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Announcement and Call for Papers for an international,
multidisciplinary conference:
WRITING DIASPORAS :
Axial Writers, Plural Literacies, Transnational Imagination
University of Wales Swansea
September 20-23, 2000
... on the role of travelling and translating writers, artists and
intellectuals in the cultural politics of diasporas and nations.
Main sponsors: the "Transnational Communities Research
Programme" (Economic and Social Research Council UK),
with "Re-inventing Britain" (The British Council & Arts Council
of England).
Details at: http://www.swan.ac.uk/conferences/transcomm
CALL FOR PAPERS in six strands (deadline: 06.06.00):
"Axial Writers" - Convenor: John McLeod
<mcleod@english.novell.leeds.ac.uk>
"Online Diasporas" - Convenor: Marie Gillespie
<m.b.gillespie@swan.ac.uk>
"Marketing Ethnicity" - Convenor: Sujala Singh
<S.Singh@soton.ac.uk>
"Transnational Cinema" - Convenor: Deniz Göktürk
<dg@lang.soton.ac.uk>
"Performance, Poetry and Song" - Convenor: John Goodby
<j.goodby@swan.ac.uk>
"Plural Literacies and Policy" - Convenor: Tom Cheesman
<t.cheesman@swan.ac.uk>
PLENARY PANELS including:
*Multilingual Community Publishing in the UK
*The Politics of Literary Translation
*Re-inventing Wales? Nation, Migration, Imagination
PLUS workshops for practitioners in cultural policy and
in multilingual community writing and translation,
exhibitions, readings by local and visiting writers,
literally diverse literary/social events...
General enquiries: <t.cheesman@swan.ac.uk> or
<m.b.gillespie@swan.ac.uk>
Fax UK+1792 295710
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