Design history list members may be interested in the following conference
announcement recently posted.
Lesley Whitworth
List Administrator
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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.
For further details at:
http://www.swan.ac.uk/conferences/transcomm
Main sponsors: the "Transnational Communities Research Programme"
(Economic and Social Research Council UK), with "Re-inventing Britain"
(The British Council & Arts Council of England).
CALL FOR PAPERS in six strands (deadline: 06.06.00):
"Axial Writers" - Convenor: John McLeod
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"Online Diasporas" - Convenor: Marie Gillespie
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"Marketing Ethnicity" - Convenor: Sujala Singh
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"Transnational Cinema" - Convenor: Deniz Göktürk
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"Performance, Poetry and Song" - Convenor: John Goodby
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"Plural Literacies and Policy" - Convenor: Tom Cheesman
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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...
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Fax UK+1792 295710
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