The Poetics of Exile, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 17-19 July. This international conference will bring together scholars in fields as diverse as classical literature, indigenous and postcolonial writing, trauma studies, gender studies, film studies, and the contemporary avantgarde, to present and discuss creative responses to the condition of exile. A special feature of the conference will be the involvement of a number of writers, and creative artists in other media, originating from East and South Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, who have themselves experienced exile. Proposals for 20-minute papers and presentations in other forms should be sent as soon as possible, and by January 31, 2003 at the latest, to Mike Hanne, Coordinator of Comparative Literature (emails are accepted).