3rd International Conference on Small Island Cultures June 29, 2007

The Third International Conference on Small Island Cultures (ICSIC 3) invites papers that dwell on the construction of islandness as produced, reproduced, celebrated, mediated and scripted in/by island cultures.

Abstracts of up to 300 words each will be reviewed by an inter-disciplinary academic panel.

Presenters will be from a variety of academic backgrounds, including: linguistics, literature, tourism, cultural studies, anthropology, human and cultural geography, sociology, music and history.

It seems that an island is for all seasons and for all tastes. Islands are absolute yet relational, bounded but porous, isolated yet connected; vulnerable yet resilient, utopian and dystopian, tourist meccas, prisons, paradises, gardens of delight, treasure depots, exotic hideaways, ecological enclaves. Islands are gripped by a multitude of tropes: they are paradoxical spaces that lend themselves to subordination via different discourses.

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