Call for Papers: PG CWWN Women on Women Symposium Series 2012, Sister Earth: Global Relationships in Contemporary Women’s Writing

A half-day postgraduate symposium at Goldsmiths, University of London, Thurs 26 April 2012

Keynote Speaker: Bernardine Evaristo 

At the close of the twentieth century, feminists such as Audre Lorde, Susan Stanford Friedman and Sara Ahmed urged women to look beyond their local and national communities. Since 2000, contemporary women’s writing has sought inspiration from the idea of an increasingly global community. Women from a variety of locations have produced a number of works that engage with transnational and global relationships, including Aminatta Forna, Bernardine Evaristo, Kamila Shamsie, Andrea Levy, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Tahmima Anam, amongst many others. This half-day symposium seeks to both address and celebrate the global outlook of contemporary women’s writing.

 

Topics may include (but are by no means limited to):

 

 

• Contemporary women’s writing in the diaspora
• Global influences on language, form and genre
• Engagement with theories of transnational feminism  and/or globalisation
• The contemporary  portrayal of women and religion
• Friendship, family, romance and sexual relationships in the global era
• The global legacies of slavery and colonialism
• Immigrant women and the cosmopolitan city

Please submit abstracts of 250 words for 20 minute papers via email to women@pgcwwn.org. Please state ‘Goldsmiths’ in the title of your email. The deadline for proposals is 13 April 2012. 
 
This symposium is one of a nationwide series. For more details of future events, locations and more information, please visit our website.

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