italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
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Manuela
Luca Somigli wrote:
> italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
>
> Call for papers
> "Modernity and Modernism in the Mediterranean World"
> University of Toronto
> Dates: 31 October - 1 November 2003
>
> The conference aims at drawing a map of modernism taking as its centre
> not the sites traditionally associated with it – Paris, London, Berlin,
> Moscow – but the Mediterranean basin, an area usually relegated to the
> periphery of modernist studies. Modernism is often described as a
> complex series of cultural responses to the phenomenon of modernization.
> The conference is interested in examining the dynamics and the
> articulations of that response in a space in which different cultural,
> as well as social, political, and religious traditions encounter,
> intersect, and superimpose in both violent and peaceful ways, and in
> which modernization itself is lived simultaneously and contradictorily
> as, among other things, a colonial imposition, a liberating force, the
> cause of the collapse of traditional social and cultural practices, the
> means of re-asserting cultural and political dominance. We particularly
> welcome papers on interdisciplinary topics.
>
> Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
> * the relationship between tradition and modernization
> * exchanges between European and Arab cultures
> * the representation of the Mediterranean world in modernist literature
> and the arts
> * orientalist modernism
> * modernity in the European periphery
> * the notion of "Latin culture" (e.g., in the so-called "renaissance
> latine")
> * travels between the modernist centres and the Mediterranean
> peripheries
> * modernism and colonialism in the Mediterranean
> * modernism and nationalism
> * the cultural, theoretical, and historical limitations of the notion of
> modernism outside of a European context
>
> To propose a paper, please send a 300 word abstract by e-mail or regular
> mail to the organizers.
> Deadline: 15 June 2003
>
> Organizers
> Luca Somigli Domenico Pietropaolo
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> (416) 585-4416 (416) 926-2345
>
> Mailing address:
> Dept. of Italian Studies
> University of Toronto
> 100 St. Joseph St.
> Toronto, Ont. M5S 1J4 Canada
>
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