postcolonial

Please note that the deadline has been extended to September 30th, 2007.

Call for Papers:

“The Politics of Global Modernism: Revisiting Colonial Modernity”

39th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 10-13, 2008
Buffalo, New York

Wanderings in India: Australian Perceptions
Celebrating Links between Australia and India

Edited by: Rick Hosking and Amit Sarwal

Dedicated to the memory and works of the first Australian-born author
John George Lang (b. 1816 â€" d. 1864)

“The bread we eat comes from India.” â€" Governor Lachlan Macquarie

I am looking for scholars who would be interested in forming a 3-4-person
panel on storytelling conventions for the International Conference on
Narrative at Austin, May 1-4, 2008. The focus of this panel would be genre,
not just in the traditional sense of form (poetry, drama, and prose, or
tragedy, comedy, and melodrama), but also more broadly construed in terms
of media conventions (Hollywood films, graphic novels, and oral
testimonies). How do these traditional and contemporary storytelling
practices shape (positively or negatively) the story, the storyteller and
the audience? How have various authors or media sought to influence
(successfully and unsuccessfully) the audience’s response to particular

The 29th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Delightful Horror and the Sense of Wonder:
Appreciating the Sublime in the Fantastic

Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature
 
39th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 10-13, 2008
Buffalo, New York
 
Proposals are invited for papers examining postcolonial issues within
Australian literature, such as hybridity, first contact, resistance,
indigeneity, colonialism, imperialism, immigration/invasion, national
identity, marginalization, expatriation and diaspora. Papers emphasizing
the postcoloniality of Australian literature are particularly welcome.
Please send 250-word abstracts, institutional affiliation and contact
information via email to Nathanael O'Reilly at
nathanael.oreilly_at_wmich.edu.
 
Deadline: September 15, 2007

How do writers and artists such St. Augustine, Macrobius, Roger Bacon,
Ranulf Higden, and others describe the globe? Do religious, scientific,
cartographical, and other ideas about the world complement or contradict
each other? Do concerns of genre and audience complicate the textual or
artistic global imaginary? What critical concepts are most useful in
analyzing representations of the world: hybridity, frontier,
cosmopolitanism, utopia, insularity? Proposals are sought for papers that
address geography, travel, cartography, and imagined worlds. Email to
Matthew Boyd Goldie (mgoldie_at_rider.edu) by September 15, 2007.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS:
     Odia Ofeimun’s blurbâ€"“Sefi Atta’s novel has the nerve to redefine
existing traditions of African story telling. It confronts the familiar
passions of a city and a country with unusual insights and a lyrical power
pointing our literature to truly greater heights.”â€"found on the back cover
of the 2005 West African paperback edition of Atta’s Everything Good Will
Come speaks accurately, city and country specifics notwithstanding, for
the greater part of new African writing. Similarly, regarding Chris
Abani’s GraceLand, book critics at America Magazine note that the 2004
novel is part of “The next wave...of Nigerian literature,” while critics

University of Salford

Call for Papers

Displacement and Belonging in the Contemporary World

An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference

6-7 September 2007

A forum for the arts, media, and social sciences

Presentations are welcome from fields such as politics, philosophy,
anthropology, religions and theology, geography, sociology, psychology,
literature, history, classics, translation studies, visual and screen studies,
and the performing arts.

Possible themes include:

    *Please note new E-mail contact for submissions: womenstudies_at_southernct.edu*
   
  Southern Connecticut State University
  Women's Studies Program
   
  Presents
   
  The Seventeenth Annual Women's Studies Conference
   
  "Global & Local Women's Studies: Going on Forty"
  
  To be held on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University
  Friday and Saturday, October 19 and 20, 2007

                                                                                                                     
  Invitation for proposals on interdisciplinary scholarly and creative work
   Submission Deadline: Postmarked by Monday, June 11, 2007

BHARTIYA solicits original contributions to its International E Journal. =
Bhartiya is an online International Journal of Indian Studies aiming to =
bring the best of cultural studies to a diverse academic and =
non-academic audience. We feature research articles and features =
practices and conditions specific to contemporary popular culture: =
traditions, etc. BHARTIYA shall include scholarly articles pertaining to =
the issues which are faced by Indians in any part of the world including =
India. It's a platform for all those who want to share the issues which =
need an attention and get the things changed for betterment. In fact it =

UPDATE: DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS EXTENDED TO MAY 30TH 2007

2ND INTERNATIONAL ANTHONY BURGESS SYMPOSIUM

"Anthony Burgess: selves and Others"

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

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS MAY 30TH 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.

Contributions are solicited for inclusion in a book on Exile and Narrative/Poetic Imagination. Papers may examine texts by any exiled writer from any country, dealing with the literary representation of exile. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: women and exile; creativity and exile; personal/cultural memory; remembering, longing, and forgetting; language and identity; (re)contruction of identity.
Submissions and Inquires: Dr. Agnieszka Gutthy - agutthy_at_selu.edu
Send a 15-20 page paper along with a copy of your CV
Essays should be documented in MLA style and should be in Word format, 12 point typeface, Times New Roman
Deadline for submission: October 31, 2007

CFP: Thinking Globally, Teaching Locally (CCCC 2008)

Teaching a first-year composition course themed on issues of
globalization can be an uphill battle, especially if that course is
taught in one of this country's many rural colleges and universities.
While a rapidly contracting globe makes certain economic, environmental,
and cultural issues imperative, colleges in our nation's hinterlands
often lack significant economic and ethnic diversity. Even well-prepared
students can remain insulated in very local contexts, environments that
can facilitate hasty generalizations or a disempowering relativism.

1st Global Conference
Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging

Monday 3rd September - Wednesday 5th September 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford