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<div>Dear colleagues and friends</div>
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<div>Both Brett and I are very pleased to announce that the Department of Media, Film & Communication, University of Otago (New Zealand), will be hosting a one day symposium to mark a decade since the passing of Edward Wadie Said on 25 September 2003.</div>
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<div>The symposium is scheduled to take place on 2 Oct 2013. The keynote addresses will be delivered by Prof. Vijay Mishra (Murdoch Uni), renowned scholar in Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Theory, and Diaspora Studies.</div>
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<div>The CFP is appended below, as well as attached here. The event is free of cost. There will be no registration fee and no catering support (many restaurants are located within close walking distance of the conference venue). Coffee and tea will be made
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<div>I look forward to your participation.</div>
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<div>with best wishes, vijay</div>
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<div style="font-style:normal; word-wrap:break-word">Dr Vijay Devadas<br>
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<b><span style="line-height:115%">EDWARD W. SAID: PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL, CULTURAL CRITIC, ACTIVIST</span></b></p>
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<b style=""><span style="line-height:115%">A ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM</span></b></p>
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<span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="line-height:16px"><b style=""><span style="line-height:115%">Department of Media, Film & Communication, </span></b></span><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="line-height:16px"><b style=""><span style="line-height:115%">University
of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand)</span></b></span></p>
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<span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="line-height:16px"><b style=""><span style="line-height:115%">2 Oct 2013</span></b></span></p>
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<span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="line-height:17px">2013 marks a decade since Edward W. Said passed: on 25 September 2003, the world lost a leading public intellectual, cultural critic, activist, fighter, and scholar's scholar. Said is a major figure
whose work has had a tremendous impact in various disciplines and fields of study in the Humanities. Rich, multilayered and finely textured, Said offers numerous concepts, tactics, and modalities of intervention that serve us well in understanding, challenging
and over-turning dominant power, subject-constituting regimes, and forms of identity-politics. He teaches us what the purpose and aim of the intellectual is. In his own words, “the intellectual … is neither a pacifier nor a consensus-builder, but someone
whose whole being is staked on a critical sense, a sense of being unwilling to accept easy formulas of ready-made clichés, or the smooth, ever-so-accommodating confirmations of what the powerful or conventional have to say and what they do. Not just passively
unwillingly, but actively willing to say so in public” (from <i>Representations of the Intellectual</i>). As Tariq Ali notes, ‘his voice is irreplaceable, but his legacy will endure. He has many lives ahead of him’.</span></p>
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<span style="line-height:115%">In this spirit and as a tribute to Edward Wadie Said, the Department of Media, Film & Communication, University of Otago, New Zealand, will be hosting a one-day symposium.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:115%"> W</span><span style="line-height:115%">e
invite contributions from any field to discuss various aspects of Edward Said’s work.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-style:normal; font-weight:normal"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="line-height:17px">We strongly encourage postgraduates and early career researchers to be part of this event.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-style:normal; font-weight:normal"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="line-height:16px"><span style="line-height:115%">Please send a 250-word abstract and a short bio to
</span></span><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="line-height:16px"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:said-conference@otago.ac.nz"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%">said-conference@otago.ac.nz</span></a></span></span><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="line-height:16px"><span style="line-height:115%">
by 1 August 2013.</span></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-style:normal; font-weight:normal"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="line-height:16px"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="line-height:115%">Professor Vijay Mishra, Murdoch University, Australia, will deliver the keynote
address. <span style=""> </span></span></i></b></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-style:normal; font-weight:normal"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="line-height:17px">The event is free of cost. There will be no catering support (many restaurants are located within close walking distance of the symposium
venue). Coffee and tea will be made available throughout the day.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-style:normal; font-weight:normal"><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="line-height:16px"><span style="line-height:115%">For non-presenters, we would greatly appreciate it if you could RSVP to
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by 20 September 2013.</span></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-style:normal; font-weight:normal"><b style="">CONVENORS</b><span style="">
</span>Dr. Vijay Devadas & Dr. Brett Nicholls</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-style:normal; font-weight:normal"><b>VENUE</b>: Department of Media, Film & Communication, University of Otago, Dunedin Campus, Richardson Building, 6<sup>th</sup> Floor, Room 6N4.</p>
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