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13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF
THE ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN WOMEN WRITERS AND SCHOLARS (ACWWS)
CONFERENCE THEME: THE CARIBBEAN,THE LAND, AND THE PEOPLE:
Women’s Efforts, Women’s Lives
May 8-12, 2012
Paramaribo, Suriname
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: November 31, 2011
Topics:
• Caribbean Women: Recognition and Tribute
• Literature and Politics: Women’s Voices
• Women’s Activism: Working Against Silence and Oppression
• Caribbean Women in/and History: Indigenous Women in Colonial Times, Indentured Labor, Slavery
• Caribbean Futures: Visionary Women
• Caribbean Ethnicities: “Problems,” “Opportunities,” Realities
• Cross-cultural Fertilization
• Female Sexualities
• Caribbean Women, Mothering Sons
• Caribbean Daughters and Fathers
• Caribbean Literature’s Mythic Women
• Economics and Caribbean Women: Survival/Surviving, Building Careers
• Publishing Strategies in the Caribbean
• Critics on Caribbean Women’s Literature
• Modern Oral Traditions: Techniques, Genres, Contents
• Geography as Literary Space
• Caribbean Writers in Education
• “Mother Tongues” Against the Languages of Empire
Submit to:
ismene.krishnadath@gmail.com
or
heneus@sr.net
For further inquiries, please navigate to:
ACWWS website: www.acwws.org
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