Diasporically Speaking: Conversations on Caribbean Feminisms Toronto, October 12-15, 2005

Submission Format:
Paper/presentation title
Abstract: 250-300 words
Bibliography: one paragraph
University or community affiliation Mailing address
Email
Telephone

Deadline: January 31, 2005

Conference Themes

1. Caribbean Feminisms
2. Transnational Feminist Currents
3. Race, Creolization, and Hybridity
4. Sexuality, Morality, and Respectability
5. Nation and Sovereignty in the Age of Neoliberalism

Conference Structure

1. Two keynote addresses
2. Panels on the five main themes described above (general call for papers)
3. Workshops on the five themes (key resource persons are invited to write and present a position paper on the main questions for each theme)
4. A literary evening with Toronto-based Caribbean feminist novelists, poets and musicians