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Call for papers. Eleventh Annual Eastern Caribbean Island Cultures Conference
“The Islands in Between”: Language, Literature and Culture of the Eastern Caribbean
6 November to 8 November 2008. International Trade Center (ITC), Piscadera Bay,
CURAÇAO.
 
   
8th Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association, Oct. 1 - 4 Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico.  
   
   
Special WOCAL 6: World Congress of African Linguistics. Exploring the African Language Connection in the Americas. August 11 and 15, 2008. University of São Paulo, São Paulo, BRAZIL.  
   
   
   
Call for Papers. The Caribbean International Conference on the Cultural & Creative Industries (National Cultural Foundation, Barbados) May 5 and 6, 2008, Barbados. DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: January 30, 2008. (PDF document)  
 
 
   
Call for papers. 11th International Conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), May 19-23, 2008, St. George’s, Grenada. DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: November 31, 2007  

   
     
     
     
     
       
       
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C a l l   f o r   P a p e r s

Eleventh Annual Eastern Caribbean Island Cultures Conference

“The Islands in Between”:

Language, Literature and Culture of the Eastern Caribbean

6 November to 8 November 2008.

International Trade Center (ITC), Piscadera Bay,
    CURAÇAO

(arrival Wednesday, 5 November; departure Sunday, 9 November)  

Co-organized by

University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras

University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados

FPI (Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma, Institute for Language Planning), Curaçao
and
UNA (University of the Netherlands Antilles), Curaçao

Suggested topics include:

      ● Eastern Caribbean Drama, Poetry and Fiction

      ● Special Panels on Papiamentu: Language, Culture and Education in Curacao

      ● Language and Culture, Language and Identity in the Eastern Caribbean

      ● Creole Linguistics

      ● Art and Popular Culture of the Eastern Caribbean

      ● Eastern Caribbean Carnivals and Other Performance Traditions

      ● Amerindian History and Cultural Studies

      ● Culture and Politics, Culture and Economics in the Eastern Caribbean

      ● Other Topics Related to Eastern Caribbean Cultures 

Deadline for Abstracts : no later than 15 August 2008; Notification: 1 September 2008

Space may be limited and priority will be given to abstracts received by 8 August 2008

Papers should conform to the allotted twenty minutes of presentation time.  Proposals should include: a one-page abstract (maximum 250 words), the author’s name, postal and e-mail address (if available), and home institution (if applicable), and a brief biography (50 words or less). 

Send submissions or inquiries to:

Puerto Rico Conference Organizing Committee (Nicholas Faraclas (Co-ordinator), Mervyn C. Alleyne, Aida Vergne) : islandsconference@gmail.com . (Please submit your proposal  within the text of the e-mail and not as an attachment) 

or mail to:

Eastern Caribbean Island Cultures Conference, c/o Department of English, P.O. Box 23356, UPR Station, San Juan, PR 00931-3356, Puerto Rico / USA.

Information regarding the conference available on the Islands In Between Web Page at: http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/students/resources/islandsinbetween.htm

     
     
     
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PRSA CONFERENCE, SAN JUAN, PR


We are pleased to announce that the

8th Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association
8va Conferencia de la Asociación de Estudios Puertorriqueños

will be held

1 - 4 October 2008

in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the

Centro de Estudios Avanzados De Puerto Rico y el Caribe

 

More information @ http://www.puertorican-studies.org.

Program Committee:

Chair:
Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler (crespokebler AT caribe.net )
Members:
Luis Aponte-Parés (Luis.Aponte AT umb.edu)
Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz (gjimenez AT binghamton.edu)
Anthony De Jesus (tdejesus AT hunter.cuny.edu)
Myrna García Calderón (mygarcia AT syr.edu)
Frederic W. Gleach (fwg1 AT cornell.edu)
Jorge Duany (jduany AT coqui.net)
Carmen Haydeé Rivera (chrivera AT coqui.net)
Carmen Milagros Concepción (cmconcepcion AT uprrp.edu)
Alice Colón-Warren (colonal AT coqui.net)

In addition there are a number of other people who will be working closely with the committee in Puerto Rico and who will continue as part of the larger conference group that will be together during the next year.

   
     
     
     

Special WOCAL 6: World Congress of African Linguistics. Exploring the African Language Connection in the Americas. August 11 and 15, 2008. University of São Paulo, São Paulo, BRAZIL

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Special WOCAL 6: World Congress of African Linguistics

University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

The special session of the World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL) will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and will be held between August 11 and 15, 2008. The deadline for abstracts is December 31, 2007 (address below).

The conference theme is Exploring the African Language Connection in the Americas. We welcome papers addressing the conference theme, focusing on issues related to the contact between African languages and
European and Indigenous languages in the Americas, or any other topic related to African languages and linguistics. The topics include, but are not limited to:

Computational linguistics
Language acquisition
Language learning
Language planning
Language use
Morphology
Phonetics
Phonology
Pragmatics
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
Syntax


CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Abstracts are solicited for 20-min oral presentations to be presented in parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. Each proposal will be reviewed anonymously by two members of a large international panel. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by February 15, 2008.

ABSTRACTS
Please submit by December 31, 2007 an abstract, in English or French, containing the following information:

- author name(s) and affiliation( s)
- address information (incl. fax and email)
- title of presentation
- preferred format (oral presentation or poster)
- three to five keywords
- a 500-word summary (about one page)

Abstracts should be submitted by PDF or postscript attachments to the following email address: gela@usp.br

REGISTRATION
Registration and payment of fees should be made at the registration desk only, from August 11 through August 13, 2008.

Fees:
USD 100 for participants from outside of Africa; USD 40 for participants from African countries and for students.

Local Organizing Committee:

Margarida Maria Taddoni Petter
Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros
Didier Demolin
Esmeralda Vailati Negrão
Evani Viotti
José Luiz Fiorin
Márcia Santos Duarte de Oliveira
Cristiane Benjamim Santos

Address:
Special WOCAL 6 (Margarida Maria Taddoni Petter)
Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
Departamento de Lingüística
Universidade de São Paulo
gela@usp.br

 

     
     

Call for papers. 11th International Conference of the Association of Caribbean women writers and scholars (ACWWS), May 19-23, 2008, St. George's, Grenada

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CALL FOR PAPERS

11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN WOMEN
WRITERS AND SCHOLARS (ACWWS)

May 19-23, 2008

St. George’s, Grenada

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: November 31, 2007


CONFERENCE THEME: Traditions and Legacies, Revisions and
Interventions: Caribbean Women’s Writing in the 21st century

To commemorate two successful decades since our literature’s search for
voice and form, the 11th conference of the Association of Caribbean
Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS) will recognize the complex corpus of
Caribbean women’s writing in the 21^st century. This return to Grenada
provides the occasion for contemplation of the inter-disciplinary and
cross-cultural reach of contemporary Caribbean women’s literature;
reflection on the expansion of the critical and theoretical frameworks
within which this literature is being written, celebrated and analyzed;
and examination of what we – Caribbean cultural producers – have done in
terms of folk culture, oral histories, creative and critical writing.

Accordingly, this upcoming conference theme focuses on the conventions
that have evolved in Caribbean women’s writing and, correspondingly, the
revisions and interventions which are constantly energizing these
tradition and legacies. Bringing scholars and writers together, we
invite participatory discourses that explore the practice of the various
media (theatre, cinema, television) and technologies that we as creative
and critical writers have put in place, ones that celebrate the legacies
we have established, testify to our transnational reach, and propose a
future toward which we can now move.

Suggested Paper/ Panel Topics:

o Canonicity and globalization, migration
o Caribbean children’s literature
o Caribbean Film and Women's Participation
o Caribbean masculinities
o Contemporary Hispanophone literature
o Contemporary Travel Literature/Tropes
o Digitizing and Archival Research
o Francophone identity in the 21^st century
o Identity, Family Re-formulations
o Indo-Caribbean Identity: Culture and literature
o Language, learning and cultural identity
o Memory and trauma
o New Directions in Caribbean Women’s Writing
o Revisiting Female Subjectivity
o Regionalism as a Liberatory Poetics for the 21st century
o Representations of The Caribbean female body in literature and culture
o Roots and Routes: Linking the Caribbean to its Diasporas
o Theater and Women's Authorships and Participation
o The male feminist scholar
o The status of Dutch Caribbean studies
o Transmission, transference, translation

The deadline for proposals is November 31, 2007. For papers /panels,
please submit title, a 200-word abstract, and a short bio.

All papers must represent new, previously unpublished work. Please
include your full name, institutional affiliation, title, phone number
and email address with your proposal. Performance artists are also
encouraged to submit proposals for music, film and/or theatre presentations.

We strongly encourage panel proposals. A panel proposal should include a
detailed abstract for each paper, a designated chair, and a short
statement as to why the submissions should be considered as a panel
rather than as individual presentations.

Submissions should be emailed to: ACWWS2008@sgu.edu

For other inquiries, contact: Prof. Antonia MacDonald-Smythe, Department
of Liberal Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, St. George’s
University, 473 444 4175, ext. 2259, E-mail: amacdona@sgu.edu

For Conference details please visit www.acwws.org

You must be an ACWWS member to present at the conference. Membership is
open to writers and scholars with research, teaching, writing, and study
interests in the work of Caribbean women writers, or in Caribbean
literature generally.

For further information on MEMBERSHIP and MEMBERSHIP DUES, please select
the “Brochure Download” link at www.acwws.org.

     
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