What is an 'axial writer'? Can anyone help?
Georgina Paul
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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
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> > 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
> > <[log in to unmask]>
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> > "Online Diasporas" - Convenor: Marie Gillespie
> > <[log in to unmask]>
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> > "Marketing Ethnicity" - Convenor: Sujala Singh
> > <[log in to unmask]>
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> > "Transnational Cinema" - Convenor: Deniz Göktürk
> > <[log in to unmask]>
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> > "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
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> > Fax UK+1792 295710
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