Kaleidoscope Vol 5 No 1 is now available. This is a postgraduate journal at Durham University, edited by a small team of committed postgraduates linked to the Institute of Advanced Study.

Unusually, this is a special edition of proceedings from two conferences.

The first of these was the Fifth Annual Rhizomes conference held by The School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies in The University of Queensland, Australia in February 2010, entitled “Diaspora: Language and Place”. The annual Rhizomes Postgraduate Conference provides an opportunity for postgraduates and early career researchers to present research, exchange ideas, and build networks in a friendly and relaxed academic environment while engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue.

The second was the RGS-IBG Postgraduate Mid-term Conference, hosted by Durham University’s Geography Department in 2011. The RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Midterm Conferenceoffers a welcoming, supportive and affirmative environment for postgraduates to share emerging and ongoing geographical research.

This issue presents a highly diverse and engaging series of papers on topics ranging from British musical futurism, Indian urban imaginaries and Filipino diaspora studies to homosociality in Malory’s Lancelot, Chinese dialects and Dostoevsky’s post-Siberian works.

Issue 5.1 of Kaleidoscope is available to view at:-

http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ias/kaleidoscope/51Edition.pdf

The Call for Papers for the next edition will be in March, when we will be inviting submissions on the theme of ‘Time’, including full-length articles of 7,000 -10,000 words, as well as shorter articles, book reviews and interviews with academics or authors that are relevant to the theme.