Research Centre on Culture and Communication
Department of English
Faculty of Arts & Humanities
University of Moulay Slimane
Beni Mellal, Morocco
Annual Conference
Rethinking Spaces: Artistic, Literary & Cultural Representations
22-23 April 2008
How do post-colonial and post-modern theories of space really offer a way out of the binary, Manichean thinking as propagated by the dichotomies of territorial vs. extraterritorial, local vs. global, national vs. international, North vs. South, East vs. West, native vs. foreign, private vs. public? To what extent do these theories succeed in offering new methodologies and positions that help us rethink space as representation, and contribute to our understanding of artistic, literary, and cultural representations?
Such are some of the basic questions that will be considered in the 2008 conference, organised by the RCCC and the University of Beni Mellal. With this conference, the aim is to offer the opportunity to re-examine representations of Space in literature, fine arts, photography, television and film, advertising, popular art, architecture within the context of contemporary works in cultural studies, cultural geography, and visual studies. We would be pleased to see papers reflecting these emphases; however, we welcome papers addressing anyone of the following topics:
Space and postcolonial theory
National and transnational space
Subjectivity and space
The body as space
Gender and space
Race and space
Space in visual representations
Architecture and culture
Cultural geography
Real and Imaginary space
Mental space
Memory, history, and space
Space in post-modern literature
Abstracts of no more than 300 words to send before 1st Feb, 2008 to:
cherkikarkaba@yahoo.fr; chahin60@yahoo.com; fsyad@hotmail.com
Paper presentations should not exceed twenty minutes. Selected proceedings will be published in the coming issue of Middle Ground, the Journal of the Research Centre on Culture and Communication.