CFP: Language, Literature, and Culture of the Eastern Caribbean (Tobago) (8/19/05; 11/10/05-11/12/05)

C a l l f o r P a p e r s
for the Eighth Annual
Eastern Caribbean Island Cultures Conference

The Islands in Between:
Language, Literature and Culture of the Eastern Caribbean

10-12 November 2005, Rovanel=E2=80=99s Hotel, Bon Accord, Tobago
(arrival Wednesday, 9 November; departure Sunday, 13 November)

Co-organized by
  University of Puerto Rico at R=C3=ADo Piedras
University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados
and
Tobago Center, School of Continuing Studies, U.W.I., Trinidad & Tobago

Suggested topics include:

        =E2=97=8F Eastern Caribbean Drama, Poetry and Fiction
        =E2=97=8F Special Panels on Language, Culture and Education in Tobago
        =E2=97=8F Special Panel on Literature about Tobago and by Tobagonian=20
writers
        =E2=97=8F Language and Culture, Language and Identity in the Eastern=20
Caribbean
        =E2=97=8F Creole Linguistics
        =E2=97=8F Art and Popular Culture of the Eastern Caribbean
        =E2=97=8F Eastern Caribbean Carnivals and Other Performance Traditions
        =E2=97=8F Amerindian History and Cultural Studies
        =E2=97=8F Culture and Politics, Culture and Economics in the Eastern=20
Caribbean
        =E2=97=8F Other Topics Related to Eastern Caribbean Cultures

Deadline: no later than 19 August 2005; Notification: 2 September 2005
Space may be limited and priority will be given to abstracts received by=20
12 August 2005

Papers should conform to the allotted twenty minutes of presentation=20
time. Proposals should include: a one-page abstract (250 words), the=20
author=E2=80=99s name, postal and email address (if available), and home=20
institution (if applicable), and a brief biography (50 words or less).

Send submissions or inquiries to:
Puerto Rico Conference Organizing Committee (Mervyn C. Alleyne,=20
Dannabang Kuwabong, Veronica Crichlow, Lydia Plat=C3=B3n:

or mail to:
Eastern Caribbean Island Cultures Conference, c/o Department of English,=20
P.O. Box 23356, UPR Station, San Juan, PR 00931-3356, Puerto Rico / USA

Further information on accommodation (Rovanel=E2=80=99s Hotel) and=20
extra-Conference events, etc., will follow.
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