Edinburgh Postcolonial Studies Network

The time has come for me to hand over the directorship of the New Voices. If you are a postgrad working in postcolonial studies and are interested in leading NVPoco for the upcoming academic year, please email us by July 8th with an expression of interest

⏳#cfp for the NVPoCo bimonthly seminars entitled "Widening the Horizons: New Urges in Postcolonial Literatures"! 🕑The extended deadline for abstract submissions is 29 August, 2022. More information here: newvoicespocostudies.wordpress.com/2022/07/22/cal…

Ask and it shall be done friends! The #CfP for our conference on #BlackBritish poetry in Performance has been extended! So RT & get your abstracts in - with some killer keynotes lined up already, its going to be a blast!

📢📢Calling aspiring PGRs! Are you interested in directing our collaborative, multi-disciplinary #network? Get in touch with your Eol by 31st May. More details below👇

Tasavvur Collective are proud to present the call for papers for our first online symposium, 'Writing Muslim Women in South Asia.' Deadline for submission of abstracts/outlines: 1st July 2022. Please feel free to DM or email us at tasavvurcollective@gmail.com with any queries!

.@TasavvurCollect are a consortium of researchers whose work intersects in the social, historical & literary representation of South Asian Muslims in cultural productions. We are cross-institutional & inter-disciplinary, with a focus on memory, nation & narratives of dissent.

Thrilled to announce that the CFP for our conference "Imposition of Power: Quest for Identity" is now out. Deadline for abstract submission is 11th April and the conference takes place on 22 June 2022. Send us your abstract now! For more info, visit newvoicespocostudies.wordpress.com/conference/

Decolonisation, as Frederick Douglass reminded, is about showing those in power the limits of their impunity and showing them the limits of our endurance. We will not endure so that others do not have to endure either. We must not endure. link.medium.com/gcmhaPlvKnb/

We're happy to announce the first event of 2022! On 4 Feb we will be commemorating Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali's birth anniversary, 20 years after his passing. Join us for a poetry reading at 2 PM & a panel discussion at 3:30 PM (GMT). Register: surl.li/belhg

Hopefully, in conversation with Anna Bernard here, we'll touch on some of these questions. public-humanities.ok.ubc.ca/2022/01/10/con…

We are excited to announce that the 2022 @BristolPrize is now open for submissions! The Prize is open to all writers around the world whether published or unpublished, UK or non-UK based. The 1st Prize winner will receive £1,000. Find out more below 👇 bit.ly/3HTSPmv

Roman history expert Ulrike Roth exposes the disturbing contexts of gender-based violence lurking behind famous artefacts from the ancient Roman world. #Day5 #16DaysBlogathon #EndGBV @HCAatEdinburgh @EdinClassics @womeninclassics @wmarybeard wp.me/paoUF9-n6

Our reading group meets today at 3:30 PM BST! DM us for the link to join 🙌🏼

Here's the link to the text: doi-org.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/10.1080/136980…. We'll meet on the 28th of this month to discuss!

We're back with our Reading Group for October! We've chosen "Disoriented Postcolonialities: With Edward Said in (the Labyrinth of) Al-Andalus" by Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Interventions, 20, 2018. The article approaches Arabic literature from a Spanish perspective.

I signed a contract yesterday to write A Very Short Introduction to Postcolonial Literature. It's a dream come true to join the conversation and shape it anew. Thank you for making this happen @JacNorton, Luciana O'Flaherty, the delegates and readers @OxUniPress. #VSI

@AnkhiMukherjee9 @ellekeboehmer @JacNorton @OxUniPress Looking forward to this!

Time for Postcolonial Narrations again! Check out the public talks for the postgraduate forum of GAPS where Prof. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani and Promona Sengupta will be delivering the keynote and artist talk respectively. postcolonial-narrations.net/keynotes/

Join us this Thurs (14th) at 4pm for our first talk of the new term! Prof Jay Fiskio @oberlincollege will be introducing her new work on colonialism, climate change & frontline environmental activism - not to be missed! Pls send a DM for the Zoom link. All welcome 😀

Beyond delighted at the news that Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the #NobelPrizeLiterature! He has played a major role in developing the study of postcolonial literature @UniKentEnglish and his work continues to inspire students and colleagues theguardian.com/books/2021/oct…