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> From: Eoin Flannery <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri Aug 22, 2003 4:04:06 pm Europe/London
> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: CFP: Enemies of Empire (Ireland) (12/20/03; 6/11/04-6/13/04)
>
> ENEMIES OF EMPIRE
> UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK, IRELAND 11-13JUNE 2004
>
> Postcolonial theory has been, and remains, one of the dominant modes
> of
> literary and cultural criticism within the broader discourse of Irish
> Studies. A range of internal factors complicates readings of colonial
> occupation, in which all notions of language, ethnicity, faith, class,
> and
> gender were drastically affected, factors that we feel expand and
> challenge
> the mandate of postcolonial studies. One of the most recurrent
> criticisms of
> postcolonial studies is its reliance on literary/textual material
> rather
> than on what is perceived as more concrete or quantifiable historical
> data.
> It is our intention to garner papers from both literary and historical
> postcolonial studies: in effect to excite a level of discursive
> interchange
> and disciplinary dialogue. The sessions will concentrate on diverse
> crucibles of colonial occupation, including Europe, Asia, Africa,
> Australasia and the Americas. Rather than adduce simple transcolonial
> analogies, Enemies of Empire will exhibit the legitimacy of alternative
> ethical, political and cultural solidarities between postcolonial and
> neocolonised societies. Through a discursive imbrication of, and
> conversation between, previously antagonistic disciplines, our
> conference
> will potentially yield novel perspectives on and understandings of
> literary,
> historical and contemporary readings of colonial history, postcolonial
> theorization and imperialism.
>
> Papers might address such issues as, nationalism [Ireland, Palestine,
> Balkans, Japan, India, Cuba etc..] Irish and postcolonial
> historiography,
> literature, postcolonial theory and poststructuralism, neocolonialism,
> globalisation, subalternity, Subaltern Studies, hybridity, mimicry and
> subversion, , borders and liminality, forms of anti-colonial
> resistance,
> slavery and anti-slavery, theosophy, historical understandings of race
> and
> colour, faith and imperialism, Islam and imperialism, Zionism, gender
> and
> resistance, class, sexuality, secrecy, trauma and recovery, space,
> education
> and empire, tourism and travel writing, torture, ritual, orality,
> photography, colonialism and visual art, architecture and empire,
> literary
> revivals, children's literature and imperialism.
>
> Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please send an abstract,
> of not
> more than 300 words, to: [log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> before 20 December 2003. Conference
> Conveners: Eóin Flannery, Department of English, Mary Immaculate
> College,
> University of Limerick. Angus Mitchell, Department of History, Mary
> Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
>
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