Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 03:02:46 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: Literary Studies and Global Culture (Jan. 12; March 16-17) 


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From: PJ Finn <pjfinn-AT-uvic.ca>

University of Victoria
Literary Studies and Global Culture

An Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by the English Graduate Program


March 16-17, 2001 - Victoria, B.C.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Diana Brydon
Robert and Ruth Lumsden
Professor of English University of Western Ontario
http://publish.uwo.ca/%7Edbrydon/dynamic/dynamic.html
Author of:
Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts. Routledge, 2000.
Decolonising Fictions, with Helen Tiffin, Denmark: Dangaroo Press, 1993

Reading by

Dr. Roy Miki
Simon Fraser University
Author of.
Random Access File. Writing West. Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1995.

Market Rinse. Calgary: disOrientation chapbooks, 1993.


Graduate students are invited to submit abstracts to the Second Annual
English Graduate Students' Conference. This year's focus will be the
intersections of literary studies and global culture. Papers with an
interdisciplinary focus are particularly encouraged. Topics may include:

 *Literacy and globalism: liberal education and the new missionaries Global
Gender(s)
 *Localism vs. globalism
 *Is there a global fiction?
 *Are postcolonial studies global?
 *Situating ^ÓWorld Literature^Ô in a global context
 *Literature and the creation of political space in the global context
 *Does literature have a place in the post-political age?
 *Houses of privilege: can the subaltern speak only through the wealthy?
 *The new imperialism
 *Queer Theory and Globalism
 *Theory versus practice: the political response to the globe
 *Race and postcolonial studies
 *Race in global literature

Abstracts or proposals for panel discussions due Friday, January 12, 2001.
In order to facilitate the blind vetting of submissions, please include your
contact information and institutional affiliation on the cover page only.
Please include a 50-word biographical note on the cover page that
accompanies your proposal. Send hard copy or electronic abstracts to:

Daniel Martin
Department of English
University of Victoria
PO Box 3070 STN CSC
Victoria, British Columbia
V8W 3W1
tel: 250.721-7236
fax: 250.721.6498
danielma-AT-uvic.ca