Call for Papers
34th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
University of Southampton, Wednesday 7th July - Friday 9th July 2010
The Society for Caribbean Studies invites submissions of one-page abstracts and a short CV by 15th January, 2010 for research papers on the Hispanic, Francophone, Dutch and Anglophone Caribbean, and on Caribbean diasporas for this annual international conference. Papers are welcomed from all disciplines and can address the themes outlined below. We also welcome abstracts for papers or for full panel proposals that fall outside this list of topics. Those selected for the conference will be invited to give a 20-minute presentation and will be offered the opportunity to publish their work as part of the Society's online series of papers. Further details and a full call for papers are available here.
Caribbean Enlightenment
An Interdisciplinary Caribbean Studies Conference, 8th to 9th April 2010, University of Glasgow.
confirmed speakers: J. Michael Dash, Charles Forsdick, Paget Henry, Kei Miller and Nick Nesbitt.
This conference aims to explore the various ways in which the site of the Caribbean, with its writers, artists, revolutionaries, and diverse peoples, has adapted and questioned the legacies of the Enlightenment. Acknowledging the Caribbean’s crucial role in the Atlantic world, the Enlightenment’s history of empire building and slave rebellions, colonial domination and postcolonial nation-building, the valorization of reason and its role in the division of knowledge, will be interrogated against the dissemination of a discourse promoting universal human rights, democracy and equality. Bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives on Enlightenment themes, both historical and contemporary, this conference will bring together Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanophone perspectives that explore figurations of the universal within the Caribbean context. Noting the region’s national and linguistic divides, this conference will expose the ways in which Enlightenment ideals have been adapted to express the particular experience of the Caribbean peoples.
For full details of the current call for papers and panel suggestions, click here.
Please send panel proposals and/or paper abstracts (300 words) with a brief biographical statement (150 words) to Lorna Burns and Michael Morris at caribbeanenlightenment@googlemail.com by 28th February 2010.
A limited number of postgraduate travel bursaries are available by application. Further details are available at www.gla.ac.uk/caribbeanenlightenment
Afromodernisms 1: Re-encounters with the French and Anglo-Atlantic Worlds, 1907–61.
Symposium: University of Liverpool, UK.
Confirmed Keynotes:
Professor David Scott, Columbia University, NY.
Professor Demetrius Eudell, Wesleyan University, CT.
Prof Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
Thursday 15th April – Saturday 17th April, 2010.
Second Call for papers: Closing date for call: 21 January, 2010.
In the context provided by Paul Gilroy’s configuration of the black Atlantic as a counterculture to modernity, this symposium is the first in a series seeking to re-examine the Atlantic as a locale for the emergence of modernism. Over the period 2010–13, we hope to consider the centrality of black folk, artists, writers, intellectuals, social scientists, musicians, as core members of the modernist avant-garde, and of “blackness” as a key representative and political category in the work of other modernists. We begin from a formulation of modernism as a heterogenous cluster of responses to locally specific experiences of modernity, rather than as a qualitative set of aesthetic indicators privileging formal innovation over political rhetoric. In doing so, we hope to enable further discussion of a widening spectrum of modernist languages in which the experience of modernity is delineated and inscribed.
The symposium addresses the interactions, exchanges, conflicts, and collaborations occurring across the French and Anglo Atlantic, and within experienced and imagined spaces of blackness, in the period 1907–61. We begin therefore with Picasso’s masked Demoiselles, and end with the publication of Fanon’s radical rejection of western colonialism in Les damnés. The aims of the symposium are fourfold:
First, it seeks to stage a re-encounter with avant-garde aesthetic, political and social practice in the context of black responses to modernity across the French and Anglo Atlantic.
Second, it explores the emergence of new disciplines or schools, and underexplored interdisciplinary relationships in the human sciences that may have effected or at least contributed to the formal innovation or “newness” considered so characteristic of modernism.
Third, it takes Perry Anderson’s claim that one of the indispensible co-ordinates for locating modernism is its “proximity to social revolution” and resituates it in the context of an anti-colonial avant-garde operating across the Atlantic in the inter- and postwar years.
Fourth, it considers the degree to which a variety of actors operating from what might be termed “alternative” or “displaced” metropoles interacted to produce, in Jameson’s terms, an “active sense” of the history of modernity, one in which a black presence was of key aesthetic, political and cultural importance.
Individual papers and proposals, in English, for panels addressing any aspect of the interrelationship between Afromodernism and the French and Anglo-Atlantic worlds are invited from, but not limited to, the disciplines of literature, anthropology, history, art history, philosophy, music, or combinations of these; and concerning regions including but not limited to: Africa, the Caribbean, insular and continental Europe, Canada, the United States, Latin America. Teaching or curating panels and papers are also welcomed.
Topics might include:
The Harlem Renaissance/New Negro; Performance and/of blackness; Expressionism; fascism; exoticism; the tropics; ethnographic fieldwork narratives/collections; the WPA; négritude; negrophilia; World War 1; configurations of the Black Atlantic; masking; marxism and modernity; World War 2; primitivism; folk and established religious expression; jazz; blues; surrealism; Boasian anthropology; tragedy; Windrush; aesthetic politics; drumming; new histories; revisionist historiography; beauty; comedy; revolution and anticolonialism; myth; reaction; gender and modernity; nationalism; the metropole(s); psychoanalysis; science and relativism; positivism; migration and/or displacement; civilization; degeneration.
Proposal for panels should contain a panel title, working titles for individual papers, with individual abstracts of 250 words each, and brief biographical notes on the chair and/or speakers.
Proposals on teaching and curating are also welcomed, and the English Subject Centre at Royal Holloway, has generously provided some support for the travel expenses of colleagues giving teaching related papers.
For individual papers, please send a working title, abstract of 250-350 words, and a biographical note to: Fionnghuala Sweeney: fsweeney@liv.ac.uk or Kate Marsh: clmarsh@liv.ac.uk
Afromodernism 1 occurs against the backdrop of the exhibition, Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, January – May 2010, curated by Tate Liverpool , and placing work by American, Caribbean, African and European artists in relation to one another and the Atlantic context in which they worked. Delegates will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition during the course of the symposium.
Caribbean Studies Association Conference May 24-28, 2010, Barbados
The CSA is calling for papers for its 35th annual conference, whose theme is " Understanding the Everyday Occurrence of Violence in the Cultural Life of the Caribbean: Where Do We Go From Here?"
We are seeking scholarly papers from individuals spanning the broadest disciplinary and methodological range whose work focuses upon the Caribbean and its Diaspora. While we consider individual papers, we encourage submissions of entire panel proposals. We also encourage and welcome graduate student submissions. While your paper/panel does not have to be on the conference theme, we do welcome submissions that address the theme, whether directly or indirectly. More information on the conference theme is available at the CSA website, www.caribbean-studies.org . All submissions must be made via the online submission form at www.caribbean-studies.org. The deadline for submissions is January 22, 2010.
For information pertaining to the program only, please contact: Program Chair D. Alissa Trotz at datrotz@gmail.com
For any information pertaining to registration or membership, please contact Joy.Cooblal-CSA@sta.uwi.edu
2nd. International Conference on Caribbean Studies (ICCS) II Conferencia Internacional en Estudios Caribeños
“The Many Caribbean’s and the Bicentennial of the Continental Spanish American Independence Movements"
University of Cartagena, Cloister of St. Augustine Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
March 15-19, 2010
The II International Conference on Caribbean Studies (ICCS) will take place from March 15-19, 2010, in Cartagena de Indias in the Caribbean region of Colombia. The main theme emphasizes, but is not thematically limited to, the interdisciplinary character of the conference. Papers on a wide range of historical, cultural, artistic, literary, linguistic, social sciences and theory will be considered.
We will accept only one proposal for paper or panel per each author, in Spanish, English or French. The panels will be composed of a maximum of 4 presentations. Presentations should not pass twenty minutes; the members of the panels and the session chairs will rigorously follow this limit. Please send an abstract of 200 words or less by electronic attachment (Word) to: hrromero@utpa.edu (in English or French) and to figueroa@javeriana.edu.co (in Spanish) by November 15, 2009. Visit our Web page at www.utpa.edu/dept/modlang
Sixth Galway Conference on Colonialism
EDUCATION and EMPIRE
24-26 June 2010
Call for Papers
The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to explore the role of education in shaping, promoting, and challenging imperial and colonial ideologies, institutions and processes throughout the modern world. We invite papers that address the following themes:
The role of educational institutions, ranging from primary schools to institutions of higher education such as universities, Missionary colleges, engineering and medical schools, and so on, in shaping imperial, colonial and global processes
The relationship between imperialism, colonialism and the development of modern knowledge systems, including new disciplines and new techniques of rule, particularly in areas such as science.
The development of curriculum innovation to meet the needs of empire
Education about imperial history (during and after empire)
Education and imperial and (post-)colonial models of childhood
Education and the creation of professional diasporas
Eypes and patterns of knowledge transfer within the framework of empire, including publications and broadcasting relating to education, science, technology, health and government, both between metropoles and colonies and within and between colonies
The insecurities or failures of imperial and colonial educational and knowledge practices, as well as of resistances to these practices
Transitions in educational practice, either from pre-colonial to colonial or colonial to post-colonial eras
Since this conference is being in part funded through a grant provided by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences to an inter-university group to explore the relationship between empire and higher education in Ireland, papers are especially invited for a strand exploring the particularity of Irish institutions of higher education in shaping the above processes, and of the role of higher education in shaping Ireland’s ambiguous coloniality.
Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please submit an abstract, of not more than 300 words, to Fiona Bateman and Muireann O’Cinneide at www.conference.ie/ before 31 January 2010.
The 2010 Annual Conference of the Caribbean Chapter of the College English Association, Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20 at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras in San Juan
Boundaries and Bridges: English Studies in the Borderlands
The Mission Statement of the College English Association (CEA) informs members that the organization acts as an umbrella under which a broad range of interests gather together, including: literature, language, linguistics, composition, creative writing, women's and minority studies, journalism, technical communication, speech, American studies, English as a Second Language, and popular culture, among others. In light of this mission statement that embraces multiple disciplines, the Caribbean Chapter of the CEA—situated in a unique location that synthesizes the Caribbean islands and their varied cultures with North and Latin American, European, African, and indigenous traditions—invites papers for its annual conference that explore meeting places between the disciplines of English Studies, interdisciplinary studies in the field of English, and the borderlands of space and place as explored through the disciplines that comprise English Studies.
Proposals are welcome on, but not limited to, the following topics:
• Caribbean Studies;
• Postcolonial and/or Colonial Studies;
• Texts that exist in or explore Borderlands or Contact Zones (please note that we welcome diverse definitions of the term “texts”);
• Bilingual and/or bicultural texts;
• Cultural Geography Studies;
• Transnational, Transatlantic, and/or Transpacific Studies;
• Interdisciplinary texts such as graphic novels, films, and blogs;
• Interdisciplinary studies of canonical texts;
• Interdisciplinary pedagogies in English Studies classrooms;
• Creoles, Pidgins, and languages that build upon different linguistic heritages;
• New Media and new technologies in the English classroom; and
• The field of English at the crossroads.
Submit 250 word abstracts outlining your 15 minute proposed presentation by November 13, 2009 to the Conference Coordinators at cea.cc.conference@gmail.com. For more information, please visit the CEA-CC’s Blog (http://blogs.uprm.edu/ceacc/).
19th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, February 26 to February 27, 2010.
The Program Committee invites proposals in the following areas:
• Bioethics, Ecology, Ecocriticism
• Migration, Diaspora, Hybridity, and Borders
• Region/ Religion/Politics and Culture
• Literature & the Arts
• History
• Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class and Sex
• Pedagogy & the Disciplines
• Or any other aspect of the British Commonwealth of nations, and of countries formerly colonized by other European powers.
Deadline for electronic submission of abstract papers and panel proposals November 2, 2009.
The annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, inaugurated in 1992, is the only 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. There is no restriction to any particular political/cultural ideology or to specific critical practices, however fashionably current. Rather, we welcome and seek to encourage a variety of approaches and viewpoints, and the generation of wide-ranging, productive debates.
The avowed aim (or "mission") of the conference, then, 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.
See conference website for all the details http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/bcpspapers.html
For more information e-mail sfickle@georgiasouthern.edu
Edited Collection. The Remaining Colonies in the Caribbean
House of Nehesi Publishers, based in St. Martin, Caribbean, invite contributions (articles, essays, speeches) for the upcoming book, The Remaining Colonies in the Caribbean (working title). The submission deadline is November 1, 2009 and the estimated publication date is February 2010.
Edited by Lasana M. Sekou, the book will explore the state of independence movements in the remaining colonies in the Caribbean region. The position paper should include a brief background of the history of independence-related ideas and activities within the specific territory or territories, with a focus on approaches, challenges, comparisons, and stages of progress. nArticles must be unpublished and should be a minimum of 10 pages and maximum of 16 pages. All submissions must be in English (submissions in Dutch, French, Kwéyòl, Papiamentu, or Spanish must be accompanied by the English translation for publication). Authors will retain copyright to their paper upon publication and will receive 10 complimentary copies of the book. For more information, contact Lasana M. Sekou (editor) at P.O. Box 460, Philipsburg, St. Martin or by e-mail at offshoreediting@hotmail.com, nehesi@mac.com, or Nehesi@sintmaarten.net. www.houseofnehesipublish.com
CALL FOR PAPERS
MACOMÈRE (THE JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN WOMEN WRITERS & SCHOLARS)
SPECIAL ISSUE: 2010
WOMEN & NATIONAL POLITICAL STRUGGLES IN THE CARIBBEAN
Kumari Jayawardena’s examination of feminism and nationalism in the Third World in the mid-1980s clearly demonstrated that far from being merely symbolic of, or subject to, patriarchal constructions of nation, women were actively and variously invested in anti-colonial and national political movements. In this vein, MaComère invites contributions for a special issue on Women and National Political Struggles in the Caribbean. In what ways were women caught up in anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, nationalist and revolutionary struggles in the Caribbean, and what did their participation mean? How do various social relations intersect to shape specific iterations of resistance? Where might women be found in the regional and diasporic networks that inflected various nationalisms? How might we track those legacies across the contemporary Caribbean and what are the current modalities of women’s participation in the political process? While this special issue responds to a sense that we know relatively little about women’s own experiences in relation to these processes, we want to move beyond the addition or recovery of women’s voices to consider the epistemological implications of this endeavour for questions of sovereignty, self-determination, state formation.
We are seeking longer scholarly articles (approximately 5000 words) as well as poems (no more than 3 per person) and short stories (no more than 3000 words and 1 submission per person). We also welcome short biographies of women about whom little is documented, and whose example illuminates the theme of this special issue, for a ‘Recovered Lives’ Section (a maximum of 2500 words).
Some examples of possible themes include:
Women and the anti-colonial movement
Diasporic contributions and Caribbean politics
Literary traditions and national consciousness
Revolutionary struggles, anti-dictatorial movements
Women, labour and the state
Reconsidering gender and sovereignty in the non-independent Caribbean
Women’s movements
We seek to achieve a broad regional coverage spanning the main linguistic areas of the Caribbean, highlighting the diverse experiences and socio-political contexts of the Anglophone, Hispanic, Francophone and Dutch Caribbean from the small islands of the archipelago to the mainland Caribbean territories of Central and South America. We especially encourage submissions with a comparative focus. MaComère is a multi-disciplinary journal and as such welcomes historical and contemporary contributions from across the humanities and social sciences as well as contributions from creative writers.
Submission process:
If you are interested in making a submission to this special issue, please send a 300 word abstract to the Guest Editors, Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto (da.trotz@utoronto.ca) and Kate Quinn, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London (kate.quinn@sas.ac.uk). The due date for abstracts is November 30, 2009. After review of the abstracts, selected potential contributors will be invited in to submit their full papers later in 2010 for peer review.
MaComère is a refereed journal which is devoted to the scholarly studies and creative works by and about Caribbean Women in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Diaspora. It is the journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, an organisation founded in 1995 (http://www.macomerejournal.com).
Forthcoming Conferences and Events
February 2010
Francophone Caribbean and North America / La Caraibe Francophone et l’Amérique du Nord, 25-27 February 2010
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Special guests: Edouard Duval-Carrié, Dany Laferrière
Keynote speakers: Celia Britton (University College, London), J. Michael Dash (NYU), Laurent Dubois (Duke University), Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool, UK), Christopher L. Miller (Yale) Thomas C. Spear (CUNY)
Further information can be found at the conference website: www.fsu.edu/~icffs/events.html
March 2010
Conference, Haiti and the Politics of the Universal, University of Aberdeen, March 12-13, 2010
The Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) is pleased to announce a conference on the topic of Haiti and the Politics of the Universal.
Friday and Saturday, March 12-13, 2010
Since 1804, Haiti has named the founding, repressed, 'legitimate' violence of Western Modernity in its totality: both our spectral fantasies of slavery, revolutionary violence, and the 'failed state,' as well as the site of an eternally disavowed egalitarianism without compromise.
After two centuries of neglect and disavowal, the Haitian Revolution has suddenly become a fundamental reference point for global emancipatory politics, a touchstone for critical philosophers such as Alain Badiou, Zizek, Susan Buck-Morss, Peter Hallward, and Hardt and Negri. This conference will address this contemporary theoretical turn in Haitian Studies, discussing Haiti's place in Atlantic Modernity and its central role in political history and theory since 1791. Topics will range from the world-historical significance of the Haitian Revolution to the place of Haiti in the global political order since 2004. The conference will bring together a mix of academic and activist speakers to discuss the broad historical, philosophical, and political implications of Haiti since 1791.
Confirmed speakers include: Peter Hallward, Susan Buck-Morss, Kim Ives, Deborah Jenson, Patrick Elie, Bruno Bosteels, Chris Bongie, Alberto Moreiras, and Nick Nesbitt
For more information, please contact Nick Nesbitt n.nesbitt@abdn.ac.uk
Visit us at the Centre for Modern Thought website at: http://abdn.ac.uk/modern/
University of Miami, Department of English, Coral Gables, FL
Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies Program
Global Caribbean(s):
Interrogating the Politics of Location in Caribbean Literature and Culture
March 4th-6th, 2010
There is a growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship in Caribbean Studies that is focused on investigating the processes of globalization and ensuing social, cultural and political impact in the Caribbean. “Diaspora” is, more often than not, the critical lens through which many of these considerations are viewed and explored. Caribbean artists, writers and cultural critics have approached the question of location through global routes with an eye to examining the social, aesthetic, political, economic, and historical impact of diaspora on the region, while also considering regional currents that flow into, and even collide, in diasporic communities. Yet even as we are faced with economic and cultural opportunities of globalization we are also confronted with drawbacks that include loss of sovereignty and exploitative labor practices. Within the region, linguistic, political and cultural barriers persist and discussions of routes and intra-Caribbean flows remain under-theorized as nationalist agendas continue to dominate. Paradoxically, there are increasing concerns from critics in the region and in diaspora about the seemingly one-sided nature of critical exchanges about Caribbean literature and culture. There is no doubt that global flows have long since been one of the defining historical and cultural paradigms of the Caribbean. However, there is an urgent need for continued dialogue about the power dynamics that shape these paradigms and the cultural artifacts produced in the cross currents of these “global flows.”
For further information and to register online please visit http://www.as.miami.edu/cls/
April 2010
Caribbean Enlightenment Conference, 8-9 April 2010
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Keynote speakers: J. Michael Dash, Paget Henry, Nick Nesbitt, Charles Forsdick, Kei Miller.
This conference aims to explore the various ways in which the site of the Caribbean, with its writers, artists, revolutionaries, and diverse peoples, has adapted and questioned the legacies of the Enlightenment. Acknowledging the Caribbean’s crucial role in the Atlantic world, the Enlightenment’s history of empire building and slave rebellions, colonial domination and postcolonial nation-building, the valorization of reason and its role in the division of knowledge, will be interrogated against the dissemination of a discourse promoting universal human rights, democracy and equality. Bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives on Enlightenment themes, both historical and contemporary, this conference will bring together Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanophone perspectives that explore figurations of the universal within the Caribbean context. Noting the region’s national and linguistic divides, this conference will expose the ways in which Enlightenment ideals have been adapted to express the particular experience of the Caribbean peoples.
Conference website: www.gla.ac.uk/caribbeanenlightenment
Contact: Lorna Burns and Michael Morris at caribbeanenlightenment@googlemail.com
Afromodernisms 1: Re-encounters with the French and Anglo-Atlantic Worlds, 1907–61.
Symposium: University of Liverpool, Thursday 15th April – Saturday 17th April, 2010.
Confirmed Keynotes:
Professor David Scott, Columbia University, NY.
Professor Demetrius Eudell, Wesleyan University, CT.
Prof Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
In the context provided by Paul Gilroy’s configuration of the black Atlantic as a counterculture to modernity, this symposium is the first in a series seeking to re-examine the Atlantic as a locale for the emergence of modernism. Over the period 2010–13, we hope to consider the centrality of black folk, artists, writers, intellectuals, social scientists, musicians, as core members of the modernist avant-garde, and of “blackness” as a key representative and political category in the work of other modernists. We begin from a formulation of modernism as a heterogenous cluster of responses to locally specific experiences of modernity, rather than as a qualitative set of aesthetic indicators privileging formal innovation over political rhetoric. In doing so, we hope to enable further discussion of a widening spectrum of modernist languages in which the experience of modernity is delineated and inscribed.
The symposium addresses the interactions, exchanges, conflicts, and collaborations occurring across the French and Anglo Atlantic, and within experienced and imagined spaces of blackness, in the period 1907–61. We begin therefore with Picasso’s masked Demoiselles, and end with the publication of Fanon’s radical rejection of western colonialism in Les damnés.
June 2010
'Strokes Across Cultures', the 15th Triennial ACLALS Conference, June 6 – 11, 2010, Nicosia, Cyprus
The thematic title 'Strokes Across Cultures' invites differing interpretations and contains multiple possibilities for examining the languages, literatures and other cultural texts through which the legacy of the Commonwealth might be viewed and critically interrogated through disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary dialogues. The questions raised may include the following: What is the contribution of the Commonwealth to the World or the World to the Commonwealth and how has it changed over time and under the impact of globalization? What sorts of ethics and politics or ‘wealth’ can we imagine for the (Un)common? How have circumstances of coercion, violence, imposition, or of affective intensity shaped our cultures in moments of encounter and reciprocal exchange? What kinds of disruption have these exchanges achieved upon conventional and assumed norms, expectations, patterns, topographies, and divisions into separate cultural units and nations? Is there a community in our (un)commonality or has the term Commonwealth outlived its usefulness? Can we envisage a stroke as a blow or caress, as the force of a fortuitous encounter, as a performative moment in a contact zone, as a site of exchange between cultures, or as a threshold which both engenders opposites and mediates between them?
Applicants are invited to engage with the above questions within the framework of Commonwealth languages, literary, critical and other cultural texts. The following subheadings indicate trajectories of exploration:
Headings:
• The commonwealth as figure of discourse; cultural articulations of the common/uncommon; ethics and politics of (un)commonwealth thought.
• Conflict, counterpoint, coexistence and collusion in commonwealth literatures and languages (englishes and vernacular languages).
• (Un)translatability of languages and cultures in geopolitics and geopoetics
• Cross-cultural depictions of specific political, regional, cultural, linguistic conflicts.
• Chance encounters across cultures, Cross-cultural circulation of affect and affective disposition; friendship.
• Formation of new communities across cultures, circulation and counter-circulation of capital, investments, media, cultures of resistance.
• Re-imagined communities through the twin lenses of oppression and desire.
• Transgressive sexualities / shifting sexual borders.
• Motherlands, Stepmotherlands, Otherlands and Oedipal desire as passage.
• The colonial moment as trauma and the post-colonial as both perpetuation and attempted recovery.
• The ‘shock of the new’, aesthetics and violence, formal experimentation and its political implications.
Abstracts of maximum 300 words for papers of 20 minutes duration, and maximum 400 words for three-paper panels (with the names of the panelists) which engage with these and other relevant questions along with a short bio not exceeding 100 words should be submitted to info@cyprusconferences.org by 31 August 2009.
July 2010
What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say, 3-5 July 2010
University of York, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 1 October 2009
Questions and queries can be sent to the organizing committee: Ziad Elmarsafy (ze500@york.ac.uk); Anna Bernard (ab609@york.ac.uk); David Attwell (da506@york.ac.uk); Stuart Murray (S.F.Murray@leeds.ac.uk); Eleanor Byrne (E.Byrne@mmu.ac.uk).