SASRIM, the South African Society for Research in Music announces its
second annual conference to be hosted by Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
University (formerly the University of Port Elizabeth), Port Elizabeth,
from 21 â€" 23 August 2008. The conference theme is "African Voices".
Researchers into music are hereby invited to submit proposals for
presentations which may be in the form of 20-minute papers, joint 20-
minute presentations, panel discussions, 90-minute demonstration papers or
poster displays. Proposals should be approximately 300 words, and be
accompanied by a curriculum vitae of the presenter/s. Topics that do not
directly address the conference focus may also be considered for inclusion.

Indo-Caribbean Literature and Culture
A Conference to Celebrate the 170thAnniversary of the Arrival of
East Indians in the Caribbean
University of Warwick
9th-10th May 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Graduate Association of French and Italian Students
is pleased to announce its
21st Annual Symposium

Engaged/Engaging Texts: The Power of the Written and Spoken Word

April 4-5, 2008
The University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no
history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

                                        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”

I CONGRESS ON TECHNOLOGIES OF WRITING

Special guests include contemporary poets and novelists Coral Bracho,
Horacio Castellanos Moya, Jorge Etcheverry, Teobaldo Noriega, Edmundo Paz
Soldán, Clinton Ramírez

Primary veins of study include: Writing and the visual arts; Literature
in the digital era; the lettered city and the global community;
literature, semiotics and cybernetics; language, literature and community
during the internet era; technologies for writing throughout the Western
world; Writing, technologies and contemporary social movements; Writing,
orality and visual culture; and, Literature and the editorial industry.

The Immigrant Writer as Creator of Identity

The Task of the Translator in a Globalized World