Call for Papers: Postgraduate Conference '40 Years After Martin Luther
King Jr. : Marginalisation in the Americas'

Please respond to Tom Snell: [log in to unmask]

I wanted to bring to your attention an Interdisciplinary Postgraduate
Conference that we are staging at Newcastle University on the theme:
'Marginalisation in the Americas.' This will take place on the 4th of
April 2008 to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's
death.

In November 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. visited Newcastle University
where he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law in recognition
of his work for civil and human rights.  Less than five months later, on
the 4th of April 1968, he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Having been the only British university to recognise the work of the
Civil Rights leader during his lifetime, we want to take the opportunity
of the 40th anniversary of his death to hold a postgraduate conference
on the theme: Marginalisation in the Americas.

We invite postgraduates from all academic fields to submit papers on the
topic of marginalisation as it relates to any part of the Americas,
including the U.S.A, Canada, the Caribbean, and all areas of Central and
South America.

Apart from specific aspects of Civil and Human Rights Movements in the
Americas, broader possible approaches might also include papers on how
Marginalisation pertains to:

*	Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.
*	Immigrants living in the Americas.
*	Ethnic & Religious Minorities of the Americas.
*	Genders or Sexualities in the Americas.
*	Otherness, Difference and Alterity in the Americas.


This should not, however, be taken as an exhaustive list, and we welcome
proposals for papers dealing with all forms of Marginalisation and
varied interpretations of the theme.

If any of you supervise Postgraduates working in this area, could you
encourage them to contact me and get involved?

Postgraduates wishing to present papers should send proposals for papers
and/or indication of interest in attendance (no conference fee is
charged) to Thomas Snell ([log in to unmask]). If you would
like to present a paper at the conference, please send Abstracts (250 to
350 Words) including details of how your paper links to the topic and a
short CV by 21 December 2007.


Warm regards

Thomas Snell
(Postgraduate Student, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University)

Newcastle University's Americas Research Group is supporting this
conference. 
Details of the A.R.G's activities can be found at: 
http//www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/americas/index.htm