<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><b>Postcolonial Studies Association Convention</b></span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><i>School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London</i>
<i>18–20 September 2017</i></span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><b>Special Topic: Globalisation</b></span></p>
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Partition and/in South Asian Diasporas

Seeking papers for a special session on how the 1947 Partition of British India appears in, erupts, underwrites or disrupts diasporic cultural productions (film, fiction, poetry, painting, play). Please send 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2017; Chandrima Chakraborty (chandri@mcmaster.ca).

Thanks!

Postcolonial Studies Association Convention

School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London (UK), 18–20 September 2017

We are pleased to announce that the 2017 PSA Convention will be held at the School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London, from 18th to 20th September 2017. Paper and panel proposals are invited fr…[Read more]

Dear Friends,

There was a typo in the previous post so I am re-sending the message and the CFP. Here it is:

The South Asian and South Asian Diaspora Forum is partnering with the Keats-Shelley Association of America to propose a joint special session for MLA 2018 on “South Asia in/and Romanticism.” Below please find an expanded CFP and note the…[Read more]

Dear All,

The South Asian and South Asian Diaspora Forum is partnering with the Keats-Shelley Association of America to propose a joint special session for MLA 2018 on “South Asia in/and Romanticism.” Below please find an expanded CFP and note the deadline of 1 March 2017 for submitting abstracts. Please let us know if you have any…[Read more]

Dear All,

The South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultures Forum has organized three panels are the panels at the upcoming MLA Convention in Philadelphia.  In addition, I am very pleased to report that the collaborative panel organized by Kanika Batra with the  group LLC African to 1990:  “Queer and Here: Crossing Gendered an…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Popular Culture Discussion Group — You may be interested in applying:

Call for Papers:

The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.

Panel One: Open Topic

Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser

Panel Two:…[Read more]

TC Popular Culture’s next scheduled election of a Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is…[Read more]

A quick reminder:

The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In

“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]

The Films of Wes Anderson

A special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)

Wes Anderson is among the most recognized and recognizable writer-directors working today: the recipient of six Academy Award nominations, the subject of countless magazine profiles, the topic of several recent books, and the object of an ever-growing…[Read more]

I’m co-organizing a seminar on Asian American and Asian Canadian topics for next year’s ACLA meeting in Utrecht. I’m sure that the conversations we are envisioning would be of interest to members of this forum! My apologies for a last minute posting, but if you have an abstract ready to submit, the ACLA website will accept proposals to our semin…[Read more]