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From: Tom Cheesman <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 4:04 PM
Subject: "Writing Diasporas" 20-23 September 2000
> Please circulate
>
> Announcement and Call for Papers for an international,
> multidisciplinary conference:
>
> WRITING DIASPORAS :
> Axial Writers, Plural Literacies, Transnational Imagination
>
> University of Wales Swansea
> September 20-23, 2000
>
> ... on the role of travelling and translating writers, artists and
> intellectuals in the cultural politics of diasporas and nations.
>
> Main sponsors: the "Transnational Communities Research
> Programme" (Economic and Social Research Council UK),
> with "Re-inventing Britain" (The British Council & Arts Council
> of England).
>
> Details at: http://www.swan.ac.uk/conferences/transcomm
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS in six strands (deadline: 06.06.00):
>
> "Axial Writers" - Convenor: John McLeod
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>
> "Online Diasporas" - Convenor: Marie Gillespie
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> "Marketing Ethnicity" - Convenor: Sujala Singh
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> "Transnational Cinema" - Convenor: Deniz Göktürk
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> "Performance, Poetry and Song" - Convenor: John Goodby
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>
> "Plural Literacies and Policy" - Convenor: Tom Cheesman
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> PLENARY PANELS including:
>
> *Multilingual Community Publishing in the UK
> *The Politics of Literary Translation
> *Re-inventing Wales? Nation, Migration, Imagination
>
> PLUS workshops for practitioners in cultural policy and
> in multilingual community writing and translation,
> exhibitions, readings by local and visiting writers,
> literally diverse literary/social events...
>
> General enquiries: <[log in to unmask]> or
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Fax UK+1792 295710
>
>
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