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CFP: Language in Times of War and Conflict

CALL FOR PAPERS Language in Times of War and Conflict An Interdisciplinary Symposium to be held at the Australian National University, 13-14 November 2017 This interdisciplinary symposium aims to bring together scholars and researchers working on diverse aspects of the topic of language in times of war and conflict. Language – from the language deployed […]

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CFPs: Queer: Australia’s Homosexual Histories Conference

QUEER The 17th Australia’s Homosexual Histories Conference Adelaide University, 10 -11 November 2017 This annual conference brings together members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex Queer+ communities, academics, researchers, students, community members and arts workers to explore and discuss histories of LGBTIQ+ life, politics, arts and culture in Australia. The term ‘queer’ is commonly […]

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CFP: Mabo workshop

Call for Papers Mabo’s Cultural Legacy: The Mabo Decision, 25 Years On An Interdisciplinary Workshop University of Stuttgart, Germany November 16-18, 2017 A quarter of a century ago, the High Court of Australia ruled in favour of a claim by a group of Indigenous Australians, led by Eddie Koiki Mabo, to customary, legal title (“native […]

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Conference CFP: Violence in the Postcolonial and Neocolonial World

Violence in the Postcolonial and Neocolonial World: An Interdisciplinary Conference University of Liège, Belgium, 15-16 February 2018 Confirmed keynote speakers so far: Dyab Abou Jahjah, Bryan Cheyette, Merle Collins In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon describes the colonial world as a divided world in which absolute violence and physical force function to uphold […]

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Conference CFP: Voices of the Australian Migrant and Minority Press

Voices of the Australian Migrant and Minority Press: Intercultural, transnational and diasporic contexts   Conference University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 22-23 November, 2017   This Conference is timed to mark developments in Australia’s migrant and minority printed press since 1967. It has been fifty years since Miriam Gilson and Jerzy Zubrzycki’s ground-breaking study on the […]

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CFP: South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference

The Two Canaries of Climate Change – Island and Polar Places Call for Papers South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference 14th – 16th February 2018 UNE FutureCampus, Parramatta, NSW The Two Canaries Conference marks the 20th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, the pioneering international treaty on greenhouse gas emissions to which, […]