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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 Fax
UK+1792 295710
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