<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>FYI - absolute deadline for all papers in November 30. Early registration also helps the ACS board in budget forecasting to assist attendees from areas in need of assistance, so please consider registering ASAP if your panel has been accepted. </DIV><DIV>Cheers</DIV><DIV>Melissa</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; 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 style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt; font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "></DIV><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; ">Dear Colleagues,</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; ">The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus will be hosting the 2008 Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference from July 3 - 7. A truly international conference and the 7th staging, this is its first time in the South. The call for sessions </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; ">closed on July 31 and over 100 panel proposals have been received. Confirmed speakers include Jesus Martin Barbero (Keynote), Rex Nettleford, M. Jacqui Alexander, Kamau Brathwaite, Stephen Muecke, Nilufer Gole, Carolyn Cooper, Daniel Mato, Stephen Chan, Sarah Nuttall and John Clarke, among others.</SPAN><BR style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><BR style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; ">Please view the first Call for Papers which is attached. Do circulate it within your respective networks.</SPAN><BR style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><BR style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><A href="http://www.mona.uwi.edu/notices/2006/crossroads.pdf" target="_blank"><FONT color="#0000ff"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.mona.uwi.edu/notices/2006/crossroads.pdf</SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><BR style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; 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. Melissa Gregg<BR>ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow<BR>Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies<BR>Fourth Floor, Forgan Smith Tower<BR>The University of Queensland<BR>QLD Australia 4072<BR>CRICOS provider number: 00025B<BR> <BR>p + 61 7 3346 9762<BR>m + 61 4 0859 9359<BR>f + 61 7 3365 7184<BR> <BR><A href="http://cccs.uq.edu.au/index.htmlpage=16194&pid=16136">http://cccs.uq.edu.au/index.htmlpage=16194&pid=16136</A><BR></DIV><DIV><A href="http://eprint.uq.edu.au/perl/user?userid=675">http://eprint.uq.edu.au/perl/user?userid=675</A></DIV><DIV>www.homecookedtheory.com</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>