Literature North West

6th March 2010

Texting Obama is an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Research (IHSSR) at Manchester Metropolitan University and The Manchester Writing School.

Confirmed keynotes: Paul Cammack (MMU), Bonnie Greer (London), Simon Gikandi (Princeton), David Theo Goldberg (UCI), Anna Hartnell (Birmingham), Carl Pedersen (Copenhagen), Ato Quayson (Toronto) and Patricia J. Williams (Columbia). Readings by - among others - SuAndi, Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay.

Closing date for paper proposals: 26 March 2010.
For further information please contact the convenors (Ellie Byrne, Julie Mullaney, Berthold Schoene) at: textingobama@mmu.ac.uk.

A website is under construction at www.mmu.ac.uk/textingobama