"Border Poetics? - A Comparative Perspective"
A Symposium at the University of Tromsø, Norway
11-13 nov 2004
http://uit.no/humfak/5488/1
Territorial borders and textual frames have received renewed academic attention in this age of
transitional mobility, though often in a fragmentary and isolated fashion in the humanities. As an
ever-present element in human life, they are commonly represented in narratives and often take
symbolic forms in both historical and contemporary artistic expression such as literature, film, the
creative arts, and design. At the same time aesthetic works get their status as expressions of “art”
exactly by being separated from other types of work, and often this happens under the guise of
disciplinary frames and boundaries. This symposium brings together academics and thinkers
working in different disciplines and within different regional traditions in focusing on the
development of practical strategies (a border poetics) for examining the function of these forms of
representation in the intersection between territorial borders and aesthetic works.
For program, abstracts and information on speakers and registration, please go to
http://uit.no/humfak/5488/1
on behalf of the organizers Stephen Wolfe, Lena Liepe and myself
Johan Schimanski
Johan Schimanski (Dr. Art.)
Associate Professor of General and Comparative Literature
Department of Culture and Literature
Faculty of Humanities, University of Tromsoe
Address: Humfak, UiT, NO-9037 Tromsoe, Norge
+47-77 64 42 31 http://uit.no/22/3345/103
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