<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B>EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 18 SEPTEMBER 2006</B><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Postcolonial Politics - A Symposium<SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333">November 27 – 29, 2006<SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="; text-align: center; ">Organised by the Postcolonial Studies Research Network<SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="; text-align: center; "><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="; text-align: center; ">University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style=""><B>Keynote Speakers</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-indent: -144px;text-align: left; margin-left: 108pt; "><SPAN style="">Dr Suvendrini Perera <SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN>Faculty of Media, Society and Culture, Curtin University of Technology, Australia<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style="">Dr Mark Devenney<SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN>Historical & Critical Studies, Brighton University, U.K.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -144px;margin-left: 108pt; "><SPAN style="">Dr Anthony Burke<SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN>School of Politics and International Relations, University of New South Wales, Australia <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style=""><B>Call for Papers</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">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?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Such questions are critical in the face of arguments that </SPAN><SPAN style="">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><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">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.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style="">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><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoBodyText2"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Papers from across the disciplines are invited to address any aspect of Postcolonial Politics, including:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><UL style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Citizenship, Democracy<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Capital, Labour, and Bio-politics<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Bioethics, Ecocriticism, Politics of disaster<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Migration, Immigration, Exile<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Region/ Religion/Politics and Culture<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Empire, Globalisation, Terrorism, Aliens<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, Class, Indigeneity<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Media, Culture, Arts, Literature<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Food, Water, Epidemics and/or Pandemics<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Sovereignty, Freedom, Justice<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Opposition, Resistance, Complicity<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style="">Politics of Postcolonial Theory<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI></UL><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><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 18 September 2006.</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-AU" style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style="">Registration details and conference info will be available after 18 September on the Postcolonial Studies Research Network website <A href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/networks/postcolonial/index.html">http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/networks/postcolonial/index.html</A></SPAN> </SPAN></BODY></HTML>