March 25-29, 2008. Try Freedom. Rewriting Rights in/through Postcolonial Cultures
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Venice International University is co-organizer of the Try Freedom. Rewriting Rights in/through Postcolonial Cultures conference which will take place at VIU March 25-29, 2008. It is the 13th triennial conference of EACLALS, the European branch of the Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies.
Deadline for call for papers: September 1, 2007
The conference is organized by VIU jointly with the Universities of Venice and Padua. The aim is to explore and articulate the interest in the discourses of/on freedom and human, civil and cosmopolitical rights, encouraging a rethinking of postcolonial theory, promoting reflections on how to practice postcolonial pedagogies in an increasingly uncivil public sphere, and above all invoking diversified responses to these questions from the literatures and the arts (theater, dance, painting, sculpture, cinemas) of the postcolonial world.
EACLALS promotes post-colonial studies in Europe, as well as international exchanges between academics, students and writers from the anglophone post-colonial world.
The overall effort involves active inter-disciplinary dialogue and the participation of speakers from a broad range of academic disciplines. Confirmed speakers include Dionne Brand, Anita Desai, Caryl Phillips and Alexis Wright.
For Venice International University the conference is an opportunity:
To develop a transcultural and interdisciplinary theme of interest, strategic to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
To provide the possibility of cooperation among faculty of member universities in the context of a major international event. To offer an occasion for the reunion of former professors of the Semester Program. Click here for further information, including the call for papers
