International Conference on Postcolonial Praxis
University of the Philippines, Diliman: 21-23 July 2010
Through this conference, we invite scholars from the humanities and social sciences, teachers, creative writers, journalists and broadcast media practitioners, studio, visual and performance artists, architects, design specialists and 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.
Plenary speakers include Professor Reynaldo C. Ileto of National University of Singapore and UPD University Professor Emeritus Gemino H. Abad.
Postcolonial Praxis:
Theories, Cultural Practices and Movements for the Global South
Please submit abstracts for panel, paper, multimedia presentations, exhibits, and performance proposals to the Conference Convener:
Professor Priscelina Patajo-Legasto
Deadline for submission of abstracts is on 15 April 2010
Final conference details will be posted on 30 April 2010
Early Bird Registration Deadline on 30 June 2010
THEMES • Postcolonial Writing/ Visual Arts / Performance Arts and the New technologies • Recuperating Colonial Languages • Re-territorializing Language and Literature Studies in the Global South • Problematizing the “National” in National Cultural Practices • Issues and Concerns of a National Language in a Decolonizing Society • Dialectics of Native Authenticity & Cultural Hybridity • Politics of “Otherness”, Politics of “Othering” Nation Formation and Postcolonial Cultural Studies • Understanding / Re-semanticizing the Role of the “the Folk” / “Millenarian”/ “Cargo Cults” in the Histories of Nation Formation • History and Counter Memory or Alternative Historiographies in / for Postcolonial/ Cultural Studies • Problems of Representation (e.g., essentialism vs. ghettoism; “strategic essentialism”; tokenism) • Politics of Location (ethnic, class, race, gender, religion, generation, etc ) and Cultural Praxis • Postcolonial Politics and Climate Change • Postcolonialism and Critiques of Disciplinary Domain Assumptions / Theoretical Legacies / Subject Areas
Conference Registration Fees
Student Php2,000 Early Bird Php2,500 Regular 3,000
For further information, please visit the Postcolonial Praxis 2010 website or send an email to pcpraxis2010@up.edu.ph
Organized by the Department of English and Comparative Literature for its Centennial Celebration in cooperation with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts; Philippine Studies Association; Office of the President, UP System; and Office of Chancellor, Diliman.
No comments:
Post a Comment