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From: "Serguei Alex. Oushakine" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: CFP: Re-thinking Culture and lLiterature - Riga, 1-3.11.2002
e-mail address:
[log in to unmask] (Irina Novikova)
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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:
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