Other Events: 2013

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Rural / country life in literature, song, film & folklore

Loughborough University in March 2013. Please see the CFP at:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ea/events/The/Rural/Experience.html
Email address for information or to submit abstracts: rural@lboro.ac.uk. Advance deadline 30th October 2012 but early submission is encouraged.

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MAY

International Conference on Macau Narratives

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities/New University of Lisbon
Fundação Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal, 8, 9, 10 May 2013, Venue: Orient Museum (Lisbon, Portugal)
Please submit an abstract or a full paper (MLA style) and a bio note, by September 30, 2012, to: Rogério Miguel Puga macaunarrativesconference@hotmail.com and coloquios.cham@fcsh.unl.pt    
From the CFP: In 2013, to mark the 500-year anniversary of the arrival of Jorge Álvares in China and of Sino-Portuguese relations, the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) and the Centre for Overseas History (CHAM) of the New University of Lisbon, and the Fundação Oriente will organise an interdisciplinary International Conference on Macau Narratives.

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    • Since the sixteenth century Macau has been narrated and represented through historical, historiographical and literary texts, as well as by films, paintings and other works of art in museums, archives and institutions all over the world. These kinds of narratives and other will be analysed during the three days of the conference by international scholars. Potential contributors are invited to submit a 300 word abstract on themes related to any of the following conference tracks:

      • Macau Studies
      • Historical/Historiographical Narratives on Macau
      • Macanese and Lusophone Culture and Diaspora
      • Portuguese Expansion
      • Orientalism
      • Exoticism/Representing the Other
      • Inter-Arts Dialogue and China Trade Art
      • Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies
      • European Empires in Asia
      • Anglo-Portuguese Relations in Asia
      • Hong Kong Studies
      • Travel Writing on Macau
      • Literary and Museum Representations
      • Luso-Asian Pidgins and Creoles
      • Sino-Western Relations

      Working languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish. No translation will be provided.
      Papers and panels on the above themes are invited. However, papers/panels on other subjects related to the above topics will also be considered. Participants will be held to a twenty minute presentation limit.

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