[For those post-millennialists among us?] The Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania) announces the 7th edition of its biennial conference: Constructions of Identity – Contemporary Challenges (Cluj-Napoca, 24-26 October 2013). Abstracts should be submitted by September 1,… Read More ›
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CFP: Allah n’est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures, PG Study Day
Allah n’est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures. SFPS Postgraduate Study Day. University of Stirling, 20 June 2013. Proposals of 250 words in English or French to be sent by 15 March 2013 (further details below). From France to… Read More ›
CFP: Postcolonial Text – Special Issue: Situating Postcolonial Trauma Studies. Saadi Nikro (Guest Editor)
Postcolonial Text is an open access, fully online journal, internationally peer-reviewed and accessible to a global audience. A quarterly journal, it is affiliated with the Open Humanities Press (OHP). The editors seek submissions for a special issue on postcolonial trauma studies…. Read More ›
Bookings open: History, Postcolonialism and Tradition – Third Biennial Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association
History, Postcolonialism and Tradition Third Biennial Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association 12-13 September 2013. Kingston University. Bookings have now opened for the Postcolonial Studies Association Conference, History, Postcolonialism and Tradition taking place on the 12 – 13 September 2013 at Penrhyn… Read More ›
CFP: Transatlantic Africas – Special Issue of Matatu: Journal for African Literature and Society
Proposals for papers/abstracts should reach the editors by 1 April, 2013. The editors of Matatu: Journal for African Literature and Society invite contributions for a special issue on “Transatlantic Africa” to be published in 2014. The special issue will focus on recent… Read More ›
CFP: 4th Global Conference – Space and Place.
Monday 9th September – Thursday 12th September 2013 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 22nd March 2013. Call for Presentations Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience… Read More ›
CFP: Sites of Memory – an interdisciplinary postgraduate-led conference and interactive workshop at the University of Birmingham
SITES OF MEMORY – Friday 22 February 2013 Call for Papers – deadline 7th January 2013 How is memory related to physical space, objects and texts? How do different disciplines conceptualise memory? How do we research and write about memory? “Sites of Memory”… Read More ›
CFP: 2013 North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa
This is the second call for papers and discussants for the eleventh North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa (NEWSA). We encourage scholars from all disciplines who are currently working on southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South… Read More ›
CFP: Paradoxa – African Science Fiction
Paradoxa <http://www.paradoxa.com> is seeking submissions of previously unpublished essays on subjects related to AFRICAN SCIENCE FICTION. Submissions should be directed to Paradoxa’s guest editor, Mark Bould at mark.bould@gmail.com by March 1, 2013. In 2010, Pumzi, the first Kenyan sf movie, won… Read More ›
CFP: Remapping the Black Atlantic: Diaspora (Re)Writings of Race and Space
This one is definitively for me!! XxN Location: Illinois, United States Conference Date: April 12-14, 2013 Deadline for submitting abstracts, October 20, 2012 Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by November 5, 2012. It has been two decades since the publication of… Read More ›
CFP: Africa in Policy, Practice, and Popular Representations
I know, it is more like my kind of conference, but I thought you would like to know anyway 😉 XxN Sixth Annual Michigan State University Africanist Graduate Student Conference October 19-20, 2012, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan The 6th annual… Read More ›
CFP – Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana
Hi folks, I got this from a history list that I subscribe. I know it is not literature, but the borderline between these two disciplines are blurry and historians are accepting this more and more. XxN The editors of Transactions of… Read More ›
CFP – What is Africa to me now? (July 15th)
What is Africa to me now? The continent and its literary diasporas International conference University of Liège, Belgium, 21-23 March 2013
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