Department of Literature, Linguistics and Journalism
Research Centre Intercultural Communication and Literature
The “G. Călinescu” Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy - “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania
announce
The International Conference
Canon-Focused Critical Debate and the Change of Cultural Paradigm
28th-29th October 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES
This year’s edition of the international conference organized by the team members of the Intercultural Communication and Literature Research Centre and of the “G. Călinescu” Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy - “Dunărea de Jos” University, focuses on an exciting interdisciplinary issue, the Canon-Focused Critical Debate and the Change of Cultural Paradigm. Employing the perspectives of a palimpsestic reading, in the sense used by Daniel Cooper Alarcón, who argued that the 'palimpsest’s structure of interlocking, competing narratives has the advantage of preventing the dominant voice from completely silencing the others, thus encouraging scholarship to recognize and consider diversity', the conference theme is concerned with the ways of re-configuring the literary canon in the cultural spaces of the Periphery and the relation with 'world literature' and its literary manifestation. Challenging hegemonies and national narratives will be the core theme of the academic debates, expanding the phenomenon in European context and not only, which also opens the possibility of discussing the change in the contemporary cultural paradigm and the 'canon' itself. The following aspects will be considered: the changes brought by the implementation of the post-colonial study grid in the approach of Central- and Eastern European literatures, the impact of the literary geography used as structuring device in transnational literary histories or the re-configuration of a model of inter-literary connectivity in the space of world literature. In this context, the canon, especially the Western one, seems to carry a dialogue with a different type of selection, under pressure from the idea of historical, cultural and political self-representation (as Leela Gandhi stated in 1998) and it opens to a newly-emerged 'in-between peripherality' (Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. (ed.). Comparative Central European Culture, Purdue: Purdue University Press, 2002).
The conference welcomes papers and proposals from scholars in a wide range of disciplines (literary studies, critical theory, sociology, philosophy, history, linguistics, cultural studies etc.) addressing, yet not limited to, the following issues:
- Literary canon/ cultural canon. Debates in the field of cultural and literary studies.
- The national. European/ multicultural literary canon.
- Political or social contextualization of the literary canon.
- Re-defining cultural spaces and literary geography : topoi such as Orient/Occident, Centre/Periphery, Major culture/Minor culture.
- Romanian literature and canonical reconfigurations.
- World Literature and the literary voice of Periphery.
- Emerging Postcommunist literatures after the fall of the ideological dominance.
- Interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary literature - linguistic, sociological, philosophical, historical perspectives etc.
- Literary discourse and contemporary media.
- Cultural Memory Studies in post-totalitarian cultures.
- Diaspora Studies and East-Central literatures.
Following a peer-review process, the selected papers will be published in the special 2016 issue of the Journal Communication interculturelle et littérature, indexed in MLA (Modern Language Association, New York, www.mla.org) – MLA International Bibliography & Directory of Periodicals, Index Copernicus, MIAR and Fabula. La recherche en littérature (www.fabula.org) (by a B accredited publishing house).
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Prof. Eugen SIMION, Member of Romanian Academy, “G. Călinescu” Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy
Prof. Michèle MATTUSCH, Institut für Romanistik, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germania
Prof. Antonio LILLO BUADES, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Alicante, Spain
Prof. Alain MILON, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Franţa
Prof. Ana GUŢU, The Free International University, Chişinău, Republic of Moldova
Prof. hab. Elena PRUS, Institute of Philological and Intercultural Researches, The Free International University, Chişinău, Republic of Moldova
Prof. Mircea A. DIACONU, Faculty of Letters, “Ştefan cel Mare” University, Suceava
Prof. Gheorghe MANOLACHE, Faculty of Letters, “Lucian Blaga” University, Sibiu
Prof. Vasile SPIRIDON, Faculty of Letters, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău
Prof. Iulian BOLDEA, Faculty of Letters, “Petru Maior” University, Târgu Mureş
Prof. Caius DOBRESCU, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest
Prof. Laura BĂDESCU, Faculty of Letters, University of Piteşti
Prof. Antonio PATRAŞ, Faculty of Letters, “Al. I. Cuza” University, Iaşi
Prof. Doiniţa MILEA, Faculty of Letters, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi
Prof. Simona ANTOFI, Faculty of Letters, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi
Prof. Pierre MOREL, Institute of Philological and Intercultural Researches, The Free International University, Chişinău, Republic of Moldova
Prof. ILIESCU GHEORGHIU, Departamento de Traducción et Interpretación, Diretora de la Sede Universitaria „Ciudad de Alicante”, University of Alicante, Spain
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair: Prof. Simona Antofi;
Members: Prof. Doiniţa Milea, Prof. habil. Nicoleta Ifrim, Dr. Oana Cenac, Dr. Cătălin Negoiţă, Dr. Daniela Bogdan, Dr. Laurenţiu Ichim, Dr. Petrica Pațilea.
Contact: Prof. Simona Antofi, Prof. habil. Nicoleta Ifrim
simoantofi@yahoo.com, nicodasca@yahoo.com
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION DETAILS
- The conference will be held October 28-29, 2016.
- Deadline for submission of proposals (title, abstract of max. 200 words and keywords in English/ French): 10 October 2016.