CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference on Postcolonial Praxis

CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Postcolonial Praxis

Department of English and Comparative Literature
College of Arts and Letters
University of the Philippines
UP Diliman, Quezon City
21-23 July 2010

Through this conference, we invite participants from other parts of the Philippines and from other former colonies /countries in the “Global South” (i.e., “underdeveloped , “developing”, “Third World”, decolonizing societies) to reexamine and to re-territorialize Anglo-American, English, American, French, German, Dutch, Hispanic, Latin American Studies, programs and projects.

The conference aims to provide a venue for the construction of a general programmatic of postcolonial knowledge-production and other postcolonial cultural practices which can be disseminated through formal educational institutions as curricula and courses; informal/alternative educational groups; professional organizations; mass media; computer-aided technologies, and through cultural networks.

Plenary speakers include Professor Reynaldo C. Ileto of National University of Singapore and UP Diliman University Professor Emeritus Gemino H. Abad.

Postcolonial Praxis: Theories, Cultural Practices and Movements for the Global South

THEMES

• Postcolonial Writing/ Visual Arts / Performance Arts and the New technologies • Recuperating Colonial Languages
• Re‐territorializing Language and Literature Studies in the Global South
• Problematizing the “National” in National Cultural Practices • Issues and Concerns of a National Language in a Decolonizing Society
• Dialectics of Native Authenticity & Cultural Hybridity
• Politics of “Otherness”, “Politics of Othering” Nation Formation and Postcolonial Cultural Studies
• Understanding / Re‐semanticizing the Role of the “the Folk” / “Millenarian”/ “Cargo Cults” in the Histories of Nation Formation
• History and Counter Memory or Alternative Historiographies in / for Postcolonial/ Cultural Studies
• Problems of Representation (e.g., essentialism vs. ghettoism; “strategic essentialism”; tokenism)
• Politics of Location (ethnic, class, race, gender, religion, generation, etc ) and Cultural Praxis
• Postcolonial Politics and Climate Change
• Postcolonialism and Critiques of Disciplinary Domain Assumptions / Theoretical Legacies / Subject Areas

Please submit panel and paper proposals to the Conference Convenor:
Professor Priscelina Patajo‐Legasto

Deadline for submission of abstracts is on 30 March 2010
Final conference details will be posted on 15 April 2010
Conference website: www.updecl.org

First International Conference on Postcolonial Praxis: Theories, Cultural Practices and Movements for the Global South

The University of the Philippines Department of English and Comparative Literature will host the First International Conference on Postcolonial Praxis: Theories, Cultural Practices and Movements for the Global South on 21-23 July 2010 at the National Institute of Science and Mathematics Education (NISMED) Auditorium at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.

Plenary speakers include Professor Reynaldo C. Ileto, Department of Southeast Asian Studies (National University of Singapore), Visiting Professor Dr. Owen J. Lynch Jr. (UP College of Law) and UPD University Professor Emeritus Gemino H. Abad. Paper presentors include: Dr. Caroline Hau (Kyoto University), Prof. Roderick Galam (Cardiff University), Prof. Aurelio Agcaoili (University of Hawaii at Manoa) as well as professors from the University of the Philippines such as Dean Roland Tolentino (College of Mass Communication), Prof. Rosario Lucero (College of Arts and Letters), Prof. Gerard Lico (College of Architecture), etc.

The conference hopes to: interrogate Postcolonial writing; recuperate Colonial Languages; re-territorialize Language and Literature Studies; problematize the "National" in National Cultural practices, the Politics of "Otherness" and "Othering" in Nation formation and Postcolonial Cultural studies; re-semanticize the role of the "folk" or millenarian movements in Nation formation, History and Counter Memory or Alternative Historiographies and to re-examine politics of location (ethnic, class, race, gender, religion) and cultural praxis.

This conference is co-sponsored by the Office of the UP President, Office of the UP Diliman Chancellor and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

The conference registration fees are: Students - P2,000; Onsite registration - P3,000; and early registration - P2,500 for early registration (before 2 July 2010). Please deposit/pay at Land Bank saving account no. 3071-0323-36 c/o Dr. Rhodora Ancheta and Dr. Adelaida Lucero. Please send a copy of your deposit slip to the UP Department of English and Comparative Literature to (fax no.) 926-3496 or decl.kal@gmail.com. The Conference Convenors are Dr. Priscelina Patajo-Legasto and Dr. Adelaida Lucero.

For inquiries, please contact Professor Pooching Testa –de Ocampo at 09178338203 and pcpraxis2010@up.edu.ph.