Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:28:25 -0500
Subject: Writing Diasporas/Transnational Imagination -  An






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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Gillespie M.B. 
>> Sent:	20 March 2000 13:32
>> To:	Gillespie M.B.
>> Subject:	Writing Diasporas/Transnational Imagination -  An
>> International Interdisciplinary Conference
>> 
>> Please circulate
>> 
>> Announcement and Call for Papers for an international,
>> multidisciplinary conference:
>> 
>>                          WRITING DIASPORAS :
>> Axial Writers, Plural Literacies, Transnational Imagination
>> 
>>                          University of Wales Swansea
>>                          September 20-23, 2000
>> 
>> ... on the role of travelling and translating writers, artists and
>> intellectuals in the cultural politics of diasporas and nations.
>> 
>> Main sponsors: the "Transnational Communities Research 
>> Programme" (Economic and Social Research Council UK),
>> with "Re-inventing Britain" (The British Council & Arts Council 
>> of England). 
>> 
>> Details at: http://www.swan.ac.uk/conferences/transcomm
>> 
>> CALL FOR PAPERS in six strands (deadline: 06.06.00):
>> 
>> "Axial Writers" - Convenor: John McLeod 
>> <mcleod-AT-english.novell.leeds.ac.uk>
>> 
>> "Online Diasporas" - Convenor: Marie Gillespie
>> <m.b.gillespie-AT-swan.ac.uk>
>> 
>> "Marketing Ethnicity" - Convenor: Sujala Singh
>> <S.Singh-AT-soton.ac.uk>
>> 
>> "Transnational Cinema" - Convenor: Deniz Göktürk
>> <dg-AT-lang.soton.ac.uk>
>> 
>> "Performance, Poetry and Song" - Convenor: John Goodby
>> <j.goodby-AT-swan.ac.uk>
>> 
>> "Plural Literacies and Policy" - Convenor: Tom Cheesman
>> <t.cheesman-AT-swan.ac.uk>
>> 
>> PLENARY PANELS including:
>> 
>> *Multilingual Community Publishing in the UK
>> *The Politics of Literary Translation
>> *Re-inventing Wales? Nation, Migration, Imagination
>> 
>> PLUS workshops for practitioners in cultural policy and
>> in multilingual community writing and translation,
>> exhibitions, readings by local and visiting writers,
>> literally diverse literary/social events...
>> 
>> General enquiries: <t.cheesman-AT-swan.ac.uk> or 
>> <m.b.gillespie-AT-swan.ac.uk>
>> Fax UK+1792 295710
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Radhika Gajjala
http://www.cyberdiva.org
rad-AT-cyberdiva.org