The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2010 conference, "The Ethics of Racial Identity: PAMLA Special Session", on November 13-14, 2010 at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii. This special session invites papers addressing the role of social media in researching, analyzing, and writing about literature. Proposal deadline: April 5, 2010.
Call for Papers -- The Ethics of Racial Identity, PAMLA 2010 Special Session
PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) is the western regional affiliate of MLA. The 2010 conference will take place November 13-14 at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii. This special session invites papers addressing the role of social media (Twitter, Facebook, wikis, blogs, tags) in researching, analyzing, and writing about literature. Presenters may discuss specific applications, case-studies, or general theories about online collaboration and research.
The Ethics of Racial Identity: PAMLA Special Session
Barack Obama benefited from the spirit of tolerance that defined Hawaii's racial climate. This special session envisions a mixed-race literature in the age of Obama that forwards not solely theorizations of what mixed race identities are, but an ethics for treating mixed race identification in literature. It is designed to re-situate mixedness/interraciality within the field of literary inquiry as a question of the ethical treatment of racialized figures.
Submit proposals online by April 5 at http://www.pamla.org/2010 or send abstracts of 500 words or less to adebe_@hotmail.com
