International Symposium: "Narrating Race Between Nationalisms and Globalisation: Literary and Cultural Formulations, Dialogics, Containments"
11-14 July 2006
The Elizabeth, Singapore

Participation in the conference is by invitation only. Organised by the Department of English Language and Literature with the cooperation of the Centre for the Arts, NUS, it is expected to include some 45 scholarly papers focussing on the role of literature in the negotiation and treatment of race, particularly in the context of Asian writing. There will also be readings by and interactions with well-known Asian writers.

ASIALEX 2005 Singapore:
WORDS IN ASIAN CULTURAL CONTEXTS
1-3 June 2005, The M Hotel
Republic of Singapore
http://asialex.nus.edu.sg

ASIALEX 2005, held in Singapore from 1–3 June 2005, was jointly organised by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. It represented the 2005 biennial conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX), and was one of the centennial celebrations of the National University of Singapore.

The theme of ASIALEX 2005 was "Words in Asian Cultural Contexts". The conference examined the functions and representations of words, and brought together scholars of language, linguistics and literature in an interdisciplinary forum. Papers focused on a wider understanding of the word, including Asian contexts in which cultural and textual hybridity is the norm. The following strands were covered:

• lexicology and lexicography
• sociolinguistics and language pedagogy
• information and communications technology
• literary, cultural and postcolonial studies

"Asialex 2005 Report" by Adam Kilgariff

Please visit our website, http://asialex.nus.edu.sg for more details.

Yours sincerely,
Anne Pakir, Peter Tan, Lynn Tan, Vincent Ooi, Ismail Talib,
Asialex 2005 Organising Committee
Email: asialex {at} nus {dot} edu {dot} sg