CFP: Re-thinking Culture and lLiterature - Riga, 1-3.11.2002
"Serguei Alex. Oushakine" <[email protected]>
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e-mail address: [email protected] (Irina Novikova) [email protected] (Edgars Oshinsh) Call for Papers. Department of Culture and Literature, Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Latvia, Center for Gender Studies, University of Latvia Re-thinking Culture and Literature: Transnational and Comparative Spaces 1 - 3, November, 2002 Topics include: Baltic literatures: historical, contemporary, comparative perspectives Diaspora and ethnic literatures Gender and genre Canon and process Ethnography of the Eye: Memory and Modernity in Visual Practices Multifocal approaches to the study of language and literature: multiethnic, postcolonial, and transnational perspectives Global-regional-local in the cultures at the turn of the century The impact of technology on contemporary literatures Questions of local or national languages in the creation of a new literatures Close readings of individual works or sequences in one or several authors' writings Cross-cultural comparative analyses of texts Working languages: Latvian, English, German, Russian Publication of conference proceedings is planned. Deadline for abstracts and panel/roundtable proposals: 15, July, 2002. There is a limited oppportunity to book rooms at the university hotel in the downtown at a very decent price. Hotel accommodation for Baltic participants will be covered. Conference committee: Professor Sigma Ankrava Associate Professor Irina Novikova Docent Edgars Oshinsh Docent Tatiana Kuharenok 300-word proposals should be sent to: Department of Culture and Literature Faculty of Modern Languages Visvalzha 4a, office 430 Riga LV-1586 University of Latvia Riga Latvia Or e-mail address: [email protected] (Irina Novikova) [email protected] (Edgars Oshinsh)