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Call for Papers: Connection & Disconnection (Comparative Literature)
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), October 4-6, 2007
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Please submit 200-250 word abstracts
Deadline: March 1
to Yurika Tamura, yurika_at_email.arizona.edu.

We are seeking papers that explore sense of connection, disconnection,
identity and dislocation in literature from interdisciplinary perspective.
Topics suggested (but not limited to):

Transnationalism
Issues such as Gneder, Race and Class
Canonization
Post-colonialism
Forms/genres of literature (Blogs, letters, commercial website, etc.)

This is an UPDATED call for papers to contribute to an article collection on African American and
Afro-Caribbean Women Writers.

We are soliciting manuscripts that critically examine contemporary works by African American and
Afro-Caribbean women writers. Manuscripts should explore factors that shape African American
women's identities and trace processes of memory formation as they occur in domestic and public
spheres.

Specifically, we are looking for submissions which address the following areas of influence:

religion
mythologies
magical realism
gender and sexualities
sites of eating and the role of food
historiography
violence
family
vocation/profession

Submissions are invited for this special session proposal for the 2007 MLA convention, which will be held in Chicago on 12/27/07 - 12/30/07.
   

Association of University English Teachers of South Africa/ SAACLALS/ SAVAL CONFERENCE 2007
   
  8 - 11 July 2007,
   
  UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL, HOWARD COLLEGE, DURBAN
  
WORLDS, TEXTS, CRITICS
   
  Deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 April 2007.
  
Website: http://academic.sun.ac.za/english/AUETSA2007/
  SPECIAL PANEL MAGICAL REALISM: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Convenor: Faisal Marrouki
  email (fmarrouki_at_yahoo.com)
   

Feminism(s): Film, Video and Politics Symposium
University of Hartford
West Hartford, CT
Conference Dates: April 20-22nd

Call for Papers, Films, Videos, Performances, and Workshops
Submission Deadline: February 25th

Confirmed Speakers Include:
Abigail Child, Dara Greenwald, Jeanine Oleson, Maureen Turim
and Sasha Waters

SYNTHETICS
The 18th Annual Southland Graduate Student Conference
UCLA English Department
Friday, 4 May 2007

What does it mean to invoke the category of "the synthetic" today?

CFP: Shakespeare and Related Topics (3/15/07; PAMLA, 11/2/07-11/3/07)

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference (PAMLA)
Panel Topic: Shakespeare and Related Topics
November 2-3, 2007
Western Washington University
Bellingham, Washington

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2007

Paper proposals sought for a panel on "Shakespeare and Related Topics."
Proposals are encouraged on any topic in Shakespeare studies; possible
topics include:

Dialogue and Borders: Rethinking Latin America and the Caribbean
April 27-28, 2007

Keynote Speaker: Susan Besse (City College, CUNY)

Call for Papers
(Spanish version follows)

Call for Papers

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REROUTING THE POSTCOLONIAL

The University of Northampton, UK, 3-4 July 2007 (07/03/07 - 07/04/07)

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To mark the re-launch of the journal World Literature Written in English
as the Journal of Postcolonial Studies, The Centre for Contemporary
Fiction and Narrative, University of Northampton, and the Journal of
Postcolonial Writing, in association with Taylor and Francis publishers
and the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, hosts:

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Simon Gikandi =20

Patrick Williams=20

Elleke Boehmer=20

Alastair Niven

CALL FOR PAPERS

SECOND INTERNATIONAL ANTHONY BURGESS SYMPOSIUM

"Anthony Burgess: Selves and Others"

July 26th-28th 2007
Liverpool Hope University (UK)

ABSTRACTS (250 words)DUE MAY 15TH 2007

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, in conjunction with Liverpool
Hope University, University of Salford and Manchester Metropolitan
University is pleased to announce its Second Symposium on the work of
Anthony Burgess.

CFP: Postcolonial Representation[s] and the U.S. (grad) [2/23/07; 5/12/07]
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Centennial House, University of California, Santa Barbara

Keynote Speaker: Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of English, UC Santa
Barbara (biography below)

http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/conference/grad2007/cfp.asp

MAPPING NEW NIGERIAN LITERATURE

Fourth Annual Conference of the Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State University.
 
"Black Diaspora in the South and the Caribbean."

Mar 16-17, 2007

NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Feb. 1, 2007

Invited keynote speakers include:

-Jane Landers, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
-Francis Abiola Irele, Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
-Ifeoma Nwanko, Associate Professor of English Vanderbilt University

The Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State University invites proposals for individual presentations at its fourth annual conference.