Postcolonial Praxis - Theories, Cultural Practices and Movements for the Global South, July 21-23, 2010, University of the Philippines – Diliman
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Call for Papers
Postcolonial Praxis: Theories, Cultural Practices and Movements for the Global South
July 21-23, 2010
University of the Philippines – Diliman
Website http://updecl.org/2010/01/call-for-papers-international-conference/
Through this conference, we invite participants from other parts of the Philippines and from other former colonies /countries in the "Global South" (i.e., "underdeveloped," "developing," "Third World," decolonizing societies) to re-examine and to re-territorialize Anglo-American, English, American, French, German, Dutch, Hispanic, Latin American Studies, programs and projects. The conference aims to provide a venue for the construction of a general programmatic of postcolonial knowledge-production and other postcolonial cultural practices which can be disseminated through formal educational institutions as curricula and courses; informal/alternative educational groups; professional organizations; mass media; computer-aided technologies, and through cultural networks. To be engaged in this process are hundreds of scholars from the humanities and social sciences, teachers, creative writers, journalists and broadcast media practitioners , studio, visual and performance artists, architects, design specialists .
Please submit panel and paper/multimedia proposals to the Conference Convenor: “Professor Priscelina Patajo-Legasto” pplegasto@gmail.com. Deadline for submission of panel and paper/multimedia presentation abstracts will be on March 30, 2010. Final Conference schedules and other information (conference registration, travel and accommodation details) will be posted on April 15, 2010.
This conference is being organized by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines-Diliman in celebration of its centennial anniversary (1010-2010); with the support of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Philippine Studies Association (PSA), the Office of the President, UP System and the Office of the Chancellor-UP Diliman.
