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3-G Network Celebrates the Guyanas – London Conference, Oct 27-29, 2016
Imagining the Guyanas / Ecologies of Memory and Movement
Conference Dates: 27-29 October, 2016
Location: University of London, School of Advanced Study, Senate House
Confirmed Keynotes: Alissa Trotz (University of Toronto) and Janette Bulkan (University of British Columbia)
Special Guest: Clem Seecharan
Confirmed Writers and Artists: John Agard, Gaiutra Bahadur, Malika Booker, Fred D’Aguiar, Cyril Dabydeen, Grace Nichols, Jan Lowe Shinebourne and Keith Waithe
Details and Registration:
http://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/public-events/2016/imagining-guyanas-ecologies-memory-and-movement <http://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/public-events/2016/imagining-guyanas-ecologies-memory-and-movement
Additionally:
http://pays-anglophones.upv.univ-montp3.fr/?page_id=2212 <http://pays-anglophones.upv.univ-montp3.fr/?page_id=2212>
PARTNERING INSTITUTIONS: Coastal Carolina University, Université de Poitiers (MIGRINTER), Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (EMMA), Université d’Anvers, University of Stirling, ...
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Reminder and Update: Network Celebrates the Guyanas – Montpellier, Nov 4-5, 2016
Imagining the Guyanas / Across the Disciplines
Conference Dates: November 4-5, 2016
Location: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
Confirmed Keynotes: William Marshall (University of Stirling) and Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool)
Special Guests: Alexis Tiouka (French Guyane), Alissa Trotz (University of Toronto), Didier Vincent (Kandjokan France), Michelle Asantewa
Invited Writer: Pauline Melville
More details here.
Friday Novembre 4
Salle des colloques n°2, St Charles
8.30 Registration
9.15 Opening of the conference
9.30-11.00 Panel 1: Crossing Borders
Chair : Thomas Lacroix
· Clémence Léobal, University Paris Descartes and EHESS [& Ine Apapoe, Anton de Kom University ...
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Reminder of (virtual) AGM 16 – 20 September 2016
This is a reminder that the Postcolonial Studies Association is holding its Annual General Meeting via an online forum from 9am on Friday 16 September to 5pm on Tuesday 20 September. We hope that the virtual format and five-day span will enable many members to be involved.
Executive Committee officers will report as usual, and members may also propose AOB topics for discussion. As specified in the constitution, the annual general meeting has authority to determine any matters concerning the activity of ...
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Summer 2016 Newsletter
The Summer 2016 issue of the PSA Newsletter is now available to download. This issue focuses on the topic of 'Postcolonial Cities'. Highlights include Léopold Lambert's report from the Calais 'Jungle', Zahira Asmal on Johannesburg as 'Arrival City', Monique Michal Marks on the increased securitization of South Africa's urban centres and photography by Jodi Bieber and Bradley Garrett. You will also find reports on recent conferences and research networks and PSA news. A preview is available here.
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CfP: New Stage Idioms: South African Drama, Theatre and Performance In The Twenty-First Century
NEW STAGE IDIOMS: SOUTH AFRICAN DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
An international conference organized by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
May 11-13, 2017
2ND CALL FOR PAPERS
In the years that followed the end of Apartheid, South African drama, theatre and performance were characterized by a remarkable productivity, which entailed a process of constant aesthetic reinvention. In the post-apartheid period, South African playwrights and theatre makers sought to come to terms with the traumatic legacy of the pre-democratic past. Witness thereof are ...
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Francophone Postcolonial Studies in the 21st Century: Conference Programme and Regstration
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
In association with Liverpool University Press
Francophone Postcolonial Studies in the 21st Century
Friday 18 & Saturday 19 November 2016
Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Please find attached the provisional programme and registration form for the annual conference of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, at Senate House on 18-19 November 2016. The theme of the conference is ‘Francophone Postcolonial Studies in the 21st Century’
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Genre Fiction of New India: post-millennial receptions of “weird” narratives
Out today: Genre Fiction of New India: post-millennial receptions of 'weird' narratives
by E. Dawson Varughese
This book investigates fiction in English, written within, and published from India since 2000 in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction in doing so it introduces the term ‘Bharati Fantasy’. This volume is anchored in notions of the ‘weird’ and thus some time is spent understanding this term linguistically, historically (‘wyrd’) as well as philosophically and most significantly socio-culturally because ‘reception’ is a key theme to this ...
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CfP: “Law and Literature from the Global South,” special issue of the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.
Call for Papers: The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Spring 2018 Special Issue: Law and Literature from the Global South
Guest Editors: David Babcock (James Madison University) and Peter Leman (Brigham Young University)
Deadline for Submissions (approximately 4,000-5,000 words): December 20, 2016
Website: jcpcsonline.com
Contact Email: jcpcs.lawlit@gmail.com
CfP: available here
The editors of this special issue of JCPCS seek essays that respond to the question: what does it mean to study law and literature from the global south? “Law and Literature,” as a field, has responded in recent years to criticism of ...
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Edinburgh Fringe: *NZINGA WARRIOR QUEEN*
Edinburgh Fringe: *NZINGA WARRIOR QUEEN*
Premiered in 2014 and back for another run at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe, Mara Menzies' Nzinga Warrior Queen is the first ever Scottish theatre production to feature a powerful African woman as the protagonist.
Blending dance, live music, and storytelling, it is inspired by the real story of 17th-century Angolan queen Nzinga, who resisted the Portuguese colonisers and successfully kept control of her land throughout her entire life.
4th-19th August (not 10th), Scottish Storytelling Centre, 3pm. More information here.
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PSA/Journal of Postcolonial Writing Postgraduate Essay Competition 2016: Winner Announced
PSA/Journal of Postcolonial Writing Postgraduate Essay Competition 2016
Winner Announced
This year’s winner is Edward Dodson, University of Oxford, for his essay 'The Partial Postcoloniality of Julian Barnes’ Arthur & George’.
The runner-up is Amanda Ruth Waugh Lagji, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for her essay ‘Marking Time in Heart of Darkness: Waiting and (Post)colonial Temporalities’.
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