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International Online Conference: Imagining Migration, Knowing Migration: Intermedial Perspectives (February 25-26, 2021)
We invite you to join us for the free and public events during the conference:
Artist Intervention
Thursday, February 25 | 16:30–18:00 CETCharl Landvreugd (Rotterdam, NL)Notes on Ososma: Imagining Spaces
Keynote
Friday, February 26 | 10:00–11:30 CETAnanya Jahanara Kabir (London, UK)Moving Material: (Un)Making Migration through Dance
Reading & Discussion
Friday, February 26 | 18:00–19:30 CETOlumide Popoola
Please register in advance via Zoom: t1p.de/im2021-zoomFor more details, see our website: imaginingmigration2020.wordpress.com
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and organised by Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff and Miriam Wallraven.
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Member Publication: Borders and Ecotones in the Indian Ocean – Cultural and Literary Perspectives
This collection of critical essays anchors itself in the Indian Ocean and explores the multiple ways dynamic exchanges have shaped this multilingual region of the world, from India to the Mascarene Islands to Southern Africa. Borders, edges and third spaces are revisited through the notion of the ecotone, a transitional zone between two ecosystems. If the term has primarily been used by biologists and ecologists, the metaphorical angle proves to be fruitful as it authorizes trans-disciplinary approaches and empowers fresh perspectives. ...
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CFP: Special issue on Naya/New Pakistan
Angles on Naya/New Pakistan
https://journals.openedition.org/angles/539
Abstract deadline: March 15, 2021Complete contributions deadline: June 15, 2021
The guest editors are soliciting contributions for a Special Issue of Angles, an international online peer-reviewed journal published bi-annually by the SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur, the professional network which unites most of the university-level English professors in France). It is indexed by MLA, EBSCO, ERIH Plus, Scopus.
The theme for the Special Issue is “Angles on Naya/New Pakistan,” hoping to collect contributions from inside and outside Pakistan ...
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New in Paperback – Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels
Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels by Marijke Denger was first published by Routledge in 2019, in the Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures series, but has now been reissued in paperback format (29 September 2020).
Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels focuses on four highly acclaimed publications in order to argue for a new understanding of community and its ethical framework in recent literary texts. Traditionally, community has been understood ...
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PSA Newsletter #26 (December 2020)
This newsletter features an original contribution on the role of the homeland in modern Arabic poetry by Hajar Mahfoodh, a PSA funding report by Sneha Reddy, interviews with the two PSA/JPW Essay Prize Winners Alexander Bell and Maya Caspari and reviews of recent books in postcolonial studies. Mara Mattoscio reviews Sandra Ponzanesi and Adriano José Habed’s edited collection Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe: Critics, Artists, Movements, and their Publics. Smriti Singhgives us an insight into Lawrence Aje, Thomas Lacroix, and Judith Misrahi-Barak’s volume Re-Imagining the Guyanas and ...
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of South Asian Review on South Asian Disasters
Call for Papers: Special Issue of South Asian Review
Topic: South Asian Disasters in 20th and 21st Century - Literature, Film, and Culture
We invite proposals for a special issue of South Asian Review on “South Asian Disasters in Literature, Film, and Culture.” Edited by Liam O’ Loughlin and Pallavi Rastogi, the volume will be published in the spring of 2023. The special issue will feature Debjani Ganguly (University of Virginia), who will write the lead essay in the volume, and Upamanyu Pablo ...
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Call for Papers – SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021
"SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations" (late 18th – early 20th centuries)
10-12 May 2021
Live in Helsinki and online
This multidisciplinary conference seeks to examine performative, embodied and acoustic histories of articulating political representation and colonial ‘otherness’. To that end, we intend to extend the focus of the conference beyond established Anglophone analyses of the metropole and colony, and indeed, beyond the disciplinary pre-eminence of Anglophone postcolonial studies.
The conference is planned to be held live at Metsätalo Lecture Hall 4, Unioninkatu 40, University ...
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New Publication – Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire
Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire (Palgrave MacMillan 2020) by Kaori Nagai
This book coins the term ‘imperial beast fable’ to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century fascination with non-European beast fables, it examines literary reworkings of these fables, such as Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books, in relation to the global politics of race, language, and species. The imperial beast fable figures variably as a key site ...
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Call for Chapters for Edited Book: Genetic Histories and Liberties
Genetic Histories and Liberties: Eugenics, Genetic Ancestries and Genetic Technologies in Literary and Visual Cultures
Gender and the Body Series, Edinburgh University Press
‘Eugenics, at its root, divides people into positive and negative groups,’ Kevin Begos
“Weak parents should not procreate. Because their children would inherit their inferior qualities, they would have no strength to lead a meaningful life, or in any way contribute to the state.” Plato, The Republic
"Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair ...
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New Project – Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces
Dear colleagues,
We are writing to inform you about a new project we are launching called "Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces". This is a project of the Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities at the Education University of Hong Kong, led by Dr Bidisha Banerjee (Principal Investigator), by Dr Thomas Lacroix and Dr Judith Misrahi-Barak (Co-Investigators), in collaboration with EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) and the Maison Française of Oxford.Here is a brief summary of the project:Shocking images ...
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