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Third Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts
Call for Papers
Third Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts (BCLL#3)
In Association with INPUTS, BIKQS, and IACPL
“Postcolonial Knowledges”
March 15-18, 2016
Keynote Speakers:
Jeannette Armstrong (The University of British Columbia)
Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University)
Michel DeGraff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Gloria Emeagwali (Central Connecticut State University)
Lisa Lim (The University of Hong Kong)
Sinfree Makoni (The Pennsylvania State University)
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of different academic backgrounds to explore how knowledge systems, cultures, languages, and literary traditions have been affected by colonial ...
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UDI 50th Anniversary Postgraduate Workshop
UDI 50th Anniversary Postgraduate Workshop
November 4, 2015 10-4pm at the University of Bristol with keynote speaker Sue Onslow
Fifty years ago, on 11 November 1965, the Rhodesia Front Party issued a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) from Britain. Only in 1981, after a prolonged, radical national struggle, attempted economic isolation, international hostility and brutal civil war did internationally-recognised independence come, under black majority rule. The importance of Zimbabwe’s colonial past is still contentious on the local, regional and international stage, ...
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Literatures of the Middle East – reading group (London)
You are warmly invited to the next session of Literatures of the Middle East - a reading group for postgraduates and staff in London. This is a friendly, informal space to discuss Middle Eastern literature in English/English translation, open to all those with an interest in the region and its literatures.
For the first of two sessions focussing on Baghdad, we begin with Sinan Antoon’s novel, The Corpse Washer.
This session will be held at Queen Mary on Thursday, 30 July, from 18:00 ...
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2015 PSA Convention-Programme
The PSA Convention will be taking place at the University of Leicester in just 2 months (7-9 September 2015), so we hope you are looking forward to what promises to be this year’s biggest postcolonial event in the UK. Please read on for the PSA 2015 Convention Programme . We look forward to seeing you in Leicester!
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Dalit Literature and / in Translation
An international conference at the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
29-30 June 2015
Registration is now open for the conference on Dalit literature and translation to be held on 29 and 30 June 2015 at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. This conference is the fourth event hosted by the AHRC-funded Research Network ‘Writing, Analysing, Translating Dalit Literature’, which promotes a multi-disciplinary dialogue on Indian literature produced by Dalits (formerly known as Untouchables). This conference in ...
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2013 Newsletter
WELCOME to the Autumn/Winter issue of the biannual Postcolonial Studies Association newsletter. In this Special Issue we document the recent PSA Conference, which took place at Kingston University, London, on 12 and 13 September 2013. Our congratulations go to the organisers, Andrew Teverson and Sara Upstone, for crafting an excellent event. You must log-in and be a paid-up member in order to view the Newsletter.
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2014 Newsletter
ISSUE 13 features a particularly diverse range of contributions, spanning contexts such as the postcolonial Arctic (Roger Norum’s introduction to a conference held in May 2014); German/Jewish postcolonial studies (see Sebastian Musch’s feature article); British media programming since the late 1940s (Khaleelah Jones’ article) and Pakistani fine art (Madeline Clements’ introduction to Second Glance / Double Take, an exhibition held at SOAS in June 2014 in conjunction with the Beyond Islamophobia conference, part of which also travelled to British Culture After ...
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Resources of Resistance: Production, Consumption, Transformation
The Biennial Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA) Postgraduate Conference
24-25 July 2014, University of York
Confirmed keynotes: Professor Jennifer Wenzel (University of Minnesota), Dr Sharae Deckard (UCD) & Dr Anthony Carrigan (Leeds)
Bringing together postgraduates, early career researchers, and keynote speakers from across the UK, the US and Europe, this two-day interdisciplinary conference addresses critical, topical, and increasingly urgent questions surrounding the concept and roles of resources within the postcolonial world and capitalist world-system. In particular, the conference seeks to probe the dialectical potential of ...
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PSA Conference 2013 Details
We are delighted to announce that the Third Biennial Postcolonial Studies Association Conference will be held at Kingston University on the 12th and 13th September 2013:
History, Postcolonialism and Tradition
Third Biennial Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association
Kingston University, 12-13 September 2013
For more information, visit the PSA Events Page
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2013 postgraduate essay prize
The Postcolonial Studies Association and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing are delighted to announce details of the 2013 postgraduate essay prize.
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