A reminder of the CFP for the 4th Annual Conference 2009 Friday 5th June

The Conference will be held on Friday 5th June 2009 at the University of Western Australia, Perth.

Limina is a refereed online journal of historical and cultural studies, based in the Department of History at the University of Western Australia in Perth. It is run entirely by a collective of postgraduate students and committed to publishing the work of postgraduate students and Early Career Researchers from around the world.

The Annual Conference 2009 will provide a lively scholarly environment in which diverse work can be discussed. Conference submissions should explore resistance to traditional disciplinary boundaries and apply a rigorous approach to issues of research, context and theoretical debates.

Possible areas for discussion include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Borders; geographical, social, political
Resistance
Censorship
Contested histories
Centre/ Periphery
Displacement
Editing
Silencing
Inclusion/Exclusion
Representations
Inscription
The subliminal
Liminality
Unofficial versions
Mainstream/Alternative
Witness
Marginalia; notes, commentaries, evaluations
Alternative knowledge
Minorities
Ethnicity
Regions and regionalism
Alternative methodologies
Space and Boundaries
Secondary sources
Translation
Cartographies

Conference papers are 20 minutes in length. To submit a proposal for the conference, please forward a 200 word abstract and brief bibliographical note as an email attachment to the submissions editor at: limina@cyllene.uwa.edu.au.

Deadline for submissions: Friday 20th March 2009.