Call for Papers
Download a Flyer HERE
We accept Electronic Proposals Only!
Submit online HERE
We invite proposals in the following areas:
• Bioethics, Ecology, Ecocriticism
• Migration, Diaspora, Hybridity, and Borders
• Region/ Religion/Politics and Culture
• Literature & the Arts
• History
• Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class and Sex
• Pedagogy & the Disciplines
• Or any other aspect of the British Commonwealth of nations,
and of countries formerly colonized by other European powers
Especially welcome are proposals to be a part of two special
panels:
Two special panels:
Papers for these panels will NOT be orally presented,
although they should be written as though for our regular 15-minute reading
time: 8-10 double-spaced 12 point type pages. Papers will be distributed by
e-mail to all registrants two weeks ahead of the conference so that all session
time can be given to Q & A with the presenters and give-and-take discussion.
Completed papers must be received by February 2, 2009. We
invite proposals on the following topics:
• 1. Should topics pertaining largely or wholly to the USA
be included in this conference? What special challenges/parameters
should be considered?
• 2. Zora Neale Hurston writes this: “Someone is always
at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves.
It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years
in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing
well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American
out of a potential slave said ‘On the line!’ The Reconstruction
said, ‘Get set!’; and the generation before said ‘Go!’ I
am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to
look behind and weep. Slavery is the price I paid for civilization,
and the choice was not with me. It is a bully adventure and worth
all that I have paid through my ancestors for it. No one on earth
ever had a greater chance for glory. The world to be won and nothing
to be lost. It is thrilling to think – to know that for any
act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much
blame.” Do these remarks have implications for postcolonial
studies?
Should these special panels be filled
and we be left with good proposals we just couldn’t fit in,
we will try to fit those presenters in regular oral panels.
Please
pay particular attention to the following:
• Papers should be designed for 15 minute delivery; maximum.
• Panels for 75 minutes; maximum
• Plenary sessions for 80 minutes; maximum.
• Abstracts will be 200-300 words maximum on the electronic
submission form.
Note: Proposals for panels should include an abstract for each paper with complete information on each presenter.
- SPONSORED BY
The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences,
Department of Literature and Philosophy and The Continuing Education Center at Georgia Southern University