Archives by: Lucinda Newns
PSA Newsletter #25 (June 2020)
PSA Newsletter #25 is a special issue on ‘Decolonising Academia?’ Our contributors critically engage with calls for decolonisation academia, examining different aspects of the university and its practises from a range of geographical and linguistic perspectives, including interrogating to what extent decolonial thought can take place in a neo-liberal academia, emphasising the importance of associate tutor training in decolonising the university, examining how the English language has colonised academia, and considering how we can decolonise academia beyond postcolonial studies. This issue also features reports about an international ...
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Postponed: ‘Archipelagic Memory: Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines’ (University of Mauritius, NOW 2–5 August 2021)
Dear PSA members, colleagues and friends,
Due to the outbreak of the pandemic, the ensuing slowdown and uncertainties, and the strict sanitary measures taken by Mauritian authorities, we have postponed the conference ‘Archipelagic Memory: Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines’ to 2-5 August 2021.
We hope to make the best of the new, unexpected time at our disposal to broaden our conceptual agenda by highlighting the unique and timely contribution of the Humanities and Social Sciences to discussions on one of the major crises of our ...
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Deadline Extended: ‘Archipelagic Memory: Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines’ (University of Mauritius, 4 – 6 August 2020)
In light of the disruption to work caused by the onset of Covid-19, we have decided to extend the deadline for paper and poster proposals to 20 April 2020.
Click here to access the full call for papers.
We will continue to closely review the global situation, and invite you to check our website (https://archipelagicmemory.wordpress.com/) and follow the conference Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/events/590162365141517/) for any news, as well as get in touch with us via email if you have any queries: archipelagicmemory@gmail.com.
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PSA/JPW Postgraduate Essay Prize: Deadline Extended
Due to the disruptions being caused by Covid-19, and the upheavals and pressures being experienced within the academic community, including postgraduate students, the deadline for this year's PSA/JPW Postgraduate Essay Prize is being extended to the 1st May 2020. We look forward to receiving your submission.
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Call for Papers: Archipelagic Memory: Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines (University of Mauritius, 4 – 6 August 2020)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this event has been postponed until 2-5 August 2021.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Ananya Jahanara Kabir, King’s College London
Isabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witwatersrand/NYU
George Abungu, Archaeologist and International Heritage Consultant
Anwar Janoo, University of Mauritius
The concept of the “archipelago” has been discussed and deployed by historians, social scientists, literary and cultural studies scholars since the 1950s to dismantle linear narratives of historical, national and cultural development; to resist the taxonomy of centre-periphery; to emphasise shared human experiences premised on relation, ...
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PSA Newsletter #24 (January 2020)
This is the convention issue of the PSA Newsletter, covering the 2019 Postcolonial Studies Association Convention, which took place at the University of Manchester, from 11-13 September. The conference theme was ‘Postcolonial Justice’ and this is a topic that many of our contributions engage with in different ways. We feature reflections by the PSA chair and the conference organisers, an extract from one of the keynotes and a discussion of postcolonial justice and branding. This issue also includes a report on ...
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New Publication – Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction: Homing the Metropole
Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction: Homing the Metropole (Routledge, 2019) by Lucinda Newns
Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction responds to the need for a more materialist perspective on migration by reorienting the focus on domesticity and the everyday practices of homemaking and away from a celebratory and aestheticized reading of displacement. Centering on Britain as the location of arrival, its readings of canonical and underexplored works of diasporic fiction emanating from Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean foreground the significance ...
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GAPS Dissertation Award
The
GAPS (formerly ASNEL) Dissertation Award is granted once every two years and
recognizes an outstanding doctoral thesis that advances and expands in an
exceptional manner the analytical and/or theoretical approach to Anglophone
literatures around the world, to the study of varieties of the English, or to
other postcolonial cultural forms, practices, and media.
The
award is endowed with € 2,000 and can be split among several doctoral theses. It
will be awarded for the fourth time at the annual convention of GAPS in May 2020.
In addition to the ...
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2019 PSA Convention: Justice
Join us from the 11th to 13th of September at the University of Manchester for the biennial Convention of the Postcolonial Studies Association. There will be papers on all aspects of postcolonial research, from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Click here to access the full programme and abstracts.
The special topic of this year's convention is Justice. For all their differences, it might be said that postcolonialists are united in their commitment to pursuing justice in the face of all ...
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Abstracts
Delegates,
alphabetically by last names
Aghogho Akpome
The African refugee and the crisis of European (in)justice in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go Went Gone
This paper explores Go Went
Gone, a 2015 novel by the German writer, Jenny Erpenbeck on the plight of a
handful of African refugees in Berlin in the context of what has been called the
European refugee/migrant ‘crisis’. The novel’s exploration of the impossible juridical/bureaucratic
obstacles placed before these refugees foreground the ways in which the so-called
‘crisis’ of recent migration to the West can be understood primarily ...
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