INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Cultural Literacy in Europe
London, 16-18 April 2015
Deadline for submission of proposals: 31 August 2014
Project website: http://cleurope.eu <http://cleurope.eu>
Conference registration: https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/bih/cle/
<https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/bih/cle/>
This international conference will bring together academics interested
in the development of Literary and Cultural Studies (LCS) in Europe
and beyond, as well as policymakers at European and national level.
The language of the Conference will be English.
First set up in 2007 by the European Science Foundation Standing
Committee for the Humanities, Cultural Literacy in Europe ran as an
ESF-COST synergy 2009-2012, running international interdisciplinary
workshops in four areas of LCS research ? Cultural memory, Migration &
Translation, Electronic textuality and Biopolitics, biosociality and
the body. The initial two outcomes were an ESF-COST Science Policy
Briefing, published in January 2013
http://www.esf.org/hosting-experts/scientific-review-groups/humanities-hum/publications.html <http://www.esf.org/hosting-experts/scientific-review-groups/humanities-hum/publications.html> , and a volume, From Literature to Cultural Literacy, coedited by Naomi Segal and Daniela Koleva, published by Palgrave Macmillan in summer
2014.
No longer restricted to studying manuscripts, printed books or other
language-based genres in a philological mode, LCS researchers are now
concerned with four essential conceptual elements, using them to
describe, analyse and evaluate what may broadly be called the symbolic
dimension of humanity?s relationship with material reality ?
textuality, rhetoricity, fictionality and historicity. These concepts
both represent crucial structures and processes at work in cultural
objects and at the same time offer key techniques for understanding
They indicate ways in which all knowledge, all social activity, can be
read.
The project Steering Committee now invites proposals for individual
papers and project presentations for the 2015 Conference.
Submission Topics
Proposals should refer to one or more of the following areas:
· Current developments and issues in LCS research in any of
the four fields: Cultural memory; Migration & Translation; Digital
textuality; Biopolitics, biosociality and the body;
· How LCS already relates to the social and cultural
challenges of 21st-century Europe;
· How LCS can continue to do so in the future.
Additional ideas for topics can be found at
http://cleurope.eu/conference/call-for-papers/call-for-paper-additional-topics/
<http://cleurope.eu/conference/call-for-papers/call-for-paper-additional-topics/>
Submission Types
· Individual papers
These are academic papers. They will be grouped into parallel
sessions: each paper will be 15 minutes long followed by questions.
· Project presentations
These are presentations of projects which are successful examples of
LCS research with impact on social and cultural challenges. They will
be presented in a plenary panel: each presentation will be 10 minutes
followed by discussion.
Submission Procedure
Proposals must be submitted by 31 August 2014 on-line (link for
submission https://www.conftool.net/cleurope-2015/
<https://www.conftool.net/cleurope-2015/> ). Your abstract must not
exceed 750 words (1000 including bibliography).
If you don?t have already one, you will need to create an account
(i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each
submission, you must upload an abstract and may upload other files as
supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc.) after you
have completed filling out some demographic data and the abstract field.
Bursaries
A number of Early-Career Bursaries, worth £245 [?300] each, to offset
conference expenses, are available: closing date also 31 August 2014.
To be eligible, applicants must have obtained their PhD no more than 8
years ago and have a successful viva completed by the time of the
conference.
Details of how to apply can be found at
http://cleurope.eu/conference/bursaries/
<http://cleurope.eu/conference/bursaries/>
Cultural Literacy in Europe is endorsed by several partners: ESF,
which has funded the project since its inception, the Birkbeck
Institute for the Humanities, which is hosting this conference, as
well as the Academia Europaea, ALLEA, COST, EADH, ECHIC, ICLA, the
Universities of Roehampton and Sofia and Warwick University?s
Connecting Cultures Research Priority Programme.
If your institution wishes to become a partner, please contact us at
http://cleurope.eu/contact/ <http://cleurope.eu/contact/>
Cultural Literacy in Europe Steering Committee
· Dr Arianna Ciula
<http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/staff/Arianna-Ciula/> , University of
Roehampton (UK)
· Dr Nina Kancewicz-Hoffman, European Science Foundation (FR)
· Dr Daniela Koleva
<http://www.cas.bg/en/assoc-prof-daniela-koleva.html> , University of
Sofia (BG)
· Dr Loredana Polezzi
<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/italian/staff/polezzi/> ,
University of Warwick (UK)
· Prof Naomi Segal
<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/european/our-staff/naomi-segal> , Birkbeck (UK)
Please send queries to http://cleurope.eu/contact/
<http://cleurope.eu/contact/>
Prof Naomi Segal
Professorial Fellow in French & German Studies
Dept of Cultures & Languages, School of Arts
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7272 6438
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Dept webpage: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/european <http://www.bbk.ac.uk/european>
My webpage: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/european/our-staff/naomi-segal
<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/european/our-staff/naomi-segal>
Cultural Literacy in Europe project: http://cleurope.eu/ <http://cleurope.eu/>
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