GENDER, EMPIRE AND POSTCOLONY: INTERSECTIONS IN LUSO-AFRO-BRAZILIAN STUDIES,

Call for Papers: GENDER, EMPIRE AND POSTCOLONY: INTERSECTIONS IN
LUSO-AFRO-BRAZILIAN STUDIES, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 9-10
October 2009

Conference organizers: Anna M. Klobucka (UMass Dartmouth),
Hilary Owen(U of Manchester)

Associate organizer: Gina M. Reis (UMass Dartmouth)

Keynote speakers: Leela Gandhi (U of Chicago), Anne McClintock
(U of Wisconsin-Madison)

Confirmed participants: Miguel Vale de Almeida (ISCTE), Ana Paula
Ferreira (U of Minnesota), James Green (Brown U), Laura
Cavalcante Padilha (UFF), Maria Irene Ramalho (U de Coimbra)

The organizers invite paper proposals bringing gender analysis to
bear on any aspects of the former Portuguese empire and
postcolonial Luso-Afro-Brazilian literatures, cultures and
communities. Please send 300-word abstracts; brief CVs to and
by April 15, 2009.

Anna M. Klobucka
Department of Portuguese
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
N. Dartmouth, MA 02747
phone: 508-999-8241
fax: 508-910-6205
http://www.umassd.edu/cas/portuguese/aklobucka.cfm