Call for papers to the first edition of the International Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Conference organized by the Faculty of Languages and Literatures and the Department of Cultural Innovation, Communication, Social Development inside the PRO-DD Institute of Transylvania University of Brasov, Romania.
The theme for the present conference is: Legitimation of Literature in Totalitarian Regimes.
The conference will be held in June 17-18, 2011, in Brasov, Romania.
More info on the conference web-site:
http://www.unitbv.ro/legitimare/websiteconference/WebSiteConference.html
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International conference : Legitimation of Literature in Totalitarian Regimes Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania - June 17-18, 2011
CNCSIS (National Council for Scientific Research in Higher Education) Research Project IDEI_760
Cultural discourses and forms of legitimation in the 20th century European literature solicits submissions for the international conference “Legitimation of Literature in Totalitarian Regimes” hosted by the Department of Romanian and Comparative Literature, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania.
We invite Professors, Scholars and Doctoral Students to send proposals for original twenty-minute papers discussing the various aspects of:
- Discursive strategies in totalitarian regimes
- Official cultural discourse. The rhetoric of power
- Aestheticism and euphemization
- Ambiguity and allegory
- Discursive games and their legitimation
- Poetics of transparency
- Transgressive languages
- Biography and confrontation
Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches are very welcome.
Please e-mail proposals/abstracts for papers (max. 500 words) with a short CV or a biographical summary to the following address: legitimationconference@gmail.com by March 31st, 2011.
The conference is organized in cooperation with The Romanian Association of General and Comparative Literature (RAGCL).
The organizing committee:
- Dr. Rodica Ilie (Conference Chair, Project Director)
- Dr. Andrei Bodiu (Dean, Graduate School Coordinator)
- Dr. Adrian Lacatus
- Dr. Georgeta Moarcas