Macao Colloquium on the Creative Process
To coincide with the launch of the inaugural number of Writing Macao (see
details below), a Colloquium is planned by the English Department of the
University of Macao, to be held probably between April and early June of
2003, dates to co-ordinate with the 2nd Macao International Writers'
Festival. The Colloquium ? probably of two days duration will precede or
follow the festival, making a four day event, or longer, depending on the
timing of the Hong Kong Writers' Festival.
This is a call for early expressions of interest in that colloquium.
Proposed panels include the following:
- Creative Writing
- Visual Arts
- Music
- Translation
- Creative Community and Cultural Tourism
- Imaging Macao: creative schemata for the region
or China and its metaphoric scheming
Please feel free to propose papers which could fit with any of these
panels. The organisers are happy to hear of new suggestions for panels.
Papers for the colloquium (and the journal) need not be specifically
focused on Macao, nor need they demonstrate specialised local knowledge
(although this would be valued). It is only necessary that materials be
broadly relevant to the creative process in an intercultural setting, such
as that in Macao.
Please send expressions of interest and/or abstracts or complete papers to:
Dr Christopher Kelen,
Assistant Professor,
English Department,
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,
University of Macau, P.O. Box 3001
Taipa, Macau S.A.R., China
853 838 312 (fax)
e-mail: KitKelen@umac.mo
Closing date for this initial round of expressions of interest will be
September 30th, 2002.
Writing Macao
creative text and teaching
Writing Macao is a new publication sponsored by the English Department at
the University of Macao.
Writing Macao publishes creative writing and theoretical work related to
the teaching of creative writing in English in non-native contexts.
Writing Macao is a peer-reviewed on-line international English language
journal appearing twice annually.
Creative work published in Writing Macao gives preference to work in any
imaginative genre (or cross-genre) focused on or dealing with:
- the situation and experience of non-natives in English
- the post-colonial situation and experience
- hybrid and intercultural experiences and situations in general
- meetings of Asian and European cultures and languages
- orientalisms and related issues of identity and alterity
- inter-cultural, inter-textual and inter-disciplinary discourses
- translation as creative process, styles and degrees of translation
- the East Asian and Asian Pacific situation and experience
- South China, Cantonese culture and Macao in particular
Writing Macao's working definition of creative writing includes poetry,
prose fiction, drama, creative non-fiction, ficto-criticism, literary
translation and various hybrids of these.
Writing Macao also aims to publish the work of visual artists relevant to
its general creative agenda.
Theoretical work published in Writing Macao covers a wide range of
disciplines and topics, including scholarly writing and the results of
research relating to:
- all of the creative writing focuses listed above
- various interdisciplinary approaches to these and related issues
- the role of the creative arts in the teaching of non-native learners
generally and at the university level in particular.
In particular Writing Macao offers a venue for the publication of scholarly
work concerning the teaching of creative writing
- relevant to foreign and second language contexts for the learning of
English
- in East Asia and the Asia Pacific regions
- and as this concerns the intercultural, post-colonial and/or
neo-colonial situation.
Material published includes writing directly and indirectly related to
teaching methods, classroom practices, curriculum and syllabus issues,
together with practical plans and ideas for teaching and self-access
strategies. It includes reviews of relevant publications.
Writing Macao will publish on issues in the philosophy of education and in
the broad field of 'theory' as these are relevant to the situation of
creative writing pedagogies in a non-native setting.
The broad compass of the journal's theoretical side will be the processes
of learning and teaching and writing as these relate to the non-native's
imaginative writing product in English.
Writing Macao is not Macao-focused as such but rather takes Macao's
situation as exemplary of the intercultural, the post-colonial and the
world position of English as a non-native means of creative expression.
Please send expressions of interest and/or abstracts or complete papers to:
Dr Christopher Kelen,
Assistant Professor,
English Department,
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,
University of Macau, P.O. Box 3001
Taipa, Macau S.A.R., China
853 838 312 (fax)
e-mail: KitKelen@umac.mo
Closing date for this initial round of expressions of interest will be
September 30th, 2002.
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