Continental Philosophy

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‘I Like Your Colour!’ skin bleaching and geographies of race in urban Ghana – Jemima Pierre

why queer diaspora? – Meg Wesling

diasporic governmentality: on the gendered limits of migrant wage-labour in Portugal – Kesha Fikes

wal-mart, ‘katrina’, and other ideological tricks: Jamaican hotel workers in Michigan – Deborah A Thomas

engendering ‘race’ in calls for diasporic community in Sweden – Lena Sawyer

postcolonial criticism, transnational identifications and the hegemonies of dancehall’s academic and popular performativities – Denise Noble

the comic side of gender trouble and Bert Williams’ signature act – Michelle Ann Stephens

Issue on New Directions in Postcolonial Studies

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“Counterpoints: Edward Said’s Legacy”
Interdisciplinary Colloquium
University of Ottawa
Carleton University
Ottawa, ON (Canada)
31 October – 2 November 2008

This bilingual English/French colloquium celebrates the works of one of the world’s most compelling intellectuals, the Palestinian-American thinker Edward Said (November 1st 1935- September 23rd 2003), author of “Orientalism,” “Culture and Imperialism,” and “Out of Place” among other famous books. The colloquium revolves around the theme of “Counterpoint,” extensively used by Said as the interplay of diverse ideas and various “discrepant” cultural experiences.

As Said writes in Culture and Imperialism: “As we look back at the cultural archive, we begin to reread
it not univocally but contrapuntally, with a simultaneous awareness both of the metropolitan history that is narrated and of those other histories against which (and together with which) the dominating discourse acts.”

Following Said’s legacy this colloquium envisions a polyphonic, interdisciplinary engagement from fields as broad as comparative literature, sociology, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Diaspora studies, musicology, and political science with a special focus on Middle Eastern politics.

The organizers seek papers/ panel proposals drawing from or expanding on the following themes:
- Colonialism and Imperialism: A Middle Eastern Context
- Transnationalism and Reflections on Exile
- Overlapping Territories and Imaginative Geographies
- Language, History and the Production of Knowledge
- The Arab World: States, Territories and Refugees.
- Gender, Class and Orientalism
- Criticism and French Philosophy
- Otherness in the Arts
- Representations of the Secular
- Power, Politics and Truth

Please send a 200 word abstract of paper/panel proposals to: counterpoints.conference@gmail.com

Deadline for paper/panel submission: July 15th, 2008

For more information please contact: may.telmissany@uottawa.ca or nahla_abdo@carleton.ca

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The conference Be[comi]ng Dutch has posted a number of great videos, including ones with Mouffe and Spivak.

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Interviews with Spivak, entitled The Post-Colonial Critic.

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