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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:09:40 -0700 (MST)
From: H Smyth <hsmyth-AT-gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Call for Papers and Members - CACLALS grad students




The following are copies of notices posted in the upcoming installment of
_CHIMO_, the newsbulletin of the Canadian Association for Commonwealth
Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS):

ATTENTION ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS INTERESTED IN POST-COLONIAL LITERATURES
AND CRITICISM

What follows is a call for papers for the special session on student
issues at the 1997 CACLALS conference at the Learneds at Memorial
University in St. John's, Newfoundland. It is a copy of the call that
appears in the (forthcoming) issue of CHIMO. The call is directed
specifically to graduate students and recently graduated student members
(and yet to be members). We look forward to your responses and welcome
your suggestions for the session. Please forward this message to all and
sundry.

Thanks. CACLALS co-reps, Laura Moss and Heather Smyth.


CALL FOR PAPERS / PROPOSALS

We invite proposals and suggestions for a special session at the 1997
CACLALS conference at the Learneds, the focus of which is the particular
location and politics of graduate study in Canada in the fields of
Commonwealth Literatures and Postcolonial Theories. We encourage a variety
of presentation approaches, including performance or workshopping, and
hope to enable dialogue among both student and faculty participants.
Possible topics include:  interdisciplinary and disciplinary questions;
making the leap to a paying job, or the reality/possibility of other
career opportunities; dealing with a tentative future in a wasteland of
jobs; the politics of postcolonial theory in grad school and beyond;
professionalization in neoconservative climates; issues of pedagogy; the
psychology of grad school; how our work does and does not connect with
political/social activism . . . We welcome suggestions for topics/format
of the session.

Proposals should be approximately 250 words. The deadline is Jan 31, 1997.
Forward proposals or questions to Laura Moss, Department of English,
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 4N5 (or
3LFEM-AT-qlink.queensu.ca), or Heather Smyth, Department of English, 3-5
Humanities Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E5 (or
hsmyth-AT-gpu.srv.ualberta.ca)


CALL FOR MEMBERS

The graduate representatives of CACLALS would like to ask those teaching
graduate courses to inform their students about the benefits and pleasures
of CACLALS and encourage them to join, become members of the list serv
(CACLALS-L), and submit a proposal for the grad student session at the
annual meeting at the Learneds. We are eager to reach students who work on
post-colonial literatures and theories in order to enable a cross-Canada
(and U.S.) dialogue among graduate students about our research and
professional experiences, as well as continue our strong presence at the
Learneds each year. Please announce this call for members to your
post-colonial and other graduate classes, post this notice in a public
space where grad students will see it, and/or circulate it among
colleagues with students who might be interested in postcolonial issues
but who are not yet CACLALS members. Thanks. 

Laura Moss and Heather Smyth
<3LFEM-AT-qlink.queensu.ca>
<hsmyth-AT-gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>




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