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St. Pierre to Hutton Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/f9aef91d871bc53b6164f2e85b006223.pdf 6acaf7df5bcd3c6c75b0c1c76ea10a4e PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Corr. St. Pierre to Ossman Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/36cafcf548a97b530d47f3aa25314df2.pdf a452067a28aaf01d14ba60ad50635816 PDF Text Text Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Minutes of the 2019 Triennial General Meeting of the Membership Held over two lunchtimes during ACLALS 15-19 July, 2019 Wednesday 17 July, 2019 1. After a welcome from the Chair, Chris Prentice, to the general membership, the meeting opened with tributes to past Chairs and longstanding members of ACLALS, Geoff Davis and Michael Wessels a. Heart-felt tributes to Geoff Davis were presented by Chris Prentice (Chair, ACLALS 2016–2019), Russell McDougall (SPACLALS), and Laura Moss (CACLALS); tributes were read on behalf of Gareth Griffiths (SPACLALS), Ganesh Devy (Independent scholar and activist), and Christa Stevens (Brill). Spoken tributes were accompanied by powerpoint slides and a slide show of photographs of Geoff, indicating the breadth and depth of his activities, collaborations and friendships over many years across the many branches of ACLALS. Many written tributes had preceded the meeting among members from across the organization who were shocked and saddened by his passing in late 2018. b. Cheryl Stobie presented a very moving tribute to immediate past Chair of ACLALS, Michael Wessels (SAACLALS), who also suddenly and tragically passed away in 2018. Cheryl spoke as a colleague and a friend of Michaels, and members of ACLALS from across the organization shared the sense of loss of a respected scholar and a truly genial and generous host of the 2016 ACLALS conference held in Stellenbosch. 2. Chris Prentice summarized the remaining issues for discussion at the meeting: a. Branch reports b. The name of the organization (on which branches had been invited to send submissions in advance ready for discussion) c. Chair and triennial conference succession 3. Following the tributes Branch reports were presented in absentia from India (IACLALS) and West Africa (WAACLALS). As the lunch hour had passed, it was agreed to suspend the meeting and reconvene the following lunchtime. Thursday 18 July, 2019 4. The meeting reconvened and reports were presented by Branch Chairs of CACLALS (Canada), EACLALS (Europe), WIACLALS (West Indies), SPACLALS (South Pacific), SAACLALS (South Africa), EAACLALS (East Africa), and SLLACLALS (Sri Lanka). �5. ACLALS Name change: a wide range of views were presented, both on behalf of branch membership ascertained through polls prior to the conference/meeting, and in the AGM itself. In favour of the name change: a. View that the term ‘Commonwealth’ is increasingly dated or obsolete (CACLALS, EACLALS, WIACLALS) b. The name no longer ‘speaks to’ – thus attracts – the younger scholars/members needed to ensure the continuation of the organization c. Although only one response was received from Southern African membership, Iri, as SAACLALS Chair suggested that in the context of South Africa’s larger decolonization processes, a new name may be called for. d. Observation that ACLALS no longer receives funding from the Commonwealth, so what merit to retaining the name (WIACLALS)? Arguments against name change (or concerns raised about it): e. What alternative name would be better? i. Question raised in IACLALS’s report presented in absentia ii. Postcolonial (CACLALS, EACLALS), but ‘postcolonial’ may be offensive to some (eg. Indigenous people in Australia, SPACLALS) f. Prefer to stay with ACLALS to retain relationships among member countries (EAACLALS) g. Preference for ‘Commonwealth’ as widely recognized name (WAACLALS branch supports keeping ACLALS) i. Other expressions of negative consequences of name changes h. ACLALS was never founded with the idea of Commonwealth funding; the membership and meaning of Commonwealth has already expanded, and there are other advantages and opportunities gained through the Commonwealth affiliation (SLLACLALS). Some branches (eg. CACLALS) have it in their constitutions that they have the right to change their names. The ACLALS organization cannot refuse the right of a branch to change its name. i. Suggestion that branches that wish to do so may change their names, leaving ACLALS as it stands at present (Michael Bucknor, WIACLALS; Selina Tusitala Marsh, SPACLALS) j. Question of whether ACLALS will be required to continue affiliation of such branches (Russell McDougall, SPACLALS) The discussion concluded with an agreement that ACLALS will remain the name of the overarching organization, but that branches may choose to change their names. Elleke Boehmer raised the need for the organization to refresh for the next generation of 21st century scholars. Melissa Kennedy, Helga Ramsey-Kurz and Joe (?) advocated a more dynamic use of social media for communication between scheduled conference events. 6. No offers to host the next triennial were received prior to the AGM, so with the question of succession and the location of the 2022 triennial still unresolved — �though East Africa indicated the possibility of hosting in 2025 — Chris Prentice would continue discussions with branches following the conference. 7. The meeting concluded. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Minutes of the 2019 Business Meeting Subject The topic of the resource Administration Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ACLALS https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5bb14eebfa5c6d7b62cc21447632b2b6.pdf e08dee8e0f8f12084162b1a2ae1672ff PDF Text Text ACLALS Chair’s Report As many of you are probably aware, my term as chair was somewhat unusual. No decision was taken at the last ACLALS meeting in Auckland in 2019 about where the association would be headquartered next or where the next conference would be held. I was approached after the conference by the past chair Chris Prentice. I want to thank Chris for all her work facilitating this transition. This has been a period of challenge for ACLALS, with the loss of funding by the Commonwealth Foundation several years ago, the passing and retirement of some very active long-term members, and of, course, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. One irony of the pandemic is that the activities of the Commonwealth largely shifted online, and I was able to be more involved in some discussions than I might have been otherwise. I took whatever opportunities I could to draw attention to the importance of academic freedom, the humanities, and the value of post-secondary education. I had a few objectives for my own term as chair, some that reflected my own sense of priorities, and others that emerged from the directions set at previous meetings in 2013 and 2016. Firstly, it was important that we updated our communication strategy. ACLALS has a permanent home on the web! The domain www.aclals.net is registered internationally, with godaddy hosting the site. The advantage of this is that the address remains the same, regardless of where in the world the ACLALS leadership is located. This means that the website does not need to move every three years. It is simply a matter of transferring editorial control from one person to another. it’s a pretty simple wordpress site that I have since maintained myself and with the help of students. The ACLALS website is also home to a lot more information about ACLALS than in the past. Going back to at least 2016, members of ACLALS and the ACLALS executive had been looking at ways to both preserve the ACLALS archive, and to record the history of the organization. In the last three years, we’ve tackled that in a few ways. The ACLALS archives now have a permanent electronic home. This is also a living resource that can be added to in the future. Sorthing through thousands of documents was a substantial task. Creating this digital archive would not have been possible without the support of the following organizations: The Information and Communications Technology Council Work-Integrated learning Digital Program The Ontario Work Study Program The office of Indigenous Initiatives at Lakehead University The Lakehead University Library Specifically, I want to acknowledge the work of Connor D’Angelo, Ashley Little, and Mariah Toset, all of whom worked to scan documents into the archives over this three year period. Mariah also sorted and labelled them. �I also want to thank Sara Janes, the Lakehead University archivist, for arranging web storage, helping to set up the archives and providing training on the Omeka system, amongst other things. This archive means an end to shipping boxes of papers around the world every three years, which is beneficial from an environmental and financial perspective. In addition to the archive, the ACLALS website now has a narrative history, summary of past conferences, and a list of resources for further research. In addition to those supporters mentioned above, this project was funded by the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship program. I also want to acknowledge Mariah Toset and Yi Wang who wrote the historical narrative you can now find on the ACLALS website, along with a complete list of past conferences, an overview of key figures, and an extensive bibliography of sources about ACLALS and its history. This is a living project. The fact that this is web-based means that more documents can be added to the archive in the future, and the history can be expanded and developed as future executives see fit. The archives and bibliography mean that this is a resource for current and future scholars. Another major concern I had was to regularize the organization’s finances, after several years with no bank account and no external funding or system of internal funding for the ACLALS office. Back in 2016, ACLALS resolved that regional branches would send 10% of membership fees to the central ACLALS organization. There are a number of reasons why ACLALS needs to have some funding. First of all, we are required to pay an annual membership to the Commonwealth Consortium for education. Secondly, even a very modestly run ACLALS office needs to maintain the website and perform administrative tasks that may occasionally cost money. It has been difficult, I know, for many branches to collect membership fees in the context of the pandemic, but I hope we will continue to move forward. I want to thank Canadian ACLALS and European ACLALS for providing that seed funding for ACLALS over the past few years. As may have been evident from my previous list of thanks, part of maintaining robust finances for ACLALS and getting the resources needed to accomplish projects is applying for grants. This conference is being sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Toronto Metropolitan University, University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, Lakehead University, St. Jerome’s University, Saint Mary’s University, the University of New Brunswick and the journals Canadian Literature and Studies in Canadian Literature. Thank you so much to all of our sponsors, without whom we would not be here. I also want to thank ARIEL for their contribution of a subscription for the graduate student prize. �I also want to thank the ACLALS vice-chairs, Neil Kortenaar and Judith Leggatt, Site Coordinators Anne-Marie Lee-Loy and Hyacinth Simpson, and organizing committee members Laura Moss, Veronica Austen, Karina Vernon, Sarah Dowling, John Ball, Asma Syed and Henghameh Saroukhani. It really does take a village to put together an event like this, particularly under the challenging circumstances that we faced over the last three years. I also want to thank the folks at Lakehead University – particularly my colleagues in the department of English, and my dean, without whose support I could not have taken on this role. I also want us all to take a minute to acknowledge the work of Mariah Toset. I’m sure many of you have interacted with Mariah over the last year, who, in addition to playing a pivotal role in putting together the ACLALS history project has played a really pivotal role in this conference. From finding us our wonderful conference hotel, to the conference program, to the virtual book fair, many of the elements of this conference would not have come together were it not for Mariah’s incredible work. I also want to thank the regional chairs: Michael Bucknor, Mohd Asaddudin, Walter Perera, Marcel Okhakhu, Alex Wanjala, Iri Manase, Michael Griffiths, Radhika Mohanram and Asma Sayed. Lastly, I want to thank all of you for coming. Though I have been to several ACLALS conferences over the last 20 years, I never envisioned myself as the chair. I’m happy to have been able to steer the association through this difficult time. There were some moments in the last two years where I wondered if we would really be able to come together in person in Toronto this year. It’s gratifying to see it happening. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chair's Report Subject The topic of the resource Administration Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anna Guttman Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available ACLALS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2022 Language A language of the resource English https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/0d27214953a258f369a74875cf3da2d5.pdf a0f850135b2044fb820210d4d97b5ab0 PDF Text Text ACLALS Financial Report 2019 The Auckland conference accrued a deficit of $3858.81 NZD The outgoing ACLALS Executive engaged in fundraising to cover the deficit. No funds were transferred to the new executive. 2020 Revenue Grant from European ACLALS 2020: $282.14CAD Grant from Canadian ACLALS 2020: $710.00CAD Total: $992.14 Expenditures Payment for external website support: $150 Registration of aclals.net domain $52.44 Website hosting (godaddy): $179.89 Commonwealth Consortium for Education Dues: $134.50 Total: $516.83 Balance: $475. 31 2021 Carry forward from 2020: $475.31 Revenue Grants from Canadian ACLALS 2021: $500.00 Grant from European ACLALS 2021: $621.14 Total: $1596.45 Expenditures Renewal of aclals.net domain: $52.44 CAD Software licensing: $49.95 CAD Shipping costs: $49.17 CAD Dues to the Commonwealth Consortium for Education 2021: $131.50 Total: $283.06 �Balance: $1313.39 2022 Carry forward from 2021: $1313.39 Expenditures Dues to the Commonwealth Consortium for Education: $118 Renewal of Website hosting and domain until May 2026: $620.68 Total: $738.68 Summary for the 2019-2022 term Total Revenue $2113.28 Total Expenditures $1538.57 Operation Funds to Carry Forward to next Executive: $574.71 CAD � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Financial Report Subject The topic of the resource Administration Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ACLALS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2022 https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/aa1468457e746d1e2814bc157b8c2a84.pdf 51a60531d1b26c5df4d16d14b64ea236 PDF Text Text CACLALS REPORT FOR ACLALS 2022 Submitted by Dr. Asma Sayed, President (2019-22), June 2022 CACLALS hosted its annual conference from June 15-18, 2022, virtually at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia. The annual general meeting was held on June 18th. This year’s conference was much smaller compared to last year’s. We received fewer abstracts than we usually do. Yet, we have had approximately 75 registrations, one keynote, one plenary, two roundtables, and 35 presentations. We had some though-provoking, insightful, and inspiring sessions over the four days. Julietta Singh was the keynote speaker. This year, we could have gone back to the Congress, but navigating the Federation’s online portal is somewhat complicated and we could not find a good reason for our members to pay high Congress fees for a virtual conference experience which we were able to offer at a much lower rate. Also, our two key partners, ACCUTE and ILSA were hosting their conferences inperson at different times in different places. We had been in talks with both the associations and were hopeful that some partnership will work out this year as well. Thus, our conference dates also coincided with ILSA’s conference dates, but finally, it proved to be too much work for both the associations to make things work when one association was hosting virtually and another inperson. Thus, we hosted our second independent and virtual conference this year. Having said that, we do recognize the value of hosting our conference alongside other associations and in partnerships with other associations. There is also much to be desired about networking when meeting people in person. Thus, we will be returning to the Congress next year as it will be hosted in-person at York University, and we will hopefully be able to host events in partnership with our partner associations such as ACCUTE and ILSA. During the year, in response to the Federation’s Igniting Change report, we organized a panel to discuss our response to the report and agreed to include an EDID representative position on our executive and to sign the Charter. We have now officially signed the Federation’s EDID Charter. This year, we also completed the steps for changing the name of the association as per our constitution. The discussion about the name change started with Mariam Pirbhai writing a letter to ACLALS executive in 2019 before she stepped off her role as the President of CACLALs. Over the three years since then, we have gone through multiple steps including a name-change panel discussion, a survey, a referendum, and received approval of more than 75% of the membership. As of December 31st, as per our constitutional requirement, we had completed all the steps. No more steps are required. Thus, the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies is now officially called the Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (CAPS). As we have discussed at the conference (and before that as well), we recognize the limitations of this name, but this is what our membership came up with, voted for, ratified, and endorsed. Ultimately, what matters is that we work centring our intentionality and positionality and not let our work be limited by the association’s name. At the very least, we have signalled our moving away from the colonial concept of the Commonwealth. 1 �The next executive will do the work of getting the name changed with the Federation, changing our logo, our name on the bank account and other such practical matters. For over a year now, CACLALS President, Asma Sayed, has represented CACLALS at ACLALS and served on the ACLALS conference committee. She will continue to represent CACLALS during ACLALS as she will be attending in person in Toronto in July. Dr. Sayed mentioned at the AGM 2022 that she was glad to leave CACLALS/CAPS in a strong financial position. She thanked KPU, her institution, for their full support over the past two years. Both years, KPU provided two Zoom accounts and a full-time tech support person for all the days of the conference. Knowing what other associations are paying for these services, this could have easily cost us approximately 3K-5K per year, and thus over the two years, CACLALS managed to save 6K to 10K in technical expenses. This also allowed to keep the conference registration fees extremely low at between 20 and 50 dollars. Some of the expenses were covered through Sayed’s grants through KPU. Sayed reminded that while CACLALS is in a strong financial position, as we return to in-person conference in a city such as Toronto in 2023, and go back to the Congress, next year, our expenses will be high, so we need to be mindful of how we use the funds and work on attracting more funds. Membership thanked Asma Sayed for three years of her leadership as the President of CACLALS, and the members of the executive, for steering the association through some extraordinarily challenging times. A new executive for 2022-24 was elected at the AGM. Executive structure has been changed and new positions have been added to ensure a better sharing of the workload. Jesse Arseneault will serve as the next President post-ACLALS in July 2022. 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Canadian ACLALS Report Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Asma Sayed Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2022 https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/c98699e478040f3e7d9621ad716c664f.pdf 5248d1930ffaaebffb25d47412976214 PDF Text Text EAACLALS REPORT EAACLALS has had its activities hampered since 2020 due to the ongoing Covid 19 pandemic. Activities such as the National Book Week that take place in September of each year, and in which the association has always been actively involved have been suspended over the period, and thus our interactions with corporate entities such as the National Book Council of Kenya and the Kenya Publishers Association have been hampered, denying us much needed visibility. EAACLALS was privileged to send representatives to represent ACLALS at the Conference of Commonwealth Ministers (CCEM), which took place at Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi from 27-28 April 2022. The conference discussed the current situation within the education sector for Commonwealth countries. It was made evident that the Covid 19 pandemic has had a negative impact on education, and that efforts should be made to mitigate against these effects on learning. Environmental issues also came up as a major factor hindering progress in education, and as such sustainable solutions to improve the quality of Education for all. Kenya’s Ministry of Education was handed the leadership of CCEM’s secretariat as from 2022-2025. EAACLALS hopes to work closely with the Ministry in formulating and implementing education policies for Commonwealth countries over that period. Members of the executive committee of EAACLALS have proposed that their chair, Dr. Alex Wanjala of the University of Nairobi vie for the presidency of ACLALS during the 19th triennial of the association which will in Toronto, Canada in July 2022. EAACLALS through its executive committee further expresses its desire that the 20th ACLALS triennial be hosted in East Africa. It is hoped that our candidate will receive the support of the other Chapters in the Association. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource East African ACLALS Report Subject The topic of the resource Administration Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource EAACLALS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2022 https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/4a88d862da9713a93d57768abd2e6039.pdf 882527b46cba069c2846e398d735393f PDF Text Text Report of the Chair, AGM 2022 Radhika Mohanram 2019-2020 17th triennial conference at the Cardiff University, Wales, May 2020 Cardiff University made a successful bid for the 17th triennial conference in May 2020 to coincide with the Hay Festival. A CFP on the topic of Transcultural Mo(ve)ments: Memories, Writings, Embodiments was prepared and approved by the Board. The CFP resulted in, 135 approved proposals and arrangements were made for a face-to-face conference including developing a conference website. By late March the country was in lockdown due to Covid and Cardiff University cancelled all campus conferences. With the uncertainty caused by the pandemic no concrete decisions of any sort regarding a future conference could be made. Dec 2020-June 2021 In December 2020, Cardiff was once more approached to host the cancelled conference and, after enquiries, it was decided that it would be held online because of the continuing uncertainty caused by the pandemic. By this time, Cardiff University had a well-developed platform for online conferences; however, the take-up for the online conference was fewer than for the face-to-face version. In the end, there were 98 papers offered by participants as well as 5 plenary addresses during the 3 day conference. The plenary addresses were as follows: 1) Kirstie Bohata of University of Swansea (“‘Wealish‘: Transcultural Experiments in Plurilingual Writing“); 2) John MacLeod, University of Leeds (“Bloody Postcolonialism”) 3) Ruth Vanita, University of Montana (““Forced Apart: how Legal Discrimination against LGBT People Affects Transcultural Movement”) 4) Michael Bucknor, The University of West Indies ("Transcultural Violence, Intimate Embodiments: Marlon James's Queer Poetics") 5) The final plenary was the Anna Rutherford Memorial Lecture delivered by Ann Collett, University of Wollongong (“A Braided Biography of Australian Poet Judith Wright and Canadian Painter Emily Carr: The Challenge and Value of Transcultural Research and Collaborative Writing”). �Wasafiri magazine which focusses on International Contemporary Writing presented a wonderful round-table event of discussions with creative writers at the conference. The Board also decided to waive registration fees for the conference as expenses would not be incurred for bringing in the plenary speakers or by granting bursaries to attendees. This was a popular move that ensured maximum participation at the conference. At the AGM meeting of EACLALS held at the conference, a new Board to hold office between May 2021 and March 2023 was elected: Radhika Mohanram (Chair) Isabel Carrera (Previous Chair) Melissa Kennedy (Secretary) Miasol Llarina Eguibar Holgado (Treasurer) Devika Karnad (Student Representative) Ala’a Al Ghamdi (Webmaster and Social Media Co-ordinator) It was decided that the 18th Triennial conference would take place in Paris, France between 27th-31st March 2023. It was also decided that the headquarters (or official registration) of the Association would stay in Austria and that the bank account would also remain in the same bank, with the new Treasurer handling the account through digital means. This made logical sense as to transfer accounts to the UK and to convert to pound sterling was unnecessary because the accounts would revert back to France and the Euro in 2023. August and September 2022 The plenary addresses from the Cardiff conference as well as a number of sessions which had been recorded were made available to all members on the conference website for two months. November 2021-March 2022 The EACLALS website which was old was re-developed to make it more intuitive and userfriendly (Eaclals.com). April 2022- June 2022 At Board meetings it was decided that to ensure the longevity of the Association more attention had to be focused on post-graduate students. Bi-monthly online events will be held on topics which are of interest to post-graduates. The first event held in April 2022 was a lecture by Dr Michela Borzaga who gave a talk on "Developing Thought-systems and Voice in Academia: A First-gen Testimony.” This lecture was well-received and in June 2022, two presentations were made in the Work-in-Progress series. They were by �Khadija Koroma from the University of Leicester-UK who spoke of her PhD on the Heinemann African series fiction and Bianca Cherechés from the University of ZaragozaSpain who discussed two Dalit autobiographies by women. All Board members, especially Devika Karnad and Ala’a Al Ghamdi, have worked extremely hard to keep the Association successful and infuse new ideas into it. We thank them for all the time that they have dedicated to EACLALS. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource European ACLALS Report Subject The topic of the resource Administration Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Radhika Mohanram Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available EACLALS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2022 https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/793629f859a02d960b9f66667875394e.pdf 2c14346ec52abae9fd9186b14a97d080 PDF Text Text 3-year Report, 2020-22 Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) The current executive of IACLALS (the Indian chapter of ACLALS) took charge in February, 2020. Within weeks Corona pandemiv struck in March, 2020, and everything came to a standstill. After several months we got our acts together and began our activities online to maintain a sense of continuity. Most our activities still continue to be carried out online. In the last three years IACLALS had held the following annual conferences: 1. “Reimagi(ni)ng Identities in the Global South: Challenges, Transgressions and Articulation”, CoHosted by The Department Of English, Jadavpur University February 5-7, 2020. 2. “Utopias and Dystopias in Our Times”, (ONLINE) Co-hosted by Janaki Devi Memorial College, Delhi University March 17-20, 2021. 3. “Circulations, Mediations, Negotiations: New Perspectives on Translation from South Asia”, (ONLINE) Co-hosted by Janaki Devi Memorial College, Delhi University, March 2-5, 2022 In each of the above conferences we held twelve business sessions in which papers were read out, two special sessions surrounding two prizes given away by the IACLALS annually - The Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize for the best paper published by a member in the last two years and C D Narsimhaiah Prize for the best paper presented during the conference, in addition to several plenaries, the inaugural and the valedictory sessions. During the same period IACLALS held three online lectures in the series “Distinguished Lectures” on themes and aspects of English Studies and Postcolonial Literature. We published the fifth issue of our annual journal on the theme, “Post-truth: Phenomenon, Reflections, Ramifications” in 2021. It contained, besides the editorial, 17 scholarly articles addressing different aspects of post-truth, and several book reviews. The journal is available in both print and electronic versions. We also published the ninth and tenth issue of our e-Newsletters, the latest one is the most extensive so far, running into 113 pages of reading materials encompassing the following sections: Tributes/ Obituaries Reports of Conferences/Seminars/Symposia, ogganized/attended by members New Publications by members Awards/Honours/Achievements Creative Writing Section New Cfps/Notices We held a memorial meeting for Professor Shubhendu Mund, former vice chair of IACLALS who passed away on May 28, 2021. �The IACLALS executive held 10 online meetings through the above period to discuss policy issues, events to be organized, journals to be published and future course of action. --- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indian ACLALS Report Subject The topic of the resource Administration Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2022 https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/13c02033d7615e040f32a772cfbeac30.pdf 69adcbbed6c0898a7bdb9db2f8698f45 PDF Text Text Report from SA Region: SAACLALS for the period 2019-2022 Status of membership: SAACLALS has been struggling to have an active membership. There has not been any annual registration, payment of subscription fees and engagement in annual conferences/colloquia for a very long time. The Covid conditions from February 2020 to the present worsened the situation for most Academic Associations with institutions introducing financial austerity measures and slowly opening up to hosting virtual platforms much later into the pandemic. As Chair I have been reduced to simple functions of forwarding emails from the ACLALS Chair and other regional branches using an old email list based on South African academics and students who attended the ACLALS Triennial at Stellenbosch in 2016. Continued emails requesting membership renewal do not receive follow-ups and while in the past, people would become active- annual renewal of membership and payment of subscriptions- to attend the Triennial, this year I did not receive any enquiry. Status of Finances: There hasn’t been any subscriptions this year, and the account has had its balance depleted by bank charges. I realised that it was ‘locked’ because of inactivity while attempting to check the balance consisting of funds inherited in 2016 and the very limited subscriptions paid by few South African-based attendees at Auckland 2019. The bank gave me 25 working days to deal with the matter and I await their call/email. Activities and Accomplishments A regional conference planned for May this year, which would have seen the appointment of new leadership with a full complement of SAACLALS Committee members could not go through and there are plans still to hold it hopefully this year. The Current Writing Special Issue in honour of Michael Wessels, former Chair of SAACLALS, co-edited with Cheryl Stobie at UKZN was finally published in October 2021. Membership Drive: a regional conference and meeting should usher in new leadership with a full complement of committee members and devise a membership drive strategy. Report compiled by Iri Manase: � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Southern Africa ACLALS Report Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Iri Manase Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2022 https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/220ba4728908e3c05630f660349b5d95.pdf 375cb87305851686ccd05c8d183c09bc PDF Text Text SPACLALS Interim Report 31/5/2022 Activities: The SPACLALS board elected in 2021 to forego the biennial conference that would have normally happened in early 2021 due to uncertainty associated with the COVID19 pandemic. Instead the committee decided to hold a series of online speaking events called “Transnational Commonwealths.” These included two invited panels of two speakers each and we also put out a call which saw one successful application. In the end this was the running order, which is also recorded and watchable here: https://southpacificaclals.wixsite.com/website/events 1. A trans-Indigenous scholarly dialogue: Selina Tusitala Marsh and Jeanine Leane recording; February 15th 2. World Literature in World Histories: Sugar with Victoria Kuttainen and Bianka Vidonja Balanzategui; June 4th 3. Unsettling Times with Tony Hughes-D’Aeth and Jonathan Dunk; July 8th Brief budget summary: SPACLALs began 2021 with $8464.53 in its operating account. The following payments have been made: • $250 honorarium payments to three featured speakers (including 1 x $10 international fund transfer fee) • $150 honorarium payment to one general speaker Two general membership payments ($50) have been paid into the account along with $7.20 interest. As at 30 August 2021, the total in the operating account is $7458.74. An AGM will be called in mid-2022 (soon), to plan a 2023 conference. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource South Pacific ACLALS Report Subject The topic of the resource Administration Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource SPACLALS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2022 https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/8cb2f06408e0c52e30640f7df41569d4.pdf 767dfbd2c6a2fc3fd6d6f3ed5438e909 PDF Text Text SLACLALS Report 2019 -2022 The SLACLALS Executive Committee had planned to hold its triennial general meeting and conference “Continuing Postcolonialism” for which more than a year’s notice had been given soon after the last 2019 ACLALS triennial in Auckland but postponed both in response to requests from the University of Colombo and the Gratiaen Trust—a scheduling conflict would have prevented SLACLALS members who belonged to these organisations from participating in the triennial. The rearranged dates (29 to 31 May 2020) did not work out either because the island was in complete lockdown. The continuation of Covid-19, curfews, closures, and social unrest have prevented regular meetings, and even online activity rendered problematic because the most senior members of SLACLALS do not have ready access to internet (available only sporadically anyway on account of extended power cuts). SLACLALS is currently trying to initiate a project to digitize previous issues of its journal Phoenix. The Association expects to hold its much delayed triennial later this year if life returns to normal. To this end it has begun to negotiate with the sponsors of the postponed 2020 conference to fund a low key event in 2022. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sri Lankan ACLALS Report Subject The topic of the resource Administration Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource SLACLALS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2022 https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/b27d548b42ae180b8dd66b330e88b38c.pdf 88c9f21a415b1209a06acf9df4be4afa PDF Text Text WAACLALS Report The last three years were very challenging for us in Waaclals. Apart from the challenges of Covid 19, which slowed down many activities, the economic downturn of our environment was also very impactful. In spite of these challenges, the regional body was able to organise conferences in Douala, Cameroon, Benin City, Nigeria and Cape Coast in Ghana. The conferences were well attended and three volumes of The Griot, the official journal of the Association, have been published. We are currently trying to find new members in Ivory Coast, Benin Republic, Sierra Leone and Liberia. We are hopeful that we will be able to take the next conference to Benin Republic. We have issued communiques from all the conferences and have interfaced with Government and other NGOs on the issues of Postcoloniality and societal developments. I am happy to report that we have attracted some attention on account of these efforts. Our current membership stands at 30 people and hopefully, this should grow further in the months ahead. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource West Africa ACLALS Report Subject The topic of the resource Administration Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource WAACLALS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2022 https://aclals.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/569f066252980873981dc909e929eb77.pdf 04edf7648b718dafb9e0b1f243f2f757 PDF Text Text WIACLALS Report for ACLALS Triennial Conference 2022 Toronto, Canada Although the past three years have been dominated by the Covid pandemic, WIACLALS continued its publication of the Journal of West Indian Literature and staged 2 out of a possible 3 annual conferences in the region. The Departments of Literatures in English at the 3 main campuses of the University of the West Indies (Mona in Jamaica, Cave Hill in Barbados and St. Augustine in Trinidad) and the English Departments at the University of Guyana, The University of the Bahamas, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Miami and St George’s University (Grenada) all continued (mostly online) their readings, symposia, postgraduate seminar presentations, creative writing workshops and workshops for CSEC and CAPE students preparing for their high school terminal examinations, distinguished lectures and other literary activities. The 2019 West Indian Literature Conference took place at the University of Guyana, 17-20th October under the theme, “Hinterlands: Journeys of the Imagination.” With over 70 participants, the conference featured panels (including a special focus on Guyanese/ International writer Wilson Harris), screenings of films, theatrical presentations (excerpts from Derek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His Brothers and a new Guyanese play, Laugh of the Marble Queen performed by the National Drama Company), as well as an art exhibition by artists of the Division of Creative Arts at the University of Guyana. Due to the Covid 19 Pandemic, no conferences was held during the 2020. The conference was deferred to October 2021 and staged as a virtual conference by the Cave Hill, UWI faculty in Barbados. The conference was held under the theme “Contemporary Currents in Caribbean Literature” between October 28 to 30, 2021. The conference spotlighted Caribbean speculative fiction via, Grenadian-born s/f writer, Tobias S. Buckell and Trinidad and Tobago speculative fiction writer R.S.A. Garcia, who both gave keynote lectures. The third key-note lecture was presented by Barbadian writer, Cherie Jones. Given the statue of Barbadian born Caribbean writer, historian and thinker, Kamau Brathwaite who passed recently, the conference honoured his staggering contribution to Caribbean scholarship, thought and creativity with a number of panels and a special Commemorative Conversation between internationally regarded Ghanaian/Jamaican/American writer Professor Kwame Dawes and the devoted Brathwaite scholar, Professor Elaine Savory. Our next conference has been planned as a hybrid conference to be held at the University of the Bahamas between October 13-15, 2022 under the theme: “The Future of West Indian Literature.” Between 2019 and the present time in 2022, the Journal of West Indian Literature published 7 issues: April 2019 was a general issue edited by Dr Rachel Mordecai; November 2019 was Special Issue on Caribbean Science/Speculative Fiction Guest Edited by Dr Debra Providence of the Cave Hill UWI Campus; April 2020, the journal dedicated a surprise-festschrift in honour of �retiring academic and then Managing Editor, Professor Evelyn O’Callaghan—this issue was guest-edited by Professors Alison Donnell and Bénédicte Ledent; November 2020 was another general issue edited by Professor Glyne Griffith, (who noted in his editorial preface the seismic loss of towering creative figures such as Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, V.S. Naipaul, Garth St Omer, Derek Walcott, critics such as J. Michael Dash, Michael Gilkes, and Édouard Glissant, and of course, our own long time editor of JWIL and former WIACLALS chair, Dr Victor L. Chang)— most recently we lost Barbadian man of letters, George Lamming. For April 2021, the journal doubled its output with two issues, a Special Issue on Caribbean Archives, Guest Edited by Dr Maria Fernández Campa and a general issue curated by Dr Lisa Outar, Senior Editor; November 2021, featured a Special Issue on Dub Poetry, guest edited by Dr Phanuel Antwi and guided by Senior Editor, Dr Michael A. Bucknor. Our most recent issue is a Special Issue on Kamau Brathwaite guest-edited by Professor Kelly Baker Josephs and shepherded by our Acting Editor in Chief, Dr Lisa Outar. The journal continues to play a role in creating a high standard, visually appealing, cutting-edge publications on Caribbean Literature and Culture on our digital platform. WIACLALS has had a vibrant three years of great literary activity within the region. At our next conference, we will continue to audit our institutions and put plans in place to ensure that our conference, our journal and our literary organization will have a solid basis for continuing in the future and for consolidating a rich literary and critical tradition. Submitted by Chair: Dr Michael A. Bucknor (University of the West Indies) Other Officers: Dr Ian Bethel-Bennett (University of the Bahamas) Dr Nicola Hunte (University of the West Indies, Barbados) Mr Andrew Kendall (University of Guyana) Dr Antonia MacDonald (St George’s University, Grenada) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource West Indian ACLALS Report Subject The topic of the resource Administration Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource WIACLALS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2022