[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Comparative Approaches to Indigenous Literary and Cultural Studies (New Zealand) (7/5/06; 8/5/06)

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Sule Tarakcioglu wrote:

> Call for Papers: Comparative Approaches to Indigenous Literary Studies
>
> University of Auckland, (NZ) Saturday August 5, 2006.
>
> Closing date for expressions of interest: July 5, 2006
>
> The Centre for Cultural Inquiry and the English Department of the
> University of Auckland are hosting a one-day symposium on comparative
> approaches to indigenous literary and cultural studies. This is the
> first time that such a symposium has been offered at the University of
> Auckland and we invite you to join us in our discussions and to actively
> participate with us in our workshops. There is no registration fee.
>
> The event is being organized by Witi Ihimaera, Alex Calder, Selina Marsh
> and Ann Pistacchi. Invited speakers currently include Chadwick Allen
> (Ohio State, USA), Anita Heiss (Macquarie, Australia), Chris Healy
> (Melbourne, Australia) and Alice Te Punga Somerville (Victoria, New
> Zealand).
>
> The day's activities will concentrate on the theoretical and practical
> problems that arise when indigenous literatures and other art forms are
> compared with each other, and when the  reader or viewer is removed from
> the indigenous text's cultural and political circumstances of
> production.
>
> It has manifestly been possible to read diverse indigenous works in the
> light of the interests of a colonizing power or a monocultural
> institution. But how else might indigenous literatures be read alongside
> each other? Is it possible, for example, to read writing by Maori with
> reference to Native American traditions, and vice versa? How does one
> compare 'pre-renaissance' indigenous writing with texts produced in and
> after decolonization? How are indigenous and other modes of
> identification distinguished and compared? What other issues arise in
> the wake of a comparative turn in indigenous studies?
>
> To ensure effective discussion and lively workshop involvement the
> numbers of participants will be restricted. For those interested in
> offering a paper, we have reserved a limited number of slots for
> 20-minute presentations. Please advise if your funding requires you to
> deliver a formal presentation. Your early registration will be necessary
> for you to secure a place with us during the symposium.
>
> Please send offers of papers (with abstract) or expressions of interest
> to: apis001 at ec.auckland.ac.nz
>
> We hope to publish work presented in and arising from the symposium as a
> special issue of The Journal of NZ Literature.
>
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