[ecrea] conference: Postcolonial Studies across the DIsciplines (ASNEL/GNEL)

>CfP call for paper
>Conference
>Postcolonial Studies across the DIsciplines (ASNEL/GNEL)
>02.06.11-04.06.11
>Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
>
>The 22nd annual conference of the Association for the Study of the New
>Literatures in English will continue some of the discussions of our
>previous conferences about space and locations, migration and its
>reasons, cultural and linguistic communities, as well as academic and
>institutional concerns. In Hanover, we shall concentrate on specific
>regions and communities, approaching them from various disciplinary
>perspectives and with an explicit self-reflexive impetus.
>
>The conference will focus on two interrelated issues, one thematic and
>one methodological. It will bring together scholars from different
>academic fields who share an interest in the comparative reflection of
>their respective disciplinary and individual methodologies. The
>following questions will be addressed: how do we develop our research
>interests and topics? Which factors influence our choice of material and
>methodology? How do the institutionalized modes of assessing and funding
>research as well as the ongoing reforms of the BA and MA programmes
>influence our scholarly work? How do we react to globalization and its
>impact on the regions we work on? How do the new media and especially
>the rise of the World Wide Web shape our teaching and research agendas?
>
>We are interested in discussing both entangled methodologies and
>entangled histories and therefore invite papers that offer cultural,
>literary, linguistic, historical, geographical, sociological and other
>disciplinary perspectives on the following themes: slavery, emancipation
>and post-emancipation across the Atlantic, indenture and slavery
>worldwide up to today, cultural agency and especially linguistic
>creativity and resistance, cultural exchange across the Atlantic and the
>Pacific. We welcome contributions on literature as historiography, on
>strategies of re-writing history in Anglophone literatures, on
>postcolonial literatures in English translation, and on recent trends in
>postcolonial theory and in methodologies of transdisciplinary
>Postcolonial Studies.
>
>Confirmed plenary speakers are
>*Sabine Broeck*, Professor of American Studies 
>at the University of Bremen and author of White 
>Amnesia - Black Memory? Women's Writing and 
>History (1999), who is currently working on a 
>book entitled No Slavery for the Subject - Slavery, Modernity and Gender,
>*Jessica Hemmings*, Head of Context at the 
>Edinburgh College of Art and author of Yvonne 
>Vera: The Voice of Cloth (2008) and In the Loop: Knitting Now (2010), and
>*Tim Watson*, Associate Professor of English at 
>the University of Miami and author of Caribbean 
>Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic 
>World, 1780-1870 (2008), who is currently 
>working on The Sun Also Sets: Transatlantic Culture and the Ends of Empire.
>
>The conference will include workshops on 
>interdisciplinary Postcolonial Studies in 
>teaching and research (both in school and at 
>university) and on interdisciplinary 
>Postcolonial Studies in the new BA and MA 
>programmes. It will also provide the opportunity 
>to present work in progress on all levels of 
>academic qualification in the "under construction" and poster sessions.
>
>Please send abstracts of papers (20 min, 200 
>words), proposals for organizing (or 
>contributing to) one of the workshops, or 
>suggestions for the presentation of work in progress.
>
>Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English
>Jana Gohrisch
>Englisches Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover
>Königsworther Platz 1 30167 Hannover Germany
>email: (gnel2011 /at/ engsem.uni-hannover.de)
>
>
>
>

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