30.2933, Calls: Ling & Literature/Malaysia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-2933. Mon Jul 29 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.2933, Calls: Ling & Literature/Malaysia

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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:48:18
From: Moussa Pourya Asl [moussa.pourya at usm.my]
Subject: Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future

 
Full Title: Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future 
Short Title: ICL2020 

Date: 29-Jul-2020 - 30-Jul-2020
Location: Penang, Malaysia 
Contact Person: Moussa Pourya Asl
Meeting Email: moussa.pourya at usm.my
Web Site: http://icl.usm.my/index.php 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2019 

Meeting Description:

We would like to invite you to the 2020 International Conference on
Literature: “Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future”. The
conference is organized by the Postgraduate Students’ Club of the School of
Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and takes place on 29-23 July 2020, in
Penang, Malaysia.

In the 2020 conference we want to pay special attention to emerging directions
and practices on/in Asian diasporic literature and theory. Since the beginning
of the new millennium, the world has witnessed important changes in social,
political, cultural and economic landscapes. The shifts have in turn pushed
diaspora studies to expand beyond their origins in literary studies and their
primary focus on ‘representation’ to an engagement with epistemological,
ethical and political questions. Through ICL, we want to respond and
contribute to current critical and theoretical debates by moving toward the
study of world literatures and global theoretical, aesthetic and cultural
practices. The conference also aims to trigger a debate about the future of
the discipline, and thus reinvigorate and pioneer certain dimensions of the
areas.


Call for Papers:

ICL seeks to provide a platform for those interested in interdisciplinary
and/or cross-cultural approaches to push diaspora studies into new domains to
meet, discuss, and to explore contemporary debates, and to revisit the
‘classic’ issues to interrogate them. Topics to be addressed by the papers and
sessions at the conference will cover a broad spectrum of research questions,
but with a specific emphasis on contemporary and future challenges for Asian
diasporic literature and theory. Proposals are encouraged in, but not limited
to, the following topics:

The Legacy of the Asian Diaspora
Contexts, Forms, and Perspectives
Shifting Perspectives on Race and Gender
New Perspectives on Identity, Space, and Mobility

Region, Religion, Politics, and Culture
Migration, Diaspora, Hybridity, and Borders
Rethinking the Family, Class, and Ethnicity
Bioethics, Ecology, Ecocriticism, Health, and Wellness
War, Violence and Terror

Or any other aspect of diasporic literary studies.

 
Submissions:

Participants are invited to submit abstracts on research and findings relevant
to the theme of the conference. Abstracts for proposed oral presentation
(200-250 words; excluding author names and affiliations) should be submitted
via the online submission system at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icl2020. 

For guidelines on abstract writing, please visit:
http://icl.usm.my/index.php/submission/abstract 
Selection of oral presentations will take place and speakers and presenters
will be informed by December 15, 2019. Authors are expected to submit full
papers by 30 April 2020.




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