We would like to advertise the following HRC conference at the
University of Warwick on the 25th February 2006:
Humanities Research Centre
A One-Day Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday 25th February 2006
'Writing the Other America: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and
Latin American literature'
The conference aims to examine Caribbean and Latin American literature
from a comparative perspective, exploring the idea of the 'Other
America' either through such comparative approaches or by focusing on
this theme in literature from one particular area.
Keynote Speakers
Professor Peter Hulme (Essex): Expanding the Caribbean
Dr John Kraniauskas (Birkbeck): The Work of Transculturation
Speakers
Dr. Joan Anim-Addo (Goldsmiths)
Liesbeth DeBleeker (KU Leuven)
Dr. Heidi Bojsen (Roskilde)
Dr. Conrad James (Birmingham)
Dr. Patricia Krus (Stirling)
Marika Preziuso (Birkbeck)
Dr. Gemma Robinson(Newcastle)
For further information/booking form, please contact Sue Dibben at
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Conference outline: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/woa/
The event is sponsored by the Department of English and the Centre for
Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of
Warwick
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