Fw: H-ASIA: CFP History, Postcolonialism & Tradition, Postcolonial Studies Assn conf., London, Sept 12-13, 2013

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP History, Postcolonialism & Tradition, Postcolonial
Studies Assn conf., London, Sept 12-13, 2013


> H-ASIA
> December 16, 2012
>
> "History, Postcolonialism and Tradition", 2013 Conference of the
> Postcolonial Studies Association, Kingston University, London,
> September 12-13, 2013
> DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1, 2013
> *******************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> History, Postcolonialism and Tradition
>
> Location: United Kingdom
> Conference Date: 2013-09-12
> Date Submitted: 2012-12-04
> Announcement ID: 199298
>
> History, Postcolonialism and Tradition
>
> The organisers of the 2013 Postcolonial Studies Association would like to
> invite proposals for papers on this years theme: History, Postcolonialism
> and Tradition. The theme is designed to facilitate the opportunity for
> interdisciplinary dialogue, particularly (but not exclusively) between the
> spheres of literature, cultural studies, anthropology, the visual arts,
> the performative arts, folklore, history, politics, and the social
> sciences.
>
> Issues of history and tradition remain sites of significant contestation
> for postcolonial studies. Whilst postcolonial studies focuses increasingly
> on future-thinking this is in tension with, and reliant upon, a continued
> need to negotiate the postcolonial cultures relationship to often violent
> histories and the marginalisation of indigenous traditions. Equally,
> global and diasporic cultures are the sites of complex interplays of
> productively competing traditions and forms of remembrance. Issues include
> but are not limited to:
>
> - The difference between history and memory in postcolonial cultures
> - Theoretical approaches to postcolonial history (new historicism,
> cultural materialism)
> - Gendered histories and traditions
> - Myth, folklore and oral tradition
> - Postcolonial historiographies
> - Negotiations of history and tradition in literature, creative writing
> and the visual arts
> - History and/or tradition as source of/barrier to political and social
> change
> - Transformations of history and tradition in the context of global and
> diasporic identities
>
> Confirmed keynote speakers include Robert Irwin (author of The Arabian
> Nights: A Companion and For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their
> Enemies) and Sadhana Naithani (author of In Quest of Indian Tradition and
> The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial
> Folkloristics).
>
> The conference will be held at Kingston University (London) from 12-13
> September 2013. Short abstracts (approx. 300 words) should be sent to the
> organisers, Sara Upstone and Andrew Teverson, at the following address:
> fass-conferences@kingston.ac.uk. The deadline for proposals is 15 April
> 2013.
>
>
> Sara Upstone and Andrew Teverson, Kingston University, London
> Email: fass-conferences@kingston.ac.uk
>
>
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