<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Postcolonial Politics</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">November 27 – 29, 2006</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="; text-align: left; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Organised by the Postcolonial Studies Research Network, <SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Keynote Speakers</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Dr Suvendrini Perera </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Faculty of Media, Society and Culture, Curtin University of Technology, Australia<SPAN style=""></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><SPAN style="; text-align: left; ">Dr Mark Devenney<SPAN style=""> </SPAN>Historical & Critical Studies, Brighton University, U.K.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><SPAN style="; text-align: left; text-indent: -144px; ">Dr Anthony Burke<SPAN style=""> </SPAN>School of Politics and International Relations, University of New South Wales, Australia</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Call for Papers</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">What is a postcolonial politics? How might such a politics be constituted? What concerns animate contemporary postcolonial politics? Where are the spaces of politics? Where are the stakes? What are the terms of political contestation and transformation? How are the forms and concerns of postcolonial politics shifting? </SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Such questions are critical in the face of arguments that </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">postcolonial criticism has become absorbed into institutions of power, as well as suggestions that the abstraction of the postcolonial as a methodology, and its appropriation for First World concerns, mean that the postcolonial has no political currency. Against this are arguments </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">affirming the productive possibilities of articulating a politics of liberation through postcolonial critique. Questions about a postcolonial politics also emerge as crucial at a time when the rights of a variety of peoples (asylum-seekers, refuges, boat-people, exiles, diasporas, indigenous communities, migrants) animate the genealogy of our present.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">We invite a wide range of scholars working out of different contexts, disciplines and interests to either reinterpret/revisit any of the major debates in these fields, or ask new questions that seem important. Postgraduate scholars and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute. We intend to publish a selection of papers from the symposium.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Papers from across the disciplines are invited to address any aspect of Postcolonial Politics, including:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><UL style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0cm; " type="disc"><LI class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Citizenship, Democracy</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Capital, Labour, and Bio-politics</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Bioethics, Ecocriticism, Politics of disaster</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Migration, Immigration, Exile</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Region/ Religion/Politics and Culture</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Empire, Globalisation, Terrorism, Aliens</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, Class, Indigeneity</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Media, Culture, Arts, Literature</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Food, Water, Epidemics and/or Pandemics</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Sovereignty, Freedom, Justice</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Opposition, Resistance, Complicity</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Politics of Postcolonial Theory</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI></UL><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">We invite abstracts of 250-300 words to be sent to Dr Vijay Devadas (</SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><A href="mailto:vijay.devadas@stonebow.otago.ac.nz"><SPAN style="">vijay.devadas@stonebow.otago.ac.nz</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">) by 8 September 2006.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Registration details and conference info will be available after 8 September on the Postcolonial Studies Research Network website </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/networks/postcolonial/index.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/networks/postcolonial/index.html</SPAN></FONT></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Best wishes</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">vijay</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Dr Vijay Devadas</DIV><DIV>Department of Communication Studies</DIV><DIV>University of Otago/ Te Whare Wananga o Otago</DIV><DIV>P.O. Box 56</DIV><DIV>Dunedin</DIV><DIV>New Zealand/ Aotearoa</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Ph: + 64 3 479 4374</DIV><DIV>Fax: + 64 3 479 3932</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>