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Irish Caribbean Connections: An Interdisciplinary Conference University College Cork 22-23 July 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS Irish Caribbean Connections is an interdisciplinary conference that seeks to explore synergies between Ireland and the Caribbean islands.  This event follows the vibrant  Caribbean Irish Connections conference held at the University of the West Indies, Barbados, in 2012. KEYNOTE SPEAKER LORNA GOODISON INTRODUCED BY JAHAN RAMAZANI We welcome proposals for papers across the range of disciplines, including but not confined to the following areas: the performing arts, drama, music, literature, and the visual arts cultural studies, ... Read more

Mock the Weak: Comedy and the Politics of Representation   14th-15th September 2016, Teesside University/ARC Stockton Comedy is an ambivalent medium that ranges from the reactionary and conservative to the radical and subversive. It has both a political role in entrenching or overturning existing hierarchies of power, and a psychological one, in giving voice to taboo topics. At a time when questions related to comedy (regarding the limits of free speech, the power dynamic inherent in joking, and the representation of minority groups frequently ... Read more

‘It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At’: International Hip Hop Studies Conference Wolfson College, University of Cambridge 23-24 June 2016 http://hiphopstudies.org Keynote speakers: Tricia Rose, Brown University Murray Forman, Northeastern University The AHRC ‘Performing hip hop Englishness’ project, in collaboration with Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, is pleased to invite proposals for papers to be presented at the international hip hop studies conference ‘It ain’t where you’re from, it’s where you’re at’. It ain’t where you’re from: The line ‘it ain’t where you’re from, it’s where ... Read more

Diasporic Trajectories: Transnational Cultures in the 21st Century  IASH, 2 Hope Park Square, University of Edinburgh  Seminar 5, Friday 13th November, 2-5pm *Prof. David Murphy, ‘The Performance of Pan-Africanism: performing black identity at major pan-African festivals, 1966-2010’ http://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/10677 *Dr James Procter , 'Diaspora on Air: Radio and Lyrical Modernity' http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/staff/profile/james.procter Chair: Dr Sam Coombes   The remaining seminars in the series are the following: Diaspora studies is a growing area of research within the broader field of postcolonial studies. Its principal focus is the ways in which the experiences of migrant and displaced communities have been ... Read more