CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF
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> THE POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
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> RE-IMAGINING IDENTITY: NEW DIRECTIONS IN POSTCOLONIAL
>STUDIES
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> 6 - 8 MAY 2009 at WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
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> WATERFORD, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
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> Keynote speakers: Bill Ashcroft and Declan Kiberd
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> This inaugural conference of the Postcolonial Studies
>Association will focus on a broad re-consideration of the
>cultural, political, theoretical and practical
>re-imaginings of the concept of 'identity' as it relates
>to the field of Postcolonialism and the wider Humanities
>and the Social Sciences.
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> The conference aims both to explore current
>understandings of 'identity' in a multicultural,
>globalised and conflicted world, and to encourage
>disciplinary self-reflexivity. We welcome papers that
>interrogate the conceptual category of identity itself,
>as well as those that relate to the ways specific
>identities are constructed, assigned or imagined.
>Questions to be asked will include: 'What is the future
>of Postcolonialism as a discipline?' and: 'What is the
>relationship between received understandings of
>"identity", specific formulations of key contemporary
>identities, and our understanding of "the postcolonial"?'
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> The PSA invites papers from academics working in the
>disciplines of Literature, History, Cultural Studies,
>Film, Human Geography, Linguistics, Politics, Psychology,
>Religious Studies, Art, Music, Media & Communication and
>related fields. Our aim is to bring together a wide
>variety of scholarly interests and methodological
>approaches.
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> Paper or panel topics may focus on the following
>conceptual intersections:
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> § Identity, Religion and Spirituality (the secular &
>sacred, New Age & alternative spiritualities, the
>Enlightenment, sectarianism, religious symbolism,
>fundamentalism)
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> § Identity and Time (history, memory, policy,
>repetition, development, modernity, eternity, death)
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> § Identity and Language (language policy, seizing the
>pen, language as mission and calling; propaganda)
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> § Identity and Politics (resistance, war, terror)
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> § Identity and Space (regions, blocs, global flows, the
>EU and the wider world, the environment)
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> § Identity, Theory and Disciplinary Boundaries
>(postcolonialism as a discipline, theoretical approaches,
>the policing of knowledge, multidisciplinarity,
>comparative postcolonialisms)
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> Panels will normally comprise three 20-minute papers.
>Proposal acceptance is subject to organising committee
>approval.
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> To submit a paper or panel proposal please contact:
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> Dr Christine ODowd-Smyth - [log in to unmask] or
> [log in to unmask]
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> Closing date for abstract submissions: 1 December 2008
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>For more information please contact:
> Dr Gerri Kimber - [log in to unmask] or
> Dr Marta Vizcaya Echano - [log in to unmask]
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Dr. P. Noxolo, Department of Geography, Loughborough
University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU
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