I love to think that we, a few Austrian scholars (see our bundle of texts on Kk.rev, keyterm: postcolonial), unbagged a wave of postcolonial studies in SEE. Yet, I know this can't be the fact. It has to be this phenomenon of the coincident emergence of ideas. Nevertheless, it is nice to be that self-assured from time to time.
Thus, although I slowly get oversaturated by the topic, I love to announce the conference From Orientalism to Postcoloniality to be held in Sweden in April 27-30, 2006:

There is a nice entry at "The Chronicle of Higher Education". Under the title Do Not Fear the Blog" Rebecca Goetz tells about her blogging career. She sees writing blogs as a way of communicating experiences, in her case, mostly academic and scholarly experience, and she straightens out the prejudice of blogging as being a hindrance for any academic career. Good to be sure about that! Thanks to Rebecca for encouraging the academically voiceless to make their voice be heard!