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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies "Violence and Alterity" - LLC - Graduate Student Conference 21-22 September 2018 (https://llcgrad2018.wordpress.com<https://llcgrad2018.wordpress.com/>) Dear all, we have extended the deadline for the submission of abstracts to August 1st, 2018. Please submit a 250 word abstract in either French or English explaining the topic and main arguments of the presentation. To submit your abstract, please send it by email to [log in to unmask] Keynote speaker: Professor Eliot Borenstein, NYU What does "difference" mean? The contemporary world is answering this question abruptly and violently, further marginalising the marginalised, expelling the expelled, harassing the harassed. The violence expressed by these answers calls for an urgent critical analysis of the relationship between violence and alterity, the way the former is hidden in languages, literatures and cultures, and the way that the latter is asked to conform to capitalist interpretations of subjectivity and objectivity. Do the concepts of identity and difference still constitute an adequate theoretical framework for understanding social and cultural relations? Instead of evoking homogeneities, should we, as Natalie Zemon Davis put it, "identify the creative and disruptive presence of "the other”—the outsider, the stranger, the alien, the subversive, the radically different—in systems of power and thought"? (The Quest for Michel de Certeau). Or shall we move entirely towards alternative conceptualizations of these two poles, which try to go beyond the dichotomy of identity and difference? Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's definition of multitude is just an example of how collectivity must not be seen in terms of "sameness" and "otherness" but as "a multiplicity of singular forms of life [which] at the same time share a common global existence" (Multitude, 127). However naive or debatable this definition may be, it represents an attempt to raise awareness about our common being, against marginalisation, refusal (rejection?), and expulsion - in one word: violence. More specifically, how are the questions of violence and counterviolence, as well as their interaction, to be addressed and problematized? More precisely, how should one deal with progressive, internal, and therapeutic violence (Merleau-Ponty, Fanon) or violence that causes violence (Jaspers)? It is a pleasure to invite you to Violence and Alterity, a graduate conference organized by the graduate students in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. The conference will take place at McGill University on the 21st and 22nd of September, 2018. Because this conference aims to facilitate reflection and cultural intervention in the debate on violence and alterity, the diversity of the contributors and their contributions is fundamental. We therefore invite scholars in Women's and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Literature, Translation, Media Studies and other related programs to submit abstracts regarding, but not limited to, the following topics: Topics of interest • Political violence • Violence and gender • Violence and animals • Violence and diversity • Colonial violence • Nonviolence/Pacifism • Revolutionary Violence • Violent resistance • Structural violence • Violence in Music • Cathartic violence Guide for presenters Organising committee David Gosselin, Lara Harwood-Ventura, Teboho Makalima, Lisa Teichman, Paolo Saporito, Benjamin Sauvé, Lidia Ponce de la Vega, Gleb Vinokurov and Zyanya López Meneses For any enquiries regarding the programme, please contact: [log in to unmask] We look forward to seeing you at our LLC Graduate Student Conference. Sincerely, McGill LLC Graduate Students ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/italian-studies