26840: Bellegarde-Smith (announce) Caribbean Women Writers & Scholars (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: P D Bellegarde-Smith <pbs@csd.uwm.edu>


Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005
From: E. Hawthorne <Ehawthorne03@aol.com>
Subject: ANN:  Caribbean Women Writers & Scholars



Call for Papers

The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars invites
abstracts for the 10th Anniversary International Conference “The Caribbean
Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining/Theorizing/Creating” to be held
May 30-June 3, 2006, at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

            Sample Panel Topics:
            The Creative Theoretical
            Caribbean Feminist Theory
            The Caribbean Imaginary
            Orality and the Creative Imagination
            Imagining Progressive Futures
            One Caribbean in the Vision of Writers and Artists
            Inspiration and Speculative Fiction
            Caribbean Women Writers in Print and Digital Formats
            Writing Being the Caribbean Mother
            Cultural Metaphors from the Caribbean: Stories Teaching

Abstracts of 150-200 words should be sent to: Dr. Carole Boyce
Davies, Conference Host, Director African-New World Studies, FIU, AC1-161,
Biscayne Bay Campus, 3000 NE 151 St., N. Miami, FL 33181.  Deadline is extended to
January 16, 2006.