INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study | University of London
Unsettling Communities: Minor, Minority and Small Literatures in Europe
Thursday 23 to Friday 24 February 2017 | 10:00-18:00
Venue: Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Following on from a successful cross-language and cross-culture symposium held in October 2015 (‘Interpreting Communities: Minority Writing in European Literary Fields’), this
conference will focus on the comparative study of content, form, status, and reception of ‘minority’ writing in Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. It aims to offer a continent-spanning consideration of writers and writing from small communities in Europe.
By building upon and challenging Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ‘minor’ literature and other aligned theories, the conference aims to find new ways of analysing texts produced by writers who have been ascribed ‘minority’ status and will explore the aesthetic
and political power of literature to represent, re-formulate and shape communities.
Keynote speakers: Peter Morgan (Sydney) and Stefan Willer (Berlin)
Reading and conversation with award-winning author Barbara Honigmann
This event is organised under the auspices of the
Open World Research Initiative ‘Translingual Communities’ research strand, funded by the
AHRC.
Conference fees:
Both days:
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£60 (standard)
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£50 (Friends of Germanic Studies / Italian at the IMLR)
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£20 (students)
1 day only:
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£35 (standard)
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£30 (Friends of Germanic Studies / Italian at the IMLR)
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£15 (students)
There will be a conference dinner on Thursday 23 February, which carries an additional charge of £30. Please pay in advance during online registration.
Registration closes 10 February 2017.
ALL WELCOME
Institute of Modern Languages Research
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room 239,
Senate House
Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966
Website
http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk
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