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Porosity & Reciprocity (UCLA European Languages and Transcultural Studies)

Porosity & Reciprocity (UCLA European Languages and Transcultural Studies)

Publié le par Marc Escola (Source : Rebecca Glasberg)

1st Annual UCLA European Languages and Transcultural Studies 

Graduate Student Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

October 24-25, 2019

Porosity & Reciprocity

Submit Proposals To: uclaeltsgradconf2019@gmail.com

Submission Deadline: Friday, May 31, 2019

 

In celebration of the newly-forming UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS), the graduate students of the Departments of French and Francophone Studies, Germanic Languages, Italian, and the Scandinavian section invite submissions to the 1st Annual ELTS Graduate Student Conference. We welcome papers that explore the notions of porosity and reciprocity in cultural studies, literary studies, and the arts. An ever-growing body of scholarship across disciplines and concentrations has underscored the long history of cultural exchange that challenges conventional notions of national and cultural sovereignty. Recent events, however, have challenged scholars to problematize, redefine, and expand upon prior attempts to register the ways in which national and cultural identity, and especially the perennial question of borders, are increasingly shaped by a protean political and social landscape. Bringing together graduate students and scholars from French, German, Italian, and Scandinavian studies, this conference aims to explore the notions of reciprocity and porosity as they are found within and/or between these cultures throughout history and in the present. Questions of interest include: How are the literary and artistic traditions of these cultures shaped by internal diversity? How have the encounter and exchange with other cultures contributed to the formation of these traditions? How do these cultures conceive of and represent their borders? How do they conceive of and represent the other? Mindful not only of the diversity that exists between these cultures, but also of the diversity that exists within them, how do each of these cultures belong to and shape historical and contemporary ideas of Europe?

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

·      Mediterranean Studies

·      Borders: geographical, political, and cultural

·      Border Literature

·      Travel Literature

·      Diaspora & Migration

·      Multiculturalism

·      Race & Ethnicity

·      Language, Dialectic, and Linguistic Diversity

·      Regionalism, Nationalism, and Globalism

·      Postcolonial studies

·      Minority Literature

·      Identity

·      Gender

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We welcome all theoretical and disciplinary approaches. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words. Please include a short biography with your abstract.

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Coralie Bollier, Elyse Brusher, Rebecca Glasberg

Kelly Roso, Kyle Rosen, Joseph Tumolo 

Organizing Committee, 

UCLA ELTS Graduate Conference 2019 

uclaeltsgradconf2019@gmail.com