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2010
JULY
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).
Scholarly Networks in the British Empire, Transnational & Imperial Connections After 1850, 5 – 6 July 2010
Wadham College, Oxford, UK
Submission of proposals for papers: 31 December, 200
Tamson Pietsch tamson.pietsch@new.ox.ac.uk
BCLA XII International Conference: Archive, 5-8 July 2010
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 18 December 2009.
Contact: archive@kent.ac.uk
Sites: www.kent.ac.uk/secl/archive and www.bcla.org
Third Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing Network, Contemporary Women's Writing: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies, 7-9 July 2010
San Diego, Texas, US
Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2009
The conference Web site, still under construction, can be found at: www.cwwn.sdsu.edu Contact: Dr. Edith Frampton eframpto@mail.sdsu.edu and Anne Donadey adonadey@mail.sdsu.edu.
Reading Jean Rhys, 8 July 2010
King’s College, London, UK
To register please follow the link: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/english/events/rhys
The Siege of Beirut and the Ethics of Representation, 16-17 July 2010
SOAS, University of London, UK
Registration is open online at www.radicaldistrust.org | Enquiries should be addressed to Dr Caroline Rooney: C.R.Rooney@kent.ac.uk or Dr Nazneen Ahmed: N.A.Ahmed@kent.ac.uk
Open University Postgraduate Conference - "Reading Conflict", 19 July 2010
London, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 19 April 2010 | Contact: Ole Birk Laursen O.B.Laursen@open.ac.uk | Site: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading-conflict/
Mysticism, Myth, Nationalism, 23 - 24 July 2010
University of Exeter, UK
Site: www.sall.ex.ac.uk/content/view/2370/577/
Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire, 1895-1939 and 1939-1965, London 8- 9 July 2010 and Pittsburgh 25 -26 September 2010
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2009 | Contact: Lee Grieveson at l.grieveson@ucl.ac.uk
Recycling Myths, Inventing Nations, 14-16 July 2010
University of Wales Conference Centre, Gregynog, Powys, Wales, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2009
Contact: myth2010@aber.ac.uk Site: www.aber.ac.uk/myth2010
Reading Conflict - Open University Postgraduate Conference, 19 July 2010
Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, London WC1, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 19 April 2010
Contact: Ole Birk Laursen at O.B.Laursen@open.ac.uk
AUGUST
Multiple Modernities of Same-Sex in Nigeria, 18-20 August 2010
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Deadline for Abstracts: 10 May 2010 | Contact: ide.corley@nuim.ie
New Territories in Critical Whiteness Studies Postgraduate Conference
University of Leeds 18-20 August 2010
http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/
The XIXth Congress of International Comparative Literature Association, 'Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature', 15 - 21 August 2010
Seoul, Korea
Site: http://www.icla2010.org/
10th ESSE Conference: The Enemy Within: Cultures of Terror in South Asian Literature and Film, 24-28 August, 2010
University of Turin, Italy
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 December 2009
Contact: Dr Stephen Morton, Senior Lecturer at: s.c.morton@soton.ac.uk / Dr Pascal Zinck, Associate Professor at: cap.zinck@wanadoo.fr / Dr Veronica Thompson, Associate Professor at: thompson@athabascau.ca
Site: http://www.unito.it/esse2010/home/index.php?contenuto=home
Women's Memory-Work: Gendered Dilemmas of Social Transformation, 24-26 August 2010
University of Limerick, Ireland
Deadline for Abstracts: 16 April 2010
Contact: womensmemory@ul.ie | Site: http://www.ul.ie/isks/news.html
SEPTEMBER
Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Conference: Geographies of Black Internationalism, 1-3 September 2010
London, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 12 February 2010 | Contact: Daniel Whittall at d.j.whittall@rhul.ac.uk.
The Second Annual Es’kia Mphahlele First Postgraduate Colloquium and Arts Forum, 2-3 September 2010 University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Deadline for Abstracts: 14 June 2010 | Contact: eskia.slls@wits.ac.za
Site: http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Humanities/SLLS/Events/EskiaColloq/
Conference to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the 'Year of Africa’. 6-7 September 2010
Richmond Building, University of Portsmouth, UK
A registration form may be obtained from: liam.dean@port.ac.uk
Texting Obama, 7-10 September 2010
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 26 March 2010 | Contact: textingobama@mmu.ac.uk
Crime Across Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 9-10 September 2010
University of Leeds, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 28 Mary 2010 | Contact: crimeacrosscultures@googlemail.com | Site: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/crimeacrosscultures.htm
International Postgraduate Conference: Crisis, 9-10 September 2010
Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
Site: http://www.famss.salford.ac.uk/page/pgconf_2010
Deadline for Abstracts: 5 May 2010
The South Asian Short Story, 10 September 2010
Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent, UK
The deadline for abstracts: 20 July 2010 | Contact: Dr Alex Padamsee and Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah at SouthAsianStory@kent.ac.u
Leeds Centre for French and Francophone Cultural Studies day conference, 10 September 2010
This event will bring together colleagues working in Francophone Postcolonial Studies in Leeds, Amsterdam, Casablanca, Aix-Marseille, and Amiens, and includes the participation of writer Fouad Laroui.
In order to book a place at this day conference (cost £25, or £15 for postgraduates), please contact Mrs. Margaret Guntrip (m.a.guntrip@leeds.ac.uk) by FRIDAY 3 SEPTEMBER. Details of the venue will be provided upon booking.
Five Decades of Innocence and Experience: The Work of Eva Figes, 10-11 September 2010
University of Northampton, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 April 2010 | Contact: Dr. Sonya Andermahr (University of Northampton, UK): sonya.andermahr@northampton.ac.uk and Miss Silvia Pellicer-Ortín (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain): spellice@unizar.es
Bharat Britain: South Asians Making Britain, 1870–1950, 13-14 September2010
British Library Conference Centre, London, UK
This conference arises out of the 3-year AHRC-funded project ‘Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870–1950’. Please see the project website for further details: www.open.ac.uk/arts/south-asians-making-britain.
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 September 2009
Contact: Send abstracts to Dr Florian Stadtler on f.c.stadtler@open.ac.uk, with ‘MB conference’ in the subject line.
21st Century European Literatures, 21st-Century European Literature: Mapping New Trends, 15-17 September 2010
University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
Deadline for Submissions: 1 September 2009
See link for more information:
http://www.st-drews.ac.uk/modlangs/media/CFP21stEnglish.doc
African Studies Association UK Biennial 2010 Conference, 16 – 19 September 2010
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
If you would like to suggest a series of panels or theme, please contact David Kerr, d.kerr@bham.ac.uk. Registration for the conference will use the same online system and be available from January 2010. https://asauk.conference-services.net/authorlogin.asp?conferenceID=1897&language=en-uk
Multidirectional Memory: Slavery, The Holocaust and the Colonial Past, 23-24 September 201
Leeds Humanities Research Institute, Leeds, UKDeadline for Abstracts: 30 June 2010 | Contact: Lizzy Finn e.finn@leeds.ac.uk
The Second Annual Critical Theory Conference, Violence and Reconciliation, 24 September 2010
University of Exeter, UK
Deadline for abstracts: 12 July 2010 | Contact: Graham Matthews (gjm201@ex.ac.uk), Lara Cox or Sam Goodman at critical.theory.online@gmail.com | Site: http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/content/view/2711/577/
Children and War: Past and Present, 30 September – 2 October 2010
University of Salzburg, Austria
Deadline for Abstracts: 31 December 2009 / Contact: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk
OCTOBER
Freud After Derrida, 6-9 October 2010
The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
For information, see the Mosaic website at: www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic. The site will be available (and linked to the Mosaic website) by summer 2009. Electronic submissions preferred (Rich Text Format). Please direct enquiries and proposals to: mosaconf@cc.umanitoba.ca.
4th International SELICUP Conference, Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture: Spaces and Contexts, 20-22 October 2010
University of the Balearic Islands in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Proposals are to be submitted by 15 May 2010.Conference website www.selicup2010.org
Mauritius: Crossroads of Transoceanic Flows/ Ile Maurice : Carrefour des Océans, 25 October 2010
The Institute of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Leeds Humanities, Leeds, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 July 2010 | Contact: conmauritiusleeds@gmail.com
A Decade of Women's Writing in France: Trends and Horizons 2000-2010, 10th anniversary conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing in French Seminar, 14-16 October 2010
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK
For provisional programme, registration form and accommodation and location details, see http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=376
Postgraduate Contemporary Women’s Writing Network: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Women’s Writing
23rd October 2010 University of Leicester
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Scarlett Thomas
BOOK READING Paulina Palmer
Practical Workshops, Theory and Contemporary Women’s Writing Workshops, Literary Genres Workshops
Registration cost is £30 before 31st August 2010 and £35 thereafter.
Registration deadline is 11th October 2010. www.pgcwwn.org
NOVEMBER
UNESCO: Violence Against Women, November 2010
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 July 2010 | Contact: gender.shs@unesco.org Site: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/
Why Humanities? Keynote address by Professor Onora O'Neill 'The Two Cultures Fifty Years On'
Evening of Thursday 4th November. Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, One day conference - Friday 5th November
This conference gathers together some of the leading voices in the humanities today. The purpose is to discuss the value of their disciplines in the context of university cutbacks, with a view to developing newly articulated defences of the worth of research in humanities disciplines.
One day conference - Friday 5th November Room B34 Birkbeck Main Building
Both events are free and open to the public - register online now
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/news/whyhumanities
CFP: Sexuality and Contemporary Literature
Abstracts of 300 words for essays of 5,000 -7,000 words should be received by November 1st 2010, with a final completion date of March 1st 2011. Please email abstracts and queries to the editors, Dr Angelia Poon (angelia.poon@nie.edu.sg) and Dr Joel Gwynne (joel.gwynne@nie.edu.sg).
Literature of an Independent England One Day Conference, 6th November 2010
University of Warwick
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/lie
[Un]disciplined Encounters: Science as Terrain of Postcolonial Interaction Between Africa and Europe — Past and Future, 5-6 November. 2010
Brussels, Belgium
Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2010 | Contact: secretariat@science2010-af-eu.com
An Independent England and its Literature, 6 November 2010
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK
Deadline fro Abstracts 1 April 2010 | Contact: Michael Gardiner and Claire Westall with the subject line – ‘An Independent England’ using C.L.Westall@warwick.ac.uk.
The De-Politicization of 9/11, 6 November 2010
Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 7 June 2010 | Contact: 911conference@ncl.ac.uk
Postgraduate Conference, Migrancy and the Text: Migrancy, Newness and the Problems of Tradition, 6 November 2010
Kingston University, Penrhyn Road Campus, London, KT1 2EE, UK
Deadline for abstracts: 27 September 2010Conference Information: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=1403 | For enquiries, please contact Vedrana at v.velickovic@kingston.ac.uk or Heidi at H.James-Dunbar@kingston.ac.uk.
The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies: Professor Chinua Achebe
Friday 19th November 2010, 5pm. Faculty of Law, Room LG18, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Road, Cambridge.
Phone 01223 334394 email centre@african.cam.ac.uk
Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies, 19-20 November 2010
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 January 2010 / Contact: Sarah Brophy brophys@mcmaster.ca
Between Utopia and Dystopia: The Afterlives of Empire
The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Annual Conference
19-20 November 2010 Institut Français, London. Keynote Speakers: Dr Ferdinand de Jong—University of East Anglia. Postcolonial Heterotopia: The Monument of the African Renaissance
Dr Kate Marsh—University of Liverpool ‘Nous étions évidemment inspirés par l’exemple de l’Inde’: Idealization of 1947, the end of the Union française, and les
ultimes confettis de l’Empire de Dupleix
For more information and to register, contact: sfpsconference@googlemail.com Or log on to: www.sfps.ac.uk and click on events
Between Utopia and Dystopia: The Afterlives of Empire, 19-20 November 2010
Institut Français, London, UK. Annual Conference of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Deadline for Abstracts: 30 June 2010-04-21
Contact: Conference Secretary, Georgina Collins (sfpsconference@googlemail.com)
The 'Post'-Marked World: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century'.
http://www.britishstudies.uni.lodz.pl/post2010/
Department of British and Commonwealth Studies
Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Lódz
Application forms with 300-word abstracts for 20-minute papers should reach postlodz2010@gmail.com by 30th September 2010.
Acceptance of paper proposals will be notified by 7th October 2010. Full papers should reach postlodz2010@gmail.com by 22nd November 2010.
Day Conference on Nations & Regions
Old broadcasting House, Leeds Metropolitan university. Sat 27 November 2010
Registration from 930am. £20 (£10 student/unwaged).
Conference Organiser Lance Pettitt (L.Pettitt@leedsmet.ac.uk)
Re-Imagining Gender and Politics: Transnational Feminist Interventions, 27-28 November 2010
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2010 | Contact: politik-geschlecht@gmx.net
The London African Film Festival and BAFTA will partner the University of Westminster's Africa Media Centre in celebrating the achievements of African cinema over the past 50 years. A two-day conference, 27-28 November, organised by the African Media Centre.
Conference fees (for entire event):
Students: £50 (1-day fee £40)
Non-Students: £ 125 (1-day fee £95)
Fees cover registration, conference pack, lunch, coffee/tea and wine reception.
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/schools/media/news-and-events/events/2010/filming-against-the-odds
British Comparative Literature Association: Postgraduate One-Day Workshop: Comparative Spaces Beyond the West, 30 November 2010
University College London, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 25 June 2010 | Contact: Dorota Goluch d.goluch.09@ucl.ac.uk and Asia Zgadzaj jaz1d09@soton.ac.uk
DECEMBER
Mapping Africa from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century: Construction, Transmission and Circulation of Cartographic Knowledge about Africa, (Europe, Arab world and Africa), 2-3 December 2010
Bibliotheque nationale de France and University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Deadline for Abstracts: 3 Mary 2010 | Contact : cartographierlafrique@gmail.com
The Tenth International Symposium on Comparative Literature “Marginalised”, 7-9 December, 201
Department of English Language and Literature, Cairo University, Egypt
Deadline for abstracts: February 28, 2010 / Contact: cairosymposium@yahoo.com
CALL FOR PAPERS: Women and Inequalities in the C21, Birmingham
The Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham , announces the theme for the 8th Cadbury Workshop Programme and Conference.
Applications can be sent by e-mail to l.brydon@bham.ac.uk or by mail to Dr Lynne Brydon, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham , Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT , England , and should reach us by Friday 10th December, 2010, at the latest.
Interceptions: Theory’s Modernism and Modernism’s Theory, 11 December 2010
University of Glasgow, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 1 May 2010 Contact: interceptions@googlegroups.com
Postcolonial Research Seminar 2010/2011 academic year
Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research, School of English, University of Kent
Abstracts for 20-minute papers or readings should be submitted by 19th September 2010, and they
should include a short biographical note.
Filippo Menozzi, fm73@kent.ac.uk
2011
JANUARY
Taalifkat Tudunya Writers Workshop, 5-15 January 2011Gorée, Senegal Contact Adam Wiedewitsch at adam@piroguecollective.orgSite: http://piroguecollective.org
FEBRUARY
Call for Papers: ‘Performative Trans-Actions: Innovation, Creativity & Enterprise in African Theatre’
The 2011 annual international conference of the African Theatre Association (AfTA). The conference will be held at Swansea Metropolitan University, Wales UK from the 21st to 23rd July 2011, and will be hosted by the Centre for Innovative Performance Practice & Research (CiPPR).
Researchers, scholars and practitioners interested in African theatre and performance are invited to submit abstracts/proposals of 250-300 words (including a 150 words biography), by Tuesday, 1 February 2011, to the conference convener (kene.igweonu@smu.ac.uk).
Abstract/proposal submission deadline: Tuesday, 1 February 2011
“Performing Back: Contemporary Theoretical and Practical Implications for the Post-Colonial Stage”
University of Toronto, February 4-6th , 2011
Call for Performances and Papers
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by September 10, 2010 to Festival Director Dalbir Singh at foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca. Include full name, email, affiliation status (student, faculty, independent scholar/artist) and a 50-word bio. See below for performance proposal requirements.
The Challenges of Teaching Arabic in the 21st Century, 9-11 February 2011
Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 September 2010
Site: http://qatar.cmu.edu/1041/the-challenges-of-teaching-arabic-in-the-21st-century
CARMEN AND HER OTHERS
11 and 12 February - UCL
Programme, speakers, abstracts and further information are at http://carmen2011.weebly.com/conference.html
Living Beyond Theory: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postcolonial
An interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium hosted by the Postcolonial Perspectives reading group at the University of York on Friday 11th February 2011.
Please send submissions of up to 300 words for papers of 20 mins as well as a brief academic bio of
50 to 100 words to livingbeyondtheory@events.york.ac.uk by 22nd November 2010.
Imagining Islamism: Literature, Film & Politics in the Arab World
One-day conference to be held at the Storey Creative Industries Centre in Lancaster on Sat. 12. February 2011.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/islamism/index.htm
Call for papers ¦ CONFERENCE ¦ CARMEN AND HER OTHERS
Saturday, 12 February 2011. University College London ¦ Mellon Programme
Confirmed speakers include Ann Davies (Newcastle) and Jean Andrews (Nottingham).
Please send your proposal (no more than 500 words) by 8 October 2010 to: carmenandherothers AT gmail.com
Please direct any questions to: Dr Mi Zhou (UCL Mellon Programme).
Multiculturalism in a Globalised Society:European Muslims, Identity and Citizenship
Thursday 24th February 2011. Sunley Management Centre, Park Campus, University of Northampton, Northampton NN2 7AL, UK
Keynote speakers: Ebrahim Rasool, Ambassador of South Africa in the USA. Andy Pilkington, Professor of Sociology, University of Northampton.
Email: karin.ferngren@northampton.ac.uk. +44(0)1604 892067
MARCH
CFP: BLOOMSBURY ADAPTATIONS
Bath Spa University, 5th and 6th May 2011
Keynote Speakers: Frances Spalding and Paul Edwards
Workshops: Susan Sellers (Creative Writing), Kitty Randle and Sarah Fullagar (Performance)
Performances: ‘Vanessa and Virginia’ (Moving Stories) and dance programme by the ShadyJane Dance Company.
To register for the conference and for further information, please visit our Vanessa Bell inspired website designed by recent Bath Spa graduate Liz Greenfield: http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/bloomsbury
The Relation between Activism and Academia, 2011 Research Student Society Call for Papers
12 March 2011 at the Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Speakers will be given 20 minutes. For group presentations, all contributors must be present. Send an abstract of 200 words to researchsoc@soas.ac.uk by 20 January 2010 Along with a biographical segment listing: Name, academic affiliation, year of research, department, supervisor, research interests.
CFP: Taking Control
SOAS, University of London, 12th March 2011
This conference is concerned with control. On what it means today – under globalised late capitalism – to take or be in control of institutions, whether political, economic, or academic.
300 word abstracts for 20-minute papers dealing with these and other issues concerning control. Please send abstracts, along with your name and institutional affiliation, to BOTH Alexej Ulbricht (a.ulbricht@soas.ac.uk) and Luke Evans (cu701le@gold.ac.uk) by 23rd December 2010.
Organised by ES: Philosophy Research Collective With support from the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS Department of Politics, Goldsmiths For more information see http://takingcontrol2011.wordpress.com
Call for Papers: Border Crossing. International conference.
Organized by the Research Laboratory on Culture and Communication. Department of English Studies. Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Sultan Moulay Slimane University. Beni Mellal, Morocco. 22 – 23 March, 2011
Proposals, containing an abstract no longer than 300 words, with key words and a short CV, should be sent to
Khalid Chaouch at chaouch63@yahoo.com or Cherki Karkaba at cherkikarkaba@yahoo.fr
The deadline for sending proposals is 30 December, 2010. Acceptance of proposals will be sent on 15th January, 2011.
Conference Fees: The conference fee is € 50/MAD 550. It includes: Conference pack Coffee break refreshment Farewell dinner
Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text
March 24, 2011 – March 26, 2011. A conference at the University of Sussex, UK
A small number of limited contributions are available towards international students' travel on a competitive basis.
Our website, with our call for papers and submissions process, is now live: http://www.postcards-letters.org.uk/index.php/picturethis/pt Submission deadline: 13 November, 2010. All papers will be considered for publication - details to follow.
Confirmed speakers: Ann Dumas (Curator of The Real Van Gogh, Royal Academy); Professor Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex); Professor Marcus Wood (University of Sussex).
Modernism: Katherine Mansfield and her Contemporaries, 25-26 March 2011
Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK
Deadline for abstracts: 20 September 2010 | Site: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/cambridge-2011/
EACLALS Postgraduate Conference, Postcolonialism and Labour
26 - 27 March 2011 Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Deadline for Abstracts: 1 December 2010 For further information about the conference, please see the website at www.eaclals.ulg.ac.be/pg-conference
World Literature/Comparative Literature
2011 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, Canada. March 31 - April 3rd 2011. http://www.acla.org/acla2011/?p=911
Call for Papers (12 November 2010): Click here to submit a paper proposal (250 words) before November 12: http://www.acla.org/submit/index.php
APRIL
The 2011 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Convention will be hosted by Rutgers University from 7-10 April. Abstracts are due 30 September.
http://www.nemla.org/community/caucuses/womens.html
The Figure of the Author in the Short Story in English.
8-9 April 2011 at La Maison des Sciences Humaines, Université d’Angers, France. Hosted by The CRILA short story research group (JE2536) of the Université d’Angers, France in collaboration with Edge Hill University.
Paper proposals of approximately 300 words in English, followed by a short bio-bibliography, should be sent to the following conference organizers for 3rd Jan 2011: Michelle Ryan-Sautour (michelle.ryan-sautour@univ-angers.fr) Ailsa Cox (Coxa@edgehill.ac.uk)
“Reading the Postcolonial Other in Contemporary Film” Roundtable.
NeMLA Convention 7-10 April, 2011. New Brunswick, NJ (Hosted by Rutger’s University).
Roundtable participants should examine one specific film (Hollywood, independent or international) and its methods used (thematic, cinematic, narrative) in treating the theme of postcolonial other. 500 word abstract/CV by 9/30 to Co-chairs Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook: blavin@optonline.net AND Tracey Walters, SUNY Stony Brook: walterstracey@hotmail.com.
Bodies of Power, Forms of Power: South Asia through History and Across Disciplines
April 11th-13th 2011
Who holds power in South Asia? Who holds power in relation to South Asia and the South Asian diaspora? How is power embodied, how is it wielded, and to what ends? Where is power located, how is it accessed, how is it articulated, and how is it signified? Who submits to power, who ignores power, and who resists power? How is power formed, how is it performed, and in what forms and through what bodies is it negotiated?
All registrations must be made through BASAS BASAS Website <http://www.basas.org.uk/> Registration Deadline: March 10, 2011
Conference Organizers: Dr. Kanchana N. Ruwanpura <http://www.southampton.ac.uk/geography/staff_profiles/academic/knr.html>, Professor Ian Talbot <http://www.southampton.ac.uk/history/profiles/talbot.html> and Dr. Stephanie Jones <http://www.southampton.ac.uk/english/profiles/jones.html> (contact e-mail basas25@soton.ac.uk <basas25@soton.ac.uk> and contact person: Mr. Justyn Willsmore)
Muslims of South Asia and Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representations
British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference 2011
University of Southampton, 11th – 13th April
Convenor: Claire Chambers, Leeds Metropolitan University (C.Chambers@leedsmet.ac.uk)
Please send abstracts of 200 words and brief biodata (via Word attachment) to Claire Chambers: (c.chambers@leedsmet.ac.uk) by the final deadline of 11 February 2011.
More information about the conference as a whole is available at: http://www.history.ac.uk/events/event/2166
37th Annual African Literature Association Conference, 13-17 April 2011
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
Deadline for Abstracts: 1 December 2010 | Contact: Ghirmai Negash ala2011AthensOH@gmail.com
Call for Papers: Regional Literary Cultures: Modernism and After
University of Nottingham, 14-15 April 2011. Confirmed Keynote Speakers Prof. Luke Gibbons (NUI Maynooth) & Prof. Dominic Head (University of Nottingham).
Please submit an abstract of 300 words to neal.alexander@nottingham.ac.uk by 28th January 2011, ensuring that you include the following details: your name; your affiliation; your email address; the title of your paper.
The conference fee will be £50 for both days
EACLALS Conference 2011: 'Under Construction: Gateways and Walls', 26-30 April 2011 Istanbul, Turkey
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2010 |Contact: EACLALS2011@googlemail.com | Check the EACLALS website at http://www.eaclals.org for subscription rates and for further information.
Language, Culture, and Identity International Conference
Presented by The Moroccan Inter-university Network of English (MINE). At the Faculty of Letters and Humanities Ben Msik Casablanca, Morocco 28-30 April, 2011
Submission of abstracts: January 25th, 2011 Notification of acceptance: February 15th, 2011 Conference fee The conference fee is 40 Euros. Submissions should be sent by e-mail (as Word attachments) to: munivnet@gmail.com
MAY
CFP: Minorités en vue.
A one day colloquium organised by the Department of European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster University
Keynote speaker: Pap Ndiaye (EHESS), author of La condition noire: Essai sur une minorité française (Calmann-Lévy, 2008).
Friday 6 May 2011. Lancaster University Conference Centre.
Please e mail a 250 word abstract and 100 word bio to Charlotte Baker (c.baker@lancaster.ac.uk) and Greg Kerr (g.kerr@lancaster.ac.uk) by Monday 28 February 2011, clearly marked 'DELC Colloquium'. Presenters will be invited to speak for 20 minutes and papers may be presented in French or in English.
Minority Identities: Rights and Representation
A One-Day Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference at the University of Reading on Saturday 7th May 2011
Presentations should last twenty minutes and may take the form of traditional papers, or short practice as research demonstrations with accompanying commentary. Abstracts of 300-350 words should be submitted to Amorella Lamount, Clare Reed, and Nicola Abram at minorities@student.reading.ac.uk, by 4th February 2011. These should include your institutional affiliation, a 50-word biography, and any technical requirements. Postgraduate students and early career scholars who wish to attend but not present a paper should register by email as space is limited.
Festival of Asian Literature. Making Waves - Connections Across the Indian Ocean
with Ananda Devi, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Tabish Khair
25 May 2011at 6.45pm, Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP. Visit Asia House website
Tickets £8/£6. Asia House Friends £5
Literature and librarianship
IAFOR conference Osaka 27-30 May 2011
The CFP is available at http://www.librasia.iafor.org/. Deadline 1st February 2011 is extended to expressions of interest for the postcolonial thematic stream.
Enquiries: librasia@iafor.org Web address: http://librasia.iafor.org Sponsored by: The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) http://www.iafor.org/
JUNE
ICPS conference on Mauritian and the Indian Ocean
Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds. 3rd and 4th June 2011.
Our guest speakers are Professor Francoise Verges, Dr Catherine Servan-Schreiber and Dr Peter Hawkins.
Details about programme, registration, venue,access, etc. may be found at indianoceanleeds.com
Technology in text and context: between progress and conflict
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate workshop
6th June 2011, Oxford University.
Keynote speakers: Dr Jane Hiddleston (Oxford), Dr Roxanna Nydia Curto (Illinois State), Dr Louise Hardwick (Birmingham)
250 word abstracts for 20-minute papers, to be given in English or French, addressing themes and keywords should be sent by e-mail to sfpsworkshop2011@gmail.com by no later than 1st March, 2011.
Website: http://www.sfps.ac.uk/conferencestudy-days/postgraduate-workshop-2011-cfp/
Call For Papers: Translation and the Postcolonial: Multiple Geographies, Multi-lingual Contexts
An international conference organized by the Leverhulme Network on “Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia”
June 8-9, 2011, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. http://www.postcolonialtranslation.net/
Please send an abstract of 300 words, plus a 50-word bio, to Dr Victoria Patton: victoria.patton@ncl.ac.uk Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 14, 2011
Translation and the Postcolonial: Multiple Geographies, Multi-lingual Contexts
An international conference organized by the Leverhulme Network on “Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia”
June 8-9, 2011. Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Percy Building, Room G5
Keynote Speakers: Professor Susan Bassnett, Warwick University, UK. Professor Sherry Simon, Concordia University, Canada. Professor Robert Young, New York University, USA.
Registration for this conference is free and lunch is included on both days. If you wish to attend this conference, please email Dr Victoria Patton by April 29 2011: victoria.patton@ncl.ac.uk http://www.postcolonialtranslation.net/
JOYCEAN LITERATURE: FICTION AND POETRY 1910-2010
June 13-14, 2011. Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House
Confirmed Plenary Speaker and John Coffin Memorial Lecturer: Professor Michael Wood (Princeton)
The conference will feature some forty papers alongside prestigious plenary speakers, chosen from the most dynamic critics and writers at work today.
Please send proposals of up to 300 words, for 20-minute papers, to both Joe Brooker (j.brooker@bbk.ac.uk) and Finn Fordham (finn.fordham@rhul.ac.uk) by James Joyce’s 129th birthday, February 2nd 2011.
Neo-Historical Exoticism and Contemporary Fiction
The Centre for Studies in Literature at the University of Portsmouth is pleased to announce that its annual symposium will be on the topic of 'Neo-Historical Exoticism and Contemporary Fiction' and will take place on 14 June 2011.
Please send an abstract (300 words max) for a 20min paper by 1 March 2011 to Dr Elodie Rousselot at Elodie.Rousselot@port.ac.uk. Contributions from the fields of literary studies, literary theory, cultural studies, film and visual arts very welcome. All contributions will be considered for inclusion in the publication of the symposium proceedings.
Symposium website: http://www.port.ac.uk/research/csl/literatureevents/symposium/
Call for Papers: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Contestations: DECOLONIZING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES
16th - 18th June 2011
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. Organizer: Prof. Dr. Nikita Dhawan
Keynotes: Patricia Hill Collins (University of Maryland), Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
For your paper proposal to be considered, we request that you email the respective panel convenors directly. An abstract (max. 500 words) and a short bio-note (max. 100 words) should accompany your proposal. The closing date for applications is 30th November 2010. Detailed information on the respective panels can be found here: http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/?page_id=729
The Singer not the Song: Narration in the Short Story
June 24th 2011 Sheffield Hallam University
Plenary Speakers include: Di Spiers (Editor Readings, BBC), Ailsa Cox (Edge Hill University, editor Short Fiction in Theory and Practice) and Ra Page (Comma Press). Michèle Roberts will be reading from her short fiction, and 'In Conversation' with Jane Rogers.
Further information: Felicity Skelton 0114 2253792. Please submit 300 word proposals by February 14th 2011, to: Felicity Skelton, Room 1123 Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam University, Howard Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB. f.skelton@shu.ac.uk
Comparative Critical Conversations
Sixth International Conference of Caribbean Women's Writing
Goldsmiths, University of London, Centre for Caribbean Studies, 24 - 25 June 2011
We invite proposals through abstracts that offer a clear statement of the area(s) addressed and identify the sources used in approximately 1 page or 250 words for an individual presentation. Each abstract must also include the name of the presenter and the current institutional affiliation. A brief bio (50 words) is to be appended to the abstract.
Panel presentations must include a description of the panel as well as title and abstracts of individual presentations and the brief biographical information of each presenter.
Proposal / Submission Deadline: 1 February 2011. Please send abstracts to the Conference Committee <Caribbean@gold.ac.uk>,
http://www.gold.ac.uk/caribbean
Empowerment and the Sacred: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Leeds, 24th-26th June 2011
Keynote Speakers: Professors Kim Knott (University of Leeds); Bart Moore-Gilbert (Goldsmith's University); Neil L. Whitehead (University of Wisconsin)
Please submit 300 word abstracts, accompanied by a 100 word biography, for 20 minute papers to the conference organisers, Shivani Rajkomar and Lori Shelbourn, at organisers@empowermentandthesacred.com. The deadline for submissions has been extended to the 30th of March 2011. Further details can be found on our website: http://www.empowermentandthesacred.com.
Call for Papers: The War on Terror and the Impact on Muslim Communities - Security, Human Rights and the Media
Seminar and Conference Convenor: Professor Javaid Rehman, Brunel Law School 28th June 2011
Keynote: Professor Conor Gearty, London School of Economics
Proposals for papers addressing any of these themes should be submitted to Ms Stephanie Berry, Brunel Law School (Stephanie.Berry@brunel.ac.uk) by 7 March 2011. Proposals should not exceed 300 words and should be accompanied by a Curriculum Vitae. We would welcome papers from a range of different disciplines and from PhD, early career and more established researchers.
35th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
International Slavery Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Wednesday 29th June - Friday 1st July 2011
Abstracts should be submitted along with a short CV by 7th January, 2011. Proposals received after the deadline may not be considered.
http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk
CFP: Afromodernisms 2 What’s really new? Blackness and Atlantic Modernism, 1907–61
University of Liverpool, UK. 30 June-2 July 2011 http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/conferences/Afromodernism
Confirmed Keynotes: Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley. Hazel Carby, Yale University.
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 by 11th April 2011.
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 to: Fionnghuala Sweeney: fsweeney@liv.ac.uk or Kate Marsh: clmarsh@liv.ac.uk.
JULY
Beyond Calypso: New Perspectives on Sam Selvon
a one-day international conference in association with the Warwick University Yesau Persad Centre for Caribbean Studies, to take place at University of Warwick on 2nd July 2011.
Please send submissions by 30th May 2011 to Malachi McIntosh and Stephanie Decouvelaere at m.mcintosh@warwick.ac.uk
CFP: The Futures of Feminism
FWSA conference, The Futures of Feminism: New Directions in Feminist, Women's & Gender Studies, which will be held at Brunel University between 5th and 7th July 2011. http://futuresoffeminism.wordpress.com/
Please email 250 word proposals for 20 minute presentations or 750 word panel proposals to the conference organisers Dr. Jessica Cox and Nadine Muller at futures-of-feminism@fwsa.org.uk by 1st April 2011.
Postcolonialism, Economies, Crises: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Postcolonial Studies Association Biennial Conference, Birmingham 7-8 July 2011
CFP: Life Writing and Human Rights: Genres of Testimony
Centre for Life Narratives, Kingston University, London (CLN) AND University of Minnesota, Departments of Creative Writing and Human Rights
11, 12, 13 July 2011 AT KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, LONDON
Abstracts: Please provide a 500 word abstract and a brief bio via our webpage by 15 February 2011:www.kingston.ac.uk/fass/activities/conferences/abstracts
Questions regarding CLN may be sent to Dr Meg Jensen, Director: m.jensen@kingston.ac.uk
L’Inde des Anglais, l’Inde des Français, regards croisés
15–16 September 2011, Centre Culturel de l’Entente Cordiale, Château d’Hardelot, France [Near Eurostar Calais-Fréthun]
The Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project on ‘Peripheral Voices and European Colonialism
Please send proposals to Ian Magedera (magedera@liv.ac.uk) by 14 July 2011. Twenty-minute papers can be given in English or in French.
The Culture of Grub Street: The Second Biennial Meeting of the Defoe Society
The University of Worcester, UK, will host the second biennial meeting of the Defoe Society on 14-16 July 2011.
We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers that address one of the panel topics listed (abstracts for the panels may be found at www.worc.ac.uk/earlymodern), and for papers that engage with the field of Defoe Studies more generally. Paper topics do not have to adhere strictly to the conference theme or to focus on Defoe; it is anticipated that additional panels will be formed to accommodate paper proposals that do not address any of the proposed topics. The deadline is 31 January 2011.
Additional information concerning the conference, accommodation and travel may be found at www.defoesociety.org andwww.worc.ac.uk/earlymodern.
The Postgraduate Contemporary Women's Writing Network (PG CWWN) is now recruiting for members of its Steering Group. A highly successful network which hosts annual conferences and networking events and which has been in receipt of awards from the AHRC and the RCUK Roberts Fund, the PG CWWN is looking for proactive postgraduate researchers with an interest in contemporary women's writing to join its Steering Group from September 2011 and to contribute actively to the continuation of the PG CWWN's success. Please see attached a detailed call for applications, and note that the deadline for applications is 15th July 2011.
We look forward to receiving your applications. If you have any further questions regarding this call, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us via email at info@pgcwwn.org.
Spectres of Class’
Conference at the University of Chester, UK, on 15-16 July 2011 organised in association with CADAAD (Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines).
We welcome abstracts of no more than 300 words by Friday 25 March 2011. Please send attached as a word document with the sender’s name, position, contact address and email.
For PDF poster - http://english.chester.ac.uk/papers.php
Organised by Professor Deborah Wynne and Dr Matt Davies, University of Chester English Department.
Confirmed keynote speakers so far: Paul Kerswill, Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Lancaster & Dr Ruth Livesey, Reader in Nineteenth Century Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London.
GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
18-20 July, 2011
http://www.GlobalStudiesConference.com
Enhancing Music Iconography Research: Considering the Current, Setting new Trends
13th International Conference of RIdIM and the 1st Brazilian Conference on Music Iconography. Salvador de Bahia (Brazil) from July 20 to 22, 2011. http://www.ridim-br.mus.ufba.br/ridim2011/.
Presentation proposals (in English, Spanish and Portuguese) can be submitted. The deadline to submit proposals has been extended to November 3, 2010, and you can submit your proposal via http://www.feudo.org/openconf/openconf.php.
‘Performative Inter-Actions: Innovation, Creativity & Enterprise in African Theatre’
African Theatre Association (AfTA) 2011 Annual International Conference
DATE: Thursday 21 – Saturday 23 July 2011
VENUE: SWANSEA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, Wales UK
AUGUST
CFP: Seas Festival of Performing arts from the Mediterranean
New York city from Aug. 29th to Sept 4th 2O11
Paper and performance submissions on topics of Mediterranean history, identity/ies and culture.
www.betweentheseas.org
Deadline for applications: 30th March 2011. Application materials and questions can be emailed to lesmanouchestheatre@gmail.com
EACLALS Postgraduate Conference. Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights
Institute of English Studies, University of London. 26-27 August 2011
Keynote Speaker: Professor Frank Schulze-Engler (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2011. Although provision is made for postgraduates in the workshop sessions where they can discuss their research, we invite proposals from scholars at all levels of their career.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words for individual presentations (20 minutes), workshop presentations or poster presentations to eaclals.pg.conference@googlemail.com. Include your name, affiliation, email address, a brief biography and indicate whether you will present in a PANEL, or with a POSTER. www.eaclals.ulg.ac.be/pg-conference
Call for Contributors on the definitive volume on “Public Administration and Policy in the Caribbean” by Dr. I. D. Minto-Coy and Professor Evan Berman for Taylor and Francis.
Description: The book will represent the most comprehensive coverage of public policy and public administration in the wider Caribbean region. The book is both historical and forward looking, covering the development of major themes, practices and trends in public policy and administration from colonialism to present and offering informed analyses on the way forward. Chapter titles have already been selected but there is some room for contributors to suggest alternative themes.
Dates: Expression of interest, brief outline and CVs due August 30, 2011. However, proposals will be accepted after the due date. Notification of acceptance: September 15. First Draft: February 2011. Final Paper submission: May 2012.
Contact: I.D.Minto-Coy@alumni.lse.ac.uk
SEPTEMBER
International Conference: Identities, Images, Representation(s)
1, 2, 3 September 2011 at University of La Rochelle, France
send an abstract (English or French) of 200-300 words + a bio-note to Sue Ryan-Fazilleau, sryan@univ-lr.fr and Martine Raibaud mraibaud@univ-lr.fr by 02 May 2011
Paper Length: 20 minutes. Conference fee: 50 euros
Spectres of World Literature
Institute of English Studies, University of London 8-9 September 2011
Keynote Speakers: Neil Lazarus, Nicholas Brown, Sarah Brouillette
This conference is organised by James Graham (Middlesex University), Mike Niblett (University of Warwick) and Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin).
Registration for this event is now open. Please follow this link to download a form: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2011/Spectres/index.htm
If you have any questions concerning the programme please contact James Graham j.graham@mdx.ac.uk
Call for Papers: One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
Johannesburg 20-24 September 2011 http://www.sahistory.org.za
Abstracts Due: February 28th, 2011 Papers Due: May 31st, 2011
For further details on the conference contact: Jon Soske: soske.jon@gmail.com Omar Badsha: omar@sahistory.org.za
Call for contributions: Neo-Historical Exoticism and Contemporary Fiction
The current phenomenon of the neo-Victorian, neo-Edwardian, neo-Forties, and more recently, neo-Tudor novel, seems to confirm contemporary culture’s persisting fascination with re-visiting and re-formulating certain key historical moments. This edited collection of essays intends to develop critical examination of the recent literary trend of the ‘neo-historical’ novel and to bring fresh perspectives to current debates on its cultural and theoretical underpinnings. We particularly welcome contributions on the ‘exoticising’ strategies employed by neo-historical fiction in its representation of one culture for consumption by another: What motivates this return to, and symbolic re-appropriation of, the past? Are certain historical periods more prone to creative re-interpretations than others? What are the implications of using a discursive practice intent on seeking elsewhere (in this case, the past) a mode of expression for the present? With the possibility of geographical escape now exhausted in our global age, has the past become the latest refuge from (post)modernity?
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Neo-historical fiction in the global/trans-national present
- Exotic nostalgia in the neo-historical novel
- Popular culture, consumerism, and neo-historical exoticism
- Neo-historical fiction in the margins of Empire
- Travel, exploration and the exotic in the neo-historical novel
- Exotic historiography in contemporary neo-historical fiction
Please send a 300-500 word proposal for a 7,000-8,000 word chapter to the editor Dr Elodie Rousselot (Elodie.Rousselot@port.ac.uk) by 21 September 2011. Please add a short biographical note. Completed chapters will be due in January 2012.
Cultures of Violence: A Postgraduate Conference, hosted by Queen’s Postcolonial Research Forum
Keynote Speakers: Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool)
Robert Marzec (Associate Professor in the English Department at Perdue University, IN, and Associate Editor of Modern Fiction Studies)
Queen’s University Belfast, 23-24 September 2011
Individual papers should be no longer than 20 minutes, and submissions should be in the form of an abstract (250-300 words) sent as an email attachment in Word to Ríona Kelly and Tanya Campbell at qubpostcolonialconf@gmail.com. The deadline for all submissions is 18th April 2011
CFP: The Caribbean: Aesthetics, Ecology, Politics
A conference at the University of Warwick, 23rd-25th September, 2011
Keynote speakers include: Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Oonya Kempadoo, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Janette Bulkan
Individual papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please send a 300 word abstract and a biographical sketch (150 words) to Michael Niblett at eapconference@gmail.com by March 1st, 2011.
OCTOBER
Call for Papers: 2nd International BAKEA Symposium of Western Cultural and Literary Studies
The BAKEA Symposium welcomes papers and panel proposals from the researchers in the fields of English, American, French and German Cultures and Literatures
5-6-7 October 2011 at Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey.
Please send a 200-250 word-abstract with a short bio by 25 February 2011 as Word-file attachment to one of the following addresses: bakea.pau@gmail.com, macelikel@pau.edu.tr
Registration Fee: For lecturers 250 TL / € 125. For Research Assistants and Postgraduate students 220 TL / € 110. Deadline for registration is 17 June 2011.
CFP: Rudyard Kipling: an International Writer
International conference, held on October 21-22, 2011 at the Institute of English Studies, London
Keynote Speakers: Amit Chaudhuri and Charles Allen
Send your proposals of 150-300 words for 20 minute papers to J.E.Montefiore@kent.ac.uk by 31 March 2011, entering your email subject as International Kipling 2011.
Conference Organizers: Professor Jan Montefiore and Dr Kaori Nagai
VISA STORIES: Experiences between Law and Migration
21 OCTOBER 2011 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
This one-day workshop will provide an informal and friendly setting for sharing our experiences of international mobility. We would like to invite teaching staff, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students from any discipline to join us to talk about their experiences of migration, travel or transnational movement, and to explore the different dimensions related to global mobility, from its legal and juridical regulations to its political, economic, cultural, artistic, or personal aspects.
We are particularly interested in your experiences with visas, laws, permits, acceptances and refusals, application processes, or anything that you think makes your own story of international movement unique and important. We look forward to receiving a short résumé of your “visa story” (no more than 300 words for a 20-minute reading or presentation) by 1st August 2011.
We welcome contributions in the form of creative writing, personal account, academic paper, or any style that you feel is able to communicate your personal experience. We would be very happy to consider proposals for animation, short feature films and audio-visual performance. Contributions will be selected for publication. Please contact Filippo, Bahriye and Tinashe at visastories@gmail.com Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research School of English, University of Kent, Canterbury
Call for Papers: Love, Sex, Desire & the (Post)Colonial
Senate House, University of London, 28 – 29 October 2011
Please send single abstracts of 250-300 words or panel proposals of no more than 1000 words as well as brief biographies to the convenors, Mark Mathuray, Lucienne Loh, and Wendy Knepper by 30th June, 2011. The time-limit for each paper is approx. 20 minutes.
Please email your proposals to Denise Odell at denise.odell@brunel.ac.uk. We hope to respond by June 1st 2011. For more details, visit the Institute of English Studies, University of London at http://ies.sas.ac.uk.
Women’s Life Writing and Diaspora
A Special Issue of Life Writing, Volume 9, Issue 4 – 2012
Deadline for submission: 31st October 2011
Contributors are asked to focus on the postcolonial contexts of women’s life writing, examining women’s life writing in relation to recent articulations of postcolonial/feminist and disaporic theory. Articles should demonstrate some engagement with issues in the field of auto/biographical study and critical examination or extension of current auto/biographical theory.
For more information please see the CFP at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rlwrcfp1.pdf
Articles and reflections should be submitted on disc or by email attachment (as a Word document) to either of the editors below.
Jenni Ramone, Senior Lecturer in English, Newman University College, Birmingham B32 3NT www.newman.ac.uk j.ramone@newman.ac.uk
Suzanne Scafe, Department of Culture, Writing and Performance, London South Bank University 103, Borough Road, London SE1 OAA scafes@lsbu.ac.uk
Review articles should be submitted to Bettina Stumm. Bettina Stumm, Reviews Editor, Life Writing, University of British Columbia, 397-1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada bettinastumm@yahoo.ca
Extremism, Nationalism and Transgression (Gylphi Transgressive Culture series) – call for chapters
Eds. Jason Lee and Andrew Wilson, University of Derby
While contributions that draw upon historical evidence are welcome, proposals with a focus on recent phenomena and texts will be preferred. Prospective contributors should submit a 500 word proposal with 75 word bio-note by the 31st October 2011. We welcome proposals from a range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, especially those that transgress boundaries.
Please send abstracts to both: Jason Lee j.lee@derby.ac.uk and Andrew Wilson a.f.wilson@derby.ac.uk
http://www.gylphi.co.uk/transgressive/index.php
NOVEMBER
CALL FOR PAPERS: 11th Portsmouth translation conference
TRANSLATION AND MEMORY
A workshop conference in collaboration with the British Comparative Literature Association
Saturday 5 November 2011. Park Building, University of Portsmouth
Enquiries and/or abstracts of 300 words should be sent by 30 June 2011 to:
Dr Margaret Anne Clarke
School of Languages and Area Studeis
margaret.clarke@port.ac.uk
Contemporary Women's Gothic
5 November 2011, University of Brighton
Key note speakers:
Professor Andy Smith, University of Glamorgan
Dr Catherine Spooner, University of Lancaster
This one day conference will focus on a range of contemporary women’s Gothic writing and papers are welcomed which engage with Gothic themes, trends, and/or individual authors.
Please see the CFP at: http://www.the-cwwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/CFP-CWWA-2011-Brighton-Gothic.pdf
Please send 250 word abstracts for 20 minute papers to Gina Wisker and Katy Shaw at: G.Wisker@brighton.ac.uk by 29th August 2011.
CFP "The Postcolonial City", SFPS Annual Conference
Nov 18-19, London
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Jim House (Leeds), Sherry Simon (Concordia)
Please send abstracts of 250-300 words, plus 50-100 words of bio-bibliography, to SFPS Conference Secretary, Georgina Collins (sfpsconference@hotmail.co.uk). Papers can be in either French or English.
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Monday, 20 June 2011.
“Other Indias: The Richness of Indian Multiplicity”
at University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain) on 23-26 November, 2011, organized by the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies (AEEII).
The organizers welcome panels from a variety of fields, and we would like to propose one on “Queer Desire & India.” Please, send us an abstract of around 200 words and a short bio-note (including affiliation of author and e-mail) to antonia.navarro@uco.es by July 30, 2011.
Shorelines and Shadows: Representations of Queer and Postcolonial Mythical Beings
A one-day postgraduate conference hosted by the Joint Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Research Theme, Minorities Identities: Rights and Representations
Saturday 26 November 2011, University of Reading UK
Keynote Speaker: Jamaican writer and academic Kei Miller
Abstracts of no more than 250 words for papers of 20 minutes should be submitted to: Rebecca Ashworth and Lotti Mealing pocomyth@yahoo.co.uk. Please include a brief bio-sketch (not more than 50 words) including institutional affiliation and area of research.
DECEMBER
Otherwise Engaged:Legacies and Questions of Marginal and Mainstream Visual Arts Strategies
An interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium, 3 December 2011. School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds.
Keynote Speaker, Prof. Lubaina Himid, International artist and curator, University of Central Lancashire
Otherwise Engaged is a one-day symposium that invites postgraduate students to submit proposals that consider the challenges of intervention, integration, separatism, confrontation, assimilation, ghettoisation and accommodation. How have marginalised spaces and mainstream institutions engaged with these challenges? We are interested in exploring the processes, relationships and pluralities of the various sites of the marginal and the mainstream. What are the experiences and examples of specific interventions, theoretical strategic models, and tactical approaches from contemporary art practice and writing, culture, education and curating?
We invite abstracts of a maximum length of 300 words by 15 September 2011 (20 minute papers). You will receive confirmation of acceptance of the proposed presentation by October 1, 2011. Please use the attached form and send to espencermills@yahoo.com.
Emerging Directions in Post-colonial Studies.
Workshop, The Australian National University, 7/8 December 2011
This workshop sets out to explore the way the language and methodologies of post-colonial theory intersects with other rubrics and paradigms in the social sciences through which ‘the present’ can be understood. It aims to bring together and consolidate the newly formed post-colonial studies network at the ANU and to create connections with post-colonial scholars in other universities and abroad.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent by 10th October 2011 to April Biccum (april.biccum@anu.edu.au) or Shameem Black (Shameem.black@anu.edu.au)
Vanishing Borders in the Age of Globalism: Austral-Asian Perspectives
Association for the Study of Australasia in Asia (ASAA) in collaboration with Osmania University Centre for International Programmes, Hyderabad
12-14 December 2011
Submission deadline: 15 September 2011
Theme: Vanishing Borders in the Age of Globalism: Austral-Asian Perspectives. The Conference seeks to explore and theorize the multiple implications of globalism as well as the multiplicity of its impacts on human existence in the contemporary world. It aims to look at not only aspects of cultural change in the context of global (and local) social transformation but also the varied interventions that accompany them. This multi-disciplinary conference focusses on this unstable terrain in the context of Australia and Asia and addresses a range of issues including: Global culture, popular culture and modernity; Nation, language, indigeneity, migration and diasporic issues; Literary, artistic canons–formations, ruptures and re-formations; gender constructions and interrogations; Implications for history, geography, education, environmental studies, health, diplomacy, besides the dominant concerns of business and economics.