Glasgow Women’s Library (Web)

Time: 29 March, 2012
Venue: Glasgow Women’s Library, 5 Berkeley Street, Glasgow, G3 7BW,  Scotland
Deadline abstract: 29.04.2011 
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This interdisciplinary conference will provide a forum for discussion of the issues facing women who have moved from one culture to another and have as a result adopted in their daily lives and for their creative work a language other than their ‘mother tongue’. We will look at the creative, linguistic, economic and psychological effects of this displacement. The critical examination of women’s narratives in Europe (fiction, poetry, diaries, memoirs, pamphlets), from a literary perspective will be complemented by sessions looking at these issues from a historical, political and sociological perspective. 
Abstracts in English of no more than 300 words should be sent by 29 APRIL 2011 to Lucia Aiello (L.Aiello@sheffield.ac.uk), Joy Charnley (j.charnley@phonecoop.coop) and Mariangela Palladino (p.mariangela@googlemail.com). Papers should be 20 minutes in length and accessible to a multidisciplinary audience. Proposals for thematic workshops are also welcome. The publication of a selection of papers following the conference is planned.   
Contact: info@womenslibrary.org.uk