[Bilimsel Haber] Writing the empire: scribblings from below

[Gonul Pultar]

*Writing the empire: scribblings from below*

	

	

	

	

The study of texts has increasingly occupied centre-stage within the 
study of empires. Large numbers of scholars have explored the 
representations of peoples and places in travel writing, novels and many 
other textual forms. The written word has thus been acknowledged as a 
key technology of power. However, while considerable attention has been 
paid to the ways in which gender shaped such texts, less attention has 
been paid to other forms of difference and inequality. We invite 
proposals for papers that address this gap by exploring how less 
powerful and less privileged actors in empire made use of the written 
word. Please send proposals (maximum 400 words) to 
Kirsty.Reid at bristol.ac.uk or F.Paisley at griffith.edu.au by *June 30th 
2009*. The conference will be held at the University of Bristol (UK) 
from 24-26 June 2010.

	Dr Kirsty Reid
School of Humanities
University of Bristol
11 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK

Phone: 0117 928 8117
Email: kirsty.reid at bristol.ac.uk <mailto:kirsty.reid at bristol.ac.uk>