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Call for Papers (deadline extended)
IN / DIFFERENCE: Current and Historical Perspectives on Cultures in
Contact
A conference of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Modern Language,
Literary and Cultural Studies
University of Limerick 9-10 November 2007
Living with and in diversity is perceived as both the challenge and the
condition of the contemporary world. In the academic literature (e.g. on
postmodernism, postcolonialism and globalization), notions of hybridity,
multiple identities etc. are taken for granted as part of our current
condition. Migration and technological developments bring difference
into societies that once thought of themselves as homogeneous. This is
the case with respect to many categories of difference - cultural,
ethnic, linguistic, racial, gendered, religious, ideological, political,
vocational etc. But, what have been the cultural and linguistic
consequences of this contact? Linguistic and cultural products and
practices articulate a full spectrum of engagement with difference,
ranging from celebration to condemnation. However, they can also hint at
indifference as a significant response to the rise of difference beyond
this spectrum of active engagement. This conference seeks to interrogate
all dimensions of this reality - the condition of the subject in
difference, and the nature of indifference as a response to this
condition by bringing together past and present perspectives on cultures
in contact.
Papers are invited from all areas of scholarship in modern languages on
topics related to these issues. Possible areas for discussion could
include, but are not limited to the following:
Universalism and particularism
Multiculturalism versus interculturalism
Coolness and distinction
'Minority'cultural production and 'majority' cultural production
Monolingualism and linguistic diversity
Cultural imperialism and homogenization
Language learning and cultural difference
Indifference and the Information Age
Identity, community and polity
Translation and translatability
Abstracts (of 300 words maximum) should be sent to Dr Marieke
Krajenbrink and Barbara Geraghty to arrive no later than Tuesday 31st
July 2007. Papers should be 20 minutes in length and allow for 10
minutes questions and discussion.
Dr Marieke Krajenbrink,
Dept of Languages and Cultural Studies,
University of Limerick,
Limerick,
Ireland.
Tel: +353 61 202453 Fax: + 35361 202556
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Barbara Geraghty,
Dept of Languages and Cultural Studies,
University of Limerick,
Limerick,
Ireland
Tel.:+353 61 202992
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