Break the Silence: End Child Sexual Abuse REGIONAL CONFERENCE 2011

Call for Papers

The 30th Annual West Indian Literature Conference invites papers on the theme, “I Dream to Change the World”: Literature and Social Transformation. It welcomes presentations on a broad range of topics and in cultural mediums inclusive of literature, literary linguistics, film, visual arts, and popular culture.
We invite scholarly papers on a range of topics that include:

1. Dialogues on the Role of the Artist
2. Children’s Literature  
3. Caribbean Utopias and Dystopias: Reimagining the Future
4. Crime, Criminality and Literature
5. Repositioning the Transnational Caribbean 
6. Genders and Sexualities
7. Refashioning the Nation
8. Representations of the Disabled
9. Landscape, Environment and Literature
10. Caribbean Literary Theory Comes of Age 
11. Pedagogues: Strategies for Mediating the Text
12. Caribbean, Social policy and Development
13. Representations of HIV / AIDS
14. Literature and Re-shaping Minds
15. Trauma and Healing
16. Representations of Mental Illness
17. Voicings and Inscriptions
18. Caribbean Debates on the Function of Literature and Criticism
19. Historical Formulations of Caribbean Literature
20. Aliens, Duppies and Others

Please submit an abstract of not more than 250 words and a short profile (approximately 150 words) by 31st May, 2011.
Submissions should be sent to:
Dr. Geraldine Skeete     Geraldine.Skeete@sta.uwi.edu
Dr. Giselle Rampaul      Giselle.Rampaul@sta.uwi.edu