Announcement and Call for Papers for an international, multidisciplinary conference: WRITING DIASPORAS : Axial Writers, Plural Literacies, Transnational Imagination University of Wales Swansea September 20-23, 2000 ... on the role of travelling and translating writers, filmmakers, artists and intellectuals in the cultural politics of diasporas and nations. Main sponsors: the "Transnational Communities Research Programme" (Economic and Social Research Council UK), with "Re-inventing Britain" (The British Council & Arts Council of England). Details at: http://www.swan.ac.uk/conferences/transcomm CALL FOR PAPERS in six strands (deadline: 06.06.00): "Axial Writers" - Convenor: John McLeod <[log in to unmask]> "Online Diasporas" - Convenor: Marie Gillespie <[log in to unmask]> "Marketing Ethnicity" - Convenor: Sujala Singh <[log in to unmask]> "Transnational Cinema" - Convenor: Deniz Gokturk <[log in to unmask]> "Performance, Poetry and Song" - Convenor: John Goodby <[log in to unmask]> "Plural Literacies and Policy" - Convenor: Tom Cheesman <[log in to unmask]> PLENARY PANELS including: *Multilingual Community Publishing in the UK *The Politics of Literary Translation *Re-inventing Wales? Nation, Migration, Imagination PLUS workshops for practitioners in cultural policy and in multilingual community writing and translation, exhibitions, readings by local and visiting writers, literally diverse literary/social events... General enquiries: <[log in to unmask]> or Fax UK+1792 295710 ************************* Dr Deniz Gokturk University of Southampton School of Modern Languages Southampton SO17 1BJ Great Britain Tel: +44 1703 / 593407 Fax: + 44 1703 / 593288 E-mail: [log in to unmask] ************************* 'Axial Writing' Research Project on diaspora literary/media cultures (Transnational Communities Programme, ESRC/Oxford University) see: http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]