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Linda Hutcheon: Reading Notes, Chapters 7 and 8

By April Mason and Jack Somers Reading Notes for Chapter Seven: “Historiographic Metafiction: ‘The Pastime of Past Time’” from A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction by Linda Hutcheon Section I Hutcheon begins this section by discussing the relationship between…

CFP: Global Transformations and Local Mobility

Global transformations and local mobility Think global: Economic, social and political transformations and continuities. Act local: Cultures, grass root activism and social mobility. Dates of the conference 25th, 26th and 27th of March 2011. Venue LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan The lived…

CFP: Consolidated Call for Papers

Listed below are the consolidated links to various calls for papers posted on this blog in the last month or so: Workshop on Language, Literacy, and the Social Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies (Stanford University, California) “Arab World Diasporas…

CFP: Arab World Diasporas and Migrations

“Arab World Diasporas and Migrations” (Washington, DC) 21-22 March 2011 Organized by Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. We define the Arab world geographically and welcome contributions about non-Arab communities in the Arab world. The goal of the symposium…