Convention News
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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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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Keynote Speakers
David Theo Goldberg
Professor, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine,
USA
https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4716
Global Dread
Dread, I suggest, is the driving political affect of our current conjuncture. I examine the relational ambiguities of a dread that is more or less global, the dread globalization has prompted (contrasted with the dread of global imperialisms) and the dread of globalization as such.
Paul Gilroy spoke of postcolonial mourning, the nostalgia for a sensed loss of standing in a world bereft of empire, its affordances both material and affective. I ...
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Convention Registration
We are delighted to confirm that registration is now live for the PSA 2019 Convention. Please follow the link below to the University of Manchester eStore page, where you can register and pay for convention attendance.
Registration link: https://estore.manchester.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-humanities/school-of-arts-languages-and-culture/psa/postcolonial-studies-association-psa-convention-2019
How much? As a reminder, the registration fee for PSA 2019 will be as follows:
3-day registration fees: Band C (incl. students/unwaged) £60 / Band B £75 / Band A £120
1-day registration fees:Band C (incl. students/unwaged) £40 / Band B £45 / Band A £65
Please note that we cannot make any further reductions to these rates, which already represent a significant reduction/saving, ...
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2019 PSA Convention Programme released
You can now download the full programme for the next PSA Convention at the University of Manchester by clicking below.
Please note that an updated programme will be disseminated in due course nearer the time, with added information about chairs and specific room locations.
For more information, please go to: http://www.postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk/2019-convention-programme/
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PSA Convention 2019: Second submission deadline added
Thanks to all those who have submitted proposals for papers and panels for the upcoming PSA Convention to be held at the University of Manchester from 11th to 13th September 2019. We are delighted to say that we have received the largest number of submissions for a PSA convention to date.
A number of members have expressed concern about submitting a proposal, or indeed making any travel plans, before the upcoming UK withdrawal from the European Union scheduled to take place on 29th March 2019. In ...
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