Call for papers

 

First MOSAICI conference on Poetry in Conflict

University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland

15-17 March 2010

 

Jointly organised by colleagues at the universities of St Andrews, Glasgow and Hull

 

The conference will precede immediately the StAnza International Poetry Festival 2010 takes place on 17–21 March

 

Keynote speakers will include

Valerio Magrelli (who will give a public reading from his work on the evening of Monday 15 March)

Alberto Bertoni (Bologna)

 

Roundtable on Poetry translation and textual conflict with Valerio Magrelli and Marco Fazzini (Venice, Ca’ Foscari)

 

500-word abstracts of 20-minute papers are invited on the broad theme of Poetry in Conflict, whether conflicts of translation, textual tension, war, social strife, etc.

They should be submitted to the organising committee by a deadline of 30 September 2009.

The programme will be published on the conference website on 1 November 2009

Website: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~mosaici/index.php?sectID=7

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Abstracts should be sent to [log in to unmask]

Dr Rossella Riccobono (St Andrews)      [log in to unmask]

Dr Eanna Ó Ceallacháin (Glasgow          E.O’[log in to unmask]
Professor George Talbot (Hull)               [log in to unmask]