The International Conference on Information Science and Technology on (ICIST 2011)) will be held in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China during March 26-28, 2011. Nanjing was an old capital of China for six dynasties with 2470-year history and rich cultural heritage. She is now a modern metropolis featuring numerous historic and scenery sites. The recently opened high-speed trains can reach Nanjing from Shanghai in an hour at the speed of as high as 350 KM/hour.

The early modern period witnessed a dramatic increase in the migration, expulsion and exile of social groups and individuals around the globe. The physical movements of religious refugees triggered widespread, ongoing migrations that shaped both the contours of European colonialist expansion and the construction of regional, national and religious identities. Human movements (both real and imagined) also animated material culture; the presence of bodies, buildings, texts, songs and relics shaped and reshaped the host societies into which immigrants entered.

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The 42nd Annual College English Association Conference
March 31 – April 2, 2011 – St. Petersburg, Florida
The Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront, 333 First Street South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701; (727) 894-5000

NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE at CEA:
The Native American Literature panel at CEA welcomes submissions on any aspect of Native American Literature, including papers on individual authors, Native American literary separatism, the Native American Renaissance, native sovereignty, indigenous rhetorics, etc. Of particular interest will be papers that address the conference theme, FORTUNES, from an indigenous perspective or worldview.

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Department of Middle East, South Asia, and African Studies at Columbia University Graduate Student Conference

"Imaginary Geographies"

February 17th & 18th, 2011

How is it that the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa have emerged as separate geographical regions (separate from each other, and from other regions) in "our" imagination? How does this mapping serve the ends and guide the workings of academic and political institutions? How is it contested? What is its history, and what is the history of its alternatives?

The legends and history of Greco-Roman antiquity have enjoyed a revival in cinema and television (300, Troy, Gladiator, Rome, Spartacus), and scholars have approached such works using the analytical tools of both classics and film studies. We suggest, however, that this interdisciplinary dialogue is due for development beyond film adaptation into a greater examination of film's use of ancient Rome's alien topography.

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