[Discussion] Culture and Conflict: Crossing and Negotiating Borders

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals are now being accepted for the

14th Annual British Commonwealth & Postcolonical Studies Conference
and the 3rd
USACLALS Conference
(US Chapter: Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language
Studies)

February 25 - 26, 2005
Savannah, Georgia

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: November 1, 2004
All submissions MUST be made on-line
http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/britishsubmitonline.html

Papers and panels are invited on the theme of Culture and Conflict:
Crossing and Negotiating Borders in relation to the Literature and Arts
of Postcolonial Societies. Postcolonial readings of race, gender and
ethnicity within the US and the Americas are also welcome.

Especially welcome are...
Comparative frameworks across continents; experimental panels, such as
grad/undergrad roundtables; papers distributed electronically in advance
with the session devoted mostly to discussion, and debate.
Papers should be designed for 15-minute delivery, and panels for 75
minutes. Plenary sessions might run 75 to 90 minutes.

Abstracts for each paper should be 200-300 words and proposals for
panels should include an abstract for each paper along with full contact
information on each presenter.
We specifically invite proposals in the following areas:
Bioethics, Ecology, Ecocriticism
Migration, Diaspora, Hybridity and Borders
Region/Religion/Politics and Culture
Post/Neo/Internal/Colonialism
Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class and Sex
Edward Said: Literary Critic and Political Activist
Postcolonialism, Culture Studies and the Disciplines
Globalization, Transnational Capital, and Postcolonialism
For more information, e-mail:
schille@georgiasouthern.edu or dchampion@georgiasouthern.edu
Program Committee
Candy Schille - Chair, Marc Cyr, and Gautam Kundu, Georgia Southern
University; Deepika Bahri, Emory University; and Pushpa Parekh, Spelman
College

For information on USACLALS membership and activities,
Please contact John Hawley at jhawley@scu.edu or Amritjit Singh at
asingh@ric.edu
Sponsored by Georgia Southern University's Department of Literature &
Philosophy in partnership with the Division of Continuing Education &
Public Service
Co-sponsored by Emory University and Spelman College