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Dear Friends of the AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures
Please see below notices of events and call for papers that you may be interested in.
Wishing you all the best for 2006
Kind regards,
AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures
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OLAUDIA EQUIANO AND THE ST GILES BLACKBIRDS - BLACK LONDON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
A talk by Brycchan Carey on writer, abolitionist and the first leader of Britain's 18th Century Black Community, Olaudah Equiano.
Olaudah's autobiography, 'Interesting Narrative', was quoted by William Wilberforce in the House of Commons, and was influential in
abolishing the slave trade.
In 2000 Westminster Council erected a green plaque to his former residence at South Riding Street, situated at the back of the
Middlesex Hospital.
The talk will also include a look at the St Giles Blackbirds. The 'St Giles Blackbirds' were black men who had served in the navy
and army during the American War of Independence and arrived in London after the peace of 1783. Many of them were unable to find
work and joined the distressed poor around the St Giles-in-the-Fields area of London.
Brycchan Carey is Senior Lecturer in English at the School of Humanities at Kingston University, Surrey. He has an especial interest
in the history and literature of slavery and abolition, and with black writers in eighteenth-century Britain.
Date: 12th January: 7.30 PM
Upstairs at The King and Queen Public House (Just behind Middlesex Hospital)
1 Foley Street
London W1
Nearest tubes: Oxford Circus & Tottenham Court Road
Entrance: £5 (students and pensioners half price)
Contact: David Fogarty 020 7306 4625
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THE RESEARCH PROJECT: THE RECEPTION OF BRITISH AND IRISH AUTHORS IN EUROPE Reading and Reception Studies Seminar Series 2005-2006
Spring Term 2006
Tuesday, 17 January, 5.30-7.30 pm, Stewart House, Room ST274:
Isabel Fernandes (Lisbon), 'D. H. Lawrence in Portugal: A Case in Reception Studies'
Tuesday, 31 January, 5.30-7.30 pm, Stewart House, Room ST274:
David Punter (Bristol), 'Postmodernism and the Relic'
Tuesday, 14 February, 5.30-7.30 pm, Stewart House, Room ST274:
Flavio Gregori (Venice), 'Alexander Pope: a Marginal and Central Poet'
Tuesday, 28 February, 5.30-7.30 pm, Stewart House, Room ST274:
Ernest Schonfield (UCL), 'Thomas Mann's Reception of James Joyce: _Joseph und seine Brüder_ and _Finnegan's Wake_'
Tuesday, 14 March, 5.00-7.00 pm, The Meeting Room, Clare Hall College, Herschel Rd, Cambridge:
Alison Martin (Kassel), 'Dem troknen geographischen Skelet Leben und Ründung geben: Georg Forster as a Translator of Travel
Accounts'
Tuesday, 21 March, 5.30-7.30 pm, Stewart House, Room ST274:
Patricia da Oliveira McNeill (King's, London), 'Affinity and Influence: The Reception of W. B. Yeats by Fernando Pessoa'
Please note that the Seminars (with the exception of 14 March) take place in the new quarters of the School of Advanced Study in
Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1. The room is on the second floor and can accessed either via the entrance of Stewart
House off Russell Square or from the second floor of Senate House.
Elinor Shaffer
Convenor, RBAE Reading and Reception Studies Seminar <www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rbae/RRSS-2005-2006.htm>
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC AND ROMANCE STUDIES
Thursday, 9 March, 5.30 for 6.00-7.30 pm, Stewart House, Room ST274:
Florian Mussgnug (UCL), 'The Displaced Eccentric: Literary Reactions to Ludwig Wittgenstein'
A seminar organized by the Working Group for the Reception of German /Austrian /Swiss Literature
Friday-Saturday 10-11 March, IGRS / GSMD Conference at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Silk Street, The Barbican, London
EC2Y:
'Performance and Adaptation: European Theatre on the London Stage after 1945. Spanish Golden Age Drama and Marivaux'
Programme details can be found at <http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conf_adaptation1.htm>.
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WORDS, WOMEN AND SONG: THE FATALITY OF DESIRE IN STRAUSS'S AND WILDE'S SALOMÉ
AHRC centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History & Opera North
20 January 2006, Leeds City Art Gallery
No figure more completely encapsulates the ambivalence and luxuriance of late nineteenth century Europe's obsession with the fatal
dangers of sexual desire than Salomé - a figure enlarged by artists, poets, and composers from the slight reference in the Christian
gospels to a dancing girl to become the very epitome of the femme fatale. Drenched in Orientalist fantasy that projected an
unbridled sexuality onto both Jewish and Middle Eastern Others, Salomé ( notably in images by painter Gustave Moreau) became for
Oscar Wilde a means of exploring desires that could not be openly visualised. Made infamous by Aubrey Beardsley's transgressive
illustrations, Wilde's play, written for the great Sarah Bernhardt to perform the title role despite her advanced age, inspired
Richard Strauss' 1909 opera. This half-day of talks by musciologists, theatre scholars and art historians aims to explore the knot
of meanings held in word, image and song surrounding this most modernist of mythical fatal of desiring beings: Wilde's and Strauss'
Salomé.
Speakers: Professor Peter Franklin, University of Oxford; Professor Stephen Bottom, University of Leeds; Professor Griselda Pollock,
University of Leeds
Please visit our website for further details @ http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cath
Josine Opmeer
Centre Coordinator
AHRC Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History
Old Mining Building, 2.08
University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
Tel: +44 (0)113 343 1629
Fax: +44 (0)113 343 1628
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
web: http: <<RegistrationformSalome.doc>> //www.leeds.ac.uk/cath
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GRANTS 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop
to be held at the St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
01 - 03 February 2006
The Grant Institute's Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop will be held at St. Anne's College - University of
Oxford, 01 - 03 February 2006. Interested development professionals, researchers, faculty, and graduate students should register as
soon as possible, as demand means that seats will fill up quickly. Please forward, post, and distribute this e-mail to your
colleagues and listservs.
All participants will receive certification in professional grant writing from the Institute. For more information,visit The Grant
Institute website at http://www.thegrantinstitute.com or send and email to [log in to unmask] For additional assistance,
please call our offices at 00 (1) 213-817-5308 between the hours of 5:00 pm and 2:00 am GMT.
Please find the programme description below:
Mary Ogilvie Theatre
8:00 - 17:00
The Grant Institute's Grants 101 Course is an intensive and detailed introduction to the process, structure, and skill of
professional proposal writing. This course is characterized by its ability to act as a thorough overview, introduction, and
refresher at the same time. In this course, participants will learn the entire proposal writing process and complete the course with
a solid understanding of not only the ideal proposal structure, but a holistic understanding of the essential factors, which
determine whether or not a programme gets funded. Through the completion of interactive exercises and activities, participants will
complement expert lectures by putting proven techniques into practice. This course is designed for both the beginner looking for a
thorough introduction and the intermediate looking for a refresher course that will strengthen their grant acquisition skills. This
class, simply put, is designed to get results by creating professional grant proposal writers.
Participants will become competent programme planning and proposal writing professionals after successful completion of the Grants
101 course. In three active and informative days, students will be exposed to the art of successful grant writing practices, and led
on a journey that ends with a masterful grant proposal.
Grants 101 consists of three (3) courses that will be completed during the three-day workshop.
FUNDAMENTALS OF PROGRAMME PLANNING
This course is centered on the belief that "it's all about the program." This intensive course will teach professional programme
development essentials and programme evaluation. While most grant writing "workshops" treat programme development and evaluation as
separate from the writing of a proposal, this class will teach students the relationship between overall programme planning and
grant writing.
PROFESSIONAL GRANT WRITING
Designed for both the novice and experienced grant writer, this course will make each student an overall proposal writing
specialist. In addition to teaching the basic components of a grant proposal, successful approaches, and the do's and don'ts of
grant writing, this course is infused with expert principles that will lead to a mastery of the process. Strategy resides at the
forefront of this course's intent to illustrate grant writing as an integrated, multidimensional, and dynamic endeavor. Each student
will learn to stop writing the grant and to start writing the story. Ultimately, this class will illustrate how each component of
the grant proposal represents an opportunity to use proven techniques for generating support.
GRANT RESEARCH
At its foundation, this course will address the basics of foundation, corporation, and government grant research. However, this
course will teach a strategic funding research approach that encourages students to see research not as something they do before
they write a proposal, but as an integrated part of the grant seeking process. Students will be exposed to online and database
research tools, as well as publications and directories that contain information about foundation, corporation, and government grant
opportunities. Focusing on funding sources and basic social science research, this course teaches students how to use research as
part of a strategic grant acquisition effort.
For more information,visit The Grant Institute website at http://www.thegrantinstitute.com
or send and email to [log in to unmask]
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TERROR AND THE POSTCOLONIAL
A British Academy-funded series of two workshops exploring the links between the phenomena of terror, and postcolonial writing and
theory, to be held at Royal Holloway, University of London on 28 April 2006, and the University of Southampton, 30 June 2006.
Convenors: Elleke Boehmer (RHUL) and Stephen Morton (Soton)
Additional support from the Canadian High Commission, and the Humanities and Arts Research Committee (HARC), at Royal Holloway, is
gratefully acknowledged.
* For further information and to sign up to attend, please write to Alice Christie, Department of English, Royal Holloway,
[log in to unmask]
NB: Workshop places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Day attendance (including lunch and
refreshments): £25 (waged); £10 (student and unwaged). *
DRAFT PROGRAMME
[Please note that this programme is provisional and subject to change]
Royal Holloway, Friday 28 April 2006
Venue: International Building Room 243
Keynote Lecture:
Achille Mbembe (WISER, WITS)
‘Notes on the Theologico-Political’
Respondent: Mandy Merck (RHUL)
Coffee
First Panel: ‘Bodies of Terror; States of Exception’
Michael Dillon (Lancaster)
‘Terror, Biopolitics and Race’
Vron Ware (Yale)
‘White Fear’
Emma Govan (RHUL)
‘Witnessing Trauma: Theatrical Responses to Terrorism’
Respondent: Stuart Price (De Montfort)
Lunch
Keynote Lecture:
Derek Gregory (UBC, Canada) ‘Vanishing points: law, violence and serial spaces of the exception in the 'war on terror'
Respondent: Ahuvia Kahane (RHUL)
Coffee/tea
Second Panel: ‘Terrors of the Nation’
Alex Tickell (Portsmouth)
'Terror and the Violence of Empire in Early Indian Fiction in English' Neluka Silva
‘Gendering Terror: Representations of the Female "Freedom Fighter" in contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Cultural Production’
Robert Eaglestone (RHUL) ‘The age of reason is over…an age of fury [is] dawning’ Stephen Morton (Soton) ‘Terrorism and the
Literature of Sedition in Colonial Bengal’
Plenary Panel:
Derek Gregory; David Lambert; Elleke Boehmer (chair); Achille Mbembe and Joanne Wright.
Southampton, Friday 30 June 2006
Keynote Lecture:
Robert Young (NYU)
‘Terror Effects’
Respondent: Bashir Abu-Manneh (Columbia)
Coffee
First Panel: ‘The Aesthetics and Politics of Terror’
Elleke Boehmer (RHUL)
'Figures of Terror’
Joe Cleary (NUI, Maynooth)
‘Terrorism as Strategy and Aesthetic'
Ranka Primorac (NYC, London)
‘The Poetics of State Terror in 21st Century Zimbabwe’
Lunch
Keynote Lecture:
Leela Gandhi (LaTrobe)
‘The Terrors of Compassion and Gandhian ahimsa’
Respondent: Sujala Singh (Soton)
Second Panel: ‘Genres of Insurgency and the Rhetoric of Terror’
Sujala Singh (Soton)
‘Terrorism in Bombay Cinema’
Alex Houen (Sheffield)
‘On Suicide Terror’
Bashir Abu-Manneh (Columbia)
‘US-Israel Relations in the War on Terrorism’
Coffee/tea
Plenary Panel: Joe Cleary; Leela Gandhi; Stephen Morton (chair); Robert Young; others to be confirmed.
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Call for Papers
3rd Duke-UNC Graduate Student Conference on Islamic Studies
“TRANSLATING ISLAM: CULTURES, HISTORIES AND THE PRESENTIST CHALLENGE”
Conference Dates: April 14-15, 2006
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2006
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the question of translation across the humanities and in the social
sciences. The linguistic and cultural turn that has shaped the modern formation of interpretive studies currently pushes toward
further engagement with issues of translation, namely how concepts, ideas and practices are related to a more complex substrate in
culture. In a more radical way, the theoretical frameworks derived from post-structuralism and post-colonial studies equate the
ideal of translatability with that of universality.
The aim of this conference is to explore ways in which the issue of translation figures in theories, methodologies,
ethnographic and historiographic dimensions of the study of Islam and Muslim societies. We invite paper as well as panel proposals
that deal with the following questions, which are not exhaustive:
* How do Islamicate cultural and intellectual discourses engage in translation both
within and between traditions?
* How does the analytic of translation shape comparative studies on Islam?
* What role does translation play in the exegesis, reception and transmission
of Islamic textual archives?
* What kind of translation strategies are embedded in contemporary
discourses on Islam?
Suggested topics include:
* translation in the early centuries of Islam
* translating Islamic normativities across time and space
* translating the Qur’an in content and form
* translation in Western scholarship on Islam
* Muslim modernism and the translation of Enlightenment concepts
* translation and Muslim networks
* theories of translation in Sufism
* ethics, law and politics in translation
The conference will proceed in an interactive workshop format. We expect that those invited to present papers will remain for the
duration of the conference in order to engage the work of other participants. Proceedings will be held on the Duke University campus
in Durham, NC.
To apply, please send 1) a proposal up to five-hundred words 2) a paper title and 3) a CV to Cate Mills ([log in to unmask]).
The deadline for submissions is February 15th 2006.
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AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London
WC1H 0XG
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7898 4267
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7898 4239 or 4399
www.soas.ac.uk/literatures
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