From: akroschewski-AT-web.de
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:45:23 +0100
Subject: Re: Re: ASNEL's conference



The original deadline (January 15) has already been passed, but proposals will now be accepted until February 15. 


LiamConnell <L.Connell-AT-herts.ac.uk> schrieb am 18.01.02:
> When is the deadline for proposals?
> 
> At 18:05 18/01/02 +0100, you wrote:
> >14th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New 
> >Literatures in English (ASNEL),
> >University of Erfurt, May 8-11, 2002
> >"Embracing the Other:
> >Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English"
> >
> >Human beings have devised a great variety of strategies for dealing with 
> >the phenomenon of otherness or alterity in all its different guises. While 
> >the Other is often considered a valuable and necessary challenge to the 
> >all too familiar and too old and entrenched positions, a fertile 
> >alternative engaging us in a fruitful dialogiue that takes us beyond the 
> >borders of our limited knowledge and practices, it is also conceived by 
> >some as a threat from outside, a menace that is out to destroy what has 
> >grown to be dear to us. Such anxieties also find their expression in 
> >xenophobic attitudes and in an aggressive mental provincialism which can 
> >unfortunately still be observed today. The New Literatures in English, 
> >with their far-ranging engagements with hybrid situations of 
> >multiculturalism, migration, diaspora, etc. in (post-)colonial and global 
> >contexts, provide us with a rich field for the study of how the Other can 
> >be embraced and how xenophobia can be addressed. We welcome papers 
> >providing both theoretical analyses of the issues raised by the conference 
> >topic and/or individual case studies based on readings of anglophone texts 
> >from the New Literatures in English in the EFL classroom. Selected papers 
> >will be published in the Cross/Clutural series (Amsterdam: Rodopi). 
> >Proposals (preferably as e-mail) with abstracts (up to 300 words) should 
> >be sent to
> >
> >Prof. Dr. Heinz Antor
> >Universitt zu Kln
> >Englishes Seminar
> >Albertus-Magnus-Platz
> >D-50923 Kln
> >H.Antor-AT-uni-koeln.de
> >
> >More information will soon be provided at
> >www.anglistenverband.de/GNEL/erfurt/html
> >
> >
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