1. Freedom, Culture, Community

Robert Soza

University of California, Berkeley, USA

What we remember: genocide and cultures of freedom

Cameron McCarthy

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

The work of art in the postcolonial imagination

Manuel Gama Leal

University of Lisbon, Portugal

Unity and Divergence in classrooms. Representing changeable communities

Álvaro Pina

University of Lisbon, Portugal

Freedom, community and Raymond Williams’ project of a common culture

2. Trajectories of the self

Joseph Clarke

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Michelle Cliff and the post-national heroine

M Alfadel

University of Bahrain, Bahrain

Exiled minds, diasporic subjects: a critical reading of the autobiographical writing by Arab-American women

Georgina Johnston

Saint Louis University, USA

Representation as perversion: Vita Sackville-West’s portrait of a marriage

Mary Economou-Bailey

Greece

Spiritual survivors: biography and identity in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Alias grace and the blind assassin’

3. Private vices, public virtues: gendered sexualities and citizenship

Megan C. McShane

Emory University, USA

Surrealism and the French government’s post-war pro-natalism

Rosa Branco Figueiredo

School for Higher Education in Guarda, Portugal

Wole Soyinka and the construction of cultural identities

Stephanie Rains

Dublin City University, Ireland

‘John Wayne seeks Maureen O’Hara’: representation of gender and sexuality within Irish-America

Susan Clayton

University of Paris 7 (Denis Diderot), France

When woman weds woman: two and a half centuries of female husbandry

Toni Irving

University of Notre Dame, USA

Going public: sex, citizenship and black female subjectivity in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig

4. English as an International Language: Theoretical perspectives

Janina Brutt-Griffler

University of Alabama, USA

World English, Bilingual Speech Communities, and Second Language Acquisition

James McLellan, Datin Rosnah Haji Ramly, and Noor Azam Haji Othman

University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei

“English is an Asian language”: a Southeast Asian (Bruneian) perspective on nativization of English and englishization of local languages.

Malcolm MacDonald

University of Stirling, UK

Text, agency, culture: a re-evaluation of the cognitive dimension of communication within and between cultures(s)

Chrys Chrystello &  Helena Chrystello

University of Technology, Sidney, Australia

An Australian Hybrid Experiment in intercultural information