CALL FOR PAPERS
22nd Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
February 15-16 2013
Hilton Savannah DeSoto, Savannah GA

The British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, inaugurated in 1992, is the oldest and longest-running annual meeting of its kind in the United States. It encompasses colonial and postcolonial histories, literatures, creative and performing arts, politics, economics, and all other aspects of the countries formerly colonized by Britain and other European powers.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jahan Ramazani is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English; Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and Yeats and the Poetry of Death. He edited the most recent edition of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry and, with Jon Stallworthy, The Twentieth Century and After, in The Norton Anthology of English Literature. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH Fellowship, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the William Riley Parker Prize.

SEE FULL CONFERENCE DETAILS
Online at http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/litphi/bcpsc/
OR http://goo.gl/TIUrb

PAPERS ACCEPTED
The aim of the conference is to be interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, and to offer scholars and researchers, teachers and students, the opportunity to disseminate and discuss their knowledge and understanding of the dynamic, important field of postcolonial studies.

We invite proposals in both thematic (migration, diaspora studies, etc.) and geographic (Eurabia, South Asia, etc.) areas:

Bioethics, Ecology, and Ecocriticism
Migration, Diaspora, Hybridity, and Borders
Region, Religion, Politics, and Culture
Literature, Arts, and the Media
History and Historiography
War and Terrorism
Race, Racism, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
Ethics, Economics, and Globalization
Pedagogy and the Disciplines
Intersections of Francophone and Anglophone Literatures
Postcolonial and the Transnational Literatures
Liberation literature from Africa
Health and Wellness
North (excluding the USA), Central, and South America
Europe (Fortress Europe, Eurabia, Londonistan, Ireland)
South Asia (Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka)
Southeast Asia (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)
Africa (Nigeria, South Africa, Black Atlantic)
The Middle East
Australia and Oceania
Or any other aspect of the British Commonwealth of nations, or of countries formerly colonized by other European powers.

SUBMISSION PROCESS
Submissions are accepted online at the Conference web site: http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/litphi/bcpsc/
OR http://goo.gl/TIUrb

DEADLINE - DEADLINE EXTENDED
The deadline for proposal submissions is now NOVEMBER 15, 2012.
Notification of acceptance will be completed by December 20, 2012.

INFO FOR POTENTIAL PRESENTERS
Abstracts of 300 words maximum are required via the submission form.
Panels should be designed for 75 minutes; individual papers for 15-minute delivery -- maximum.
Proposals for panels should include an abstract for each paper with complete information on each presenter.

REGISTRATION FEES
Regular Registration (includes all conference events, meals, and receptions): $150.00
Graduate Student / Retiree (includes all conference events, meals, and receptions): $120.00