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From: Members of the Society for Caribbean Studies based in UK
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Caribbean Women (Post) Diaspora: African/Caribbean Interconnections
12-13th July 2018
at London South Bank University, London, (UK)
From 12th – 13th July 2018, London South Bank University, the Institute for
Gender and Development Studies, Mona UWI, and the LSBU Centre for Digital
Storytelling will be hosting an international conference of the AHRC funded
African-Caribbean Women’s Post-Diaspora Network
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/schools/arts-and-creative-industries/research/african-
caribbean-women-post-diaspora-network.
We invite abstracts (400 words) of papers that address the conference
themes. Please submit to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Keynote Speakers Include
Gina Athena Ulysse (Weslyan University, CT, USA) Jan Etienne (Birkbeck
College, University of London) Desrie Thomson - George (publisher and visual
artist) Alecia McKenzie with Denise King (novelist with jazz singer) Diana
Evans will be launching her new novel, Ordinary People (Chatto and Windus,
2018).
This interdisciplinary conference is the final event of the AHRC funded
African-Caribbean Women’s Post-Diaspora Network. This research network was
established to investigate ways of rethinking contemporary concepts of
diaspora in African-Caribbean contexts. In seminars and workshops we tested
the effectiveness of post-diaspora as a concept that might be used to
reimagine new means by which Caribbean women achieve agency through mobility
in twenty-first century contexts of globalization, transnationalism and
deterritorialization.
Submissions should focus on the specific ways in which gender enables
or necessitates mobility, and the unexpected intimacies that emerge from
these mobilities. Contributors are asked to examine the political,
imaginative, affective and economic affiliations that challenge the
proscriptions of the nation-state, and that productively transgress the
social and cultural boundaries used to define gender norms and identities.
The conference will address the following key concepts in relation to
Caribbean women, (post) diaspora and African-Caribbean interconnections:
mobility, agency, diaspora, post-diaspora, migration, transculturality,
transnationalism. Presentation topics focusing on Caribbean women and
addressing the key concepts can include but are not limited by the
following:
Theoretical interrogations of (post) diaspora Forced migration and
trafficking Diaspora and Development Narratives of Return Economic and/or
effective consequences of globalisation, Transnational interconnections
Economic and social mobilities Imaginative diasporic geographies Economic
models of diaspora National narratives of diaspora and return Historical
patterns of migration and diaspora Literary representations of
mobility/Literary mobilities Sonic mobilities Temporal mobilities Visual
representation and Caribbean women’s mobility and diaspora Diaspora, (post)
diaspora and environmental movement(s)
Panel proposals are welcome. Panels should include a 200 word covering
statement in addition to 400 word abstracts.
All abstracts, including panel proposals, to be sent to
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Acceptances will be confirmed by 15th May 2018.
CONFERENCE FEE: £50.00 to include all refreshments.
CONFERENCE DINNER (OPTIONAL) £25.00
Dr. Suzanne Scafe
Reader in Caribbean and Postcolonial Literatures
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Tel: 020 7815 6149
Please note that from the 1st Jan 2018, I will be half time at LSBU. The
Course Director for English with Creative Writing is Leon Betsworth
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