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The 14th international Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies will be hosted in 2007 by Canada. ACLALS, an association of Commonwealth scholars established in the U.K. in 1963 and accredited to The Commonwealth in 2005, has eight national branches: Canada, Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, South Pacific/Australia, South Africa, Europe, West Indies, and the U.S. (Please go to www.aclals.org for further information.) This conference. which is the major gathering of Commonwealth and Postcolonial scholars and writers, has come to Canada after 24 years. Previous conferences were held in India (2004), Australia (2001), Malaysia (1998), Sri Lanka (1995), Jamaica (1992), England (1989) and others. Confirmed are the following major keynote speakers: Derek Walcott, Nobel Laureate Jeannette Armstrong, Okanagan writer/educator Henry Giroux, cultural critic/educational theorist Stephen Slemon, post-colonial critic P. Sivakami, author of the first novel by a Tamil Dalit woman Ngugi wa Thiong’o, African writer and critic Robert J.C. Young, post-colonial critic Cheryl Suzack, Aboriginal scholar Among the other distinguished presenters are: Bill Ashocroft (University of Hong Kong) Diana Brydon (CRC, University of Manitoba) Daniel Coleman (CRC, McMaster University) Reed Way Dasenbrock (University of New Mexico) George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto) Margery Fee (The University of British Columbia) Ashley Halpe (University of Sri Lanka/Peradeniya) Graham Huggan (University of Leeds) Smaro Kamboureli (CRC, University of Guelph) Chelva Kanaganayakam (University of Toronto) Neil ten Kortenaar (University of Toronto) Chandani Lokuge (Monash University, Australia) Pamela McCallum (University of Calgary) Paul Sharrad (University of Wollongong, Australia Cheryl Suzack (University of Victoria) Helen Tiffin (University of Tasmania) Chantal Zabus (UParis XIII) |
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