postcolonial

Sifting Through Lies: Toward an Aesthetic Impunity?

CFP: CINEMA SOUTH ASIA (11/30; U Penn, 2/1/08-2/2/08)

In 1919 A. A. Macdonnels had commented that "Probably no work of world
literature, secular in origin, has ever produced so profound an influence
on the life and thought of a people as the Ramayana." On September 2007
this observation was re-enacted when the Archaeological Survey of India
got deadlocked in a legal battle with the Hindu political hardliners over
a shipping canal project in the Indian Ocean known as the Project
Sethusamudram. The project involves destruction of a series of
underwater islands built of sand and limestone and are otherwise known
as Rama's bridge. According to a popular Hindu belief, the army of monkeys
that helped Rama to reach Lanka, also built this bridge. On September 11,

Human Rights and/in Global Literary Production: Pedagogical and
Theoretical Perspectives

Elizabeth Goldberg & Alexandra Schultheis, co-chairs

Please submit proposals through the ACLA Conference website. Deadline
11/15/07.
http://www.acla.org/acla2008

Psychoanalysis in Context: Critical Readings of Literature and Theory

Dear Colleagues,

       I am inviting paper proposals for a seminar of 8-12 presenters at
the American Comparative Literature Association. The plan is to turn the
the proceedings of the conference into a publication. Please spread the
word. Thanks.

Basuli Deb

War & the (Re)Invention of Communications & Communities (11/01/07;
2/29/08-3/1/08) Arizona State U.

Paper Submission Deadline Extended to Nov. 1, 2007

How does the (re)invention of communications and communities intersect with
issues of war? How can war, totalitarianism, or torture be reconsidered
regarding transmission, translation, and transgression? Examples could
include transmission of information to communities about war via media and
visual images; translation of trauma to the body into writing or speaking;
how literature, art, creative writing, rhetoric, etc. might translate war;
and transgressions against the nation-state, religion, gender, violence, etc.

American Association of Australian Literary Studies
Call for Papers
2008 Annual Conference
Doubletree Guest Suites in Austin, Texas
28 February-1 March 2008
 
The American Association of Australian Literary Studies will hold its
annual conference in Austin, Texas from 28 February through 1 March 2008.
AAALS welcomes papers on any aspect of Australian or Antipodean
literature or culture. AAALS will meet simultaneously with the annual
meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North
America (ANZSANA). Shared events will include an evening reception on 28
February and a formal banquet on 29 February.
 

Translation in Literature

Fine literature does and should span centuries and continents. But have
you ever played telephone? Have you ever played operator?

What is lost in the translation of ancient texts or even contemporary
texts in different languages? How can the poems of Turgenev or the
initially oral tales of, say, The Iliad retain their meaning through time
and space? And if something is lost in translation, why must we strive
for transmission in this ever-shrinking, wi-fy connected world?

Interdisciplinary panel, paper, and creative submissions are invited for
the 14th annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium at Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ, held Feb. 29-March 1, 2008.

CALL FOR PAPERS for a 34th ALA Annual Conference PANEL
22-27 April 2008 Western Illinois University
http://www.wiu.edu/ala2008

Translating African Literature/African Literature in Translation

                                        The Department of African American Studies
                                                                    and
                                                   Western Illinois University

                                                              Welcome

                                The 34th Annual African Literature Association (ALA) Conference
                                                       April 22 - 27, 2008

Conference Theme:

“African and African Diaspora Women Writers, Global Challenges and Cultural Identity”

Demystifying Stigma: The Dilemma of Difference

Call for Papers

The 3rd Muslim Studies Conference
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

Conference Dates: April 3-5

Conference Title: “Muslims, Race and the Public Sphere”

Keynote Speakers: Mahmood Mamdani, Geneive Abdo, and Howard Winant

Of Words, Bodies Politic and Alternative Communities
University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Department of English Studies
March 14-15, 2008.

Call for papers: