Hi everyone

I am gathering new publications for the next Wise Women in Print section of the next WISE Women's News.
Could you e-mail with any new books, articles etc that you have written or that you would like to suggest for including in the section.
Best wishes

Barbara
Dr Barbara Bagilhole
Reader in Equal Opportunities in Social Policy
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1509 223380
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223944
Dr Barbara Bagilhole

Department of Culture and Literature, Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Latvia,
Center for Gender Studies, University of Latvia

Re-thinking Culture and Literature: Transnational and Comparative Spaces

1 - 3, November, 2002

Topics include:

Baltic literatures: historical, contemporary, comparative perspectives
Diaspora and ethnic literatures
Gender and genre
Canon and process
Ethnography of the Eye: Memory and Modernity in Visual Practices
Multifocal approaches to the study of language and literature:
multiethnic, postcolonial, and transnational perspectives
Global-regional-local in the cultures at the turn of the century
The impact of technology on contemporary literatures
Questions of local or national languages in the creation of a new literature
Close readings of individual works or sequences in one or several authors' writings
Cross-cultural comparative analyses of texts

Working languages: Latvian, English, German, Russian

Publication of conference proceedings is planned.

Deadline for abstracts and panel/roundtable proposals: 15, July, 2002.

There is a limited oppportunity to book rooms at the university hotel in the downtown at a very decent price.
Hotel accommodation for Baltic participants will be covered.

Conference committee:

Professor Sigma Ankrava
Associate Professor Irina Novikova
Docent Edgars Oshinsh
Docent Tatiana Kuharenok

300-word proposals should be sent to:

Department of Culture and Literature
Faculty of Modern Languages
Visvalzha 4a, office 430
Riga
LV-1586
University of Latvia
Riga
Latvia

Or e-mail address:
iranovi@lanet.lv (Irina Novikova)
edosin@lanet.lv (Edgars Oshinsh)