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> --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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